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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in Late Kick is Live. It is Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: September tenth. Hear of Our Lord twenty twenty. Back here

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Speaker 1: in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Nice weather outside, and we got

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Speaker 1: a jam pack show inside the studio tonight, Director Colin alongside.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pat so happy to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: We have got so many different places to go. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how we're going to get it all in

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Speaker 1: in less than an hour, but we will, believe me.

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Speaker 1: ten tonight. We have got brand new fresh shot off

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Speaker 1: presses Intel about the Georgia quarterback situation.

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Speaker 2: That I'm going to get to in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: We have also got several leans and predictions and feelings

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Speaker 1: about some Week one matchups coming up this weekend. And

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Speaker 1: also there are several different places in the SEC right

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Speaker 1: now where there are things going on in camps that

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Speaker 1: we have to talk about.

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Speaker 2: All that plus my reasoning.

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Speaker 1: For picking Texas to go to the college football Playoff,

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. We've got no time to waste.

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Speaker 1: The Big ten's a disaster right now. I don't really

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Speaker 1: think that's up for much debate. Let me remind you

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Speaker 1: we had some breaking news just before I went on

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Speaker 1: the air. I was reminded Central Arkansas is currently one

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Speaker 1: and one on the season.

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Speaker 2: Central Arkansas one and one on the season. Meanwhile, it's still.

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Speaker 1: Unsafe for the Big Ten to play college football. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's a list of what is safe. Pee wee football,

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Speaker 1: junior high football, high school football, G five football, pro football, intramurals.

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Speaker 1: All those are fine. Big ten football no, And that's

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Speaker 1: where we're at today. Again, it is September tenth, year

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Speaker 1: of our Lord Toothy twenty. This is headed down several

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Speaker 1: bad roads for the Big Ten. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: a mystery anymore. From August eleventh, when the decision to

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Speaker 1: postpone this season was made, until today, September tenth, Ryan

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Speaker 1: Day Head coaches in the Big Ten. I talked to

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Speaker 1: some Board of Regents members in the Big Ten this

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Speaker 1: past week. No one has heard anything. No one has

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Speaker 1: any further reasoning. No one has been told, and this

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Speaker 1: is an important point to remember. No one's been told

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Speaker 1: what the threshold that needs to be met is. What

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Speaker 1: are the parameters? Now? Intentionally, they've been left in the

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Speaker 1: dark on that. Because if you got some folks who

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Speaker 1: don't want to play football, which they absolutely have to

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Speaker 1: some degree up there at this point, if they give

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Speaker 1: you the data points, if they give you the threshold,

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Speaker 1: if they give you the line in the sand you

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Speaker 1: then what are they going to do?

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Speaker 2: They'll have to let you play. So that's where they

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Speaker 2: are right now.

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Speaker 1: If you missed it today, Colin, I think you've got

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Speaker 1: the actual graphic of Ryan Day's statement that he put

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Speaker 1: out on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Think about what I just said. It's twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: We have Twitter, and we have head coaches at Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: James Franklin did the same thing.

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Speaker 1: That is the mode of communication being used to get

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Speaker 1: in touch with the Big Ten League office.

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Speaker 2: You have zero communication right now.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Warren and some of these university presidents might as

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Speaker 1: well be on the International Space Station. No one knows

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Speaker 1: where they are. This is what Ryan Day said today.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening on the podcast side, I won't read

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, but essentially it says, you know, while

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Speaker 1: I understood the initial decision, I don't understand what's happening now.

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Speaker 2: These young men.

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Speaker 1: The parents have asked me, Ryan Day, so many questions

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Speaker 1: hurts the most is why can these other teams and

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Speaker 1: Clemson's playing wait for us this weekend. Our players want

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten leaders, head coaches who are openly telling you,

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything more than you do. We've had

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Speaker 2: Like? On what planet? Is that?

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Speaker 1: What you would expect to happen folks asking you in

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Speaker 1: the media. I'm supposed to be the one asking you

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Speaker 2: So everyone's in the dark. Bear.

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Speaker 1: And then, of course, as soon as Ohio State and

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Speaker 1: Ryan Day released that statement today, just total and complete

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Speaker 1: embarrassment from certain national college football media types regurgitating the

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Speaker 1: mouthpiece for the Big Ten league office, that's fine. Everyone

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Speaker 1: lives their life the way they want to. Butt least

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Speaker 2: Okay, when you get.

