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Speaker 1: In fact, you could find that.

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Speaker 2: They squeeze a little bit.

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Speaker 1: More game to game, roster to roster, recruiting class to

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Speaker 1: recruiting class from an evaluation and development standpoint than even

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Speaker 1: you expected them to, because that's what he's always done,

438
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Speaker 1: It's what Dedbor's teams have always done. Obama's not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: I just think there's not a natural tie. Obviously, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that if Kirby and Kaylen Debor really crossed paths.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they have. I could be wrong on that.

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Speaker 1: So it's just gonna be those logos. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: those brands. The ll always matter. I just I think

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Speaker 1: they play this year. They play in Week four, and

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Speaker 1: George's about a three to three and a half point

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Speaker 1: favorite in that game in Tuscaloosa right now now, if

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Speaker 1: you want it to very quickly take on a personal feel,

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Speaker 1: have Georgia go there and lose as a favorite. With

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Speaker 1: Carson Beck returning and with Alabama, you know, seemingly hitting

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Speaker 1: the reset button, that's not really what's happening at all.

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Speaker 1: They got a lot of really good players over there still.

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Speaker 1: But this will be the first time in a very

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Speaker 1: long time that a team will be sort of low

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Speaker 1: key expected to go to Alabama and win. Texas went there,

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Speaker 1: they weren't expected to win LSU and twenty nineteen they

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Speaker 1: weren't expected to win. Folks thought they had a good shot.

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Speaker 1: This Georgia team will be expected to go to Alabama

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Speaker 1: and win. Well if they don't, and they got their

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Speaker 1: returning quarterback coming in Carson Beck, and they go over

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Speaker 1: there and they drop a game, they're not out of it,

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Speaker 1: because you got to lose like three games, four games

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Speaker 1: to be out of the playoff. Now, but if all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden kurb he goes one in four versus

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Speaker 1: Saban and then get started zero to one versus Caitlin Debor,

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Speaker 1: you won't have to worry about anything else. He'll hear

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Speaker 1: it from his own folks because they've set an insanely

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Speaker 1: high standard there. He set an insanely high standard there.

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Speaker 1: So that's the way I think, very quickly, it would,

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Speaker 1: it would maintain its status is one of the premier

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Speaker 1: rivalries in the sport.

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Speaker 2: Other than that, I don't really know that you can

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Speaker 2: maintain that. Man.

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Speaker 1: That's why they're so special, because what it takes for

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Speaker 1: a rivalry to be that intense, it's pretty fleeting. It's

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Speaker 1: no different than a storm maintaining maximum strength. Those ingredients

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Speaker 1: have to come together perfectly. I'm just glad we got

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Speaker 1: to see it as long as we did. I'm not

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Speaker 1: writing the eulogy or anything like that. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: the matchup takes on a little different form now. Academy

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Speaker 1: dot Com Why did I say dot com? Academy is

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Speaker 1: we've been doing a little experiment this summer and we'll continue.

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Speaker 1: I would love for you to patronize our partner, which

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Speaker 1: and I'm all for it. However, there is a special

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Speaker 1: click on the link, do whatever you were going to do,

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Speaker 1: Buy whatever you were going to buy. Buy your fold

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Speaker 1: out chairs, buy your coolers, buy your canopies by your

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Speaker 1: big league chew, buy whatever you want to. Just do

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Speaker 1: it through those portals, because well, frankly, it helps us

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Speaker 1: just a little bit more at the moment because of

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Speaker 1: our little summer experiment than the other means not to

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Speaker 1: say I may get mad if I see you in

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Speaker 1: the aisles of Academy tomorrow, because I'll probably there at

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Speaker 1: some point this week because I have a few purchases

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Speaker 1: of my own, which.

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Speaker 2: Begs the question, Colin, should I myself click on the link?

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Speaker 1: I think I will, So never mind, You're probably not

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Speaker 1: gonna see anything store this week. You probably will have

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Speaker 1: to wait a few weeks to see me in the

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Speaker 1: store again. But maybe we'll bump into each other in

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Speaker 1: the eisles of Academy dot com. Thank you guys so much.

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Speaker 1: We always appreciate them. They've been one of our Day

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Speaker 1: one sponsors. They have been our Day one sponsor. It's

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Speaker 1: not like we have fifteen of them, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I have. I've got some excitement about myself right now.

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Speaker 2: And yet I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't even bring my water jug in here, so I'll

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Speaker 1: have to pretend to be hydrated. But let's just let's

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Speaker 1: pause amongst ourselves for a second, and let's appreciate something

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Speaker 1: that could be happening.

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Speaker 2: Three second moment of silence and over the heart. All right, now,

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Speaker 2: what are we memorializing?

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Speaker 1: Well, as you know, everyone's terrified of the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: the only thing worse to me than college football trying

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Speaker 1: to turn into the NFL. Is everyone in college football

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Speaker 1: tiptoeing around the NFL being terrified of them. I've always

527
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Speaker 1: been of the opinion that college football should operate and.

