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Speaker 1: watching us everywhere. Tonight I have critical updates for you

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Speaker 1: getting boat raced in the bowl game. Yes, you guys

425
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Speaker 1: need it. You want your flowers for a second here

426
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 1: they are. Do I sound a little harsh in this critique? Probably?

427
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Speaker 1: Do I mean for it to sound that way. Not

428
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Speaker 1: necessarily should it sound that way? Most likely we need

429
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Speaker 1: some continuity. I need some consistency from you guys. Last

430
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: year was great to see. Okay, since everyone else is

431
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: gonna give you the tire pump, I'm gonna make sure

432
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: and check the pressure here. I'm gonna make sure and

433
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 1: remind you there was that little back to back to

434
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Speaker 1: back speed bump in the middle of the year. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything. Still had a great year, doesn't mean anything

436
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Speaker 1: as it relates to this year. Just want to remind

437
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: you there is still a little ways to go on

438
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Speaker 1: the climb up the proverbial ACC College Football Playoff mountain.

439
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're well ahead right now of the programs

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Speaker 1: in your own state. And I'm I'm gonna talk about

441
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: UCF in a second, but I got a stat for you,

442
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,959
Speaker 1: and I'd love to take credit for it, but I

443
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Speaker 1: cannot take credit for this one. Producer Jesse, he's over

444
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 1: there today. I'm playing him some Kenny G because we

445
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: play saxophone about once a week around here. There's a

446
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 1: guy who hangs out down near our office who plays

447
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: wonderful saxophone. You should be on Broadway. His studies in

448
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: Printer's alley late at night. And so I was just

449
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: I was just serenading Producer Jesse. He's paying me no

450
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: mind whatsoever. And then all of a sudden, he's what

451
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: a what is it? Jesse? He said, if you combined

452
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: portal and recruiting rankings, Florida State has finished behind Florida

453
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Speaker 1: and Miami each of the past four cycles. How do

454
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Speaker 1: we make sense of it? Hoopstead of thunk it? Florida State,

455
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 1: in combined portal and recruiting rankings has finished behind Florida

456
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Speaker 1: and Miami. Not one year, not two, not three four

457
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Speaker 1: years in a row. And yet there is the result

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Speaker 1: on the field. Now it certainly looks like those tables

459
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Speaker 1: are turning. It doesn't look like that will be extended

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Speaker 1: into a fifth year in a row, certainly. But in

461
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: the meantime, Florida State is just steadily ascending. And I

462
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Speaker 1: can't say the same about the other entities in the

463
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Speaker 1: state necessarily, And so you're left to wonder, Well, Florida

464
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Speaker 1: State seems like they have things figured out. How differently

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Speaker 1: could this com conversation sound a year from now? Ah,

466
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: that's a good question. How differently could this conversation sound

467
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: a year from now? Well, on one hand, we may

468
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: have seen Florida State go back up everything people are

469
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 1: saying about them, and they may go win the ACC

470
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Speaker 1: They may be knocking on the door of college football

471
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Speaker 1: playoff contention, and all of a sudden they've arrived and

472
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Speaker 1: they're in the conversation for the foreseeable future. That would

473
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Speaker 1: make it a moot point. Maybe Florida State fell off

474
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe Miami surges this year. You got

475
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: Shannon Dawson down there at offensive coordinator and he resurrects

476
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: the career of Tyler Van Dyke, and who knows who

477
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: Mario Christbaul is about to go add in the portal

478
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: this week and in the next two weeks, maybe they

479
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: just go from five wins to nine wins and all

480
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden, people are saying, Hey, now he's got it.

481
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: He's got it settled in and dialed in the way

482
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: he wants. If Jade and Reshada had stuck with Florida,

483
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: we would sound a whole lot different about them. Right now.

