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Speaker 1: you want me to get a little speculative, it is

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Speaker 1: my belief that far and away the best team that

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Speaker 1: he will have fielded so far down there will be

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four team. We don't know who's playing

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Speaker 1: quarterback on that team yet because they're still in the

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Speaker 1: market for one, which is just such a modern day

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Speaker 1: college football thing to say. But look, I know we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of Florida fans watching this thing right now,

433
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Speaker 1: and you guys are in silence right now for good reason.

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Speaker 1: Stay that way for a little while. I know we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of Florida State fans watching this thing

436
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Speaker 1: right now. You're aggravated that you got screwed out of

437
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Speaker 1: a playoff spot. You took a lot of pleasure in

438
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Speaker 1: watching this happen today because you know you're probably about

439
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Speaker 1: to get skull drugg and you're a Bowl game, and

440
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Speaker 1: so you came after me. It's fine, I don't mind that.

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Speaker 1: Just be accurate when you do it. So my answer is, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I still am high on Miami's future. But my definition

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Speaker 1: of high's exactly what I just said, nothing more, nothing less. Jesse,

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Speaker 1: please bookmark this segment, because if my senses are correct,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll need to reference it very frequently in

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Speaker 1: the coming year. I need to do two things. First off,

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Speaker 1: I need to thank Academy profusely because they make us

448
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Speaker 1: able to deliver this show free of charge to you.

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Speaker 1: Some would argue it's not worth anything more than zero dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's a matter of opinion. It is a matter of

451
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Speaker 1: fact that Academy keeps it free. They keep the lights

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Speaker 1: on around here. I need to tell you. They came

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Speaker 1: to us about a month ago, Jesse. I'd say about

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Speaker 1: a month ago, and they said, just give some money away.

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Speaker 1: Why not, it's a Christmas season, let's just give some

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Speaker 1: money away. So they allowed us. They permitted us to

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Speaker 1: give away one hundred and fifty dollars Academy gift cards.

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Speaker 1: Now I gave those away in the manner that I

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Speaker 1: saw fit here is one little problem that produced Jesse

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Speaker 1: tells me that we're having there are some unclaimed cards.

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Speaker 1: So I am offering this one warning. This is like

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Speaker 1: a go It's the one warning flare, because that's all

463
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Speaker 1: we have budget for, is one flare around here. If

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Speaker 1: you check your DMS and you have a DM from

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Speaker 1: Pate State U, that is actually us. We just launched

466
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Speaker 1: the account last week. That is us though, so it

467
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Speaker 1: may look a little sketch. In fact, it looks sketch aft,

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Speaker 1: but it is US. And so you need to go

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Speaker 1: check because I have it on good authority that a

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Speaker 1: few of you just have free money sitting there and

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Speaker 1: you haven't claimed it yet. And I have told producer Jesse,

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Speaker 1: wait about twenty four more hours, maybe forty eight, and

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Speaker 1: if they don't claim it, then I don't know what

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna give it to Bradley. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do with those cards. We may just

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Speaker 1: toss them out of the window. We're fourteen floors above

477
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Speaker 1: downtown Nashville, so we may just toss them out the

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Speaker 1: window and see what happens. Do these windows open, these

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Speaker 1: windows don't open. We'll figure it out. So yeah, Thank

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Speaker 1: you to Academy, and now please do your part to

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Speaker 1: accept the gift from Academy. Thank you very much. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the Transfer Portal, and then I've got a

483
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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff after that surprisingly jam packed show for

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Speaker 1: December twenty eighth. Little sip of coffee because obviously the

485
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Speaker 1: energy level is very low on the show tonight. Look,

486
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Speaker 1: I just get worked up kinda. This is not the

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Speaker 1: start of the Transfer Portal segment yet, so inevitably, when

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Speaker 1: we do a segment like I just did, some of

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Speaker 1: our longtime hardcore viewers hate it because they get tired

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Speaker 1: of me defending myself against admittedly the fringe minority amongst us.

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Speaker 1: But if you want me to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of fun. And also it's not just a

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Speaker 1: problem we have on this show, like I think this

494
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Speaker 1: about broadcasters all the time. We just had Joel Klatt

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Speaker 1: and Greg McElroy and Joe Tessitour join us for extended

496
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Speaker 1: conversations over the past week, and those are still on

497
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Speaker 1: the channel if you want to go listen. I got

498
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: incredible feedback, or about ninety five percent incredible feedback, but

499
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: the five percent that was negative obviously attracted my attention

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Speaker 1: to most and what I have noticed and what got

501
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Speaker 1: reaffirmed to me looking at the feedback from those interviews

502
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Speaker 1: is there is an alternate universe through which a lot

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Speaker 1: of people hear broadcasts and hear people period and it

504
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Speaker 1: is a very big problem. People can't listen. There are

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Speaker 1: some people who just don't know how to listen, and

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Speaker 1: so they hear things or think they hear things, or

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Speaker 1: they remember hearing things that never actually got said, and

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Speaker 1: then instead of instead of trying to recalibrate their memory

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Speaker 1: in fact checking, you know, doing these sorts of things

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Speaker 1: that would be responsible, they just run their mouth. And

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Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me so much, but I know some

512
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Speaker 1: of these people are going to be overheard by other

513
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Speaker 1: folks who have not themselves watched or listened to a

514
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Speaker 1: show of ours, and that's how we get a batter rapp.

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Speaker 1: And my point with the broadcasters is there are folks

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Speaker 1: who claim things about Joel Klapp that just aren't true,

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Speaker 1: Like the dudes never said him. There are folks who

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Speaker 1: claim things about McElroy I know for a fact aren't true.

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Speaker 1: He's never said him and in some cases he said

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Speaker 1: the opposite, and it doesn't matter. Those people just believe

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Joe Testator outside of Tallahassee, Florida, he largely

522
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Speaker 1: escaped criticism. So congrats to Joe Testator. But look even

523
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Speaker 1: some of the criticism he faced. Hey, he went down there.

