1 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Ye, I'll welcome in like jig is live. We're back. 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: It is Thursday, February sixteenth, few of our lower twenty 3 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: twenty three. We'll give you some hard and fast advice 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: from mema. If your athletic director is quoting James Earl Jones, 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: you got a problem. One hundred percent of the time, 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: we're jam packed. We're high. A top a suddenly clearing 7 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: downtown Nashville, Tennessee. I think conference expansion is imminent. Again. 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: You call it realignment. I call it expansion. Either way, 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: it's a mess. And I think that the volcano is 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: starting to show signs of coming to life. And at Collins, 11 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: Linda Hamilton and I'm Pierce Brosnan, and we're sitting here 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: waiting for it to blow it. So we're gonna talk 13 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: about that tonight. I've got to talk to you about 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: the situation conundrum. Dare I say? At Notre Dame they 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: have an offensive coordinator. Now it's not necessarily the one 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: we thought it was going to be, because I thought 17 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: it was going to be the guy that Marcus Freeman 18 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: had seated directly to his left at a basketball game. 19 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: Not so much. And what did I mean by this? 20 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: James Earl Jones nonsense to start the show. It's not nonsense. 21 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: James Earl Jones is a folk hero. In fact, he's 22 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: just a universal hero. But I've got quotes in front 23 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: of me, so I'll make all that make sense in 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: due time. I've got about like twenty or thirty names 25 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: that I've narrowed down to eight that I want to 26 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: present to you on the show tonight as maybe just 27 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: maybe our next stars in college football. Really good piece 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: on twenty four seven sports dot Com on the main 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: page right now about that, and I want to kind 30 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: of springboard off of it, if you will. Also, I'm 31 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,279 Speaker 1: gonna take you back in time a little ways tonight. 32 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: We're gonna go all the way back to nineteen ninety two. 33 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: But trust me, children, even if you weren't alive back then, 34 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: there are some very very pertinent things that happened in 35 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two that directly impact your impact your life today. 36 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: And also I'm gonna go to twenty fourteen, not nearly 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: that long ago, but what happened that year that was 38 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 1: when we finally got, yes, a college football playoff? And 39 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: what would happen if we didn't have one? What would happen. 40 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: Let's just speculate wildly amongst ourselves. They're watching us in Bradenton, Florida. Cabot, 41 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: Arkansas's tuned in Rockford, Illinois, tuned in Costa Mesa, California. 42 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,399 Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys so much. I've heard the rumors. 43 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: You've heard the rumors, well, at least some of you have. 44 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: I'm about to I'm about to echo them if you 45 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: have not heard the rumors. There are rumors floating around 46 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: the Internet that we are going to be on another 47 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: show sometime next week, and it is a show that 48 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: is at least co hosted by one of our bigger 49 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: rivals around here. You call him that, I just call 50 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: them another person. They're like eight billion of them on 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: the planet. And that's about as specific as I'd like 52 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: to get. I'll leave it up to them to converm 53 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: it and promote it. But yes, I have been in talks, 54 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: shall we say, with another entity out there that hails 55 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: from Manhattan, and were details on the Sunday show. I 56 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: guess let's dive into tonight's show, though. Boy, we got 57 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: a lot of different angles that were going immunity and 58 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: the first place that I want to go. Colin, here's 59 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: your endpoint. I want to talk to you about conference 60 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: expansion tonight. Conference realignment. You know that stuff that we 61 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: spent the entirety of last spring and summer discussing instead 62 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: of actual football. I still believe that Kirby Smart used 63 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: this to his advantage. No one talked about Georgia after 64 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: they had won a national championship, and I believe that that, 65 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: combined with them replacing a bunch of starters, allowed complacency 66 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: never to set in because they didn't get pumped up, 67 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: and therefore, all of the sudden, Georgia's back in the 68 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: championship game again and they're as hungry as ever. Anyway, 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: That's a side theory that I have. But the main 70 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: event right now is I think about to happen again 71 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: college football realignment, conference expansion. I've been beating this drum 72 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: for a little while. I never stopped beating. The drum 73 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: is not done. You saw the Big Ten make some moves. Famously, 74 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: we were out in Los Angeles at a Lait eleven 75 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: this past summer, and we wake up and we think 76 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: it's going to be a day that we spend talking 77 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: about Jackson Arnold or Dante more these high profile quarterbacks, 78 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: and it was that, but only after we talked about 79 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: USC and UCLA getting poached. By then, the Kevin Warren 80 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: led Big Ten and the SEC had made their moves 81 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: with Texas and OU. Anyway, I backstory it in case 82 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: you're brand new to the party here to say, some 83 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: people out there maybe weren't dumb enough. They were just 84 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: hopeful enough. They were hoping against hope and praying every 85 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: night that that was it and that the expansion and 86 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: movement was done. You know better than that. I know 87 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: better than that. So I know you know better than that. 88 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: It's not done. And so the volcano never became dormant, 89 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: and sure enough, there are signs of life. There are earthquakes, 90 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: little steams spouting out of it. I've seen Dante's Peak, 91 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: so I know exactly how this happens, and if you haven't, 92 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: I would encourage you to watch it. Related note, you 93 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: can just Wikipedia Mount Saint Helen's and learn exactly what 94 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: you're learning. Dante's peak. It's coming, it is going to happen. 95 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: I am wagging my pen, my max preps pen at 96 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: you right now. It's gonna happen. And there are a 97 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: lot of telltale signs that it is very, very imminent. 98 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: So right now, there's a lot going on in college 99 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: football that seems like it's all over the place, and 100 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: it is my job, humbly tonight to bring it all 101 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: into focus for you, Cause this stuff is not detached. 102 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: One thing is not separate from the other. For instance, 103 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: the Pac twelve trying to secure a media rights deal 104 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: right now where they can actually have their games on 105 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: TV has everything in the world to do with the 106 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: Big Twelve. And whether or not they may poach some 107 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: of your programs. Yes, those things are related. And I've 108 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: also got a very very wild theory that I want 109 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: to float you in just a second. But the Big 110 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: Twelve smells blood. So you would think in the old world, 111 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: if Oklahoma and Texas had just announced they were going 112 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: to leave a year ahead of schedule, you would think 113 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: that would leave the Big Twelve reeling right, well, this 114 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: is not the old world. You would be right in 115 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: the old world. But this is not the old world anymore. 116 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: This is Brett Yormark's New Age Big Twelve. And so 117 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: they almost kind of pushed, oh, you in Texas out 118 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,799 Speaker 1: the door. They said, if you're going to leave, leave early, 119 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: let us get some money for you, buy bye. And 120 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: then the very next breath was spent talking amongst themselves 121 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve about who they were going to 122 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: go get and be very aggressive in doing so. That's why, 123 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: for instance, on this show, not exclusively here, but on 124 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: this show, we spent a lot of time talking about 125 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: the Four Corner Schools, the Arizona Schools, Utah, Colorado, and 126 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: those are just thought to be some of the programs 127 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: that the Big Twelve may poach if they go after them. Now, 128 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: as you know and as I know, because we've watched 129 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: this together, a lot of times what ends up happening 130 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: comes out of left field because there are very few 131 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: people in the room and they don't talk a whole lot, 132 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: and if they are talking, sometimes it's to intentionally mislead 133 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: members of the media so they can have a shiny 134 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: object we're all looking at over here, and then they 135 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: can work in silence and secrecy over there. And I 136 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: get it. I'd be the same way. So those are 137 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: just theories, Those four Corner Schools, those are just theories. 138 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: But the Pac twelve felt it necessary to put out 139 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: a statement very recently, like in the last few days, 140 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: it's one of those Hey kumbay a, we're all in 141 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: this together. You know, we're gon we're gonna hold the line, 142 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna keep our arms locked, which which always happens 143 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 1: right before disaster. That's like the mayor of the town 144 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: saying all's well and good. Earthquakes happen all the time. Guys, 145 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: we live on the base of a big volcano. It's 146 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: happens all the time. It's just geological phenomena. Don't get 147 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: worked up, leave town, evacuate. When the mayor says that, again, 148 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: if you've seen Dante's Peak, you know what's coming. So 149 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: then the second thing that's happening right now is that 150 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: media rights fiasco out west. And if you live in Atlanta, Georgia, 151 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: you may not be paying a lot of attention to this, 152 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: But I got nothing better to do, so I've been 153 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: paying attention to it because it's all interlocked. Whether the 154 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: PAC twelve gets a media deal or not has a 155 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: lot to do with the ACC It's just it's a great, 156 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: big domino effect. So they're having trouble right now. And 157 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: it's not that these networks don't want to air PAC 158 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: twelve games. It's just that they don't think PAC twelve 159 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: games minus USC and UCLA in a couple of years 160 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: are worth nearly what the conference is asking for simple 161 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: supply and demand. And that's a big problem because we 162 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: have powers that be in again a related topic, that 163 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: are creating a college football playoff in the future that's 164 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: going to be twelve teams and you're going to have 165 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: six of the highest rated conference champs in that playoff. 