484
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: As it stands, things are pretty shaky at Florida. But

485
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: maybe they overcome some odds. Maybe they're like plus six

486
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,719
Speaker 1: this year in one possession win loss ratings, and all

487
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: of a sudden they're an eight win team. Point is,

488
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: there are some there are some negative sides to that

489
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: coin too. It could just be a disaster this year

490
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: from Miami. It could be a disaster for Florida. And

491
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: if either one of those things happen, those programs would

492
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: be in turmoil. A whole lot of conversation around them

493
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 1: independent of Florida State. My point is, man, it's like

494
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: pivot years for all three of them, and we're sitting

495
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: here talking about it in twenty twenty three, But how

496
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: about January or February of twenty twenty four, especially after

497
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: the signing day, What will it sound like then. Now

498
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: as for this Big three, this big three nonsense, as

499
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: Gus Malson and company would would have me correctly articulate it,

500
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: there is no longer a big three down there, at

501
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: least if you're talking about Power five teams. We do

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Speaker 1: have to welcome the Central Florida night to the conversation.

503
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, plan a parade or anything. We

504
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: don't have a banner to unveil. They're the experts on

505
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: hanging the banners down there. But I kid because I care.

506
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: But you know, there's there's not a whole lot of

507
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: gap between us talking about Florida, Miami, Central Florida. In fact,

508
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 1: in some of the critical metrics we look at, we

509
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: would mention Central Florida before one or two of those teams.

510
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: And hey, we actually saw them on the Every given

511
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: Saturday tour last year, did we not? Yes, we did,

512
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Speaker 1: And so I mentioned that because we cannot say that,

513
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: actually we can say it about Florida because we saw

514
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: him against Tennessee. We didn't see Miami last year. We

515
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: didn't see Florida State, but we did see Central Florida.

516
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: So hey, if we see you, that's one of the

517
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: most sure fire metrics that you're at the head table.

518
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: That's why we respect two lane And I actually wore

519
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: a two lane shirt the other night to hit softballs.

520
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: How much better does it get? Really took a sideways

521
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: turn at the end. But yeah, Florida State, best team

522
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: in Florida right now, one way or another, that's gonna

523
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: be like alphabet soup this year. We're just gonna mix

524
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: that whole thing up. They're watching us in Denver, Colorado. Okay,

525
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: we got two Colorado's here. They're watching us in Fort

526
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Speaker 1: Collins and Denver. Thank you guys in Charleston, West Virginia.

527
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: I really really appreciate it. I now have arrived at

528
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: really the portion of the show. That's the only reason

529
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: I came in tonight. As you know, I was blindsided

530
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: by treachery about two months ago when management waited for

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Speaker 1: me to leave town to go to the NFL Combine

532
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: and cover it for the greater good of the company,

533
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: and they set up a ping pong tournament. They made

534
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: me a six seed. Inexplicable. Anyway, I fought against all odds,

535
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: some said insurmountable, and I made it to the finals

536
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: of the tournament. And then there was silence, And you

537
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: guys have asked whatever happened to the tournament. Some even

538
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: speculated that I had lost and I was a sore

539
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: loser and I just hadn't updated you, And you're half right.

540
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,479
Speaker 1: I'm a very sore loser. But I was not silent

541
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: because I had lost. I was silent because I was

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00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: waiting on Producer Jesse and his foe to play. Yes,

543
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: Producer Jesse made it to the final four, but he

544
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: was ousted today by really the guy who has become

545
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: my chief rival in the office, not management. I disposed

546
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: of management months ago, let's be real, and he's been

547
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: hiding down in that gated community ever since. In fact,

548
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: in classic management fashion, he didn't come into the office today.

549
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: Clint Brewster, though and I have a very very heated

550
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: rivalry in the office right now. And Clint beat Jesse

551
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: earlier today, and I was at the gym and all

552
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the eye Josh lights up. It's time,

553
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: It's time. And they knew that I had a hurt

554
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: neck today, but they didn't care. They just wanted to

555
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: throw me to the wolves. So I came back in.

556
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: I put on as brave a face as I could

557
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: and we fail based off in game one and Clint

558
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: took me down, but it's best of three. Rebounded in

559
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: game two and we went to a third and decisive

560
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: game to determine the champion of this office. And fortunately

561
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: junior director Bradley has it as part of his responsibilities

562
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: to be filming when the game is on the line.

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Speaker 2: For the tournament. Wow, Wow, what rally A champion is

564
00:30:51,160 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: crown for the first time.

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Speaker 1: I dedicate that to you. You can't even imagine. You know,

566
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: those of you who have played in the Super Bowl

567
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: play for national championships. Yeah, you guys can imagine. But otherwise,

568
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: the stakes that were in play on that final point,

569
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: it's tough to put into words. And yet we prevailed.

