Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid Verbo. I'll that for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
Speaker 1: for Dake Edith State? Is that woo woom? And Dan
Speaker 1: and Tye.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls.
Speaker 1: My name is ty Hill, the brand joining me as all.
Speaker 2: It's over there in beautiful, albeit blustery and chilly New
Speaker 2: York City.
Speaker 1: My man, Dan Ripperstein, Sir, how are you? I'm good,
Speaker 1: but I'm a little bit wistful. Not for the season,
Speaker 1: although I am wistful for the regular season. But I
Speaker 1: believe it's one year ago this weekend that we went
Speaker 1: to Fargo. Wow, has it been a year already? Well,
Speaker 1: so Colgate beat James Madison in the first round, right right,
Speaker 1: even though North Dakota State I think, yeah, they had
Speaker 1: to buy this year and then took down who Nichols
Speaker 1: last week? Sure, I think this was the weekend. So
Speaker 1: maybe this was the quarters or whatever it is of
Speaker 1: the se S playoffs that we attended. And it has
Speaker 1: been a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I stand by the fact that that was the
Speaker 2: coldest I've ever been at a football game.
Speaker 1: Certainly certainly had a tail game. It had. It's totally
Speaker 1: nice inside the Fargo Dome.
Speaker 2: It was so cold outside, and everybody there was completely
Speaker 2: unphased except for us.
Speaker 1: It's correct, that's correct, and we live in cold weather places.
Speaker 1: We had a terrific time. And I remember it because
Speaker 1: the attention of the college football world was, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhat on the game, because we were being tweeted, because
Speaker 1: our pal Kevin Brown was calling the game and made
Speaker 1: mention to the solid verbal and coming were cargo.
Speaker 2: We were running the si dot com Instagram story account. Correct,
Speaker 2: we were doing that. But outside I cannot put into
Speaker 2: words how next level cold that was.
Speaker 1: It was, well, the thing it wasn't super windy, so
Speaker 1: it was just cold, don't I didn't find it unbearable.
Speaker 1: But as as soon as you started mixing around with
Speaker 1: people at North Dakota State, everybody's like, hey, you want
Speaker 1: a club sandwich. Everything's great. You want some bourbon cocktail
Speaker 1: that we've whipped up. Man, just another weekend here in Fargo,
Speaker 1: and we're like, we are so soft, we are so
Speaker 1: very very soft. It was great, It was great.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for bringing up that memory. You can
Speaker 2: go back on our website and listen to that whole escapade.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun going out to Fargo
Speaker 2: check out the Bison in person. In the interim though, Hello,
Speaker 2: welcome to the postseason. I'm Ty, He's Dan. This is
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Speaker 1: Yes, I do really enjoy Bowl season, you know, for
Speaker 1: as much attention as it gets as being a group
Speaker 1: of exhibitions and not mattering, and it doesn't mean anything
Speaker 1: for the next season. It's football on TV when in
Speaker 1: a lot of places it's very cold out and you
Speaker 1: might be spending time with people you're close to that
Speaker 1: you might not necessarily want to be close to. I
Speaker 1: can't speak to that because I'm very fortunate, but I
Speaker 1: understand that for some people football and bowl games are
Speaker 1: a terrific escape. So let's let's all be in this
Speaker 1: together and enjoy. Like the guests, Spotty, what do you
Speaker 1: call the gas gas the gasparilla or the bad boy
Speaker 1: mowers or whatever. Bowl, Let's all do it together and
Speaker 1: have fun. I like it.
Speaker 2: As for tonight, though, Dan, Yes, tonight, we're gonna go
Speaker 2: through the mail bag as we are asked if people
Speaker 2: out there could send in questions. It's been a long
Speaker 2: time since we did a good, honest to goodness Q
Speaker 2: and a emptied out the mail bag really covered some
Speaker 2: ground so we're going to do that tonight. Figured the
Speaker 2: first show after the season is a good one to
Speaker 2: do that before we jump right back in this coming
Speaker 2: weekend and talk about all things bulls before we get there, though, Dan,
Speaker 2: we have news.
Speaker 1: We do all sorts of new coaching hires. I just
Speaker 1: saw the most recent. Well, there were a couple of
Speaker 1: recent ones. Steve Dazio to Colorado State, Willie Taggart to
Speaker 1: Fau Morris to become Auburn's offensive coordinator. Marcus Arroyo, Oregon's
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, is now the head coach officially of the
Speaker 1: UNLV Rebels. And who am I missing? Chip Long Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: They've gone their separate directions. It's a conscious decoupling, conscious decoupling.
Speaker 1: I think that's accurate. Did we mention Ricky Ronnie officially
Speaker 1: taking the ODU job? We may have mentioned that on
Speaker 1: the think we did in Passing Yeah, on the last show.
Speaker 1: But teams yeah, two and a half of our teams. Yes,
Speaker 1: So we're offensive coordinators. A lot to.
Speaker 2: Come on that front, for sure. Who knows we'll have
Speaker 2: another surprise this coaching season. I suppose it's possible. But
Speaker 2: in the interim, we've got a lot of coordinators on
Speaker 2: the move, and for sure we'll be talking more about
Speaker 2: the organ of Notre Dame jobs i'd imagine on this show.
Speaker 1: And Penn State job. That's a really good job with
Speaker 1: how well the Nitney Lions have recruited, right for sure?
Speaker 1: Do you think that they are going to when somebody
Speaker 1: sort of asked this, I don't know if this will
Speaker 1: go right into our Q segment before our a's but
Speaker 1: do you think they promote from within? Do you think
Speaker 1: James Franklin goes outside for some fresh eyes? What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 2: I would love for them to go outside. Okay, I
Speaker 2: would love to go outside the box a little bit.
Speaker 2: There's a dude from Slippery Rock whoa it's really deep
Speaker 2: if you really want to dig deep in the hat.
Speaker 2: I forget his name. I should know his name because
Speaker 2: I've been reading about him all year.
Speaker 1: But about whoever is running the Muhlenberg offense?
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Actually, who's ever running the Muhlenberg defense might
Speaker 2: be the better play.
Speaker 1: It's true. Benn State's defense I think is in a
Speaker 1: pretty good place. Not the best ever, but they're in
Speaker 1: a pretty good place.
Speaker 2: Pretty good place. James Franklin's got a pretty good track
Speaker 2: record for going outside.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's going to outside. Speaking of going outside, Steve A.
Speaker 1: Dazio has never coached west of the Mississippi, and now
Speaker 1: he is going west of the Mississippi. I just brought
Speaker 1: up his his Wikipedia page. He to Central Connecticut, coached
Speaker 1: at Western Connecticut State, coached high school in Connecticut, Syracuse,
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame, to Indiana, to Florida, to Temple, to
Speaker 1: Boston College, to Colorado State. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: I will say though that Bronco Mendenhall coming east of
Speaker 2: the Mississippi and having the success he's had at Virginia
Speaker 2: has opened my eyes a bit to that whole geographic
Speaker 2: argument that I know.
Speaker 1: He oh yeahked, Well, I mean, Oregon has a coach
Speaker 1: who has almost exclusively coached in the Southeast at Askhama
Speaker 1: and Miami and FIU and places like that. It's possible,
Speaker 1: but it's just it was thirty five years of me.
Speaker 1: So that's a long time for an assistant principal like Steva.
Speaker 1: Does any any other noteworthy topics, Well, the Willie Taggart
Speaker 1: thing is notable because he's jumping to a good job,
Speaker 1: a job that's not a fixer upper. Like he's had
Speaker 1: to do all these times as he gets new jobs,
Speaker 1: and so hopefully he can just focus on maintenance rather
Speaker 1: than trying to fix a pro that's sort of been gutted.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm optimistic that FAU can keep succeeding. No, yes,
Speaker 1: I think Willy Taggart's a good higher Yeah. So yeah.
Speaker 2: Originally there were rumors that he was interested. Willy Taggart
Speaker 2: was interested in his old job. USF don't know if
Speaker 2: that interest was reciprocating. I'm guessing it wasn't because they
Speaker 2: hired Jeff Scott instead. Right, So Jeff Scott gets a job,
Speaker 2: he comes over from Clemson, Willy Taggart presumably looking for
Speaker 2: another job in Florida, he gets FAU.
Speaker 1: Right, not a bad gig, No, not at all. And
Speaker 1: I think USF is probably looking to build something more
Speaker 1: long term. And it's probably fair to assume that Willy
Speaker 1: Taggart's track record indicates he's not necessarily a long term
Speaker 1: guy win or lose. Now, he might have to be
Speaker 1: at this point. He might have to be at this point.
Speaker 1: Not have a track record suggests that there might be
Speaker 1: concern wherever he might have success. Also, Northwestern hires a
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator. This normally would not be huge news.
Speaker 1: Offense was so bad. It should be noted that they
Speaker 1: have not just hired a handyman. They've hired a general
Speaker 1: contractor to come in and really get out all of
Speaker 1: the warts and the termites. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: load bearing issues with the Northwestern offense that need addressing.
Speaker 1: And Mike Bajakian but Jackie and I don't know how
Speaker 1: he pronounced it. He was at Boston College, did a
Speaker 1: good job improving the Eagle offense, did a good job
Speaker 1: and I know the Tennessee team wasn't great in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: but that offense was better in twenty fourteen than they
Speaker 1: were in twenty thirteen. So has a track record. I
Speaker 1: think he was at Cincinnati before that and did a
Speaker 1: decent job with their offense. So hopefully Northwestern can get
Speaker 1: that deal back up to competence. Can't do any worse, right, No,
Speaker 1: it would. I mean I could imagine what a worse
Speaker 1: offense would look like at a place that can attract
Speaker 1: decent enough talent. Yeah, I couldn't imagine. So here you go.