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Speaker 1: Tests went down to the Tallahassee Quarterback Club and just

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Speaker 1: open Mike Knight. They passed the mic around and he's

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Speaker 1: sparred with him. So that was entertaining to watch. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now we can talk transfer a portal. Walter Nolan is

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Speaker 1: headed to Ole Miss. The last time you and I spoke,

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Speaker 1: we thought he was going to go Little Miss, and

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Speaker 1: the form of five star defensive lineman from Texas A

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Speaker 1: and M has now landed at Old Miss. This is

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Speaker 1: a really unique window in the history of college football

533
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Speaker 1: because it hasn't ever been this way before, it probably

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Speaker 1: won't be this way for much longer. And that window

535
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Speaker 1: is the window where you could just insert yourself into

536
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Speaker 1: bidding wars pretty much every year if you want to.

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Speaker 1: And let's just let's just not beat around the bush

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Speaker 1: about the fact that that's exactly what this was. This

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Speaker 1: was an NIL recruitment out of high school. This was

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Speaker 1: an NIL recruitment in the portal. Ole miss has gone

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Speaker 1: all in on this class. That's why Walter Nolan is

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Speaker 1: in Oxford, Mississippi. Got no problem with it because it's

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Speaker 1: legal right now. But that's what happened. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that that's the way it's gonna work five years from now.

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Speaker 1: It certainly is not the way it worked five years ago.

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Speaker 1: You can come back at me in the comments if

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Speaker 1: you want to and say, Josh, you're tolding me players

548
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Speaker 1: never got paid. No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying it never worked this way. And if you

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Speaker 1: if you need that explain to you, then I probably

551
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Speaker 1: need to go watch another show. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that. I don't think it's it's pretty radical to say. No.

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Speaker 1: I mean, guys weren't inserting themselves into a transfer portal

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Speaker 1: after playing one or two years and then having an

555
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: open bidding war for their services. No, that wasn't happening

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Speaker 1: five or ten years ago. Yes, you had small amounts

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Speaker 1: of money being exchanged in return for your services. Yes,

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Speaker 1: everyone knows that. No, there's nothing that's even remotely comparable

559
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Speaker 1: to what's happening right now in the history of college football.

560
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: So what Ole Miss has done is they have taken

561
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Speaker 1: advantage of the current climate and what is and isn't allowed,

562
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Speaker 1: and they've locked down the number one overall player in

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Speaker 1: the portal. They've locked down the number one and number

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Speaker 1: two edge players in the portal. They've locked down the

565
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Speaker 1: number three linebacker, number three wide receiver, number five corner.

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Speaker 1: They've got a ton of talent, a lot of it

567
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Speaker 1: defensive coming in, and they got the number one overall class,

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Speaker 1: and they've got, by SEC standards, a fairly manageable schedule

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Speaker 1: next year. Will it happen? Keep in mind, they just

570
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Speaker 1: won ten games and that's going to be expected to

571
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Speaker 1: be the floor for that team next year. Will it happen?

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Speaker 1: There are already some wild and swinging thoughts about what

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Speaker 1: ole Miss is capable of this upcoming year. But since

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Speaker 1: it's not even twenty twenty four yet, this will not

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Speaker 1: be the show where I offer my twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: opinions on ole Miss. I will, however, plays some of

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Speaker 1: this chapstick Colin, Did I show you this when you

578
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Speaker 1: go to New York or the Orthodonist CBS in New

579
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Speaker 1: York and the Orthodonist or where they give away these

580
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Speaker 1: mini chapsticks and they're delightful. Okay, anyway, Demoni Jackson, what's

581
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Speaker 1: the latest here? So Demani Jackson's a former five star corner.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he played defense at USC, so no one

583
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Speaker 1: has any clue how good he actually is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Kirby just took the dB coach from USC. So just

585
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Speaker 1: because you have that USC defense stink on you doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that the best minds in college football couldn't still

587
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Speaker 1: see something in you. And the reason I mentioned that

588
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: is because, as you know, Demani Jackson in Los Angeles, California,

589
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Speaker 1: where he has thus far played his college football, Obama

590
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: and Michigan happened to be out there today practicing for

591
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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. Demani Jackson showed up to Alabama's practice today,

592
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: was seen talking to Nick Saban, and Alabama's thought to

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Speaker 1: be one of the contenders for his services. Now, I

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Speaker 1: will tell you both of those programs, Bama and Michigan,

595
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Speaker 1: if those are the two it's down to, those programs

596
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: are kind of cherry picking the portal a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Neither one of them is engaging in the bidding war

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Speaker 1: structure that is the portal right now. Neither is Georgia

599
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Speaker 1: to a large extent, neither is Ohio State. They're just

600
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: not doing it. Told you it's going to work that way.

601
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Speaker 1: Two years ago there was a fear that the big

602
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: teams were just gonna outspend everyone. Nope, not the way

603
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: it's happening. That they don't need to do it. It's not

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Speaker 1: the way it's happening. But Demani Jackson is in a

605
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: situation where he has underachieved. From a production standpoint. He

606
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Speaker 1: has NFL talent, he does not have enough up production

607
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: and to get serious at this point in your career,

608
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: and you've got to go to the place that can

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Speaker 1: best prepare you. And whether it is Alabama or Michigan,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if he goes to either one. Those

611
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 1: are places uniquely equipped if he's got it on his

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00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: side to much better prepare him for a future on

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Speaker 1: Sundays than where he has been number twenty six overall

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00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: player right now in the portal, I've heard Alabama rumblings,

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Speaker 1: I've heard Michigan rumblings. We'll see where that goes. I

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00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: think you know you don't show up to Obama's practice

617
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: today invited unless there's some smoke there. Bama did get

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00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: LT Overton so that's the other defensive lineman or defensive

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Speaker 1: tackle which counts from Texas A and M. He was

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Speaker 1: the number two overall D lineman in the portal, right

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Speaker 1: behind Walter Nolan sixty five two sixty five. Some of

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00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: the feedback we got suggests you probably see some size

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Speaker 1: put on him, and he's probably an immediate contributor next year,

624
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: or they don't take you if they don't think you're

625
00:32:55,040 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 1: going to be there at least, so he's I don't know.