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00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't play for myself. I fixed

571
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: everyone knows that I play for you guys. Look, I

572
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: wanted the crown, but we didn't have one. We got

573
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: to get fitted for that. So in the meantime, what

574
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: did we do. We did what any responsible, reasonable adult

575
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: who just won a ping pong tournament did. We headed

576
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: up two floors to CMT and we stoled a twenty

577
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: fifteen CMT Video Music Award. So this is a placeholder

578
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: until we can get the crown. But allergies, just debilitating allergies.

579
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: I had a slightly sprained neck today. Most of my

580
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: coworkers were against me, and yet we overcame because that's

581
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: what we do. That's exactly what we do. So I

582
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Also, I hadn't even eaten before that,

583
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: so I appreciate you guys for the support, and we

584
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: brought the title home. We are now the one seed

585
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: in the office, and I can't take full credit for this.

586
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people behind the scenes that

587
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: went into winning this CMTV Video Music Award that will

588
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: eventually be a shallice or maybe even a paddle of supremacy. Jesse.

589
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: We got to get this back up to CMT before

590
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: they get in tomorrow. Okay, with that in mind, we

591
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: move on and talk more college football. I would like

592
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: you to do me the solid though, if you're watching

593
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: right now of liking the video and subscribing to the channel,

594
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: because well, frankly, I just did my taxes today and

595
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: we really need it, so thank you so much. I

596
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: have a question here. Let me take a little sip

597
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: because this came from the SEC, but it's aimed right

598
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: out west and I being packed twelve paate have to

599
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: gear up for this one. So Chase hit us up

600
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: from Powder Springs, Georgia. Good people in Powder Springs. He said,

601
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: why the talk about Oregon as a national player this year?

602
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: I strongly believe it's them in Utah for the PAC

603
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: twelve and then a gap to everyone else. Not a

604
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: large one, but a gap. A very interesting take on

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00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve. You hear what he said there. He said,

606
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: Oregon in Utah and then a gap. And I'm like, what,

607
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: There is no gap that places anyone that far ahead

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00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: of USC or Washington out there. USC and Washington are

609
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: at the forefront of any conversation in the PAC twelve.

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Speaker 1: Now you want to throw Oregon in there, you want

611
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: to throw Utah in there? Be my guest, those are

612
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: easily the four teams that I would put in there.

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Speaker 1: But Chase, I checked the inventory, and we have not

614
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: backed off talking about Oregon as a national player. Now,

615
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about the rest of the country,

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Speaker 1: I don't particularly listen to a whole lot of the

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Speaker 1: other shows. We don't have time. It's not disrespect, we

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Speaker 1: just don't have time. But we have had Oregon smack dab.

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Speaker 1: In the middle of our conversation, I had Jesse kind

620
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Speaker 1: of look up the odds to win the twelve championship.

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Speaker 1: This is from Caesars. By the way, USC number one,

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00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: Oregon number two, Washington number three. Oregon State has better

623
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Speaker 1: odds than Utah. Huh. With Jesse returning at quarterback for

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00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: Utah under the surname cam Rising, that's interesting that I

625
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: had not seen that. So anyway, as you can see,

626
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: so there are five teams. It's a five team group.

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Speaker 1: Apologies for the disrespect to Oregon State there. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: there is not a There is not an Oregon Utah

629
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Speaker 1: and then a gap anywhere out there. Having said that,

630
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Speaker 1: I think you're competing against the helmet sticker in the

631
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: PAC twelve and that's not even unfounded. What I mean, obviously,

632
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: is people look at you being a PAC twelve team

633
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Speaker 1: and they don't take you seriously because the conference hasn't

634
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Speaker 1: been a serious player on the national stage and the

635
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: playoff spotlight for several years now. So you got to

636
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: overcome that. Just because something hasn't happened in the last few

637
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: years doesn't mean it can't happen. We talk about that

638
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: all the time, but you do have to overcome that

639
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: stigma because you created the stigma. I really wonder about

640
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: the future of the conference. We haven't talked about the

641
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: whole media right stuff, because there's a little bit of

642
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: a lull in that conversation right now, but we're following