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Speaker 1: The talking point sheet, at least rearrange some letters in

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Speaker 1: the alphabet soup that they give you before your release.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm not going to spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: To reason why they shouldn't be able to because that's

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Speaker 1: not saying definitively, we got to overturn this. What he's

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Speaker 1: to overturn it. So, you know, maybe Ryan Day should

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Speaker 1: Maybe he should put on like a sweatshirt that's not

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Speaker 1: But I, as I said earlier, spent several hours over

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Speaker 1: And you would expect, oh, you probably heard a whole

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Speaker 2: And that's not the case.

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Speaker 1: A few things here and there, but by and large,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of We have been left in complete

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Speaker 1: and utter silence. Our president did not come to us

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Speaker 1: They have not come to us about any potential revote.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what's happening. It's become precedent here for

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Speaker 1: non disclosure agreements to be signed by university presidents. Those

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Speaker 1: on that. That's not necessarily my place, but I digress.

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Speaker 1: Those non disclosure agreements by presidents meant to stonewall your

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Speaker 2: That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, here's what I kept getting told, and I

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Speaker 1: like no one has reassessed their opinion July, the folks

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Speaker 2: Here's the fact.

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Speaker 1: The fact is, if the Big Ten League schedule was

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Speaker 2: And I don't think anyone among us is really.

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Speaker 1: Arguing that that was not a point in time where

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Speaker 1: it was probably safe to conduct a season. The problem

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Speaker 1: I've tried to maintain an open mind on this. It's

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Speaker 2: We needed to have met that didn't get met.

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Speaker 1: No one's done that, and so until they do that,

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Speaker 1: look at data that is dated. Okay, early September as

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Speaker 1: opposed to late July. Things have changed, things continue to change.

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Speaker 1: obvious from looking at what Ryan Day and James Franklin

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Speaker 1: and several others Nebraska's been very outspoken about this have

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Speaker 1: haven't given up on the idea of an October start.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: It may be rapidly fading, like hope may have been

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Speaker 1: given up on that. The third thing we know is

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Speaker 1: if you don't make a move, like if the Big

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Speaker 1: damage to your conference, to the integrity of your brand.

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Speaker 2: Some is obvious. I don't think others are obvious.

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Speaker 1: I want you to think for a second, if you

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Speaker 1: about keying in on programs that return the same head coach,

438
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Speaker 1: and the same offensive coordinator, and the same quarterback and

439
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,480
Speaker 1: most of the same offensive line talent, and Tennessee fits

440
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,879
Speaker 1: all these descriptions. But yet the same people who make

441
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Speaker 1: those arguments would never in a million years circle Tennessee

442
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 1: as a team to watch. Why they don't believe in

443
00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 1: the personnel, they don't believe in Jared Garantano. I'm not

444
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and taut him as a preseason All

445
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,600
Speaker 1: American buy any stretched the imagination. But what I am

446
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,960
Speaker 1: saying is Jeremy Pruitt probably looking at the situation and saying,

447
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 1: we open against South Carolina. We think we're better than them.

448
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 1: We think we've got a better roster. They've also got

449
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,160
Speaker 1: questions at quarterback right now. They don't have it nailed down.

450
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 1: Week two we play Missouri, we're just flat out better

451
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Speaker 1: than them. Week three we play Georgia. They have no

452
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Speaker 1: clue who the quarterback is going to be, So we

453
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Speaker 1: at least have continuity and consistency there.

454
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Speaker 2: We know who it's going to be.

455
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Speaker 1: We're not trying to install all this new stuff on

456
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Speaker 1: the fly on a condensed, truncated timetable, and so we

457
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Speaker 1: could shock some people but the way we're going to

458
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Speaker 1: have to do it is not by throwing the ball

459
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Speaker 1: fifty five times in a game. We got to take

460
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Speaker 1: a sledgehammer to people's kneecaps. That's how we can beat him.

461
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 1: We got the offensive line to do it, we got

462
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Speaker 1: the running back skill to do it, and so we

463
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Speaker 1: got to be consistent enough offensively. But see, that only

464
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Speaker 1: works if a defense is taken care of things. And

465
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many of you have been paying

466
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Speaker 1: attention out of Knoxville recently, there's been some really really

467
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Speaker 1: tough love being dealt by this guy, Jeremy Prewett to

468
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Speaker 1: his defensive front. Not even the first time he's done it.

469
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Speaker 1: This week was the latest example. But he's been very

470
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Speaker 1: critical of them, and I don't think it's for show.