Speaker 1: The only other thing that I have see about Jim Delaney.
Speaker 1: Maybe talk about it. Playoff, Dan, Jim Delaney will do
Speaker 1: whatever his best for Jim Delaney. And you leave a
Speaker 1: big ten team out of the playoff, even once like
Speaker 1: has happened, then he will He is open. He said
Speaker 1: something like, you know, I didn't like when they were computers,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I like people either. Right, No,
Speaker 1: he's just keeping his options open. Jim Delaney does not
Speaker 1: at all look like Robert Duvall. We've discussed this before.
Speaker 1: Jumbo Duval, though. I think he's bigger, isn't he Probably? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's protein shake Duval. Whichever Duvall you prefer.
Speaker 2: This one seems to be warming to the idea of
Speaker 2: an expanded playoff, which we knew was gonna come at
Speaker 2: some point. Let's be honest, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the first question we could take because I
Speaker 2: saw that one on that very topic.
Speaker 1: Any other news before we jump in here. We have
Speaker 1: Heisman finalists. That's happening. We're recording this Wednesday at five pm.
Speaker 1: That's happening Saturday. We've had a couple of early awards
Speaker 1: being given out. But I don't know nothing that we
Speaker 1: need to stop everything down for him. We have a
Speaker 1: bunch of good questions here. One final news tidbit, Dan, yes,
Speaker 1: dam for help any of the week. It's not a
Speaker 1: normal week.
Speaker 2: We're talking about things as if the season's over, and
Speaker 2: for all intents and purposes, it is.
Speaker 1: But there is one other game that we need to discuss,
Speaker 1: that we have to discuss.
Speaker 2: It's Army Navy. It's this weekend. They play it in Philly.
Speaker 2: Navy is obviously the favorite here being so they were
Speaker 2: a much better team throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 2: But any thoughts on this football game.
Speaker 1: I think I feel pretty good about Navy. Yeah that yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe has been a fun watch. Obviously, they've gotten to
Speaker 1: be a lot better on offense. They're a top ten
Speaker 1: d analytics team and just points per drive I know
Speaker 1: I love that stat. But defensively they took a nice
Speaker 1: step up as well. And Army has just been a mess.
Speaker 1: They've just been too sloppy. The game this year is
Speaker 1: where it's at Philly. It's in Philly, it's at the Leak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a question about Philly food. Maybe we'll get
Speaker 1: to Yeah, what's the spread? Ten and a half in
Speaker 1: favor of Navy. I'm gonna give those points. Yeah, given
Speaker 1: the points you always like taking in this game. I
Speaker 1: always take the points in this game. I don't know
Speaker 1: statistically how it shakes out, but I hate given points
Speaker 1: in a game like this, such a big rivalry. We disagree. Also,
Speaker 1: Friday night, three FCS playoff games and I you at
Speaker 1: James Madison Austin p at Montana State Montana ad we
Speaker 1: were state in Illinois State, North Dakota State. Any strong
Speaker 1: thoughts about any of those games.
Speaker 2: I have no strong thoughts at all other than the
Speaker 2: Muhlenberg Mules at Scotti Baby Scotty Wood Stadium on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Not sure if I'll make it up, but against North
Speaker 2: Central North Central from Illinois.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Slippery Rock, Minnesota State, the Johnny's of Saint John's
Speaker 1: against Wisconsin Whitewater two twelve and one teams. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty action. Pat my one's on ESPN three, Watch ESPN,
Speaker 1: ESPN plus whatever. It's a lot of good football. Let's watch.
Speaker 2: We have a bunch of good questions. We asked the
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Speaker 1: Did we post on Reddit? We did post. We posted
Speaker 1: on Reddit a bunch of questions from Reddit.
Speaker 2: So any which way you can get in touch with
Speaker 2: us if you've got something to say? What is our
Speaker 2: first question, Daniel?
Speaker 1: Do you want to have the sound that we can play?
Speaker 1: Or now, congratulations, Skippy, you've got mail? You got there?
Speaker 1: It is? I like my version better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's go to that right, let's go
Speaker 2: to that playoff question.
Speaker 1: Let's kick Adam. All right, let's leave here with Adam.
Speaker 1: He says, Dan has pretty clear thoughts on the college
Speaker 1: football playoff, but I'm interested in what he believes is
Speaker 1: the best option BCS or go back to polls. So
Speaker 1: it would be the old system in which there were
Speaker 1: conference alignments for say the Rose and the Sugar and
Speaker 1: the Orange and the people whatever. So I would say,
Speaker 1: bring back the blockbuster bawl one.
Speaker 2: Obviously, if we could play a bit of the newly
Speaker 2: led game here my understanding.
Speaker 1: The AutoZone Liberty Bowl, getting the zone right, Yeah, always
Speaker 1: my understanding of what you would prefer is go back
Speaker 1: to polls. I think that's my preference, not in terms
Speaker 1: of it being an actual good answer to find a
Speaker 1: national champion, but I think it's the answer for what
Speaker 1: would be the most entertaining postseason in college football. That
Speaker 1: would also put a lot of weight on what I
Speaker 1: believe to be the best part of college football, which
Speaker 1: is September, October, November and things getting crazy at the
Speaker 1: end of the season with the polls and whatever the rankings.
Speaker 1: So that's my personal preference because I think I am
Speaker 1: looking at this holistically and just what would be the
Speaker 1: most fun package for college football. Because ultimately we've decided
Speaker 1: that a national championship means something, But does it to
Speaker 1: like if only seven and a half teams are capable
Speaker 1: of winning it because of the way they're built and
Speaker 1: how much money they have to you know, pay coaches
Speaker 1: and build facilities and you know, travel for recruiting, things
Speaker 1: like that. Why does the national championship matter as much
Speaker 1: as it does? Why is there so much weight put
Speaker 1: on it? Why are we you know, whether it's Game
Speaker 1: Day or the Fox Show or our show, or anybody
Speaker 1: who talks about national college football there's this idea of
Speaker 1: who's your top four? You go on the radio, I
Speaker 1: go on the radio. We get asked this in March,
Speaker 1: who's your top four? Do you have right? And there's
Speaker 1: something to me that and I've explained this in a
Speaker 1: number of shows, But in terms of the best solution,
Speaker 1: there is no best solution. If you want to go
Speaker 1: to eight, sure, those eight teams in that tournament, how
Speaker 1: many games is that? That would be four to two,
Speaker 1: three and one? It would be three, it was seven
Speaker 1: games games, yea, seventy seven games. They'd be fun, it'd
Speaker 1: be good TV. But suddenly there you get a situation
Speaker 1: where your ty Hildenbrand, say, Conference championship weekend, is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's no matter what they're not calling out of the
Speaker 1: top eight. You get more of that, so we have
Speaker 1: more inconsequential games late this season, which I'm just against.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I just still cannot get my head around
Speaker 2: your logic on this one. And you're entitled to it,
Speaker 2: but I don't get it. If the national championship doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: then why do any of the games matter? Why even
Speaker 2: play if.
Speaker 1: The ultimate goal?
Speaker 2: If the ultimate goal is not to win the game
Speaker 2: and not to win the championship. Why are they playing
Speaker 2: the games at all? Like, there has to be there
Speaker 2: has to be meaning. There has to be meanings at
Speaker 2: the end of this and in every other sport and
Speaker 2: literally every other sport, we're playing for a championship in
Speaker 2: some way, shape or form, unless you're talking pee wee's
Speaker 2: where everyone gets a ribbon, which this is not. You're
Speaker 2: playing for a championship at the end, and we may
Speaker 2: disagree on how you crown that champion, but the foundation
Speaker 2: of your argument here is that the championship does not matter.
Speaker 2: And that's still to this day after years of arguing
Speaker 2: about this is not something I can get my head around.
Speaker 1: Ty, which year featured your favorite premier league playoffs? They
Speaker 1: don't have playoffs? Oh sorry, they don't have playoffs. Sorry.
Speaker 1: The biggest sport in the world is the one exception
Speaker 1: that doesn't have the kids.
Speaker 2: They well, they have tournaments. They also have a league
Speaker 2: with twenty teams and they can play each other over
Speaker 2: the span of a season. We can't do that in
Speaker 2: college football. We can't do that because they're one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty two. Let's do it now. We have talked
Speaker 2: about our elaborate method for crowning a champion, right, which
Speaker 2: would occur over a ten year period, everyone eventually playing
Speaker 2: everyone in a format.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I'm open discussion on that one.
Speaker 2: But since that is not going to be the case
Speaker 2: anytime soon, we're just going to have an impass here.
Speaker 2: We will fundamentally disagree on. I know whether a championship
Speaker 2: has value or not.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, though, how much did you
Speaker 1: care about a national champion when you learned about college football?
Speaker 1: You're just hoping Notre Dame wins, right, I care a
Speaker 1: great deal about the national championship. No, I'm saying now,
Speaker 1: you do what I'm saying when you first got into football,
Speaker 1: When you first got into college football, when you're twelve
Speaker 1: years old, just watching Notre Dame games. I hope they win.