643
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: it just off camera. But I take Oregon seriously. I

644
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: take Utah, Southern cal Oregon State, Washington. It would really

645
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: blow a bunch of your minds. By the way, if

646
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: Jonathan Smith or Kaylin de boor had Washington or Oregon

647
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: State in the playoff mix, I would just love it

648
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: so much. But anyway, because I know you don't take

649
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: them seriously, I know a lot of you don't, and

650
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: it's okay because history has shown you you shouldn't take

651
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve seriously. I happen to think it's a

652
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: really good year for him this year, So then what

653
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: is really good mean? Is the next question, and that's

654
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: for August. But here's the question I ask about them.

655
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: I think they've got some quality teams out there. Do

656
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: they have some regardless teams or do they have a

657
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: bunch of depends on teams. The regardless teams are like Georgia.

658
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: Georgia can win the SEC regardless of what anyone else does,

659
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: because if Georgia just does what they're supposed to, they're

660
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: good enough to make it no matter what. And then

661
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: you got some other teams that could make it, but

662
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: they need some things to go their way. They need

663
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: some other teams to be down. Those are the depends

664
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: on teams, not the diaper, but just the state of being.

665
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: They depend on someone else being down. And then if

666
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: some things open up, maybe if quarterback doesn't pan out

667
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: at some of these big programs nationally, maybe they could

668
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: sneak in the back door. I think there are several

669
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: depends on programs out there. I don't know if I

670
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 1: readily identify any regardless of programs. No, we're talking about playoff.

671
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: We're not just talking about winning the PAC twelve. I

672
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: have it on good authority we are guaranteed to have

673
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: one of those teams win the Pac twelve this year.

674
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: It's just that they could be a two loss team

675
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: when they do it. So if we're gonna go anywhere

676
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: above and beyond, that got to play better defense at

677
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: Southern Cal. We've got to be more offensively dynamic at

678
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: a couple of those places out there. We got to

679
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: be healthy at Washington defensively, got to be a lot

680
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: better at Oregon too. So listen, that's why we're gonna

681
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: play the season. If they have that, they have that,

682
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that they haven't done it in the past.

683
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: They just will be this year. I mean, you know,

684
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: if I were to tell you that TCU was gonna

685
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: make the playoff, you would have laughed at me because

686
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: you would have said, Oh, no team like that will

687
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: ever make it. No team like that has made it.

688
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: Then they did, right, So the PAC twelve, it'll it'll

689
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: be Well, they can't do it. They can't do it

690
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: until they do it. Here's what I'm watching with the

691
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. And you didn't really ask me about this chase,

692
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: but I'll just share what's on my mind. I was

693
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: on Next Round Live in Birmingham earlier today and we

694
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: were talking about this, because where else would you go

695
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: other than Birmingham, Alabama to talk about PAC twelve odds

696
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: and ends. So we were talking about I don't even

697
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: remember what the impetus was for the conversation, but we

698
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: got on the topic of PAC twelve coaches and we

699
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: got on this topic of what the future of the

700
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: conference holds, and right now the coaching market pretty much

701
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: looks like this. A guy gets fired and then there

702
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: are the usual names in the hopper, or you've got

703
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: some hot commodities out there who are coordinators. Garrett Riley

704
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: at Clemson is going to be this very soon, if

705
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: not already, and so we know how it normally works.

706
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: Here's what we have not seen. What we have not

707
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: seen is a conference hurl itself into an era of

708
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: volatility and unpredictability and unevenness. Like the PAC twelves on

709
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: the prespice of doing to the point where they're good

710
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: coaches just leave out of nowhere. And I'm looking at

711
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: Dan Landing at Oregon if they keep ascending, but the

712
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 1: PAC twelve is just thrust into a quagmire of uncertainty.

713
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: Or even like Jedfish in Arizona, what if he keeps ascending?

