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Speaker 2: welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls, Happy Friday.

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Speaker 2: I am Ty hilde Brand joining me as always over

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Speaker 2: there in Chicago Land the one and only Dan Rubinstein, Sir,

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Speaker 2: how you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty good. I am in my brother in law's

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Speaker 1: For some circumstances, everything's cool. But I'm in one of those.

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Speaker 1: But Ty, I show up, I clock in, I clock out.

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Speaker 1: We're here in the college football podcast bubble. I'm ready to.

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Speaker 2: Roll the college football podcast bubble.

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Speaker 1: Could we do this? Could we figure out a place

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Speaker 1: we're making content. How about that we would happen? This

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, let's do it. I'm sure the wives would

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Speaker 1: What's up, San Dusky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll figure something out on the on the Google Maps. Hello,

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Speaker 2: you know, on today's show, Dan, there there was a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you're wondering, we wanted to start conference

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Speaker 2: Shall we dive into news?

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Speaker 1: I'm so ready.

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Speaker 2: Before we get to the breaking ACC Notre Dame news.

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Speaker 2: You love this.

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Speaker 1: This is the second at least chunky Notre Dame episode

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is Campbell's chunky Notre Dame right here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's trust me it when it happens, it

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Speaker 2: The Atlantic Coast Conference DAN. They are a set now

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Speaker 1: Do we know who Notre Dame will choose?

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Speaker 2: non conference games, these similarities that you can use as

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Speaker 2: a frame of reference.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean though, what do you mean by that?

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Speaker 2: Well, if the SEC plays ten conference only games and

437
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Speaker 2: the Big ten plays ten conference only games, the ACC

438
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Speaker 2: pretty much plays ten conference only games. Yeah, throw in

439
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Speaker 2: that one odd ball. I'm assuming the Big twelve is

440
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Speaker 2: going to have to follow suit. The PAC twelves already announced, Well.

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Speaker 1: The ACC I don't think is going to go plus one.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll erase that plus one if the SEC

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Speaker 1: saying we're going ten only, I don't. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of that was to keep some of those ACC

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Speaker 1: SEC rivalries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's my hunch. But the SEC per

447
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Speaker 2: reports is leaning towards ten games right conference only. So

448
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Speaker 2: my point is, if you don't have that non conference

449
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 2: connective tissue, those frames of reference, you really have no

450
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Speaker 2: mathematical way to compare teams against one another. And that

451
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Speaker 2: really really steers into what I think makes college football

452
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Speaker 2: our favorite sport. We're gonna have so much argument over

453
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Speaker 2: who the best teams are. We're gonna have no real

454
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Speaker 2: means of comparison other than the eye test, and at

455
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Speaker 2: least for one season, that makes what we do very interesting.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully that piques interest for the full ten games slate

457
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Speaker 2: the full way through, there will be so much argument

458
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Speaker 2: over which teams are the best, which team should go

459
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Speaker 2: to a playoff, assuming we can even conduct one, that

460
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Speaker 2: it doesn't even matter who's playing whom. Here in the ACC,

461
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Speaker 2: these little pods that we are forming now to try

462
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Speaker 2: and stage a season. That might be the quirk that

463
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Speaker 2: I think I've been referencing this whole long off season

464
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Speaker 2: of uncertainty.

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Speaker 1: I kind of go the other way. I kind of

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Speaker 1: go the fact that this is trending more towards bangers

467
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Speaker 1: only that will actually know more about teams. So okay,

468
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Speaker 1: So if Sam Howell lights up Auburn in this now

469
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Speaker 1: alternate universe early on in the season for North Carolina

470
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean Auburn's bad. It doesn't mean Auburn's bad. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean whatever Auburn showed itself to be against North

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Speaker 1: Carolina is who Auburn would end up week eight nine

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Speaker 1: when we're comparing Auburn to everybody else. But we don't

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Speaker 1: have schedules that are inflated by lower opponents, by some

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Speaker 1: teams playing crazy tough road games as part of their

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Speaker 1: non conference, some teams playing neutral site games in an

477
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Speaker 1: NFL stadium, some teams playing three lower you know, if

