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Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra podcast Tuesday, July twentieth, Year of Our

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Speaker 1: Lord twenty twenty one. Jam packed as jam packed can be.

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Speaker 1: Really liking the new format. Got some good feedback. So

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Speaker 1: the new format is I kind of interwine the housekeeping,

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Speaker 1: news and notes throughout the podcast. We dive right in.

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Speaker 1: This is a college football mail bag. We do it

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and Thursday morning. Josh paid seven zero six at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com. If you want to email a question

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Speaker 1: We're gonna kick it off with something that about twenty

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Speaker 1: of you have asked me about just as I was

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Speaker 1: I want to put that out there. This is not

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Speaker 1: easy for me. Some people love saying I told you so.

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Speaker 1: I only kind of like saying I told you so.

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Speaker 1: Let me hit you with this. Ross Ellinger, who works

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Speaker 1: he put out a story earlier this morning that was

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Speaker 1: Or is the college football collective powers that be infrastructure?

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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. Bob Bowlesby, who by the way, is

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve commissioner. Bob Bowlesby tells SI Now that

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Speaker 1: college football playoff leaders have discussed incorporating more bowl games

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Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher looks around and says, hold up a second,

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Speaker 1: you mean to tell me we lost one game in

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Speaker 1: the regular season to what ended up being the national

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Speaker 1: champion and probably the best team of all time. At

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Speaker 1: very least they're in the conversation in Alabama, and that's

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Speaker 1: all it took for US to be ranked outside the

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Speaker 1: playoff and behind Notre Dame. The same Notre Dame team

436
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Speaker 1: went on to get beat by Alabama. The only difference

437
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Speaker 1: is they were in the playoff. Well, the point is

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Speaker 1: you can get into the semantics. The SEC teams look

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Speaker 1: around and they say, as long as people are just

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Speaker 1: going to judge us based off record and they're not

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Speaker 1: going to take into account the nuance of strength to

442
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Speaker 1: scheduling college football, why would we ever challenge ourselves voluntarily

443
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Speaker 1: more than we have to now, if you were to

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Speaker 1: change the structure and you were to say, we're going

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Speaker 1: to account for strength to schedule properly, which is not

446
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Speaker 1: just wins and losses, it's more of a Vegas power

447
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Speaker 1: ranking style metric. If you were to do that, they'd

448
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Speaker 1: be a little more open to it. That's also the

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Speaker 1: reason why this expanded playoff has come with an increase

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Speaker 1: in talk about expanding to a nine game conference schedule

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Speaker 1: in the SEC, and a lot of these SEC teams

452
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Speaker 1: are scheduling tougher out of conference games once there are

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Speaker 1: more playoff spots, they're not as scared to schedule those

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Speaker 1: big games. Now, you may say to me, well, Josh,

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Speaker 1: doesn't that counter your own argument. Don't you say that

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Speaker 1: it will decrease the value of the regular season if

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Speaker 1: you increase the amount of college football playoff spots. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I do say that I'm all for more more quy

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Speaker 1: out of conference games, I will enjoy that. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying there are no good aspects of an expanded playoff.

461
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Speaker 1: I'm saying the risk outweighs of the reward. Those certainly

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Speaker 1: are rewards. What I'm asking you is what makes those

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Speaker 1: rare in season out of conference games so exciting? What

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Speaker 1: makes a big in season conference game so exciting? For

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Speaker 1: that matter to me and college football's cause there is

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Speaker 1: no safety net, or there's a very thin safety net

467
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Speaker 1: under those games. You're watching with baited breath, You're watching

468
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Speaker 1: on the edge of your seat. You'll watch Ohio State

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Speaker 1: Oregon in Week two this year, probably because you know

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Speaker 1: the loser has a much fainter shot of making the playoff,

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Speaker 1: and they certainly remove all their margin for error if

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Speaker 1: they lose that game. Well, that makes those games must

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Speaker 1: see television. When you expand the safety net under those games,

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Speaker 1: you may get more of them, but you don't have

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Speaker 1: the same consequence. You don't have the same stakes on

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Speaker 1: the line, and so it certainly will still be fun

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Speaker 1: to watch, but it will not have the same feel.