714
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: What if Jonathan Smith calin de Bor? What if those

715
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: guys continue to run high level programs out there, but

716
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: they look around the conference and the stuff out of

717
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: their control is really murky. It's like one of those

718
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: college game day mornings when they're on the West Coast,

719
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: and it's before sunrise. Then the sun slowly starts to

720
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: come up in the second hour of the show, and

721
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: it's like foggy all over the place. You can't really

722
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: see anything. That's what it feels like in the Pac

723
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: twelve right now. I think about those coaches Poopstever, the

724
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: quality coaches are out there. I wonder if we're headed

725
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: towards I hope we're not. Let me stop and say,

726
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: I hope we're not. But I wonder if we're headed

727
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: towards an era where some of the best out there

728
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: are at places that are historically really good, and historically

729
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: we know you can win there. Proud traditions, great fan bases,

730
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: great places to live. Not the best conference to be

731
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: in got to be a shame. And so therefore I

732
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: hope what I just said never actually comes to any

733
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: kind of fruition. I got a question about a team

734
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: we've talked about a lot, so we'll talk about them

735
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: at least once more here. First call of the night,

736
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: it's an upset too over Under was like four pain

737
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: from college station. He said, I got a good feeling

738
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: about A and M this fall. I can't really explain it.

739
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: Have you ever just had a good feeling about a

740
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: team going into the fall. Yeah, Pain, Sometimes that makes

741
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: you look really dumb. Hope this works out for you,

742
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've had that before and it's worked out.

743
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: LSU twenty nineteen worked out beautifully for me, obviously, but

744
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: other times not so much. Speaking of your team, I

745
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: called your team a disaster proof for Austro last year. Pain,

746
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: How did that work out for me? Pai? N that

747
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: different kind of pain, That's how it worked out for me.

748
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: But let's just examine this. It's not the first time

749
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: I've heard someone say this after the spring game. They

750
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: got this funny feeling in their stomach about Texas A

751
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: and M all of a sudden, I can make the argument.

752
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: I certainly can. They On the odds market Texas A

753
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: and M to win the National Championship has gone from

754
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,439
Speaker 1: plus six thousand to plus three thousand in the last

755
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: two weeks. They cut their odds in half. Someone likes

756
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: what they saw. They're not, you know, vaulted into the

757
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: top ten by any stretch, but someone likes what they saw.

758
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: They lost thirty guys to the portal. That sounds really

759
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: bad until you realize there's still seventh in the country

760
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: in returning offensive production, so it's it's not the kind

761
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: of losses that it sounds like. It's also not a

762
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: net loss of thirty players. They're steadily adding guys from

763
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 1: the portal too, so it's called roster churn. They're overturning

764
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: their roster, like I said, seventh in the country and

765
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 1: returning production. As it stands now, they'll probably add some

766
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: more players. Bobby Petrino takes over an offense with a

767
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: five star quarterback, wide receiver, running back. Hey, what did

768
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: we hear from the other day and what do we

769
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: not see any of the other day in the spring

770
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: game deception motion? We'll see it this fall. Now, I

771
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: have already made my thoughts clear about when we'll ultimately

772
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: find out about AMM and this whole offensive dynamic. It

773
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: will be pretty early in the year. The first sign

774
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: of a struggle is it's still Bobby Petrino running the

775
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: offensive show. I'm not going to bore you to death

776
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: with that again. But there are players. There are players

777
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: out there, five stars all over the defense. But like

778
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: I said, five star quarterback, five star running back, five

779
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: star receiver that had seven losses last year. That's what

780
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: everyone looks at I looked at it too. They were ugly,

781
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: or were they? Five of those losses were by six

782
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: points or less. They beat LSU At the end of

783
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: the year, they beat Arkansas at the time Arkansas was ranked.

784
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: That was a close game, by the way, that kind

785
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: of sent Arkansas season into a tailspin. They beat Miami.

786
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: I know you don't remember this, but once upon a

787
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: time Miami was ranked thirteenth in the country. Last year,

788
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: that didn't last very long. So how far do they

789
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: have to go? How far? How much correction really is

790
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: there needed? This is where I think things may be

791
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: a little warped with the whole national perspective on Texas,

792
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: A and M. There is a thought out there that

793
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 1: they've got to overturn everything, and that's just not the case.

794
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: Anytime a vast majority of your losses or by one possession,

795
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: that's one play is that is one false start that

796
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 1: backs you up five yards and forces you to puntstead

797
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: of going forward on fourth and just fractions here and

798
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: bounces of ball there, and just mistiming and miscues here.