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Speaker 1: it's FCS or G five whatever, and not really scheduling

479
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Speaker 1: a Power five opponent. The fact is, while it definitely

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Speaker 1: sucks for the sport that G five teams are not

481
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Speaker 1: receiving payouts to help fund other athletics. I feel like

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Speaker 1: the fact is Florida State's playing ten ACC teams that

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Speaker 1: are likely within a similar space in terms of recruiting

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Speaker 1: and spending money. And you know, obviously teams recruit differently,

485
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Speaker 1: but how seriously they take football. So what we can

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Speaker 1: know about Georgia Tech after five weeks or NC State

487
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Speaker 1: after five weeks? I think it gives us better data

488
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Speaker 1: than having And I know Georgia Tech act was scheduled

489
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Speaker 1: to play Clemson early on, but if they're playing William

490
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Speaker 1: and Mary, if they're playing Bowling Green, I think that

491
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Speaker 1: skews things a little bit. Whereas now we know, okay,

492
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Speaker 1: we know what Miami looks like against similar competition, and

493
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Speaker 1: we can compare that against cal or TCU.

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Speaker 2: But there's no mathematical way to do it. What does

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Speaker 2: this do to poor Jerry Palm or our friend Bill Connolly,

496
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Speaker 2: right like, yeah, so much of the way that these

497
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Speaker 2: metrics work, things that we rely upon to give us

498
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Speaker 2: some sense of who's good and who isn't, that kind

499
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Speaker 2: of goes out the window because you won't have that

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Speaker 2: connective tissue. And by the way, just through the course

501
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Speaker 2: of this very discussion, not going to play the Sound

502
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 2: sources have confirmed to ESPN the SEC is going to

503
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Speaker 2: start its season on September the twenty sixth, conference only games,

504
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Speaker 2: ten of them. Okay, they're going to run through December

505
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: the nineteenth, So again, playing within themselves. It'll make things

506
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Speaker 2: very interesting in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: You said conference only confirming okay, six conference only Okay.

508
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Speaker 2: There's not going to be that crossover component here to

509
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Speaker 2: the schedule, and it really is a bunch of little

510
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Speaker 2: fiefdoms playing within themselves. Poor old Barry Alvarez or someone

511
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Speaker 2: like Barry Alvarez is going to have to sit in

512
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Speaker 2: a room with twelve other people and figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're getting a playoff, don't I don't

514
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Speaker 1: think we're going to get a playoff. I think we're

515
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Speaker 1: going to have champions themselves champions. Well, I think maybe

516
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: we'll have conference champions and then we'll have arguments. And

517
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Speaker 1: that's fine because and we've talked about this before, and

518
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Speaker 1: this was the point I like to make about the

519
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Speaker 1: playoff that this year, especially college football is a TV show.

520
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Speaker 1: You're looking at it through a lens of how do

521
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Speaker 1: you compare teams when deciding who gets to go to

522
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Speaker 1: the Rose Bawl, Who gets a New Year six game?

523
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: Who gets a college football playoff? Berth, This is a

524
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Speaker 1: TV show this year. College football is existing merely to

525
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Speaker 1: exist this fall.

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Speaker 2: It is so European soccer without the Champions League, right.

527
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Speaker 1: Exactly we can come up with we can You know,

528
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Speaker 1: everybody's going to be simming all sorts of playoffs at

529
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Speaker 1: the end of the year if we don't have an

530
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Speaker 1: actual postseason, which is fine because I while I don't

531
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Speaker 1: love discussion for the sake of discussion, I'd rather see

532
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Speaker 1: things settled on the field in some fashion. I don't

533
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Speaker 1: think that's the point of this season. I don't think

534
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Speaker 1: if if we're pushing back to September twenty sixth, if

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Speaker 1: we're saying conference only schedule, you know, teams going from

536
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Speaker 1: eight conference games and some conferences to ten, nine to

537
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Speaker 1: ten whatever, the competitive reasons for the twenty twenty season

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Speaker 1: exists less the just put and pen to paper existing

539
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Speaker 1: exists a whole lot more So, I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: shed too many tiers for Bill c and Jerry Palm,

541
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Speaker 1: who I both. I love both of them dearly, but

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Speaker 1: I think the point is just simply they're just it's

543
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Speaker 1: sort of corralled exhibitions at this point, which is fine

544
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Speaker 1: because I'm going to watch all of them enthusiastically and

545
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: hope that everybody's happy and healthy.