Speaker 1: I was watching every game, Dan, I was not just
Speaker 1: watching Notre Dame. Come on, right. But the idea is
Speaker 1: we only talk. We don't care about other sports. College
Speaker 1: football is a unicorn. It's the greatest, and it's not
Speaker 1: the greatest because of its postseason. It's the greatest because
Speaker 1: of its season. That's what that I would agree with.
Speaker 1: That I would agree with. Okay, that I would absolutely
Speaker 1: agree with and so I mean, now we're getting into
Speaker 1: the importance of that, and don't worry think about let's
Speaker 1: just treasure what college football is instead of what it
Speaker 1: isn't how about that.
Speaker 2: Well, you're steering into the whole exhibition side of things,
Speaker 2: which is what this playoff tried to get away from, right,
Speaker 2: And I am saying quite the opposite, that it was
Speaker 2: too much of an exhibition sport for too long and
Speaker 2: it's long overdue that we have some justified way of
Speaker 2: crowning a CHAMPI and I'm fine.
Speaker 1: With college football the way it was, right. I fell
Speaker 1: in love with it the way it was, and I'm
Speaker 1: even more in love with it now. Oh no way,
Speaker 1: there's no way. Next topic. Next topic. All right, our
Speaker 1: next question, and I'll get away for some We have
Speaker 1: a couple other college football stuff, but our college fooball
Speaker 1: playoff stuff. But how about this? How much of Lincoln
Speaker 1: Riley's success at Oklahoma and Ryan Day's initial success at
Speaker 1: Ohio State is due to having smooth in house coaching transfers?
Speaker 1: So okay, not you know, transfer in that sense, but
Speaker 1: are we going to see more of this in the future?
Speaker 1: Related how likely is Jimmy Lake likely to maintain Washington
Speaker 1: if not on Oklahoma and Ohio State's level. So I
Speaker 1: guess maintain Washington as occasional jump up and get to
Speaker 1: the playoff, can tend for the Pac twelve, you know,
Speaker 1: once every three years andthing like that. We sort of
Speaker 1: answered this on the Twoes crews, didn't we We did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about let's talk about internal transition.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the smooth in house transition is important,
Speaker 2: but doesn't it help to have that kind of talent
Speaker 2: like they do at Ohio State and Oklahoma. Definitely, like
Speaker 2: both guys have done a great job, but they also
Speaker 2: started with presumably that twenty seven mile runway from Fast
Speaker 2: and Furious six That helps two. So it's a combination
Speaker 2: of factors for both those guys. There are plenty of
Speaker 2: instances where a coach took over a very talented team
Speaker 2: and then deep sixed it over the course of five years.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at you, Larry Coker. Lincoln Riley clearly has
Speaker 2: not done that. Lincoln Riley has you know, carved out
Speaker 2: his own little place in college football at this point,
Speaker 2: and that's why you hear his name rumored for jobs
Speaker 2: maybe in the NFL. At some point right, We'll have
Speaker 2: to wait and see on Ryan d Ryan Day has
Speaker 2: been a name that's been up and coming in the
Speaker 2: coaching ranks forever. I would find it very hard to
Speaker 2: believe that things are going to turn around in a
Speaker 2: negative way for him at Ohio State. So I think
Speaker 2: it's a combination of factors. That's sort of a long
Speaker 2: winded way of saying. It's both it's talent and it's
Speaker 2: a smooth transition from A to B.
Speaker 1: So even I'll drill down a little bit deeper, and
Speaker 1: you root for schools in Penn State and Notre Dame
Speaker 1: that almost exclusively look to the outside. One because Penn
Speaker 1: State had a coach forever and ever and that ended abruptly,
Speaker 1: so they pretty much had to go to the outside.
Speaker 1: Given that situation, then they do it once again once
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien leaves to hire James Franklin, who has connections
Speaker 1: to PA but was not on that staff. My school
Speaker 1: that I root for almost exclusively looks inside the program,
Speaker 1: like Bellotti was an inside higher, Chip Kelly was an
Speaker 1: inside hire, Mark Helfrich was an inside hier, Willie Taggert outside,
Speaker 1: and then Mario Christobul inside once again, so we have
Speaker 1: different vantage points as it relates to the teams we
Speaker 1: root for. And I'll say that there is an unquestionable
Speaker 1: advantage of just knowing where the bathrooms are, and that's
Speaker 1: to be taken in a literal and figurative sense. Just
Speaker 1: there's something about you're not displacing your family again. You
Speaker 1: don't have upheaval, you don't have You're not going home
Speaker 1: to a teenager saying I hate you, Dad, I miss
Speaker 1: all my friends. There is something quinked and tranquil about continuity,
Speaker 1: just from a personal standpoint. And then you know which
Speaker 1: coaches you like and don't like, and you can say,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's been great working with you, but
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go a new direction, defensive line coach,
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, whatever. You already have a sense of the
Speaker 1: players who you like, who you don't like, where you
Speaker 1: need to recruit better, where you can pull back on
Speaker 1: a little bit. There is I mean, you're talking about
Speaker 1: the runway and I think that's exactly it. But it's
Speaker 1: in every single room of the facility. And you're right
Speaker 1: about the talent with Ohio State and Oklahoma, and I
Speaker 1: think to a lesser extent, but still to a reasonable
Speaker 1: extent at Washington. I think Jimmy Lake should have a
Speaker 1: lot of success early because programs stuck there are really good.
Speaker 1: They've recruited well, there are good defensive players. I know
Speaker 1: they need to make adjustments on offense, but Immy Lake
Speaker 1: is better prepared to diagnose what he wants to do
Speaker 1: on offense than if they brought in whoever. You know,
Speaker 1: if they brought on PJ. Fleck to replace Chris Peterson
Speaker 1: or Matt Campbell or whoever. And that's what you should
Speaker 1: see them flirting with double digit wins in these next
Speaker 1: couple of years because he knows where the bathrooms are.
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, I mean it's not a common occurrence that
Speaker 2: you see a guy who is taking over and is
Speaker 2: just an instant disaster taking over a good situation and
Speaker 2: it's instantly horrible.
Speaker 1: Right, Usually Helfridge took a few years.
Speaker 2: Right, Usually it takes a little bit before you start
Speaker 2: to see that manifest Clearly it has that happened at Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's likely to happen at Ohio State,
Speaker 2: but you got to give it time.
Speaker 1: Where are we going next? And by the way, the
Speaker 1: interesting thing with both Ryan Day and Lincoln Riley is
Speaker 1: they'd been around. Oh yeah, Jimmy Lake is a Peterson
Speaker 1: not lifer, but he spent a lot of time with
Speaker 1: them at Boise and Washington, so his network of what
Speaker 1: works and what doesn't work is network of a distance
Speaker 1: isn't quite as large. I still think he should succeed. Next,
Speaker 1: you get to redo one play this year. This is
Speaker 1: from Willie Auburn's last second catch versus Oregon. North Carolina's
Speaker 1: two point attempted play against Clemson. Alabama's one second before
Speaker 1: half versus Auburn. Michigan catches the touchdown versus Penn State.
Speaker 1: That's what Ronnie Bell in the end zone that would
Speaker 1: have tied it. Sure, I believe it was twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty one or something else. I know which one you
Speaker 1: can redo. Yeah, I'm gonna say Veron McKinley breaking up
Speaker 1: that pass the Oregon defensive back.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say North Carolina is two point attempt
Speaker 2: against Clemson because I love the Cajones. It takes to
Speaker 2: Gopher two. Sure in that situation, go for the win.
Speaker 2: Almost as much as I hate the speed option play
Speaker 2: that they ran against a really fast Clempson defense.
Speaker 1: But I love the gumption to go for two there.
Speaker 2: If you're Mac Brown, got a shot take The shot
Speaker 2: didn't work out, but it was still held a lot
Speaker 2: of fun.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of people know this, but that play
Speaker 1: where a quarterback rolls out and a tight end shows
Speaker 1: that he's in for extra protection, then leaks out to
Speaker 1: the weak side for a wide open catch that has
Speaker 1: never failed. It's a one hundred percent successful play on
Speaker 1: any level it's ever been run. You know, why didn't
Speaker 1: they run the Philly Special? It's a good question. Has
Speaker 1: that play ever failed? I have not seen. I mean
Speaker 1: sure it has. I'm sure it's failed spectacularly because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of levers and pulleys to it.
Speaker 2: I would love to know if PFF has a stat
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Seriously, on some sort of Philly Special or King of
Speaker 1: Prussia special, some sort of iteration. That play feels like
Speaker 1: it works one hundred percent of the time. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: absolutely does. Footford thought, will Mike Norvel have the knolls
Speaker 1: above five hundred next year? Not including a bowl game?
Speaker 2: Ooh, good question, Yeah, good question. This is from Michael.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: First off, the non conference schedule includes both Boise and Florida,
Speaker 2: which are tough games.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think they're at Boise and West Virginia, right
Speaker 1: and West Virginia sure in Atlanta. Yeah, so they've got
Speaker 1: those three, which at least two of those three are
Speaker 1: going to be tricky.
Speaker 2: They also get Clemson. They also get Louisville, they get Miami,
Speaker 2: both in the road, both of those two every year.
Speaker 2: But yeah, right, both of those teams should be improved.
Speaker 2: I don't think they lose all those games. I feel
Speaker 2: pretty good about seven and five, just solely on talent alone.
Speaker 2: But I think the schedule dispels any notion of Mike
Speaker 2: Norvel going like nine and three, ten and two.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a tough schedule. It's what a third
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in three years. It's the talent level obviously
Speaker 1: isn't up to where it was, you know, eight, seven
Speaker 1: years ago. Whatever, I think they'll be, okay, I am optimistic.