799
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: As Jimbo would tell you, it's all about execution, and

800
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: he's not wrong. Sometimes the way he uses that is

801
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: a little overboard, but he's not wrong, but the perception

802
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: of how much needs to change, just degrees, just inches

803
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: here and inches there. Connor Wegman should be the starting

804
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: quarterback out there should be. And once upon a time

805
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: we had Jimbo Fisher on the signing day show when

806
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: they were signing Wegman, and this was right before he

807
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: yelled at me about sly spread. He said, well, we

808
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 1: took him because we think he's the best in America.

809
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: And I said, Quinn Ewers was in the transfer portal

810
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: and Jimbo said, yeah, I'm including him. Connor Wegman was

811
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: the best in America. It's the best quarterback out there

812
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: this cycle. Should be your stunt quarterback. By now. I'm

813
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: not saying he won't be. He's battling Max Johnson out there.

814
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: I think you'll be their starting quarterback. And Week two

815
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,919
Speaker 1: is where it really gets interesting. In fact, the entire

816
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: state of Texas, let me paint you a picture of

817
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: the out of conference picture. A lot of pictures. Let

818
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: me paint you the out of conference picture for a

819
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: lot of these programs in Texas. In week two, we

820
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 1: got A and M at Miami. We got Texas at Alabama.

821
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: We got Oregon at Texas Tech and Utah at Baylor

822
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: all in the same afternoon circle. Week two. You hate

823
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: all the incestuous conference scheduling five dollars for the first

824
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: usage of incestuous on the show. You hate how you

825
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: get all the conference games? Well, we got some across

826
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: the board. Must see out of conference games for a

827
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: bunch of these programs. Oh and Houston plays Rice that day,

828
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: so Houston deals with food and the rest of you.

829
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: You got some chores that Saturday afternoon in early September.

830
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, you could feel good about A ANDM. You

831
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: feel a lot better than you did last year. There's

832
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. That's what God created. April fourth.

833
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: How many times do we have to talk about this

834
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: A and M in the SEC When it comes to

835
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: college football playoff title odds, they have the fifth best

836
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: odds and they've gone from plus six thousand to plus

837
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: three thousand. Only Tennessee, LSU, Bama and Georgia are listed

838
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: ahead of them. And I forget where FPI had A

839
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: and M, but I'm sure they got him up there somewhere.

840
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this other question right quick. This has

841
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 1: been on my mind Nay. It's been on my heart

842
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 1: for a little while ever since we talked about spring

843
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: games this spring. Obviously, one more sit from the Chalice

844
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: got a long drive tonight. You know, I'm speaking at

845
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: my college Thursday. A lot of talk about Jalen Hurts

846
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 1: right now and how it's just fantastic but the made

847
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: for TV movie of his life that he you know,

848
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts starts at Alabama quarterback, gets benched in the

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Speaker 1: the highest paid player in NFL history at the position

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Speaker 1: he got bnched in college. That's an upset. That is

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Speaker 1: a great story, almost as great as the story of

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Speaker 1: me once upon a time being dismissed via academic expulsion

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Speaker 1: from college, only two years later be brought back to

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Speaker 1: speak at said college. So the Jalen Hurts and Knees

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Speaker 1: of the world, we want to tell you never give

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Speaker 1: up because, quite literally, as it turns out, anything as possible. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's get this question. Steve from Champagne, Illinois. Why does

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Speaker 1: everyone hate that people get excited about spring ball? Tell him, Steve,

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Speaker 1: why does everyone hate this? Everyone doesn't? That's the answer.

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Speaker 1: Some mouthy people on Twitter do, and they make themselves

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Speaker 1: sound like an army. But really, most of us understand,

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Speaker 1: we can enjoy spring. Most of us understand how to

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Speaker 1: interpret this. I've been sarcastically saying all night, Oh, we

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Speaker 1: overreacted to Spring. We overreacted to this game in that game.

