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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, January twenty fifth, the year of our

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Speaker 1: player comp is DeVante Smith. That doesn't mean he's DeVonta

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Speaker 1: Smith two point zero. A player comp is taking a

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Speaker 1: guy's skill set and comparing him to a recent player

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Speaker 1: in that programmer nationally Dvante Smith. What's notable about him

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Speaker 1: is not only did he win the Heisman in the

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Speaker 1: year of our lawer twenty twenty, but he also had

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Speaker 1: more receiving yards that year than Alabama's top three receivers

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Speaker 1: this past year. Had combined that roster didn't have a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver one on it. It was a problem in

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Speaker 1: case no one realized it, and that right there is one.

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Speaker 1: And even though Ryan Williams is a reclassified guy technically

437
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: should be a senior in high school this upcoming year,

438
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: he's probably on the field this fall for Alabama. You

439
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 1: need to understand something. Once upon a time, I was

440
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 1: having fun watching this the other day. Guy by the

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Speaker 1: name of Nick Saban takes the job at LSU and

442
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: everyone says, oh, he's a Yankee, he'll never make it

443
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Speaker 1: down here. And then those people disappear. Then he goes

444
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Speaker 1: to the Dolphins, and then he takes a job at Bama.

445
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: And what was so great you can still find it is.

446
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: ESPN did a two part conversation with Sabin when he

447
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: takes the job at Bama, and one of the key

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00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 1: focal points, one of the key themes they wanted to

449
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: hit on, was asking Nick Saban, how are you ever

450
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: going to be able to recruit here? This is a

451
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: serious story. I'm not making this up. How are you

452
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: gonna be able to recruit here? There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: coaches out there, coach, and there's a lot of critics

454
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: out there, coach who were saying Nick Saban's not going

455
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: to be able to walk into the living rooms of

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Speaker 1: eighteen seventeen, sixteen year old kids when he just said

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Speaker 1: he's not going to take the Bama job. How could

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00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 1: recruits and families ever trust this man? And then he

459
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: signed more number one classes than I can fit on

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Speaker 1: both hands at Alabama and then those people disappeared. It

461
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: sends a really loud message. It's what just happened here.

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00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: It sends a really loud message, kind of like when

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Speaker 1: Sabin landed a kid from fully Alabama back in the day.

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Speaker 1: His name was Julio Jones. Went on to do some

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Speaker 1: pretty notable things in the game, but it was more

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Speaker 1: than just landing a five star receiver. You had Julio Jones,

467
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Speaker 1: yet aj Green at cycle. I think DeAndre Brown came

468
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: out of Ocean Springs that cycle and didn't quite achieve

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Speaker 1: to the level that Green and Julio did. But Julio

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Speaker 1: Jones committed Alabama upon a time and it was a

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Speaker 1: huge deal, and it was the number one player in

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Speaker 1: the state and it was the number one wide receiver

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Speaker 1: in the country and all that. But it was also symbolic. It's,

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Speaker 1: you know, like boss Man versus Undertaker Hell in the

475
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: Seal at WrestleMania fifteen. It's symbolic if you know, you know,

476
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Speaker 1: that was a pretty deep cut there. It's symbolic because

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00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: a guy just walked in that a majority of the

478
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Speaker 1: college football public is telling me, can't recruit, can't land

479
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Speaker 1: big talent, and the top player in the state looked

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Speaker 1: and said, well, I'll go play for him. I'm in

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Speaker 1: and did it with a lot of jubilation and excitement

482
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Speaker 1: behind him. So I am still being told by many

483
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: people that it's it's not such a big deal, like

484
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 1: k was already committed and he briefly decommitted, but let's

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Speaker 1: see what he does the upcoming cycle. I am going

486
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: to tell you the same thing that I told you

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Speaker 1: last week. A lot of you are going to come

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Speaker 1: to regret doubting that guy and his ability to recruit.

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Speaker 1: There's a difference between has not and cannot. Kaylen de

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Speaker 1: Boor has not recruited the South and has not landed

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Speaker 1: top ten classes because he hasn't been in position to

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Speaker 1: do it. Now he is, and now I think you will.

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Speaker 1: What it takes to recruit the South is not having

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Speaker 1: grown up in the South. To be clear, Urban did it,

495
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban did it, and they had no clue even

496
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Speaker 1: which road was witch in the South when they first

497
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 1: got down here. You gotta be relentless, which Kaylen de

498
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Speaker 1: Bor is, and you gotta know people. It's not no people,

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00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: it's no people. You gotta be good with people. You

500
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Speaker 1: can't be a recluse or a weirdo. Well he's not that.

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00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: And so if you're relentless and you're no people, and

502
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: you work with people, and people like you you were

503
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Speaker 1: going to recruit, when you walk in with that scriptay

504
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Speaker 1: on your chest, it's gonna happen. I'm not telling you

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Speaker 1: landing a number one class this next cycle. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you if Kaylen Debor does not succeed at Alabama may

507
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Speaker 1: be a few different reasons. I don't think it's gonna

508
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: be because he got lapped in recruiting, so very early

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Speaker 1: signs indicate positive for Alabama here. I don't think anyone's

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00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: changed their mind on Kaylen de Boor, Like if you

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Speaker 1: doubted him before an in state kid committing and changed

512
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: your mind, if you were excited before, your excitement has

513
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: been in Bolden now because Ryan Williams and probably more

514
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: names than the not too distant future on board. I

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00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: just encourage you guys to do a couple of things.

516
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: Check out spring ball and then watch what happens right

517
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: after spring at Alabama. Watch what happens to that roster

518
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: right after spring. Academy Sports and Outdoors is probably right

519
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: before your trip to a spring game, where I would

520
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 1: advise you to go. Spring's wonderful. You know, Nashville was

521
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: covered in snow last week, but your campus won't be.

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00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: The campus of Pate State will not be covered in

523
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Speaker 1: snow comes spring, but it will be covered in Academy tents.

524
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: You know, an Academy fold out chairs and the like,

525
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: coolers purchased at Academy. Various activities recreationally going on on

526
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Speaker 1: campus purchased from Academy. The campus is fictitious in this case,

527
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Speaker 1: but the store is not. Academy Sports and Outdoors your

528
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: one stop shop for all things outdoors, sporting goods plus

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Speaker 1: recreation except for camping, grilling. They've got all the things

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Speaker 1: you need there if you cannot get there in person.

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Speaker 1: Academy dot Com because I know you got Internet, because

532
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: you're watching the show right now. Academy dot Com just

533
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: a great place, man. I know sometimes you guys are

534
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: like me, probably and you watch and listen to a

535
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: lot of different shows, and you can tell that ninety

536
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: five percent of the ads on those shows have been placed,

537
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: probably by a third party company, And so the person

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Speaker 1: reading the ad, if they're being truthful with you, does

539
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: not have a relationship with the client. We are blessed

540
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: enough on this show to be able to pick and

541
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: choose who we do business with, because you make the

542
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: show enough money to where we are not desperate to

543
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: squeeze out every penny we possibly can from this. So

544
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: we get to wait until one of us comes up.