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Speaker 2: Run its race.

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Speaker 1: And if you aggravate the NFL every now and then,

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Speaker 1: oh well, let me explain something. Hey, if if the

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Speaker 1: alien that we consult with every now and then arrives

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Speaker 1: here on Earth and checks in with us, like, like,

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Speaker 1: how's it going, I explained to the alien, let me

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Speaker 1: explain to you alien, we got the NFL over here.

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Speaker 2: It's a megapower.

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Speaker 1: No form of entertainment has ever risen to the collective

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Speaker 1: heights that the NFL is right now in the history

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Speaker 1: of this world. I don't know about the other planets.

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Speaker 1: You'd know better than I do on that front. Ha

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Speaker 1: ha ha, he laughed. And so I continue, and I say, now,

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Speaker 1: imagine a world where you get to exist and everyone

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Speaker 1: bends the need to you, and your workforce is already

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Speaker 1: well known because there's this thing called college football that

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Speaker 1: develops them for you, and they basically serve as a

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Speaker 1: giant marketing mechanism where before the players ever arrive in

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Speaker 1: your draft, they play in front of eighty or ninety

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Speaker 1: thousand people on Saturdays, they play on national television. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to pay a dime for it, actually, and

549
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: so all of your marketing and development is done prior

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Speaker 1: to the players coming to you, and you just get

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Speaker 1: to reap all the benefits and.

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Speaker 2: You don't even have to do anything.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to subsidize it, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: support it. In fact, you can act like total jerks

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00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: and act like it doesn't even exist, and act like

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Speaker 1: college football should thank the Lord every night. They just

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Speaker 1: get to breed the same air as you. What would

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00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: you think about that alien? The alien would probably say

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Speaker 1: that's pretty messed up. That would never fly on Jupiter

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Speaker 1: or Mars or Venus, but somehow, some way, it still

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Speaker 1: flies on Earth. Saturday, December twenty first, some of that

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Speaker 1: may be about to change. So I know you haven't

563
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Speaker 1: looked that far ahead in your schedule, but don't worry.

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Speaker 2: I have.

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Speaker 1: And it just so happens that we'll have college football

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Speaker 1: playoff games that day, three of them actually on the

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Speaker 1: same day that the NFL has Texans at Chiefs at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock Eastern time and Steelers at Ravens at four

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Speaker 1: thirty And why is this such a big deal. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's because college football has bent over backwards to avoid

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Speaker 1: going head to head with NFL games, Because god forbid

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Speaker 1: we ever watch Ole Miss play Arizona State at the

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Speaker 1: same time Ravens and Steelers are playing.

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Speaker 2: What could happen? The world would end?

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Speaker 1: Right, what would happen, Well, we'd all just melt down

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Speaker 1: and everything would be thrown into oblivion. Actually, what would

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Speaker 1: happen is exactly what will happen December twenty first, some

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Speaker 1: people are going to watch the NFL. Some people are

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Speaker 1: gonna watch college football playoff game. I know which one

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Speaker 1: I'm watching. I think if you're watching me right now,

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Speaker 1: you probably fall in the same camp as me. But

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Speaker 1: if you don't, that's fine. The point is, if it

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Speaker 1: doesn't impact your wallet, why would it impact your mood?

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Speaker 1: Great memew quote. There there's this cabal. It's the only

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Speaker 1: word I can use. There's this cabal of executive you know,

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Speaker 1: there's the three Peaks. There's there's a group of people

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Speaker 1: who run college football. I don't want to use the

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Speaker 1: wardrobe metaphors too much tonight. I already used them once.

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Speaker 1: There's a group of suits, high level mustache types that

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Speaker 1: run college football, and they've been terrified of running directly

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Speaker 1: opposed to the NFL because they're worried that the ratings

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Speaker 1: that they, you know, get for those games in the playoff,

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Speaker 1: they won't be big enough and it'll look bad and

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Speaker 1: they don't want to make the NFL mad for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: and therefore they've structured the entire college football postseason to

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Speaker 1: work around the NFL. The NBA tried this, and then

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Speaker 1: the NFL said, hey, you know what we're going to do.

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Speaker 1: Although we get our way on everything, we're also going

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Speaker 1: to we're gonna have NFL games on Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Bye. And the NBA looked and said, oh, but.

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Speaker 1: But I thought if we if we work to your appeasement,

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Speaker 1: that you would favor us in the end.

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Speaker 2: Nope, nope, don't care about you.