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Speaker 1: That's cause there's this syndrome on social media where everyone

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Speaker 1: wants to create something to then shout about. So if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't exist, you just have to manufacture it. That's

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Speaker 1: the way of the world. If an actual crisis doesn't exist,

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Speaker 1: just manufacture it so that you can raise a torch

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Speaker 1: and a pitchfork against it. Works beautifully in the college

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Speaker 1: football world. Here's what that looks like. One person on

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Speaker 1: a message board takes a little bit too much from

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Speaker 1: a spring game. Fourteen thousand people on Twitter start screaming

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Speaker 1: about how everyone overreacts to spring games, and meanwhile everyone

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Speaker 1: else is listening to them yell and asking who are

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Speaker 1: you talking about exactly, and they all point out the

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Speaker 1: few examples, and then you look at the few examples

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Speaker 1: and say, yeah, but hardly anyone actually feels like this.

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Speaker 1: Most people understand Texas A and M's playing on a

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Speaker 1: sixty five yard field, Auburn's got a scoring system where

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Speaker 1: the defense has twenty four to start the game. No

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Speaker 1: one's taken a whole lot from this. We just want

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Speaker 1: to go out and get mildly to moderately sunburned, and

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Speaker 1: watch the players and see some of the early enrollees

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Speaker 1: and rekindle friendships, eat some funnel cake. It is what

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Speaker 1: it is. That's spring. No one's overreacting over here, so

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Speaker 1: let's settle down. Here is my theory on this though.

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Speaker 1: Since you asked, I think some people in the college

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Speaker 1: football space want to take vacation in the spring, I

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Speaker 1: said it because we don't. Therefore I can say it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think people want to be locked in in spring,

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Speaker 1: and so the old go to for a lot of

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Speaker 1: the folks in the college football media circuit has been

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Speaker 1: to yell at everyone, don't take springs. Seriously translation, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to cover this. Don't make me cover this,

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Speaker 1: which is your prerogative. But we don't believe in the

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Speaker 1: offseason some of these folks. Some of these folks don't

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Speaker 1: I know they traffic in the college football year round conversation.

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Speaker 1: It's not year round for them. They want to check

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Speaker 1: out in the spring. And to do that, they got

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Speaker 1: to convince you that spring's not really all that serious.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't be taking any of this serious. Hey, I

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Speaker 1: take it pretty seriously. I mean, we got some quarterback

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Speaker 1: competitions out there. You're telling me you watch Carson Beck

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Speaker 1: the other day and didn't learn a little something about him. Really,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna watch Milroe and Ty Simpson at Alabama this Saturday.

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Speaker 1: You don't think you could learn a little something about them.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying Nick Saban's making his decision based on

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Speaker 1: a scripted spring game, but I don't get to watch

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Speaker 1: practice every day like he does, so I could absolutely

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Speaker 1: learn something about those guys. I think the long and

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Speaker 1: short of it is, you got a bunch of folks

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Speaker 1: like us, the norms out here, who understand how we

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Speaker 1: should process spring games. You got a few casuals who overreact.

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Speaker 1: Then you got a lot of folks who just want

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Speaker 1: to hear themselves talk, who shout about people overreacting a

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Speaker 1: mountain out of a molehill, as Memo would say. And

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Speaker 1: then you got some folks in the college football media

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Speaker 1: sphere who really just want to be in Cabo or

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Speaker 1: Panama City. If you roll in the circles I do,

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Speaker 1: and they don't particularly want to cover spring football. And

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Speaker 1: to that, I wag my pen, my Max preps pen here,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Stony, I wag my pen and say you

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Speaker 1: don't have to cover it, but don't hate on us

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Speaker 1: because we're interested in it. And in the words of

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Speaker 1: Forrest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.

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Speaker 1: I'm driving home tonight. We don't have a show Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back Sunday. I will have you a Late

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Speaker 1: Kick Extra podcast Thursday, as long as the mic holds up,

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Speaker 1: so look for that. And a quick reminder, just a

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Speaker 1: little favor, because I'm looking at some of our metrics

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Speaker 1: and a ton of folks listen to our podcast. A

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Speaker 1: ton of folks listen, not a lot of you are subscribed.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't cost you anything, it just helps us. So do

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Speaker 1: me a favor. Keep doing what you're doing, but subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and obviously YouTube as well, so we

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Speaker 1: don't really care how you watch or listen. We just

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Speaker 1: care that you listen. Thank you so much for doing that.

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Speaker 1: For producer Jesse, for director Colin, I'm Josh Bate. Take care,

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Speaker 1: have a great rest of your week, and God bless