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Speaker 1: And what we have on our hands is food in

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Speaker 1: And across town, Houston's got a coaching search underway. We're

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Speaker 1: Tuesday to predict the games. Tonight is Sunday, and we

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Speaker 1: finally look back. It's Sunday night, November twenty sixth, the

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Speaker 1: year of our lower twenty twenty three. I was in

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Speaker 1: a long and storied history of Ohio State versus Michigan games.

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Speaker 1: You could argue the last great version or the last

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Speaker 1: ton of other takeaways from Rivalry Week. You never watched

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Speaker 1: So we've got a jam pack show. I know a

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Speaker 1: And not that I'm into self promotion. You guys know

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Speaker 1: It is the holiday season, it is the purchasing season,

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Speaker 1: is worth a visit this time of year and any

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Speaker 1: time of year. Here we go. Ohio State falls to

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Speaker 1: Michigan yesterday thirty to twenty four. Unbelievable environment. I've been

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Speaker 1: business doing sports talk radio in Columbus, Georgia, and that

428
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Speaker 1: was twenty twelve, and that was the year that these

429
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Speaker 1: two met in the SEC Championship game. And it was

430
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 1: then that I realized, Yeah, Bama's big rival is Auburn

431
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,879
Speaker 1: and Georgia's big rival is Florida. But there is never

432
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Speaker 1: the kind of electricity in this market, or the Atlanta market,

433
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 1: or the Birmingham market than when these two play each other,

434
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 1: and they play each other with championship hopes on the

435
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 1: line both ways. I've got several theories as to why

436
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: that is. Folks will argue with me about it. They're wrong,

437
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 1: I'm right. I'm telling you. I see our numbers when

438
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: we do it now, I see our numbers. One they

439
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: play now special, really special. I was I was there

440
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 1: front and center when the Tua to DeVante play happened.

441
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: I was there a couple of years ago when Bama

442
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 1: beat him in Atlanta and then up in Indianapolis when

443
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,959
Speaker 1: Georgia beat them for the title. It's its own story,

444
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: and we get another chapter of it this Saturday. The

445
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 1: Once Upon a Saturday tour has been amazing this year.

446
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,919
Speaker 1: We've had Gelby on the road all year, who has

447
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: now changed his name to Gelby on Twitter. I see,

448
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 1: we've had coach Quinn on the road all year. Just

449
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: just major league salute to her. Very very professional and

450
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: that's something you don't take for granted. If you've ever

451
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: worked without it and then you work with professionalism, it's

452
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: a game changer. Trust me, A lot of you have

453
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 1: seen Gelbi and Quinn on the road. Some of you

454
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 1: have even wizened up to being able to know who

455
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: they are and asking them for pictures with them, which

456
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 1: I highly encourage. By the way, I probably don't take

457
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: enough pictures with them, so I encourage you to. But

458
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: the reason I told you there may be a little

459
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: asterisk next to that is not because this game is

460
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: tainted in any way. I was looking around and I

461
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: was gazing upon the conference championship game slate this Saturday,

462
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: and I said, these games aren't all happening on Saturday?

463
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: Are They got some games on Friday? One really big

464
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: one on Friday out in the desert. So I don't know,

465
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 1: just stay tuned. You never in air travels a fascinating

466
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: thing these days. You never know where we could pop up.

467
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: Speaking of Alabama, got to take a sip from the

468
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: chalice before this. I had such an interesting experience with

469
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,959
Speaker 1: the Iron Bowl, even though I wasn't there yesterday. And

470
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: mind you, we've got A and M hiring a coach.

471
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: We got breaking, we got news breaking on the coaching

472
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: hiring front all over the place, so we got a

473
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: loaded show. I mean, I'm just now scratching the surface

474
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: of it. Bama won the Iron Bowl yesterday, which is

475
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Speaker 1: shocking because they tried forty seven different ways not to

476
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Speaker 1: win the Iron Bowl yesterday, and ye twenty seven to

477
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: twenty four was the final. You know, last week we

478
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: were coming at this very point off the heels of

479
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Speaker 1: Auburn falling to New Mexico State, and I looked at

480
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: it and we had a little fun with it, as

481
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: did most of the college football public. But then we

482
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: got to Monday and Tuesday and I started to notice

483
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: Bama fans aren't stupid. They know the history this rivalry,

484
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Speaker 1: They know the history of them having to go play

485
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Speaker 1: at Jorden Hair Stadium, and so I took to the

486
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Speaker 1: socials and I tweeted the following I said, yeah, thirty

487
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: one to ten New Mexico State over Auburn. It's humiliating,

488
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: it's degrading, But I said, quote the best part about

489
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: Iron Bowl history at Jorden Hare is how Bama fans

490
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: instantly knew to be worried when New Mexico State blew

491
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Speaker 1: Auburn out last week. This is not and I told

492
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 1: you so moment. I mean, I kind of did there,

493
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: but I thought Bama was going to run away with

494
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: the game, so I didn't get the result aspected at all. However,

495
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,479
Speaker 1: there was no shock on my face whatsoever when this

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00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: went down. The thing that went down was unbelievable. In fact,

497
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about my experience in a second. Let's

498
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: just talk about what went down here. There is a

499
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: tough lesson learned by Hugh Freeze. Scratch that Freeze knows

500
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: the lesson. It was a tough lesson learned by the

501
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: players on that Auburn team. A lot of new folks

502
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: in the Auburn program, a lot of folks facing Alabama

503
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: for the first time, and the lesson is this, you

504
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: got to cut the head off the snake. You can't

505
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: run over it, you can't just step on it. You've

506
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: got to take an axe, and you got to cut

507
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: the head off the snake, because if you don't, it

508
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: will bite you. Even though you think it is dead

509
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: and buried and gone. Bama's the snake. And yet again

510
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: someone ran over them a couple of times and said,

511
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: all right, well that takes care of that. So many

512
00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: chances for Auburn, there so many percentage chances. It looked

513
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: like ninety seven percent. ESPN's got that thing that is

514
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: probably powered by the same machine that powers FPI, so

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00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: I don't put a whole lot of stock into it.

516
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: But you had the ESPN machines, and at one point

517
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: BAM had a zero point one percent chance to win

518
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: the game yesterday. I actually don't think that's too far off.

519
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: But you know what we got instead of an Auburn whim,

520
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: what we got is a Sarah McLaughlin special. It's not

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00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: even a stat What we got is we had a

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00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: situation and I'm watching this in an airport, mind you.

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00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: We had a situation where fourth quarter, fourth and goal,

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00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: you got everybody back. They're thirty one yards from the

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00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: end zone. Hope, this is the part where Auburn only

526
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: rushes two guys. They spy Milroe inexplicable, even though he's

527
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: got half a mile to run to get a touchdown,

528
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: and there's Isaiah Bohm back of the end zone. Touchdown.

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00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: It gets no more Sarah McLaughlin special than that. They

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00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: might as well have played it on that very very

531
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: expensive PA system and board they have. I couldn't believe it,

532
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: could not believe it. And now let me tell you

533
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: where I watched this game. Okay, our CBS crews there,

534
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: big game. Jenny Dell's on the sideline. We got Brad

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00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 1: and Gary in the booth. I am about one thousand

536
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: miles away, and I am in the Detroit airport. And

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00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, friends, I know, when college

538
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: football games are going on on Saturdays, most of you

539
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: are parked in front of a TV or you're in

540
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: a stadium. But we're on the road every week, and

541
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: fingers crossed, my game normally happens at noon if I

542
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: get my way, and sure enough, Michigan Ohio State happens

543
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: at noon yesterday. So we do our post game once

544
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: the field clears, and then we high tail it to Detroit.

545
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: Not a bad drive yesterday, and we get in the airport,

546
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: and if you've never witnessed a major college football Saturday

547
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: and a big college football moment in a large like

548
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: international airport, it's a sight to behold. College football is

549
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: a massive game in this country, massive and it's never

550
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: on display more readily than if you're in a major

551
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: airport as a major college football moment happens. So here's

552
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: the scene. Detroit's airport is just this one like ten

553
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: mile long terminal, it seems, and so you can see

554
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: as far as the eye can see, all the way

555
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 1: down the corridor. You can see just pockets of people

556
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: and it looks like they're waiting for bags, but they're not.

557
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: They're crowded around restaurants and they're too cheap to buy anything.