166 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: And right now, I mean, you're kind of trying to 167 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: convince yourself still that we live in this world where 168 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: all the Power five conferences are roughly equal. Never it 169 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: was never really thought of that way. But we're still 170 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: trying to pretend like we're going to live in a 171 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: world where, hey, if you win the Pac twelve, that's 172 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: kind of congruent with someone winning the SEC, someone winning 173 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 1: the Big Ten. In reality, I think you and I 174 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: both know that's not exactly where we're trending, but we're 175 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: trying to pretend. We're trying to at least maintain that facade, 176 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: or facade, as Kevin Hart would say. And it's really 177 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: hard to convince the general public that your conference champion 178 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: is equal to my conference champion. When your conference isn't 179 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: even attractive or appealing enough to get a media rights 180 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: deal signed. And this is college football, this isn't lacrosse. 181 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: We're trying to sell. All due respect to lacrosse, I 182 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 1: find it entertaining to watch. The general population does not. Therefore, 183 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: the media rights deal for lacrosse they don't go nearly 184 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: as far. This is college football and they can't get 185 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: a media rights deal secured. Now, that leads one to 186 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: believe that if you are Arizona or Arizona State or 187 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: Washington or the like, and you're looking at the relative 188 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: state of flux that your conference is in, you don't 189 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: know the future out there. You do know the future 190 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: in the Big twelve because they have their media rights 191 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: deal secured. They got out ahead of the PAC twelve 192 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: in line, and they did so obviously the Big ten 193 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: in the SEC are set for ten lifetimes the AC 194 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: season entirely different conversation. But if you're one of the 195 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,599 Speaker 1: those member institutions, if Peate State were an independent, but 196 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: if Peate State was in the PAC twelve, if George 197 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 1: Klakoff came to me and said, hey, can I make 198 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: a statement that says we're all together? I'd say, yeah, 199 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: but we're not. And that would be the long and 200 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: short of it. And that's about what I made of 201 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: that statement they put out the other day. If you 202 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: can't guarantee me that I'm going to be getting a 203 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: slice of a pie that's big enough in media rites 204 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: three or four years down the road, why in the 205 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: world am I going to lock arms with you right now. 206 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: I'm not paid, by the way to look out for 207 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: the best interest of the PAC twelve. If I'm a 208 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: member institution, or the president or the chancellor, the ad there, 209 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: I'm paid to look out for the best interest of 210 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: my program. And so yeah, I'm going to listen to 211 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: the Big twelve, a conference that stands on much more 212 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: stable ground than me in the future. If they call, 213 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,319 Speaker 1: I'd love to get it worked out out here. I 214 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: don't want to leave the PAC twelve, but if worse 215 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: comes to worse, I'm going to. So anyway, something's going 216 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: to happen there. There are far too many things in 217 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: play for it not to happen. And I don't just 218 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: look at the Big Twelve. You may have noticed yesterday, 219 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: I think it was Ohio State in Washington canceled a 220 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,479 Speaker 1: home and home in the future. I read the statements, 221 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: I heard everything that was said. I don't think that's 222 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: all there is to it. I think there's a reasonable 223 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: chance that there are people either at Washington or at 224 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: Ohio State, or in the Big Ten, or all of 225 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: the above that understand maybe there's a half decent chance 226 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: Washington's in the Big Ten by the time that we 227 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: were going to play these games. We just had a 228 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: case study on this. Guys. We just saw Georgia forced 229 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: to cancel their series with Oklahoma. Well, it turns out 230 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: there was a good reason why that happened. We just 231 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: didn't necessarily get it disseminated to us at the time, 232 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: But in due time we did get it disseminated to 233 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: us that, yeah, that happened because they're coming down here 234 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: a year early. Could that happen with Washington? And even 235 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: if that's not related, even if it just so happens 236 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: Ohio State didn't feel like traveling out there, and they 237 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: already think their schedules two loaded, there's still too much 238 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: other circumstantial evidence here. Now, I told you I had 239 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: a wild theory, and I've bounced this off a few 240 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: people in the media industry. I even bounced it off 241 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: management today because we have management here that used to 242 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: work in the Pac twelve network. By the way, So 243 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: there are opportunities in college sport right now, in college 244 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: football in particular, that exists that didn't exist a generation 245 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: to go, or even five years ago. One of them 246 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: that I'm surprised more people haven't taken advantage of is 247 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: you could indirectly buy a college football team right now. 248 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: And the way you do that is very simple. You 249 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: just bankroll the nil structure. Ruiz at Miami is kind 250 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 1: of doing a version of this, but you could bankroll 251 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: the nil structure and Nile mechanism of a team and 252 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: essentially own the team. You know, you can't get your 253 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: foot in the door. You can't own an NFL franchise, 254 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: you can't own an NBA franchise or Major League Baseball 255 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: because it's really hard to do. Go buy you a 256 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: college football team. But there's something bigger in play, and 257 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: I think the Pac twelve's current desperate situation and their 258 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: lack of a big time media rights partner is ripe 259 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: for a third party. And it could be an investment group, 260 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: or it could be an Elon Musk type out there 261 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: that just has deep enough pockets to come in and 262 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: say I got that kind of money. They won't give 263 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: you three hundred million dollars, but I got three hundred 264 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: million dollars. And if I run JP Entertainment, for example, 265 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: I may have a vested interest beyond what any network 266 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: would have in bankrolling you. And I come in and 267 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: I say, ESPN or Fox or CBS may not be 268 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: willing to play ball with you to that degree, but 269 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: I will. Here's three hundred mil. And I've got them 270 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: standing right behind me. Because if I were too broker 271 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: this deal, I've already got the television partner in my 272 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: back pocket. And I look at ESPN and I say, hey, 273 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: you guys want these games for pennies on the dollar. 274 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: Of course they do. Of course they want to air 275 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: the games. Don't get them wrong. They want to air 276 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: the games. They just don't want to pay the kind 277 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: of price tag that the PAC twelve wants. But I 278 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: could because I have ulterior motives. You know what I 279 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: want to do. I want to own a conference. I 280 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: want to own a college football conference. I want to 281 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: slap my naming rights. Whatever. It could be Walmart, it 282 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: could be Aflic, it could be JP Inc. It could 283 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: be anything in between, but someone who would stand to 284 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: benefit from brokering that kind of deal and writing that 285 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 1: kind of check, because in return, it is a massive 286 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: West Coast marketing tool. It is a marketing tool the 287 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: likes of which we've never really seen anyone seek their 288 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: teeth into. Someone could do that, and they could do 289 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: it for relatively cheap right now. If you wanted to 290 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: do that, well, you could never do it with the 291 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: SEC or Big ten because their inventory is valuable enough 292 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: where no one has to come in and third party 293 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: broker any deal. But the Pac twelve's got a golf, 294 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: and the golf is between what they want in order 295 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: to survive in Major league college football and what anyone's 296 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: willing to pay. But if I come in and I 297 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: value the marketing mechanism that this allows me to open 298 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: up for my brand, my company, etc. It makes all 299 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: the sense in the world. Let me ask you a question, 300 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: why do you know Mark Cuban? Could those of you 301 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of you, could you tell me how 302 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: he made his money or could you tell me he 303 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: owns the Dallas Mavericks. You see how Mark Cuban was 304 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: able to parlay that into broad scale marketing of his brand. 305 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: You may have looked when Cuban bought the MAVs and said, boy, 306 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. Yeah, it was. How much 307 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: would he have had to spend to market himself and 308 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: any kind of branding sub to himself that he actually 309 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: gets for free as a result of owning the Dallas Mavericks. 310 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: So that's a little forward thinking, and it is broad 311 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: in scale. I believe somebody could do that right now. 312 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: A lot of hurdles, a lot of hoops to jump through, 313 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: but there's enough desperation in the room where someone could 314 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: execute that, or a group of someone's could execute that. Now, 315 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: for the record, I just told you JP Inc. JP Inc. 316 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: Does not exist yet. We've got a couple of more 317 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: rounds of funding to go before we can acquire and 318 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: secure the three hundred million dollar price point that I 319 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: threw out there. So for now, you know, could be 320 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: one week, could be two weeks until we get there. 321 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: But for now that's strictly hypothetical. So I am ready 322 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: to announce tonight I will not own the Pac twelve, 323 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: but somebody could. Now I've already got Pack twelve pay trademark, 324 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: so somebody could and then just loop me in on 325 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: it afterwards. So, yeah, conference realignment is coming and there's 326 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of other dominoes fall, so let's 327 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: see how that works out. Notre Dame is not in 328 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: a conference, but we're going to talk about them right now. 329 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: The chalice is unusually full because I put something in 330 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: the Instagram story earlier and accidentally overfilled the chalice in 331 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: the process. Thank you for allowing me the time to 332 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: take the ship there, and thank you for being tuned 333 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: in live if you're tuned in, okay, so let me 334 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: have done hadn't done this in a while? The paper 335 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: pop has become the knuckle pop. It's easier on the 336 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: joints to do it that way. But the Notre Dame 337 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator higher has led to a ton of questions. Again, 338 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: if you live in Tallahassee, Florida, or Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 339 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: you may not have been paying attention to this interesting things. Eh. 340 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: If you're at LSU, you probably have been paying attention. 