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Speaker 1: There will be entertainment, you'll see good athlete against good athlete,

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Speaker 1: but the subtext the backdrop with which those games are

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Speaker 1: played in front of that feels different. You cannot manufacture

481
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Speaker 1: that regular season do or die environment that is totally

482
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Speaker 1: unique to college football if it's not there organically, and

483
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Speaker 1: the only organic way to keep it there is to

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Speaker 1: keep the regular season at the forefront of what's special

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Speaker 1: about college football. You can't do that with an expanded playoff.

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Speaker 1: So again, there are some positives to expansion. I'm not

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Speaker 1: pretending there aren't. I just think there are more positives

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Speaker 1: to keeping it the way it is. But having said that,

489
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Speaker 1: to go back to the question, yes, I do think

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Speaker 1: that this will answer itself. So I think, Sean, you

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Speaker 1: were to ask about what option is best, I think

492
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Speaker 1: there will be more people on board with adopting a

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Speaker 1: nine game conference schedule in the SEC in the near

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Speaker 1: future because of an expanded playoff. David up next. David said,

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Speaker 1: how much does Miami need to have a good showing

496
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Speaker 1: Week one, especially as it pertains to their recruiting efforts.

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Speaker 1: How much are they at risk of being the next

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Speaker 1: Bama opener casualty like USC or worse. Twenty seventeen Florida

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Speaker 1: State The seventeen Florida State opener, That truly was a travesty.

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Speaker 1: I was on the field right in the end zone

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Speaker 1: where play was happening right in front of me, and

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Speaker 1: it was the waning minutes and Alabama had maybe Florida

503
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Speaker 1: State had fought them. They didn't get blown out fifty

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Speaker 1: two to six like Southern Cal did, but they had

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Speaker 1: been handled physically. But at the very end of that game,

506
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Speaker 1: remember DeAndre Francois Week one, It's a top three matchup,

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Speaker 1: and DeAndre Francois goes down to a season ending injury.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Ronnie Harrison that tackled him, and

509
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Speaker 1: he goes down to a season ending injury, and that

510
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Speaker 1: Florida State season just goes off the rails entirely. And

511
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Speaker 1: I that's injury related. So there's no way to predict injury.

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Speaker 1: It is always important to have a good showing in

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Speaker 1: Week one, However, I don't necessarily know that it's imperative

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Speaker 1: for Miami, you know, to hang in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: with Alabama in order to still achieve what they want

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Speaker 1: to achieve, because I think the goal for Miami this

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Speaker 1: year is to compete in the conference and make it

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Speaker 1: to the conference championship game. If you do that, you'll

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Speaker 1: let the chips fall where they may. Well. Nothing about

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Speaker 1: the Alabama game matters in terms of the ACC race.

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Speaker 1: Now what can matter is if it shull shots you

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Speaker 1: so much, or you do have some injuries pile up,

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Speaker 1: or it just erases any confidence and makes you so

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Speaker 1: mentally weak that you tiptoe into conference play in a

525
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Yes, that can screw you up. So

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Speaker 1: a good start is essential, and it would very much

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Speaker 1: help recruiting. Now it's a kind of the second part

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Speaker 1: of this question. Yes, that would very much help recruiting.

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Speaker 1: You just don't want your rivals to be able to

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Speaker 1: go into the living room and say, did you see

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Speaker 1: Miami Week one? You claim you want to go play

532
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Speaker 1: for national championships? Well, did you watch them? They're not close?

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Speaker 1: All due respect to you, you're not going to make

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Speaker 1: a difference there. Now, you can make a difference here.