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Speaker 1: Actually we never even you existed, and the NFL treats

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Speaker 1: college football the same way. So finally, whether it was

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Speaker 1: for lack of option or because someone somewhere found a

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Speaker 1: set in the room, college football finally said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: We're actually gonna look at the NFL schedule. We're going

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Speaker 1: to see that there are games that day, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to play our playoff games. Anyway, I have a

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Speaker 1: wild theory on this, and the wild theory is the

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Speaker 1: ratings for those first two games, those first two college

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Speaker 1: football playoff games those days won't break any records. But

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what they will do. They'll take a

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Speaker 1: bite out of those two NFL games. Those two NFL

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Speaker 1: games will do big numbers. They will be by ten

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Speaker 1: miles the most watched broadcasts those days. But here's the

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Speaker 1: thing that happens in the ad sales world. You don't

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Speaker 1: go to Toyota, you don't go to Academy, you don't

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Speaker 1: go to FanDuel. You don't go to these companies and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks will watch our show. They want

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Speaker 1: to know more than that. They want to know about

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Speaker 1: what they can expect, and they want to sell against

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Speaker 1: a certain number. And so if you go to them

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Speaker 1: and say twenty million people or thereabouts are going to

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Speaker 1: watch this game, they say, that's great, here's how much

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Speaker 2: Of the audience.

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Speaker 1: They were actually over watching Penn State Virginia Tech. Sir,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it won't ever happen again. Well, yeah it will,

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Speaker 1: because what actually happens with the NFL is it's everyone's

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Speaker 1: backup option. The NFL is what it is because it's

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Speaker 1: an insanely entertaining product and the games matter a whole lot,

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Speaker 1: and the brands are world known, and you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who are going to watch Chiefs Texans

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Speaker 1: because it's their priority A.

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Speaker 2: But there is this huge collection of people who.

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Speaker 1: Would also watch chief Texans because nothing else that's good

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Speaker 1: enough is on and so there is there's no backup option.

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Speaker 2: But that group, there's a lot of them in that group.

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Speaker 1: Who if you put a college football playoff game on,

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Speaker 1: would say, oh, I'd much rather watch college football plaoff

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Speaker 1: game than this.

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Speaker 2: Not the folks who were always going to watch Chiefs Texans.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the group out there that makes the

649
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Speaker 1: NFL numbers what they are every week that just don't

650
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: have any other option because every other thing on TV

651
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: pretty much sucks right now, and so they go and

652
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 1: they're watching it just to watch it. The watch it

653
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: just to watch it. Crowd has a large portion that'll

654
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: end up on the college football game enough to where

655
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: you won't outdraw the NFL. No one here is ever

656
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: suggesting that. But I know this world. I know the

657
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: world I live in. It's not whether someone outdrew you.

658
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: It's what did you deliver to your partners relative to

659
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: what you told them you would deliver. And if you

660
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: don't deliver, if you're just delivering seventy or eighty percent

661
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: of what they were promised, they don't like that. And

662
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: I have a theory that if college football does oppose

663
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,719
Speaker 1: the NFL for a couple of cycles here in the playoffs,

664
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: it may be the NFL.

665
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: That wants to work around that.

666
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: It may be the NFL that says, you know what,

667
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: we don't like this so much.

668
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: Hello, college football, it's nice to meet you. Have you

669
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: been here the whole time? It's nice to meet you.

670
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 2: Let's negotiate.

671
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: I had Klatt on the show a few months ago,

672
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: and he said what I think is probably the best approach,

673
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: and that is for NFL and college football to work

674
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: together and have your afternoon games that then lead into

675
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,959
Speaker 1: college football playoff primetime games. In a normal world, that's

676
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: how it should work. The NFL should appreciate college football

677
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: for what they provide. The NFL on a multitude of

678
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: front they don't, but they should. I'm just asking you, guys,

679
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: and most of you don't, but I'm asking those of

680
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: you who are prone to this, please don't fall into

681
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: the casual trap of starting to talk.

682
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: About TV ratings.

683
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't affect you, It does not matter, It does

684
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: not impact your wallet one bit.

685
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 2: Fifty million people could.

686
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: Watch the college football Playoff first round games and it

687
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't matter to you.

688
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: A lot of people would get rich off of it.

689
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 2: You are not one of those people.

690
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: I uh, I guess we could figure out a way

691
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: for us to become Even then, I still don't care

692
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: about it. So if I don't care about it, you

693
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: really shouldn't care about it. The point is college football

694
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: will just stand his ground for once in its life.

695
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: You might find out that you didn't have as much

696
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: to be scared of as you thought you had to

697
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: be scared of. That's all I'm saying. Good for whoever

698
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: in the room made this call. By the way, Wichita, Kansas,

699
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: they're tuning in their ideal Georgia, which is on the

700
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: CSX Fitzgerald Subdivision in Ideal, Georgia, they're watching. In Meridian, Mississippi,

701
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: they're watching as well.

702
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: How would I know that? Who knows?

703
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about for Why not, let's go ahead

704
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: and talk about him. I had a question, Well, I did,

705
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: and Cliff did. Cliff had a question from Tampa Bay, Florida.