341 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: I know you, guys, but general population of college football 342 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: fans may be a little tuned out on this tune 343 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: in because it's gotten a little messy and it's led 344 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: to just some let me reach over here and get it, 345 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: just some phenomenal quotes offered up that I'm going to 346 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: give you in just a second. So I got questioned 347 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: about this thousands of times today and I opened like 348 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: a hundred of them, and which led me to believe, Yeah, 349 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: we need to talk about this on tonight's show. So 350 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: it's led to the athletic director making a statement. And 351 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: before I even dive into the particulars, congratulations to Notre 352 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: Dame fans. You've forced a statement from Jack Schwarbrick in 353 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: the middle of February. They don't like to do that. 354 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: They typically like to operate unquestioned, and that's not how 355 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: this went down. So what's been happening up there? Little 356 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: backstory if you've been on vacation. Nick Saban hired Tommy 357 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: Reese that was Marcus Freeman's offensive coordinator at Notre Dame, 358 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: and so obviously there's an opening for the job at 359 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and Andy Ludwig looked to be the higher 360 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you why he looked to be 361 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: the higher, because when a guy actually flies to campus, 362 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: which Ludwig did, he's the Utah offensive coordinator. By the way, 363 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: when he flies to South Bend, Indiana across two time 364 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: zones on a private jet and is publicly seen with 365 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman, I believe at the basketball game. That's usually 366 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: called a formality, you know, the signing of the contract. 367 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 1: It's usually a formality. It's usually a done deal. How 368 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: many times have you seen a coach and a prospective 369 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: coaching higher publicly parade themselves around. This was not a 370 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: four star recruit on campus. This was a potential offensive 371 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: coordinator higher. Well, that led a lot of people, myself included, 372 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: to believe, okay, well that's done, and quite frankly, I 373 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: stopped paying attention. And then all of a sudden, you hear, wait, 374 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: that's not going down. Our friends over at Irish Illustrated 375 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: dot com they're reporting Nope. Turns out it's not gonna 376 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: be Ludwig. What in the world's happening, you know? And 377 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: then you start to have multiple different theories floated out there, 378 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: and there was a lot of oxygen in the room 379 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: because no one at Notre Dame was talking. And I'll 380 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: get to that in just a second. So anyway, here's 381 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: how it ended, and subsequently how it began. They promoted 382 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: Gerard Parker, the tight end coach that as of yesterday 383 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: has been finalized, so he is the offenseve coordinator. Now, 384 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: it didn't pass the smell test, nor should it have 385 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: for a lot of Notre Dame fans, because typically when 386 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: you say you're gonna have a national search for a coordinator, 387 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: you don't promote from within. That's just typically the way 388 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: that doesn't go. And yet it went that way. I 389 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: want to pause for just a second, and I want 390 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: to tell you I'm not about to spend a nanosecond 391 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: of this show questioning the qualifications and credentials of Gerard Parker. 392 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 1: That's not what I'm gonna do because I'm not qualified 393 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: to do it. And I'm also not gonna sit here 394 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: and suggest you it won't work out because I don't 395 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 1: have a crystal ball and I work at twenty four 396 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: to seven. So if anyone had wanted to be me, 397 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: I'm not here to do that. What I am here 398 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: to do is ask you, does that smell right? And 399 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans have been asking themselves the same thing. 400 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: Now again, in the past few hours, we've had the 401 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: ad go on record, and so everything I'm about to say. 402 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: Remember that because I we rarely print stuff out, I 403 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: had to print the quotes out, so I got the quotes. 404 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: But what happened here, there's several possibilities, Okay. The first 405 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: one is maybe Andy ludwould just toured Notre Dame and 406 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: met with Marcus Freeman. Then then he ultimately turned the job down, which, 407 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: for the record, is what Notre Dame would lead you 408 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: to believe. It's possible. I don't find that likely without 409 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: any caveats involved there, but it's possible. I'll grant you that. Now. 410 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,479 Speaker 1: The going theory as of the past twenty four to 411 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: forty eight hours had been Notre Dame wouldn't pay the buyout, 412 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: and the buyout was over two million dollars. Here's the 413 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: thing about that buyout. It was well known before he 414 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: flew to campus, and so you can understand and excuse 415 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans for dismissing the notion and that, oh 416 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: oh no, the buyout had nothing to do with it. Well, 417 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: either it didn't have anything to do with it, or 418 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: you got him all the way to campus before you 419 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: realized what his buyout was. Either way, it's bad. The 420 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: third possibilities, you're just too cheap to pay it, which 421 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: is also bad, and therefore you never should have flown 422 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: into campus to begin with. There is this other working theory. 423 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: I would say it's a minority theory, but it's still 424 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: a theory, and that is Hey, maybe Marcus Freeman knew 425 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: what the buyout was and knew Notre Dame wasn't gonna 426 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: fit the bill for it, but he really wanted Andy Ludwig, 427 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: and he thought, hey, if I get him over here, 428 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: just the public spectacle of me and him at a 429 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: basketball game will be too much and someone will pony 430 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: up the dough. And then it turned out they didn't. 431 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: So anyway, all that's been floating around and it just 432 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 1: it festered, and it festered, and it festered, and all 433 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: of a sudden, Jack Swerburck today, in the last few hours, 434 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: felt the need to come out and make a statement, 435 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: and he capped this statement by suggesting that anyone who 436 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 1: is passionate about such things should donate to the collective 437 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: up there. Donate to the neral fun there at Notre Dame, 438 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: which is brilliant. I mean, it's a double middle finger 439 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: to your face. But if you can get past that 440 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: it's brilliant. So Jax Warbrick's not it. He's kind of 441 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 1: as he went a little heel at the end of this, 442 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to read that part, so I wanted 443 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,360 Speaker 1: to tell you that's in here. This is the Notre 444 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: Dame Athletic Director General rule of thumb. Again, as mem said, 445 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: if you're athletic directors ever having to resort to quoting 446 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams, you got a problem. 447 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,439 Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Jack s Warbrick did. Quote to 448 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans, we admire your passion misdirected, though it 449 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: may be, it is still a passion to quote James 450 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: Earl Jones in Field of Dreams. You remember that. I 451 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: wish I had your passion ray misguided to it. Maybe 452 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: it is still a passion. I used to feel that 453 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: way about things. But that's the direction the Notre Dame 454 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: Athletic Director chose to go to start his statement. It 455 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: continues page two here. I am comfortable sharing that while 456 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: prior to this week are discussions with candidates ever reached 457 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: the point where we extended a formal offer. We communicated 458 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: clearly with each and every instance that any offer we 459 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: made would include funding of the buyout. So translation not 460 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,479 Speaker 1: that you need one. Sometimes I have to translate for myself. 461 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: We told any guy we interviewed, buyout's not going to 462 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: be a problem. The statement continues, to the extent the 463 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: buyout was an obstacle in this case, that was true 464 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: of a brief period of time only because of conflicting 465 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: information that had been provided to us regarding the amount 466 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: of mechanics of the buyout. However, it was an obstacle 467 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: we knew could be quickly resolved. So Jack Swarbrick essentially 468 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 1: has just told you, after quoting Field of Dreams, he 469 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 1: told you the buyout was never going to be an issue. 470 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: The only way it was an obstacle was that there 471 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: were some things we misunderstood about the buyout. But don't worry, 472 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: we parsed right through that because that's how we roll, 473 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: and we're rich. We're rich. We would have paid anything 474 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: that it took. It sounds like he's telling me Andy 475 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: Love would just turn him down, just didn't want the job. 476 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: Do you believe it? He's never lied to me, Jack 477 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: Sorbick's never lied to me. Then again, we've never had 478 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: a face to face conversation, do we believe it? Do 479 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: we buy it? I have taken a very quick straw 480 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: phole of my Notre Dame brethren, and the eye Josh 481 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: leans heavily. No, they don't buy it, or at least 482 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: they don't buy that. That's all there is to it. 483 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: You know what I would pay not two point three 484 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: million dollars for me. You know what I would pay 485 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: a lot of money for. I would pay a lot 486 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: of money. If Marcus Freeman would walk in here right now, 487 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: and then Director Colin would walk in with the truth serum, 488 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: and Marcus would go yep, inject me boom, and he 489 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 1: just has to be honest, because I would look at 490 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman and I would say, tell me how this 491 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 1: went down? And I know that there are a few 492 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: truths in this world, But I don't think what came 493 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: out of Marcus Freeman's mouth would echo what just came 494 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 1: out of his athletic director's mouth. That is my strong 495 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: hunch that I can't prove. So until I can prove it, 496 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna er on side of We're gonna go with 497 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: the field of dreams. Quoting athletic director Jack Swarbrick, but 498 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: I will say this. I had someone earlier today ask 499 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: me on Twitter, what do you think about this thing? 