558
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: I was one of them, and they're watching TVs from

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00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: out in the regular concourse. So let me set the

560
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: scene for you. It's fourth and goal from the thirty

561
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: one yard line yesterday, and everyone is glued in Detroit,

562
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: Michigan to a television as best they can get their

563
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: eyes on. And when that play happened, there was one

564
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: TV like way down several gates that apparently was a

565
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: little ahead of the other TVs, and so this massive

566
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: commotion just echo down the corridor in the terminal. And

567
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: then about five seconds later, Milroe lets go of that ball,

568
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah Bond catches it in the back of the end zone,

569
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: and you would have thought the Red Wings either won

570
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup or lost the Stanley Cup on like

571
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 1: an overtime shootout goal. That's what it sounded like in

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00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: Detroit's airport. Could you imagine being in Shuttlesworth or Hartsfield

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00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: or somewhere in the South when that happened. Insane and temporarily,

574
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, you start seeing folks high five strangers, and

575
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: then you start seeing other people slump their shoulders and

576
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: their head even though they're wearing like Michigan gear, and

577
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: what are you mad for? Well, I don't know, I

578
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: just hate Bama. And then you got another guy who

579
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: is sitting there oblivious to it all. He's probably from

580
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: France and he's connecting in Detroit find a Tucson to

581
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: see his daughter graduate or something like that, and he's like, uh,

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00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: this is not even football. It's amazing, amazing to see

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00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: a major college football play or ending, go down in

584
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: an airport and had success running the ball against Alabama.

585
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: And I know when you look at the box score

586
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: and you see Auburn ran it forty two times for

587
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four yards and two scores, you think, wow,

588
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: Bama's vulnerable. That's not good at all, which it's not.

589
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 1: But you know which game it reminded me of. It

590
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: reminded me of when Auburn ran it forty three times

591
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: for two nineteen and two scores on Georgia, the two

592
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: best teams they faced. They ran it for over two

593
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: bills on each of them. And it's almost like Hugh

594
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: Freeze knows a thing or two and he's working with

595
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: bubble gum and paper clips for a roster down there

596
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: right now. So they're not looking for a moral victory.

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00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: And I'm not even here to grantam one. I'm just

598
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: saying those two teams, Bama and Georgia play each other

599
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: this Saturday, and Auburn ran it on both of them.

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00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting. Just tucked that away. But as soon

601
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: as this game ended, people who know college football watched

602
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: this ending and they said, man, you got to cut

603
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: the head off the snake, you can't let Bama stay alive.

604
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: And then other people said, wow, what an ending, and

605
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: they just appreciated it for what it was. But then

606
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: you had a sizable majority say this BAMA team's got

607
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: no shot against Georgia. Well, you're probably right about that.

608
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: Here's the follow up, that BAMA team's not playing Georgia.

609
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: That's the follow up. You know Georgia's team last night

610
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: that faced Georgia Tech, that's not the team that'll play

611
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: Alabama either. If you've I start to say, if you've

612
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: watched college football long enough, you should know better. But

613
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: I got folks way older the meat that say this

614
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: stuff sometimes, and so I don't know. I don't think

615
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: it's utter stupidity. I'm not going to be one to

616
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: say that. I will just repeat the words of mem

617
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: Smart people do say casual things sometimes. Casual people rarely

618
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: say smart things. So, for all I know, many of

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00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: you are geniuses GENII the plural, and you just maybe

620
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: don't possess the ability to understand week to week the

621
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: performance level you get from teams in college changes radically.

622
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: You want evidence the same things that led to Auburn

623
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: losing handedly to New Mexico State, but then taking Bama

624
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: to the wire are the same sorts of things that

625
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: could see Bama taken to the wire in a game

626
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: they should lose one week and then possibly go beat

627
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: Georgia in Atlanta the next week. Stuff happens all the time.

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00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: Happens all the time. Think about two years ago, we

629
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: got an SEC championship game featuring these same two teams,

630
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: and Bama's got no run game to speak of, and

631
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: no one ever beats Georgia being one dimensional. And I

632
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: sat here, we were in the other studio, but I

633
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: sat here in the greater Nashville area, and I said, Colin,

634
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: I hardly ever pick against Bama because they hardly ever lose.

635
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't really see a way they're gonna win this game.

636
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: And so I took Georgia. I laid the points and

637
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: I was confident. And Bama goes in there and beats

638
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: them by like two touchdowns. And I'm saying, how did

639
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: this happen? Will it happened? Because Alabama's built to beat

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Speaker 1: Georgia and Georgia is built to beat Bama. They are

641
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Speaker 1: built to beat each other. They mirror each other. Half

642
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: the staffs worked previously for the other staff. They know

643
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: each other as well as they know themselves. It is

644
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: a one game season. You may, for all you know,

645
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: be watching the two best in the country Saturday and

646
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: you look at it and you say, well, there's no way.

647
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: There's no way, because look, respectively, they just won games

648
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: by one possession this past weekend. I don't know what

649
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: to tell you. I have a sneaking suspicion, and it's

650
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: just a suspicion. Had the SEC Championship game been played yesterday,

651
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: in the minds of those players, maybe you see three

652
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: or four touchdown wins either way. I don't know, maybe

653
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: you do. I'm just telling you, I don't watch the

654
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: Iron Bowl outcome yesterday, nor do I watch Georgia Tech

655
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: and Georgia and Georgia kind of lethargic a little bit.

656
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't care less. I care that they win because

657
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: it crystallizes the importance of the game coming up. Going

658
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: to be a war in Atlanta Saturday. But as for Auburn, man,

659
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: nothing changes, Nothing really changes about the game. Look, if

660
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: Auburn would have won the game, yeah, it's great for recruiting.

661
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't really change the caliber of the program, doesn't

662
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: change what I think Hugh Freeze can do. It was

663
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: good that they had recruits there to witness the environment.

664
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Speaker 1: It was good because as soon as you do that

665
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,479
Speaker 1: as a coaching staff, you get to look those kids

666
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Speaker 1: in the eye and say, look how close we just came. Now,

667
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: imagine what we could be if we had you. It's

668
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: a pitch as old as time, but it works if

669
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Speaker 1: the right staff is pitching it. I got a text

670
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Speaker 1: earlier today from our friends at Academy Sports and Outdoors,

671
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Speaker 1: and I think I may get to see them in

672
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: Atlanta Saturday, and it's going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been running They've been running a contest

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Speaker 1: we've just been participating where they give away a ten

675
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars Academy gift card and two tickets to the

676
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Speaker 1: SEC Championship Game. Now A, I selfishly, and I'm thinking

677
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: about you guys, not me so selfishly. I've been hoping

678
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Speaker 1: some of you win that, and I'm checking to see

679
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: hoops one. Not that we're gonna reveal identities, but look,

680
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: some of our audience would want their identities revealed, so

681
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Speaker 1: stand by on that. In the meantime, you guys, getting

682
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Speaker 1: ready to tailgate for conference championship week, or maybe your

683
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: team's not in a conference title game and you plan

684
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: on grilling out, or you want to camp, or you

685
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: want to go fishing, or I don't know what you

686
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: want to do by an early Christmas present basketball hoop

687
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Speaker 1: put in the driveway. They got it all at Academy

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692
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Speaker 1: always has our back, and they got your back as well.

693
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: Unbelievable turn of events happening in college station. Unbelievable. I've

694
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: said that word a lot tonight, but that's kind of

695
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: how you have to describe our sports. Sometimes I would

696
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: say this, I would say, the challice has some maroon liquid,

697
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: so ceremonially, we're gonna use two hands for this immunity

698
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: Texas A and M has higher to head coach, so

699
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: let us take out of the chalice of supremacy a

700
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: ceremonial chug of maroon colored liquid. This is like white smoke.

701
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,919
Speaker 1: At the Vatican, they have hired a new head coach

702
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M. And it's Mike Oko, head

703
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: coach at Duke formerly of Texas A and M. Twenty

704
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Speaker 1: four hours ago, though it was Mark Stoops. Stoops was signed.

705
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Speaker 1: Actually he wasn't. He was just kind of kind of

706
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 1: delivered and the signed and sealed was in the process

707
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: of happening. And then Texas A and M flexed a

708
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: little bit, not the administration, the fan base, and they

709
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: got that thing overturned. The ie Josh was burning up

710
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: last night out of a lot of people in that

711
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: part of the country telling me how much disdain they

712
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: had once they started learning that Mark Stoops was going

713
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Speaker 1: to be the head coach at Texas A and M.