706
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: He said, are you finally buying Billy Napier stock after

707
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: seeing what the Gators just pulled off in the transfer portal? Well,

708
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: I never sold my Billy Napier stock. I'm not like

709
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: some of these folks. I have been listening. Everybody has

710
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: sold Billy Napier in Florida down the River. I haven't.

711
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: I bought stock in him when he was hired, and

712
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: then they've been bad the first two years. I didn't

713
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: sell my stock. I have looked. First off, that piece

714
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: of b roll we run with Napier always makes it

715
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: look like he's peeing over in the corner. But I'm

716
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: asking Colin to keep it in the show because it's

717
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: like tradition.

718
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: At this point.

719
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: If you're listening to a podcast, I don't know what

720
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 1: to tell you, but I never sold my Napier stock.

721
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 2: However, I have noticed what they've been doing in the portal.

722
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: So they just took fifteen overall kids in the portal

723
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: and it's got a lot of people excited. They locked

724
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: down the number five overall portal class. It's Ole miss Oregon, Bama,

725
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: A and M, Florida, Texas, Florida State, so to a

726
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: bunch of teams basically that you expect to compete for

727
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then Florida's just mixed in and A

728
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: and M's in there as well. So they had the

729
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: number thirteen recruiting class this past cycle. They just landed

730
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: the number five portal class. Elijah Badger was a critical addition.

731
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: They just got him. He's a wide receiver from Arizona State.

732
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: They had Pearce all come from there a couple of

733
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: cycles going ends up being a first round draft pick.

734
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: I don't doubt the developmental piece at Florida. I certainly

735
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: don't doubt the evaluation piece. They're doing those things very well.

736
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: It's just they need time. They always have needed time.

737
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: The inside offensive lineman they got him from USC They

738
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 1: got Cormini. McClain really interested to see how he pans out.

739
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: The former top rated dB in the country from like

740
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: last recruiting cycle. He's there now, so there are no

741
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: guarantees here. I always very careful when I talk about Florida.

742
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: But after the trip we took down there a couple

743
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, it's like three or four weeks ago.

744
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: Now we got a really really good look. I get

745
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: a good look at a lot of these programs when

746
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: I go. And the reason I mentioned that is because comparatively,

747
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: it gives you a really good idea of some programs

748
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 1: out there that think they're doing it at a high level,

749
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: but they don't get that they're still falling short. There

750
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: are programs like that, like when I'm at Georgia, there's

751
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: no doubt. When I'm at Ohio State Bama, like there's

752
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: no doubt. Those places are just machines and everything's moving

753
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: the same direction, and it's like if you get in

754
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: the way, you just get crushed. And then there's some

755
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,959
Speaker 1: other places that are versions of that, and they think

756
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: they've got the volume knob turned up to ten, but

757
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 1: it's really like a seven and a half or an eight,

758
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: but they don't know because they're totally insulated in their world.

759
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this because, as I've said before, and

760
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: I'll say again, when we were around Florida, Florida feels

761
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 1: like one of the big boy programs. Just the results

762
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: aren't there yet. Now, I'm a believer that results are

763
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: always downstream of process and downstream of program. So what

764
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: that means is you could be doing it right and

765
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: have terrible results for a little while, because no two

766
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: situations are the same. So if you inherit a gold mine,

767
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: you could win immediately. If you inherit a dumpster fire,

768
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: it could take three or four years. So first off,

769
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: what do you think Billy Napier inherited? And then secondly,

770
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: let's say he inherited very much a work in progress. Well,

771
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: how long does it take to fix that? How long

772
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: is it? How long is it before it's fair to

773
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: just straight up judge on wins and losses. I think

774
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: you'll see improvement this year. I have very little doubt

775
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: you'll see improvement this year. What I wonder is how

776
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: do we define improvement Because for a lot of people,

777
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: it's just did you win more games this year than

778
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: you did last year? Well, that's understandable. Like in the

779
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: NFL especially, that logic is understandable when you play the

780
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: schedule they're about to play. You can call it excuse

781
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: making all you want to. There is a world where

782
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 1: they are very much improved this year and struggle to

783
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: win seven games.

784
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 2: Now, they could win nine games for all I know.

785
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 2: But I'm interested in just watching them.

786
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: If they win seven, if they win six, if they

787
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: win nine, do I watch them and say, you know,

788
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: they're playing better. They look better across the board, they

789
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 1: look better. It may not be reflected in the win

790
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 1: loss column. I wonder how the country will judge them.

791
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 2: There is a.

792
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: Sizeable portion who believes, no matter how much we preach

793
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: against it on this show, they believe that you are

794
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: what your record says you are, and that's all that

795
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: ever matters. And I don't agree with that all the time.

796
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes you are what your record says you are. Sometimes

797
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: you're worse than what your record says you are. Sometimes

798
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: you're better than what your record.

799
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 2: Says you are.

800
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: Because not every nine and three is equal in college football.