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Speaker 2: Who are your winners and losers here? I think I

547
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Speaker 2: think big winner has to be ACC network. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen the TV schedule, but in terms of ratings, yeah,

549
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Speaker 1: they're going to do. Everybody's going to be at home

550
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: pretty much. You know, we'll have some stadiums with limited capacity.

551
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Speaker 1: But yeah, TV is a huge winner here. TV is

552
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Speaker 1: a huge winner because of that quirk in ESPN plus. Yeah,

553
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Speaker 1: you know, any station that can carry a game I

554
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Speaker 1: think is a winner. I think, you know, I don't

555
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: have to tell you.

556
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Speaker 2: I don't have to tell the people that listen to

557
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Speaker 2: this show, most of whom have been cooped up for

558
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 2: many months now, that sports on TV is a big deal.

559
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: It's we're not getting back to normal maybe anytime soon,

560
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: but it'll at least give us that sense of normalcy

561
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: to see some of the sports that we love on

562
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 2: TV again. Caveat if they can pull it all off

563
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Speaker 2: and if health allows for it.

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Speaker 1: Every local mattress company advertising during the games, big winner.

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Speaker 2: Huge winner. Yeah, in terms of winners and losers. I'll

566
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Speaker 2: stay with Notre Dame for just one second. Okay, I

567
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,479
Speaker 2: think this is a win for them. I think it

568
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: was a way for them to lock up at least

569
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Speaker 2: ten games. I think Jack Swarbrick had to make the move.

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Speaker 2: I think he did the right thing. I don't think

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Speaker 2: there will be much of a much of a negative,

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Speaker 2: much of a drawback for them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing it with their other sports already.

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame is an ACC team. It makes a ton

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Speaker 1: of sense. Yeah, it makes it. What's a basketball coach's name,

576
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Speaker 1: Big Slick, tair Bray, Mike Bray. He's been doing it forever.

577
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Speaker 2: He's been doing it forever. So they, like I told

578
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Speaker 2: you earlier, they got the friends referral code here to

579
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Speaker 2: get in for one year only to the ACC, now

580
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Speaker 2: a fifteen team super conference. We'll see where it goes.

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Speaker 1: So are you good with it? Do you want it

582
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Speaker 1: to be long term? As a Notre Dame person.

583
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Speaker 2: I have always wanted them to join a conference.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you've been skeptical of them actually making that decision,

585
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Speaker 1: but you've been pro be it Big ten, ACC, Big

586
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: twelve one.

587
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: I've been pro Big ten for a long time, okay,

588
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Speaker 2: and I would be pro ACC if it was a

589
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Speaker 2: move they decided to make.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting about this, though, tie is whenever it is,

591
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Speaker 1: we push forward to a new normal, because we're not

592
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Speaker 1: going back. We're never going back. Life moves forward. There's

593
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Speaker 1: going to be some sort of new normal once things

594
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Speaker 1: are hopefully better. What's interesting is there seems to have

595
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Speaker 1: been conversations about what are conferences really doing for these

596
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Speaker 1: major major programs beyond limiting their television earning potential. So

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Speaker 1: if it's USC or Oregon, if it's Texas or Oklahoma,

598
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: if it's Miami, Florida, state, whatever, in the ACC, a

599
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: lot of these programs could probably earn more money at

600
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Speaker 1: this point signing TV deals a la Notre Dame signing

601
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Speaker 1: a deal with ESPN. Obviously, we have conference networks already,

602
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: but as the NCAA and these conferences aren't needed as

603
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Speaker 1: much as they used to be, they're bow tie ins,

604
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Speaker 1: they're TV deals. It's interesting that we're having this conversation

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Speaker 1: about Notre Dame going a conference route when we could

606
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Speaker 1: be seeing more Notre Dames as TV deals expire and

607
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: places are saying, well, I mean we could, we could

608
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Speaker 1: do this all a cart and make some more cash,

609
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Speaker 1: just saying yep, Alabama football just signed a deal with

610
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Speaker 1: CBS and they're going to make one hundred million dollars

611
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Speaker 1: a year. It's wild. It's wild to think about the

612
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Speaker 1: next five to seven years, however long it's going to

613
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Speaker 1: take for for everything to return or to progress to

614
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Speaker 1: that new normal.

