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Speaker 1: Whoo whoom? And now then and Tye, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the solid verbal. Boys and girls. My name is ty Hildebrand.

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Speaker 1: Joining me is always over there back in New York City,

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Speaker 1: my man Dan Ruberstein, Sir, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Is this one of the latest solid verbals we've ever

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Speaker 2: recorded outside of a post national championship situation?

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Speaker 1: Wow? It is nine to forty Eastern time on my

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Speaker 1: clock right now. It's certainly one of the later shows world. Man,

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Speaker 2: A school night, so this will either go to a

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Speaker 1: Figured i'd give you a little extra pause there. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: certainly one of the later shows we've done, and I'm

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Speaker 2: it totally completely has went there with our pal Andy Staples.

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Speaker 2: He's in town for the SI NFL Draft Show. I'm

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Speaker 2: also participating in this live NFL Draft show. If you

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Speaker 2: what the twenty fifth, twenty fifth, Yeah, seven thirty eight o'clock,

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Speaker 2: their YouTube channeled. I think it's gonna be in a

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Speaker 2: all I'm social media. I'm going to be cooking food

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Speaker 2: with Andy Staples. And when people like Daniel Jones or

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, not like the greatest college and somebody, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Me, but it's oh, that's gonna be a rough pick.

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Speaker 2: If that happens, that's gonna happen. Everybody's listening to this

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Speaker 2: after the facts, Oh yeah, wow, what a what a pick?

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Speaker 2: It's gonna happen. Man, I can field in my bones.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry that take exists within your brain.

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Speaker 1: I no, wow, I can't get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: So, as we said last week, we're not going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it solves three problems. So what we're

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Speaker 2: You get a one wayland Frank Nick Saban has won

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Speaker 2: So the evidence to that is one it's incredibly difficult

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Speaker 2: Talent wise, not results wise. Yes, what Georgia has done

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Speaker 2: Here is my rebuttal the two thousand and nine Texas team,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's dead. I'm saying this is not

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me give you one of my own that

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with the old fumble out of

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Speaker 1: If you hold normally, it's ten yards, except when it's

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Speaker 2: It just feels more like you understand why a penalty

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Speaker 2: where you fumbled it there. It's it's just an arbitrary

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Speaker 1: The end zone. Daniel just means more okay, And to that,

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Speaker 2: I don't think you're wrong for holding this position, but

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Speaker 1: Oh I get it, I get that, but I'm okay

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety four Penn State would hang fifty a ninety

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Speaker 2: Come holy, Now that's a deep cut, right, So is

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Speaker 1: That was a good team.

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Speaker 2: They beat Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I think the depth of that Nebraska team was so scary,

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Speaker 1: Tommy Frasier is one of the all time great college

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Speaker 1: I'd say, Okay, what else you got coming in?

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Speaker 2: We had one for that that was extreme. That's a

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Speaker 1: Did we get from our friend Joel Klatt? Dan?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Here we go up at the top one? The

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Speaker 2: I go back and forth. Do you think college football

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Speaker 2: I'm okay with it the way it is the only

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Speaker 1: Because we've been doing this for a while, I find

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Speaker 2: Right. The rent is too damn high. The games are

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Speaker 1: Long most of the time. And I'm not saying I'm

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Speaker 2: Do you think you would be able to immediately zip

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Speaker 2: and go and then on a dime turn like you're

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Speaker 2: talking about like your your what your twenty yard cone drill. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that's where Joel's coming from. Secretly with this.

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Speaker 1: I could probably I could probably pull that off seventy

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Speaker 2: Do you think there's a spit bucket? I want to

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Speaker 2: know this now because there's a lot of people who

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Speaker 2: say you shouldn't drink a lot of water before you

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Speaker 2: go to bed so you don't wake up in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the night, right, Do you think they're drinking

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Speaker 2: water up there? I mean, I guess you have a

447
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Speaker 2: longer commercial break between quarters, but you're not yourself if

448
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Speaker 2: you got ants in your pants, tie nor. I think

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Speaker 2: there's some truth behind that. Number two ineligible man downfield

450
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Speaker 2: should be a one yard barrier, not three yards. So

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Speaker 2: this is sort of an anti RPO stance, and I

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Speaker 2: get it. I get it, but I like RPOs. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you're just making an NFL rules at this point. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the ACC and SEC should play nine conference games.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Well, we get a lot of you know, by the

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Speaker 2: end of the season by November. There are a lot

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Speaker 2: of comparisons. Okay, does Alabama deserve to be number one?