471
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's window dressing at all. I don't

472
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Speaker 1: think he has liked what he's seen at all. From

473
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Speaker 1: the lack of pressure that they've been generating, I think

474
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Speaker 1: they've been very poor at tackling. And you say, oh, well,

475
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Speaker 1: that's to be expected. No, it's not to be expected.

476
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Speaker 2: It may be to be excused in some people's eyes,

477
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Speaker 2: but this.

478
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Speaker 1: Is not a program who has five and five aspirations

479
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Speaker 1: either their vegas over underwind total may be floating around there,

480
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Speaker 1: but Jeremy Prewt doesn't care about that. That guy wants

481
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Speaker 1: to win the East this year, not in twenty twenty three.

482
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Speaker 1: And so I think they've got the horses defensively, I

483
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Speaker 1: got to think their lack looking for bodies. But you know,

484
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Speaker 1: we've seen with Texas for example, We've seen Brendon Eagles

485
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Speaker 1: at Texas, guy who's a returning starter, and so you

486
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Speaker 1: just assume, all right, well, you know, I'm a leader

487
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Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. Now, NA guy's been bypassed. Still going

488
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Speaker 1: to play, but he's been bypassed. I think they may

489
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Speaker 1: have a little of that that's crept into the Tennessee

490
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Speaker 1: locker room too. Still got a little time to rectify that.

491
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Speaker 1: But man, he's been very critical. Check out some of

492
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Speaker 1: those sound bites. It's just he has made he's pulled

493
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Speaker 1: no punches when talking about his defensive front at South Carolina,

494
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Speaker 1: a lot of sudden optimism about the offense.

495
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Speaker 2: They got two quarterbacks that they think they can win with.

496
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Speaker 1: Ryan Hilensky was probably just assumed to be the starter,

497
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Speaker 1: Colin Hill giving him a run for his money. A

498
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Speaker 1: lot of people there believe Colin Hill probably even leads

499
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Speaker 1: to a certain degree in that quarterback battle. Our folks

500
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Speaker 1: over at the Big Spur dot com have had a

501
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Speaker 1: ton of really money intel on that quarterback battle. I've

502
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Speaker 1: been excited to read about DeShawn Fenwick coming out of

503
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Speaker 1: this last scrimmage that South Carolina had.

504
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Speaker 2: Deshaun Fenwick is a.

505
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Speaker 1: Guy that I think they have to have step up

506
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Speaker 1: because they lost Marshawn Lloyd, who was as a true

507
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Speaker 1: freshman going to be one of the breakout candidates in

508
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Speaker 1: all of college football, regardless of position, and.

509
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Speaker 2: They lost him, And I mean that was a gut punch.

510
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Speaker 1: That was like one of those you find out about

511
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Speaker 1: it you just want to go home the rest of

512
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Speaker 1: the day. And so they need guys like Fenwick to

513
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Speaker 1: step up. I really questioned they just you could prove

514
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Speaker 1: me wrong. Of course that always could happen, but I

515
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: really question whether the personnel they have at places like

516
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: receiver and offensive line, but really specifically guys like Fenwick.

517
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Speaker 1: They have to have so many guys step up and

518
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Speaker 1: play at a high level to put a competitive product

519
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Speaker 1: on the field.

520
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure a few will, but I'm.

521
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Speaker 1: Talking about all of them doing it, or a critical

522
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Speaker 1: mass of them doing it. But I'll tell you another

523
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Speaker 1: thing that has them excited. People who have been fortunate

524
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Speaker 1: enough to watch practice there a lot of them are

525
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Speaker 1: excited about Mike Bobo and what you would refer to

526
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Speaker 1: as kind of just more progression based play calling. Now,

527
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: it's very simple conceptually. That's just like playing chess, making

528
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Speaker 1: a move with your next move, and second till next

529
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Speaker 1: move and third to next move, all.

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Speaker 2: Already in your head somewhere.

531
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Speaker 1: Well, that's how the best play callers usually call plays

532
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: instead of the xbox crowd, which runs the half back

533
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: keeper and then we're going to run ten yard slants

534
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: and like, you weren't even thinking about ten yard slants when.

535
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Speaker 2: You call the half back keeper.

536
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Speaker 1: So that's just play to play to play, and right

537
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Speaker 1: or wrong, the perception is that's what Brian mcclennan was

538
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Speaker 1: guilty of. So Mike Bobo certainly not guilty of that.