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Speaker 1: We're not getting blown out by anyone. Of course, we're

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Speaker 1: not playing Alabama week one either, but we're not getting

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Speaker 1: blown out by anyone. So come here, don't go there. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's an element here. I just think they need to

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Speaker 1: be able to take positives out of week one if

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Speaker 1: they can do that. The scoreboard will read what the

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Speaker 1: school board reads. I mean, most people are going to

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Speaker 1: lose Tobama if they play them any given week. Just

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Speaker 1: give me something I can buy. Give me something if

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Speaker 1: I'm on that staff that I can sell as we're

545
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Speaker 1: headed in the right direction. Imagine what would have happened

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Speaker 1: if Miami played Bama two or three years ago. That

547
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Speaker 1: sort of deal. And that's fine. It's not the end

548
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Speaker 1: of the world if they lose that game, as long

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Speaker 1: as I can draw something positive out of it. Let's

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Speaker 1: continue with Noah. Noah's said, do you think Clay Helton

551
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Speaker 1: could actually be the right coach at USC? He did

552
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Speaker 1: put together a good season last year and seems to

553
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Speaker 1: be recruiting well out of high school and in the

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Speaker 1: transfer portal. Noah, I don't think so. I mean, I

555
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Speaker 1: do not feel that I would be happy to be wrong,

556
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Speaker 1: because I certainly have nothing against Clay Helton the person.

557
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Speaker 1: I love the dude. Actually, but I'd be lying to

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Speaker 1: you if I said I needed to endorse USC right

559
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Speaker 1: now or not. I couldn't endorse them. They had a

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Speaker 1: good year last year. You're right about that. They had

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Speaker 1: a good year. That's about as far as I'll go,

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Speaker 1: they had a good year. It was shortened, so we

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Speaker 1: don't really know what would have happened in a full season.

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Speaker 1: But then they go to the Pac twelve championship game,

565
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Speaker 1: they fumble that opportunity. So what did they really do

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Speaker 1: last year? A good season is what they had. Here's

567
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Speaker 1: the difference. I've got high standards for USC, very high standards.

568
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Speaker 1: So good is not good enough. If I'm a USC fan,

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Speaker 1: good is not good enough. I grew up in Georgia

570
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Speaker 1: and good is not good enough for USC. So if

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling for USC, I'm looking around and I'm watching

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Speaker 1: what Bama does. I'm watching what Ohio is a lot

573
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Speaker 1: of the powers to the East. I'm watching what they

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Speaker 1: do and it doubly aggravates me. They're doing it with

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Speaker 1: our players, But let's stick to the primary point. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at them, and I'm asking myself, do we have

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Speaker 1: the people here currently that we can trade punches with

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Speaker 1: those teams with if we get in that environment, can

579
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Speaker 1: we trade punches with them? And Noah, I look in

580
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Speaker 1: the mirror right now if I'm a USC fan, and

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell myself Clay Helton's that guy unless some

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Speaker 1: things change unless I just haven't seen the real USC

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Speaker 1: under Clay Helton. Now you're right. They did some really

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Speaker 1: good things in the recruiting world last year. They surprised

585
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Speaker 1: me because after that disastrous cycle two years ago, I mean,

586
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Speaker 1: I thought that was more than the beginning of the end,

587
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Speaker 1: and they salvaged it. They did some really good things.

588
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Speaker 1: They landed the number one player in the country and

589
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Speaker 1: Corey Foreman, and that's good. That's very good. Don't discount that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should. And then they really attack

591
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal here over this last few months. They

592
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Speaker 1: brought in nine kids, seven of them rated in our

593
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Speaker 1: top one hundred in the Transfer Portal rankings. That's another

594
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Speaker 1: good thing. But I want you to remember that it

595
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Speaker 1: wasn't by choice, that was by necessity. Chris Hummer about

596
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Speaker 1: a month ago did a feature on twenty four seven

597
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Speaker 1: sports dot Com. He talked to the director of Player

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Speaker 1: Personnel or director of recruiting, one of the two with USC,

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Speaker 1: and he was asked that he was asked about all

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Speaker 1: these massive amounts of transfers they brought in, and the

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Speaker 1: guy told Hummer said, we had to do it. It's

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Speaker 1: not like we set it out and that was in

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Speaker 1: our plan, that's in our mission statement every year own

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Speaker 1: the transfer portal. We had to do it. And he's right,

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Speaker 1: they did have to do it, and you know why

606
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Speaker 1: they had to do it because they were a disaster

607
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Speaker 1: in recruiting two years ago and that inevitably creates holes

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Speaker 1: down the road that you have to fill. And then

609
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Speaker 1: you add on top of that guys that transfer out.