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Speaker 2: Should be Ohio State, should it be USC? Should it

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Speaker 2: be Oklahoma whoever usc That was a joke, ty, I

461
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Speaker 2: just threw that one in there to see if people

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Speaker 2: were paying attention. It generally seems to even out a

463
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Speaker 2: lot of those top schools that we end up comparing

464
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Speaker 2: schedule pretty well out of conference. They're not, you know,

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Speaker 2: Baylor from twenty twelve or something. Alabama's scheduled magnificently well,

466
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Speaker 2: LSUS scheduled terrifically well. Georgia a great schedule these past

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Speaker 2: few years. For the most part, Clemson is scheduled up

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Speaker 2: with what Texas A and M and Georgia like. These

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Speaker 2: teams are scheduling pretty well, especially at the top, because

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Speaker 2: they know that by the end of the year, resumes

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Speaker 2: are going to be a conversation. So I haven't really

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Speaker 2: found myself thinking this, this sort of sucks that they're

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Speaker 2: only playing eight conference games because they can get away

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Speaker 2: with it because people show up to their games and

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Speaker 2: people watch their games on TV even when they're playing

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Speaker 2: the Citadel, even when they're playing Prairie View A and

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Speaker 2: M whatever, and so I guess it would be better,

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Speaker 2: but I don't really see the case for why they should.

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Speaker 1: If that makes any sense, Dan, You know what can

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Speaker 2: Oh so many things. I want you to be specific,

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Speaker 2: Ty. We have a hot take here that I think

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Speaker 2: is magnificent.

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Speaker 1: What do we got?

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Speaker 2: Bama doesn't want that? UMass smoke Mike low Copo locopo. Okay,

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Speaker 2: this has this brings something up in my brain.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: If you were to rank Alabama diehard fansy one through

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Speaker 2: however many Alabama football fans there are in this world,

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Speaker 2: So say there are ten million Alabama fans. Okay, Number

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Speaker 2: one is the most diehard Alabama fan his or her life,

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Speaker 2: fully dedicated to Alabama football, calling into radio shows, on

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Speaker 2: every single message board, posters on their walls, their you know, clippings,

543
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Speaker 2: everywhere they live eat Alabama.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking our friend Adam Abdullah from ESPN Radio Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody like that, okay, And so that that person

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Speaker 2: is number one and you rank them by their diehardiness

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Speaker 2: all the way through ten million? Okay, Okay, how far

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Speaker 2: down would you have to go to find somebody with

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Speaker 2: an equal amount of passion for U MASS Football? So like,

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Speaker 2: is there somebody who is as passionate about U mass

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Speaker 2: Football as the eight millionth most passionate Alabama fan is

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Speaker 2: about Alabama?

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Speaker 1: Like? Who is the Harvey Updyke of UNE football? And

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Speaker 1: where would he rank on that?

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Speaker 2: How far down do you have to go.

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Speaker 1: On the Alabama side?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, where you're just like somebody was just

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Speaker 2: fricking pumped about the Mark Whipple era. They're like, this

559
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Speaker 2: is the guy. How far down would you have to go?

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Speaker 2: I maybe even percentage wise, but I'll put it out

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Speaker 2: of ten million.

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Speaker 1: You would you probably have to go? I would say

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Speaker 1: at least sixty down in that totem pol.

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Speaker 2: So six million ish? Yeah, you think there is somebody

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Speaker 2: as passionate about U Mass Football as the six millionth

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Speaker 2: most passionate Alabama fan?

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Speaker 1: I think that's right, That's how I feel. Yeah, Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I tend to think that it's an arbitrary question, but

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Speaker 2: there's somebody out there who has categorized and cataloged everything

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Speaker 2: about UMass football throughout the years.

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Speaker 1: That's tremendous that question. Yeah, thank you very much. Here's

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Speaker 1: one that came through. So we did a show. I

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Speaker 1: don't know we do a show every week, but we

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Speaker 1: did a show recently where we talked about where I

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Speaker 1: said specifically that Alex Hornybrook was quote a massive upgrade

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Speaker 1: over James Blackman, and I caught a little bit of

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Speaker 1: flack on Twitter for that, I don't know, caught a

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Speaker 1: little bit of from who I'd rather have quarterback in

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Speaker 1: my team right now. I stay, James Blackman's gonna be

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Speaker 1: broken in half. I stand by the comment. But statistically,

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Speaker 1: when you look at what Hornybrook has done over his

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Speaker 1: career versus what Blackman did in that one extended season

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Speaker 1: that he had as a true freshman, statistically, it's pretty

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Speaker 1: similar statistically speaking, So I get the fact that someone

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Speaker 1: would take umbrage to the massive component of that statement.