539
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Speaker 1: I didn't think anyone ever doubted that he would be

540
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Speaker 1: guilty of it. But here's the big question that won't

541
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Speaker 1: be answered for a while. I had someone today reach

542
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Speaker 1: out to me and say, you know, just open ended question,

543
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Speaker 1: do you think that some head coaches are just incapable

544
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Speaker 1: of allowing their offense to succeed, allowing their offense to win?

545
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Speaker 1: And so I took that and I ran with it

546
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Speaker 1: in the direction of Will Muschamp. That is the allegation

547
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 1: against Muschamp. I think it is somewhat deserved. But I

548
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Speaker 1: also think as much as you may make that claim,

549
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Speaker 1: I could come back and I could counter and say,

550
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: you know Ed Orzeron circa twenty eighteen would never have

551
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: allowed LSU circa twenty twenty to happen or twenty nineteen

552
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 1: to happen because they had some of the same personnel.

553
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Speaker 2: They handled it totally.

554
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Speaker 1: Different and or Jeron was smart enough to not allow

555
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: his feet to get cemented into one way of doing things,

556
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: and so he one aided the entire offensive philosophy of

557
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: the program and he got out of the way. Will

558
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: mush Champ's not done that to this point, never has.

559
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Speaker 1: Is this the first time, and here's the question, is

560
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Speaker 1: this the first time mush Champ has got an offensive

561
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Speaker 1: coordinator in the house that he fully trusts handing the

562
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Speaker 1: keys to the car over to That's the TBD. That

563
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: is the to be determined with South Carolina, Florida is

564
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: in a very good place. Florida was very wise and

565
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen was very wise and somewhat lucky at the

566
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Speaker 1: same time. About how they front loaded their practice schedule.

567
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Speaker 1: What Mullin did is he said, all right, we got

568
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Speaker 1: this much time to get this many practices in. Let's

569
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: put all of our install Let's put all of our

570
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Speaker 1: most physical work on the front end, so that if

571
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: we can't get it all in, we can push him

572
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: down the line. But they went about it that way,

573
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Speaker 1: and they got everything in. They haven't had big COVID outbreaks,

574
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: and so as a result, they're miles ahead of a

575
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Speaker 1: program like Tennessee right now, who's had trouble and they've

576
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Speaker 1: had to delay practices and cancel practices or work with

577
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: a skeleton crew. I mean, Mullen told the media down

578
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 1: there yesterday or day before yesterday. I mean, we're going

579
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: to do some conditioning, We're going to do some lifting

580
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: over the next week. And that's not normally what you

581
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: would hear a few weeks into camp. You got a

582
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: couple of weeks till you're about to play. But he's

583
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Speaker 1: almost treating it at this point like a bye week,

584
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Speaker 1: and I feel really good about where they are. They

585
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: open against Ole Miss, who has had just a nightmare

586
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: internally dealing with COVID over there. So you know, I've

587
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: talked about Florida. It's the most exciting team to me

588
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: to watch in week one. It will be the closest

589
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Speaker 1: to a finished product offensively, out of any of these

590
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Speaker 1: contenders that we'll probably see in week one, So, you know,

591
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Speaker 1: offensive line some of the things you hear about that specifically,

592
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Speaker 1: maybe some guys who have worked their way back into

593
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Speaker 1: the rotation. Is it a case where they've improved or

594
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Speaker 1: do you not have any other options? You know, It's

595
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Speaker 1: not like I'm ready to just put my full stamp

596
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Speaker 1: of endorsement on the forehead of Florida, but I feel

597
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Speaker 1: really good about where Florida is relative to maybe some

598
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: of their other brethren in the SEC. All Right, we

599
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: got to talk about some games that are coming up

600
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Speaker 1: this week. How embarrassing just rubbing your hands together. I

601
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: do that over cinnamon Toa's crunch all the time. Normal

602
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: week's format is not what we're doing this week. First

603
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: and foremost, so many of you have reached out and said,

604
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Speaker 1: are you gonna do the same things that you used

605
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: to do, and the same things that we do are

606
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Speaker 1: So let me just go ahead and lay out the

607
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 1: format for you this coming Sunday. Actually, we will have

608
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Speaker 1: Late kicklive Sunday night, same time as always, eight Eastern,

609
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: seventh Central. I will release our first of five weekly

610
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Speaker 1: plays against the number, and I'll do that on Sunday.