714
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Speaker 1: And I told him, well, if that's how you feel,

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Speaker 1: that's how you feel. Like I think Stoops is a

716
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: good coach. I think he'd do fine there. But I'm

717
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm, I'm it's not my business, it's your business.

718
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: Well then everybody felt that way, and it was according

719
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: to you guys, it was not nearly to the degree

720
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: of animus that Tennessee fans displayed when they thought they

721
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: were gonna hire Greg Ciano, but it felt the same

722
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: to me. Because in the span of a few hours,

723
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: it went from Mark Stoops is going to be the

724
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: head coach oft A and M to Stoops to staying

725
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: at Kentucky. You guys got that overturn just like Tennessee

726
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: fans did back in the day. Now they went on

727
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: to hire Jeremy Pruitt and at torpedo their program. You

728
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: went on to hire Mike Elko a day later, and

729
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,479
Speaker 1: the results are to be determined here. I think Mike

730
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: Elko is gonna be okay, though I like Elko as

731
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: a higher more than Mark Stoops, and I would have

732
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: been fine with Mark Stoops. You haven't had a high

733
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Speaker 1: level CEO running Texas A and M football in quite

734
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: a while. And if I don't know anything else about Elko,

735
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: I know you got one in him. And you may

736
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: think to yourself, well, how can you say that about

737
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Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher. I mean, isn't head coach the CEO of

738
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: the program? Well, he's supposed to be. It just it

739
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: was never a comfort zone. It was never the way

740
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: that anyone around Jimbo Fisher would describe him. In fact,

741
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: they would describe they would have actually quite the opposite.

742
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: They describe him as unorganized. They would describe him as

743
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: a guy who needed a CEO type around him because

744
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: he wasn't that. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. This is

745
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: not bang On Jimbo Fisher Night. I'm just saying, if

746
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: you want to if you want a correct course and

747
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: you want to fill in the blanks that were not

748
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: filled in previously, that's how you do it. You go

749
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Speaker 1: find a guy who who knows your program because he

750
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: was there and therefore he knows some of the eyes

751
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: that need to be dotted and teased that need to

752
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 1: be crossed. But also if you didn't have a CEO

753
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: type and there was just there was some loose ends

754
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: here and there that end up being the difference in

755
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: one possession games on fields on Saturdays, go get a

756
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: guy who does fit that description. And Mike Elko does.

757
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: And you know what else, He's a really good football coach,

758
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: and I would challenge you to find anyone who suggests otherwise.

759
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: I've had some points of contention on this, not many, now,

760
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: I'll grant you most A and m fans seem to

761
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: like this hire. I've actually had more people from the

762
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: outside talk about how they don't think it's flashy enough

763
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: and to that, I just say, that's not a serious

764
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: football related point. I could. I just don't care. Flash

765
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: wins nothing. I'll give you an example. You know who

766
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: made a flashy splashy hire recently? USC did? USC is

767
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 1: sitting at home nowhere close to the Pac twelve championship

768
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: game this weekend. Now that may change in the future,

769
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: but USC won the press conference. They got a ton

770
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: of coverage on this show. You go and take Lincoln

771
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: Riley from Oklahoma and he's your head coach man. That's

772
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: the old Grand Slam, That's the fabled Grand Slam. Hire

773
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about in a second. Well, what

774
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: did it get you? So? Had USC hired Mike Elko, oh,

775
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: it would have been slammed. This isn't this isn't Southern California,

776
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: this isn't Los Angeles. You gotta make a splash, You

777
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: gotta resonate. No, you gotta win. That's what you have

778
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: to do. Winning cures everything. Well, you gotta have a fit,

779
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: don't you, Josh. Yeah. The right way to fit at

780
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: Texas A and M or USC or anywhere else is win.

781
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: Don't care if you've ever worn cowboy boots before, don't

782
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: care what your accent is. I care that you understand

783
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: how to build and sustain an organization. I care that

784
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: you understand how to acquire and develop talent. I want

785
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: to know that you understand how to run a major

786
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: program and deal with a lot of the off the

787
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: fields that come with that. I want to know that

788
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: you're structured. I want to know that you get how

789
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 1: to promote and market properly and not just say, oh,

790
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: let's do some social media stuff. And I want to

791
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: know that you can hire a high level staff and

792
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: have a singular vision. That's what fit is at Texas

793
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: A and M or anywhere else. Second thing that I've

794
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: been asked sarcastically by a lot of people. I've been

795
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: asked by a lot of people, Well, now that they

796
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: hired Elko and it was him after stoops blew up,

797
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: those aren't a list tier one kind of names. You

798
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: must have been wrong in your assertion that this is

799
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: a tier one job. Well, hey, I could be wrong

800
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: about it. But if you're asking me if I think

801
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: this proves my opinion wrong? Blank, No, it doesn't. Look

802
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: at me self censoring, No it doesn't. No. I think

803
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: everything I thought about the value of the A and

804
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: M job. It's just I think you're chasing the unicorn

805
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: when you imagine what a Tier one job being open

806
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: is actually Like, I think George's one, I think Ohio

807
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: State's won, I think Oklahoma's one. I do think A

808
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: and M is one. I mentioned those programs because let

809
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: me ask you something. They've all hired coaches semi recently.

810
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: Where were the Grand Slam hires? The Grand Slam doesn't happen.

811
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: The Grand Slam hire doesn't happen. In other words, the

812
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: move that you think a Tier one program should be

813
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: able to go out there and make happen actually doesn't happen.

814
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: In other words, I had folks thinking, well, unless they

815
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: go prior Ryan day Away or Dabo Sweney, that's proof

816
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: that this really isn't the job that Josh made it

817
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: out to be. No nobody does that. No job when

818
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: it comes open does that you start you start calling

819
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: bs on me here, I'm gonna ask you, list the

820
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: Grand Slam hires, and by Grand Slam I mean a

821
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: program that went and got an already established championship caliber

822
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: coach to come to their program. List them. You got

823
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: Bama a decade and a half ago, they got Nick Saban.

824
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: Keep listing them, keep going. Don't don't give me Kirby

825
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 1: smart dude had never been a head coach a day

826
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: in his life when Georgia hired him. Don't give me

827
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: Lincoln at Oklahoma, diddoh, don't give me Lincoln at USC

828
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: because he hadn't done anything there. Dan Lanning never been

829
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: a head coach went Oregon hired him. They're all taking chances.

830
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: These aren't Grand Slam hires. What about Dabbo? What about Dabbo?

831
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: Dabbo had never even been a coordinator at Clemson before

832
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: they elevated him. Keep going. Steve Sarkisian could be in

833
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: the playoff. Sark had been a head coach that failed

834
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: multiple times and had to beg for a job as

835
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: an off field guy at Alabama to even get back

836
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: in any kind of standing that would get him a

837
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: job down the road. Where are the Grand Slam hires?

838
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: These are high level programs. I'm listing. Oklahoma just had one.

839
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: They went and hired Brinton Vnibles. Brint Vnibles isn't a

840
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: Grand Slam hire. Your hope is that they end up

841
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: being Grand Slam coaches. My point is, I remember when

842
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: these guys were hired. I remember all the list of

843
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: the dream candidates, and they didn't come true because the

844
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: Grand Slam hire doesn't happen as you define it. What

845
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: you have to do is you have to have your

846
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: critical traits and factors clearly listed. You have to have

847
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: a very keen eye in understanding what makes a quality

848
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: head coach coach and what separates that from you know,

849
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: what just makes a good coordinator. And you got to

850
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: have really good structure. You could argue they haven't had

851
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: those things in the past at Texas A and M,

852
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: but I will stand by every word I said. The

853
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 1: things that it takes to win A and M doesn't

854
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 1: lack any of them. They may have once upon a time,

855
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: they don't now. It's just there is no such thing

856
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: outside of LSU getting Brian Kelly. I will grant you

857
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: that that's a Grand Slam higher if you define Grand

858
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: Slam by getting a guy who has a championship caliber passed.

859
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: He didn't win a title at Notre Dame, but he

860
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: had them at a consistently high level. I will grant

861
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: you if you want to tell me Michigan landing Jim

862
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: Harball was a Grand Slam. I will grant you that

863
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: they went to the NFL to get him, and he's

864
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: a Michigan guy, So there was kind of a unique

865
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: inroad there outside of that, where are they It's Nick Saban,

866
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: That's who it is. Alabama pulled it off, and then

867
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: everyone started to think, Oh, that's what we'll do if

868
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: our Tier one job comes up. And that's not the

869
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: way it works. I know you. I think you duncked

870
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: on me with that one. This is not the flex

871
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: you think it is. And so they're hiring Mike Elko,

872
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: and I think he'll do good there. For all I

873
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: know he will be a grand Slam higher. It's just

874
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: that if he is, you won't know immediately, you won't know.