500 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: And I said, it's a proud program with a poverty 501 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: approach to hiring a coach. Now, some people took that 502 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: to mean, oh, he just thinks Notre Dame's cheap. Well, 503 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 1: if you wouldn't pay the buy out, yeah, it means 504 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: you're cheap. I don't care how much it was. It 505 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: wouldn't ten million dollars, so I don't care how much 506 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: it was, And you especially don't fly a guy in 507 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: if you're not willing to pay the buy out. Now 508 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: AD says, nope, that's not the case. We would have 509 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: paid the buyout. Poverty doesn't just mean you are short 510 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: changing yourself or your head coach. It doesn't just mean 511 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: you won't come off your hip pocket or you don't 512 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: have the money. Poverty sometimes is just a colossal fumbling 513 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: of a situation, stupidity, your ignorance in other words, and 514 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: that somehow, some way I think happened here. Problem is 515 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: the same folks who say, well, you shouldn't go out 516 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: talking about things or reporting things until you have all 517 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: the facts are the last ones to give you the 518 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: real facts. They'll give you some of them. They'll give 519 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: you the facts necessary to make themselves look okay, but 520 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: they're probably not gonna give you every detail. Now, in fairness, 521 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: they don't owe it to you, although I would argue 522 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: in a broad sense in college football it's kind of 523 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: dumb how many details are withheld from the public. It's 524 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: not Congress, it's college football. It's entertainment. And so your 525 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: job as an athletic director, for example, kind of exists. 526 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: And this is extending beyond Swarburg. It kind of exists 527 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: because entertainment exists. Sure, you still have a job. You 528 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't make the money you do, and so because of that, 529 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: sometimes I find it kind of odd, this feeling the 530 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: need to withhold information from the public. Like, really, honestly, 531 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, how much damage is 532 00:26:54,520 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: it gonna do that Gary Indiana residents know the inner 533 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: workings of how the hiring process went, Now, like, really, 534 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: what would that hurt? So again, I just use Schwerbrick 535 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,239 Speaker 1: as an example there, because I get aggravated at that 536 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: with a lot of programs, and there's this veil of 537 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: secrecy which which leaves you, because you care about the 538 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: sport and you're not going to tune out just because 539 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: they say it's none of your business. It leaves you 540 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: to speculate, and then they get mad when you speculate. 541 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: You can tell from firsthand experience. I'm speaking about this 542 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: because I have had Cordile not down, drag out arguments 543 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: with certain sids about this. You'll say something. They won't 544 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: feed you anything, but you say something about their program 545 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: on the show because there's an absence of information and 546 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: your phone's going off. I've had it multiple times happen 547 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: in the past month. Phone's going off before I'm off 548 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: the air, and the SID wants to how could you 549 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: be saying that? How could I? Well, did you correct 550 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: me beforehand? Did you did you offer me anything up beforehand? 551 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: And they'll give you details you couldn't possibly have known. 552 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,479 Speaker 1: That's why I'm always very careful not to make definitive statements. 553 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: A lot of you think I'm fence riding, though, because 554 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: there's an absence of complete information. That's like, right now, 555 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: someone could come to me and say, well, what if 556 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: Gerrod Parker works out, great? What if he does doesn't 557 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: really mean anything, doesn't change anything. Is it a sustainable 558 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: model that you continue to not be able to land 559 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: option A, and you can ascribe the reasons why you 560 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 1: don't think Option A was landed, but that's you know, 561 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: that's just life, I guess in our world and Marcus 562 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: Freeman's world. Right now, Academy Sports and Outdoors looks outside 563 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: right now and they have to drool when they see that. Yeah, 564 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: it's February and we're about two weeks away from that 565 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: calendar rolling over to March, and that basically means spring, 566 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: because spring starts in March, and that means every sport, 567 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: imagine outside of ice hockey is about to be able 568 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: to be played outdoors right after you go to Academy 569 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: or Academy dot com. And apparently some of you have 570 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: really taken into cycling, because I have had an inordinate 571 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: amount of pictures and or videos sent to me recently 572 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: of you guys biking on equipment that was recently purchased 573 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: from Academy Sports and Outdoors. So hey, I can happily 574 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: confirm for you on this Thursday evening, they got bikes 575 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,719 Speaker 1: at Academy and they are ready to ride. That's not 576 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: all they have though, bats, gloves, baseball pants. You know 577 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: that time of years coming up, Softball and the like. 578 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: They got you covered at Academy Sports and Outdoors, and 579 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: they've got the show covered. And that's why you did 580 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: not pay a dime to watch this thing tonight. There 581 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: is no paywall. We don't have to use things like Patreon. 582 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: We don't have to hide the content. And it's a 583 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: blessing that we don't have to do that because we 584 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: have partners like Academy, so we really appreciate them always 585 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: being on board and always having our backs. We've got 586 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: many many more angles to take you tonight. I appreciate 587 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: you being tuned in. If you will like the video 588 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: and subscribe to the channel in I don't care what 589 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: order you do it in, just please do both of them. 590 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: If you're listening on podcasts, hey man, you need to 591 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: be following and subscribing there too, because as you know, 592 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: it is Late Kick Extra season. It is not off 593 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: season ever, ever ever, but it is Late Kick Extra season. 594 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: That means there's a show dropping in that feed every 595 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: Tuesday that you can only get your hands on if 596 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: you're following the podcast feed. It doesn't show up on YouTube, 597 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: it's just the podcast feed. Now. Someone came at me 598 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: the other day and said, why would you do that? 599 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: Why would you put some things in the YouTube channel 600 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: and put some things in the podcast feed? And to 601 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: that I replied, we have a crazy little scheme around 602 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: here to turn a profit and that's our reason the end. 603 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: Shame on us. But it's not a soup kitchen we're 604 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: running over here. I mean Director Colin. At the end 605 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: of the day, he's got to put gas in his car, 606 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: just like us. So we gotta find ways to make 607 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: it happen. Who are the next stars in this sport? 608 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: Who are you about to see in twenty twenty three? 609 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: David asked earlier today, which players are you expecting to 610 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: break out this fall from Decatur, Georgia. I got so 611 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: many of them and it was a really I guess, 612 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: good timing that David asked this question, because on twenty 613 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: four to seven sports dot Com. I think even right now, 614 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: there's an article where a lot of our guys outlined 615 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: several and I cherry picked some of theirs and added 616 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: in some of my own. Don't you have to start 617 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: this conversation at Penn State. You could go Kaylin King 618 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: if you wanted to, but I go Drew Aler because 619 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: Kaylen King, I think is already on the radar. The 620 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: corner could very well be the best in the country 621 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: this upcoming year. Drew Aller the quarterback though, this is 622 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: a potential turning point for this program. You know, Drew 623 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: Aller not a true freshman. He came in as a 624 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: five star quarterback, highest rated signee at that position that 625 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: James Franklin and his staff have had. And he's six five, 626 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: two thirty eight really big kid, sharp, got all the 627 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: physical tools, That's why they put five of the stars 628 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: next to his name. Didn't have to start right away. 629 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: He played a little bit in his freshman season, but 630 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: didn't have to start right away. And he's got an 631 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: incredibly loaded roster around him. So I know there's no 632 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: sure thing. I'm not calling Drew Aller a sure thing. 633 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if I picture how this season is 634 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: gonna go, not being able to project injuries, of course, 635 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: so if he's healthy all year, thinking about how this 636 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: season could go, there are several more scenarios where he 637 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: ends up shining in his first year as a starter 638 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: than he just disappoints and doesn't live up to expectation. 639 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: I don't think the bust potential is very high with him. Also, 640 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: speaking of the quarterback position, a name that I think 641 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: out of the eight names I'm gonna mention here, I 642 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: think a name that's as well known on this list 643 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: as any is Kid Klubnick. But yet he hasn't really 644 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: gotten time to shine yet. So that's the quarterback Clemson. 645 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: That's the future. That's the guy they've been looking towards. 646 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: And dj uyangoli Le transferred out, so it's one hundred 647 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: percent Kid Clubnick time. Now. He played a little bit 648 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: last year and it was kind of a weird situation. 649 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: So anyway, job's his now number two quarterback in the 650 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two class six' two one ninety five and 651 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: he Gets Garrett riley as his offensive, coordinator who just 652 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: came in FROM. Tcu AND i always think in my, mind, 653 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: yeah we're tuned in and most of our audience is 654 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: tuned in to college, football and you never tune. Out 655 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: but someone could have been on their honeymoon, recently someone 656 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: could have been going through challenging times in their life 657 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: recently and you just haven't had time for college. Football 658 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: so if that's the, case hate it for. You we're 659 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: thinking about. You welcome. Back what IF i told you 660 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: that TCU's offensive coordinator went To, Clemson, like that's still 661 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: news to some, people AND i have to remind myself 662 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: of that. Sometimes so that's a godsend obviously for K 663 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: klemnick and the entire offensive. Roster they're At, clemson and, 664 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: uh that's that's going to be a program this year 665 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,719 Speaker 1: where even though they won THE Acc, championship you know, 666 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: what the overall narrative is Around. Clemson they're, Slipping they're 667 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: down a little. BIT i may have contributed to, that 668 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: ALTHOUGH i don't think they're slipping nearly as much as 669 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: some of you, do judging by my. Inbox but so 670 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,359 Speaker 1: let's go the two quarterbacks. There, Now i'm gonna throw 671 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 1: a name at you THAT i think far fewer of 672 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: you are familiar, with not including those of you up In, Munsey, 673 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: indiana and that would be former ball state running Back Carson. 