801
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: It really isn't even in the NFL. No one goes

802
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: nine and three in the NFL, but it really isn't

803
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 1: even equal there. But it's much more calibrated at the

804
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: pro sports level than it is at the college level.

805
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: So to answer the question, I've still got all my

806
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: abillion to amp your stock. A lot of you have

807
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: sold on it, A lot of you call me foolish

808
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: for still buying into it. Well, okay, there's no guarantee

809
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: it's going to work out. I'm just telling you I've

810
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: been around a few of them, and I tend to

811
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: trust my instinct on knowing.

812
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 2: Who has it who doesn't.

813
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: But I've been wrong before, so you know, it's not

814
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: like I'm claiming I'm bat in a thousand here. I

815
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: trust that they're doing it the right way there, So

816
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: I think they'll be improved this year. I think this

817
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: portal class, especially at the wide receiver position. They needed

818
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: that last edition pretty badly. I think that'll go a

819
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: long way in deciding along with now like offensive line

820
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: still questions there for me, but edge rusher as well,

821
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: we'll see very interesting team to watch. Big Week one

822
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: game against Miami, very big. They don't ease into it

823
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: down there. Let's go bold predictions.

824
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: Why not?

825
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: Also during that segment, well, I gotta be really careful here.

826
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought I was gonna have a bad

827
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: leg cramp.

828
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 2: This cherlet cuts off circulation. It's tough.

829
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: Any of you who know my story, this is not

830
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: really part of my story. It's just a thing about me.

831
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: Know that I get like devastating leg cramps, like the

832
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: worst cramp you've ever gotten, times that by five, and

833
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 1: that's what I get. I get the migrain of leg cramps.

834
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: And it hasn't ever happened on the show. But when

835
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: it does, Colin will just have to throw a slate

836
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: up because it will be worse than like if I

837
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: lose my voice on air, I will be inconsolable on

838
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: the ground for five minutes minimum. When we were at

839
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve Championship game, I took a red eye

840
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: flight to Atlanta for the SEC Championship game, and in

841
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, I thought I was gonna

842
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: get sleep on the plane middle of the night.

843
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 2: I kid you not. I just moved slightly.

844
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: It's it's like there was gridlock in my I think

845
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: it was my left hamstring, and I was done. I

846
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: had to jump up and just stand straight up on

847
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: the plane and it looked like I was about to

848
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: like charge the cockpit.

849
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that I didn't get tackled. I just had

850
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: to stand there.

851
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: It's the middle. It's like three am. We're over Kansas

852
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: or something, and I'm just jumped up. I don't know where.

853
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: Fortunately most people were asleep and didn't see it. But

854
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 1: that was a that was that was a tough, tough

855
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: flight for me. And then it happened again. I'm sitting

856
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: with Emily Proud and Dennis Dodd were on set in Atlanta.

857
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: McFadden and Brian McFadden was sitting next to me as well.

858
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: They're counting us. Now, we got thirty seconds until we

859
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: go live. It happened again. There's a picture of me

860
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: somewhere having to straighten my leg out and we're thirty

861
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty fifteen.

862
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 2: Hero for making it through that day. I can't say

863
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 2: for sure, but yeah, I kind of am. All right,

864
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 2: let's go bold predictions. These are your predictions, and.

865
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Speaker 1: Colin, since we're gonna cut this a little differently tonight,

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Speaker 1: let me give you more of a classical intro here.

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Speaker 1: I wanted your boldest predictions for the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: college football season. I want the stuff you believe in

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Speaker 1: enough where you'd bet your own money on it. Like,

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Speaker 1: here's what it looks like. First, prediction tonight, and this

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Speaker 1: would raise a lot of eyebrows in the South, particularly

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Speaker 1: Lee County, Alabama. Jacob from Indianapolis says Auburn wins nine games.

873
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: He even says they knock on the door of the playoff.

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Speaker 1: I'll just stop at Auburn wins nine games. This is

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Speaker 1: an eight point five on the boldness scale for me.

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Speaker 1: They're over underwin total at fanduels seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: So this isn't just crazy like out of the realm

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Speaker 1: of possibility stuff. It's very simple. What would have to

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Speaker 1: happen here. Number one, Peyton Thorne would have to be

880
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one version of himself at quarterback. You

881
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: would have to have that true freshman class rerupt. They'd

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00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: have to go off the schedule that they play. I

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00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: think would have to have either a lot of one

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Speaker 1: possession games go their way, or there may need to

885
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: be a team or two there that we expect a

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Speaker 1: lot from that just ends up not being good.

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Speaker 2: So Oklahoma comes in there, Week five.

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Speaker 1: They go back to back at Missouri at Kentucky. Like,

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Speaker 1: let's say Oklahoma ends up being a bad team or

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Speaker 1: Kentucky is bad or A and M Bama back to

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Speaker 1: back at the end of the year. Let's say one

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Speaker 1: or both of those underachieve all of a sudden, the

893
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Speaker 1: schedules more workable. Those are ways that you can win

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00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: nine games. They should start four, Oh, Alabama A and

895
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Speaker 1: m cal New Mexico Arkansas noticed by the way, they

896
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Speaker 1: don't leave home in September.