875
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: I was listening like like, for example, I texted Luci

876
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: a little while ago. I was listening to Billy Luci

877
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: and the folks over at Texacts talk about this earlier today,

878
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: and I kind of thought about that, and I extrapolated

879
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: a little bit further. Man, they're right, like Ryan Day,

880
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: a lot of Texas and m fans thought we may

881
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: go after him. You weren't gonna get Ryan Day, like

882
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna get daboswiney. And the reason those guys

883
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: weren't in play is not because you don't have a

884
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: good job, is because in college football, guys don't leave

885
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: tier ones for other tier ones. Lincoln Riley is the

886
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: exception to the rule, and he may have made a

887
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: catastrophic error in judgment and Oklahoma is doing pretty okay

888
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: without him. So congratulations to mikeel Co. Congratulations you guys

889
00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: who have a head coach now be excited to hear

890
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 1: that press conference. Excited. Look, Mike Elka's not a win

891
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: the press conference guy. I think he'll win the press

892
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: conference too, though, So I think it'll be I think

893
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: it'll be all thumbs up out there. I've got more

894
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: games to get to, I've got a lot more coaching intel,

895
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: We've got other hires to talk about. So we got

896
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: a roll. Florida State won last night and they were

897
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: down and I thought they were out, twenty four to

898
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: fifteen ended up being the final. I think a ton

899
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: of folks are pulling against Florida State right now, and

900
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: now I've got people coming at me thinking I'm one

901
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: of them. Whatever, think what you want to. I do

902
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: think there's validity in suggesting that a lot of America

903
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: is pulling against Florida State right now. I'm just here

904
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: to tell you you're right about that. They don't think

905
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: that you can compete in the playoff. They think you'll

906
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: get blown out in the playoff. I would make you

907
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 1: a double digit underdog myself against a number of teams

908
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: that theoretically may be in the playoff. That's why they're

909
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: pulling against you. They're pulling against you for the same

910
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: reasons they pulled against TCU last year. That is true,

911
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter and you shouldn't really care about

912
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: it all that much because you're one went away from

913
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: being in the playoffs yourself. Canal's right about this. You

914
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: freeze that statement in time because it rarely comes out

915
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: of my mouth. But Canal's right about this, and uh yeah,

916
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I said it before he did. But look,

917
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: I'll give Canelis Flowers. He's right about this. All they

918
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: have to do is win. They got to beat Louisville

919
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: and they're in the College Football Playoff, and if they're not,

920
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: it would be a travesty. I've already given you my

921
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 1: whole take on most deserving versus best I don't ever

922
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: think the committee, by the way, meant to say we're

923
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: gonna put the four best teams in regardless of anything else,

924
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: because that's just power ratings. Okay, no sport works like that,

925
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: nor should any sport work like that, because that does

926
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: not value on field results. Games are played on a field,

927
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,439
Speaker 1: not on paper. And so what the committee I think

928
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: should come out and say is, well, we're gonna blend things.

929
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna value who we think the best as teams are,

930
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: but we're also going to heavily value on field results

931
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: head to head, like we're going to value all these

932
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: things in a blender where you can't have people come

933
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 1: to you at the end of the season and say

934
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: Florida State shouldn't be in over Alabama because Bama would

935
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: be a ten and a half point favored against them.

936
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: If you think Bama should be in, you better have

937
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 1: a different reason than that. It better be resume based,

938
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: and then I'll listen to you. Maybe even if I

939
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 1: don't agree with you, I'll listen to you. But Florida

940
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: State's got one more win and they're in this thing

941
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: or else We'll have a whole show dedicated to one

942
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: of the biggest screw jobs in the history of college

943
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 1: football if they get left out. They trailed twelve to

944
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: nothing in this game yesterday. I was watching it as

945
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: I was flying home. I would have swore to you,

946
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: this is it, They're done. I picked Florida to win

947
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: the game. I felt confident. I felt confident there. And

948
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: then they held Florida to forty eight yards. Should we

949
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: payper pop this? That's a paper popper of a stat

950
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: They held Florida to forty eight yards in the second half,

951
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: and then double paper pop here. They held Florida to

952
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: minus fifteen in the fourth quarter, and Florida helped them out,

953
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 1: but Florida State took advantage. Florida is such an unisciplined team, man,

954
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: it's so disappointing. I'll get back to that in a second.

955
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: We talk about winners. First year, Florida outgained Florida State.

956
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: It didn't matter neither team more than two hundred and

957
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: thirty five yards. It was always going to be that

958
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: kind of game. Even if Florida State won this thing,

959
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: they were gonna have to win ugly just because of

960
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: the circumstances they were in. With the backup quarterback on

961
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: the road. They won the fourth quarter ten to nothing.

962
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: That's probably the Padlock stat here. They you know, what

963
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: they needed to do, just not lose the game, which

964
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: sounds really easy, basic, but it's kind of like in

965
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: week one. You know, in week one in college, if

966
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: you don't have a preseason coaches will always tell you, hey,

967
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: far more games are lost than they are one in

968
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: week one. And what they're saying is kids are mistake prone.

969
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: And sometimes even if you don't play with your hair

970
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: on fire and play your best game, if you just

971
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: don't make the critical mistakes, chances are your opponent will,

972
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: and if you're playing Florida especially, chances are they will.

973
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: And they did, and Florida State just said, will take it,

974
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: keep doing it, will take it. Trey Benson, while he

975
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: didn't have a Heisman worthy monster stat line here, nineteen

976
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: carries for ninety five yards and three touchdowns. You've seen

977
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: games like that in a box score. This was a

978
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 1: monster performance. Again, given the circumstances, that's a big boy

979
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: performance from Trey Benson, and it deserves to be commended

980
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: because there were a lot of things Florida State couldn't

981
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: do last night, and that was one thing they did do.

982
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: And so now they are going to Charlotte. I believe

983
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 1: that's where that game's play. They opened as a four

984
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite against Louisville, who got beat

985
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: by Kentucky yesterday. It's all there that they don't need

986
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 1: help as far as I'm concerned. They don't need anything

987
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: else other than to take care of what they control,

988
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: and that is win, and I believe that they win.

989
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: They're in Florida's got issues, man, Florida. What aggravates me

990
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: most about watching Florida is they are not as a

991
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: program what I think Billy Napier is as a coach.

992
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: And that's not a good thing to be saying. If

993
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 1: you're more than one year in, that's not a good

994
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: thing to be saying. They're undisciplined, they're inconsistent. There are

995
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: facets of that team that were a problem in week

996
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: one and we're still a problem last night. And they're

997
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: chronic in nature. And it's disappointing because I don't think

998
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: that's who Napier is as a coach. But if your

999
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: program does not reflect a thumbprint of who you are,

1000
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: that's because there's a problem, you know, with your identity

1001
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: meshing and becoming that your team possesses. It's inexact. I

1002
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: can't quantify it. Some guys can do it, some guys can't.

1003
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: I am not selling all my Billy Napier stock or

1004
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: anything like that. I've told you I'd never thought that

1005
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: his fate rested on the twenty twenty three season. But

1006
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: they have missed. What is it, Jesse, They've missed both

1007
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: three years in a row now, and it's first time

1008
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: since like the Roosevelt administration or maybe the Ben Franklin administration. Yeah,

1009
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: Bradley is my resident presidential expert. Bradley, what was your

1010
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: favorite part of the Ben Franklin administration? So while he

1011
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 1: looks that up and gets no return on Google, let

1012
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: me return you to real life. They have got a

1013
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: murderer's row of a schedule next year. They have got

1014
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: what needs to be a game changing recruiting class coming in.

1015
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of confidence. I am the

1016
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: last person normally to punt on the future of a

1017
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: head coach. You know that about me. I am not

1018
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: the one. This is not the show to come to.

1019
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: If you want to hear me throwing coaches under a bus.

1020
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: A lot goes into it and I know how hard

1021
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: it is to hire the right guy, and so I

1022
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,399
Speaker 1: don't want you to turn it into Tennessee. Tennessee got

1023
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: themselves in a really big mind when they kept hiring

1024
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: a fire and hiring a fire, and they're only just

1025
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 1: now digging out of it. But Florida fans will look

1026
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: at that and say, no, no, no, no, we're in that now.