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Speaker 2: I think Notre Dame. I think conference networks. I think

616
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Speaker 2: any TV network that can carry football is a big

617
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: winner because there will be quirks here. There will be

618
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Speaker 2: some asymmetry to when seasons start and when they finish,

619
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Speaker 2: and who's playing who's not playing. I think, I think

620
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Speaker 2: from a fans perspective, it will stay interesting much much

621
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Speaker 2: deeper into the season than we are accustomed to.

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Speaker 1: Not a sponsor, but I'm I've been very happy with

623
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: my Roku. So if you are suddenly meeting some sort

624
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: of OTT device to watch more of your team's games

625
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Speaker 1: because everything is conference only all of the sudden, I've

626
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: been happy with the Roku. Do you use anything to

627
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: stream PlayStation.

628
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Speaker 2: Or I use the Roku? Yeah? The KU's great.

629
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, send us some stuff Roku. How about that?

630
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Speaker 2: The big loser here? It may only be one. It's

631
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Speaker 2: got to be Syracuse in their way schedule, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, Bunny.

633
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Speaker 2: Have you seen this thing? Yeah, I don't know. I

634
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 2: haven't seen dates on this yet. I don't think they've

635
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 2: they've given us that yet. But in this new format,

636
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: Syracuse has away games against Clemson, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre

637
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: Dame in Pitt.

638
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Speaker 1: It's tough sliding.

639
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 2: That's pretty tough right there.

640
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: And home games are fine. It's such a crazy home

641
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: road split. And I don't know if it's because they

642
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: just value because the part of the thinking with the

643
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Speaker 1: scheduling is we want to make this more regional. We

644
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Speaker 1: want to cut down on travel time and expenses whatever,

645
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Speaker 1: and do everything to sort of minimize whatever it is

646
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Speaker 1: that travel is going to look like this fall. And

647
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Speaker 1: the fact is, not only does Syracuse get all of

648
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Speaker 1: their tough games basically on the road. They're going to Louisville,

649
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Speaker 1: they're going to North Carolina, they're going down to Clemson.

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Speaker 1: Is there not? I mean Syracuse was never close to

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Speaker 1: a lot of plays outside of Pitt Boston College, I guess,

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Speaker 1: relatively speaking. But they're not only traveling far and wide,

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Speaker 1: they're playing outside of I guess Florida State and Miami

654
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Speaker 1: heavy hitters within the conference, big loss.

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Speaker 2: I feel pretty much the same about Virginia's road schedule.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so do I.

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Speaker 2: Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech and then Wake. Those

658
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Speaker 2: are four pretty tough places to play, right there. Sure.

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Speaker 1: I mean when we say tough places, we mean in

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Speaker 1: a normal year, like Lane Stadium is not going to

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Speaker 1: be tough this year. True, Virginia Tech could be, but

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Speaker 1: Lane Stadium's knocking, it's going to be very echo we

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Speaker 1: enter sam Man if that is still a thing in

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Speaker 1: Lane Stadium. So you're right. And I actually think Syracuse's

665
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Speaker 1: home field advantage in some ways could be more pronounced

666
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Speaker 1: in the Carrier Dome like a big, hollow, haunted arena.

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Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't have any of those real

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Speaker 1: tough games at home.

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Speaker 2: Who else jumps out at you here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? You mentioned Virginia North Carolina In terms of ideal situations,

671
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Speaker 1: Louisville and Duke are also in a good place. So

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Speaker 1: let's start. I guess North Carolina does go on the

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Speaker 1: road and they take on Florida State, Miami and Division

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Speaker 1: champ in Virginia from last year a very new look Virginia,

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Speaker 1: I would say so. And it's not like going to

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Speaker 1: Charlottesville is the craziest, toughest thing to do in normal years, right,

677
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Speaker 1: But North Carolina with a nice home road split, Louisville

678
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Speaker 1: getting Boston College, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame's will be very

679
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Speaker 1: tough on the road. But then Pitton Virginia. I think

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Speaker 1: Pitt's going to be interesting on defense, but it's manageable.