674 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: Steel SOMETIMES i think parents are having kids and naming 675 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: them specifically with a future in football in, mind because 676 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: it does not get much better Than Carson steele general. Booty, 677 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: notwithstanding it doesn't get much better Than Carson. Steel if 678 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: you're a degenerate in you love mac football On tuesday 679 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,239 Speaker 1: And tuesdays And wednesday, nights maction as we call it 680 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: on the. Streets you've seen him, play but he's gone 681 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,959 Speaker 1: TO ucla, now so a lot more people are gonna 682 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: see him. Play he had fifteen hundred and fifty six 683 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,359 Speaker 1: yards fourteen, touchdowns about five point four and a half 684 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: yards per carry this past. Year the important part is 685 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 1: he LED. FBS i think he was number one overall 686 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: in college football in yards after initial. Contact so you 687 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,919 Speaker 1: were used to Seeing Zach charmonay shine AT ucla last, 688 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: year and he was a transfer in his own. Right 689 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: this is the next. One pretty much the same size six, 690 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: one about two fifteen flowing. Locks they'll they'll easily extend 691 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: beyond the, Helmet so very marketable look, There AND i 692 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: know how much you guys care about. That Carson. STEELE 693 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: i continue to tell, YOU i think the game is 694 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 1: coming back To Chip kelly with the way that he 695 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: can just go out and acquire talent via the portal 696 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: games coming back to. Him tennessee's got a wide receiver 697 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: THAT i just talked about marketable. Names Squirrel white's a 698 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: really good one as, Well And Squirrel white is probably 699 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: about as poised to step into That Jalen hyatt role 700 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: as anyone on that. Roster had good numbers last, year 701 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: really good numbers in The clemson game and The bowl. 702 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: Game had a nine, catches one hundred and eight, yards 703 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,720 Speaker 1: had a, touchdown and that concluded his true freshman. Season 704 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: little bit different body type Than, hyatt can still run 705 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 1: as fast As Jalen. Hyat he's five to, ten one sixty, 706 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: five probably a little more, shifty but he's a guy 707 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: who put up the kind of numbers the year. BEFORE 708 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 1: i think he's going to explode That Jalen hyatt. Did 709 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,439 Speaker 1: hyatt exploded this past. Year you look at his numbers 710 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: the year, before kind of similar to What Squirrel whites 711 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: were and in THE. SEC i don't want to just 712 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: stay In. Knoxville ALTHOUGH i think that the quarterback position 713 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: is going to dominate spring ball, Conversation Squirrel white is 714 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: probably going to dominate regardless of who the quarterback is 715 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 1: on the field this. Fall there's another wide receiver in 716 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: THE sec Name Elite neighbors down AT, lsu AND i 717 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people realize he was a 718 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: thousand Yard he was on a thousand yard receiver this past. 719 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: YEAR i just don't think a lot of people remember 720 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 1: that seventy two catches just over one thousand yard receiving 721 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: and he's an excellent fifty to fifty ball. Guy contested 722 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: catch rate was sixty two percent for him last, year 723 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,320 Speaker 1: so he is a guy that will go and fight 724 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: for the ball really good at that year, two you 725 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,319 Speaker 1: got that whole deal going for, you regardless of what 726 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 1: position you. PLAYED LSU i could just as easily have 727 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,760 Speaker 1: Thrown Mason smith in This he's the big defensive tackle 728 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: that went down AGAINST fsu In week, one poised for 729 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,439 Speaker 1: a big. Year so just take what you said about 730 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 1: him last year and fast forward to this. Year but, 731 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,840 Speaker 1: yeah elite neighbors and swore white love how both of 732 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: those guys project this? Year what About Georgia Michel Williams 733 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 1: Hardaway High. Schools Michel, williams most of you didn't grow 734 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:42,360 Speaker 1: up In, Columbus. GEORGIA i Did Carver, central just across 735 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: the river In Phoenix, City Shaw Harris County High school 736 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,760 Speaker 1: just north of. Town, yeah they'll put guys In power 737 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,280 Speaker 1: five Leagues hardaway bless their, hearts not so much except 738 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: that they may have the best defensive lineman in the 739 00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: country that just so happens to hail From Hardwy High. 740 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: School Go, hawks and it's his time At. Georgia, NOW 741 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 1: i had twenty eight tackles four and a half sacks 742 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: this past. Year he had a lot of impressive. Numbers 743 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: played two hundred and ninety one. Snaps so when you 744 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,319 Speaker 1: combine the numbers he put up with understanding how many 745 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:22,759 Speaker 1: snaps he, played you realize they've just got another, one don't. They, yes, 746 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 1: yes they've actually got a few of. Them that's How georgia. 747 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: Rolls Mikeil williams is just one of, them really really 748 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 1: good player that probably is only going to get better 749 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,960 Speaker 1: because that's also the Way georgia has. Rolled that's not 750 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,240 Speaker 1: a place right, now that's struggling in the developmental. Department 751 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: that's not a place where a kid shines as a 752 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: true freshman and then you watch him as sophomore in 753 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,600 Speaker 1: junior years and you, say, well just kind of was 754 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: the same. Player, nope there's a, linear kind of a 755 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: linear progression year, one year, two year. Three that's when 756 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,840 Speaker 1: you know your program's. Humming Dallas turner over At, alabama 757 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,640 Speaker 1: not that you don't already know the name But Will 758 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,800 Speaker 1: anders out the, door and so that Was Will anderson's 759 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 1: contract year this past. Year he's going to be a 760 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: top ten draft. Pick Now Dallas turner gets his contract, 761 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 1: year AND i have a strange Suspicion Dallas turner will 762 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,360 Speaker 1: end up being a top ten draft. Pick his average 763 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,720 Speaker 1: pressure rate was about every eight and a half pass 764 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 1: rush snaps per game last, year SO i know as 765 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 1: a defensive hole they kind of underachieved. There Dallas turner 766 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,440 Speaker 1: is a phenomenal. Player got a new defensive staff pretty 767 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,120 Speaker 1: much over there this. Year Dallas, Turner i'm not gonna 768 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 1: waste a lot of time on him because we already 769 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,359 Speaker 1: know his. Name But Will johnson At michigan is one 770 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: other name THAT i wanted to mention six two ninety. 771 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,840 Speaker 1: Four he's a corner who didn't start right away in 772 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: his true freshman. YEAR i believe last year was his 773 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: true freshman. Year he didn't start right, away except he 774 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,719 Speaker 1: ended up starting later in the. Year you, know he 775 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 1: played The Ohio state, game he played in The Big 776 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 1: Ten championship. Game he played AGAINST. Tcu he had two, 777 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: picks gave up no, touchdowns gave up one catch of 778 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,319 Speaker 1: twenty or more. Yards really good pro type. CORNER a 779 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: lot of THE nfl folks already talk about, him and 780 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,879 Speaker 1: that's just from that very limited sample size of game. 781 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,480 Speaker 1: Tape LIKE i had guys who who work in THE 782 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,960 Speaker 1: nfl scouting world for a living, saying we're not really 783 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,920 Speaker 1: scouting him for next year because he's not available to 784 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,879 Speaker 1: come out for the. Draft but he's one that when 785 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: we're watching other, guys we just happened to see The 786 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: johnson kid From. Michigan. YEP i think we'll be saying 787 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,319 Speaker 1: that a lot about him this. Year they're watching us 788 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 1: In Nova, scotia Maybe, HALIFAX i don't, know But Nova, 789 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,440 Speaker 1: scotia they're watching us In, Elmira New, york And Cahaba, Heights. 790 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,560 Speaker 1: Alabama thank, you guys wherever you are tuned in so, 791 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,480 Speaker 1: much because that's the reason we do the. Show. Obviously 792 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,239 Speaker 1: one of the exercises that we have delved into here 793 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,760 Speaker 1: lately is we have started to just irresponsibly change, history 794 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: just go back and change things about the history of the. 795 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,200 Speaker 1: Sport AND i challenged you the other, DAY i, said 796 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 1: give me some, stuff give me some. Moment it's in 797 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,719 Speaker 1: college football that if you could change, them would just 798 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: send a shockwave through the rest of the sport for several. Years, 799 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,239 Speaker 1: colin here's a better endpoint for. You what would you 800 00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,440 Speaker 1: change about the sport if you could go back in college? 801 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,719 Speaker 1: Football AND i challenged you change something that would have a, 802 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,240 Speaker 1: massive far reaching impact on the rest of the sport 803 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,839 Speaker 1: then and in the. Future what would it? Be AND 804 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,759 Speaker 1: i Had Yogi roth actually FROM pac twelve network come 805 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,760 Speaker 1: at me and, say here's one what if that moment 806 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,080 Speaker 1: where we instituted the college Football playoff just never? Happened 807 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 1: what if that never went? Down AND i got to 808 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: thinking about, it AND i almost didn't put it in the. 809 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 1: Show but then the MORE i thought about, it the 810 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 1: MORE i, said, absolutely that's got to go in the. 811 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,879 Speaker 1: Show now it happened in twenty. Fourteen the first year 812 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,200 Speaker 1: of the playoff was twenty. Fourteen we talked about this 813 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,479 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, ago AND i said That ALL 814 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: Sec championship game in twenty eleven was probably the impetus 815 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 1: for us getting the. Playoff when we got, it would 816 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,239 Speaker 1: we have gotten it? ANYWAY i tend to believe, yes 817 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,600 Speaker 1: BUT i don't know that for. Sure so let's just 818 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: say in this alternate, universe we're allowed to play in 819 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,319 Speaker 1: because It's. February we don't get the. Playoff we never 820 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,600 Speaker 1: get the. Playoff off the top of my, head we've 821 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,359 Speaker 1: had three national champions that did not finish number one 822 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,200 Speaker 1: or number, two so we got three of. Them twenty 823 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,760 Speaker 1: Fourteen Ohio state the first year we had a, playoff 824 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 1: they were the four. Seed they won the. Championship twenty, 825 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,319 Speaker 1: Seventeen alabama four seed won the. Championship twenty twenty, One, 826 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:39,319 Speaker 1: georgia three seed won the. Championship, now, initially when we 827 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: took on this, EXERCISE i thought to, Myself, ooh if 828 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,080 Speaker 1: we entertained, THIS i think it's gonna Cost alabama some. 829 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,520 Speaker 1: Championships but the MORE i think about, it the MORE 830 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,000 Speaker 1: i Think alabama would have netted more titles if we 831 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: didn't have a. Playoff and the reason is because even 832 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,759 Speaker 1: though in twenty seventeen they snuck in and ended up 833 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 1: winning the whole. Thing twenty, Fourteen Ohio state Beat bama 834 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: in the semi. Final If Ohio state's not, there if 835 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,319 Speaker 1: it's Just Bama oregon Or BAMA, fsu whoever would have, 836 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 1: Been bama probably wins that. Title that certainly be favored 837 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,399 Speaker 1: to win that. Title so you may have another title 838 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,720 Speaker 1: for him in, Fourteen and in twenty twenty, One bama 839 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,440 Speaker 1: Beats georgia In, Atlanta george's. Out if we don't have a, 840 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 1: Playoff george is. Out So bama may have won it 841 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,640 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. One who knows how that would have worked. 