Speaker 1: Quarterback is still gonna be such a huge issue for me. God,
Speaker 1: the Sam Howell de commitment, well, yeah, it hurt, that's right,
Speaker 1: just enormous. I think so. Yeah, I think they can
Speaker 1: go seven and five. It's it's year one, don't I
Speaker 1: don't have what Mike Norvell did at the moment in
Speaker 1: front of me. I'm bringing it up right now in
Speaker 1: year one at Memphis, but he was taking over a
Speaker 1: much more successful program. It was a different situation. They
Speaker 1: left that in such a good place.
Speaker 2: It went a much different situation. Yeah, in five to
Speaker 2: five in five so look, I like Mike Norvell. I
Speaker 2: think it's a good move. I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: got the personnel in place to run the system he
Speaker 2: wants to run. We'll find that out in due time.
Speaker 2: But the schedule does not strike me as a cream
Speaker 2: puff schedule.
Speaker 1: So seven and five right now.
Speaker 2: If I'm betting in late December or early to so
Speaker 2: whatever this is now was in track of time, seven
Speaker 2: and five would probably be my early bet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think cam Akers will be back, No,
Speaker 1: I hope not, for his sake. I really do hope not.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's declared yet, but it's hard to
Speaker 1: imagine he won't because it's time. There's nothing more he
Speaker 1: can really do in Florida State, given the line that's
Speaker 1: going to be in front of him once again. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it'll be improved, but it's time. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say yes, just be on the strength of Norville, but
Speaker 1: we haven't seen all of his HighRes, so it's it's
Speaker 1: an incomplete take at the moment, Joshua, does the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve have the best pool of head coaches right now
Speaker 1: versus all the other Power five conferences or just every
Speaker 1: conference top to bottom? I'm gonna say no, Okay, who's better? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess, first of all, let's define best pool of coaches.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you would define it. I will
Speaker 1: offer have proven that they can win eight games in
Speaker 1: a Power five conference, Okay, as a head coach. So
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve to me is sort of incomplete. I
Speaker 1: did Less Miles currently lest Miles won a national championship.
Speaker 1: Do you have faith less Miles can win eight games
Speaker 1: at Kansas? No, that's obviously the low part. Matt Wells incomplete? Okay,
Speaker 1: no idea, right?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Neil Brown incomplete? No idea. I mean we look at
Speaker 1: Neil Brown, we look at Matt Wells, you know, Chris
Speaker 1: Climban as people who have potential. But there's just there's
Speaker 1: too much. I mean, we like, obviously, we love Lincoln Riley,
Speaker 1: Gary current iteration, Gary Patterson and the decisions he's made
Speaker 1: it offensive coordinator I don't know. It's not in a
Speaker 1: great place. But Gary Patterson's track record says yes, he
Speaker 1: is an addition to a good pool, right it is.
Speaker 1: It's not the Pac twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean what the what the Big twelve has
Speaker 2: going for it is that it's only ten teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, so it's more of a percentage thing. It's so
Speaker 1: hard to go against the sec you think. So it
Speaker 1: starts at the top with Saban, who everyone is trying
Speaker 1: to emulate. Eight mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Obviously LSU had a renaissance here. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm confident in ed Orgeron moving forward. I'm confident in
Speaker 2: their ability in this playoff, but this is really the
Speaker 2: first year where he's broken out, so I'd like to
Speaker 2: see him maintain it. But LSU was an eight win entity.
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good about that year in a year out.
Speaker 2: Dan Mullen is doing quick work at Florida. Gus Melzon
Speaker 2: has been pretty good for a while at Auburn. Winning
Speaker 2: eight games has not really been an issue, right, you know.
Speaker 2: On the other side of things, I think Jeremy Pruitt
Speaker 2: did a really good job second half of the year
Speaker 2: at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but second half of the year was a very
Speaker 1: different schedule than the first half of the year. But yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: you lose the way he did those first two weeks.
Speaker 1: It's hard to really sing praises this season.
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops has done miracles at Kentucky. I'm not even
Speaker 2: mentioning Jimbo Fisher yet. So I just think the amount
Speaker 2: of AMMO in the coaching ranks and the SEC is
Speaker 2: really tough to beat.
Speaker 1: I would say the top of the SEC is incredibly
Speaker 1: tough to beat. The depth of the ACC as down
Speaker 1: as it was this season, the ACC is sneaky. I
Speaker 1: was looking at them too. It's not Jeff Collins is
Speaker 1: an unknown right now as a Power five coach, and
Speaker 1: obviously Boston College has not officially hired anybody. But in
Speaker 1: terms of what these guys have proven, and I would
Speaker 1: put Mike Norvell above some of those big twelve guys
Speaker 1: with what he's done at Memphis this season leading him
Speaker 1: to a Cotton Bowl. The Many Diaz thing is the
Speaker 1: other question. But justin Fuente, Bronco, Mendenhall, Pat Nardoozi, it
Speaker 1: was okay, but he if that bar is seven eight
Speaker 1: wins in a Power five conference, he can He's gotten there. Ye,
Speaker 1: mac Brown has proven it and a Power five conference.
Speaker 1: He's an ash. David Cutcliffe has proven it all. Dave
Speaker 1: Duran does is wins seven or nine games, or he
Speaker 1: wins or loses seven games, that's right in the ACC.
Speaker 1: Dino Babers has proven it. No, it's not bad. I
Speaker 1: think just in terms of high floor, I would probably
Speaker 1: I might have, and then Dabbo obviously who might be
Speaker 1: the best coach in the sport?
Speaker 2: Can I ask a different coach question than I see
Speaker 2: here from Joe? Does the hype around Matt Campbell at
Speaker 2: Iowa State seem to be fizzling? Or is he still
Speaker 2: destined for a program bigger and better eventually he is?
Speaker 1: I think he's being patient. Yeah, I think he's being
Speaker 1: patient for Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, something like that,
Speaker 1: where you know, obviously he's from the Midwest, and I
Speaker 1: think he will have his choice of a large Midwestern
Speaker 1: job if he continues taking Iowa State to bowl games
Speaker 1: and hanging with teams like Oklahoma and Texas, beating teams
Speaker 1: like Texas, murdering teams like TCU for as many down
Speaker 1: weeks and weird losses that the Clones will have and
Speaker 1: you know you need to beat Iowa at a certain point.
Speaker 1: Their schedule is not difficult in the following years. I
Speaker 1: think they only have Iowa in terms of very challenging
Speaker 1: Power five teams, so that should be a nice cushion.
Speaker 1: Even though the Big twelve plays nine conference games. I
Speaker 1: think we're just plateauing with Matt Campbell as attractive dude
Speaker 1: to take over that large program. And that's my point.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fizzling.
Speaker 2: I just think the hype has been normalized at this point,
Speaker 2: and you're one hundred percent right. He is in a
Speaker 2: position or he can be as picky as he wants
Speaker 2: to be about his next gig, because Iowa State would
Speaker 2: happily keep him until he's seventy sure thirty years of
Speaker 2: Matt Campbell, sign me up. They would take that in
Speaker 2: a heartbeat. The truth of the matter is, though.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine a seventy three year old with that
Speaker 1: crazy curved hat, whoa.
Speaker 2: Matt Campbell had an eight and four regular season last year.
Speaker 2: Last year before that, you had to go back eighteen
Speaker 2: years to find a regular season as successful. This is
Speaker 2: not a place that is easy to win at. Seven
Speaker 2: win seasons are not growing on trees at Iowa State.
Speaker 2: And now he's done it for three consecutive seasons. So
Speaker 2: this is definitely still a guy who's going to be
Speaker 2: in demand when he chooses to be in demand.
Speaker 1: Right. The only thing I'd be worried about. And we
Speaker 1: got a question about Willy Fritz with this too. You know,
Speaker 1: how is Willy Fritz still at Tulane? How has nobody
Speaker 1: scooped him up there? If he does throw in a
Speaker 1: clunker of a year, if he loses a quarterback in
Speaker 1: week three and they end up five and seven because
Speaker 1: of weird depth issues, transfer issues or whatever, then he's
Speaker 1: going to need a proven year not to stay at
Speaker 1: Iowa State, but to say, Okay, no, this guy's still good.
Speaker 1: This guy's still good. I think it sort of happened
Speaker 1: in Iowa State is not a G five program. But
Speaker 1: this is more of a comparison to Willy Fritz. Everybody said,
Speaker 1: oh man, Matt Wells destined for big things. Then Utah
Speaker 1: State kept getting hurt at quarterback year after year after year,
Speaker 1: and he would I think he had a great year
Speaker 1: with the Eggies and like tw fourteen and then he
Speaker 1: threw in a bunch of five and seven, six and
Speaker 1: seven whatever type seasons. And it's not that people thought
Speaker 1: any less of him, but the margin for air is
Speaker 1: so much slimmer at a place like that. So when
Speaker 1: he finally did have that double digit, double digit win
Speaker 1: year last season, then it was like, I gotta take
Speaker 1: advantage now. Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, he's gonna I
Speaker 1: think if he does slip, if Matt Campbell and the
Speaker 1: Clones slip and have a clunker year, he will need
Speaker 1: that prove a year. But I don't see that happening
Speaker 1: anytime soon. He's recruited pretty well. I think he has
Speaker 1: a blue chip quarterback coming in in this next class.