1027
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: Three straight losing seasons haven't happened this. It hasn't happened

1028
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: since the seventies. That's when Rumors came out. And that's

1029
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: a great album, but it's a really old album because

1030
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: that's a long time ago. Not good Florida State. I

1031
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: think they're in the playoff with a win, and congratulations

1032
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: to them. We've got hires happening. I need to talk

1033
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: to you about these, and we've got more opening We

1034
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: got openings all over the place. I'm not just talking

1035
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 1: about head coaches. I'm talking about coordinator spots. The ripple

1036
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 1: effect is being felt fore and wide in college football.

1037
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: So let me first off, let me say hey to

1038
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 1: you guys. A lot of folks in the live chat tonight,

1039
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: so do me a favor. We already got over a

1040
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,760
Speaker 1: thousand of them but if you'll just click that thumbs

1041
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: up button, because like one ninth of you have done that,

1042
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: that helps to keep the show free. And the other

1043
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: thing that helps to keep the show free is if

1044
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: you'll just subscribe to the channel and if you're listening

1045
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: on podcasts tomorrow, I'm talking to you Sunday night. Just

1046
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: subscribe to it. That's all I need you to do.

1047
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,360
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1048
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: or you know, go sign up for a newsletter. Just subscribe.

1049
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: That's what helps our numbers and appreciate it. In advance,

1050
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: Michigan State hired Jonathan Smith from Oregon State. Now, this

1051
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: was a move that had to happen for Smith, I mean,

1052
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: your program is fading from the Power five landscape. It sucks,

1053
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: it's out of their control. But yet it also was time.

1054
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: You can't you know, you can't go down with the

1055
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: ship if you're a guy who has a seat on

1056
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 1: potentially many other ships that are going to stay afloat

1057
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: in those waters. And so it's a good time. I

1058
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: thought it was a good time for a lot of

1059
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: these teams to be in the market for a new

1060
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: head coach because think about the circumstances out west, it's

1061
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: like a perfect confluence of events. Michigan State or Mississippi

1062
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: State or like a lot of these program a and

1063
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: m even you got programs that need head coaches, and

1064
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: you got a lot of quality guys that whether it

1065
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: be Jonathan Smith or Mike Elko, Kaylin de Bores at Washington,

1066
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: you don't know if he's available. Jedfish is at Arizona,

1067
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: you don't know if he's available. But if you need

1068
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: a head coach, there's some really good coaches out there

1069
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: who aren't exactly superstars, so in other words, they're attainable,

1070
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: and they got one at Michigan State. He was the

1071
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two PAC twelve co Head Coach of the Year.

1072
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: He was eighteen and seven at Oregon State in the

1073
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: past two seasons. Now. It took a while for them

1074
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: to build up the speed because there is no built

1075
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: in advantage in Corvalli's Oregon. He inherited a one and

1076
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 1: eleven team, and then it took four years because he

1077
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: went sixteen and twenty eight the first four years. I

1078
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: think the COVID year's built in there too. But eventually

1079
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: he built him to a level of respectability, and then

1080
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they start beating teams they're not

1081
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: supposed to, and that's when everyone starts to take notice.

1082
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: I do not doubt that Michigan State's invested enough too.

1083
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: So the big question with Smith will be, Okay, he's

1084
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: coming all the way from the West coast. He doesn't

1085
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: have familiarity. What staff is he going to bring in?

1086
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: Sounds like he's bringing a lot of his guys. They

1087
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: don't have a familiarity with the territory here. Well to that,

1088
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: I say, I'll grant you good point. There's only one

1089
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: way to get it. Nick Saban didn't know anything about

1090
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: recruiting the South until he came to the South. I

1091
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: always use that, and then people say, are you saying

1092
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: Jonathan Smith the next Nick Saban? As a matter of fact,

1093
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: I am not. I'm just using it as an example

1094
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: to say, you can't know something until you learn it.

1095
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: He knows football, Now will he learn the ways of

1096
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 1: the big ten world? Hey, learn the ways of the

1097
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: portal world? Or has he already done that? They brought

1098
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: in seven guys this last cycle. He got Leuyan Gola

1099
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: lay up there and immediately pluged him in as a

1100
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Michigan States invested resource wise, so they're going

1101
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: to be okay there, Like, if if he fulfills his

1102
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: end of the deal, they'll fulfill on the other end.

1103
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: But you know, Michigan right now, I got a lot

1104
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: of other fans coming at me saying, you know why

1105
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: you picked Ohio State again, And I'm like, yeah, I

1106
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: thought they'd win. They said, nope, you thought they'd win

1107
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,479
Speaker 1: because you pay too much attention to recruiting rankings, which

1108
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: I do pay a lot of attention to. And they

1109
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: may even be right about that. There may be some

1110
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: little voice way back in my subconscious that, if all

1111
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: things were equal, makes me lean towards the roster with

1112
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: the higher rated classes in recent history. Not the wildest

1113
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: accusation I've ever had a hurled at me. Well, the

1114
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: funny thing is Michigan is doing it the way they're

1115
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: doing it, and for all I know, Jonathan Smith's about

1116
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: to do the same thing. I doubt we'll see Michigan

1117
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: State parked in the top five of the twenty four

1118
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: to seven sports recruiting rankings in the near future, but

1119
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: I do think we'll see a very competitive product on

1120
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: the field for Michigan State in the near future, which

1121
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: will mean again organizations end up winning. It will mean

1122
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: he's built a strong organization there and I've got confidence

1123
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: that'll do it now from one MSU to another MSU,

1124
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get through this. I've got i got

1125
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: several more things to talk about. I've got I got

1126
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: several more games to talk about. Just a jam packed

1127
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: show tonight. Jeff Leby, did you know? Did anyone know? Yep?

1128
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: Mississippi State has hired Jeff Lebby as the next head coach. Hoopst.

1129
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: I know some of you don't watch every single down

1130
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: of every single game. So Jeff Leby offensive coordinator at Oklahoma,

1131
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: he was at Ole Miss before. That is just evidence

1132
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: to me that Mississippi State and the powers that be

1133
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: over there is Zack Selman's a pretty new athletic director.

1134
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: They looked around and said hold up. So we had

1135
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen, who did things a certain way, and then

1136
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: we had Mike Leech, who you know broadstrokes purpose is

1137
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: another offensive guy. And then we went Zach Barnett. That sucked.

1138
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: And so let's go back to where we previously saw

1139
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: our bread butter. Let's go get a guy who does

1140
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: things on the offensive side of the ball that makes

1141
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: people at least concerned and worried to play us on Saturday.

1142
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: And they did it. They got Jeff Leby, thirty nine

1143
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: years old, just led the number three offense in the

1144
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: country at Oklahoma this year, scored sixty five three times

1145
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: this year. It's pretty good. He knows the state of Mississippi,

1146
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: he's been there before, he was at Ole, miss He

1147
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: knows the offense. He knows Lane Kiffin. I don't necessarily

1148
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: think they're the best of friends in the world. Interesting dynamic,

1149
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic that'll start to brew between Lane Kiffin and

1150
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 1: Jeff Levy, and hey, it just makes for exciting future

1151
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: egg balls. It's allegedly a five year deal. I believe

1152
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: Pete Famill reported that. I don't know the particulars on

1153
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: that yet, but Mississippi State fans love it. I think

1154
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: Mississippi State fans have about as keen an awareness of

1155
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: their program per capita as like any fan base in America.

1156
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: They're not sitting here asking who's going to win a

1157
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: national title at Mississippi State. Some of the fringe may

1158
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: be asking who's going to take us to Atlanta? By

1159
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: and large, they want to win two out of every

1160
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 1: three egg Bowls in the perfect world, and they want

1161
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 1: to be respected. They want to be competitive, and they

1162
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 1: don't want Sama and LSU to look at him and say,

1163
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: are we going to be able to rest starters in

1164
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: the second half? Are we gonna be able to work

1165
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: on some things Saturday when we play State? No, man,

1166
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: it should it should be that you look at him,

1167
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: especially if you got to go to start Villa and say,

1168
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: here we go Mississippi State week again. That's what they want.