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Speaker 1: So they did some good things. They upgraded their running

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Speaker 1: back position. I think they lost two good options. They

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Speaker 1: brought in two very good options. I think they upgraded there.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see a lot of those guys on

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Speaker 1: the field this year. But I say that and then

615
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: I zoom it out and I think, big picture, does

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Speaker 1: this coaching staff have what it takes to compete against

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Speaker 1: the best in the country. Noah. My answer to that

618
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Speaker 1: is I don't think. So here's a really good one

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Speaker 1: from Palmer. I'm gonna do the thing where I ask

620
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Speaker 1: the question and then I'll toss it to our ad

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Speaker 1: break so you can think about it while also you

622
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Speaker 1: use fifty percent of your brain to listen to the

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Speaker 1: ad because we love our sponsors around here. Palmer said,

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Speaker 1: do you think that some coaches or programs in college

625
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Speaker 1: football received too much praise relative to what they've accomplished

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Speaker 1: over the past decade or so, while some others receive

627
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Speaker 1: too harsh a criticism relative to those same factors. So

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Speaker 1: you think about that and I'll give you my answer

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Speaker 1: right after this. All right, we're back, Palmer, A really

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Speaker 1: good question here, and I'm going to go an angle

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Speaker 1: I want to go with it, and you can go

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Speaker 1: a different angle if you wanted to. So he's asking, basically,

633
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Speaker 1: is too much praise and too much criticism thrown out

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00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: in college football? I think, incidentally, you can say yes.

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Speaker 1: One of the first that comes to mind is Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Notre Dame gets enough credit for what

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Speaker 1: they've done, which just flies in the face of what

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Speaker 1: a lot of people think about Notre Dame. I know

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Speaker 1: that I talk to you guys all the time, and

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Speaker 1: I helped the amount of my listening audience and viewing

641
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Speaker 1: audience thinks Notre Dame's overrated. Now, we've gone over this before,

642
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Speaker 1: so I'm not going to do the whole overrated thing.

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Speaker 1: Well I will for a second. Notre Dame's not overrated.

644
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame is the most properly rated program in America

645
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Speaker 1: right now. I don't think there are very many programs

646
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Speaker 1: that we have a better read on the Notre Dame.

647
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: We don't put them ahead of Bama, we don't put

648
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Speaker 1: them ahead of Clemson, we don't put them ahead of

649
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Speaker 1: Ohio State. We rank them behind that top tier, which

650
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Speaker 1: is exactly where Notre Dame should be. The only teams

651
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Speaker 1: that are handling them are the teams rated ahead of them.

652
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Speaker 1: That's the complete opposite of being overrated. That's being properly rated,

653
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Speaker 1: and underrated would be constantly beating teams that are rated

654
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Speaker 1: ahead of you. Notre Dame is totally properly rated. Here's

655
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Speaker 1: what I have always been rubbed the wrong way by.

656
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Gets judged based on the standard of Tier one,

657
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: but Notre Dame does not have Tier one ability or

658
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Speaker 1: resources right now. I'm not saying they couldn't one given

659
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Speaker 1: year win a championship. It'd be very hard for them,

660
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Speaker 1: but they're being judged to the same standard Clemson is,

661
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Speaker 1: or the same standard Oklahoma or Alabama is. They do

662
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: not have the advantage that those programs have. So here's

663
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Speaker 1: what it's like. When I played high school my junior year,

664
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Speaker 1: I had an ingrown tonel. I was petrified of surgery.

665
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Speaker 1: I chose to play the season with an ingrown toenail.

666
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: And when I say ingrown toenao, I mean it looked

667
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Speaker 1: like my big toe had frostbite and we needed to

668
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Speaker 1: amputate it. It was horrific, just layers of dead skin

669
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Speaker 1: peeling off. You're welcome. For those of you who listened

670
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: to this around lunchtime, You're welcome. I'll give you a

671
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: dead skin warning the next time I'm going to go

672
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Speaker 1: down that road. But anyway, it was a struggle to run,

673
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Speaker 1: as you can imagine. I would cold spray it before

674
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Speaker 1: a game, but it thaws pretty quickly. Your toes thaw

675
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: pretty quickly in a cleat in ninety five degree weather

676
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: in Georgia. But I just I learned to live with it.