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00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: I look at a lot of these A and M guys.

627
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Speaker 1: I look at that twenty twenty two class in general.

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Speaker 1: That's worth doing a whole segment on in and of

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Speaker 1: itself one day. But I mean a lot of these

630
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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be difference makers. Evan Stewart's in the portal.

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Speaker 1: We're not even talking about him tonight. He's in the portal,

632
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Speaker 1: the wide receiver. He's gonna be difference makers somewhere. But lt.

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00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: Overton is already locked into Alabama. We've got him at

634
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Speaker 1: six five, two eighty. He probably doesn't weigh that much

635
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Speaker 1: right now. That's probably where Bama's gonna want him in

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Speaker 1: order for him to do what they'll want him to do.

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Speaker 1: Georgia has made a couple of moves here. One of

638
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: them was badly needed. Georgia had to have a running back.

639
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: They went and got Trevor Etn from Florida, which is

640
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: not a move that I love at all. It's a

641
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: good move for Georgia. I just hate the idea that

642
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: you could ever go from Florida to Georgia or vice versa.

643
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: That's the world we live in. I don't have to

644
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: like it. I respect rivalries, I don't like anyone having

645
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: played both sides of them, and when I'm college football commissioner,

646
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: we may very well outlaw that. We'll see time will

647
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: tell five point seven yards per Kerry last year he

648
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: had twenty one receptions too. I think Georgia could use

649
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: him out of the backfield in the passing game a

650
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: lot more than Florida did. Number one overall running back

651
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: available in the portal. Again, a badly needed pickup for

652
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: Georgia here. But they also got Colby Young. This one

653
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: kind of flew under the radar. He was the number

654
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: six wide receiver. He's big body, six five two fifteen

655
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: out of Miami. Had forty seven receptions this year, five

656
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards five touchdowns. So two pickups at

657
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: positions of need for Georgia. We'll see if they're done.

658
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: Who knows, we'll see. Also Malik Murphy, I mean, this

659
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: one's a little old. I just haven't been able to

660
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: talk to you about it. Malik Murphy went to Duke.

661
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: Remember at Texas a couple of games this year he

662
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: had to start, and he didn't light the world on fire.

663
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: He was turnover prone, so maybe still a little bit

664
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: of a project as a player. Six five, two thirty eight.

665
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: He's red shirt freshman. There was a big market for

666
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: him after spring, honestly, I mean he shined in their

667
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: spring game. A lot of folk knee quarterbacks. He stayed

668
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: put and that was all illegal, by the way, he

669
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: never entered the portal. Yet there was a market for him.

670
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: You do the math on that. But we're not here

671
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: to legislate morality in the transfer portal. Far be it

672
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: for us to do that. No, what we are going

673
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: to do is hat tip Manny Diaz, new head coach

674
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: at Duke, for getting Steve Sarkisian's backup quarterback. We are

675
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: going to eternally shame the powers that be in college

676
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 1: football for even making this have to happen this time

677
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: of year. But this is not going to be another

678
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: fixed to college football calendar segment. Well, Riley Leonards out.

679
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: Riley Leonard's out, and so they had to have this.

680
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: And I don't look, I don't know that I'm going

681
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: to expect Malik Murphy just light the world on fire

682
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: right out of the gate this year. Okay, this is

683
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: not a guy who has reached his potential as a

684
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: quarterback and a multi year starter, and you're getting a

685
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: plug and play. He's not an automatic plug and play.

686
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: He'll be their starter, but it's not a plug and

687
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: play in the sense that you would classically define that.

688
00:35:58,480 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: So that's what's going on in the portal right now.

689
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: Out now, there is a lot of other things going on.

690
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: There are a lot of other things going on in

691
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: the sport and I got to touch on a bunch

692
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: of them here. There's your immunity. I got to touch

693
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: on a bunch of them here. We had a lot

694
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: of questions about Florida State's future. I mean, this is

695
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: really up in the air right now. It's unfolding sort

696
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: of as we speak. I think the future of Florida

697
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: State is the future of college football, and what I

698
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: mean by that is the direction the sport is taking

699
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: right now, and there are a lot of theories about

700
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: what the big change is coming are going to be.

701
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: It's like Florida State is riding a frontage road that

702
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: is parallel to that main road and they are just

703
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: craning the neck, like wherever you guys go, we gotta go.

704
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: We cannot be left behind. So if you don't know

705
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, if you've been irresponsibly celebrating Christmas

706
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: with your family instead of paying attention to off field

707
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: matters in college football, it's okay because we are here

708
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: for you. There was a board of trustees meeting last

709
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: week down there and they animously approved exploring breaking the

710
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: grant of rights over there, a grant of rights kids,

711
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: for those unfamiliar or adults, is where in two thoy thirteen,

712
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: after Maryland had jumped ship from the ACC, they got

713
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: all the universities to sign over the rights to their games,

714
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: essentially to the conference, and then the conference negotiates with

715
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: TV partners. Well, the conference decided to lock themselves into

716
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: a deal with ESPN that runs through two thousand and

717
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: thirty six. You know the old twenty three year guarantee

718
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: hoops amongst us hasn't been there before. And it's a

719
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: death wish. It's just a death sentence. It is a

720
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: contract that, if adhere to, will ensure the complete collapse

721
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: of Florida State football as a national brand and national program.

722
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: They know that. Okay, it pays them, in many cases

723
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: less than half per year of what teams in the

724
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: SEC and the Big Ten are going to get. Notice

725
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: what I just said to you, Florida State will not

726
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: just be making half of what Alabama or Georgia makes.