1169
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: That's what they want, and I'll be very interested to

1170
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: see if Jeff Levy can deliver that. A lot of

1171
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: the high school guys, a lot of the high school

1172
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: coaches especially, really like Jeff Levy because that's who I

1173
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: heard from more than anyone today. High school guys said,

1174
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: I know a lot of these other hires are gonna

1175
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: get more headlines. Jeff Levy at Mississippi State just feels

1176
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: like a really good fit. There's that word again, that

1177
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: fit word what fits at Mississippi State winning, That's what fits,

1178
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: same thing as every program. Now. I know we're talking

1179
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: a lot about hires, and that's this time of year.

1180
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: Oh by the way almost spilt something down there. So

1181
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: I know we're talking about hires, but sometimes it's not

1182
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 1: a higher that's happening this time of year. Oh, here

1183
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: it is, Colin. I was just I was just killing

1184
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: time cause I look for my chapstick. It's very dry

1185
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: in the studio tonight. Jesse get a humid of fire

1186
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: for the studio, please, or have management get it. He's

1187
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: got that black credit card he carries around a lot,

1188
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: so we'll have him work on that. Okay, back to programming,

1189
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 1: Arkansas did not make a coaching change. Arkansas is retaining

1190
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: Sam Pittman and a Hunter you're a check announced he's

1191
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 1: bringing him back before the last game even happened, and

1192
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: they proceeded to just lay down in the last game,

1193
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: and Missouri helped them lay down. So most Arkansas fans,

1194
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: as best I can tell, are against this. That's not

1195
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: always the end all be all, but I'm just saying,

1196
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: you're ultimately beholden to your fan base, and they've in

1197
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: large quantities come to decide Sam Pittman's no longer the

1198
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: right guy to lead the program. Now I still believe

1199
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: in the concept. Okay, So the concept with Pittman always

1200
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: was let's bring him in to be the face of

1201
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: the program. He's gonna have to be a CEO type.

1202
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to have rock solid coordinator hires. They

1203
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: need to be really dynamic at the offensive coordinator position.

1204
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: They need forward thinking front office personnel. Their nil game

1205
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: needs to be on point, their player personnel, folks need

1206
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: to be very inventive and creative and again forward thinking.

1207
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 1: And if they have that infrastructure, Sam Pittman can be

1208
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: a winner at Arkansas. Still believe that, Still believe that wholeheartedly,

1209
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: but they don't have it right now. Probably, and Arkansas

1210
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: fans would tell you this in a second, Ask them

1211
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: what the most troubling part of their team this year was.

1212
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: It's not just the losing. Arkansas's lost games before, they'll

1213
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: lose games in the future. It's not the losing. It's

1214
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: total ineptitude on the offensive line. That is the specialty

1215
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: of your head coach. That's the most troubling part. Because

1216
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 1: it's totally fair to look and say Sam Pittman Man like, yeah,

1217
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: you got to hire coordinators, and yeah, you gotta have folks,

1218
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: and you'll be the CEO type. But shouldn't at least

1219
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: our offensive line be dominant if we have you as

1220
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: our head coach. That is a valid criticism, totally valid criticism,

1221
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 1: and they look lifeless at the end of the year.

1222
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,920
Speaker 1: Now you know, I'm also a believer there's only so

1223
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: much gas in a tank of a college football team

1224
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: in a season. But when they had a three point

1225
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: loss Tobama, following that, things well, they beat Florida, but

1226
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: most people did this year. But following that, man, it

1227
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: was disappointing to watch them down the stretch, and it

1228
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: was disappointing all year to watch the offensive line. So

1229
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,919
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean these aren't correctable things. Like I said,

1230
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 1: I still believe in the concept, but they are nose

1231
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: diving as a program right now, or so it seems.

1232
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: How often do we see a coach able to pull

1233
01:04:54,760 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: the nose up. It happens, but it's rare, far more free. Equently,

1234
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: we see the nose dive begin and then if you

1235
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 1: get a stay of execution, it carries over into next year.

1236
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:10,439
Speaker 1: But the nose never gets pulled up. And the only

1237
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: difference is a coach gets four weeks into his next

1238
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: year and then gets fired. And the fan base is saying,

1239
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: but wait a minute, if we were gonna If we

1240
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: were that close to firing, why did we do it

1241
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: last season? And I don't have any real confidence either

1242
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: way about where this is gonna go now. I will

1243
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 1: tell you Randa is the same way at Baylor. If

1244
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: you're nice and folks like you. It is the difference

1245
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: in a fifty to fifty coins flip situation in getting

1246
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: yourself another year versus getting fired. Holgerson got fired at Houston,

1247
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: not many people like him. Pittman did not get fired

1248
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: at Arkansas, folks like him. Aranda got another year at Baylor,

1249
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 1: folks like him. It pays to be nice. That's why

1250
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: me and Colin are two of the nicest people that

1251
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: you will ever meet. We go out of our way

1252
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: to talk to folks. We're always the center of a room.

1253
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: We love social interaction and that's because we know, if

1254
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: it really comes down to it, we'll get the benefit

1255
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: of the doubt around here, and we do. It works

1256
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: for director Colin and I. So you know, if you

1257
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: see director Colin and I, the next thing you'll be

1258
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: doing is shaking our hand and talking our ear off

1259
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 1: because we just love it, don't we. Colin, He's just

1260
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: wagging the camera up and down. Yes, we love that.

1261
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: So I don't know what's gonna happen. Guy, I wish

1262
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: I had a more definitive take here. I don't have

1263
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 1: a great feel about where the future of the Arkansas

1264
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: program is. I just hope I'm wrong. I guess, I

1265
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 1: just hope I'm wrong. They're watching us in Columbia, Missouri, Rome, Georgia,

1266
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs, Colorado is tuned in. Let's talk about some

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Speaker 1: good old fashioned intel here. Who else is making a

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Speaker 1: coaching change? Baylor's not. Baylor is sticking with Dave Randa.

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Speaker 1: I just told you. I think being a nice guy

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Speaker 1: pays off if it's a coin flip situation. I also think,

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Speaker 1: folks at Baylor, do you remember we won the Big

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Speaker 1: twelve two years ago, like we won the Sugar Bowl

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Speaker 1: two years ago. This is Baylor. A guy who pulls

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Speaker 1: that off clearly knows football. It's just that when things

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Speaker 1: get wobbly at Alabama, Nick Saban can just make all

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Speaker 1: the moves in one off season. You don't necessarily possess

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Speaker 1: that powerful a weapon as a head coach at Baylor.

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Speaker 1: So if things get wobbly, like Randa is admitted happened

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Speaker 1: with his reluctance to, you know, embrace the portal. You

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Speaker 1: don't just all of a sudden say, oh, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: I'll just go finish with the number one class next cycle.

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Speaker 1: That's not Baylor. And so I think he got himself

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Speaker 1: another year because of recent success. I think there'll be

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Speaker 1: tons of staff moves here. But I love Dave Randa,

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Speaker 1: so I'm pulling for him. I am very biased on

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Speaker 1: this front. I hoped he would get another year. We

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Speaker 1: told you a couple of weeks ago. Unless there's disaster

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, he's gonna be retained. There wasn't disaster.

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Speaker 1: He got retained, and that's what's happening right now Baylor. Now,

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Speaker 1: as for Houston, that is not the story. Dana Holgerson

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Speaker 1: has been fired. Told you a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: right after we did the Randa update, I told you

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Speaker 1: I was hearing he needed two wins to close the

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Speaker 1: season or he was done. And they lost to Oklahoma State,

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Speaker 1: and they lost to UCF and he was done. It's

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Speaker 1: a different caliber program now that Houston's in the Big twelve,

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Speaker 1: and it demands a different caliber head coach. I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people around the Houston program, although they

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Speaker 1: would never admit it publicly, did not mind losing those

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Speaker 1: last two games if it meant taking one step forward

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Speaker 1: for the perceived five steps or one step backwards for

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Speaker 1: the perceived five steps forward. They think they're going to

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Speaker 1: make depends on who they hire, and I think the

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Speaker 1: usual suspects are going to be right at the forefront

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Speaker 1: of this job search trailer up at UTSA didn't get

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Speaker 1: the A and M job, he could be in the

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Speaker 1: mix here. Willie Fritz Lane almost had the Georgia Tech

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Speaker 1: job last year. I think they fumbled that. Now. Look,

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Speaker 1: Brent Key is doing all right, so they're good at

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Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. Gary Patterson is allegedly in play here. Cliff Kingsbury.

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Speaker 1: That's some names being thrown around by the Houston Chronicle.