Speaker 1: It's always gonna be tough to out recruit teams that
Speaker 1: are that close or inside Texas. But uh, I foresee
Speaker 1: this continuing for the Clones. So Bucks Guy, that's the
Speaker 1: name we have here. Bucks Guy. Yeah, requested that I
Speaker 1: read the full name of this bowl, okay, and.
Speaker 2: He said, I might be headed to the Bad Boy
Speaker 2: Mowers Gasparia Bowl. Mm hmm, as I'll be in the
Speaker 2: area for Christmas games in Tampa. Yeah, what is the
Speaker 2: word on this game? Any fun? Seems like it'll be
Speaker 2: a blowout. So this is UCF and Marshall. I agree
Speaker 2: that it will be a blowout. I think UCFS about
Speaker 2: a seventeen point favorite. I'll put a fair amount of
Speaker 2: confidence points on this one. All I would say to you,
Speaker 2: sir Buck's guy, mister Bucks guy. I'm assuming this Bowl
Speaker 2: game has previously been sponsored by titans in the business world,
Speaker 2: such as Magic Jack, BFO, Brady's, and BitPay. So regardless
Speaker 2: of the final outcome of the game, maybe it's a blowout,
Speaker 2: maybe it isn't just walk around breathe that rarefied era
Speaker 2: of Raymond James Stadium.
Speaker 1: Dan, can I ask you a question about sponsorships in
Speaker 1: light of both your comment and the fact that the
Speaker 1: New Mexico Bowl almost got sponsored by a company that
Speaker 1: doesn't technically exist or at least we talk in we
Speaker 1: talk in CPM rates here. What are we talking now?
Speaker 1: My question to you is, if there is a desperate
Speaker 1: Bowl game that is sure it's going to sell a
Speaker 1: lot of tickets, but it still needs a sponsor to
Speaker 1: round out the books, to cover all of its costs whatever,
Speaker 1: how inappropriate do you think? I mean, I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are rules. I don't know if it's an NCAA thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an ESPN thing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a specific bowl that has rules about
Speaker 1: who they would accept sponsorship from. I only thought of
Speaker 1: this because Tampa is so I've heard the strip club
Speaker 1: capital of America. Sure, So I don't think they would
Speaker 1: take a sponsorship from a strip club. Would they take
Speaker 1: a sponsorship from if there were some modern equivalent of
Speaker 1: like Maxim or Fahm, would they take a Hooters sponsorship?
Speaker 1: I was going to say, would they take a Hooter sponsorship?
Speaker 1: I think they probably would. I think they would, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think especially a smaller bowl that really just needs
Speaker 1: that infusion of cash to cover everything, I think you
Speaker 1: would do a Hooter's bull Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Do you have the breaking news sounds I do? From
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine, Hooters sponsored the
Speaker 1: Hula Bowl. Oh yes, that's right, Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: Hula Bowl is coming back. By the way, Oh, I
Speaker 1: would love that the Hula Bowl is coming back. According
Speaker 1: to its Wikipedia page. The game was first played nineteen
Speaker 1: forty seven to two thousand and eight and is being
Speaker 1: revived following the twenty nineteen season to be played at
Speaker 1: a Looha stadium first time. Since it's so, it's scheduled
Speaker 1: for January twenty six, twenty twenty. So this is the
Speaker 1: like an all star game. Yeah, not officially a bowl game. Also,
Speaker 1: Lee Karso did a Hooters commercial in twenty eleven where
Speaker 1: he was he put on the I remember that owl,
Speaker 1: I remember that head, I remember that there is connection,
Speaker 1: there is I want that's a technical bowl game.
Speaker 2: I don't just want the Blockbuster Bowl back. I want
Speaker 2: the blue Bonnet Bowl back from the late eighties.
Speaker 1: Bring that back, good copper ball, get more people to Arizona.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Okay, next question, who do you want
Speaker 1: to go to? N D Fan? Let's get this out
Speaker 1: of the way. Oh, I'm ready.
Speaker 2: Do you think Notre Dame is a coach away from
Speaker 2: the elite class like Georgia when Georgia went from Mark
Speaker 2: Richt to Kirby Smart. It's a loaded question, mister D fan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how do you feel?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about this one? Dan? So? We're
Speaker 1: talking about a top three class. We're talking about a
Speaker 1: ton of five stars and like seventy seventy five percent
Speaker 1: plus rkship ratio.
Speaker 2: No, he says, do you think Notre Dame is a
Speaker 2: coach away from the elite class like Georgia?
Speaker 1: Oh the early class? Okay, I see what, Yeah say,
Speaker 1: so upper top, wrong, upper crust of college football. And
Speaker 1: he's comparing it to the Georgia situation when they went
Speaker 1: from Mark Richt to Kirby smart Well. One, I don't
Speaker 1: know who that is. I don't know who that coach
Speaker 1: is that's taking the Notre Dame job, unless Urban Meyer's
Speaker 1: taking it in a year or two, which I guess
Speaker 1: it's possible. No, I think Notre Dame is in a
Speaker 1: place where they are getting good enough classes, and it's
Speaker 1: just they need to go undefeated, essentially, maybe eleven and
Speaker 1: one to be in the conversation later on in the season,
Speaker 1: because as we saw this year ten and two. And
Speaker 1: maybe this is just me liking, you know, to see
Speaker 1: Notre Dame cause you adjuta, But do they feel sort
Speaker 1: of college football adjacent this year? Adjacent? Yeah, college football
Speaker 1: like playoff adjacent. Even when they were good, it felt
Speaker 1: like we were never really having conversations about big Notre
Speaker 1: Dame games. I think partially because big Notre Dame games
Speaker 1: didn't really exist near the end of the year. Well,
Speaker 1: they were out of it towards the end of the year,
Speaker 1: right And so we are not talking about Notre Dame
Speaker 1: in a well, if they beat Clemson in the ACC
Speaker 1: champ and ship the like, if Notre Dame were in
Speaker 1: the ACC Coastal, we'd be talking about a Notre Dame
Speaker 1: Florida Sugar Bowl or Orange Bowl or whatever, right, well.
Speaker 2: And part of that is the way that the schedule
Speaker 2: naturally worked out. That Stanford game to close out the
Speaker 2: year six months ago looked like it would be a
Speaker 2: lot bigger than it ended up being. Definitely, so just
Speaker 2: the natural rhythms of the season kind of took them
Speaker 2: in a different direction. But after they got drilled by Michigan,
Speaker 2: it was pretty much over. So yeah, yeah, definitely down
Speaker 2: the stretch, we didn't talk a whole lot about Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: I think it's a fair question to ask. I know
Speaker 2: that there are many in the Notre Dame world that
Speaker 2: are asking that question. The caveat, though, is that quote
Speaker 2: being a coach away from elite is the ultimate white
Speaker 2: whale in college football. It worked at Georgia, it doesn't
Speaker 2: work at most places. What state is Georgia located in Georgia.
Speaker 2: It's in Georgia. It's easier to I mean, Notre Dame
Speaker 2: is a big national brand and should be able to
Speaker 2: attract national talents.
Speaker 1: Easier to attract that kind of class and get or
Speaker 1: that kind of excuse me, that just that kind of
Speaker 1: talent and that kind of momentum at Georgia than it
Speaker 1: is a Notre Dame. There is a talent gap.
Speaker 2: A school like Georgia is deeper across the board, slowly
Speaker 2: but surely. I think Brian Kelly has gotten Notre Dame
Speaker 2: in a much much better spot in that department. In general,
Speaker 2: they're in pretty good shape. They're in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2: I think, as I said all year, they're a quarterback away.
Speaker 2: I think they can get a better quarterback that.
Speaker 1: Well, now they need a coordinator too.
Speaker 2: Well, now they need a coordinator, and maybe that coordinator
Speaker 2: will do different things with the book. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I think they're a quarterback away, a more dynamic
Speaker 2: quarterback away from maybe getting to that rung a little
Speaker 2: more consistently.
Speaker 1: But they're right there, they're knocking on the door. I'd
Speaker 1: also say it's probably easier to attract a top flight
Speaker 1: coach to Athens, Georgia. I would agree with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great place. Not that South Bend doesn't have
Speaker 1: its charms. Athens, george is a great place.
Speaker 2: You have a few more college football ones. And then
Speaker 2: we'll go back off topic.
Speaker 1: How many years at minimum? This is Minnesota a bomb?
Speaker 1: This is what I'm trying to come up with, as
Speaker 1: this person's user name. How many years at a minimum
Speaker 1: until we see a non Clemson Clesome ACC champion, non
Speaker 1: Clemson ACC champion. Yeah, and I guess who is the
Speaker 1: most likely non Clemson? Wow? And how many years will
Speaker 1: it take for said team? Man? That is tough. It's
Speaker 1: so you don't want you nobody's nobody's gonna be as
Speaker 1: talented in the short term, right, No.
Speaker 2: No, I mean the natural answer would be Florida State.
Speaker 2: Florida State's sort of that natural rival. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: years away, I don't know. I don't know, probably three
Speaker 2: years at a minimum.
Speaker 1: Three years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami's another one that you could throw in there.
Speaker 2: They've got a promising freshman quarter back do they we
Speaker 2: thought they did.
Speaker 1: We did a whole thing on Willard, we did a
Speaker 1: whole thing on them.