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Speaker 2: October fifth is their first road game.

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Speaker 1: So if you're a young team, a team that's gonna

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Speaker 1: lean on a lot of young players, and you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get your legs under you, you could have no

901
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: better start than that. But then you get out the gate,

902
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: and then you get in the sec play and it

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Speaker 1: gets real.

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Speaker 2: I think that's an eight point five winning.

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Speaker 1: Nine games in a year where, oh, you gotta lean

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Speaker 1: on so many young guys. By Hugh Freeese's own admission

907
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: on this show last month, they got to do that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that an eight point five. This next

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Speaker 1: one is our first ten of the entire cycle. We've

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Speaker 1: been doing bold predictions, I think five weeks in a

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Speaker 1: row now, Jake said. Dion Sanders takes another job before

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Speaker 1: the end of the season. If there's one thing Dion

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Speaker 1: is good at, it's knowing when the ship is sinking

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Speaker 1: and getting off quickly.

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Speaker 2: This is a ten. How does this happen? In what

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Speaker 2: world does this happen? Now? If you would have said Dion.

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Speaker 1: Leaves Colorado somehow after the season, well, okay, that's not

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Speaker 1: even that bold.

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Speaker 2: But you're saying during the season.

920
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Speaker 1: Okay, so one of two things could happen here outside

921
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Speaker 1: of some scandal.

922
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Speaker 2: One of two things could happen here.

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Speaker 1: Either they're so good that he gets hired by another school,

924
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Speaker 1: which is tough to see but maybe, or the other

925
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Speaker 1: would be he's so bad they decide to fire him,

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Speaker 1: but they're not gonna do that. And in either of

927
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Speaker 1: those scenarios, he sounds literally the quarterback on the team.

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Speaker 1: So what's he doing either voluntarily leaving him behind or

929
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Speaker 1: being forced to involuntarily leave him behind? I don't think

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Speaker 1: either of those things is happening, So I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: that a ten. Is it a mutual parting of ways?

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Speaker 1: Does he go become the president of AFLAC? Are you

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Speaker 1: suggesting he takes another coaching job, does he go into TV?

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Speaker 1: And if he does any of those things, why is

935
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Speaker 1: he leaving during the season?

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Speaker 2: Jake?

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00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: What do you know that I don't know so until

938
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Speaker 1: further notice, that's a ten on the boldness scale.

939
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Speaker 2: This one's also nearly a ten. But at least let

940
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Speaker 2: me read it to you and.

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Speaker 1: Then you'll tell me what you think about it, because

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Speaker 1: I would actually like to see the next one happen.

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Speaker 1: So Douglas in New Hartford, New York says Nebraska goes

944
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Speaker 1: eleven and one and makes the college football playoff. That's

945
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Speaker 1: a nine point seventy five, but it's not a ten.

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Speaker 1: Nine point seven five, so they're over under seven and

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Speaker 1: a half. As you know, it's been a little while

948
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Speaker 1: since Nebraska basically breathed the air of national relevance period,

949
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Speaker 1: and by national relevance, I mean being in the playoff hunt,

950
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: to be clear. But Husker magic is a real thing.

951
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: I do believe in Husker magic. You may have to

952
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Speaker 1: dust it off, go up in the attic and open

953
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Speaker 1: a couple of old calldboard boxes and try to find it,

954
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Speaker 1: but Husker magic could strike.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: To me, win in nine games would be magical. You're

957
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Speaker 1: telling me they're gonna win eleven and they're going to

958
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: the playoff. Well, that's a nine point seventy five on

959
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: the boldness scale. But I do get what you see.

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00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 2: Colwin.

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Speaker 1: Keep this schedule up here for a second, if I

962
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Speaker 1: just read it off. If I'm a Nebraska fan, So

963
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Speaker 1: let's say I'm in North Platte, Nebraska tonight, and therefore

964
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm an internal optimist. I believe Dylan Ryol is just

965
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: going to be a true freshman All American Star quarterback,

966
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Speaker 1: and I believe that our defense is at least the

967
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Speaker 1: staff is one of the best in the country, which

968
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: you're right about that. It's just all gonna come together

969
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: for us this year. Utap win, Colorado win, Northern Iowa win,

970
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: in Illinois win. We still even left home our first

971
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: row games perdue manageable win. Rutgers comes home tough, but

972
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: we should win that at Indiana. Yeah, look ahead, spot

973
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: Ohio State on deck. But there's a new everything at

974
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: Indiana too. We should win that one. We should be undefeated, right,

975
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: we should be seven and zero. We're going to Ohio State.