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Speaker 1: He may be an upgrade. He certainly provides depth. He's

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Speaker 1: more of a known quantity. We could talk about that

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Speaker 1: on some other show. I'm sure we will as the

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Speaker 1: season gets closer. But the take that I found nestled

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Speaker 1: in that conversation was one particular guy who wrote in

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Speaker 1: to say that he thought Alex Hornybrook the real reason

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Speaker 1: he was leaving Florida State is because he fashions himself

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Speaker 1: at some point in the future as a college football coach,

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Speaker 1: and that the move to Florida State was one that

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Speaker 1: could give him ample opportunity to stay all after his

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Speaker 1: eligibility has expired, so that he can become a GA

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Speaker 1: and so launch his college football coaching career.

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Speaker 2: This is not unique to him, and I could imagine

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Speaker 2: that this was something that may have come up when

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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew, I believe, committed to Alabama from ECU originally

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Speaker 2: that you know, the prospects weren't looking good, at least

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Speaker 2: set yourself up for the future. Rights That to me

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Speaker 2: is not a full stretch.

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Speaker 1: I get that it's not a full stretch. In a

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Speaker 1: lot of circumstances. However, Hornybrook was a guaranteed starter at Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: He was going to be the starting quarterback. He was

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Speaker 1: going to be the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 2: You see the guy coming in this year.

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Speaker 1: I know he's very I know he's very good.

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Speaker 2: You see what Alex horneybro looked like last year.

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Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. I've made fun of

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Speaker 1: Hornybrook for the last three years. Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, guaranteed starter week one, Hornybrook.

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Speaker 1: Is your guaranteed starter week one to leave that situation

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Speaker 1: to go to another situation where he is potentially a backup,

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Speaker 1: potentially a third stringer who knows it. Just does not

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Speaker 1: seem like this would be one of those situations where

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Speaker 1: he'd want to leave where he was at and go

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Speaker 1: somewhere else because he's trying to set himself up for

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Speaker 1: a coaching career. I don't get it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is not so far fetched that a

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Speaker 2: college football player is really smart and forward looking. I'm

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Speaker 2: not so far fetched. I don't like Alex Hornibrook probably

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Speaker 2: has a pretty good idea. He's not an NFL quarterback, right,

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Speaker 2: so so not two birds two birds tie.

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Speaker 1: I would hope. So. By the way, people are very

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Speaker 1: excited about James Blackman this year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, so I hope it works out for him.

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Speaker 2: Where else we go, we got somebody who said that

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Speaker 2: had let's see I want to get the right wording here.

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Speaker 2: If Mississippi State paid Cam's father like Auburn did, they'd

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Speaker 2: have a title right now.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, Mississippi State didn't have Nick Fairley on that team.

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Speaker 1: Did they fight?

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Speaker 2: They didn't have a make fairly, but this is still

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Speaker 2: a I think they went nine and four, it looks like,

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Speaker 2: including the Bowl win over Michigan. I think that was

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Speaker 2: a Chris Relph team. I remember correctly, it's a pretty

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Speaker 2: Goossissippi State team. Defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. It was his

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Speaker 2: first year there. They let's see, they don't hang with Alabama.

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Speaker 2: They barely lose to a top fifteen Arkansas in double overtime.

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Speaker 2: They comfortably lose to LSU, and they get barely edged

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Speaker 2: out by a Cam Newton Auburn team, which at the

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Speaker 2: very least means early on they were very close to

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Speaker 2: being Auburn. Auburn did not have a particularly good defense

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Speaker 2: that year. Nick Fairley was great.

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Speaker 1: That was a ted Roof defense if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: which explains a lot, actually.

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Speaker 2: Does explain a lot. And the Auburn team around Cam

650
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Speaker 2: had talent Michael Dyer, Philip Watson, Kirk and there were

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Speaker 2: guys there, but this was not a stacked team. It

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Speaker 2: was a one man team in a lot of ways

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Speaker 2: with Cam Newton. So I actually don't think this is

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Speaker 2: super hot. National championship is a lot to say. A

655
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Speaker 2: lot goes into that and a lot of variables, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I think Auburn was probably better situated to

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Speaker 2: beat Alabama than Mississippi State team with Cam. But there's

658
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Speaker 2: some there's some coolness to that. Actually, I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's the spiciest all right, I mean, is is Cam

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Speaker 2: Newton that you're good for winning two more games including

661
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Speaker 2: he was a lost to Cam Newton, which is they're

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Speaker 2: probably beating Auburn right with Cam Newton instead of playing

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Speaker 2: Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I would agree with that.