545
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: In this case, one of us is Academy, and they

546
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: finish the sentences we start, and they all watch the

547
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: show like they all speak the language we speak, and

548
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: we say, we'd love to do business with you. But

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00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: you know what, you notice between me and the screen,

550
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: there is nobody. We deal with Academy directly. I talk

551
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: to those guys directly. They love college football. Now, I

552
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: know some of you think that there's a little Homerism

553
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: going on because that they are located down in Texas. No,

554
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: what did Michael Jordan want to say? Republicans by sneakers

555
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: to the folks at Academy know Hokies buy sneakers too,

556
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, Trojans by sneakers too. Like they get it,

557
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: they understand, and so that's why we do business with them.

558
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: Because they're a pleasure to do business with, and because

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Speaker 1: they're real ones, as me Ma would say, So Academy

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00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors or Academy dot Com. If you can't

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Speaker 1: get there in person, All right, let's move on. I

562
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: can't believe we're gonna do this, but we're gonna do it. Colin,

563
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: go ahead and put the tweet up. So it's that

564
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: time of year. Canel had a good tweet. I'm gonna

565
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: read it for you. I'm gonna react, he said, and

566
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Speaker 1: I college football is losing its best coaches because there

567
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: is zero structure. It's impossible to manage rosters, keep players

568
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: from bolting, or have any say in who to pay,

569
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: and still have to worry about the NCAA. It's a joke.

570
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't get fixed soon more, we'll make

571
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: the same jump. Now. I think Daniel here was maybe

572
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: a little bit in above his skis, but not totally

573
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: because I don't think Jim Harball left college football because

574
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: of the structure of college football, at least I don't

575
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: think he did. He's probably not in love with it,

576
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: but I don't think he did. Nick Saban may very

577
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: well have, and if he didn't, totally I think the

578
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: structure and direction of college football may have hit the

579
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: fast forward button on when he hit the exit door.

580
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: So you may listen to that and say, big deal,

581
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: we got a million folks out there who'd love to coach.

582
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: I saw Andy Staples reply to Kennell and he said, hey, man,

583
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to take on that list of headaches

584
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: for nine million dollars a year. This is no disrespect

585
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Speaker 1: to Staples. His talents are better served over here on

586
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Speaker 1: our side of the fence, so I don't want to

587
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: be losing him to a coaching job. But in general,

588
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: when people say that, my reply is, well, of course

589
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: you take it, but you're not getting offered the jobs.

590
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: And by the way, like I candidly i'd love to

591
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: get shot into orbit. I'd volunteer for the risk associated

592
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: with going up into space anytime. NASA is not offering

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Speaker 1: me a seat on the shuttle because I'm really not

594
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: qualified to have it, And so the folks who are

595
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: qualified to hold these jobs are few and far between.

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00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: You to begin with. But when people make the point

597
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: Canal's making, I cannot believe I'm gonna say this either.

598
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: When people make points like Canel and I are making,

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Speaker 1: Danny and I sounds like I show Tony Dangiers should

600
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: have started in the eighties. Anyway, when people make these points,

601
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: they're not saying we're gonna run out a head coaches.

602
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: You'll always have head coaches. You're running out of the best.

603
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: You risk running out of the best, you risk running

604
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: off the best. Now, this has not hit the sport

605
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: between the eyes yet. Okay, I am actually a believer

606
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: that the sport is running the risk right now of

607
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: losing some of its best prematurely because it's a mess

608
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I believe that because they've told me

609
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: that to my face. But the sport and the college

610
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: football public has not been punched between the eyes with

611
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: that reality yet, because it hasn't happened. You haven't watched

612
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: a head coach in the prime of his career step

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00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: away from the sport and say, oh no, I'm not

614
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: going to the NFL. Oh no, I didn't get fired.

615
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: I just college football is not for me anymore. This

616
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: is not the game that I recognize anymore, and that

617
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: hasn't happened, but it doesn't mean it couldn't happen. So normally,

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Speaker 1: when you ask coaches behind the scenes, even the ones

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Speaker 1: who were open with you about how they're feeling, Hey,

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00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: how many more years are you going to do this? Look?

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Speaker 1: Even the ones who are five minutes from retirement normally

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00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: tell you, oh, I got ten years left, dude, Nick

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00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: saban Man, I was in the I was within earshot,

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00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: shall we say, very recently when he alluded to the

625
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: fact I still got a lot of tread left on

626
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: the tires. They never let you know, so it's coming.

627
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: So when I tell you what I'm about to tell you,

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00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: you need to understand this is not normal. There are

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00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: coaches by the dozens who will tell you right now,

630
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: off the record, to your face, I've just about out

631
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: of here. I got maybe one, maybe two more years.

632
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: If this stuff doesn't change, I'm willing to give it time.

633
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: But if this stuff doesn't change, I'm out of here.

634
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: Not worth it for any amount of money. And normally

635
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: the ones saying that are already financially secure and so

636
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 1: they don't have to work, they don't need it. They

637
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: can survive ten lifetimes with what they've accumulated financially. But

638
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: they love football and ideally they wouldn't step away from it.

639
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Speaker 1: But that's coming. And I'm not talking about a Nick

640
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: Saban Like all due respect to him, I think he's

641
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. He was also in his

642
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: early seventies. I want you to picture someone in their

643
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: early fifties on top of the college football world stepping

644
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: away and stepping away as they step to a podium

645
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: and say, I am in good health, I am not

646
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: taking another job. I just can't do this anymore. I'm sorry.

647
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: And then what's your headline? Is your headline? No one's

648
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: crying for him? Next up? Next man up? Or is

649
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: it gonna be? Is this really where we want the

650
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: sport to be right now? This is a disaster. Think

651
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: about all the three letters out there, like think about NFL, MLB, WWE, UFC,

652
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: I don't care which direction you go, NBA, like all

653
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: the leagues. When I say those letters, you don't just

654
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: think about the sport. You think about an entity. NFL.

655
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: I think about Roger Goodell, I think about team owners

656
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: like MLB. I've got a commissioner, I've got a commissioner

657
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: in the NBA, I have got centralized leadership. I've got guardrails,

658
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: I've got guidelines, I've got calendars that make sense. CFB

659
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything, guys. CFB stands for college football, and

660
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: that's a sport. But there's no organization called CFB. You

661
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: got an organization called CFP and they got their own agenda.