976
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: Even if we lose that one, seven and one. Ucla

977
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: please win at USC We're too physical for them. We'll

978
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,439
Speaker 1: go out there. That'll be one of the defining wins

979
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: from Matt rule. Will win that one. Wisconsin comes in

980
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: the next week. That's tough at Iowa the week after that.

981
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: But if things fall right, we could be on a

982
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: roll by then. Imagine the momentum. We're eleven and one.

983
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 2: You see how easiy that.

984
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: Was in theory. It's a lot easier than in reality.

985
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make that a nine point seven to five.

986
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: But keep it on ice over here, because inevitably someone's

987
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: gonna make one of these predictions that's like a nine

988
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: point five or nine point seven to five and it

989
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Speaker 1: comes true. We have three of those last year, nine

990
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: point five or Boulder that came true.

991
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 2: What about this last one? This last one fell short.

992
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: Cam from Heinz Georgia said, UCF wins the Big twelve,

993
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: or at least meets Utah in the championship game, No cam,

994
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: no parentheses, We're just going UCF wins the Big twelve

995
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: nine point two five. On the boldness scale, it would

996
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,240
Speaker 1: be crazy. But in the Big twelve, what are odds really?

997
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: I mean, what is bold in the Big twelve? So

998
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: there's the group in the what I call like the

999
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: lead pack of the odds at FanDuel and UCF is

1000
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: in that lead pack. They're plus twelve hundred to win

1001
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: the Big twelve. But they're one of like I think

1002
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 1: ten teams that have plus twelve hundred or better odds,

1003
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: and there's so much unknown with them.

1004
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 2: They're one of the big portal winning teams this cycle.

1005
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: kJ Jefferson, you remember him at Arkansas quarterback, feels like

1006
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: he was there forever.

1007
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 2: He didn't he didn't retire, he didn't go to the NFL.

1008
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 2: He's at Central Florida now.

1009
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: And we had Malson on the show last year or

1010
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: last month when we were down there, and he was

1011
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: very careful. He said, I've never had another Cam Newton.

1012
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 1: kJ Jefferson is not another Cam Newton. I'm not saying that.

1013
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: He just said from a skill set standpoint, he's the

1014
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 1: closest thing to Cam Newton that I've had in terms

1015
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: of comparable skill set. Take it or leave it.

1016
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 2: And so.

1017
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: Gus Malsan has dive bombed college football too many times

1018
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: for me to write him off and write this prediction off.

1019
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put nine point twenty five on it.

1020
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 2: It is bold.

1021
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: And they end the season with games at West Virginia

1022
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: and then Utah so they could build up. There's a

1023
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: back to back of Cincinnati and at Iowa State in

1024
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Speaker 1: conference play in the middle of the year. It's just

1025
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: it's the Big twelve. It's gonna be a whole bunch

1026
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: of one possession games, and someone is gonna be five

1027
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: and one in one possession games. And why not Central Florida.

1028
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: Why not If you want to know where those odds

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Speaker 1: came from fan duels, where they came from, You can

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Speaker 1: go over there right now. You can bet Central Florida

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Speaker 1: if you're so inclined to win the Big twelve, and

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Speaker 1: you could get plus twelve hundred odds on it. I

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Speaker 1: think it would probably be a fun experiment for us

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Speaker 1: to just go bet every Big twelve team, just a

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Speaker 1: put a fifty spot on every Big twelve team. You'll

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Speaker 1: no one is like technically minus money to win the conference.

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Speaker 1: No one's minus to make the playoff out of the conference.

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Speaker 1: So we've got I don't know, like fifteen or sixteen

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Speaker 1: not even an appetizer at Chili's for Bradley, So please

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Speaker 1: don't do it for me.

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Speaker 2: Feed Bradley. Feed Bradley.

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Speaker 1: Let's end with something that is sure to not be

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Speaker 1: controversial whatsoever, because everybody knows that we all agree on

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Speaker 1: one thing on this show more so than anything else,

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Speaker 1: and that.

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Speaker 2: Is USC football.

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00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: The USC mood tracker is upon us, and that's basically

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00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 1: where I try and take the temperature of the fan base.

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00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: But the problem with the USC fan base is they're

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Speaker 1: very fragmented. When I talk to them, some of them

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Speaker 1: say get off my lawn, and then others don't reveal

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00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 1: their true feelings.

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Speaker 2: But don't worry.

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00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: I know enough where I know there is a little

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00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: there's a little chasm, slash chasm.

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00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 2: A little divide in the fan base.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I think we've got a we'll see crowd,

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Speaker 1: and we've got a we've seen crowd, So the we've

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00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,959
Speaker 1: seen crowd, that's the more aggressive eternal optimism. We made

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Speaker 1: the right staff moves. Heads up, We're gonna drastically improve defensively,

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Speaker 1: just because we got Lin to come across the city

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00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: from UCLA across town. I guess is the right way

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00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: to say that we were just dog trash last year

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00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: from a coaching standpoint defensively, so there'll be an immediate

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00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: big time upgrade there. Recruiting is trending up. We made

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00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: the right moves. We made the right philosophical shift. Miller

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00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 1: Moss is gonna ball out at quarterback. We're set. That's

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00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: one mood. There's another group that says, we'll see and

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00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: that is the group that respects the moves. No one's

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00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: looking at the moves Lincoln Riley made and saying well,

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Speaker 1: I hate these. Of course you love them? I love them.