611
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: It's the game we feel best about. It's the game

612
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: that jumps off the screen to us. I'll release that

613
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I will release our final four, which equals

614
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Speaker 1: five in total. We like to call it the Rama

615
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: Noodle Express. Namely, we're trying to keep you from having

616
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Speaker 1: to eat ramen noodles with the plays that we give you,

617
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: and so that totals five every week. Those usually come

618
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Speaker 1: on Thursday. The last four usually come on Thursday. But

619
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Speaker 1: if I got something that I feel like we need

620
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Speaker 1: to move on, I may call an audible and give

621
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Speaker 1: you a couple of them on Tuesday.

622
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Speaker 2: So basically you need to watch every show during the week. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to move on any games this week

624
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: because we have a very abbreviated schedule and these numbers

625
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: have been out too long. So I norm really think

626
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: there's a ton of value out there. I will tell

627
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: you where I lean in these three games, though, So

628
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: if you are so inclined and that money is burning

629
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: a hole in your pocket, here you go.

630
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech at Florida State.

631
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Speaker 1: Fascinated by this one, very interested to watch Georgia Tech

632
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: in general. That is my number one sleeping giant program.

633
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: Not necessarily in twenty twenty, but in general. Love the

634
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: depth chart approach by the way that Jeff Collins has taken.

635
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: He calls it ATL marketing genius. Here it's called above

636
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: the line ATL. No depth chart, no ones and twos

637
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: and threes. There's just a line. And if you're good enough,

638
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: if we trust you to put you on the field,

639
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: then you're above the line and you could play at

640
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: any moment. In reality, there's probably still a depth chart.

641
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: You just don't get to see it. If you are

642
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: writing for the Orlando Sentinel, shall we say, so what

643
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: about this thing?

644
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: I mean, they can't be any worse. They were one

645
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty.

646
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Speaker 1: Seventh where the Yellowjackets and total offense last year Mike

647
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: Norvell's offense. Now, I was doing a lot of reading

648
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: about Florida State leading up to this one. I'm really

649
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: fascinated about how they're going to handle running back in

650
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: this game and this season in general, because, like a

651
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: lot of people have pointed out, and they're right, at

652
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: least on paper, it doesn't look like they have the

653
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: raw talent at Florida State at running back that they

654
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: normally have. They got Corbin the transfer from Texas A

655
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: and M, and they got la Damian Webb who came

656
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: from Juco, and I think he's really counting on those

657
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: guys to be ultraversatile. He's counting on them be physical enough,

658
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: but he's also counting on him to be able to

659
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: flex out of the backfield. I think they are very

660
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: much hinge parts of this offense this year. Now, like

661
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: every offense that's ever been installed in the history of mankind.

662
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: They are swearing that they're going to use the tight

663
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: end heavily. Mike Norville's got a track record of it.

664
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: But what I'm telling you is, I think those running backs,

665
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: and those two running backs in particular, the ones I

666
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: just mentioned keys in this game and also keys this

667
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: year Georgia Tech, the reason I think they probably will

668
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: be able to hang around in this one. Is roster wise,

669
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: making no mistake, they'll still be outmanned. But what they

670
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: do return from a pretty poor defense admittedly last year,

671
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: is they do have twenty of their top twenty one

672
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: tacklers back, and so if they're not missing any guys

673
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: that we don't know about, then you at least have

674
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: comfort in the fact that you're gonna have guys in

675
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: the field who know what they're doing and not running

676
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: around like chickens with their head cut off.

677
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: But outside of that, Florida.

678
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: State running game run defense was abysmal at times for

679
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: them last year. I never got the sense it was

680
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: because of a lack of talent of personnel. This thing

681
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: right here, Florida State lacked last year, and I was

682
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: pounding my chest for those of you listening, heart, wasn't

683
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: there so.

684
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: Cane do all those guys on the front. I'm looking

685
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 2: forward to seeing what they do against.

686
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: A very abbreviated version offensively of what maybe they'll see

687
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: down the road in Georgia Tech.

688
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: But if that defense, if that.

689
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: Run defense in particular is where it needs to be,

690
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: and everyone's been raving about the defense down at Florida State,

691
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: then they'll be able to virtually shut Georgia Tech down.

692
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what you should see. Now.

693
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: The way I tend to think that this one's going

694
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: to go is pretty low scoring. And I think that

695
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: thirteen if I were to lean one way or the other,

696
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: I'd probably take the thirteam, with Tech probably a little

697
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: bit undervalue, a little bit under priced on the market

698
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: right now.

699
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech.

700
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: The next one that I think a lot of people

701
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: have pointed out as the dark horse game, so much

702
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: so that it's not a dark horse game anymore is

703
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: Louisiana Lafayette at Iowa State. My Cyclones, so bias alert here.