727
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: They won't just be making half of what Ohio State

728
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: or Michigan make. They'll be making half of what Indiana makes,

729
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: half of what Vanderbilt makes. Why because they've got the

730
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: right sticker on the back of their helmet, and you

731
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: don't they know they are a dead program walking if

732
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: they stay in the ACC. So they got a fight

733
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: to get out of that grand of rights. The estimates

734
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: they put forth to break out of that thing, if

735
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: they don't get any help and none of these lawsuits

736
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: that they're filing stand up, is over half a billion dollars.

737
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: It would cost them over half a billion dollars by

738
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: their own estimation to get out of that thing. That's

739
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Okay, So what do I think

740
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: about that? Well, you got one side that says, you

741
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: guys signed a piece of paper, You signed your grant

742
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: of rights. This is it. That's the end of you get.

743
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: You don't get to just renig on it all of

744
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: a sudden because you no longer like the term of

745
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: the piece of paper you sign. I can see the

746
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: point a lot of validity to that. Then there's the

747
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: other side that says, idiots, are you not listening like

748
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: the rest of the conference, are you not listening? We're

749
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: all dead. We will cease to exist at the Tier

750
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 1: one head table of college athletics if we go through

751
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 1: with this twenty thirty six, Bradley will be sixty by then.

752
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 1: We cannot do this. And also there is some question

753
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 1: as to whether this is even enforceable. Now it sounds

754
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: enforceable based on how everyone tiptoes and walks on eggshells

755
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: around this grant of rights, but no one's challenged it legally.

756
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: Like you're inside the paper baged. You don't know how

757
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: fortified it is, or maybe it's just soggy, wet, and

758
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: one good punch and get you out of it. No

759
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: one's ever had a judge way in on this stuff,

760
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: so their fingers crossed hopeful that they can get out

761
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: of that thing. Here's my thought. My thought might vice

762
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: if you live down in Okalla, you know, or you

763
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: live in Daytona Beach and your big Florida State fan

764
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: is breathe, let me telling you guys that for two

765
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: weeks now, breathe. You need to go fifty k feet

766
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,720
Speaker 1: on this. Don't get into the weeds of kneading updates

767
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: every day, because this is going to be a multi

768
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: year deal or process. Your grant of rights is a

769
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: multi year deal. It's going to be a multi year process.

770
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 1: You do not know. I do not know Greg Sanki

771
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: and Tony Petiti, SEC and Big ten commissioners. They do

772
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: not know what this sport's going to look like in

773
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: two years, you know. So nothing is nothing is etchton

774
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: Stone right now. There's a lot of fog out there.

775
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: So don't think that you're just headed towards the edge

776
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: of a cliff no matter what. No, your situation is

777
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: not good. But it's also not like Skull and Crossbones

778
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: time yet, However, I'd go fifty thousand feet on this

779
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: just because I'm going to apply common sense in logic.

780
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 1: My common sense and logic acquired from an untold amount

781
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: of years wandering this earth. Is there's no version of

782
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: major college football in the foreseeable future that does not

783
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: include Florida State at the head table. I was really

784
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: struggled to see that. Now, if you pressed me for

785
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: particulars on how they're going to accomplish that, I cannot

786
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: give them to you. Right now. I'm just saying the

787
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: same way I would any of a number of random

788
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: situations that could pop up in life. I'm just telling

789
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: you things will work out. There's too much at stake

790
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: here for it. Not too things will work out. Now.

791
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,479
Speaker 1: You might remember on this program, Oh, I'd say about

792
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: two years ago, we had a big kerfuffle, a big

793
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: to do about this upstart golf league. It was called Live. Yes,

794
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: we've heard of that since then, haven't we? And why

795
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: were they the devil? Well, they got in bed with

796
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: the Saudis. And you cannot do that. You cannot do that.

797
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: That is blood money. You cannot accept that. I don't

798
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: really care what you think about that. One way or

799
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 1: the other happened it is happening, it's in the process

800
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: of happening. And I said, hmmm, we in the college

801
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: football world are watching this over on the other side

802
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: of town, saying, isn't that the darnest thing? And I

803
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: was looking around our own house, our own college football house. Wow,

804
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: we've got a conference out on the west coast in Peril.

805
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: You would know that as the Pac twelve. It has

806
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: since dissolved into the Pacific. And then we've got individual

807
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: programs like a Clemson or like a Florida State who

808
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: really want out of their current situation bad. They just

809
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: don't have enough money. And so you can either do

810
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: one of two things in those kinds of situations. You

811
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: can sit there and kick your can around and be

812
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: sad and mope and just bite the bullet and accept reality.

813
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: Or you can go find the money. And there is

814
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: no shortage of suitors. Well, there's a shortage, but there

815
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: is a line. Okay, there are suitors available out there.

816
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: You may not have half a billion dollars, but there

817
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: are people who do have half a billion dollars. And

818
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: I've always been of the opinion that private equity and

819
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: private financing could find its way into being part of

820
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: the solution to this problem. By solution, I simply mean

821
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: the place where the money comes from. I'm not casting

822
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: any kind of negative or positive light on it. I'm

823
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: just saying where the money could come from. And I

824
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: am of the opinion whether it's Saudi Arabia or some

825
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: tech company down in Orlando, I'm of the opinion that

826
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: there is a grand opportunity here for someone to own

827
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: a college football program. And in the PAC twelve's case,

828
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: I thought there was a grand opportunity for someone to,

829
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: in a de facto manner own a conference. If you

830
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: come forth with the check, then you own the conference,

831
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: you own the program. That's not what the contract says necessarily,

832
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: but in reality that's the case. Now you may ask yourself,

833
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: and you may ask me, Josh, what sense would it

834
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: make for someone to own a conference or own a

835
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: college football program, Like, what's their return? Well, the return

