WEBVTT - LIVE IN LA: One True Champion 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.520 John one half of me. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:07.240 I'm a man. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say what I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:11.799 be happy? You want to be a happy for a 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:13.000 day at a stake? 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:20.160 Is that Wood and time? Welcome back to the song 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:26.160 herble boys, girls, that's what I like. That's what I like. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.200 My name is Ty. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.360 He'll the brand, that fine gentleman over there, the one, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:34.640 the only, always, the incomparable, the Native Sun. Yeah, women staying. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.519 We were at the world famous Troubadour. They let us 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:40.959 in the door. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.479 That's true. We're actually a little bit farther apart than 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.360 we normally are because we're also going to bring other 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.520 couple of people up on stage at a certain we're. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:49.639 Doing the Clint Eastwood. They were talking to them. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.120 Yeah, we're talking to the chair. I gotta tell you 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.160 right off the bat and the listening audience won't realize this, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.160 but the beautiful and attractive people and attendants will realize this. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.520 I didn't intentionally wear it too shirt to troll usc 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:10.800 people in LA I didn't, but then up there because 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.560 I have a different shirt up there, I saw I'm 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.080 Wenna two lane shirt. He's like, you know what, I'm 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.440 sticking with this. I'm gonna go with this. I'm gonna 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:17.000 lean into it. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:17.280 So. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.480 No, it's incredible that we're here. I grew up point 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.080 to shows here. I was gonna say, you've been to 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.520 shows here. It's incredible to see. Are the name of 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.480 our show the soliverbel up on the Marquee. It's all gravy. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.800 I'm so excited to do this and I'm ready with 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.839 my good friend, Fat Tire, Fat Tire. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.560 Not a sponsor, could be, absolutely could be. So the 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.400 name of this show, the code name for this show 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.479 for people who listen, knows that we've been talking about 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.399 one true champion, Yes, for a couple of months now, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.800 one true champ. What does that mean? Well, two things 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.320 happened about a month ago. The first is that the 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.400 College Football Playoff Selection Committee announced the top four, the 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.320 four teams that will be competing for the national championship. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.640 We obviously know who the final two are. That's the first. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.200 The second is that they finally came to a even 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.720 with a Rose Bowl on expanding things to twelve teams 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.000 starting in twenty twenty four. Yep, you and I decided, ah, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.919 now we're gonna do it our own way. Correct, We're 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.440 going to expand the playoff in the way that we 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.040 see fit. We're also not going to just play it 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.000 off between those four teams. We're going to expand to twelve, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:18.840 and we're going to make our own. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.280 We also don't have that capability to put on a 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.639 tournament of teams. The budget's not there yet. But in 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.400 the way that we do fantasy things before the season, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.960 we are going to find twelve things that we think 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.760 have best come to define the twenty twenty two season 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:39.760 and whittle it down to the one true champion things storyline, movement, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.200 whatever is that accurate? 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.799 That is accurate? Okay, So we've got twelve college football narratives, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.160 things that move the needle for us this past season. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.320 We're going to put them in brackets. We originally had slides, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:57.880 but my dongle and you have the easy tie. Yeah, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.440 don't talk about your dongle in front of these at all. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.040 That the dongle didn't work the way it was supposed 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.360 to be, Okay, and thank you. So, so we're gonna 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.239 do engage in a little theater of the mind here 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.600 talking through what that's cool, what all of these twelve 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.800 matchups are. But you can envision a twelve thing twelve 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.440 team bracket. Yeah, that will be popp You can hold 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.880 up your phone. I could show it now we're not 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.160 gonna do that, Okay, yes, continue. So it's it's a 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.760 twelve thing bracket of our own creation. And by the 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.519 end of this thing, maybe we can get some fan participation. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.120 We've got some special guests who are gonna. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:31.639 Help us on the way. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.600 We plan on naming the one true champion, Not Georgia, 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.440 not TCU, no, one true Saliverbal champion of the twenty 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:39.080 twenty two season. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.560 Why not do it in front of beautiful attractive people. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.520 Right, we have this sound too. You guys can tell 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.800 me which one you like better. I stole this one. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.680 Shout out CBS. They didn't license it to us. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.920 It's sort of like a Jurassic Park version of CBA. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:55.360 And then I have. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.200 To all right, it's a little better. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.040 Yeah, all right? Shall we start with round one? I 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.000 would love your hands to get it for round one. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.040 So we've seeded this right. It's organized in the way 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.720 any other twelve team bracket would be organized. So the 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.000 first four seeds have a bye, first four seeds have 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:22.400 a bye. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.200 These this first round of games is being played at 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.680 they're home games. Okay, right, so I don't know what 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.279 that means, right, but our first matchup is a five 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.640 to twelve, which, ohulie. For anybody who actually listens to 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.840 the actual tournam man, okay, brackets, you follow it. You know, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.160 a five to twelve can be very, very dangerous. It's 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.760 always danger five seed in this bracket is coach catastrophes. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.000 Oh my god, we're gonna have to unpack. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.159 Yeah, and the twelve seed is something that you wanted 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.520 to call desperately, the Big ten West sad Mall. Yes, so. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.240 I'll unpack that one as well. Everybody familiar with wherever 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.480 they're from, there's a good mall and a sad mall, Right, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.480 that's right, that's right. The good ball might be outdoors, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.160 there might be a couple department stores that are still 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.760 busy something like that. The sad mall is like, wow, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.000 people are still buying shoes there. Yeah, not that they're 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.039 bad shoes, but it's that the employees seem a little 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.800 bit sad and the ground hasn't been cleaned in a bit. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.360 And so what we are going to determine is essentially, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.640 which one of these coaching catastrophes, which is a broad term, 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.360 and we can go through a number of examples. Or 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.440 was the sad mall that was the Big Ten West. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.040 If you remember late in the season when Northwestern was terrible, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.880 they were objectively terrible at football. There were tweets outlining 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.400 they still have a chance. That's the kind of division 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.360 it was. And so I don't know if you want 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.640 to go through some coaches and look at where they 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.400 might be working in said mall, but I have PJ 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.280 Fleck at Lady Foot Locker. You didn't ask, but I 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.360 think it's a natural fit. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.560 Well, the coach catastrophes, I actually wanted to turn that 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.120 one over to you, Okay, you took a certain amount 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.279 of sadistic joy in the plight of one Mario crystal 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:08.200 Ball this past season. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.200 I was just so familiar and what a catastrophe it was. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.280 It really was a beautiful catastrophe. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.400 It was because I'm not gonna say I knew it 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.520 was gonna happen. I figured he would have some success 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.200 at Miami, but the fact that something came out in 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.160 the last couple of weeks that Manny Diaz and his 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.320 thirty whatever games allowed hit five games of forty points 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.360 or something like that, and in Mario Crystaball's first year 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.880 was like nine of them allowing so look between Mario Cristobal, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.240 between Brent Venables, between Kirk Farns. We'll get there. We'll 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.039 get there. Around the sports, around the sport, there were 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:45.480 some pretty catastrophic coaching situations that Look, it started with 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.279 I think what was the to you the opening shot 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.480 of the coach? Was it South Dakota State, Iowa? 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:53.520 That was it? Like? 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.000 What was the true apex moment? What was the climax settle? 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.080 What was the climax to you? Was it Tennessee Miami? 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.760 Well, middle Tennessee Miami. I believe was a little bit 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:04.520 later on in the year. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:05.840 I know, I understand this. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.440 I think the one for me that really was like 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.080 whoa was Oklahoma Texas? 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.720 Oklahoma Texas was top forty nine? 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:13.559 Was that the final? 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.040 It was forty nine nothing? And it was a situation 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.520 they didn't Oklahoma didn't have their starting quarterback. So it's 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:20.680 somewhat understandable. 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.640 We'll get to that one. The beauty of that. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.200 Specific catastrophe was for four or five weeks you watched 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:28.200 Oklahoma and you're. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.320 Like, all right, little scrappy, there's something there. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.240 And then the end of the TCU game, and then 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.000 when you get to the point where you're looking at 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.600 a box score and there's a number like one point 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.480 eight or two point four next to QBR or yards 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.440 per attempt, that's going to be a long weekend on 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:44.880 the Oklahoma message boards. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.520 Well, between Miami and Oklahoma, fourteen losses between those two 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:49.640 first year head coaches. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.080 Yes, could have been worse. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.040 Appreciative crowd here. I appreciate that. I'm sure I don't 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.640 know if they do. No. And then you mentioned Oklahoma 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.520 and what their plight was, right, and if we're talking 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.560 about the Big ten West sad mall, there was this 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.480 thing that we joked about on our show called Nebraska. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.000 Lightis Nebraska colitis? Like Nebraska colitis? 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.280 You know, it's it's a very mysterious thing. You could 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.560 argue that Northwestern was sort of patient zero. They caught 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:16.520 the European strain. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.640 Yep, they caught the the European variant of Nebraska litis. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.080 Yeah, but there were seven is seven or eight games 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.160 that Nebraska played and then the week following or the 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.080 game following for those respective opponents, right, they lost, Yes, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:37.240 I've got Northwestern Georgia, Southern Oklahoma, Indiana, Perdue, Illinois, and Wisconsin. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.679 And by the way, Michigan almost lost. Correct, that was 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.439 that game against Illinois where they won nineteen seventeen. So 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.559 you know, somebody else can do the math on what 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.520 percentage of the opponents that was. But playing Nebraska, just 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.920 having exposure to Nebraska was not a good thing either. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.520 So I'm sure you have a friend or you and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.240 solid wife Kate have like a couple friend who are like, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.760 they're just kind of downers and they bring everybody down 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.559 and you just feel kind of icky after you leave 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.560 their place, sort of like you know the Office episode 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.680 with with Michael and jan where everybody's like, oh man, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.600 this really hurts to watch, and there is something about 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.679 like you go to Lincoln, Nebraska and you watch how 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.000 dysfunctional Nebraska got that it just stays with you. But 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.040 whatever you call the European variant for Northwest. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.360 Or European stream, Yeah, So I mean by a show 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:29.000 of well applause, who would vote for coach catastrophees in 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.880 this matchup, it's coach Catastrophes against a big ten West 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.400 sad mall coach catastrophees. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.720 I think they like the sad mall. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:36.200 Yeah. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:45.120 Yeah, it's a sad mall crowd sad mall. Yeah. Okay, 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.640 so I have let's see, I have Pat Fitzgerald at 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.199 a sad leather store. Does that make sense, like a 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.200 Wilson's Leather. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:52.760 Yeah. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:59.120 I've got Jeff Brahm. He's running like a massage kiosk. Yeah, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.600 he doesn't want to be there either. Care for Jeff 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.520 Broum won the Big ten West and he was like, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:05.760 this is too sad. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:06.679 I need to go. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.200 Who else do we have in the Big ten West? Obviously, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:15.040 Scott Frost is in like a Hollister something. We talked 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.160 about the guy. He's got the sad pooka vibe. Yeah, 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.559 sad Pookah, Scott Frost. I don't know where this is 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.520 all coming from. Who else do we have in the 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.320 Big ten West? We'll get to Kirk Farens later. There 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.319 was something about Wisconsin and Graham Mertz where it was like, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.120 we're sticking with him no matter what. We've invested so 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.559 much in this. I don't know what that is in 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.839 like the inventory at hot Dog on a Stick or 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.320 something like that. Where's that food court that's always has 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:43.800 the samples like, please take some. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:44.800 More grammar takes them. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.760 We can't get He's probably a nice guy. That sounds 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.839 very mean, but like that was the vibe I got 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:50.920 from this year's Wisconsin. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.880 So we've got our first upset. We're gonna put it 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.880 go through. We plan in putting the five through, but 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:55.960 twelve through. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.319 There is I'm I can't wait to talk about Brett 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.000 Bielima's role in the sad. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.760 That brings us to an eight to nine matchup, Dan. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.040 We're getting some snaps. It's this literal, snappy little tip. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.120 This is look at this, this is oh my god, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:15.079 this is great. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.240 This is going to be an earworm situation for a 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.960 lot of these folks. The eighth seed in this bracket 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.839 is something we called weirdly human Alabama. Yes, and the 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.200 nine this is my favorite one. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:26.520 Yeah. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.120 The nine is Dabbo Sweeney slowly melting. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:35.880 Yeah, because the visual immediately you can kind of visualize him. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.880 No, you can see that. So why don't we start 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.160 with Alabama and then we can get to Dabble. It 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.719 says something about a team when it's a catastrophe to 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.839 go ten and two. When you go ten and two, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.760 and that's an abject failure in some sense. I mean 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.120 that says a pretty good deal about your program. So 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.280 they're in a good place. But there was this thing 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.600 and we struggled with it all season trying to pick 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.160 these Alabama games, especially after we saw the Texas one. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.760 After that game in Week two, our our thought was that, well, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:04.920 maybe Texas is really good. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.559 Sure what an incredible loss? 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.320 May text is just really good, Like Texas is back 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.480 really yeah, text not so much spoiler earlier. Yeah, Alabama 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.400 was just weirdly human. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.840 Yeah, So are you familiar with I don't know if 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.480 it's US Weekly or in Style, you know the kind 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.280 of magazine I'm talking about. They have this segment called 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:26.440 Stars Colin. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.360 They're just like us, that's right. Are you familiar with that? 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:30.920 Or I am familiar with this. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.680 They'll show Ben Affleck just tired and sad while smoking 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.360 a cigarette. It's like, well, or they'll show I don't 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.280 know if it's the greatest paparazzi picture ever taken. Have 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.800 you ever seen Jonah Hill and the iced coffee? Has 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.600 anybody seen this? Do you know what I'm talking about? 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.880 So it's Jonah Hill holding an ice coffee but the 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.839 frame is exactly when he's holding from the lid. And 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.120 I didn't anticipate going here by the way where the 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.719 ice coffee is falling from the lid, and it's just 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.680 Jonah Hill. And so you think to yourself, Yeah, I've 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.199 been there, like I have bad pores when I go 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:08.080 to get a salad. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:08.360 Right. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.400 There is something about this year's Alabama reminiscent of Sure, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.480 my team has been torched by Tennessee. Sure, Brian Kelly 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.680 has somehow beaten my team late, Sure, Ole miss almost 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.120 beat my team with a sloppy performance. That was the 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.360 vibe of the like stars. They're just like us. Obviously, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.319 Ben Affleck is excellent at what he does, but when 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.600 you show him a little bit paunchy, as we all 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.800 have been, Sure, Ben, I get you, I feel you. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.400 The holidays are tough for all of us. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.440 The interesting thing that I learned about Alabama, and specifically 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.560 Alabama fans this year. You could say anything you want 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.200 about Alabama. Yeah, it could be as mean as mean 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.960 spirited as you can possibly conjure up. No, Alabama fans 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.880 will sten to National Collegeotball podcast. No, they're so good. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.960 They have constructed their own parallel universe. Yeah, with their 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.600 own podcasts and their own websites and their own appear makers. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.720 They don't listen to us. So it was very freeing 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.760 to be able to talk about weirdly human Alabama once 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.400 we realized it was a thing. I don't even think 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:08.920 without any repercussions whatsoever. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.160 I don't think anybody had Alabama takes this year. They 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.520 were on Alabama Plus and the rest of us had 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:15.520 the standard package. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:20.080 Yeah, so on the Alabama front. Speaking of Alabama, and 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.040 we've talked about this in the show time and time again, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.320 but the fact that Alabama has been on this run 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.840 under Nick Saban has really poisoned the well for a 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.160 lot of other schools. Yes, when it comes to coaches 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.400 and trying to build up any kind of national recognition 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:37.600 and program building and what have you. Clemson, Clemson thought 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.400 a lot of people thought for a good long time 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.640 that if Nick Saban leaves, maybe Dabosweney would take that job. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.200 Right then this year kind of happened and you start 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.840 to wonder, Okay, well, Clemson's had a lot of success, 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.360 but now they're starting to lose coaches and players maybe 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.960 are transferring out and suddenly people are putting microphones in 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.360 front of Dabo, ask him social questions, like social issues. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.160 That always ends, well, yeah, and it's just like I'm 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.960 not saying it's falling apart, but there is a sense 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.560 that maybe it is slowly melting. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.240 Yeah, there was. There was the issue of like, who 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.360 is your actual starting quarterback going to be? And then 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.680 he said, well, kay Klebnick's gonna play. That was the preseason, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.920 and then throughout the season he said, dj use our guy. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.320 And then they gave a bajillion yards up to wake 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.880 Forest and he always used to love using That was 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.880 the Roy Bust. The rest of y'all right, and that, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.040 oh little old Clemson. There were moments we're like, yeah, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.680 you are a little old Clemson and it's not going 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.760 super well. You could see the veins popping a little 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:39.920 bit more for Davia's gonna say. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.320 There were more angry shots of Dabbo and the sidelines 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.080 that I'm accustomed to. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.320 Yeah, oh and it was. And the thing is, I'm 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.080 gonna miss Dabbo when he's gone. He's not sick to 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.120 my knowledge, that was that. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.840 Was worded in phrasing a weird way. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.240 Not to my knowledge, I'm gonna miss Hi when he's gone, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.880 because there are so many vanilla coaches out there that 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.000 it's fun to have him in my life because he's 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:58.760 so ridiculous. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.160 Dabo Sweeney versus weirdly here, really human Alabama? Are we 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.880 going for weirdly human Alabama? There's the one Alabama? Continue 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:15.400 Dabo Sweeney, Babbo see the sets. We have two upsets. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:16.240 There's so many. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.200 There's so many little things or in the case of 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.320 his suit, like really big billowy things about Dabbo that I. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.080 Try to We didn't even get to him running down 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:23.400 the hill. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.160 No, oh my god, that's great. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.880 Continual speaking of slowly melting are next first round matchup 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.280 is a battle of six versus eleven. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:33.560 The sixth seed is what. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:39.600 The fuck TCU? Yes, I repeat, what the fuck TCU? 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:41.440 And eleven the. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:48.360 Eleven seed is comically terrible backups, Yes, specifically quarterbacks, specifically quarterbacks. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.280 This one's important and personal to you. It is, I mean, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.760 I hear. Are we all know where this is going? 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:58.120 Folks? 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:58.360 Right? 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:04.080 Oklahoma a problem with curious backups. Davis Bevel really against Tes, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.320 they had that and Oklahoma State had as I like 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.320 to call something called Garrett. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.040 Rangerett Wrangle and Gunner Gundy. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.160 Yeah, Gundhy, but I'm sorry, this is a Drew Pine category. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.399 Category says, this is the Drew Pine. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.160 Entrant in our bracket. I was told by a friend, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.600 and you remember this several weeks ago, that Drew Pine 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:32.960 is built like me, like Tie, I'm built like a podcaster. Yes, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.440 it's different ish, Yeah, And what what I mean what 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.760 kind of amazed me about the whole Drew Pine experience 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.440 is that he was so bad. He was actually kind 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:42.760 of good. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:43.200 Yeah. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.320 He had a twenty two to six touchdown interception ratio, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.879 and they turned him from a really bad backup at 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.960 the start of the season into what I've come to 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.840 now say is a quarter bot. In that he handed 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.400 the ball off and he threw it to Michael Maher. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.159 Yeah, he was programmed for a very speci responsibility. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.600 He was like the terminator in a sense, right, and 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.800 so they found a way to win a games with that. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.400 And not only that, but they gave him the confidence 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:10.959 to believe that he should be the starter next year, 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:12.720 which is why transferred us right. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.680 Good luck with that there is I had a hypothetical 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.879 a number of years ago that I was especially proud of, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.960 and it was, would you rather wake up out of 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.760 a dead sleep and you have you're on stage at 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.080 the Oscars having to host and you have to put 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.440 out fifteen minutes of content or whatever it is, Or 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.680 would you rather wake up out of a dead sleep 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.920 and have to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl? 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.760 And you have to sing it? You can't run off, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:38.960 and it's difficult, right, I mean, the Super Bowl one's 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.680 over sooner, but you can be made fun of more 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.800 by singing terribly. There is something about this group of 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.280 quarterbacks that like they woke up out of a dead 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.159 sleep and were asked to drive the ball in the 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.560 Cotton Bowl. Because that's what I relate to. That's the 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.360 number of the throws that these gentlemen, who I'm sure 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.800 are nice, capable, They're in better shape than I am, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.320 They're a better football player. Grades Yeah, absolutely, But there 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.760 is something like you're awake now you have to read 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.240 cover three and Drew Pine is like I'm throwing it 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.119 to the tall guy. And I appreciate that because it 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:13.440