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Speaker 1: I happen to think if my job was open at

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Speaker 1: the Power five level or whatever we're calling that now,

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Speaker 1: If my job's open and I'm in a major conference

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Speaker 1: and Willie fritz is just sitting there winning at TWU Lane,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get him. He's gonna be my head

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Speaker 1: coach or I'm gonna make him tell me no. And

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Speaker 1: then if he tells me no, I'll go elsewhere, But man,

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Speaker 1: Willie Fritz is the real deal, and I would consider

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Speaker 1: it a blessing that Georgia Tech didn't close the deal

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Speaker 1: in him last year. And if I'm Houston, that's who

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Speaker 1: i'd be calling. You're not gonna go wrong with Jeff Trailer.

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Speaker 1: I'm not poo pooing any other of those names, but

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Speaker 1: I am telling you Willie Fritz is pretty high on

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Speaker 1: my list. Tom Allen got fired at Indiana today after

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Speaker 1: a three and nine season. He's had seven seasons there,

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Speaker 1: one winning season. None of these things are what stand out.

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Speaker 1: What stands out is he's got a twenty million dollar buyout.

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Speaker 1: Saw some folks on the internet earlier today start trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out the math here. It's like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: So if we can pay twenty million dollars in buyout,

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Speaker 1: how can we not just afford to have the best

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Speaker 1: NIL program in college football? Like, if we if we

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Speaker 1: have that kind of money, why don't we redirect it

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Speaker 1: in however manner we need to? And why don't we

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Speaker 1: just spend a ton of money on football players and

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Speaker 1: become good? No, simpleton, they would tell you, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not that easy, and they patch you on the head,

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Speaker 1: and all the while you're right, it does check out.

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Speaker 1: You have too much common sense for college football. On

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Speaker 1: the administrative side. That's that's like you know, walking in

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Speaker 1: front of Congress and saying, guys, we're spending more money

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Speaker 1: than we actually have. If I did that, they would

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Speaker 1: kick me out of my apartment. You do that, and

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Speaker 1: you guys just get another term. How does this work?

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Speaker 1: They would look at you and say, go back, mister mechanic,

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Speaker 1: Go back, mister fast food worker. You're not qualified to

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Speaker 1: think on these lines. Actually I don't think you guys are,

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Speaker 1: because you're the ones running up the deficit. And it's

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Speaker 1: the same way in college football. Instead of investing properly

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Speaker 1: in building a winning college football program, we're just going

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Speaker 1: to go pay tens of millions of dollars for guys

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Speaker 1: not to coach. And somehow it makes sense. Well, actually

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Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's just you and I aren't supposed to

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Speaker 1: be able to figure that out. And yet somehow we do.

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Speaker 1: Remember remember this past hiring cycle, Nebraska made a move

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Speaker 1: and they upgraded big time in terms of name. They

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Speaker 1: went and got Matt Ruhle. Wisconsin had an opening and

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Speaker 1: they upgraded big time in terms of name. They went

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Speaker 1: and got Luke Fickle. Michigan State just had an opening,

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Speaker 1: got one of the best available in Jonathan Smith. Now

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Speaker 1: Indiana's got an opening. I have a working theory that

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Speaker 1: with the infusion of TV money, with the latest media rights,

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Speaker 1: the end of this conference, there is an unspoken or

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Speaker 1: perhaps a behind the scenes spoken understanding that you guys

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Speaker 1: are not going to hire mid head coaches anymore. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna go spend top dollar because we're giving you money.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go spend top dollar. You're gonna invest and

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Speaker 1: hire major head coaches like they've done in the South forever.

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Speaker 1: They're not all gonna work out, keep spending money and

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Speaker 1: keep hiring the best possible available until you get it right,

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Speaker 1: because we don't want to look at a two team

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Speaker 1: or a three team conference because we just spent billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars to broadcast it. Now. As you know, I

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Speaker 1: work for CBS, so I have a vested interest in

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Speaker 1: the future in the Big Ten being good. Do I

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Speaker 1: have bias? Yes, I do. I would love for Indiana

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Speaker 1: to be good. I love for Purdue to be good.

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Speaker 1: I would love it, love it, love it so am

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Speaker 1: I playing favorites? Yes, I am naturally. Growing up in

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Speaker 1: Harris County, Georgia, I was a big ten homer and

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Speaker 1: they will accuse me of that until the day I die.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma has an offensive coordinator opening now, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Penn State has an offensive coordinator opening. USC still has

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator opening. And if that hasn't been filled

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Speaker 1: since I've been on air, that's interesting because I thought

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Speaker 1: that thing would be filled already. Let's talk about some

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Speaker 1: more games here, shall we. I've also got a best bet.

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Speaker 1: There's a game I like. There's a game the model

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Speaker 1: really likes in conference championship action this week. So we'll

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Speaker 1: get to all that and then we'll get out of here.

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Speaker 1: But I told you jam Pack show, and I was

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Speaker 1: not lying. Funny thing about losing your voice. Once you

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Speaker 1: get your voice back, you really want to use it

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Speaker 1: a whole lot. Oregon beat Oregon State the other night,

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Speaker 1: I think a Friday game. So that's old news now,

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Speaker 1: but it was the November theory. It is sometimes if

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Speaker 1: teams out of gas, they're not gonna fill the tank

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Speaker 1: in no remember, and if a team is surging, vegas

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Speaker 1: cannot set a number high enough for me not to

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Speaker 1: bet on that favorite. And Oregon fit that description wide

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Speaker 1: receivers one in two eleven catches for one thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: nine catches for one to twenty eight. It was a

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Speaker 1: terrible matchup for Oregon State. So Oregon State obviously had

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Speaker 1: twelve plus weeks of gas. They've got the PAC twelve

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Speaker 1: championship game coming up on Friday. I just you talk

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Speaker 1: about padlock padlock stat Here is the drive chart for

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Speaker 1: Oregon State. They had a turnover on downs, they punted,

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Speaker 1: they scored a touchdown, they kneeled to end the half.

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Speaker 1: Turnover on downs, punt interception, turnover on downs, turnover on

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Speaker 1: downs in the football game. That's a recipe for a

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Speaker 1: blowout loss. Ducks are headed to Vegas next up. This

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Speaker 1: just happened last night and I was also in Detroit

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Speaker 1: International Airport watching this unfold. Washington gets pushed to the

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Speaker 1: limit by Washington State. It was a ram and express special.

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Speaker 1: Washington was outgained, Jesse. Is that right? Washington got out

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Speaker 1: gained three eighty one to three h six. Yes, not

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Speaker 1: that that's the end all be all, Just an interesting

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Speaker 1: little note there. So Washington's had this run. Now they've

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Speaker 1: been on eight games in a row they've won, but

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Speaker 1: they've won by ten points or fewer. Seven of those

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Speaker 1: eight have been won possession games. And I've noticed something happening. See,

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Speaker 1: we were ahead of the curve here at the JP

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Speaker 1: pole about labeling Washington maybe is not quite to the

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Speaker 1: degree or at the level that Oregon is, even though

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Speaker 1: they beat Oregon earlier in the year, and they're not

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Speaker 1: on Georgia's level. I don't think that they're on Texas's level.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're on Alabama's level. But they're undefeated.

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Speaker 1: They're winning all their games. And what I've noticed over

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Speaker 1: about the past two weeks is I have started to

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Speaker 1: defend Washington against some of my more ill informed brethren

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Speaker 1: and the Josh because of the recalibration of expectation. It's

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Speaker 1: a theory that we have on this show. The recalibration

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Speaker 1: of expectation is when you don't expect something from a team,

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Speaker 1: like for them to compete for a playoff spot, for example,

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Speaker 1: then they start competing for the playoff spot, which means,

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Speaker 1: right then and there, what you should do is just

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Speaker 1: label yourself wrong. Like I had them ranked in the

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Speaker 1: ADAM rated in the eighteen to twenty two range preseason.

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Speaker 1: Well I was wrong about Washington, that's it. But a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't do that. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't say they're wrong. Instead, what they do is they

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Speaker 1: recalibrate their expectations. Then they start holding you to a

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Speaker 1: higher standard, and then once you don't meet that standard,

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Speaker 1: then they start slamming you. Here's what that sounds like. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Washington's undefeated, but they're just barely winning these games. That's

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Speaker 1: not a bad thing. It's a wonderful thing. They're undefeated,

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Speaker 1: is the point. They're eleven, they're twelve and zho they're

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Speaker 1: going to the PACTL Championship game. If they win, they're

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Speaker 1: a playoff team. It's Washington, man. You don't sit there

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Speaker 1: and say, well, they're not as impressive as Georgia. I

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01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:13,360
Speaker 1: know that. You know that, and everyone knows that it's Washington.