704
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: I got a rooting interest, but I also love Billy Napier,

705
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: so maybe not. It's a huge opportunity for Billy Napier

706
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: and occasions. Make no mistake about this now. Last year,

707
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: those of you who watch college football religiously, you remember

708
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: app State beating North Carolina and South Carolina, Georgia State

709
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: beat Tennessee Coast to Carolina beat Kansas Like these teams

710
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: made noise last year early and so could be a

711
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: repeat here. And this is not some four or five

712
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: touchdown number now right now, I think checked it a

713
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: couple hours ago. Iowa State favored at home about about

714
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: eleven and a half. Really good balance for Ulafayette. I

715
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: have trouble calling them Louisiana, so I apologize, but really

716
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: good balance here. I think probably what I'm most excited

717
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: to watch is they lost did Ulafayette a couple of

718
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: the top receivers, and then really a guy that they

719
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: hoped would lead them this year also lost to injury,

720
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: so I count him as being down their top three

721
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: receivers from last year, which means run to win. That's

722
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: essentially what they're going to have to do here. And

723
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: I love all three levels of Iowa State's defense. Just

724
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: love them, always love the way they play. They always

725
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: overachieve relative to what the composite talent rating would indicate

726
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: they should do. Defensively, got four new offensive linemen, though

727
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: new wide receivers, but still got brought purty. I remember

728
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: this time last year that Iowa State team was about

729
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: to play Northern Iowa and they got pushed right to

730
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: the limit against Northern Iowa. I think that serves me

731
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: very well here, because I don't think Louisiana Lafayette sneaking

732
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: up on anyone in Ames Iowa.

733
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 2: I think the.

734
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: Way that a lot of people who know what they're

735
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: doing in the betting world are going on this is

736
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: taking UL Lafayette in the points. I'm actually going the

737
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: other way. There's no bias involved in this. I was

738
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: kind of messing around on that. I'm actually gonna lay

739
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: the points. I think it's one of those games that

740
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: people overthink the room too much him in week one,

741
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna lay the points with the Cyclones minus

742
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: eleven and a half. The third one that I'm looking

743
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: forward to the most is Duke at Notre Dame Conference game.

744
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: Going to be a conference logo.

745
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: One of those acc is going to be drawn on

746
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: the field there at Notre Dame Stadium.

747
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 2: First time ever. There's been so much roster turnover at Duke.

748
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you guys have paid attention

749
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: to this, but you know we're just paid to sit

750
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: around and read about it all day, man, I don't

751
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: It's only like a forty five minute show, so I

752
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: don't have time to go down the list of all

753
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: the turnover. Not just roster, they're coaching staff's turned over.

754
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: Cutcliffe just said give it to me, and he's just

755
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator now. So he's the one calling places.

756
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 2: Again. Run game is going to be the focus here.

757
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: I got to imagine Notre Dame still got a lot

758
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: of moving chairs at wide receiver. They know that Duke

759
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: is not settled in by any stretch of the imagination

760
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: on either side of the ball right now, and so

761
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: I really envisioned this one going probably the direction where

762
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: you know you do enough in your passing game, but really,

763
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: you know, there have been some surprise additions or really

764
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: surprise names of starters at running back that have gone

765
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: with a lot of attention in Notre Dame circles, and really,

766
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: I think they want to showcase that run game in

767
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: week one. Imposure will lean on someone do whatever you

768
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: want to call it. And because of that, I think

769
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: that there is a vastly superior roster here. Thirty eight

770
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 1: to seven I think was the final in this game

771
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: last year at twenty is a fat, fat number. But

772
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: I am telling you we've got it. My internal numbers

773
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: have this thing right at Notre Dame. As a three

774
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: touchdown win. It's probably a fourth quarter decision, a garbage

775
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: time decision. Either way, I think Notre Dame wins it comfortably.

776
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: I certainly do not advise this, but if I had

777
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: to lean one way, I'd actually lay the twenty with

778
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: Notre name two. So the leen's here, and I want

779
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: to stress the word lean. Were Tech Georgia Tech plus thirteen,

780
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: I was State minus eleven and a half and Notre

781
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: Dame minus twenty.

782
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: We will have official plays.

783
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: Stress the word official next week, starting next week, all

784
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: right before we go. I had some comments in the

785
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: YouTube comments section about Texas. I predicted the Longhorns to

786
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: make the college football playoff and someone affect more than someone.