662
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: You had an organization called the NCAA, and lord knows

663
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: what they're doing day to day or if they even

664
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: came to the office today. What is CFB. Cfb's got

665
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: to mean something in the future, or you're gonna be

666
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: sol on a lot of what you want the sport

667
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: to be. Jesse, I didn't focus group that statement. I'm

668
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: so happy with it, though. I'm so happy with that.

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00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: My point, as it sounds a little doom and gloomy,

670
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: is like I told you guys the week of the

671
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: National title Game. I said it a few times and

672
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: I'll say it again. I think a lot of people

673
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: are motivated to get this right, but it can't happen overnight.

674
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,959
Speaker 1: I do think it's gonna happen quicker than you would

675
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: expect college football to move at but I don't think

676
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 1: we're there yet. What I hope is we don't lose

677
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: good coaches in the interim. A prediction for you. I

678
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: think within the next couple of years, a major head coach,

679
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: at or near the top of his game and the

680
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: top of his profession is going to step away from

681
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: college football perfect health, not going to the NFL. He

682
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: just steps away voluntarily, and he says, I'm stepping away

683
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: cause I don't like college football right now. And then

684
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: he waits. He goes and sits in the studio, or

685
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: maybe he goes and sits on his back porch and

686
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: fades a little bit and just waits. And then you

687
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: fast forward five years and maybe college football rights itself.

688
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: And then the following headline is written in twenty twenty eight,

689
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: Coach X ready to get back in the game. Could

690
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: you imagine how big a mess your sport has to

691
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: be when some of your best are contemplating temporary retirement.

692
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go sit in the

693
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: pits over here. I'm gonna go still in sidelines. Do

694
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: you guys get the sport figured out? How pathetic is that?

695
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: You could either call him soft, which I promise you

696
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: they aren't, or you could call your sport really really

697
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: messed up. I just I would never betray confidence on

698
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,959
Speaker 1: this stuff in a million years. I'm telling you point blank,

699
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: there are some big name head coaches in college football

700
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: that are about that close to either outright calling it

701
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: quits and calling it a career or saying I'm done

702
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: with this for now. Promise you, Promise you you'd be

703
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: shocked at some of the names that are way closer

704
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: to the exit door of this sport than you think

705
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: they are. I'm not talking about Dabo, even though we're

706
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: going to do a segment about him right now. Who knows,

707
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: maybe he is. But I do want to address something

708
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: totally unrelated. I want to stress that totally unrelated. This

709
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Speaker 1: is the end of one segment, beginning of next segment. Unrelated,

710
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: but I had a question about Dabo that I did

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00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: want to hit. And by the way, if you're watching live,

712
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Speaker 1: we had a great influx of subscriptions to the channel

713
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Speaker 1: the other day. Appreciate that if you already did that.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't, which fifty one point five percent of

715
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Speaker 1: our viewers have not subscribed to the channel in the podcast,

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Speaker 1: please do so. It helps us greatly. It's like girl

717
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Speaker 1: scout cookies but free. Hello, what a deal that is?

718
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: So Joey in beautiful Florence, South Carolina hit me up

719
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: and said, what do you think is next for Clemson

720
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: under dabos twenty moving forward? So We're gonna talk about

721
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: their schedule later, but I'm telling you they got three

722
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: of their first five games that are just right in

723
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: your face again. This year they open with Georgia in Atlanta.

724
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: You know, so if you want to repeat of last year,

725
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: if you want to lose your first game, perfect recipes,

726
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: go play Georgia in Atlanta. What do I think about Clemson?

727
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: They got a shot to get stuff right this year.

728
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: They also got a shot to lose four games again

729
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: and continue to have more questions than answers. Now here's

730
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: the plus side. They returned almost their entire offense. It's

731
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: the second year under Garrett Riley. He's a phenomenal offensive coordinator.

732
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: I think they've got a top twenty offensive and defensive

733
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: coaching staff. I think Dabosweny's one of the top ten

734
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: active head coaches in college football. Defensive coordinator, relatively speaking,

735
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: is the biggest question mark on that staff, but a

736
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Speaker 1: coaching staft's plenty good enough. That roster within the ACC

737
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: is still plenty good enough. It feels like twenty twenty

738
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: three was kind of needed around there. It was a

739
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: rattling of the cage, including the head coaches, and they

740
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: lost four games. But you know what they didn't do

741
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: is check out the guts of that program, the DNA

742
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: of that program. You raised the hood. Everything you need

743
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: to win is still there. You may not have the

744
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: right tires on the car right now, but the inner workings,

745
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 1: just the nuts and bolts of that program, it's still

746
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: what you need to win. If it wasn't, last season

747
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: would have turned really toxic at Clemson. It didn't. They

748
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: dug deep down the stretch and ended up winning several games.

749
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Speaker 1: And you can take those for granted, like you can say, oh, yes,

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00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: sure we beat Georgia Tech. Well, of course, we went

751
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: to South Carolina and went what you did in the

752
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: year before. You know, so, I don't take that stuff

753
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: for granted. I don't care if you're favored or not.

754
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: I don't take that for granted. They have done some

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00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: things recently that are very atypical of Clemson. They had

756
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: four losses for the first time since twenty eleven. They're

757
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: thirty and ten in their last three years. They only

758
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: think about this, here's the stretch they have. They're thirty

759
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: and ten their last three years. They lost three regular

760
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: season games in that entire stretch of twenty fifteen to

761
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen when they won those conference titles, won two

762
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: national championships over Alabama in that period. Wide receiver has

763
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: been a chronic problem here. It still exists. From twenty

764
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: eleven to twenty twenty, they had fifteen wide receivers who

765
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: were all ACC. A lot of this comes from an

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00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: article on the Athletic. By the way, Grace Rayner did

767
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: a really really good deep dive on some of the

768
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: issues with Clemson right now, So I'm meant to attribute

769
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: that early, but it's a really good article over on

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00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: the Athletic right now by Grace Rayner. They had fifteen

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00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: Clemson had fifteen all ACC receivers from twenty eleven through

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. They've had zero since then. It's been the

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00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: most glaring difference when you turn on a Clemson game.

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00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: You don't need to even know the difference between an

775
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: X and and O to look at that position group

776
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: and how dominant they were on those teams in the

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00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: mid to late twenty teams. And then how different that's

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00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: a JV version of Clemson football versus what that wide

779
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: receiver room once upon a time was. And you know what,

780
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: they're still largely unchanged on the transfer portal now. The

781
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: difference is they reportedly have started to offer a few

782
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: more guys in the portal and they just haven't landed them.

783
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: I care who you're landing, to be clear. You don't

784
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: get to come to me and grade on some reverse

785
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: curve where I say, well, you know your portal results

786
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: still suck, but at least you're trying a little bit

787
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: more to land guys from the portal. This is Clemson University.