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Speaker 1: And where if our concerned with Louisville, and we'll talk

682
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Speaker 1: more about this on our eventual ACC preview, if the

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Speaker 1: concern about Louisville is how much better can that defense get?

684
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Speaker 1: We're talking a new look Florida State offense, a Miami

685
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: offense that should be better with Derek King but still

686
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: had a ton of trouble protecting the quarterback last year.

687
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Speaker 1: Syracuse would struggle on offense. Virginia Tech, which has been inconsistent,

688
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Speaker 1: but I guess was more promising with Hendon Hooker and

689
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Speaker 1: a Wake team that lost their quarterback. So in terms

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Speaker 1: of Louisville's growth, that's pretty great. That seems pretty fricking

691
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Speaker 1: amazing for the Cardinals, and Clemson's in a good spot.

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Speaker 2: Clemson's in a really good spot. Definitely tougher on the road.

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Speaker 2: Florida State, Virginia Tech included on that away slate, But

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Speaker 2: you know, clearly the conference leader going into the season.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's there's any doubt about that. There's

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Speaker 2: probably a pretty big gap between them and I guess

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame by the time you get down to number two,

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Speaker 2: and then I don't know who we would consider three.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we can talk about that when we get the previews.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have the Miami defense, Litleville offense, North Carolina offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's contenders there.

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Speaker 2: You know. I think a lot of this for Clemson

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Speaker 2: depends on how they decide to slot these games. Are

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Speaker 2: they going to be doing alternating home away? Are they

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Speaker 2: going to be doing? Like what is that schedule from

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Speaker 2: a date perspective going to look like? But I think

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Speaker 2: they're in a pretty good spot here, provided these games

708
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Speaker 2: on the road aren't all back to back to back,

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Speaker 2: you know, they stand obviously be the front runner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, And I kind of think it's going

711
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: to be such a different season in terms of how

712
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: we evaluate back to back road games because there's just

713
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Speaker 1: there's so much more calculus involved with how players are

714
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Speaker 1: leading their lives, who is and isn't playing, what's going

715
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Speaker 1: on with coaches, what's going on with travel, you know,

716
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: lessened precautions in some states, you know, increased precautions and

717
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: quarantines in some states if you're coming from other states.

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Speaker 1: That the idea of and we've talked about this with

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Speaker 1: you know, the back to back road and you having

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Speaker 1: our three road games and row two road games in

721
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Speaker 1: a row or sandwich games, all of that becomes more

722
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: pronounced because it's all under an umbrella of uncertainty. By

723
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Speaker 1: the way, you should watch Umbrella of Uncertainty on Netflix,

724
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: premiering this Friday. But it's true, it's there. There's so

725
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: much more like the trickiness to this season because of

726
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: everything happening outside of it just come and this is

727
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: not a take at all, but it exacerbates everything. So

728
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Speaker 1: it'll be fascinating to see all of these schedules and

729
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: bye weeks laid out because everything, I mean, this is

730
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Speaker 1: the wrong conference to make this statement with. It just

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Speaker 1: matters more.

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Speaker 2: The big loser I think in all this, as we

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Speaker 2: I guess bring this episode to its conclusion. Yeah, group

734
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Speaker 2: of five teams, man, they.

735
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Speaker 1: Are it's terrible.

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Speaker 2: It's shitty as you look around college football, as you

737
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Speaker 2: look at how some of these programs rely on the

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Speaker 2: money that they would get from a school like in

739
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Speaker 2: Ohio State or a Clemson to play these big non

740
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: conference matchups. If that dries up, that's a huge deal,

741
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 2: a huge deal for a lot of these programs. I

742
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Speaker 2: hope we're not talking six twelve months from now about

743
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Speaker 2: programs that had to fold for a year or permanently

744
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: because of financial fallout for the twenty twenty season. I

745
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Speaker 2: do think it's on the table though.