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Speaker 1: So credit Caitlin de Borg and his team. You win

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Speaker 1: by one point or one thousand, you guys are undefeated,

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Speaker 1: and if you win Friday night, then you're in the dance.

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Speaker 1: And who knows where I'll be Friday night. We'll see

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State trailed twenty four to six yesterday yet again.

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Speaker 1: Another game I'm watching unfold in Detroit's airport. Good WiFi

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Speaker 1: in Detroit. They're down twenty four to six, and then

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Speaker 1: they're not and they win forty to thirty four, and

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Speaker 1: I believe double overtime. They scored touchdowns on four of

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Speaker 1: their final five possessions. Did the Oklahoma State Cowboys. And

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Speaker 1: as you can imagine, if you watch this show or

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Speaker 1: you've listened to this show for a long time, you

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Speaker 1: know that I took our flag as a people, as

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Speaker 1: pate state, I took our flag. And in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: I just planted that thing. And on that flag it

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Speaker 1: said big twelve championship prediction. And you know what, don't

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Speaker 1: even take my word for it. Now, Collins got a

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Speaker 1: special piece of video. Let's go all the way back

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Speaker 1: to August and see what I said. Conference Championship. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking Texas, but I'm taking them over Oklahoma State, a

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Speaker 1: team I think is going to come out of nowhere

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Speaker 1: in surprise people this year after they fell off a

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Speaker 1: cliff last year. Let me first start with the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: So Mike Gundy's really good, and Mike Gunny knows what

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Speaker 1: he's doing, and it looks like his roster got gutted

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01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: by the transfer portal. I think it's one of the

1479
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: bigger illusions right now in the Big Twelve. I think

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Speaker 1: they added some good pieces to extremely underrated on the

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Speaker 1: defensive line. I would implore them to figure out the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position, but I think they will, and I think

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Speaker 1: there's a level of play that I'll get at the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position out of them that's going to have them

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Speaker 1: right in the thick of things. And the other thing

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Speaker 1: you need to keep in mind is their schedule is

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Speaker 1: insanely workable. I want you to think about the sentence

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Speaker 1: that's about to come out of my mouth. Oklahoma State

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Speaker 1: plays in the Big Twelve. They play one team in

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Speaker 1: the state of Texas the entire year, and it's Houston.

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Speaker 1: And it was a good year to be facing Houston

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Speaker 1: as your one Texas team, breaking news Friends Texas versus

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State in the Big Twelve Championship game. Hey, being

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Speaker 1: right is not everything to me. Being right when people

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Speaker 1: call me out is what is everything to me. And

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, when I predicted Oklahoma State to

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Speaker 1: go to the Big Twelve Championship Game in August, some

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Speaker 1: people couldn't help themselves and they made a mistake. One

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Speaker 1: the mistake was calling us out. They didn't call me out.

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Speaker 1: They called us out, But that wasn't the mistake. The

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Speaker 1: second mistake they made was they didn't delete the tweets.

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01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:05,759
Speaker 1: And when this happened, I screenshat every one of those tweets.

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01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 1: I didn't say a word in August. I did not

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01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: say a peep. I put my prediction out there. People

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Speaker 1: ran their mouths and I did nothing publicly, but I

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01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: screen shot every single one of them. That's the past

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Speaker 1: tense of screenshot. By the way, Colin, let's just roll through,

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01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: my friend. I have a mountain of these, so you

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Speaker 1: guys could have our own special just doing this quote.

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Speaker 1: You know what Oklahoma has coming in and returning, and

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Speaker 1: you pick Oklahoma State over them? Yeah, all right, I did? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, Next up, Colin, this is so fun. We

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Speaker 1: had our buddy Max say, I didn't realize you were

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Speaker 1: so thirsty for engagement. You know. By the way, friends,

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Speaker 1: this is not Mac talking, this is me talking. Did

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Speaker 1: you know that anytime someone says something you disagree with,

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Speaker 1: it's clickbait. Anytime someone says something you disagree with, it

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01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 1: can't be that your opinion is flawed. It must be

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01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 1: that they're trafficking in engagement tactics, you know, engagement farming.

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01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: As they say. Hey, alternate point of view here. I

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01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: could just really believe what I say and you disagree

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01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 1: with it. Could be anyway. Matt continues, Oklahoma State is

1523
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: not going to the Big Twelve Championship, easy schedule or not.

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01:21:19,479 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: They lost eight starters to the transfer portal. The defensive

1525
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:26,720
Speaker 1: coordinator questions, they've been to one Big Twelve Championship. Ever,

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01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 1: who is their quarterback? Well, I spoke on the quarterback situation.

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01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: They figured it out. You talked about the starters they lost.

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01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:36,960
Speaker 1: You didn't speak about the ones who were actually gonna

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01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 1: play this year. It's so funny how people are ready

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01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: to down a prediction in August, knowing full well, in

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Speaker 1: this sport, every year, unpredictable things happen without fail. And

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Speaker 1: so mac I will be waiting my apology Monday, Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: At any point this week, just leading up to the game,

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Speaker 1: let's roll on Colin for some friendly fire here. One

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Speaker 1: of our comrades at CBS Sports said, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if these picks are a bit because I couldn't come

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Speaker 1: up with a bit this good if I tribe, Well,

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Speaker 1: just because you couldn't come up with one that good

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean the rest of us couldn't. Or maybe just

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Speaker 1: maybe the rest of us were right. Maybe this is

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Speaker 1: a bit maybe calling out people for predictions that end

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01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:23,719
Speaker 1: up coming to fruition is the bit all along. He continues,

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01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State is so far off the board that we're

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Speaker 1: in a different zip code. But I live in the

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Speaker 1: right zip code, and you're free to join me. We've

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01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: got plenty of room over here. Let's roll it on, Colin.

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01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,840
Speaker 1: Should we continue? Yes? We should? Quote, Come on, man,

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01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, have you not seen they lost their whole

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01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,960
Speaker 1: team and they brought in scrubs. Do you make these

1550
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:47,719
Speaker 1: choices with a dart board? If I do, I'm really

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01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:51,679
Speaker 1: good at darts. I could continue. We got a million

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01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 1: of them. I could continue. But you get the point.

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01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 1: It's a tough thing to wait four months and just

1554
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: silently sit there like the little raccoon rubbing his hands together,

1555
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 1: awaiting the Big twelve championship game. But now we have it.

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01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,880
Speaker 1: And Oklahoma State's about a two touchdown underdog, But now

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01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: we have it. This Saturday in Arlington, Texas, speaking of Texas.

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01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:17,760
Speaker 1: They just splattered Texas Tech fifty seven to seven. Their

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01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,600
Speaker 1: hump was in Ames Iowa. The hump they needed to

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Speaker 1: get over as a team, it was in Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: We took them with confidence in the ram Noodle Express.

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Speaker 1: We took the Longhorns. That wasn't going to be a

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01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 1: problem that the Iowa State game was the potential trip up.

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Speaker 1: They got past that one. They rolled past Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, thirteen and a half point favorites Texas

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Speaker 1: against Oklahoma State this Saturday. Good for Clemson man. They

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01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: beat South Carolina sixteen to seven yesterday. Didn't even need

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Speaker 1: an offensive touchdown. Padlockstap out rushed South Carolina two, nineteen

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Speaker 1: to fifty seven. The run game is a glaring issue

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Speaker 1: for South Carolina. It was all year. They've got to

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Speaker 1: get that thing corrected. They whatever moves you gotta make,

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Speaker 1: portal staff, they got to make moves or else it'll

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Speaker 1: it's either about teams that are in the playoff or

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Speaker 1: teams that are terrible, and we forget like Alex Golish

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Speaker 1: is taking South Florida to a bowl. Barry Odom has

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Speaker 1: got UNLV playing in the conference championship game out in

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Speaker 1: the Mountain West. Notre Dame went nine and three. Goodyear

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Speaker 1: from Marcus Freeman. Missouri just went ten and two under

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Speaker 1: I mean Kiffin at Ole, miss again has a ten

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Speaker 1: win season. You know who. Their two losses were two

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Speaker 1: Bama and Georgia, the two teams that will play for

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Speaker 1: a conference title this Saturday. Penn State. They lost the

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Speaker 1: two games that were the most important games, but elsewhere

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Speaker 1: they took care of business. So what does that make them?

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Speaker 1: It makes them a really good program that thus far

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