788
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Speaker 1: You want something, you go get it. You go get

789
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Speaker 1: players in the portal. So they have not done a

790
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: good enough job of acquiring talent using one of the

791
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: main mechanisms that other contenders have used. Bama's used it,

792
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: Texas has used it. Everybody that is winning at a

793
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: high level in the sport is using it. Doesn't mean

794
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: you have to live off of it. It doesn't mean

795
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: it has to be like an oxygen tube to your

796
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: nose as a program. But man to deflect that opportunity

797
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 1: when it should be readily available to you is always

798
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way. They are not recruiting at

799
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: an elite level either, you know. So you can look

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00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: at Clemson and you could say, well, yeah, they're not

801
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: really bringing in any guys out of the portal, but

802
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: that's okay because they recruit at an elite level. No,

803
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: they don't. They recruited a really good level their last

804
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: three classes. None of them have cracked the top ten.

805
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: They had the tenth rank class in twenty twenty two,

806
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: eleven last year, and twelve this cycle. That is recruiting

807
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: really good. That's not recruiting at an elite level. So

808
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get with that result, what you're gonna

809
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: get with that kind of talent roster, is you're gonna

810
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: get seasons like you just got. That's not a shock.

811
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: That wasn't a big surprise. It was jarring, but it

812
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: wasn't a big surprise. So the front part of that

813
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: sounded positive. The back seventy five percent sounded negative. It's

814
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: not negative towards Clemson. It's not trashing the program. I

815
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: have extremely high standards for Clemson because I know what

816
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: they're capable of I know sometimes Dabo deals with this

817
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: up there, and he thinks that it means people have

818
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: lost sense of reality, which in some cases is true,

819
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: and people have come to lack appreciation for what it

820
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: takes to win. I don't like any of that. I

821
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: got supreme respect for what he's done up there. Either.

822
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: You would never hear anything come out of my mouth

823
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: that indicates he's not the right guy for the job,

824
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: or at least to this point, you haven't heard that,

825
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: and something radical would have to change for me to

826
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: say that. It's not that at all. I just know

827
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Speaker 1: what they're capable of. I know what he's capable of

828
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: because I've seen it for an extended period of time.

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Speaker 1: That was flash in the pan. If it was, it

830
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: was a multi year, multi championship flash in the pan,

831
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Speaker 1: and I don't think it was. I know what they're

832
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 1: capable of, but I also know every now and then,

833
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: minor degrees of adjustment are needed to be made, even

834
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: by some of the best in the game, and so

835
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: that's what I'm waiting for with Clemson. That's what I

836
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: think about the program right now. To answer the question,

837
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: they're watching us in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tallahassee, Florida, San Antonio, Texas.

838
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: One more little tidbit here from the conference that Clemson

839
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: happens to be parked in. You know what, let me okay,

840
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: there it is. I was looking for a piece of paper.

841
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: So did you guys see the ACC schedule when it

842
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: got released? I saw some edits, but I didn't really

843
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: see comprehensive coverage of this many places, just some takeaways.

844
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: Some of you asked me what I thought about it.

845
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: Florida State does not have the easiest stretch in the world.

846
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: For their twenty twenty four slate. From Week five through

847
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: week eleven, Mike Norvell and Florida State play SMU, Clemson,

848
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: Miami North Carolina, and Notre Dame. And they got four

849
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 1: out of those six games on the road. And there's

850
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: a stretch there, the at Duke, at Miami North Carolina,

851
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. They got three of four on the road,

852
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: and that's the toughest stretch they play aside from themselves.

853
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 1: They play four of the top five teams in the ACC,

854
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: plus Notre Dame. Also, am I reading that right? Colin?

855
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: They open in Ireland, Yes, they open in Ireland. I

856
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: forgot about that, so you know, it doesn't necessarily measure

857
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: up to some of the toughest schedules, like Florida has

858
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: to play in the SEC. But that is a very

859
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: challenging schedule for Florida State. Also, speaking of Clemson, we

860
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: just touched on them a second ago. I'm nervous. I'm

861
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: very nervous. They should have a very spirited fall camp

862
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 1: knowing what awaits them out of the gate. Clemson lost

863
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: two games in the first month of the season last year,

864
00:44:55,520 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: and their preseason hopes were essentially dashed before October got here, right, Well,

865
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: this upcoming year, by the time yeah, by the time

866
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: the second week of October gets here, they will have

867
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: already have faced Georgia, n C State, and at Florida State.

868
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: Three of the first five games they play are against

869
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: those teams. And they've still got challenges down the road.

870
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: But we are going to yet again look at a

871
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: Clemson schedule that is a little bit front loaded, and

872
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: even more front loaded here, Like you're talking about Duke

873
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: versus playing Georgia in Week one, it's a lot more

874
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: front loaded here. So they got it to do. Virginia

875
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: Tech continues to be that little stealth team that can

876
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: fly below radar, and they have got to me a

877
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 1: fairly good shot at Virginia Tech of getting that Miami

878
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: game undefeated. They play Miami on a Friday night. I

879
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: believe in Week five Brent Prye and the boys up

880
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 1: there in Black Spur Now I'm doing them a favor.

881
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about him just enough. I'm gona try

882
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 1: and keep it quiet. So I know, we really don't

883
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: want word to get out, do we know? We do

884
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: not SMU oh oh, breaking news. By the way, I

885
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: continue to need to remind people SMU is an ACC

886
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 1: team this year. So they were whatever whatever Power five

887
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: is now they are. They're in it. Okay, So Rhet

888
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: Lashley and the boys, they're in it this year. You know,

889
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: FanDuel already has National Championship odds up. What if I

890
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: told you that SMU had better odds to win the

891
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: title than North Carolina, better odds to win the title

892
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: than Arkansas, South Carolina, n C State, Iowa got better

893
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: odds to win the whole thing then many of those teams,

894
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: And you would say, who does SMU the team from

895
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: the G five? Nope, not anymore, not anymore. You know,

896
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 1: you know, that means SMU is coming and they have

897
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: got a fairly favorable schedule in their own right this year.

898
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: So let's just let's not be dismissive of newcomers. I

899
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: know everyone's gonna take Texas and OU seriously in the SEC. Well,

900
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: SMU just snuck in the back door of the ACC

901
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: and may end up sneaking in the back door of

902
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: the ACC title game if you're not careful. So be careful.

903
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: There is a circle schedule for me in the ACC.