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Speaker 2: So that takes them to nine regular season wins. I

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Speaker 2: would say they're probably beating Arkansas, a team they lost

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Speaker 2: to in two overtimes, right, Yes, agreed, So they're now

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Speaker 2: better than Arkansas. So now they're at ten regular season wins.

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Speaker 2: They lost by twenty two to LSU. We know Cam

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Speaker 2: Newton had arguably the game of his life against LSU,

671
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Speaker 2: but that's certainly closer in Alabama another game of his life.

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Speaker 2: They lose by twenty So can they go eleven and

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Speaker 2: one sneak in? Maybe? I don't know. I think I

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Speaker 2: think it's not the craziest thing. Although Auburn is getting

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Speaker 2: in and they didn't lose again that year, obviously, but

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Speaker 2: Auburn is getting in with one loss ahead of Mississippi

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Speaker 2: State with one loss. Pretty clear, it seems fair. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so the Mississippi State brand is holding them back. But

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Speaker 2: if they have the Heisman winning quarterback, then suddenly the

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Speaker 2: brand gets help. See spicy, it helps Let me go.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say there's a good shot.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if I feel good about it,

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Speaker 1: but a better shot for sure. Let me. Let me

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Speaker 1: throw two out at you and you tell me which

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Speaker 1: one is spicier. Both of these came in. We've got

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Speaker 1: one that Michigan will beat Ohio State in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and then we've got another that the Pac twelve will

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Speaker 1: miss the playoff again in the twenty nineteen Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: twenty season. Which is which is the spicy of those

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Speaker 1: two takes?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Michigan beating Ohio State is way spicier.

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Speaker 1: So you're not feeling the Pack twelve making the playoff

693
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Speaker 1: who's the Pack twelve's playoff team. I don't know. I

694
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Speaker 1: mean there is one. I think that.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, who is the PAC twelve's playoff team if

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Speaker 2: they get one in? If they get one in, it's

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Speaker 2: is it Washington? I'm either Washington or Will Washington. I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying will Washington get in the playoff. I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: if by chance a PAC twelve team were to make it,

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Speaker 2: the winner of the Pac twelve is it's either confidently

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Speaker 2: see it could be Stanford. I like kJ Costello plenty.

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Speaker 1: I don't like that they lose Bryce Love or Theyga Whiteside,

703
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: Cadence Smith, stars along the line. Yeah, not feeling I just.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel good about anybody in the PAC twelve

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Speaker 2: winning the PAC twelve. So that's a it's a pretty

706
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 2: cold take to say the Pack doll's missing out again

707
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Speaker 2: because I don't know who to feel good about.

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Speaker 1: On the Michigan side, I feel good for Michigan this year.

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Speaker 1: It's long overdue. They have won three games in the

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Speaker 1: last eighteen meetings with Ohio State, and that doesn't even

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Speaker 1: count the game they lost by thirty and twenty ten

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Speaker 1: when that win was vacated they get Ohio State in

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Speaker 1: ann Arbor this year, a lot back on offense, Gonna

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Speaker 1: take some time to sort out their defense, losing Rashaun Gary,

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Speaker 1: Chase Winovich, Devin Bush, etc. Etc. But I think they're

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Speaker 1: in good shape. I'm excited to see what Ohio State

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Speaker 1: looks like under Justin Fields and especially with Ryan Day.

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Speaker 1: But Ryan Day is not Urban Meyer. He could be

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Speaker 1: a great coach, but there's a reason that they say

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Speaker 1: you don't want to follow a legend, and I'm curious

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Speaker 1: to see how he manages through a full twelve games

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Speaker 1: slate as opposed to three.

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Speaker 2: This would be a good year. I'm a believer in

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Speaker 2: Dwayne Haskins being exceptional and a believer in Dwayne Haskins

725
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Speaker 2: with time in that system being exceptional, being a better

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Speaker 2: situation than Justin Field's coming in and expected to be

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Speaker 2: Dwayne Haskins immediately. So I think it's a good year

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Speaker 2: for Michigan to be great and better and play like

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Speaker 2: they're better than Ohio State. Ohio State's defense should be

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Speaker 2: really good, especially upfront this year. I'm sure Penn State

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Speaker 2: fans remember Chase Young. He's still there. He's still there.