677
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: And I walked with my weight on the opposite side

678
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: of my foot, which did wonders from my posture and balance.

679
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: But I remember I could still run enough. But if

680
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Speaker 1: anyone in the stands were to know the actual condition

681
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: I was playing with, they would have praised me like

682
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: I was Usain Bolt, because there's no way I should

683
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: have been able to run or even walk with the

684
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: condition my toe was in. But the Notre Dame thing

685
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: right now, when you talk about recruiting and you talk

686
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: about the advantage they have relative to admissions and academics

687
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: relative to the big boys down south, they are playing

688
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: with an ingrown toenail. That's exactly what they're doing. And

689
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Speaker 1: I think it's miraculous that Brian Kelly has them in

690
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: contention as often as he does. I think it's miraculous

691
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: that they are playing what I think is their maximum

692
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: capability level of football, and they've done it for a

693
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Speaker 1: few years now. But they're like me. If I were

694
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Speaker 1: to be put in a race with a bunch of

695
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: folks back then who also played on the team, and

696
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: we raise and they beat me. They don't smoke me,

697
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: but they beat me consistently. You could look at that

698
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: one of two ways. You could say, dude, you're so slow.

699
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: Ben and Seth and Troy they always beat you. Or

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Speaker 1: I could peel my cleat off and show you this

701
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: bloody stump of a foot I have and you could say, Wow,

702
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: it's a miracle that you can even hang with those guys.

703
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: That's how I look at Notre Dame. I think it

704
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: is a borderline miracle in a huge testament to how

705
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: good Brian Kelly is that they even find themselves on

706
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Speaker 1: the same pace with those teams. That's how I view

707
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I think Malzon got when he was at

708
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Speaker 1: Auburn because I think Malson had the unfortunate task of

709
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Speaker 1: playing four top six or seven recruiting powers every year

710
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: on average, and Georgia, Bama, LSU, Texas, A, and M

711
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone would have survived that. I think

712
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: it is a borderline miracle that Gus Mauzon was the

713
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Speaker 1: one that beat Nick Saban more so than anyone else

714
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: did and gave him nightmares even when they didn't beat him.

715
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Speaker 1: And so I think a lot more criticism was thrown

716
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Speaker 1: at Gus Mauzan than was deserved. And the case study

717
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: on that's going to be UCF because he fell down

718
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: at you, well, he didn't fall anywhere. He some would

719
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: say he elevated to UCF because it's a more desirable job.

720
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Speaker 1: You get the opportunity, you get the recruiting grounds. He'll

721
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: end up making enough money and he already makes enough

722
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: money with the buyout at Auburn anyway, and you don't

723
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: have that SABAN pressure, you don't have that SEC pressure,

724
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: but you get all the perks. The case study will

725
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: be how good does he do at UCF Because it's

726
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: the same Mauson, it's the same offense, He'll have the

727
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: same approach. Do they start dominating AAC, Do they start

728
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: perennially contending for the title in that conference? If they do,

729
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: you'll realize he was underrated here. He just had an

730
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: insurmountable task given the current landscape of the SEC. So

731
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Speaker 1: I think that's the case. I'll tell you another thing.

732
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Speaker 1: I think Kirby Smart gets too much criticism. I thought

733
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Speaker 1: Mark Rick twenty was at Georgia got too much criticism

734
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Speaker 1: towards the latter stages of his career. And the way

735
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: I look at that is I judge the level a

736
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Speaker 1: coach is performing at. I do not judge them based

737
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: off championships. When I'm saying, I judge them at the

738
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Speaker 1: level they're at. I think about this if I go

739
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: back to the twenty seventeen title game or the twenty

740
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: twelve SEC Championship game. Those were two games where one

741
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: play at the very end of the game. You could

742
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,720
Speaker 1: argue cost Georgia a national title or an SEC title

743
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: and a shot at a title they would have won,

744
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: because I think Georgia would have handled Notre Dame in

745
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. My point is those coaches didn't change because

746
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: of those plays. If DeVante Smith drops the touchdown pass

747
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: against Georgia in twenty seventeen and Bama loses the game

748
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: and they miss a field goal at the end of regulation,

749
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart's the same coach, but he has a national

750
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: championship in his trophy case and he's totally immune to criticism.