904
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 1: It feels like August. This is great. There's a circle schedule,

905
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: and that circle is around fran Brown's Syracuse team parked

906
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: in the middle of approximately nowhere. They have picked up

907
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: Kyle McCord at quarterback via the portal. They got a

908
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: top twenty five portal class. And you know who They

909
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: don't play in the ACC this year. They don't play

910
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 1: North Carolina, they don't play Florida State, they don't play Clemson,

911
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: and they don't play Louisville. I could argue those are

912
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: the top four teams in the conference. They get Virginia

913
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: Tech at home, they get Miami at home. Their toughest

914
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,760
Speaker 1: road game is at pitt and they got a bye

915
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: before that. I'm not saying purchase your Syracuse ACC Championship tickets.

916
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you want to sound smart around

917
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: the water cooler in January and February, start talking about

918
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 1: Syracuse and follow James Fenerol on Twitter because he'll keep

919
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: you informed. Also, I would be remiss if I didn't

920
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: talk about the total and complete insanity that is the

921
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 1: travel situation in the ACC this year. We will probably

922
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: have to carve out a small portion of every show

923
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,240
Speaker 1: between now and December. We're gonna call the segment Prayers

924
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: up for Cal and prayers up for cal Is because

925
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: they are going to take twenty four thousand miles worth

926
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: of road trip this year. Let me pause for effect. Cal,

927
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: even though they are five seconds from the Pacific Ocean,

928
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: will be a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference this year.

929
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: Trust me, it doesn't make sense, but it is a reality.

930
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: They got five road games this year. They'll travel a

931
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: combined twenty four thousand miles and change to play those

932
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: five games. They go to Auburn in week two, they

933
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: go to Florida State in week four, They go to

934
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: pitt in week seven at Wake Forest. In week eleven

935
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: at SMU in week fourteen, twenty four thousand miles and change.

936
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: You know what else is twenty four thousand miles in

937
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: change the circumference of the entire globe we live on,

938
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, Earth. So Cow's gotta fight around the world

939
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: literally to play their games this year. Hats off to

940
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: the decision makers in this sport. Yet again, they will

941
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 1: cross a combined twenty eight time zones and guys will

942
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: just be told, suck it up, suck it up. You're

943
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: on an airplane. Oh what's the difference. It's an airplane.

944
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: Prayers up for cal? What else can I say? Prayers

945
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: up for cal? At least everyone gets two by weeks

946
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: this year. Okay, I'm very excited about this now segment,

947
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: very excited. Let me take a sip from the chalice.

948
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: How should I explain this? Okay, so Colin, you can

949
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: keep this out. You know how, during the season, we

950
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: show you what the point spread on a game is,

951
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: and we show you what the model we have thinks

952
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: about the game, and that entire model's purpose is to

953
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: generate a more accurate and sharp line on a game

954
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 1: than the Vegas number. It's very challenging, but we've made

955
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: money doing it. Every year. Systems very good. Took a

956
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: long time to build. Part of what's baked into that

957
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: is a grade on literally every coach out there. We

958
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: possess that proprietary in nature. We possess grades that I

959
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: would go to war with. For every coach in America, FBS, FCS,

960
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,959
Speaker 1: G five, Power five, got them all graded. You want

961
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: to know about the wide receivers coach at Delaware, I

962
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: can tell you about him. Not tonight, but I can

963
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,720
Speaker 1: tell you about him. So with that in mind, someone

964
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: asked me who are the most underrated coaches in college football?

965
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: They did not know what they were asking because I've

966
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: decided this year we're just going to own the coaching space.

967
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: So I've got this at my disposal, and this is

968
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: the only place you're going to find it because no

969
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: one else has access to it. So I'm going to

970
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: tell you who I think the most underrated coaches in

971
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: college football are. The most underrated head coach in college

972
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: football right now has no job. His name is Bill Clark.

973
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: He was the head coach at UAB. He is a

974
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: four star plus graded head coach. He led the most

975
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: impressive rebuild in the modern era of college football. UAB

976
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: ceased to exist and then came back and it was

977
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 1: the same guy who did it. And Bill Clark's out

978
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: of coaching right now, but I don't know if he's

979
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: done coaching, so he's their unbelievable guy. Also in terms

980
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: of active head coaches, Chris Klink, I've got a one

981
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: of the most underrated head coaches in college football. That's

982
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: the head coach at Kansas State. He is a top

983
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: ten head coach in America any level right now. If

984
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: Sharon Moore was not being elevated at Michigan, that's the

985
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: guy i'd circle. I know there were a lot of

986
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: rumors about other names. Chris climb into Michigan if it

987
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: weren't Sharon Moore would be a home run, a grand Slam.

988
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: I know Cubrick loves that terminology so much, but I'm

989
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: gonna hit you with the next name, and I don't

990
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: think a lot of you would come up with this

991
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: name pound for pound. You know who one of the

992
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 1: most underrated head coaches by our system's eyes is Jeff

993
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: Brohm at Louisville. He is a top fifteen graded active

994
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: head coach to US. Jeff brom at Louisville. I think

995
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: the default for a lot of people will say, Jeff

996
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 1: Brom what what? Yeah? Yeah, what do you mean? Why

997
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: are you doubtful of that? He would fit in several

998
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 1: major Power five jobs. Now he's got one at Louisville.

999
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: Right now, He's already got one, and he is a

1000
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 1: Louisville guy. So I'm not suggesting that some imminent movement

1001
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: is coming from Jeff Brom. I'm telling you, though, there

1002
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: are a lot of open jobs every year where guys

1003
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: get it, and Jeff Brom is ranked well ahead of

1004
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: them in our opinion in our grading system, seventy six

1005
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: and forty eight overall head coaching record ten and four

1006
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: last year, took Louisville to the ACC Championship game. And

1007
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: another guy, I've spoken about him a few times here,

1008
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: this is the last head coach I'm gonna mention. I

1009
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: got some names coming for you guys. John Somerral just

1010
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: got hired at Tulane. Tulane made one of the best

1011
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: hires of this cycle. John Somerral was down at Troy.

1012
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: I challenge you guys to find anyone who speaks ill

1013
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 1: of him on the field. Off the field, John Sumral

1014
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: is a stud, excellent defensive mind, one of the most

1015
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: highly thought of defensive minds in the game. He knows

1016
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 1: how to staff. He knows how to staff so much

1017
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: that some of the dudes he didn't even have a

1018
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: room for on his staff at Tulane are still waiting

1019
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: on jobs, and they rank well above and beyond some

1020
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: of the guys who have jobs on field elsewhere. And

1021
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,240
Speaker 1: those are the guys that so John Sumral at Tulane,

1022
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: I think we'll kill it there. And you know what

1023
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: he can do. He parked himself at a really good spot.

1024
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: He's going to be in demand. He can afford it.

1025
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: Whether he wants to leave or not is his prerogative.