787
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: Many people said that's a pick out of left field.

788
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: I don't care if you disagree with the pick. I mean,

789
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: we're not solving state secrets here, we're not curing cancer.

790
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: We're just we're talking about college football playoff predictions. But

791
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: you got to come at me with something better than

792
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: Texas to make the playoff is out of left field.

793
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: Current odds to win the Big twelve title, Oh, you

794
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 1: minus won twenty five on the money line Texas plus

795
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: one seven five.

796
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 2: I mean, that's like if you were playing a.

797
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: Football game being favored by a field goal three and

798
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: a half points or something like that.

799
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 2: It's in other words, it's not out of left field

800
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: at all.

801
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: They are the second odds on favorite to win the

802
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: Big Twelve this year, and the pick for me is twofold.

803
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: To explain myself, Number one, I just don't view this

804
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: as any sort of a vintage Oklahoma team. So some

805
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: of this has to do with Oklahoma. There is no

806
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: one outside of Norman, Oklahoma and the surrounding community that

807
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: is higher on the future of OU football than me.

808
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 2: I have stated.

809
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: Unequivocally, I think Lincoln Riley's winning a national title at Oklahoma.

810
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: I love the direction that their defensive recruiting is heading.

811
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: They got to lot some guys up, but I love

812
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: what they're doing with their defensive roster. I love the

813
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: direction it's headed. Twenty twenty is not the future. Twenty

814
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: twenty is now. And when they released that depth chart

815
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: the other day, someone here looked up and down that

816
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: thing who knows the Big Twelve pretty well and said,

817
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: this just doesn't look like an Oklahoma roster. A lot

818
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 1: of talent on it, don't get me wrong, but normally

819
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: when you look at an Oklahoma roster, they're like seven

820
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: or eight names that just terrify you offensively alone.

821
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 2: They don't have that right now. They don't have that,

822
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 2: and that's not common for them, So.

823
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: There's reason to be optimistic about the unproven talent. They

824
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: have it running back, but it's unproven and I don't

825
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: have a ton of confidence in it until I know

826
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: about it. In other words, defensive line, I don't know

827
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: how anyone's confident about that out there right now, and

828
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: that's before you've played a game. So for that reason,

829
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: just for the vulnerability I see in Oklahoma, that's part one,

830
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: but part two man independent of vulnerability of anyone, I

831
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: just loved what I've heard out of Texas, the entire

832
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: offseason and the entire build up in fall camp. Now

833
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: I want to stress the word heard, because I haven't

834
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: been able to watch anything. So you trust the people

835
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: that have not led you astray over the years. The

836
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: folks over at Horns twenty four to seven I think

837
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: have done about its thorough a job covering a preseason

838
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: camp as anybody in.

839
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 2: Our entire twenty four seven network. Like they've done a

840
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: great job.

841
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: A ton of information over there, like them at quarterback,

842
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: obviously a forty seventh year senior in Sam Ellinger, So

843
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: you got to like that big time talent at running

844
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: back Rashawn Johnson making a move there, and you got

845
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: two other names you know you can already trust, and

846
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: so I love at least three deep the level of

847
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: winning talent.

848
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: That you have at the running back spot for Texas.

849
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: But also, like I mentioned earlier, with a guy like

850
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: Brennan Eagles, to me, it's a very good sign. It's

851
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: not a sign you should freak out about. It's a

852
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: very good sign when returning starters are being bypassed for

853
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: starting roles, because sometimes it does mean someone doesn't have

854
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: their you know what together. Sometimes it means that there's injury.

855
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: But that's not the case here. I don't think now.

856
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: I think that Eagles maybe from the neck up, he's

857
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: got some fixing to do, but it's not any kind

858
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: of lost cause, Like he's going to be a big

859
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: time player for Texas still this year. But Tarik Black

860
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: just transfers in from Michigan. Tarik Black is their number

861
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 1: one receiver right now. That's not a bad thing. That's

862
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: a good thing. Just like when you repractice reports and

863
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: you look at defensive back and there are a lot

864
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: of former starters that are having their jobs challenged. That's

865
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: the way it is at every contending program.

866
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 2: Look at the.

867
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: University of Georgia or Alabama, Ohio State in an alternate

868
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: universe where the Big Ten is actually playing football.

869
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 2: That's how every practice is. Every day. It's like a

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Speaker 2: knife fight.

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Speaker 1: The hardest battles you have nine times out of ten

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Speaker 1: during the week are practices. That's how champions prepare like.