Speaker 2: But at a minimum, it's got to be three years
Speaker 2: for almost anybody in the ACC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's probably three years. I think you
Speaker 1: can sneak into two the Okay, so we're looking at
Speaker 1: promising young quarterbacks. I think I see two or no,
Speaker 1: I probably see three right now in the conference. That's
Speaker 1: that's the starting point you need. I see Hendon Hooker,
Speaker 1: I see McHale calm yeah, and I see Sam Howell. Sure,
Speaker 1: super promising young quarterbacks is a great place to start.
Speaker 1: I think the answer is bra. I mean, Louisville's defense
Speaker 1: is far away. That is a that is going to
Speaker 1: take time. Virginia Tech has a new defensive coordinator, their
Speaker 1: offense still needs some but you're not going to find
Speaker 1: anybody inside three years. I think I could be talked
Speaker 1: into Virginia Tech within two geez yeah. Or I could
Speaker 1: actually be talked into man if Sam Howell keeps progressing.
Speaker 1: Sam How's real good. He is real good. You see.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I think it's going to be easier
Speaker 1: to beat Clemson by just jumping up and getting them
Speaker 1: late September and having that game advantage and run the
Speaker 1: table in the Atlantic, or just finished with a better
Speaker 1: record than it is to get Clemson at the end
Speaker 1: of the season and beat them in late November early December.
Speaker 1: That's fair. So that's why I almost favor Louisville here
Speaker 1: that if in two years they get to a place
Speaker 1: with transfers or whatever, Michael Cunningham still looks really strong.
Speaker 1: That might be why my answers Louisville. Actually, all right,
Speaker 1: next question, where are we going? Next question, let's go
Speaker 1: to but we had a bunch of good ones here,
Speaker 1: did I skip? I'm already onto the non college football.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Sam Sam near the top of page one.
Speaker 1: I always like that name. Okay, why should any fan
Speaker 1: of a team other than Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Georgia,
Speaker 1: or Clemson think their team stands a chance of winning
Speaker 1: a national championship in the next ten years? And let's
Speaker 1: pair this question with Trevor, who asks, when, in your
Speaker 1: opinion does a program stop being considered a blue blood
Speaker 1: or when does it move to blue blood status? Okay,
Speaker 1: because if we are going to work under the presumption
Speaker 1: that you need to be or on the verge of
Speaker 1: becoming a quote blue blood to win a national championship
Speaker 1: where you're gonna have to have more depth than you
Speaker 1: did before because you're gonna have to win two games
Speaker 1: on neutral sites and big stages. How do we determine
Speaker 1: blue bloodiness and why would fans outside of those current strong,
Speaker 1: strong programs feel like they have a chance.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question, and it really strikes you.
Speaker 2: It really strikes at the.
Speaker 1: Heart of why we root for college football at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly there's investment being made, there are beat writers
Speaker 2: writing about the investment being made, and there's no shortage
Speaker 2: of fan enthusiasm, especially in the beginning of the year
Speaker 2: when everyone's undefeated. So it's not hard for me to
Speaker 2: understand how people feel like they.
Speaker 1: Have a chance. So without knowing who Sam roots for,
Speaker 1: because let's assume Sam roots for a team that's a
Speaker 1: rung or two below Ohio State, Alabamalysy, Georgia, Clemson, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: I would include in that because if you make multiple playoffs,
Speaker 1: you're in that conversation, right, So, what you're a Notre
Speaker 1: Dame fan, you root for a team that's you know,
Speaker 1: a rung below. I'm an Oregon fan. I root for
Speaker 1: a team that's a rung below.
Speaker 2: How do we have a chance we make the playoff
Speaker 2: and we get a chance to beat that team on
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 1: No, but you know that those teams are operating at
Speaker 1: a higher level.
Speaker 2: They're operating at a higher level. But you make the playoff,
Speaker 2: you have a chance. All you can ask for is
Speaker 2: to give yourself a chance.
Speaker 1: So I think the feudal name nature of this question
Speaker 1: comes from the fact that we've seen what one team
Speaker 1: or one and a half teams from outside the general
Speaker 1: consensus of that blue blood group make the playoff. Right,
Speaker 1: we saw Michigan State. How did they fare against Alabama?
Speaker 1: I got smoked, not super great, It was super evident
Speaker 1: that they were just they did not blow On the
Speaker 1: same field, we saw Oregon win a game against the
Speaker 1: Florida State team, who I will still argue that Florida
Speaker 1: State team was clearly more talented. They were just a mess.
Speaker 1: And that's my points that's my point right there. But
Speaker 1: we're talking about an Oregon team who had already been
Speaker 1: to a national championship, who had been to four straight
Speaker 1: BCS Bowls at that point, or it was four out
Speaker 1: of five. It was like it was a year after
Speaker 1: Chip left. They went to the Almo Bowl in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: But Chip Kelly took Oregon to four straight BCS Bowls,
Speaker 1: so it was not a matter of them. And I
Speaker 1: know Michigan State had success leading up as well, but
Speaker 1: there is an element of not exactly having the depth.
Speaker 1: As we saw Oregon against Ohio State, they were down
Speaker 1: too many players. In Ohio State, even though they were
Speaker 1: down to their third string quarterback, that third string quarterback
Speaker 1: was plenty good. And so that's the issue. That's the
Speaker 1: issue at hand is that teams generally outside of that
Speaker 1: grouping plus Oklahoma, I would say that he named are
Speaker 1: just not going to be able to weather the grind
Speaker 1: of going through both going through a season probably undefeated,
Speaker 1: because you're not going to get the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt with one or two losses and then going through
Speaker 1: two of those teams. So my answer to him is,
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring this full circle. National championship doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You went into this season as a Notre Dame fan
Speaker 1: without any designs of Notre Dame going to the National championship, right,
Speaker 1: I did not believe that they would be a contender,
Speaker 1: But you watched and you enjoyed yourself. I mean I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say that. That doesn't mean I can't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean yourself for them to make it though,
Speaker 2: right totally, which there is.
Speaker 1: There's the hope. But you shouldn't have designs of it.
Speaker 1: You just just.
Speaker 2: Is the most illogical argument I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2: You should not root for your team to win the championship.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna write note that here, Okay, and.
Speaker 1: I should also mention Notre Dame made it to the
Speaker 1: playoff last year for the first time and didn't hang
Speaker 1: with the team that was put in front of them.
Speaker 1: They did one point better than Alabama, though the defense
Speaker 1: right point better than Alabai. Moving on, where are we
Speaker 1: going next? No, but my general point is if you
Speaker 1: view the sport as having a point beyond the national Championship,
Speaker 1: which I think you should. I think you should, I should,
Speaker 1: everybody should. And it's great if you root for one
Speaker 1: of those great teams by all means have laser focus
Speaker 1: on the national Championship. There's one hundred and twenty other teams,
Speaker 1: and I think it's totally good to just root for
Speaker 1: your team to play well. I root for your team
Speaker 1: to play. Well, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to call it like the hipster better
Speaker 2: than the championship argument, but it that's the only way
Speaker 2: I could describe it.
Speaker 1: I just I just fundamentally disagree. I don't know. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's all right. I just disagree. Why don't Since we
Speaker 1: just brought it full circle and we're only having we're
Speaker 1: only doing a few more minutes of the show, why
Speaker 1: don't we designate this portion of the show to say,
Speaker 1: if you came here for college football Talk, yes, get out.
Speaker 1: That was so amazing of you to download the show
Speaker 1: and to listen, and hopefully you liked at least part
Speaker 1: of it. We're going to move on to other topics now. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's hit a couple of these. And it's been you
Speaker 1: know what, it feels great to do so ty it does.
Speaker 1: It's nice. So we asked you to give us questions
Speaker 1: both about college football, and we also said I think
Speaker 1: I said grocery stores, meeting your spouse's families, travel for
Speaker 1: bowl season, which I guess is college football related. I
Speaker 1: don't remember if it was. Oh, in sleep all things
Speaker 1: I feel passionately about. Sure, let's start here. Brian says,
Speaker 1: compounding the joy I felt watching LSU's historic season was
Speaker 1: sharing it with my new girlfriend from Monterey, Mexico. Money.
Speaker 1: It's great down there. She will be meeting my large
Speaker 1: Cajun family for the first time, and that includes watching
Speaker 1: the LSU Oklahoma game. My question is her English is
Speaker 1: just okay, and my family sounds like like a sleepy coach.
Speaker 1: Oh no, just a great way to describe people. What
Speaker 1: should my instructions be to my relatives? I am worried
Speaker 1: my family will overdo it and try too hard to
Speaker 1: communicate with her by talking slowly and loudly to her
Speaker 1: in English when it will not obviously will not help
Speaker 1: and only make her feel like a toddler. Okay, So
Speaker 1: my advice would be to just tell your family, Hey,
Speaker 1: she's from somewhere else. She's decent at speaking English. Whatever
Speaker 1: she doesn't pick up naturally, she'll probably get by context clues,
Speaker 1: and if I'm nearby, I can always pipe up if
Speaker 1: I feel like she's looking really, really confused. But I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that Brian's girlfriend is a grown up, and so
Speaker 1: it's it's basically, don't you Brian treat her like a
Speaker 1: toddler and don't and tell your family. Just be like,
Speaker 1: just talk. It's cool, She'll pick it up. It's fine.
Speaker 2: Well, he has an aster risk here that she understands
Speaker 2: the rules of football because she grew up watching the
Speaker 2: Mexican college football LIGAC. Yeah, which he said he had
Speaker 2: no idea has been around since the nineteen twenties.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so.