1026
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: But even if he wanted one day to leave, he

1027
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: doesn't have to jump at the first job. Sm Raw

1028
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: is going to be a guy who has offers every

1029
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: single year as major jobs come open. He's in a

1030
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: great spot at Tulane, so he didn't have to just

1031
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 1: mercenary his way up the ladder. And I don't think

1032
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: he intends to now now doom, all right, We dialed

1033
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: it up on the model over here the Pate State

1034
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: coaching Oven. You know who we think one of the

1035
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: best offensive coordinators in the game is is Tim Cramsey,

1036
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: the OC at Memphis. We've actually got him graded as

1037
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: the highest ranked OC in all of G five. Would

1038
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: shot me if major offers weren't on his table this

1039
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: upcoming cycle. Tim Cramsey at Memphis in the very state

1040
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: that I sit in tonight. Another name that I don't

1041
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: think we've ever said on the show before, Christian Taylor.

1042
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: We've got as the top offensive coordinator in all of FCS.

1043
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: You want to where he coaches William and Mary. That's

1044
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: the OC at William and Mary. And he's an excellent

1045
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: running backs coach, and he's an excellent wide receivers coach.

1046
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:20,479
Speaker 1: And so yes, the model has William and Mary info

1047
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: in it, and Christian Taylor is our highest graded FCS

1048
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: guy at that position at OC. There's another name that

1049
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: I think is a lot more on people's radars, but

1050
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: I still think he's underrated, and that's Will Stein, the

1051
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator up at Oregon. Big season two years ago.

1052
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:41,280
Speaker 1: Down at UTSA, he got Dan Lanning's attention and Landing

1053
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: had an opening there, so he goes and gets him.

1054
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: Had big numbers last year. Now, the one thing, it's

1055
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: not a doubt, it's just a wait and see on

1056
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: him is when you're so new at your position, you

1057
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: haven't stacked a ton of years, and you've worked with

1058
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: really talented quarterbacks. Your quarterback numbers look good, and that's

1059
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: a good thing, but you're always cautious. Let me see

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00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: you do it a few more years. Let me just

1061
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: have some patience. Let me be cautiously optimistic. Will Stein's

1062
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: a big name now. He will be a big name

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00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: moving forward. So they hit on their hire up there.

1064
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: Landing had to fill a spot. Don't just take that

1065
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 1: for granted. By the way, a defensive minded head coach

1066
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: had to fill a glaring needed offensive coordinator after his

1067
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: OC went to be a head coach somewhere, and they

1068
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: nailed the higher Let's continue moving on. You want some

1069
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: more names. Tony White, the defensive coordinator at Nebraska, and

1070
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this right now. The defensive line coach there,

1071
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: Terrence Knighton. We got them both as some of the

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00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: most underrated names in the country at their respective positions.

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00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,399
Speaker 1: As for Tony White, you give me one more year

1074
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: of a top twenty graded defense, and I think he's

1075
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,760
Speaker 1: got head coaching offers on his plate. The hiring cycle

1076
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: this coming November and December. If Nebraska is legit on

1077
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: defense again this year, I think will include Tony White's name.

1078
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you out all the way to Utah Logan, Utah.

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00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 1: I believe Nate Driyling is a name that I want

1080
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,479
Speaker 1: you to be familiar with. That's the DC at Utah State.

1081
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: He just came there from New Mexico State. Top defense

1082
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: in Conference USA last year, Rising star, thirty three years old.

1083
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: Right now we have Nate Driyling circle like red Sharpie circled.

1084
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: They held opponents to twenty three point nine points per

1085
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: game in twenty twenty two, twenty two point eight last year.

1086
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: It's at New Mexico State. They did a really good job.

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00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: He was in line, according to some folks out there,

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00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: to probably have like assistant head coach in his name

1089
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: had he stayed at New Mexico State. He took the

1090
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: job at Utah State. Probably won't be there very long,

1091
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: that's my guess. Also a little different angle here, but

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00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: another name that is flashing on our radar is Scott Simon's.

1093
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: Scott Simons is the defensive coordinator down at SMU and

1094
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: he's good with high snap count teams. So you think

1095
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: about what you need to do. If you're a tempo offense,

1096
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: if you run a ton of plays per game, you

1097
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: know that that puts strain on your defense. So you

1098
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: got to find a guy with a real unique skill

1099
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: set and he fits in your system as a DC

1100
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: because he understands how to be flexible. He understands how

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00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: to be pretty progressive with his approach and it's tailor

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00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: to your overall team philosophy. And Scott Simons has got

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00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: that and he's at SMU right now, and it's no

1104
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: coincidence at Lashley needed a guy like that, and they're

1105
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: hopping into the ACC this year and that's really exciting

1106
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: to be able to watch. I got a couple of

1107
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: names for you here. I'm gonna talk salary with you

1108
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: for a second because we tracked that as well. So

1109
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: LeVar woods is widely recognized as the best special teams

1110
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: coach in America. He's at IOWA, but he's not on

1111
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: this list because I don't think he's underrated. The entire

1112
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: point of tonight is give me underrated head coaches. So

1113
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: LeVar woods Man, like here are just Bouquet's worth of

1114
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: flowers for him. He's number one, and I know that

1115
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: I don't believe in this statement, but number two is

1116
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: not really that close to him. So LeVar Woods is

1117
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: in a league of his own. Great movie and accurate

1118
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: description of LeVar Woods when it comes to special teams coordinators.

1119
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: But let me tell you what else is happening in

1120
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: the Big ten up there. Robbie Disher is the special

1121
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 1: teams coordinator at Illinois. Let me tell you about him.

1122
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: He's a four point five star graded special teams coordinator

1123
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: for us. Phenomenal. He's making about three hundred thousand dollars

1124
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: a year as best we could tell right now. Now

1125
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: if that number is incorrect, someone can correct us. But

1126
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: it looks like he's making about three hundred a year.

1127
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: And that is fascinating because when you go with that

1128
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: grade combined with accurate pay scale in the Big ten,

1129
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: just by Big ten standards, where I think the about

1130
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: three point seven percent of an overall coaching salary pool

1131
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: to special teams, he should be at the four hundred

1132
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: k per year number minimum. But if you broaden it

1133
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,479
Speaker 1: and you go all power five, and let's just say,

1134
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: for example, you had an Alabama or Georgia, Ohio state,

1135
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,479
Speaker 1: some of the biggest salary pool teams in the country

1136
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: come knocking at the door. According to grade over pay scale,

1137
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: he should be in the seven to seven fifty per

1138
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: year range. So not only does Illinois have one of

1139
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: the best special teams coordinators in the country on their hands,

1140
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: they've got one of the most ridiculous discount deals for

1141
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: a special teams coordinator going in America. I don't know

1142
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: how they pulled that off. I have no clue, but

1143
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: congratulations for them. Scottie O'Hara is a wide receivers coach

1144
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: who is a free agent right now. This boggles my

1145
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: mind when I see this stuff happen. How does this

1146
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: guy not have a job? Three nanoseconds after the staff

1147
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: at UTEP falls apart, so so Diameal and the staff there,

1148
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: they get fired and a lot of guys are out

1149
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: of a job, some of them should be. This dude's

1150
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: a four star graded wide receiver coach. To give you

1151
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: an idea of how Scotty O'Hara stacks up. We got

1152
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: him graded higher than eighty percent of active wide receiver

1153
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: coaches all levels, guys. I'm talking big ten s sec

1154
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: all the levels. Scotty O'Hara is sitting over here on

1155
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: the bench, and we got him greaded at higher than

1156
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: eighty percent of guys who have jobs in his field.