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Speaker 1: If you're trying to build that at Texas, that's what

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Speaker 1: it should look like. So I'll give you a third reason,

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Speaker 1: even though I said there were only two reasons here.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma does not have time to ease into this thing.

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Speaker 1: They get Iowa State in Texas right out of the

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Speaker 1: gate weeks two and three. They got k State Week one,

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Speaker 1: which is not exactly a layup or not week one,

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Speaker 1: but the opening week of conference play they play on

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Speaker 1: pay per view. It's like Summer Slam nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: They play on pay per view to open the season.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, so I guess I had four points colin

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Speaker 1: not to lastly, for anyone who suggests that this is

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Speaker 1: such a rostered disadvantage for Texas, no it's not. We

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Speaker 1: have a tool, one of the most valuable and to

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Speaker 1: me under promoted tools that we have on twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven sports dot Com is the Team Talent Composite.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever set around and wondered, I wonder if

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Speaker 1: I added up all the recruiting classes and all the

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Speaker 1: transfers and all the star ratings, and I can look

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Speaker 1: at the current roster and just know how supposedly talented

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Speaker 1: the roster is.

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Speaker 2: I wonder what that would look like.

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Speaker 1: We have it. It's in the Team Talent Composite rating.

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Speaker 1: It's right there for free.

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Speaker 2: Anyone can use it.

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Speaker 1: Texas nationally number six right now, Oklahoma nationally number ten.

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Speaker 1: So if anything, we would give Texas a slight advantage

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Speaker 1: there is that talent being developed like it is at Oklahoma.

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Speaker 2: That is for anyone to decide.

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Speaker 1: We can have a separate conversation, a separate show to

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Speaker 1: chop that up.

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Speaker 2: But they've made good moves.

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Speaker 1: Have Texas at coordinator love what Chris ash is going

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Speaker 1: to do? Think I love what your Sick's going to

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Speaker 1: do too. But I think it's the best team in

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve. So that's why I'm picking them to

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Speaker 1: make the college football Playoffs. I hope I haven't been unclear.

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Speaker 1: We have been on air for quite a while tonight though,

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Speaker 1: so really good show. Lastly, I mentioned this at the

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Speaker 1: start of the show the other day. I've mentioned it

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Speaker 1: in all the podcasts that we've done this week. Our

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Speaker 1: friends in Louisiana have to have our help. Our buddy Jim,

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Speaker 1: who watches a lot of our shows and listens to

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Speaker 1: a lot of our podcast down in Cameron Parish, reached

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Speaker 1: out the other day and just asked if we could

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Speaker 1: deliver the message. Hundreds of folks still homeless down there,

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Speaker 1: several weeks longer without power. I was looking at some

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Speaker 1: of the NWS chat I still have log in. Don't

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Speaker 1: tell anyone, but I still have log into the National

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Speaker 1: Weather Service chat, and I was looking at some of

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Speaker 1: the storm surveys. They're just now getting in to parts

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Speaker 1: of Louisiana. I want to Hurricane Laura is a distant memory,

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Speaker 1: only just now. Our survey teams, because of storm surge

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Speaker 1: and impassable roads, able to even get into some parts

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Speaker 1: of Louisiana. LSU has helped them out down there. UA

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Speaker 1: Lafayettes helped them out down there. So I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of staffers and a lot of admins from a

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Speaker 1: lot of programs watch our show. Thank you for that

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Speaker 1: first off. Secondly, if you can spare anything, please find

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Speaker 1: a way to send resources down to Louisiana because they

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Speaker 1: need it really bad. I was talking to one of

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Speaker 1: my buddies at Louisiana Tech the other day where they

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Speaker 1: had now a well documented outbreak of COVID because the

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Speaker 1: hurricane ravaged them, and I mean they essentially had to

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Speaker 1: take shell together and as a result, you had an

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Speaker 1: outbreak in COVID.

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Speaker 2: They got to have help down there.

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Speaker 1: So not only do I ask all our viewers to

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Speaker 1: reach out and help, however you can universities programs, well

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Speaker 1: funded outlets that you got some stuff to spare, hopefully,

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Speaker 1: hopefully you'll spare it for our friends down in Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for those who have reached out about

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Speaker 1: that and trying to find ways to help. And I

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Speaker 1: hope that you, if you haven't already, will find every

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Speaker 1: way in your power to reach out to help, because Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: as I've said many times before, has a very very

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Speaker 1: very special place in our hearts. Here at Latekick, so

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. This has been Late Kick Live for

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