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Speaker 1: The other thing thing about the G five conferences, a

747
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Speaker 1: lot of them have consolidated. Obviously, the American was a

748
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Speaker 1: patchwork of a couple different conferences. Conference USA has grown

749
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: in size, the Mountain West has grown in size, and

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Speaker 1: with that growth, they're trying to add interesting teams, add

751
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: higher level teams, and that means a more pronounced geographic footprint.

752
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: And if we're saying yeah, we should stay region regional

753
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: and minimize travel time and travel cost these conferences, I mean,

754
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Speaker 1: look at the American alone. Okay, so this is the

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Speaker 1: I mean it's fair to say they're that's sixth best

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Speaker 1: conference in football. If not higher, I suppose, But the

757
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Speaker 1: fact is they have a team in the Dallas area,

758
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Speaker 1: and SMU, a team in Philly, a team in Cincinnati,

759
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: East Carolina a team, they have South Florida and Tampa.

760
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Speaker 1: They're all over the place tie And so I don't

761
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Speaker 1: know if these conferences in the way that the ACC

762
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Speaker 1: are the way that we talked about a driveable conference

763
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Speaker 1: where they just sort of turn into a pop up

764
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: micro conference for the year, and we just have a

765
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Speaker 1: sort of Northeast Dish division with like Temple and Cincinnati

766
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: and Yukon, I maybe Memphis something like that, where we're

767
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Speaker 1: just like, what do we what are we doing? Are

768
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Speaker 1: we getting a five game G five situation? You have

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Speaker 1: the Mountain West, you have Hawaii. Are team's gonna you know?

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Speaker 2: Could they move it to spring?

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Speaker 1: I think that becomes more possible. I think that because

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Speaker 1: the resources are so much more limited at some of

773
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Speaker 1: these places. That was the concern over spring, right, that

774
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Speaker 1: like all hands are on deck. That this is what

775
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: Richard Johnson was talking about on earlier in the week

776
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Speaker 1: on our Wednesday show, where it's just like all hands

777
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: are on deck for football, and if things are better

778
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Speaker 1: for the spring to the point where like, let's roll

779
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: out more sports, Let's run cross country and swim and whatever. Fence.

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Speaker 1: I think certain teams have fencing teams that it's going

781
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: to be too difficult in terms of logistics and employees

782
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: with an athletic within an athletic department to run so

783
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: many sports at once. So I don't know, I don't know.

784
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Speaker 1: Maybe you hope for just like a manic October in

785
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: the G five part of the FBS, it's there, they're

786
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: in such a bad financial and logistical bind at this point.

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Speaker 1: Or do they just reorganize like the ACC where there's

788
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Speaker 1: no more conferences, where it's just like all right, it's fiefdoms.

789
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: It's once again we have fiefdoms where it's just like

790
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: this crazy Sun Belt Conference USA, AAC MAC Mountain West,

791
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: like they just all of a sudden, just like, all right,

792
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: play somebody within four hours. Let's try to get in

793
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: as many as we possibly can before it gets dark.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it does call into question a little

795
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Speaker 2: bit about what Richard mentioned on the Wednesday show, this

796
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: notion that maybe this could accelerate be some sort of

797
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 2: catalyst for the Power five breaking away and starting its

798
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 2: own deal. Now, I don't think that will happen, but

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Speaker 2: I think maybe just for the course of one season,

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Speaker 2: it kind of could, and we might bear witness to

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Speaker 2: what that looks like.

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Speaker 1: Catastrophic, Absolutely catastrophic, I can tell you right now.

803
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Speaker 2: We shall see. Okay, well, interesting show here. My guess

804
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: is that now with the SEC announcement, it sounds like

805
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 2: rather imminent, we will have a lot to discuss on

806
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 2: our show on Wednesday. But keep your eyes trained in

807
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: on this movement around college football. It is a fluid situation. Again,

808
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 2: A lot depends on where we're at as a country

809
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 2: in terms of fighting this stupid virus two three, four

810
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Speaker 2: weeks from now. Whether or not we could even attempt

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00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 2: to do this season does sound like everyone's just about

812
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Speaker 2: everyone outside Oklahoma in the Big twelve, I guess are

813
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: looking to start a little bit later than initially planned,

814
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 2: but certainly a lot more to come here as we

815
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Speaker 2: plot ahead into what looks like a conference only fall season.