732
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Speaker 2: Tyreek Smith still there, still great. So I'm still a

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Speaker 2: believer that this should be the year. Should there be

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Speaker 2: a year ever again that Michigan beats Ohio State, it

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Speaker 2: should be this year.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if you want a really spicy take day, yeah,

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Speaker 1: don sandwich you. I'm so hungry. I'm so hungry to

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Speaker 1: close out Michigan season. They are home against Michigan State

739
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Speaker 1: aka Little Brother, then on the road in Bloomington at

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Speaker 1: Indiana before they come back home to square off against

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Speaker 1: their hated rival Ohio State. If that Indiana game isn't

742
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Speaker 1: an all time great let down, look ahead spot, I

743
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Speaker 1: don't know what is. I don't know how good Indiana

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Speaker 1: will be this year, but at least on paper in

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Speaker 1: late April, that looks pretty damn interesting to me.

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Speaker 2: Somebody gave us there are ten teams, and only ten

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Speaker 2: teams are right around ten. There are maybe the same

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Speaker 2: ten teams every year that can win a title. No

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Speaker 2: other school has or will ever have a chance. The

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Speaker 2: ap top twenty five finished as such last year, each

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Speaker 2: of which, at various points of the season were kind

752
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Speaker 2: of threatening. Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, LSU, Florida, Georgia, Texas,

753
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Speaker 2: are the top nine. Washington State finishes number ten outside

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Speaker 2: of that top nine in terms of teams that have

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Speaker 2: the infrastructure, can amass the talent, put themselves in a

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Speaker 2: position to sneak in and get by whatever. I think, Michigan,

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Speaker 2: Penn State, and then I don't know Florida.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about Oregon. I don't know about Oregon.

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Speaker 1: Would you say after Florida State, Yeah, Florida State. I

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Speaker 1: think there's more than ten.

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Speaker 2: I think twelve.

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Speaker 1: I think there's more than twelve. I think A and

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Speaker 1: M is a team that can win a national championship. Yes, A,

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Speaker 1: specially under Jimbo Fisher. He will put the infrastructure in

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Speaker 1: place to make West Virginia.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean, I would say USC should be added

767
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Speaker 2: to that list at their absolute best, but it's tough

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Speaker 2: to foresee it in any sort of immediate future. UCLA,

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Speaker 2: I will say.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I think it's fifteen to twenty, somewhere in

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Speaker 1: that range.

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Speaker 2: I think twelve to fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do one or two more?

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go, how about this one?

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00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: Tie?

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00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen. The twenty nineteen season will be Chip Kelly's

777
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Speaker 2: final season as UCLA's head coach.

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Speaker 1: Final season, final season. The only way Charles Kelly isn't

779
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: coaching in twenty twenty is if he leaves on his

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Speaker 1: own volition.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.

782
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Speaker 1: So I don't think there's any chance he's getting fired.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any chance he's leaving. I think

784
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Speaker 1: this is a guy who genuinely enjoys football.

785
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Speaker 2: Is wanting to coach football, the same exact thing as

786
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Speaker 2: not only do I want to coach football, but I

787
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Speaker 2: want to do it for the UCLA Bruins.

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Speaker 1: They are going to have to pry the playbook from

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Speaker 1: his dead, lifeless fingers before he'll leave.

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Speaker 2: Do you know who submitted this question this take to

791
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: us Dan Rubinstein in New York. I'm saying, that's my

792
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: take twenty nineteens last year. You think he's seen what

793
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: it's like to coach UCLA and we've all come to

794
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 2: a point doing things in our lives pursuits where we've said,

795
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm just I'm cutting bait. This is

796
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Speaker 2: not for me. I don't like where this is heading.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be a part of this. This

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Speaker 2: is based on no knowledge, This is based on no source,

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Speaker 2: This is based on no inside information. But I don't

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Speaker 2: think succeeding at UCLA is something that a chip Kelly

801
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: type will be the one to make happen. I think

802
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 2: a different I think a different kind of guy who

803
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 2: wants whose goal forever is to be at a place

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00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 2: like UCLA, to transform a place like the UCLA. And

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00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: I think chip Kelly is looking around at college football

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00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, the recruiting, you know, playing forty five

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Speaker 2: minutes away from campus, having academic standards to deal with,

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00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 2: or I guess, in the case of UCLA, no standards

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00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: to deal with other than just cold hard cash. I

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00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 2: think I think chip Kelly takes a long, hard look

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Speaker 2: and says, no, wow, okay, good, here's one for you. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'll close out with this. I would rather have the

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Speaker 2: first down line than HDTV. Well, what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: The first down? The computer generated first down? I know

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00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: you have to pick one or the given the choice.