Speaker 2: You know football, football's universal language. There, start there and
Speaker 2: branch your way out. But no, no, don't treat her
Speaker 2: any differently man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, you know, maybe if there is
Speaker 1: a specific relative who is difficult to understand and might
Speaker 1: wade into weird waters, maybe don't leave her alone with him.
Speaker 1: Maybe be conscious that group settings involved, so that you
Speaker 1: have an ear to the wall to jump in if
Speaker 1: need be. But otherwise, yeah, I if Brian's smart enough
Speaker 1: to email our show, he's smart enough to have a
Speaker 1: cool girlfriend, so I assume everything will be good. All right,
Speaker 1: Where are we going next? Brad wants to know he's
Speaker 1: going to Japan. I love that we're going international at
Speaker 1: this one. Okay, going to Japan over Christmas to meet
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's parents for the first time, ask their permission
Speaker 1: to marry their daughter. Whoa They don't speak English, so
Speaker 1: girlfriend will translate any suggestions on what to say. Mahalo
Speaker 1: Brad in Hawaii. And actually it turns out Uh, a
Speaker 1: coworker of JODI's who is from Japan but lives here,
Speaker 1: is half Japanese. And I think her father, I forget,
Speaker 1: is his half Japanese. But her parents are in Japan
Speaker 1: married O guy that's from the state, so they have
Speaker 1: a similar thing. Although I think there's slightly less of
Speaker 1: a language barrier, but still a language barrier. What's your
Speaker 1: advice for Brad? Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, you had a much more creative proposal than
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Would it.
Speaker 2: Be too big a risk for Brad to just go
Speaker 2: hardcore into the Japanese language right for the next couple weeks,
Speaker 2: however long.
Speaker 1: And become fully fluent.
Speaker 2: No no, no no no no no, no, A one trick pony, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just learn how to say hey, this one thing. Is
Speaker 2: that too much of a risk, because I guarantee you
Speaker 2: the parents would appreciate.
Speaker 1: It, So I think you are completely on the right track. Tie.
Speaker 1: I would go a little further, I would say, and
Speaker 1: it appears, And I did some digging about Brad oh a, right.
Speaker 1: If this comes sorry, if this comes off as now
Speaker 1: I didn't actually do anything, I have your social security No. No,
Speaker 1: I think Brad lists a bunch of different places. Like
Speaker 1: he says mahalo because he's Brad in Hawaii, but he's
Speaker 1: Hawaii via a couple of other international destinations. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I say, steer into his international background. Find somebody at
Speaker 1: a local university, find somebody on Reddit. Honestly, if there's
Speaker 1: a verballer who's fluent in Japanese, what I would say,
Speaker 1: people in Japan who listen. Yeah, that's true. Oh man,
Speaker 1: what is it? Brian C Brian Jones, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: longtime listener. Maybe get at him. We can connect you.
Speaker 1: We'll connect here that I know that this is weird enough.
Speaker 1: We know our listeners. We do know our listeners. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, connect with somebody who knows Japanese. Write
Speaker 1: out what you want to say. Say your daughter means
Speaker 1: the world to me. I couldn't imagine being with anybody else. Really,
Speaker 1: speak from the heart, really go for it. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be you know, paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs,
Speaker 1: but speak from the heart. Figure out what you want
Speaker 1: to say. Write it down, find somebody fluent in Japanese
Speaker 1: and see if you can get them to translate, and
Speaker 1: see if you can really get it phonetically, you know,
Speaker 1: pronounced for you, and to a video of it. Do
Speaker 1: make a video of you saying these things to her parents,
Speaker 1: bring it on your phone, show them. And also, if
Speaker 1: you can, and if you do get it translated, get
Speaker 1: it translated in a letter that you can give to them.
Speaker 1: So that's what I did with Jody with an I's parents.
Speaker 1: He translated into Japanese. I did it all in Japanese.
Speaker 1: I actually did it both in Japanese and in a
Speaker 1: couple of other languages, just to be saying far see
Speaker 1: and whatnot sure for sure, but I would also include
Speaker 1: in the video I say this in the video in Japanese.
Speaker 1: I only learned this part, so I will be unable
Speaker 1: to answer questions.
Speaker 2: Well, that's an important disclaimer. Yes, that's an important disclaimer.
Speaker 2: So I get so our answer here to Brad, it
Speaker 2: depends on how risky he wants to get.
Speaker 1: If he thinks he's going to be nervous, I think
Speaker 1: you have to do that. I would do that myself,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent do it. I will not. I would
Speaker 1: not advise it. If I weren't going to do it myself,
Speaker 1: I'd say you have to do it on video because
Speaker 1: it also shows effort. Right, you're not asking permission in
Speaker 1: the traditional sense like it, They're not probably not going
Speaker 1: to say no.
Speaker 2: Well, the language shows effort. Regardless you learn the language,
Speaker 2: it shows effort. It shows effort. Her parents will appreciate that.
Speaker 2: So whether you do it live and fight off the nerves,
Speaker 2: or if you decide to go more of the production
Speaker 2: route and do the video. Either way, it's got to
Speaker 2: be in Japanese.
Speaker 1: We agree on this. It has to be has to
Speaker 1: be in Japanese, and we will if anybody's listening is
Speaker 1: fluent in Japanese and will want to help Brad out
Speaker 1: solid verbal at gmail dot com. If not, maybe I
Speaker 1: can try to ask Jody's coworker. I'm sure we have Japanese.
Speaker 1: We will make this work for Brad. We will, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm glad we agree on that. This was a
Speaker 1: question that was sort of contentious at one point in
Speaker 1: our show. Really it was about dogs. Oh boy, Oh
Speaker 1: not this one again. Oh No, what's Tie's opinion? Because
Speaker 1: sleep is one of the things we offered questions about
Speaker 1: what's Tie's opinion on letting his dogs sleep with him.
Speaker 1: Who has, Dan Klobashar, who has I find it possible.
Speaker 1: I find it possibly less RESTful when one of my
Speaker 1: dogs sleeps with me, But it's nice in the winter
Speaker 1: to use one for heat fore, so well, he's up
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, so he needs that. Yes, and you sleep
Speaker 1: next to your wife, who I don't imagine provides a
Speaker 1: lot of heat because she's just a smaller lady. So
Speaker 1: maybe your dog a furry presence in your life. Sure,
Speaker 1: does your dog sleep in bed with you ever? Not yet?
Speaker 1: But she's just a pup.
Speaker 2: The solid puppy has woven herself into our lives. Sure
Speaker 2: in such a way that I think we're at some
Speaker 2: point going to broach that subject. See if see if
Speaker 2: she's interested in coming up to sleep in the same room.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not as different than bed. Room is different
Speaker 1: than bed.
Speaker 2: I don't want to like box myself in here by
Speaker 2: saying if the dog decides to jump up and sleep
Speaker 2: at our feet, then I'm gonna kick her off because
Speaker 2: I won't. I don't think i'd be too gung ho
Speaker 2: and having her sleep like next to me on the pillow.
Speaker 1: Especially if you have allergy issues. That's like, that's three
Speaker 1: hours of dander right up your nose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a good option, But I think I
Speaker 2: could be swayed into her at our feet.
Speaker 1: What if we end up going back to a Dakota
Speaker 1: next year? Right? Okay, we go see the Jacks in
Speaker 1: South Dakota. Yeah, yeah, and you come back home. Kate's
Speaker 1: been home obviously a couple days without you. She was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: the the dog actually really likes sleeping in bed, and
Speaker 1: I like it. Are you putting up a fight? Are you?
Speaker 1: Is that what a foot down issue for you that
Speaker 1: you're like, you know what, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: my favorite thing or are you just gonna roll with it?
Speaker 1: I mean, it depends if I have my spot in
Speaker 1: the bed right, Let's say it's an adjusted spot. Let's
Speaker 1: say the dog takes up part of the dmz Ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Such a good question.
Speaker 1: Next question, Jason wants to know, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about Trader Joe's. My contention is that they don't carry
Speaker 1: many pantry staples, and therefore it's not one stop grocery shopping,
Speaker 1: and we have a couple of grocery store questions. Cody
Speaker 1: asked about if we prefer regional or national chains, like
Speaker 1: a wind Dixie, Public's, Wegmans, or a Walmart would be
Speaker 1: a national chain. Trader Joe's is a national chain. Is
Speaker 1: this decision based on price, service, convenience? Tie? Right? You
Speaker 1: know you are one stop shopper though. You know my
Speaker 1: stance on Trader Joe's, right, I know you're afraid. I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid. That's what I've heard.
Speaker 2: I think Trader Joe's tries to be tries a little
Speaker 2: too hard to be unique, and people swear by Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1: I know, you go to a grocery store that has
Speaker 1: a pub in it, a craft beer pub tie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's a Wegman's. It's a Wegmans. My theory on
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's do you even have a Trader Joe's near you?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2: My theory with Trader Joe's is that all of the
Speaker 2: prepared foods have one ingredient that does not belong because
Speaker 2: they're trying to be just a little too creative.
Speaker 1: So a sandwich with.
Speaker 2: Maybe like turkey and cheese and mayonnaise, and maybe something
Speaker 2: crazy like peanut butter. Like that's not a good example.
Speaker 2: But there's always one ingredient that is a little too
Speaker 2: avant garde.
Speaker 1: Use you're out on turkey peanut butter sandwiches. I am,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I'm not going to. Trader Joe's
Speaker 1: is not a sponsor. I'm a big fan of Trader Joe's,
Speaker 1: mostly because it's not terribly far from me. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of them in Brooklyn, so it's convenient. It's large.
