WEBVTT - Sorsby Fallout + MASSIVE Pate State Mailbag 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.759 You see in the won't be Fooled twice department. What 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.680 happened to us last week was we were on the 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.120 road storm chasing. I thought we'd get home Thursday, and 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.360 we ended up being out on the road until early 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.000 in the morning Friday. This week, we're also going to 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.400 be out on the road. That's why we're jam packing 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.640 a show on Tuesday, June sixteenth, there of our lower 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.160 twenty twenty six, because we can't go seven whole days 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.400 between shows. I mean, it's savagery. Who in the world 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.320 does that? So we are jampacked. We're high, top of glorious, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.400 really really comfortable downtown Nashville, Tennessee. And we got to 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.360 put a button on this Brendan Soresby thing. Who would 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.640 have thought, Jesse, if we would have told ourselves the 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.720 two highest performing videos we're gonna have, like all Spring 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.560 and Summer are gonna be Brendan Soresby centric videos. What 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.279 would you have thought Brendan Soresby had done? You can 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.319 remind us to really dark places. As it turns out, well, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.160 we all know the circumstances. So I got some more 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.319 to say about that. But it's a loaded mail bag show. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.720 And for the first time. We're not merely taking questions. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.800 Several of you have just presented comments, some of them nice. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.760 I think some of them pretty rude. But we're gonna 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.399 answer them on the show and it's gonna be fun. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.280 We got a big day tomorrow. We're gonna be stormchasing. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.920 I'll I don't actually think I'll talk more about that later. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.200 So I'm just gonna tell you if you want to 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.960 follow along with the stream storm Chaser Brad Arnold, that's 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.480 where we'll be streaming that thing. Friend of the program, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.800 Prez is coming along for the ride because he moved 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:42.479 his dentist appointment. They're watching us in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Victoria, Texas, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.800 Mystic Connecticut, Albuquerque, New Mexico tuned in as well. Please 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.000 make sure you subscribe to the channel. And the reason 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.320 where we're doing hurry up right here is because I 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:54.560 don't want to have a two and a half hour 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.920 show and we've got a loaded, I mean loaded mail bag. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.960 Listen to how heavy that pack papers is. So without 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.560 further ado or further to do, as me and Mom 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.200 would say, let's get into it. First up. This actually 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.480 wasn't first up. We cheated and put this at the 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:11.880 top of the show because I wanted to go ahead 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.280 and get this out of the way. Matt from Nashville, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.160 Tennessee leads us off. He said, aside from becoming the 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.520 villains of college athletics, what exactly did Texas Tech and 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.919 Cody Campbell gain by staking their reputations as well as 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:31.200 Texas Techs on an over hyped quarterback prospect. Two stances 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.600 that I have here, one I have across the board, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.880 and that is benefit of hindsight is not allowed in 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.840 these sorts of debates. And if you want to make 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.120 points on their own, merit be my guest. If you've 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.760 got a problem with the way Texas Tech handled themselves, 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.280 if you don't like the way Cody Campbell pops off 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.680 at the mouth, well that's all well and good, but 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.520 what you can't do is do this thing where you know, 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.520 they signed Brendan Soresby and then they found out what 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.720 everyone found out and kind of found it out at 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.320 the same time, and then they went through all what 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.639 they went through, and now it's blown up and you're 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.079 sitting there, well, it shouldn't have taken him. Well, that 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.400 wasn't really on the docket. That wasn't really on the 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.760 radar when they decided to take him. So let's just 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.760 independent of what you think about how Texas Tech handled 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.720 this whole deal, and I've spoken my piece on it, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.919 and most everyone in the free world has as well. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.400 Independent of what you think about that, let's at least 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.440 do this. Let's at least be fair and honest about 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.760 the chain of events here. So I'm going to read 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.679 you something sort of a paper popper of a stat line. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.200 Eighteen of thirty two, one hundred and thirty seven yards, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.000 no touchdowns, two interceptions. What is that? What does that 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.880 mean to you? Does that ring any bells? Because that 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:48.040 was the stat line on January first of Brendan Soresby. No, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.160 it wasn't. That was the stat line of Baron Morton, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.360 the previous quarterback there in the playoff game, the one 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.120 and done that Texas Tech had in the playoffs. And 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.760 it was that moment shortly thereafter where Texas Tech realized 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.080 we're a quarterback away. Rest of this team's good enough, 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.640 rest of next year's team will probably be good enough. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.080 We're a quarterback away. Everybody realized that. Anyone who watched 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.280 that Orange Bowl realized it that was January first, January fourth, boom, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.520 Brendan Sorosby to Texas Tech. Then you fast forward all 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.279 the way through January, all the way through February and March, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.839 and you get towards the end of April and April 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.120 twenty seventh. That's when this story broke. So the first 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.280 thing you can't do is you can't say, well, they 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.080 rolled the dice on a guy that they knew bet 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.440 on games and would come with all this baggage because 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.240 they didn't know he had bet on games and they 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.800 didn't know he would come with any baggage whatsoever. Now 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.200 that's where the period is placed in that sentence. Then 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.520 if you want to call him over hyped, I don't 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.080 even know where that comes from. I don't even know 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.919 that anyone in our mail bag is qualified to evaluate Brinda. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.560 Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. I don't, Jesse, do 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.760 you think he was hyped? I didn't even view Brendan 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.960 Soresby as When I say hyped, I don't mean was 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.279 Texas Tech excited about him? Yeah, they were excited about him. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.400 Does anyone out there disagree that he was going to 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.839 be an upgrade from Baron Morton to whatever degree. Notwithstanding, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.359 doesn't everybody pretty much agree that he would have been 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.640 an upgrade, so you should have been excited about it. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.640 I didn't see people hyping Brendan Soresby like this. I 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.120 saw him looking at it and saying, hey man, Texas 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.960 Tech got better at quarterback. You know, they're gonna have 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.240 a good roster around him. They're gonna make another run 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.960 and hopefully go deeper than just making the playoffs. That 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.839 was I didn't get the sense that he was over hyped. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.040 Then again, I only cover college football year round, so 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.560 maybe I missed something. Then. The third part of this, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.719 the part that most people take issue with, is the 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.200 way Cody Campbell has handled himself, the way Texas Tech 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.000 has handled themselves. And it seems like there were multiple voie, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.280 you know, multiple microphones out there. I just got to 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:08.160 tell you, I wonder, and it's baseless because I'll never 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.039 be able to know, but I just really wonder how 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.240 different this would have been case by case. If this 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:19.279 mess would have fallen in Oregon's lap, how would Oregon 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.560 have handled it? If this mess were to have fallen 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.240 in Arkansas's lap, how would Arkansas have handled it? And 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.839 my point there is obvious, and that is that winning 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.040 is what matters more than anything in this sport. Now, 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.120 it's not what matters more than anything, but really, when 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.840 you come down to it and you combined the interest 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.600 of everything from a coach to an ad to the 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.839 fan base to the alumni base to the administration, they 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.400 have different self interests or individual interest but if you've 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.160 been diagrammed that thing winning football games is where it overlaps. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:01.600 That's the most important thing, and actions flow downstream of 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.560 that goal. And you could put anything you want to 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.160 in a press release. Everyone understands the deal here. The 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.880 deal here is not that complicated. You went and got 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.080 him just as Arkansas may have, or Minnesota may have, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.400 or Virginia Tech may have. It just so happens that 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.520 it was Texas Tech that went and got a guy 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.000 that they thought was the missing piece. After they got him, 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.400 they realized, uh, oh, we got trouble here, and they 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.600 had one of two choices. They could either choose the 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.240 route they went, which is to fight it. And let's 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.560 be real now, Brendan Soresby fought it as well. Like 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.800 it's not just Texas Tech deciding to fight it is 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.360 Brendan Soresby decided to fight it, or they could have 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.360 just said, all right, we quit, he's done, let's move on. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.920 And I just got to be honest with you. This 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.800 is not to absolve Texas Tech of anything. They're big boys, 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.960 they can speak for themselves. I'm just saying I don't 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.520 get the sense this would have played out much different 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:03.680 most anywhere else. There are exceptions. I understand that there 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:08.400 are places like I knowing the compliance and knowing the 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:13.120 administrative structure of Ohio State, I don't think Ryan Day 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.200 would have been able to go down the road that 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.760 Texas Tech went down because they got all kinds. They 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.160 have red tape wrapped around pretty much every office up there. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.520 It's crazy that they win at the level they do. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.680 But most places it would have happened close to the 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.200 same way. I believe that. I can't prove that. Maybe 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.480 I'm dead wrong about that, but I am excited slash 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.320 interested to see what it's like at Texas Tech moving forward, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.080 because you got to You got to be stupid to 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.880 think that that relationship between them and their league office 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.600 is not still very frosty, and them and the other 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.240 member institutions in that league, in the big twelve is 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.880 not still very frosty. Oh, it's gonna be. It's gonna 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.200 be very very much so, even if Soursby's not playing 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.839 this year. So that's my feelings on that. Let's move on. Oh, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.360 this is a good question here, mails loaded. Like I said, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.360 Kevin in Ohio said, is there a reason you talk 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.439 so little about recruiting? Recruiting is such a major part 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.240 of college football, and I'd love to hear more of 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.120 your thoughts on the big recruiting battles and future stars. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.360 As these commitments happened. Man, I'm glad he submitted this because, dude, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.480 I used to be so hardcore into recruiting. It is 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.360 the lifeblood of this sport, every bit as much as 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.280 the draft is the lifeblood of the National Football League. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.160 I think two things have happened, really, three things have 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.120 happened here, Kevin, Okay, So I'm gonna mention the third thing. First, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.880 interest has greatly waned when we talk recruiting on the show. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.360 The other two things I'm gonna mention are the reasons 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.080 why I think interest has waned, and I can relate 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.679 to him. So I'll just share my feelings because I 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:53.280 think my feelings are pretty closely reflected in the general marketplace. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.360 The first thing that's happened is churn. This is not 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.880 difficult to figure out if you've covered college foot followed 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.240 college football for a long time. The churn and the 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.440 rosters via the transfer portal has happened enough years in 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.000 a row now that you've become jaded and you've become 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.440 very turned off by the whole process, and you're not 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.720 turned off watching your team. That's why the TV ratings 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.760 are still really big. We talk about this all the time. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.040 People point out TV ratings and well, since the ratings 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.360 are big, there must be nothing wrong with college football. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.120 That's not always true. It's just that you have to 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.400 know where to look, okay, and when one of the 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.880 first areas that I always point to for people to 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.600 look at if you want to see a little bit 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.280 of a symptom of some sickness in the sport is 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.959 a fraction of people are as passionate about following recruiting 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 as used to. It used to be that it was 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.160 a whole industry, and it still is, But I mean 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.920 people followed it religiously, almost like it was its own 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.440 separate entity, Like you had the games on the field 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.760 in the fall, and you had recruiting, which was this 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.640 whole separate sport. I was headfirst into it, man, like, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.160 I was all about it. And then the reason that 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.480 it changed, one of the reasons is because of churn 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.880 and because you kept on watching guys commit and then leave. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.760 And it's not that transfers never happened, but transfers used 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.440 to be the rare exception to the rule, and now 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.480 they are much more the norm. And so obviously the 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:25.600 mentality becomes, why should I get overly invested in following 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.800 the recruitment of a sophomore in high school? Because trust me, Like, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.240 if you're younger and you don't know what it used 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.760 to be like, you would start paying attention to sophomores 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.960 in high school and then you would get like the 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.080 rivals junior rankings, but you would already know like who 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.160 had offers and stuff like that. Like I knew about 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.720 Jadavion Clowney in tenth grade. I think he was a 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.440 tenth grader, Julio Jones. People knew about him in South 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.760 Alabama when he was in tenth grade, aj Green in 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:56.200 South Carolina, So you'd follow him because like Julio Jones, 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.960 once he commits to Alabama, it's this massive win for Alabama. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:05.200 Once South Carolina keeps Jadeveon Clowney at home, once Georgia 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.080 pulls aj Green out of South Carolina. These are like 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.280 tick or tape parade moments for these programs. If you 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.880 fast forward to modern day, it's still a big deal, 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.000 but your mentality now is all right, we got him 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:23.200 for his freshman year, then we'll have to deal with 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.400 a whole separate recruitment with teams trying to poach him 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.320 in the transfer portal. And it's just a turnoff when 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.480 it comes to following recruiting. It's a turnoff. So you 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.679 become really jaded towards it. And then the other thing, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.479 I think, even separate and beyond that is the transactional 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.600 nature of recruiting. So this is where I really need 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.559 you to hear me preface what I'm about to say. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.680 This is the preface right here. I know money always 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:52.560 changed hands in recruiting. I know, I have personal knowledge 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.800 of it. I know, but it was way different. It 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.280 was way different when it was under the table, when 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.320 it was bag man, and it was almost like romanticized. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.599 Is like people kind of whispered about it, and you 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.880 kind of knew it was happening, but sort of everyone 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.800 was doing it, so like, no one's really going to 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.400 rat each other out. And there was this code also 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.960 back in the day of who you could and couldn't 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.040 rat out, Like if someone came in your state from 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.840 outside your state and was throwing money around, well then 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.960 it was okay to knock on them. But innerstate payment, no, nope, nope, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.160 that's all's well, all's well there. So back in the day, yeah, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.120 money changed hands. The difference was number one, the amounts 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.559 weren't nearly as big. And I don't care about the 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.400 ammount I couldn't care less if it's ten dollars or 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.160 ten million dollars. As long as you know people are 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.960 roughly trafficking in the same amounts, I don't really care 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.400 about all that. But here's what started to happen. What 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.800 started to happen is the relationship and the value of 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.719 the relationship really started to wane. And back in the 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.719 day that was not the case. Even though money was 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.280 changing hands. Back in the day, kids were committing to 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.640 the schools they committing to because they bought into going 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.120 to that school. Because if you're down to Tennessee or 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.960 Michigan or Florida, and all of them that like have 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.000 some degree of cash on the table. It's not like 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.000 it is today where Michigan offers you one point two, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.280 but then Florida comes in despite the fact that you've 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.920 been a verbal commit to Michigan for a year and 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.480 a half and Florida hasn't even been on the radar. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.600 Florida could just come in at the last minute now 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.120 and offer you one seven plus some other perks, and 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.920 you're going to Florida. And it's not that it's wrong. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.120 It's that from the perspective of someone wanting to follow recruiting, 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.840 you look at that and say, I just wasted a 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.960 year and a half paying attention to this kid being 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.440 committed to Michigan only for the transactional nature of like 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.920 nil and whatnot. Now to pull the rug out from 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.360 under everything I thought I knew at the last minute, Well, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.480 I'm not going to invest time and energy and emotion 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.960 into caring about this the way I used to. That 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.600 is where things have been. Now that's bad news. Here's 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.440 the good news. This could radically change. Like one of 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.840 the things that has me excited about this Senate bill 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.920 or any structure being introduced back into college football is 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.720 if you have five years to play five and especially 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.600 if you have one penalty free transfer, that takes us 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.760 almost back to the way it used to be, really 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:24.240 and it makes commitment and it makes the initial signing 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.200 out of high school mean a whole lot more because 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.960 percentage wise, you're a whole lot more likely to stick 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.760 around where you commit, which means I care more about 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.640 your high school recruitment. Again, this is one area where 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.240 we can go back in time, not fully, but we 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:42.840 can go back to the way it used to be. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.440 And also, like if you have a more structured revenue 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:51.200 sharing world, if you have you know, caps on nil. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.000 I don't know how feasible this is, but if you 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:57.320 have that, then it kind of goes back to the 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.720 way it used to be, only there's a lot more money. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:04.480 But if everyone's roughly roughly if the big boys roughly 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.160 passing around the same amounts of money, well then there's 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.800 not an offer coming in last minute that two times 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.080 what everyone else is offering. That renders the past three 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.480 years irrelevant in terms of following a recruitment. Selfishly, that's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.920 why I hope that it happens. One of the reasons 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.400 that I hope it happens because I love following recruiting. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.280 You will not find someone who followed recruiting more hardcore 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.920 than me. But I've just been turned off by it 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.400 in recent years. Still follow it, but we also don't 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.640 talk about it on the show because it doesn't It 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.200 doesn't show to have the interest from you guys that 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.720 it once did. What does have interest is the Pate 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.320 State Store, and specifically the new items we have in there, red, white, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.440 and chew. I mean July fourth, right around the corner. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.360 And it's a very very clever play on words that 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.440 Alex has come up with all on her own, with 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.840 no help from Jesse whatsoever. And for that reason, the 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.520 shirt is flying off the shelves. We have sleeveless options 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.840 as well. I know what you were going to ask. Yes, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.240 we have sleeveless options, and every now and then, if 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.680 you show yourself wearing one of our shirts, I'm known 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.600 to just randomly ship a chalice of supremacy your way. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.240 So peytstatematerial dot Com for pretty much all your clothing needs. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.200 We don't have Ostrich belts over there, but outside of that, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.320 we got pretty much everything you need. It's a long 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:26.680 story that I don't feel like telling today. We move 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:34.679 on important question here, really important question about bad guys. Jack. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.920 I don't know where he's from, but Jack said, can 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.560 you rank the top five villain arcs going into twenty 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.280 twenty six by public perception? Well? I got four. I 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.160 didn't come up with a fifth one because I don't 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:51.119 think Trinidad Chambliss is a villain. Like Jack said, Trinidad Chambless, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.320 Trinidad Chamblass is not a villain. The only people mad 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.560 at Trinidad Chambliss are the NCAA, and no one really 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.000 cares that the NCAA is mad at anyone. I don't 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.160 think Mississippi State folks love him, but I don't think 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.320 that they view him as a villain anymore so than 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.320 another Ole miss quarterback. So I do think Texas Tech 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.159 fits here because of what just happened. Now it's going 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.199 to be a different level of villain because Soresby's not 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.280 going to play. He's off to the supplemental draft. But 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.280 I do think the lingering effect of people having witnessed 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.200 what they just witnessed, which the rest of the world 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.800 viewed as unjustified, and Texas Tech disagrees. But you're talking 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.040 about villains. That's the nature of a villain. The villain 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.119 is doing what the villain wants to do and what 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.320 they think is right, and everyone disagrees. Voila, you have 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.879 a villain. I do wonder what it's going to be 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.560 like for Texas Tech on the road this year, because 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.440 it was never going to be pleasant, but maybe a 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.520 different level of vitriol. I could see that. I also 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.119 stay in the lone Star state. I think Texas could 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.360 be presented as one of the big villains this year, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.080 and that's just because a lot of people think Texas 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.600 gets credit that it doesn't deserve. And case by case, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.320 you're not wrong. It's happened on this show before. I'll 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.280 go as far as to say, so you're not always 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.000 wrong when you say that Texas has the third best 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.639 odds to win the national title this year. Arch Manning 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.600 is gonna get a lot of preseason love. Texas is 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.000 going to get a lot of preseason love. Sark is 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:14.760 going to get a lot of preseason love, but also 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.200 a lot of preseason pressure, and people are gonna look 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.560 and say, why start getting credit right now, What has 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.360 he done? What is he accomplished? What is he won 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.520 well in terms of national titles? None? What is arch 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.800 Manning won well in terms of Heisman trophies? None. If 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.520 that's the only way that we measure success, then you're right, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.640 Texas has not done anything. A lot of people will 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.560 be predictive in nature. I'm gonna be one of them, 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.520 and I expect a lot from Texas this year, and 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.440 that'll turn a lot of people off. So I would 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.159 say Texas is gonna be one. I think Lane Kiffin 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.600 is on this list more than Trinidad Chambliss because I 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.960 think people are gonna I think people will look back, 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.960 and I think a lot of people have a problem 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:58.639 just that Lane left Ole miss I think a lot 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.440 of people have a problem with that. So I'm sure 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.160 if we had Lane on a show right now, or 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:10.080 verge Asberry, or like any representative from LSU, of course 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:14.240 they have their version of the events. But you're not 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.320 the public. The public is the public. The public is 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.639 not changing how they feel. So I'm sure there's a 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.920 large enough portion of the college football public that thinks 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.760 Lane Kiffin did something wrong by leaving or taking the 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:32.439 LSU job that they'll villainize him. And then the last 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.960 one is not an active player or an active coach. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:40.399 But I don't think the villainization, if you will, of 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.600 Greg Sank is going anywhere. Number One, he's the commissioner 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.080 of the SEC, and the SEC is largely despised outside 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:50.160 the South. He is right smack dab in the middle 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.359 of the playoff debate. And while I think he's on 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.560 the right side, he is alone right now on the 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.200 side of let's not expand this thing to twenty four 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.600 which is why, as far as I'm concerned, God bless 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.960 Greg SANKI on that front. And thirdly, I think that 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:11.000 as we get into as we get down the road 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.399 a little ways on this Senate bill, it's going to 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.040 require him to continue to be outspoken. Now that's the 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.480 frontier where maybe he and I have some differing viewpoints, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.240 but most people don't like Greg sank because of the 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:28.040 three letters on his chest. So Texas Tech, Texas Kiffin, 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:29.800 Greg SANKEI. I would say those are the ones that 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:36.240 I would circle, moving right along, chugging right along, Chuck 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.960 hit me up. It's pretty wordy, but essentially he's talking 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.760