836
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: is in marketing, that brand means a whole lot. Your

837
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: attachment to that brand could mean a whole lot in

838
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: exchange for that little contribution, that little nine figure contribution

839
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: of yours would come with it strings, and the strings

840
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: can say whatever you want them to say. You may

841
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: want decision making powers of that university, over that athletic department,

842
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 1: over that specific program, or you know, you may want

843
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: things like unlimited signage on game days to promote whatever

844
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: it is you want to promote. You may want guaranteed

845
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: airtime to promote whatever it is on the conjoined networks

846
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: that you are affiliated with. With whatever promotion you want,

847
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: all kinds of different little odds and ends could be

848
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: accomplished there anyway. Of course, I'm not speaking with guided

849
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: knowledge of what's going on behind the scenes. That doesn't

850
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: sound like me at all. I'm just saying there are

851
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: many ways to skin this cat. You guys don't have

852
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,720
Speaker 1: to start go fund me half a billion dollars just yet.

853
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: There are ways to get out of this thing. I

854
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: think it'll work itself out. It's gonna be okay. Maybe

855
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: just not in twenty twenty three, but it's gonna be okay.

856
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Seattle, Washington, they're watching us in

857
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: El Paso, Texas, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Thank you so much.

858
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: I went and I did something pretty irresponsible the other day,

859
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,919
Speaker 1: had some free time on my hands, picked up my eye.

860
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: Josh went on one of the socials and I said

861
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 1: the following, what's the most radical college football opinion you hold?

862
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: And I got a lot of answers, and I am

863
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: going to share some of them with you here. Like

864
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: I told you at the beginning of this show, I've

865
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: got one. Maybe I'll tell you down the road. Maybe

866
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: I won't. I just I think it'll be a waste

867
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: of time because I know no one's gonna agree with me,

868
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: and you won't even hear me through on it. I

869
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: know because I've already tried it on several people. You

870
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: know what, I will share the opinion one day, not

871
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: right now, but one day, I will share the opinion.

872
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: It's raight, I will grant you it's pretty radical. I've

873
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: given it to I think four people so far, and

874
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: they've gotten the I've gotten nowhere with them. So here's

875
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: what you gave me. We'll go with the first one here.

876
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: So Colin, here's your endpoint on this. I asked you

877
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 1: for your most radical college football opinions, and here's one

878
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: we got. Big ten defense is a rank so high

879
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: because it's a conference of trash offenses. Well that's a

880
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: pretty harsh allegation, also entirely accurate, and so we dug

881
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: a little bit on this today. Statistically, this is not

882
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: a radical opinion. Okay, it's pretty spot on Big Ten

883
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: defenses just feasting on trash offense. Unless that's a little

884
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,479
Speaker 1: offensive to offenses, Uh is it really? Though? I mean, look,

885
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: we can either believe one or two things here. We

886
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: can either believe that Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and

887
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: Iowa are literally the top four defenses in college football,

888
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: all things equal. We can believe all things aren't equal. Now,

889
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: these are not bad defensive outfits. No one on this

890
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: show is suggesting otherwise. But the offense is in the

891
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: Big Ten largely sucked water through a garden hose this year,

892
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: So it is not the biggest stretch in the world

893
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: to suggest maybe maybe some of these defensive numbers got

894
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: inflated just to touch the best Big Ten offense this year.

895
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: You want to know what it was. It's spoiled for

896
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: you if you're watching on YouTube right now. But I kids,

897
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna sound like a joke. That's why I'm telling you.

898
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: I kid you not if you're listening on podcasts. In

899
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: terms of points per game, what do you think the

900
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: best Big Ten offense was this year? It was Penn State. Again,

901
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you. Penn State was the best Big

902
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 1: Ten offense in points per game this year. I watched

903
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: I stood on the field, friends, and I watched them

904
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: be completely inept and hopeless against Ohio State and Michigan.

905
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: Think about how bad this is. Even with those games,

906
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 1: into the sample size, they were still the best offense

907
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten. Big Ten offenses were bad this year.

908
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: They were very bad. Here here's another fun exercise while

909
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: we're at it. Name me the Big Ten quarterbacks this year.

910
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: Name them, and you know, give a pause when you

911
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: come across a name that strikes fear in the hearts

912
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 1: of defensive coordinators. We had Kyle McCord, we had Drew

913
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: Aller Talia Tongue of Ailoa had you know, a few

914
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: moments this year. JJ McCarthy down the stretch did nothing

915
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: of note, at least statistically. Now, he did what it

916
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: took to win, and so that's all that matters if

917
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: you're a Michigan fan. But if we're talking about inflating

918
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: defensive statistics, yeah, I think that greatly contributed. Here's one more.

919
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: I asked Jesse, Hey, yards per game, let's just start

920
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: scrolling through all the stats we had points per game?

921
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: How about yards per game? Where did Big Ten offenses

922
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: rank this year? Ohio State was the best one that

923
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: much I'll give you. You want to guess out of

924
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty three teams, Ohio State being the

925
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: best the Big Ten had to offer in terms of

926
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: yards per game? You want to guess where they ranked nationally? Fifteen, No,

927
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: twenty five, No, thirty sixth That's how far down the

928
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: national rankings you have to go for the Big Ten

929
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: to even check in. So you want to suggest to

930
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: me that the Big Ten having the top four defenses

931
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: in college football may have had a little something to

932
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: do with the offensive ineptitude of that conference. I'm gonna

933
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: go ahead and give that two thumbs up. That's not radical,

934
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: that's probably just reality. Next up, it's a fun game.

935
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: It's fun game because I don't have to present the opinions.