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00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: Are you willing to give it time? This crowd, the

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00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: will see crowd, I think's willing to give it more

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00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 1: than a year before they cast judgment. They don't just

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Speaker 1: blindly assume a head coach can change his DNA in

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00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: the DNA of a program overnight. I probably fit more

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00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: into that camp. But here's a scenario I could see happening.

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00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: I think there's a scenario where Lincoln Riley just made.

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Speaker 2: All the right moves.

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Speaker 1: They don't win nine or ten games this year, and

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Speaker 1: so that's viewed as a failure in USC circles historically.

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Speaker 1: And I end up defending Lincoln Riley against the first crowd,

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Speaker 1: which is ironic because in May, the first crowd would

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Speaker 1: listen to you temper expectations and say you're a hater.

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Speaker 1: You know you say anything other than this defense is

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Speaker 1: going to revolutionize itself this year, and to that crowd,

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00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: you're a hater. Well, no, I think there'll be noticeable improvement,

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00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: but I still think that there'll be a long way

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Speaker 1: to go because I don't I don't think they have

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Speaker 1: the players, specifically on the interior of their defensive line.

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00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: They don't have the depth and caliber of player that

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Speaker 1: they need this year.

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Speaker 2: That's my opinion.

1133
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: When I say that they need, I mean that they

1134
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: need to play high level football and contend in the

1135
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: Big Ten.

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Speaker 2: But if you say that in May, you sound like

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Speaker 2: a hater.

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Speaker 1: Well, the thing about it is I think I'm right

1139
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Speaker 1: on that, and I think the season will bear that

1140
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: out come December. That doesn't mean Lincoln Riley's a bad coach.

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Speaker 1: You don't mean he failed. It doesn't mean that they

1142
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: made the wrong moves. Just means they got to have

1143
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Speaker 1: better football players. I could end up defending him against

1144
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: the very crowd that called me a hater for rightly

1145
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: predicting how the season goes. Happens every year with the team,

1146
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: happened last year with Southern Cal. Now that I think

1147
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: about it, and so, I think there are a couple

1148
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: of different moves out there. Everybody likes the staff moves

1149
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: that were made. I think there's a difference and opinion

1150
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: of what to expect this year, and the latter group

1151
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: is the kind of group that they could look at

1152
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: an eight win season and say, don't like that, but

1153
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: we're still good long term first group, man, we're USC.

1154
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Speaker 1: We should win this thing this year. You are USC.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely right, and I'd love to see you do it.

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00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: Contrary to some my popular belief, I'm not sure that

1157
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: that's in the cars this year. But if I'm wrong,

1158
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, you play Michigan this year. I guess it's

1159
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: the best year to go get Michigan. They're replacing their

1160
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: entire coaching staff. You play Washington at Washington this year.

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Speaker 1: Those are two toughest road games. They're replacing everyone as well,

1162
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Speaker 1: so notre name at the end of the year at home.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you got LSU in Vegas before anyone really

1164
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:33,720
Speaker 1: knows what to expect from either team.

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Speaker 2: If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, we'll see.

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00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: But I think the mood amongst the fan base maybe

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00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: a little bit split, and I'm sure the peristyle will

1168
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: set me right on every point that I.

1169
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Speaker 2: Just made wrong. Thank you, guys. So much.

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Speaker 1: Jesse's getting married this week. They're not opening the wedding

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Speaker 1: to the public, so I can't tell you where. I

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Speaker 1: can't tell you when it's in the United States. It's

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Speaker 1: not on a Saturday, it's not in the fall. So

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Speaker 1: those were the parameters that I needed checked before I

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Speaker 1: agreed to show up. And I'm going to represent us all.

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Speaker 1: I got us a gift. We're good on that front,

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Speaker 1: so you guys don't have to worry about anything. I

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Speaker 1: say all that to say. Interim producer Grishi was in

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Speaker 1: the chair tonight. He did an admirable job. Bradley the associate.

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Speaker 1: They flew him up to New York this past week

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Speaker 1: for training and we're training. So it's just been me

1182
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Speaker 1: and director Colin like old times down here this week.

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Speaker 1: But we got it done. Appreciate all you guys for

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Speaker 1: tuning in. Make sure you subscribe to the pod and

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel. We're going to have a live

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Speaker 1: show Tuesday night, and then the extra pod will come

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Speaker 1: later in the week because I'll be.

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Speaker 2: Traveling later in the week, so forty eight hours. I'll

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Speaker 2: see you right back here. Until then, have a great

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