1157
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: I have no clue. I did asking. I did digging today.

1158
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: As far as we can tell, there's nothing hidden like that.

1159
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: There's no follow up, there's no addendum. It's just no

1160
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: one has seen fit to hire him. And judging by

1161
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: how much staff turnover we see every year, you see

1162
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: how inexact a science hiring is. That's how guys like

1163
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: that end up on the sideline. I don't think he'll

1164
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: be on the sideline for long, but Scotty O'Hara, someone

1165
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 1: probably should wisen up and go grab that guy. Wide

1166
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: receiver coach Eric McDaniel, Oh shocking. John Somerrawl's got another

1167
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: one on his staff. He's the defensive line coach at

1168
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: Tulane right now, he is squarely in the mix for

1169
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: one of the most underrated coaches in college football. And

1170
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. I talked about what some are

1171
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: all left behind at Troy and how good some are

1172
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: all is at staffing. You got guys like Eric McDaniel

1173
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: he's bringing along with him. You got guys like Dave Mackie,

1174
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: for example, is a coach who's done really good things

1175
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 1: in the secondary with them, but also really good and

1176
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: underrated recruiter in the Southeast. That's a guy who, as

1177
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: far as I can tell, hasn't even been hired again yet.

1178
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: And so again, I know for a fact there are

1179
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: coaches out there who are not happy, you know, for example,

1180
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: with the state of their secondary staff right now, and

1181
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: they could definitely use some help recruiting in the I

1182
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: twenty and eighty five corridors in the South. And I

1183
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: got guys that were just shining under John Somemrall still

1184
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: down here looking for jobs in the South. Hit me up, Well,

1185
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: I don't get my phone number, but dms are open, guys.

1186
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: What about Kevin Peoples, LSU and Brian Kelly have made

1187
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: splash hires recently, got Bo Davis big, but Bo's not underrated.

1188
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: Bo's been at Texas and Bamman LSU makes over seven

1189
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: figures a year, like he is properly rated. Blake Baker

1190
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: got the DC down there from Missouri, but I think

1191
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: Blake Baker's on enough radars. What if I told you

1192
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: we got Kevin Peoples graded above both of them as

1193
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 1: defensive coaches. Kevin Peoples comes in as the defensive ends

1194
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: coach here and he is a stud and he came

1195
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: from that Missouri staff, so Blake Baker brought him down

1196
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: there with him. LSU has upgraded their defensive staff as

1197
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: well as any team at any level of college football has.

1198
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: Now that's a testament how bad it was last year,

1199
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: but also a testament to how intentional Brian Kelly got

1200
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: about making sure they don't lose because they can't hold

1201
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: teams under forty ever again, because that's not a problem

1202
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: LSU football should ever have. And Colin Hitchler at Alabama

1203
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: when Kaylin de Boor hired him. When Kaylin de Boor

1204
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 1: hired Colin Hitchler, there was a collective oh out of

1205
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: Wisconsin because they knew they had one of the best

1206
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: safeties coaches in college football up there. And we still

1207
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: think he's criminally underrated, although he just got hired by Alabama,

1208
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: so maybe he's not underrated much longer. He is an

1209
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: immediate on field upgrade for them. I think he'll be

1210
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: a very good recruiter in time for Alabama. In the South.

1211
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 1: He was responsible for that Cincinnati secondary by the way

1212
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that you guys saw him

1213
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Speaker 1: make the playoff and then sent multiple guys to the

1214
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Speaker 1: NFL draft. Colin Hitchler one of a few very very

1215
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Speaker 1: shrewd hires that Kaylin de Boor has made. I'm telling you,

1216
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: yet they lost Nick Saban, and that's the story. That

1217
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: coaching staff as a whole is upgraded from what Bama

1218
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 1: had the last few years. You take that and do

1219
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to with it. I'm telling you, I'm

1220
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Speaker 1: looking on paper here and it's pretty definitive. I feel

1221
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Speaker 1: pretty safe saying that. So those are some of the

1222
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: underrated coaches in college football. I could have gone all night, immedity,

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Speaker 1: could have gone all night. In fact, maybe that's just

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Speaker 1: part one. Maybe we'll continue to do this segment. You

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Speaker 1: know what would be really sadistic is if we did

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Speaker 1: All right, a couple more things than we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: out of here, Colin? Is this right? Is it? Eight

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Speaker 1: oh six Central time? Wow? Yeah, I didn't think my

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Speaker 1: it float out there and then we'll be done for

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Speaker 1: the evening. Remember no show Sunday night. So I guess

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Speaker 1: it makes sense that we dragged the show out a

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Speaker 1: little bit here because I have to address some foolishness.

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Speaker 1: So Aaron Grisham hits us up whostever that is? He said, Well,

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Speaker 1: one of my radical takes, because I asked you guys

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Speaker 1: for radical takes, is get rid of like ninety five

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Speaker 1: percent of bowl games. They're just participation trophies anyway. You

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Speaker 1: know me, Ma used to always tell me Josh, well

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Speaker 1: you and to know why bad things happen to good

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Speaker 1: me Ma would roll the eyes Undertaker style all the

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Speaker 1: way in the back of her head if she read this. Hey, buddy,

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Speaker 1: don't watch. Don't go hang out in Memphis for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like bowl games, stay away from the

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Speaker 1: Liberty Bowl. Go high, just go do something, go outside,

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Speaker 1: go play video games. Why can't people leave us alone

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Speaker 1: and just let us watch bowl games? Oh? Look at

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Speaker 1: that Rose bowlb Oh, it's so beautiful. I can't believe

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Speaker 1: I was there last month. There are some Bowl games

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Speaker 1: that are more attractive than others. I will grant you that.