842 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,240 Speaker 1: OUT i will tell you that a lot of people 843 00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 1: would be. MAD i remember even thinking this when we 844 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,799 Speaker 1: instituted the. PLAYOFF i remember thinking that we would come 845 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,719 Speaker 1: to the end of every season and some people would 846 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,919 Speaker 1: be mad inevitably because your team got left out and 847 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 1: you had a really good season and you finished third 848 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,040 Speaker 1: or fourth or what have. You and, yeah people got. 849 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,520 Speaker 1: Mad WHERE i differed from a lot of folks IS 850 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,200 Speaker 1: i didn't think that was the worst thing in the. 851 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: World people don't get mad about things they don't care, 852 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: about you. Know SO i took the anger in the, 853 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,920 Speaker 1: room which always eventually, subsided as a means to indicate, that, 854 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,160 Speaker 1: wow we are maximizing the passion in the sport right. 855 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,719 Speaker 1: Now people being mad was never the worst thing in the. 856 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:18,040 Speaker 1: World people being, ambivalent people being apathetic about the majority 857 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,240 Speaker 1: Of bowl, season people opting out of games that weren't playoff, 858 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:25,279 Speaker 1: games that is far worse to me than people just being. 859 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,320 Speaker 1: Mad don't, worry, Though it'll all be solved with the 860 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,520 Speaker 1: twelve team. Playoff don't. Worry i'm not going down that road. 861 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,839 Speaker 1: Tonight BUT i started to, think if we didn't ever 862 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,520 Speaker 1: go to the four team, model people always would have been. 863 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,360 Speaker 1: Mad but no one THAT i know ever got mad 864 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,720 Speaker 1: at the outcome of a, season and then they. Left 865 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,520 Speaker 1: no one tuned out of college, football no one. DAY 866 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: i would, argue four more people have tuned out because 867 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: of the byproducts and THE i guess consequences of the 868 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,800 Speaker 1: new model than ever tuned out with the old. Model 869 00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,840 Speaker 1: Like auburn fans think they got screwed out of a 870 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: sh to play for a title in two thousand and, 871 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,759 Speaker 1: Four not a single one of them ever tuned, out 872 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,359 Speaker 1: not a single one of. Them but you fast forward 873 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,640 Speaker 1: a few years and half your team's opting out of 874 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,040 Speaker 1: a bowl game because it's not a playoff. Game that's 875 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,000 Speaker 1: more likely to make someone lose interest in college. Football 876 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,520 Speaker 1: that's at least my opinion on. That, now those of 877 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,839 Speaker 1: us around, here we're not gonna stop watching either, way 878 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,360 Speaker 1: and they know. It they know. It BUT i started, Thinking, 879 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 1: okay what if we don't have a four team, Playoff 880 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,200 Speaker 1: sure we'd have some anger and people would yell at each. 881 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,520 Speaker 1: Other then we'd Have bowl, season then would have The 882 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,319 Speaker 1: National Championship, game just like we always did in THE, 883 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 1: bcs and we'd crown a, champion and we'd go into 884 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,080 Speaker 1: the next year and the sport would continue to, grow 885 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,840 Speaker 1: because that's what it already was. Doing don't let anyone 886 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:45,959 Speaker 1: tell you. Otherwise in the, aggregate would anyone have ever 887 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 1: started using phrases like meaningless regular season? Games would anyone 888 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,719 Speaker 1: have started using phrases like meaningless bowl? Games for that, 889 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:58,080 Speaker 1: matter would we Have bowl opt? Outs because, remember that 890 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,040 Speaker 1: wasn't a thing a generation. Ago that really didn't. Exist 891 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 1: it only existed when we got the. Playoff and then 892 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:10,200 Speaker 1: the huge marketing mechanism was employed behind that, playoff and 893 00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:15,239 Speaker 1: The Who's in era was, born for WHICH espn has 894 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 1: eventually atoned and apologized and realized the error of their. 895 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:19,920 Speaker 1: Ways AND i give them full credit for. That but 896 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,239 Speaker 1: you can't erase, history, obviously and so you started to 897 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,840 Speaker 1: beat it in the minds of the fans and of 898 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,600 Speaker 1: players that these games mean. More therefore those games mean, 899 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,560 Speaker 1: less and eventually people start saying things, like, well Those 900 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,120 Speaker 1: bowl games are, meaningless and all of a, sudden the 901 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,120 Speaker 1: players can't blame. Them they started listening and they, said, 902 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,359 Speaker 1: well if you guys don't seem to care about These 903 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 1: bowl games anymore and you're calling them, Meaningless i'm not 904 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: going to risk my. Health then There i'm gonna opt. 905 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,719 Speaker 1: Out we didn't make the. Playoffs i'm the opt. Out 906 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,960 Speaker 1: no one did that, before AND i wonder would we 907 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:54,680 Speaker 1: have still sort of moved in that. Direction would players 908 00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:56,799 Speaker 1: have opted out? REGARDLESS i don't know that we would 909 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,960 Speaker 1: have gotten to that. Point who, knows but it's always 910 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,879 Speaker 1: fun to. SPECULATE i will say, this, THOUGH i think 911 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 1: that there is a growing number of people BECAUSE i 912 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 1: do this. PERIODICALLY i run a poll AND i, ask 913 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,400 Speaker 1: all things known, now would you rather have what we have? 914 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,279 Speaker 1: Now or would you rather go back to THE bcs? 915 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,759 Speaker 1: Era and a little while, ago people scoffed at that. Notion, no, 916 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,399 Speaker 1: no don't ever take me back to THE bcs. Era 917 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,279 Speaker 1: at least we have some kind of postseason format. Now 918 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,759 Speaker 1: but then we got a little deeper into it and 919 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,040 Speaker 1: people started to realizing you don't just get the playoff 920 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,239 Speaker 1: without having consequences to the, playoff AND i don't care 921 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:35,880 Speaker 1: if you extend it to, Twelve you're still going to have. 922 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,880 Speaker 1: That AND i think a lot of people started to, 923 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,200 Speaker 1: realize BOY i miss what bowl season used to. Mean 924 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,640 Speaker 1: and you, know this dude who wears a WHITE t 925 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 1: shirt every other night of the week on YouTube starts 926 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,480 Speaker 1: talking about how college football season is supposed to work 927 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,719 Speaker 1: from the inside, out regular season, first as opposed to 928 00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:57,439 Speaker 1: pro sports that work from backwards to. Front and boy, 929 00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 1: man Those saturday's in the, fall you know that is pretty. 930 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,800 Speaker 1: SPECIAL i do feel a different way about regular season 931 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,120 Speaker 1: college football THAN i do about the regular season of 932 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,799 Speaker 1: any other. Sport maybe that's not the craziest thing in the, 933 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,840 Speaker 1: world and that comes from some folks who support playoff. 934 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,759 Speaker 1: Expansion but even in the back of their, Minds i've 935 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,800 Speaker 1: noticed more and, more at least some of, them have, 936 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,800 Speaker 1: said there's something to. That you may not have swayed, 937 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,520 Speaker 1: me but there's something to. THAT i don't know where 938 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,319 Speaker 1: we would have. GONE i still think we eventually would 939 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,720 Speaker 1: have expanded even if we didn't in twenty. Fourteen but hoopst. 940 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,399 Speaker 1: KNOWS i got one more to throw at. You AFTER 941 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,000 Speaker 1: i take a sip from the. Childie of, course this 942 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,279 Speaker 1: one takes us back a little. Ways you know what 943 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,080 Speaker 1: you KNOW i wanna, Do, Colin i'm gonna take the 944 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:46,920 Speaker 1: unprecedented step of taking a non branded chapstick brand and 945 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,319 Speaker 1: just applying some. Chopstick you know you don't want chapped 946 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 1: lips out. Here come, on Due point is dropping like 947 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,440 Speaker 1: a rock outside after the line of storms came. Through all, 948 00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,560 Speaker 1: right here we, go change one moment in the history 949 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,080 Speaker 1: of college football to have maximum. IMPACT a lot of, 950 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,960 Speaker 1: you predictably went all the way back to nineteen ninety. Two. 951 00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,520 Speaker 1: Stop if you're in my college, audience if you're in 952 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,120 Speaker 1: my high school, audience and you're thinking this doesn't interest, 953 00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 1: ME i wasn't born. Yet learn. Something allow yourself to 954 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,839 Speaker 1: be educated for just a. Second you're already educated enough 955 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,880 Speaker 1: to find the. Show for, THAT i am. Thankful but 956 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,080 Speaker 1: let me explain to you what the world used to be. 957 00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,680 Speaker 1: Like the world in Little JP's day used to be 958 00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,800 Speaker 1: a lot like. This no conference championship, games they just don't. 959 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,399 Speaker 1: Exist and then all of a sudden there was. One 960 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:41,000 Speaker 1: THE sec got themselves two additional, teams and they had, 961 00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,799 Speaker 1: twelve and that was the magic. Number and if you 962 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,959 Speaker 1: got twelve, teams you can have a conference title? Game 963 00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,360 Speaker 1: what's a conference title? Game that was a popular question 964 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,560 Speaker 1: around the water cooler back in nineteen ninety, Two and 965 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,920 Speaker 1: then they found out At Legion field In, Birmingham, alabama 966 00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,120 Speaker 1: The Gray, lady as they call, Her florida is number 967 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,440 Speaker 1: eleven in the country eight and. Three bama is number 968 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,359 Speaker 1: one or number, TWO i think in the, country they're 969 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:09,280 Speaker 1: eleven to. Zero in previous, years that's the Season bama 970 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,080 Speaker 1: goes and plays for The National championship. Game but in this, 971 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,040 Speaker 1: Season Roy, kramer who was THE sec commissioner at the, 972 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,799 Speaker 1: time said we're gonna have ourselves a conference championship. Game 973 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna play one more. Game everybody hated. It, everybody 974 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:28,000 Speaker 1: the coaches hated. It the member institutions nearly unanimously said 975 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,600 Speaker 1: we're going to voluntarily risk knocking one of our teams 976 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,080 Speaker 1: out of the national championship picture when the rest of 977 00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,240 Speaker 1: the country is just gonna sit back on their couch 978 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 1: and watch, us, like how stupid is? This and it 979 00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:46,360 Speaker 1: seemed really likely that you may have immediate regrets because 980 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,640 Speaker 1: of the very first year they had the. Thing you've 981 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,239 Speaker 1: got a national championship team In. Alabama there has to 982 00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,480 Speaker 1: go play another game In birmingham Against Steve spurrier and 983 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:59,319 Speaker 1: The Florida. Gators it's twenty one to twenty, one three 984 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,600 Speaker 1: minutes in change to go in the, game and everyone's 985 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,800 Speaker 1: biting their, fingernails and all of a, Sudden Shane matthews 986 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,759 Speaker 1: drops back and he looks right and he sees a, 987 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,720 Speaker 1: receiver But Antonio langham is between himself and the, receiver 988 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,279 Speaker 1: And Antonio langham returns it for a. Touchdown bama goes 989 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,279 Speaker 1: up twenty, eight twenty one clock runs. OUT i think 990 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,319 Speaker 1: that's the final. Score So bama punches their ticket to 991 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,239 Speaker 1: The national championship. Game they Drug. Miami they win the whole. 