751
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: Now what changed. All that changed is a trophy. I

752
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: know that's everything in the sport. Guys. I understand we're

753
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: playing this thing for a championship. I get that, So

754
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: it's a very big deal. But when we're judging the

755
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: relative operational level a coach is at, it's the same.

756
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: It's not like you're at fifty thousand feet when you

757
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: win a title and you're only at twenty eight thousand

758
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: feet when you don't, you are who you are as

759
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: a coach. It's the same with Rick in twenty twelve.

760
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: So I think the disproportionate praise to criticism ratio that

761
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: we dole out relative to whether you want a title

762
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: or not. That in reality just comes down to a

763
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,919
Speaker 1: bounce of the ball here and there. I think that's

764
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: all out of whack too. Next up is Robert, He said,

765
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Speaker 1: will nil and make my LSU season ticket prices go up?

766
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Speaker 1: Geaux up and unaffordable like the NFL ticket prices. I'm

767
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: not sure that will happen, Robert. Now I'm interested where

768
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: you're going with that. Here's one school of thought. Now,

769
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer is to this. You

770
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: guys can tell me what you think the answer is.

771
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: So Roberts asking, will nil make my season ticket prices

772
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Speaker 1: go up? Now, you may be thinking to yourself as

773
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Speaker 1: you're driving around, where are we driving today? If you're

774
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: driving around in Richmond, Virginia, or you're driving around in Lubbock, Texas,

775
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: Go Red Raiders, or maybe you're in ewen alabamaw in Alabama.

776
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Speaker 1: If you want to do some fascinating research, why don't

777
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Speaker 1: you google Ewan Gui in Alabama. Really small town, it's

778
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Speaker 1: about it's a little ways north of Tuscaloosa. It's south

779
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: of Muscle Shoals or Mussholls. As we've documented on this show.

780
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Speaker 1: Research the youw in Alabama tornado from the super Outbreak

781
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Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy four. There are people out there who

782
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Speaker 1: think it may have been the strongest tornado in the

783
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Speaker 1: continental United States history. We just don't have a way

784
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Speaker 1: to accurately measure that, because again, it happened in nineteen

785
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Speaker 1: seventy four. But anyway, wherever you're listening, thank you. So

786
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: maybe you're riding around in those towns or any other

787
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 1: town or overseas because we have a lot of international listeners.

788
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Speaker 1: Let's get back on track here, and you're thinking to yourself,

789
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Speaker 1: how could NIL affect ticket prices? Here's one school of

790
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: thought that we It's still too early, so I don't

791
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: know if this is the way it's going to go.

792
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 1: But one school of thought is as NIL becomes a thing,

793
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: then a lot of these big companies that right now

794
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: advertise in the stadium. You see a lot of billboards,

795
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: a lot of banners, a lot of ad reads over

796
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: the PA system in the stadium. What if they take

797
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: those advertising dollars and what they would have spent with

798
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 1: the school they now spend it directly with the athlete. Well,

799
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: the university, it stands to reason, has to make up

800
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: that lost revenue somehow, So what if they choose to

801
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: jack up ticket prices. I don't think it's out of

802
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility, Robert, But I don't think that's

803
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: the way it's going to go either. The way I

804
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: think this is going to go is I think the

805
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: bigger corporate sponsors like Golden Flake Potato Chips, or Coca

806
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: Cola or Ford. I mean that big money that's always

807
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: partnered with the school. I think it always will partner

808
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: with the school. Ditto for the broadcast you watch. I

809
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: think AFLAC is always going to be AFLAC across litany

810
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: of college football broadcast. What I think this does is

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Speaker 1: it opens the door for more Tier three, tier four,

812
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: Tier five type advertising companies, companies that you never would

813
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: have seen because they never could afford from an advertising perspective,

814
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: to sit at the college football table. I do not

815
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Speaker 1: think this is going to be a big thing, No, Robert.