936
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: I can just agree with them, and therefore, if you

937
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: have a problem with it, it's there you go. It's really

938
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: not on me. Andrew hit us up with his radical

939
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: college football opinion. He said the BCS, while having its

940
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: own drawbacks, was a much better system than the College

941
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: Football Playoff Committee. Fact, fact fact, and Andrew, keep it up, Colin,

942
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: excuse me, never mind immunity. Andrew said exactly how he

943
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,240
Speaker 1: should have phrased it. He said the BCS, despite having

944
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: its drawbacks, was still better than the current system we have.

945
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: So he didn't say it was perfect because normally when

946
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: you try and make this argument of I prefer BCS

947
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: over what we have today, people will go back and say, oh, man,

948
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 1: what about Auburn and four? Though, like what about this

949
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: team that got screwed or this anecdotal example of that

950
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: team that got left out. It's not without drawbacks. It

951
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: wasn't a perfect system. But man, if you're fourteen years

952
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: old right now and you really didn't live in that

953
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: era and you only know the playoff era, you guys

954
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: have lived in a world where meaningless bowl game has

955
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 1: just been a phrase like the sky is blue. It's

956
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: always existed. But it didn't always exist, little kiddo, it

957
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: didn't always exist that way. There was a time where

958
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: even if you were just a seven win team and

959
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: you barely made it into the Gator Bowl, that was

960
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:02,479
Speaker 1: a huge celebratory point. Opt Outs weren't a thing. Okay,

961
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: and this is not in the nineteen thirties. This is

962
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: in color. It's not just in black and white. This

963
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: is a pretty recent thing. As recently as like ten

964
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: and eleven and twelve, there were no opt outs. And yeah,

965
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: you had a BCS championship game and there was a

966
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: lot of attention paid to it, and rightfully so. But

967
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: also you had other games in the BCS rotation. You

968
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: didn't have a committee of people whose college football credentials

969
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: were in some cases questionable at best. If you got screwed,

970
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,760
Speaker 1: it was because of a computer. And I get screwed

971
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: by computers all the time. Man. The model is doing

972
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: terribly in betting Bowl games right now, So I know

973
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: what it's like to get screwed by computer. Yeah it happened,

974
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: but it was so much more fun. I'm not romanticizing this.

975
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: Some people are gonna come back at me and say, oh,

976
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: you're just romanticizing the past. Oh it was much better

977
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: now than it was then. Was No, it's not no,

978
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 1: it's not not saying it's bad now. I'm just saying

979
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: it better them. And I think that sentiment along these

980
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: lines has been as popularized in the last two years

981
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: as it ever has been. Like if you would have

982
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: said in twenty fifteen, give me the BCS over what

983
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: we've inherited. You would have gotten shouted down. Now that

984
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: people have gotten ten years worth of the Playoff under

985
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: their belt and what the Playoff has meant for the

986
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 1: greater good of the sport, all of a sudden, it's

987
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,479
Speaker 1: not so radical anymore to say, you know what, while

988
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: it was a little flawed, I'd much prefer the BCS.

989
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: I've always felt that way. I have just become very,

990
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: very encouraged with how many people have come over to

991
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: our side of the fence on this. That was a

992
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: good one, though. Next up, what do we have? I

993
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: think we're doing three of these tonight. I got a

994
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: whole treasure trove full of these. Don't worry, this is

995
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: going to be our January. Basically, Joe hit me with

996
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: here's a radical college football opinion, and that one is

997
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: pretty radical. I got admit to you. He said bowl

998
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: games would be better in August than December. Now that

999
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: requires a stroke of the mustache that I do not

1000
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:12,720
Speaker 1: have because it would be blonde and look pretty white, trashy.

1001
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: This right here is pretty radical. It's a concept that

1002
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: sometimes gets thrown around because of the current status of Bowls.

1003
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: You got a bunch of people opting out. You have

1004
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: no clue what to expect. It's just that bowls have

1005
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: lost their luster. And I don't really even think that's

1006
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: an opinion. I mean, there's no way you watch Bowl

1007
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 1: season now and think it's as great as it used

1008
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: to be. You can still love Bowl season, because I do,

1009
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: like I love Bowl season. I still watch every single game.

1010
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: But even I, you know, a Bowl absolutist, cannot ignore

1011
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: the fact that something's been taken away from Bowl season.

1012
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: They're called players. Players have been taken away from Bowl season,

1013
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: and so there have been some questions about what you

1014
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: can do to save Bowl season and their concepts, like

1015
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: I've always been a big proponent of a revenue share

1016
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: system that incentivizes participation in Bowl games. It's that simple.

1017
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: Pay the players. That's cold, hard cash is probably the

1018
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: best idea. But in lieu of that, or maybe in

1019
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,359
Speaker 1: conjunction with that, I don't know. You could enter into

1020
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: a revenue sharing program in the future with a stipulation

1021
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 1: that participation in every one of your team's games, unless

1022
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: you're injured, is required for you to get your slice

1023
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: of that revenue sharing pie. But how do you avoid

1024
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: players faking injuries to get out of bowl games? I

1025
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: don't know. Here is one way that you can do it, though.

1026
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: You can just in your expanded playoff. Let those be

1027
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: the games that exist in December, and you take the

1028
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: Bowl game that you otherwise would have been in Miami

1029
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: versus Rutgers, for example. Take that thing from December twenty

1030
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: eighth and put it on the first week of next year.

1031
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: This is certainly an imperfect and flawed concept. There are

1032
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: thirty seven different problems with this. There is no perfect solution.

1033
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: We're trying to find the best of a bad situation

1034
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: right now. That would provide you just an amazing conglomeration

1035
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: of out of conference games to open the season. A

1036
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: lot of folks do that. Anyway, everyone should do it.

1037
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: It would it would kind of tie the seasons together,

1038
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: like there would be a bridge. In other words, something

1039
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:32,359
Speaker 1: that happened last year would affect next season. We would

1040
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: also be watching a schedule release in real time like

1041
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 1: the bowl selection process. Also wouldn't have to happen in December.