992 00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,319 Speaker 1: Thing what if that play didn't happen and what If 993 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,400 Speaker 1: florida just goes down the field kicksfield, goal they end 994 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,920 Speaker 1: up winning the, Game bama's out of the national championship. 995 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:39,560 Speaker 1: Picture this has so many far reaching. Ramifications, potentially the 996 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,000 Speaker 1: first thing you have to ask yourself is would they 997 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,040 Speaker 1: have ever played ANOTHER sec championship? Game BECAUSE i know 998 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,160 Speaker 1: a lot of folks after it was over and everyone 999 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,239 Speaker 1: looks like a. Genius they could sit back with a 1000 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,319 Speaker 1: cigar in their mouth and, say, oh we were gonna 1001 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,160 Speaker 1: play it. Regardless you, know it didn't matter how much 1002 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:59,080 Speaker 1: complaining there. Was, well, okay find out how real it. 1003 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,200 Speaker 1: Gets if you do Have florida win this game And 1004 00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,840 Speaker 1: bamada can't go to the title game and you cost 1005 00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,200 Speaker 1: your conference a shot at a national. Championship let's see 1006 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,360 Speaker 1: how steadfast you would have been in. That and then 1007 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,360 Speaker 1: even if THE sec sticks to their, guns how quickly 1008 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,680 Speaker 1: or rather how slowly do you think any other conference 1009 00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,799 Speaker 1: would have come around to the idea of having a 1010 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,480 Speaker 1: conference championship? Game because, nowadays you, know LIKE i, said 1011 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:27,279 Speaker 1: our college audience didn't watch this live and so you 1012 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,319 Speaker 1: guys are just used to thinking at the end of 1013 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:34,040 Speaker 1: a regular, season we have conference championship. Games some conferences 1014 00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,839 Speaker 1: have had them done away with them and then brought them, 1015 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,799 Speaker 1: back like The Big. Twelve but once upon a time 1016 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,759 Speaker 1: that wasn't the. Case what you take for, granted what 1017 00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,160 Speaker 1: is the constant and always has been in your, world 1018 00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,560 Speaker 1: was at one time not at. All AND i wonder 1019 00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,320 Speaker 1: if we would have seen the, proliferation would THE acc 1020 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,480 Speaker 1: and The big ten and The pac twelve and The 1021 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,279 Speaker 1: pac ten at the time and The big twelve and. 1022 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,399 Speaker 1: Whatnot would they have adopted that model because it still 1023 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,439 Speaker 1: took a little. WHILE i don't know that they would 1024 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,120 Speaker 1: have adopted it so. Quickly and it's also interesting to 1025 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,719 Speaker 1: note that the first, ONES i think the first one 1026 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,919 Speaker 1: or maybe, two weren't played In. Atlanta they were played 1027 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,640 Speaker 1: over there In, birmingham and then they went to The Georgia. 1028 00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:18,239 Speaker 1: Dome rest Her, soul and so now all's, well that 1029 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,520 Speaker 1: ends well in THE Sec championship is a big. Spectacle 1030 00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,840 Speaker 1: BUT i REALLY i don't know that we would have. 1031 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,400 Speaker 1: That we would have gone down the. Road it's almost 1032 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,640 Speaker 1: like we could have been sitting Here florida won that 1033 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,719 Speaker 1: game and we're sitting. Here what were the thirty year 1034 00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,640 Speaker 1: anniversary was last? YEAR i think it could be that 1035 00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,520 Speaker 1: that would be this footnote in history that THE sec 1036 00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,480 Speaker 1: tried this thing one year and it was called a 1037 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,000 Speaker 1: conference championship. Game like twelve games or eleven games weren't. 1038 00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,719 Speaker 1: Enough they're going to play another game because by the, 1039 00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,480 Speaker 1: way there were eleven regular season games that, year so 1040 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,560 Speaker 1: they're going to play eleven games and then they're going 1041 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,879 Speaker 1: to play this twelfth game where they voluntarily put their 1042 00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,840 Speaker 1: title contender at, risk and then the title contender, fell 1043 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:00,960 Speaker 1: and so they scrapped the idea and they never did it. 1044 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,360 Speaker 1: Again it could be Like New. Coke THE sec championship 1045 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,120 Speaker 1: game could have ended up Being New. Coke and if 1046 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 1: you if you really want to throw your mind for a, world, 1047 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,120 Speaker 1: yeah if you're in college or even you know a 1048 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,279 Speaker 1: little bit older than, that go Google New coke and 1049 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,440 Speaker 1: check out what the fine folks At Coca cola once 1050 00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,360 Speaker 1: thought it in their best interest to. Do when you 1051 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,560 Speaker 1: got the best soft drink formula in the, world what 1052 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,680 Speaker 1: do you want to? Do change the whole? Thing when 1053 00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:28,440 Speaker 1: you got the best conference, going what do you want to? 1054 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,160 Speaker 1: Do change the whole? Thing well it worked out for THE. 1055 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,200 Speaker 1: SEC i can't say the same For New. Coke, ever 1056 00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:38,879 Speaker 1: Since atlanta Stole coke as an idea From, columbus they 1057 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,600 Speaker 1: were bound to have something like that happened to. Them 1058 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,759 Speaker 1: they didn't take aflic from, us, though nor did they TAKE. 1059 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:47,080 Speaker 1: Rc but be that as it. May Gene stallings is 1060 00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,439 Speaker 1: another name that comes to mind. Here you, Know Gene 1061 00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,960 Speaker 1: stallings is remembered universally Amongst alabama folks for winning that, 1062 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,680 Speaker 1: title winning THAT sec and then national title in nineteen ninety. 1063 00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,360 Speaker 1: Two if they lose this, game they don't play for 1064 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,560 Speaker 1: that national, championship and there would be this, great big 1065 00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:07,520 Speaker 1: void In alabama national championship lore from winning their last 1066 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,680 Speaker 1: one Under bryant in the late seventies to who, KNOWS 1067 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,160 Speaker 1: i Guess Nick saban still shows. Up but you know 1068 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,520 Speaker 1: the butterfly, effect you, know the butterfly of The kathos. 1069 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,120 Speaker 1: Theory you can't change one thing in the past and 1070 00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,600 Speaker 1: expect every other thing to have played. Out so who 1071 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,160 Speaker 1: knows who's this to? Say BUT i will SAY i 1072 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,080 Speaker 1: do not think we would have just happily and merrily 1073 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:32,960 Speaker 1: trotted along down the road to conference realignment and expansion 1074 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,600 Speaker 1: and conference championship games nearly as fast If florida had 1075 00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:40,759 Speaker 1: won that. Game all, right that, MAN i WISH i 1076 00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,680 Speaker 1: wish we have like an. HOUR i THINK Sec network 1077 00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:47,560 Speaker 1: did a really good documentary on that. Game it's just 1078 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,520 Speaker 1: it's worth your. Time it's WORTH i think it's an. 1079 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,600 Speaker 1: Hour it's worth your time to. Watch all, Right i've got. 1080 00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,840 Speaker 1: Colin let me make SURE i Don't, yeah, OKAY i 1081 00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,680 Speaker 1: got you in the right. Order the last THING i 1082 00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:58,920 Speaker 1: want to, do especially when Producer jesse is out of, 1083 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,279 Speaker 1: town is le Throw colin for a loop in. There 1084 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:06,080 Speaker 1: so it is time bold. Predictions we are still parsing 1085 00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,919 Speaker 1: through these things from Last. August what did you say 1086 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,480 Speaker 1: you'd put your money on and how did it turn? Out, 1087 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,240 Speaker 1: well the first one turned out, really really well because 1088 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,040 Speaker 1: the first, prediction the first bold prediction that we're going 1089 00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:22,760 Speaker 1: to revisit, tonight IS lsu Beats alabama In Tiger stadium 1090 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,440 Speaker 1: after twelve. Years that was made On may, tenth not 1091 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,360 Speaker 1: Even August may, tenth in twenty twenty, two and it. 1092 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:32,760 Speaker 1: Happened AND i put an eight on the boldness scale 1093 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,160 Speaker 1: AND i got. Mocked, so you know, what grading on the. 1094 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,560 Speaker 1: CURVE i am not going to call myself wrong. Here 1095 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,480 Speaker 1: i'm going to call the people who mocked me. WRONG 1096 00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,000 Speaker 1: i had Some bama, fans some of Them i'm very close. 1097 00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,279 Speaker 1: To by the, way, say what in the world are 1098 00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,879 Speaker 1: you talking about Ls you can't Beat alabama In Death. 1099 00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,240 Speaker 1: Valley well, no they just hadn't in a little, while 1100 00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,040 Speaker 1: but they could always do. It and by the, way 1101 00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,640 Speaker 1: the REASON i only put an eight on it is number. 1102 00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,640 Speaker 1: ONE i respect that. Venue in number, TWO i had 1103 00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,040 Speaker 1: just watched a season Where bama struggled on the road 1104 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,600 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, one they had struggles on the, road 1105 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,400 Speaker 1: and they played for a national title and still struggled 1106 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,439 Speaker 1: on the. Road, well they struggled mightily on the road 1107 00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,279 Speaker 1: this past. Year this was one of. Them they lost 1108 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,759 Speaker 1: To tennessee as. Well now they were by combined four, 1109 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,640 Speaker 1: points but they count those are. Losses so this one 1110 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,120 Speaker 1: nail on the. Head bama loses In Death valley TO. 1111 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,480 Speaker 1: LSU i was listening to that game on the radio 1112 00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,640 Speaker 1: AND i, cannot for the life of me remember which 1113 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:31,440 Speaker 1: GAME i had been at that, day AND i am 1114 00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,440 Speaker 1: not going to sit here in dead air for ten 1115 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,560 Speaker 1: seconds to try and remember. It, ANYWAY i was not. 1116 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,600 Speaker 1: THERE i, thought, no, no never, mind never. Mind moving. 