Speaker 1: Grocery stores in New York are generally terrible. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to whole Foods, so I like it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of private label stuff. It's not like
Speaker 1: they're making everything. Sure, you just got to know where
Speaker 1: they're strong and where they're not. But like, if their
Speaker 1: meat isn't that good, that's okay. There are butchers around,
Speaker 1: and so it's not one stop shot. But I would
Speaker 1: argue that many grocery stores shouldn't be looked at as
Speaker 1: one stop shot. What do you really care?
Speaker 2: What's interesting though, there is a store nearby that I
Speaker 2: would compare to a Trader Joe's. Okay, And you find
Speaker 2: that as you go to that store more frequently. You
Speaker 2: sort of talk yourself into the weird stuff, like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's kind of that's kind of interesting. Maybe I'll give
Speaker 2: that a shot. So I certainly get the allure. I've
Speaker 2: had bad experiences at Trader Joe's, but if there were
Speaker 2: one yearby, I'd probably go.
Speaker 1: I'm full of a We have a bunch of questions.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked about the weirdest place I fell asleep an infant,
Speaker 1: But weird. It's not weird, are the questioner? I think?
Speaker 1: Is it Kelly? Old friend Kelly, And by old I
Speaker 1: mean the number of years, not the person being old. Sure,
Speaker 1: it appears that she fell asleep in a dental chair,
Speaker 1: which would be tough. I could do that. I've fallen
Speaker 1: asleep on his playmat while playing, but not in public,
Speaker 1: not from being deprived of sleep. Other sleep questions. Best
Speaker 1: strategy for sleep with a newborn You gotta take turns,
Speaker 1: gotta take turns with your spouse. You got to get
Speaker 1: windows in. I would strongly recommend not a sponsor, but
Speaker 1: sleep training. And the one we used is a program
Speaker 1: called Taken Kara Babies. It's a woman named Kara, and
Speaker 1: it was great. Little man was sleeping before Jody with
Speaker 1: and I went back to work. Sleep. How do you
Speaker 1: accomplish it? Ty, how do you accomplish it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, I'm not good. I'm the wrong person. Ask this
Speaker 1: question too. When have you slept the best? Is? What
Speaker 1: has been your preparation?
Speaker 2: My preparation has usually been about five nights of not sleeping.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, deprivation not recommended strategy. Medically now, that's my answer.
Speaker 1: I don't have a bill. That's your answer. It's that's
Speaker 1: the best time you sleep. I would say exercise, drinking
Speaker 1: plenty of water. Obviously we're a pro hydration show. Maybe
Speaker 1: some meditation, you know, not looking at the blue light devices,
Speaker 1: your iPad, your your phones, whatever, your tablet's TVs, within
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes before bed, do some reading.
Speaker 2: There are some podcasts that I can listen to that'll
Speaker 2: put me to sleep asap.
Speaker 1: But it's the maintenance. You got to stay asleep too,
Speaker 1: got to stay asleep. That's a problem. Yeah, and breathing exercises.
Speaker 1: Let's do really really go for it. Let's do two
Speaker 1: more here quick? Okay, two more quick? Do you want
Speaker 1: to do? You have any questions that you'd like to answer.
Speaker 1: Here's one. No, I got one from Heather. Will you
Speaker 1: be continuing the two s cruse next season? The answer
Speaker 1: is yes, with an asterisk. With an asterisk, We're not
Speaker 1: revealing the asterisk yet. That is correct, factually correct. There
Speaker 1: will be some There will be a big picture show,
Speaker 1: yes that like we are doing this season, but beyond that,
Speaker 1: we have no further comment, Heather. Sorry, Zach wants to
Speaker 1: know where he should eat in Philly.
Speaker 2: Oh man, don't ask me this question. You're you're way
Speaker 2: more in tune with Philly restaurants.
Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm not that great, but uh, South Philly
Speaker 1: Barbicoa for Mexican and pizzeria, it's either Bettia or Badilla.
Speaker 1: B E D D I A are on my hit list.
Speaker 1: And for a nicer place, zahav z A h A V.
Speaker 1: I like Della Sandro's for cheese steaks. Nice. What's your
Speaker 1: preferred cheese steak arrangement.
Speaker 3: I'm not a big cheese whiz guy same to be honest,
Speaker 3: but I know since it's like the official Philly cheese
Speaker 3: steak recipe, whiz wit is what I go with.
Speaker 1: MMM. So that's the cheese steak. You get the wiz
Speaker 1: and you get the onions. Yeah, I would leave out
Speaker 1: the whiz. I would do like the white American cheese
Speaker 1: or whatever. It is the closer to food option. I
Speaker 1: just me. Ryan wants to know if he goes to
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl, so I presume he is Penn State
Speaker 1: or Memphis fan. Would it be better to stay in
Speaker 1: Dallas and go to Austin for a day So I guess,
Speaker 1: fly to Dallas and do a day trip in Austin
Speaker 1: or stay in Austin and go to Dallas for the game.
Speaker 1: I would offer, see what we did, ty, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought we did it great. That was fun. You only
Speaker 1: do the drive once this way because it's it's three hours.
Speaker 1: But that's again speaking of asterisk. There's traffic, there's it depends.
Speaker 2: It depends where you're coming from. It depends where you're
Speaker 2: coming from. Austin is not always the cheapest flight, so true,
Speaker 2: depending on your on your situation and what you want
Speaker 2: to spend. I would agree with Dan. I would I
Speaker 2: would go to Austin and I'd make the trip up
Speaker 2: to Dallas for the game. And if you stan of
Speaker 2: Dallas and fly out of Dallas, stay in Dallas, flat
Speaker 2: of Dallas. But if you can fly to Austin, rent
Speaker 2: a car and drive up to Dallas. The drive might suck,
Speaker 2: but we enjoyed going to Buckis. We had a lot
Speaker 2: of fun sure on that drive up, So that was
Speaker 2: that was a good time.
Speaker 1: Got some in and out. Yeah, this is best burger chain.
Speaker 1: I'm such a bad person. If not fly to Dallas,
Speaker 1: enjoy Dallas bone appetite food restaurant city of the Year,
Speaker 1: Go to the game, hopefully have a good time, and
Speaker 1: then drive down to Austin, you know, for twenty four
Speaker 1: or forty eight hours, and maybe fly out of Austin
Speaker 1: if that's a better option. Do what's affordable.
Speaker 2: I have a question here to close out the show. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is actually something final question. This is actually something
Speaker 2: that you and I need to talk about and haven't yet.
Speaker 1: We've long joked that.
Speaker 2: We should do a board of Directors meeting podcast where
Speaker 2: we talk shop and no one would listen, but it'd
Speaker 2: be for our own amusement.
Speaker 1: Right, So this is kind of in that vein.
Speaker 2: But you know, since we've made it through a full
Speaker 2: calendar year, now, where are we going next year for
Speaker 2: our live shows?
Speaker 1: Where would you like to go? Or should we open
Speaker 1: it up to people, let us know where we should go.
Speaker 1: We should open it up to people. We haven't done
Speaker 1: a West Coast show yet. We haven't. I would love
Speaker 1: I mean, I've loved all of our shows, the fact
Speaker 1: that people came in from all over to go to
Speaker 1: see us in Dallas, DC. We had people throughout the
Speaker 1: South coming to see us in Atlanta, throughout the Midwest,
Speaker 1: SUS in Chicago obviously, we've got a lot of people
Speaker 1: in the Tri state area here in New York. I'd
Speaker 1: like to do a West Coast show if I had
Speaker 1: to go back somewhere. I had a great time at Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: by the way, I would love to see Minneapolis in
Speaker 1: the summer. It was awesome. Yeah, that was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. That was great. It was great too because
Speaker 1: we were indoors and they had heat. It's great brewery,
Speaker 1: great food, great pizza. Somewhere on the West coast, LA
Speaker 1: or Portland or Bay area, I don't know, somewhere like that.
Speaker 1: And then Chicago's real fun. Chicago is fun.
Speaker 2: See. I have a really hard time with this one
Speaker 2: because it's around that time of year where we have
Speaker 2: to start.
Speaker 1: I'd like to do another New York one that's easy
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: I feel like I want to hit everywhere. I know
Speaker 2: we can't, but the West Coast is definitely on the
Speaker 2: short list. We've had people ask us we'd love to
Speaker 2: do la let us know where we should go next.
Speaker 2: There's no hard and fast answer. Soliverble at gmail dot
Speaker 2: com want us know your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Will go somewherever we go. There will be air conditioning
Speaker 1: in the middle of August, Yes for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, soliverbgmail dot COM's the email. Can also hit us
Speaker 2: up on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and on Thesoliverble subreddit at
Speaker 2: Soliverble dot reddit dot com. Get in on the bull.
Speaker 2: Pick a pool to bowl confidence pool. We're going to
Speaker 2: start previewing games on Sunday. The first twelve or thirteen
Speaker 2: games are going to be on the docket. We'll do
Speaker 2: our best to run through those. The Bull gifts any
Speaker 2: oddities around these games that you might need to know,
Speaker 2: as well as our own personal formulas for dealing with
Speaker 2: how the hell do you pick this many games?
Speaker 1: Sure? So there you go for.
Speaker 2: That guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubisy for
Speaker 2: myself to Hilton Brand.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you all on the weekend.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your week, all
Speaker 2: of your weekend, and the meantime stay sof
Speaker 1: Enjoy your service, Academy and FCF Saturday Peace,