1042
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: The bowl selection process, and this is literally coming in

1043
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: my mind as we're doing the segment right now. You

1044
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: could have that process happened in February. We got a pause.

1045
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: It's rare, but sometimes I do have a light bulb

1046
00:55:55,840 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: moment live when I'm college Football commissioner. If we do

1047
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: decide via popular college football public vote to move the

1048
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,399
Speaker 1: bowl season from December to Week one of next year,

1049
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: we will have a bowl selection special in February, right

1050
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,479
Speaker 1: before you open spring practice. We will have the Bowl

1051
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: selection Special and you will find out who your Week

1052
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: one opponents are at that point. I think it's pretty

1053
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: good idea. I don't know, we'll see. I'll take some

1054
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 1: feedback on that. But no, this is not a perfect system.

1055
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: And also here's the biggest flaw with it. Obviously, the

1056
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: teams that earned that status, like that Miami team or

1057
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: this Georgia team, those aren't the teams that exist the

1058
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: next year. So you can have a great team that

1059
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,280
Speaker 1: locked up a really prestigious bowl game against a marquee opponent,

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Speaker 1: and then they all graduate or they go to the draft,

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Speaker 1: and you're a shell of your former self and it's

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Speaker 1: that team that plays a premiere opponent to start Week

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Speaker 1: one of next year. A look, that's the way it is.

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Speaker 1: Halfy all are opting out now, anyway in the season

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Speaker 1: in which you played, So stop opting and this won't

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Speaker 1: be a problem. But until then, we got a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a dilimina on our hands. And I'm watching

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Speaker 1: the games anyway. I'm fine with it. But if enough

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Speaker 1: people have a problem with opt outs, then short of

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Speaker 1: revenue sharing programs, which still won't totally eliminate the problem

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Speaker 1: because I'm not sure you can distribute enough revenue to

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Speaker 1: offset the money player thinks he's preserving by not playing

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Speaker 1: in a bowl game, thus protecting his draft stock, which

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Speaker 1: is in the seven figure in eight figure range. Short

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Speaker 1: of doing that, there is a legit conversation to be

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Speaker 1: had for moving that thing to Week one of next year.

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Speaker 1: Not perfect, but it is a radical idea. I got

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Speaker 1: two things I need to tell you right quick, and

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Speaker 1: we're not done yet. I still have actually, I still

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Speaker 1: have a whole another segment to go. So I was

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Speaker 1: talking to our buddies at FanDuel over the Christmas break

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Speaker 1: and I said, we need a couple things. Number One,

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Speaker 1: we want the promo back because I've gotten feedback from

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Speaker 1: you guys. Some of you didn't get to do the promo.

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Speaker 1: Bet five dollars on any thing to get one hundred

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Speaker 1: Friday at noon Eastern, that promo will be live again.

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Speaker 1: We're good on that. But since I was feeling very

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Speaker 1: aggressive because we got that granted pretty easily, I said, okay,

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Speaker 1: well how about this. You guys want me to bet

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Speaker 1: my friends over there at FanDuel. Let's get him to

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Speaker 1: bet a parlay. And thus far I've resisted, but I said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, it's been fun this year. I look

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Speaker 1: forward to a fruitful twenty twenty four. Okay, I'll bet

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Speaker 1: one parlay. However, I want better odds than what you're

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Speaker 1: giving me. And if I do this, I want the

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Speaker 1: everyone who bets this thing. So we got it. We

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Speaker 1: got it. Here's what I have arranged with our friends

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Speaker 1: I'm only saying this once. I am taking Iowa State

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Speaker 1: on the money line. None of that's spread nonsense. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking Iowa State on the money line, and I'm taking

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Speaker 1: Missouri on the money line. Iowa State plays Memphis, Missouri

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Speaker 1: plays Ohio State Jesse. When do these games happen the

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Speaker 1: first Okay, these are New Year's Day games. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: Iowa State money line. I'm taking Missouri money line. I

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Speaker 1: am parlaying those right now. That would be a plus

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Speaker 1: two h five return, which essentially means if you bet

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Speaker 1: and five dollars. Pretty simple. I'm not accepting those odds.

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Speaker 1: So they are boosting this for us, and we will

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Speaker 1: look right under that boost tab. This will be live

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Speaker 1: keeping it kind of low key right now. I'm not

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Speaker 1: really announcing this to the world, but I'm letting you

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Speaker 1: know on the show I am going to ride with

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Speaker 1: It is the first parlay that I will have bet

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Speaker 1: all year. It's a money line parlay. Iowa State memphisis Friday. Actually,

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Speaker 1: Missouri and Ohio state Friday. Okay, so yeah, those are tomorrow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so pay close attention. Those are tomorrow, as I'm talking

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Speaker 1: you much better odds than what the house is offering

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Speaker 1: the rest of the free world. And those are the

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Speaker 1: we've got to revisit probably the overall favorite segment that

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Speaker 1: we do all year, at least it's my favorite, and

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Speaker 1: you guys love it. I see the traffic. This is

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Speaker 1: that part of the show. Let me take a sip

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Speaker 1: from the from the old nondescript coffee cup right quick

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Speaker 1: and make the whale noise. This is the part of

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Speaker 1: the show where I go back to August and I

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Speaker 1: look at your best and worst predictions and we call

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Speaker 1: them out for exactly what they ended up being. For example,

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Speaker 1: this first one was a tough one. This is really tough.

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Speaker 1: This was from Blaze and he said two ACC teams

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Speaker 1: will make the college football playoff hashtag book it well,

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Speaker 1: hashtag crash and burn, fiery death like this was a

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Speaker 1: This was a really really dead on arrival prediction after

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Speaker 1: week one because in week one, you remember what we

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Speaker 1: had happened, kids. We had Clemson really kind of get

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Speaker 1: put in a locker by duke turnovers everywhere. It was gross.