816
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Speaker 1: I don't think your season tickets are going up unless

817
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Speaker 1: LSU just decides to jack it up. And speaking of which,

818
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: from Death Valley to Death Valley, Brennan says a couple

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Speaker 1: he has three questions here, so I'm going to rapid

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Speaker 1: fire him do you believe Clemson's best days are yet

821
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Speaker 1: to come? I believe we're right in the middle of

822
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: Clemson's best days. I cannot look back in the rearview

823
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Speaker 1: mirror and see two titles and say it'll get better.

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Speaker 1: But I'm certainly not looking ahead and saying, oh, I

825
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Speaker 1: see worst things on the horizon. I talked about this

826
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Speaker 1: a lot on the Sunday Show. If you guys didn't

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Speaker 1: see that, I would encourage you to go to the

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Speaker 1: twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel. Find it, and by

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Speaker 1: the way, subscribe while you're there. Still sixty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of our viewers are not subscribed, so you're watching but

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Speaker 1: not subscribing. I'm probably speaking to the choir here, but

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Speaker 1: if you know anyone who hasn't hack into their computer,

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Speaker 1: do what you have to do. Subscribe to the channel.

834
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Speaker 1: Because we are pushing rapidly towards sixty thousand. So again,

835
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Speaker 1: it just helps us do more of what you want

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Speaker 1: us to do. The better our numbers gift. The second

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Speaker 1: thing Brennan asked, is well, a Clemson player ever won

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Speaker 1: the Heisman. Yes, there's no skill in predicting it, but

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Speaker 1: yes I think they will. And the third one is

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Speaker 1: why is nobody talking about Clemson being one snap away

841
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: from disaster this year. Now, this Brennan is an underrated

842
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: aspect of your submission and an under reported aspect of

843
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: the entire college football picture this year, the ACC, the

844
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: College Football Play Off, everything. Dj Uyangili Lay is the

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Speaker 1: guy at the forefront. He's the starting quarterback for Clemson,

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00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. But behind him, they got

847
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: little to nothing in terms of proven experience. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's the depth situation that Oklahoma has, for example,

849
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: where if Spencer Rattler gets a hangnail, well we got

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams ready to go. That's only the number one

851
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the country from this last cycle. Who a

852
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't look the best out of the

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Speaker 1: two in the spring game. No quarterback controversy, mind you,

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Speaker 1: just they have a very enviable depth situation. Ohio State

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Speaker 1: has that for example. I think Ja Milrow will rapidly

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Speaker 1: rise up the ranks at Alabama. Keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: that name in the future. So some of those other

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Speaker 1: contending perennial contender type teams, they have quarterbacks that in

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Speaker 1: an emergency situation they would be comfortable with, especially at

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Speaker 1: Ou and Ohio State at Clemson, they don't have that.

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Speaker 1: So what Brennan's saying is you could turn the TV

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Speaker 1: on and then you could go in the kitchen to

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Speaker 1: grab a snack, and you come back in and again,

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Speaker 1: we don't have a root for injury. I don't like

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Speaker 1: talking about it, but if it were to happen, because

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Speaker 1: it's part of the game, that is your season. I

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Speaker 1: mean that alters clums and season. But also think about

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Speaker 1: what else it does. I mean that opens the door

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Speaker 1: in the ACC because at that point there would be

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Speaker 1: other contenders in the ACC. So, yes, this is something

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Speaker 1: to pay attention to. It also asks and even begs

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Speaker 1: the question, does that change the way they use DJ?

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Speaker 1: He is a mat truck, he's a tank, so you

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Speaker 1: would think, I mean, we would use his legs some

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Speaker 1: and we would use the ability to fall forward. I

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Speaker 1: remember Cam Newton, brilliant used to be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: He was just physically superior. And so even if you

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Speaker 1: stuffed him at the line of scrimmage or so you thought, well,

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Speaker 1: he ends up gaining three yards when the pile cleans

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Speaker 1: up because he fell forward. Every play. All DJ's got

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Speaker 1: to do is fall forward half the time, Well, how

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Speaker 1: comfortable are you doing that when you know what the

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Speaker 1: risk is because it's disproportionately high for Clemson this year.

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Speaker 1: So that is Brendan absolutely something to pay attention to.