1117 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:43,320 Speaker 1: On so first prediction. Hit the second prediction was never 1118 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:48,040 Speaker 1: going to. Hit the second prediction WAS jj McCarthy is 1119 00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,520 Speaker 1: going to Lead michigan back to the, playoff and if 1120 00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,240 Speaker 1: it stopped, there it would be. Great it didn't stop, 1121 00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,000 Speaker 1: there and he finished his top five in The. HEISMAN 1122 00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,600 Speaker 1: i put a nine point nine to eight on the 1123 00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,000 Speaker 1: boldness rating. Here now you may think to, yourself, oh 1124 00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:03,520 Speaker 1: that was a close, call because they did make the. 1125 00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,800 Speaker 1: Playoff it wasn't a close call at. All this was 1126 00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,280 Speaker 1: always going to be one of the. Other michigan was 1127 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,400 Speaker 1: never going to make the playoff AND jj McCarthy be 1128 00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,520 Speaker 1: A heisman. Finalist it was gonna be one of the. 1129 00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,280 Speaker 1: OTHER jj McCarthy could throw the ball all over the 1130 00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:19,160 Speaker 1: place enough to Warrant heisman, consideration And michigan probably would 1131 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:20,840 Speaker 1: have lost two or three games because that was not 1132 00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,280 Speaker 1: the formula for them to win this. Year i'll tell, you, 1133 00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,880 Speaker 1: truthfully the prediction would have been better if you, Said 1134 00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:30,160 Speaker 1: michigan's going to make the playoff And Blake corum will 1135 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,920 Speaker 1: be A heisman. Contender now he still didn't make, it 1136 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:37,320 Speaker 1: but that would have Been michigan's ticket if they were 1137 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,280 Speaker 1: to have had A heisman finalist on a playoff, CAMPAIGN 1138 00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,400 Speaker 1: i think that's the way it would have. Gone this 1139 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:47,680 Speaker 1: next one did not, hit and this next one had 1140 00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,560 Speaker 1: to do with The big, twelve AND i gave. THIS 1141 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,640 Speaker 1: i gave this a little, credence SO i put a 1142 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:53,760 Speaker 1: seven on the boldness scale in this. One it was 1143 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,880 Speaker 1: From Will he, said No big twelve team will win 1144 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:02,640 Speaker 1: ten regular season. Games one of them, did and that WAS, 1145 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,320 Speaker 1: tcu and they went twelve and oh regular. Season Kansas 1146 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,480 Speaker 1: state went nine to. Three regular, season so one of them. 1147 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,800 Speaker 1: DID i put a seven on this one only BECAUSE 1148 00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:17,200 Speaker 1: i thought it could just be a total pinball match 1149 00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,960 Speaker 1: the whole. Year anyone could beat, anyone and that is 1150 00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:24,680 Speaker 1: how the season, unfolded even WITH. Tcu you may look 1151 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,440 Speaker 1: at this if you were cryogenically frozen In august and 1152 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,600 Speaker 1: you didn't get to watch the, season and you're looking 1153 00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,520 Speaker 1: at the graphic on the screen and it SAYS tcu 1154 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,200 Speaker 1: goes twelve and oh or nine to zero conference played 1155 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,920 Speaker 1: twelve in oh regular, season you may think to, yourself, 1156 00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,560 Speaker 1: ooh there was a dominant team out. THERE tcu wentn't. 1157 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:42,120 Speaker 1: Dominant they had a lot of close. Wins that's exactly 1158 00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,240 Speaker 1: how it would have had to have. Happened you got 1159 00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,760 Speaker 1: to win a whole bunch of close, games and The 1160 00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,200 Speaker 1: Big twelve had one team that did, that and, ironically 1161 00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,400 Speaker 1: OR i guess, unironically they didn't even win the conference, 1162 00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,720 Speaker 1: title still made the playoff and didn't win the playoff, 1163 00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,200 Speaker 1: game or actually won a playoff, game and then went 1164 00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,200 Speaker 1: to The National championship. Game so That's i'll tell. You 1165 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,480 Speaker 1: one of the craziest predictions would have been A big 1166 01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:06,120 Speaker 1: twelve team makes The national title. Game without winning their conference. 1167 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,200 Speaker 1: Title now that one would have gotten a ten on 1168 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,880 Speaker 1: the boldness scale from, me and we would have had 1169 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,880 Speaker 1: to burn the whole thing down because that actually would have. 1170 01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Hit next up another Little heisman flavored prediction, here and 1171 01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,680 Speaker 1: It's georgia. Related So jeremy, Said kenny, McIntosh running back 1172 01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:26,200 Speaker 1: At georgia will be in The heisman, race And i'll 1173 01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:29,600 Speaker 1: die on that hill rest in, Peace. Jeremy kenny McIntosh 1174 01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,720 Speaker 1: was nowhere to be. Found this is where you walk 1175 01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:37,360 Speaker 1: the disrespect, tightrope you, know like that's a, prediction that's. 1176 01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:42,240 Speaker 1: Ridiculous but yet IF i say it's, Ridiculous i'm Disrespecting kenny. 1177 01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,920 Speaker 1: McIntosh i'm not disrespecting. Him he's a very good football. 1178 01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:50,200 Speaker 1: Player i'm respecting how immensely skilled and lucky you have 1179 01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,120 Speaker 1: to be to be a running back in modern college 1180 01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:56,640 Speaker 1: football and be A heisman. Finalist and if you'll, remember 1181 01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,200 Speaker 1: the last one who did it Was Derrick henry in twenty. 1182 01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,240 Speaker 1: Fifteen AND i Had, belchie who stood in a little 1183 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,680 Speaker 1: bit for Producer jesse, TODAY i had him look Up henry's. 1184 01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,640 Speaker 1: Stats henry ran the ball nearly four hundred times that, 1185 01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:11,480 Speaker 1: year five point six yards per carry over twenty two hundred, 1186 01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:15,360 Speaker 1: yards twenty eight. Touchdowns that's just you're not gonna do, 1187 01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:17,640 Speaker 1: that and that's that's kind of the. Standard that's what 1188 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be doing to be a running 1189 01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:23,080 Speaker 1: back and be in The heisman. Conversation kenny McIntosh had 1190 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,320 Speaker 1: a good. Year he was banged up a little, bit 1191 01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,000 Speaker 1: but he had eight hundred and twenty nine rushing, yards ten. 1192 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,760 Speaker 1: Touchdowns he, was, oh where is? It a five point 1193 01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,360 Speaker 1: six yards per? Carry so that's a good, average but 1194 01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,920 Speaker 1: it's just it's not even. Close it's not even. Close 1195 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,760 Speaker 1: AND i don't even like that, phrase but in this, 1196 01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:43,320 Speaker 1: case it wasn't even. Close by the, way general advice, 1197 01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,919 Speaker 1: here when you're making bold, predictions don't say you're gonna 1198 01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,240 Speaker 1: die on the. Hill. Don't life is. Precious life is. 1199 01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,680 Speaker 1: Precious you only get. One you're Not, gary you're Not 1200 01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:57,320 Speaker 1: Producer jesse's. Cat you've got one life to. Live don't 1201 01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,720 Speaker 1: die on the hill of predicting a running back who's 1202 01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,240 Speaker 1: not going to sniff The heisman to be A heisman. 1203 01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,920 Speaker 1: Contender that concludes this evening's bit of. Advice last up, 1204 01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,720 Speaker 1: HERE i put an eight on this, one and it 1205 01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:11,280 Speaker 1: hurt my, heart BUT i had to do, It mike. 1206 01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,520 Speaker 1: Said Iowa state will win nine games and reach The 1207 01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,880 Speaker 1: Big twelve championship game in a Rugged Big twelve. Season, 1208 01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:22,160 Speaker 1: mike it was, rugged and never more so than for 1209 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,880 Speaker 1: The Iowa State. Cyclones they went one and eight In 1210 01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:29,360 Speaker 1: Big twelve play AND i saw every one of. Them 1211 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,439 Speaker 1: they were four and eight, overall but they did Beat 1212 01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,960 Speaker 1: iowa having scored only ten points in the. Process so there's. 1213 01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:41,640 Speaker 1: That their margins of loss this year seven, points three, 1214 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:48,000 Speaker 1: points one point three, points fourteen, six four forty. Eight 1215 01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,520 Speaker 1: can you tell where they PLAY? Tcu so there are 1216 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,200 Speaker 1: six losses on here by a combined twenty four. POINTS 1217 01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,280 Speaker 1: i Had stats And info run the, numbers and that 1218 01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:01,000 Speaker 1: is an average over those six games four points per, 1219 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:05,400 Speaker 1: loss or losing by four points per. GAME i guess 1220 01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:12,200 Speaker 1: this hurt me BECAUSE i blindly am loyal To Iowa. 1221 01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:15,960 Speaker 1: STATE i almost abstained from predicting records for, him BECAUSE 1222 01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:18,320 Speaker 1: i just told You i'm. Biased you can't trust me 1223 01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:20,000 Speaker 1: On Iowa. STATE i predicted them to go to the 1224 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,439 Speaker 1: playoff two years. Ago you can't trust me on. Them even. 1225 01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,520 Speaker 1: Today i'm telling you don't trust me WHEN i talk 1226 01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:28,520 Speaker 1: About Iowa. State respect, me but don't trust. Me we'll 1227 01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,760 Speaker 1: not talking About Iowa. State so, yeah that, one that 1228 01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,040 Speaker 1: one crashed in Burn, NO i, mean the prediction was 1229 01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:36,960 Speaker 1: they're gonna win nine games in, conference and they won. One, 1230 01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,520 Speaker 1: yeah that's not gonna. Happen that's. Tough we had a 1231 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,400 Speaker 1: good show. Tonight we went over an. Hour we're back. 1232 01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:46,640 Speaker 1: Live we're on our normal rotation. Now the EVIL nfl 1233 01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:48,360 Speaker 1: is out of the way and so we will we 1234 01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,480 Speaker 1: will not be tripped up. Again so we'll be Back sunday. 1235 01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:54,200 Speaker 1: Night remember The Late Kick extra podcast is just sitting 1236 01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,240 Speaker 1: there in the podcast, feed and don't. Worry it's. Evergreen 1237 01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,320 Speaker 1: it's what we call, evergreen and that means if you 1238 01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,200 Speaker 1: don't listen to it right, away if you want to 1239 01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,600 Speaker 1: wait Until friday Or saturday to listen to, it it's 1240 01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:06,800 Speaker 1: still just as, good still just as. Good in, Fact 1241 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:10,360 Speaker 1: i've been looking at our traffic on the YouTube channel 1242 01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,480 Speaker 1: and in the podcast. Feed some of you have taken 1243 01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:16,880 Speaker 1: to just going back and finding old shows to. WATCH 1244 01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,640 Speaker 1: i kid you. Not. Colin remember when we did That 1245 01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,760 Speaker 1: Show Owners association. Meeting we were out the we were 1246 01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,200 Speaker 1: at the old studio down In, brentwood so we've been 1247 01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:26,680 Speaker 1: here for a long. Time we were down at the 1248 01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:29,520 Speaker 1: old studio In brentwood and it was when we had 1249 01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:31,720 Speaker 1: first started. Out it WAS i think in the middle 1250 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,520 Speaker 1: OF covid, too so we're just trying to come up 1251 01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:35,520 Speaker 1: with ideas and Director colin AND i went in the 1252 01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:39,400 Speaker 1: studio and we we had like a little raffle amongst 1253 01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,080 Speaker 1: the audience and we TOOK i think twenty or so 1254 01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:45,480 Speaker 1: of you and we had this massive zoom call and 1255 01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:48,120 Speaker 1: it was just you talking to me and one by 1256 01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,520 Speaker 1: one you offered up questions and we recorded. It we 1257 01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,440 Speaker 1: put it on the YouTube, channel so that's like two 1258 01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:56,240 Speaker 1: and a half years. Ago that, video over the past 1259 01:04:56,280 --> 01:05:00,440 Speaker 1: three months has gotten more views than it had in 1260 01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:04,560 Speaker 1: the first two years of its, existence AND i can't explain. 1261 01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:08,400 Speaker 1: It Cole kuberleck sent me a screenshot yesterday he was watching, 1262 01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:11,240 Speaker 1: It SO i don't know What google's doing algorithmically to that, 1263 01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:12,640 Speaker 1: video but a lot of you have been watching. It 1264 01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:18,840 Speaker 1: GOOD i show like this depends on repeat, business so 1265 01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,040 Speaker 1: we appreciate. You. Guys we're out of here because we 1266 01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Have kingpong to, play really pressing matters to attend. To 1267 01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:28,240 Speaker 1: so Until sunday, night for Director, colin for just an 1268 01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:30,640 Speaker 1: entire team of producers here that put the show together. 1269 01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:32,439 Speaker 1: Tonight I'm josh fate take. Here have a great start 1270 01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:33,640 Speaker 1: to your, weekend And god bless