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Speaker 1: And yes, bowlseason has been heavily sedated with opt outs,

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Speaker 1: and I would go into a whole nother line of

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Speaker 1: thinking as to why that's happened. But I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: do that because we're already a little overtime tonight. But look,

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Speaker 1: if you don't want to see guys get doused in mayo,

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Speaker 1: if you don't want to see a pop tart take

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Speaker 1: its own life and sacrifice itself so an edible version

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Speaker 1: of itself can be presented to a winning team, don't

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Speaker 1: watch now, what's forcing you to watch? When's the last

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Speaker 1: time someone sat in a chair duct tape with their

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Speaker 1: eye with their eyelids peeled to the front of the

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Speaker 1: forehead and had to watch a bowl game. There aren't

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Speaker 1: too many bowl games. Bowl games then bowl games, now

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Speaker 1: bowl games forever, hope and bowl games are good things,

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Speaker 1: may be the best of things, and no good things ever,

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Speaker 1: Die Shaw Shank Redemption remember that. Next up, This is

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Speaker 1: a fun, fun time here because the other night, producer

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Speaker 1: Jesse walked in the room and said, Hey, need you

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Speaker 1: to know something about the Bold Prediction segment, And I said,

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Speaker 1: what is it, Jesse? He said, We're just going to

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Speaker 1: put in predictions that people were right on and you

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Speaker 1: were wrong about. Okay, Well, they would call that a

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Speaker 1: mutiny on the open Sea, but I guess I have

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Speaker 1: to allow it because otherwise I got to get in

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Speaker 1: there and do my own graphics, and I don't really

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Speaker 1: feel like doing that. So first up, Bold Predictions that

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Speaker 1: apparently went right from you guys this year. Trevor out

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Speaker 1: in Fort Worth, Texas said a bunch of stuff about Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: but he ended up saying Kansas is going to upset Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: It happened, and you know what they did it with

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Speaker 1: their backup QB. It happened. Oh you was minus six

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Speaker 1: point five in the preseason market, so this wasn't the

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Speaker 1: craziest concept in the world. I put a seven point

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Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. In fact, you could almost

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Speaker 1: argue I agreed with this. I digress. Kansas won thirty

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Speaker 1: eight thirty three. OU goes into this game seven and

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Speaker 1: oh you remember they beat Texas and it's just they're

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Speaker 1: in the Big twelve title game? Are they going to

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Speaker 1: be a playoff team? And then Kansas said, hey, you

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Speaker 1: mind if we play them first? And they beat them,

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Speaker 1: and then the next week Oklahoma State says we're gonna

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Speaker 1: play them too, if that's okay with you guys, and

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Speaker 1: then they beat them and that was it. As it

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Speaker 1: turns out, that took OU out of the Big twelve

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Speaker 1: championship game. So that was right on the money. And

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Speaker 1: KU did it with their backup QB too. Next up,

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Speaker 1: this was from Kennesaw, Georgia. Cow said three or more

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Speaker 1: teams will go undefeated in the regular season. It happened.

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Speaker 1: I put an eight point five on the boldness scale

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Speaker 1: because I thought there was gonna be a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of competitive balance, and I thought we're gonna have multiple

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Speaker 1: volcanic Saturdays. And the thing is, we didn't have a

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Speaker 1: team that broke away and ran away from the pack,

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Speaker 1: but we still didn't have volcanic Saturday. So not only

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Speaker 1: did this happen, we had I think four Jesse was

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Speaker 1: at four undefeated teams this year. Five of the last

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Speaker 1: six seasons we've had three or more undefeated teams. So

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Speaker 1: we had Georgia, we had Florida State, we had Michigan

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Speaker 1: in Washington. And I'm just talking about regular season games

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Speaker 1: one through twelve. So Georgia, Florida State, Michigan, Washington, they

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Speaker 1: go undefeated. You want to know what would have been

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Speaker 1: the boldest prediction in the history of predictions. Imagine saying

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Speaker 1: in the preseason four Power five teams will go undefeated

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Speaker 1: and only two of them will make the playoff. You

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Speaker 1: would have thought, oh, every one of them must have

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Speaker 1: lost their conference championship game. Nope, we had one of

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Speaker 1: them in Tallahassee that went wire to wire and won

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Speaker 1: the conference title and still didn't make it in the playoff. Now,

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Speaker 1: that would have been a ten on the boldness scale.

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Speaker 1: Next up, speaking of that playoff, mister Gibson did not

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Speaker 1: beat around the bush in Huntsville, Alabama. He said, george

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Speaker 1: is gonna miss the playoff, and I said, well, that's

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Speaker 1: a nine on the boldness scale, and Georgia didn't make

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Speaker 1: the playoff. Once you lose a game, or in Florida

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Speaker 1: State's case, you just wake up and breathe and your

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Speaker 1: fate is out of your own hands. But in normal

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent college football world, once you lose a game,

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Speaker 1: the variables enter into the equation. So the fact is

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Speaker 1: Georgia in most years could have lost that SEC title

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Speaker 1: game and still made the playoff. It just so happened

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Speaker 1: this year. There are too many teams who won too

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Speaker 1: many games and so they didn't make it. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I know some things sound like slam dunks at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, especially if you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to play conference title game, like Georgia could have the

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Speaker 1: softest schedule imaginable, which they didn't, and that schedule ended

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Speaker 1: up being a lot beefier than it looked like it

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Speaker 1: was going to be in August. But even if they

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Speaker 1: have a cake walk of a schedule, as long as

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Speaker 1: you're going to have to play in Alabama, eventually at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, you got a tough road

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Speaker 1: to get to the playoff, and they didn't. They didn't

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Speaker 1: make it. Lastly, though, how about the elimination of bold

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Speaker 1: predictions here? You go back to August, mind you, when

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Speaker 1: Bryce from Romeo, perhaps Romeo Michigan, said, Michigan wins the

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Speaker 1: national Championship. I put an eight point twenty five on

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Speaker 1: the boldness scale, and they did it. They did it

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Speaker 1: out of the top eight teams in the Big ten odds.

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Speaker 1: They were the only team that was sure at quarterback

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Speaker 1: coming into the year. And I was looking back on

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Speaker 1: our notes from the preseason because that, along with their

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Speaker 1: retention rate and how much experience they return, it meant

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Speaker 1: a lot. Those close games like the playoff game against Alabama,

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Speaker 1: it meant a lot. And I had two words when

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Speaker 1: Bryce gave that prediction. I had two words. I said,

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Speaker 1: I don't doubt the coaching, I don't doubt the players.

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Speaker 1: I don't doubt that they're capable of it. Prove it,

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Speaker 1: and they proved. It's the beauty of the sport. We

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Speaker 1: don't play it on that stuff right there. We tee

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Speaker 1: it up and we play it every Saturday, and then inexplicably,

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Speaker 1: we have to do it on a Monday to finish

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Speaker 1: the season. But I digress. Congrats to Michigan, Congrats to Bryce,

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Speaker 1: and that concludes Bold Predictions for the evening, and that

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Speaker 1: concludes our show for the evening. Hey be sure to

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