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Speaker 1: Given the choice, you're taking the first down line versus hd.

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Speaker 2: WHOA, that's really good. I mean we go one play

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00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: where the graphic department doesn't spit out the line of

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00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 2: scrimmage and the yellow first down line, and you're in

820
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 2: my head, No, what sport. Am I watching? How am

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00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 2: I supposed to know what's going on? Meanwhile, the sport

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00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 2: on TV has been like that for ninety four percent

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Speaker 2: of its existence. Right, which would you rather have HGTV

824
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 2: or the first down yellow line?

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00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm the one that rode I'd rather have the first

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Speaker 1: down line.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I figured it was you.

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Speaker 1: I think the first down line is one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest inventions in modern television history.

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Speaker 2: Do you like having the field goal line? No, like

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Speaker 2: they need to get to this point our career long

832
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 2: is right here for a forty seven yard er. I

833
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 2: like doing the math in my head.

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Speaker 1: Wait, right, with the first down line, it's not arbitrary.

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Speaker 1: I know where they're getting that information because it's always well,

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Speaker 1: it's always the same distance.

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Speaker 2: It's not exact exact, but it's you know, it's close

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00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: to on a true based on some true math.

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Speaker 1: The field goal line, I always wonder if the man's

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00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: trying to stick it to me, Like, where did they

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00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: get this information from?

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Speaker 2: I think I'm about eleven teams, by the way, that

843
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 2: can win a national championship on any given year.

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Speaker 1: Give me fifteen to twenty.

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Speaker 2: By the way. Shout out to our pal Peter Hoffman,

846
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: who has just a raging college football piece of excitement

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Speaker 2: in his pants. For Sean Gleeson, the Oklahoma State new

848
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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. He has hot take. Northwestern wins ten or

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Speaker 2: eleven games this year. Behind Hunter Johnson and his simmering

850
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 2: take is Oklahoma State and Shawn Gleeson's offense take the

851
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Speaker 2: Big twelve by storm and win the conference.

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Speaker 1: Boom shack a Laco. Okay, Okay, it's.

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Speaker 2: A good year for Oklahoma State to be interesting and new.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. Here's the way this works.

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Speaker 1: It is late. Dan is tired.

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Speaker 2: I am tired.

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Speaker 1: As we said at the top of the show, one

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Speaker 1: of the latest shows we've ever done talking college football.

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Speaker 1: We thank everyone who wrote in for helping us crowd

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Speaker 2: And respond to any and all takes.

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Speaker 1: By the way, yeah, by no means does it mean

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Speaker 1: Peter he helps run the Solid Verbal subreddit at reddit

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Speaker 1: dot com slash r slash solid Verbal hop on in

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Speaker 1: the community, join the conversation with other verballers. Let us

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Speaker 1: know what your hot takes are. I'm very curious to

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Speaker 1: see more of these. It popped a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than I expected when we put it on Twitter earlier

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Speaker 1: this evening, So keep them coming. They're always entertaining, and

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Speaker 1: by all means, subscribe to the show if you have

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Speaker 1: them already. You can find us wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Just look for the Solid Verbal. If you're unable to

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Speaker 1: find it there, going out to our website, solidverbal dot com.

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Speaker 1: And while you're there, Hey, what the heck? Why not

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Speaker 1: sign up for our newsletter. We use it sparing whenever

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Speaker 1: we have big announcements. By the way, Dan, we do

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Speaker 1: have some shirts that are currently in the laboratory.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, did you get a chance to take a

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Speaker 2: look at one of the two?

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about this.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I stopped up at MoMA H's for dinner after work today. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and Mom h is very excited about this design.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to get our shirt, aren't we. We are?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: That's all I got, Dan, You take care of that instrument.

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Speaker 1: I will good luck on your draft show. We will

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Speaker 1: be back to feed my son, Go feed your son,

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Speaker 1: Go do your fatherly duties. We will be back in

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Speaker 1: a week post NFL Draft. Not sure if we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about at dinner the week after, but before long we'll

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Speaker 1: break everything down. Enjoy it. We'll have much more to

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Speaker 1: say in the days and weeks ahead. In the meantime, though,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your week, enjoy your weekend, enjoy the rest of

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Speaker 1: your evening, and in the meantime, until next time. Today

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