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Speaker 1: Here's another thing to pay attention to. Make sure you're

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Speaker 1: following Twitter and Instagram at Late Kick, Josh. The numbers

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Speaker 1: are spiking there. Our numbers are spiking everywhere, and I

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Speaker 1: know why, and I thank you for it. And it's

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Speaker 1: only going to ramp up tenfold, well maybe not exactly tenfold,

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Speaker 1: maybe fivefold once we get into August. Beat the rush,

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Speaker 1: do it? Now? Let me tell you what we have coming.

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Speaker 1: We have some things coming. I can't tell you quite yet.

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Speaker 1: You will know when they happen, though. They're all going

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Speaker 1: to be good. It's nothing bad. So there's that, and

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Speaker 1: that's about all I can tell you. So you're welcome.

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Speaker 1: But then the other thing we have is we're about

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Speaker 1: to take Late Kick Live to three days a week.

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Speaker 1: That's probably happening in the first week of August, so

899
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Speaker 1: that's not far away, and so we'll have that. I'm

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Speaker 1: still trying to figure out how I want to do

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Speaker 1: the Q and A. I think I'll still do a

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Speaker 1: Thursday mail Bag. But I'm toying with a couple of

903
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Speaker 1: different ideas, so I'll tell you what you guys, let

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Speaker 1: me know. If you have an idea for how you'd

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Speaker 1: like to see the week structured, let me know right now.

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Speaker 1: As you know, I do Sunday Night and Thursday Night Live,

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Speaker 1: so you get it Monday morning as a podcast and

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Speaker 1: Friday morning as a podcast, and then Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing the mail Bag, which you're listening to

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Speaker 1: right now, which is just podcast. You have to be

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Speaker 1: here or you don't get it well. Once we add

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Speaker 1: in the Tuesday show, that literally means you're getting something

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Speaker 1: every morning. So Monday morning, if you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: podcast feed, you have last night's replay, Tuesday Morning mail Bag,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, Tuesday Night's replay, Thursday Morning mail Bag, Friday morning,

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night's replay. So it works out that way. That's

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Speaker 1: the way we did it last year. People seemed happy

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Speaker 1: with it. Is that the way we want to do

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Speaker 1: it this year? Or is there another product that you

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Speaker 1: would like to see one week that replaces one of

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Speaker 1: those mail bags? Do you want the Thursday Night Live

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Speaker 1: show on YouTube to be a mailbag. There are many

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Speaker 1: different things we can do with that. I'm very interested

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Speaker 1: to get some feedback and we call it good old

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Speaker 1: fashioned market research. And the other thing. To keep in mind,

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Speaker 1: I might as well putting out this call to action now.

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Speaker 1: There were about a dozen of you last year that

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Speaker 1: had emailed me and said, hey, if you ever have

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Speaker 1: anything that you need help with for the show, I

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Speaker 1: would like to make myself available. I know it's not

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Speaker 1: a paid spot or anything. I just like to participate

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Speaker 1: in some shape form or fashion. If you're interested in

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Speaker 1: doing that, email me. I'm not going to put the

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Speaker 1: rolls out there publicly. Those of you who participated last

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Speaker 1: year know what we're talking about here. There are some

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Speaker 1: things that I have to have done week to week.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty involved. You do get a little behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain peak of the show, but it helps out.

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Speaker 1: But I only need serious candidates. I only need people

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Speaker 1: who know that they have a couple of hours every

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Speaker 1: week that they can dedicate to this and they do

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Speaker 1: it the entire season. So if you want to potentially

943
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Speaker 1: get involved with that, hit me up. If you're in

944
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Speaker 1: anything from data and statistics to just loving research to hey,

945
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Speaker 1: I watch the games anyway, I might as well do

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Speaker 1: something while I'm watching them. And if you watch every

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Speaker 1: episode of Late Kick, any of you who fit those

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Speaker 1: descriptions email me Josh pat seven zero six at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. That's about a wrap for us here. I'm

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Speaker 1: about to send this off to Jordan. He'll get a

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Speaker 1: cut up sent out to you. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. This has been the Late Kick Extra podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh, Babe, God blessed. Have a great rest of

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Speaker 1: your day.