816
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Speaker 1: Maybe everybody should start calling Lincoln Riley in the Oklahoma

817
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: program and say, hey, so just saw you at one

818
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Speaker 1: hundred tests with zero positives, Shoot me some tips and tricks?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Got some? Yeah? Got any cheat codes? You got any

821
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Speaker 1: COVID game genies on hand that we can we can wrestle. Yeah,

822
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: that'd be really nice. So good for Oklahoma for that.

823
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Speaker 1: By the way, we keep seeing these pretty awful stories

824
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Speaker 1: about positive tests and spreads and I something. You know,

825
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: the Rutgers players. It's a it's a success and hopefully

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Speaker 1: that's able to sustain A Norman.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, Daniel, this has been fun. Please do

828
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Speaker 2: write in soliverbo at gmail dot com let us know

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind, how you feel about this. I

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Speaker 2: know I had a couple verballers right in already voice

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Speaker 2: some concern but mostly some support about this model.

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Speaker 1: By the way, do you see the doctor who wrote

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Speaker 1: in with concern about my hips?

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Speaker 2: I do our watch. I was gonna mention that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: oh my god.

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Speaker 1: And I want to be clear. The doctor seemed very nice.

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Speaker 1: Doctor in Seattle said, Okay, so when you wake up

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Speaker 1: with sore hips, that means you probably weren't doing as

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Speaker 1: much physical activity as you should, because as you get older,

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Speaker 1: physical activity is really good for your joints and keeping

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Speaker 1: things loose and healthy. And while he's absolutely right, and

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Speaker 1: I definitely didn't do physical activity the day be four man,

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Speaker 1: was it a bummer to be included in the category

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Speaker 1: of consider physical activity to keep your hips loose. Category

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Speaker 1: that was that was very real tie.

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Speaker 2: Other than the concern for player safety and Dan safety.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, yes, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Most folks chimeing in in support of what will be

849
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Speaker 2: a quirky fall. Let's hope we can have football. Let's

850
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Speaker 2: hope everyone can stay safe while playing those games, and

851
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Speaker 1: I understand it's my fault. I understand the algorithm is

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Speaker 1: Danny wants more of that, and so yes, sometimes there

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Speaker 1: will be an attractive human smut turn here on the podcast. No, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not making a smut turn. But what I'm saying is,

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Speaker 1: and I will say to myself, Yeah, that seems like

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Speaker 1: that's something I'd like to spend eleven seconds watching, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, all over my whatever. It's

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Speaker 1: called explore discover. It's just like you like busty chicks fishing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on, Instagram be cool and Instagram has zero chill,

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Speaker 1: So follow our Instagram feed, which is now dedicated to

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Speaker 1: busty chicks fishing. Higher Instagram feed is golf trick shots

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Speaker 1: and Samoya puppies. That's where, Yeah, I know it really is.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's scary how well the Instagram algorithm knows you,

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Speaker 1: because obviously, aside from busty chicks fishing, it's tacos it's

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Speaker 1: weird office memes like the TV show The Office. There's

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Speaker 1: a ton of tennis trick shots and weird tennis moments.

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Speaker 1: Sure they know me, I guess they got cool. I'm

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Speaker 1: a very one dimensional character that got me figured out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, So well that's your update on my

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Speaker 1: instagram and the solverbal Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Look, everybody, enjoy your Friday, have a good weekend, stay

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Speaker 2: safe out there. Come on back next Wednesday. We will

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Speaker 2: catch you all up on where things are at with

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Speaker 2: regard to college football in the twenty twenty season. We're

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Speaker 2: hoping against hope there is a season. At least we've

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Speaker 2: got some forward movement on what those models and plans

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Speaker 2: are going to look like. But you just got to

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Speaker 2: stay tuned as we all ride this roller coaster together.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't have sent it better for that guy over there,

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Speaker 2: my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie Hildebrand, thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for downloading, for listening, enjoy your weekend, and

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Speaker 2: stay safe while staying solid.

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Speaker 1: Peace.