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Speaker 1: And Florida now they did their part. They beat LSU,

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Speaker 1: but as it turned out, Florida State was gonna go

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01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: undefeated when the conference and the committee was gonna say nope,

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Speaker 1: still not enough. This conference was never producing two playoff teams.

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Speaker 1: Louisville ended up being the next highest ranked team and

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Speaker 1: they were fifteenth. So I mean the ACC had the

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Speaker 1: number five team and the number fifteen team and NC

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Speaker 1: State was number eighteen. That was that was a miss.

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Speaker 1: That was a miss. Next up, this is probably the

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Speaker 1: most painful miss out of the entire batch. At least

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Speaker 1: the ones that I've seen. I mean Edward from Fair Hope, Alabama.

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01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: He just put it out there. He said, Auburn will

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Speaker 1: win at least one of their games against Bama and Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, let's take you back the Iron Bowl. Auburn

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01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: leads with thirty seconds to go, and then fourth and

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01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: thirty one happens and Jalen Milroe to Isaiah Bond just

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Speaker 1: it's like reaching in someone's chest, ripping their heart out,

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Speaker 1: holding it above you and the blood drips down on

1191
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Speaker 1: your white T shirt. That was what it was like

1192
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Speaker 1: watching the Iron Bowl. I know because I watched it

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Speaker 1: in Detroit International Airport. So that's what happened. Later in

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Speaker 1: the year. Auburn ends up not winning that one somehow.

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Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, remember the Georgia game. Remember when

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Speaker 1: they were tied with Georgia with about six minutes left

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Speaker 1: to go in that game and also lost. They ran

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Speaker 1: for two hundred and nineteen yards on Georgia. They ran

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Speaker 1: for two hundred and forty four yards on Alabama, And

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Speaker 1: yet this prediction does not hit. Did Jordenhir magic? It

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01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: made the games close, but it did not produce a win.

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Speaker 1: And so Edward. I hate this. I'm gonna whisper the

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Speaker 1: following sentence, but swinging a mess. But that was what

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Speaker 1: bold predictions were all about. That's a good bold prediction.

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Speaker 1: Next up, this is a terrible prediction. Okay, fifth quarter

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Speaker 1: BYU from Gilbert, Arizona. This is just not the way

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Speaker 1: it's done. Friend, Penn State loses five regular season game

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Speaker 1: and finishes behind Maryland in their division. This had no shot,

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Speaker 1: no shot. They lost both of the big games. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they lost Michigan, they lost to Ohio State. They had

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Speaker 1: one other game that was even close, and that was Indiana,

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Speaker 1: and even if they lost that one, you still would

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Speaker 1: have needed two more losses. And they won every other

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Speaker 1: game by double digits. We had no shot. It's a

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Speaker 1: terrible bull prediction, terrible. I appreciate the participation, but that

1216
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: was a terrible bull prediction. Now this next one I

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01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: thought was a little a little bit of stretch and

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Speaker 1: it ended up hitting. So now this is a wrist

1219
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Speaker 1: pop on my part because we got this from Thomas

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Speaker 1: from Jackson, Alabama. Or Thomas said Old Miss will win

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Speaker 1: ten or more games. Will you know what they did?

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Speaker 1: They did? And I put this at a nine point

1223
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Speaker 1: twenty five on the boldness scale, and Thomas dunked on me.

1224
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Speaker 1: So the preseason over underwent total was seven and a

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Speaker 1: half for Old Miss, And it was my opinion that

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Speaker 1: they had just won big the year before, and all

1227
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, I thought people were like setting the

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Speaker 1: floor way too high for ole Miss football and they

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Speaker 1: weren't a top five recruiter. Yeah, they had portled some

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Speaker 1: guys in, but like, I didn't think they had the

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Speaker 1: foundation of a roster to just go out there and

1232
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Speaker 1: throw ten wins on you. Again, I thought their schedule

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Speaker 1: would be tough, thought it to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: tougher than it ended up being. But I had doubts,

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Speaker 1: and they silenced them. And they lost to Georgia and

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Speaker 1: they lost to Alabama. Those were the only two losses,

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Speaker 1: and those were the two SEC Championship Game participants. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen perfect. They got Penn State two nights two

1239
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Speaker 1: days from now. It's things in an early game in the

1240
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Speaker 1: Peach Bowl, and that's how they'll rap up their season.

1241
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Speaker 1: If they beat Penn State and they're an eleven and

1242
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Speaker 1: two team and they got that portal class coming in. Oh,

1243
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Speaker 1: that wide receiver room's nasty at wide receiver room is

1244
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: going to be disgusting next year. I don't think you've

1245
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: seen hype in a long time like you will see

1246
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Speaker 1: around Old Miss Football. Like I remember, Oh it was

1247
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Speaker 1: the Jevins snead year. It's like five oh seven somewhere

1248
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Speaker 1: like that. There was a ton of hype around Old

1249
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Speaker 1: Miss and it didn't end up panning out. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't really see the preseason hype machine around Old

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Speaker 1: Miss a whole lot. But it's about to be there.

1252
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Speaker 1: It's about to be there big time. Okay, we went

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Speaker 1: an hour and six minutes tonight, very happy with it

1254
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Speaker 1: at Lake Kick. Josh, you gotta be following Instagram is

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Speaker 1: going to be wonderful. I mean, we're gonna be in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles for four days, but perhaps I'll go to

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Speaker 1: Rodeo Drive, as my friends back home say, perhaps I

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Speaker 1: will Hoopston knows, but we will have a lot to

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Speaker 1: be seen out there, and I'm looking very much forward

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Speaker 1: to that. And then we're going to Houston for the

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Speaker 1: National Championship Game. And I have got it on good

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Speaker 1: authority that an acquaintance of the program, dare I say,

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Speaker 1: a friend of the program who also happens to be

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Speaker 1: employed by this great company of ours, will be joining

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Speaker 1: us there. That's as specific as I like to get.

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Speaker 1: It's not Jesse. So in the meantime, make sure you

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