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Speaker 1: January tenth, Dear Our Lord, twenty twenty three jam Packed.

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Speaker 1: We are still live from what is a very stormy

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. Even as we speak, Cruiser tearing down

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Speaker 1: the signage and whatnot for the twenty twenty three National

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Speaker 1: Championship game. Georgia just did some terrible things last night,

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Speaker 1: and I know that in the live chat you're telling

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Speaker 1: Oh friends, we need to recap it. We got a

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about you and I. There's also did

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Speaker 1: Georgia matter at hand? There is a nice little pat

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Speaker 1: committee got it right, whether certain teams should have made

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Speaker 1: the playoff and didn't make the playoff. You've put me

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Speaker 1: I don't mean short sleeves in fifty degree weather right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, defending the playoff committee.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna make me do it, So I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: it in the show this afternoon morning, Greg, is it

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Speaker 1: its afternoon now? So the early afternoon here on the

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Speaker 2: What's gonna happen next year?

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Speaker 1: We're gonna spend a healthy amount of time on the

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Speaker 1: Number one because I'm nervous about the construction crew behind us.

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Speaker 1: And number two because we don't have time to take vacation.

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Speaker 1: We've already got to be forward thinking round here, and

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Speaker 1: us this afternoon. They're watching us in Snellville, Georgia. They're

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Speaker 1: Just a little peach flavor. Love to the shoutouts today,

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Speaker 1: and I've got a lot to talk about on the

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Speaker 1: Let's go to work, Colin. Here's your endpoint right here.

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Speaker 1: I would like to begin the show today by a

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Speaker 1: dramatic reading of some of my favorite song lyrics that

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Speaker 1: I think very accurately described last night. You are pulled

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Speaker 1: from the wreckage of your silent reverie. You're in the

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Speaker 1: arms of the angel. May you find some comfort here?

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Speaker 1: A homage to the TCU Hornfrogs, a Sarah McLaughlin special

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Speaker 1: went down last night. The walls were painted with TCU's

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Speaker 1: blood sixty five to seven.

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Speaker 2: We love padlock stats, especially in championship settings.

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Speaker 1: If you can give us padlock stats, if you can

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Speaker 1: give us numbers that if we had known twenty four

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Speaker 1: Joy that Georgia trafficked done a lot of padlocked statage

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Speaker 1: last night. But let me tell you, there are few

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Speaker 1: truths in an uncertain world. But I can promise you this.

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Speaker 1: If you have as many touchdowns as your opponent has

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Speaker 1: Georgia as many touchdowns let me speak slowly for the

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Speaker 1: folks in the back that tuned out at halftime, and

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Speaker 1: Let's dive into this game a little bit. What were

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Speaker 2: Yards per play, there is no wrong decision.

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Speaker 1: That's a sign of a head coach learning from mistakes,

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Speaker 1: I had watched the twos, I had watched the Joe Burrows,

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Speaker 2: Initially, you got to credit him.

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Speaker 1: So now we get to enter into this this really

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Speaker 2: There's never been one like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I read don't quote me on this,

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Speaker 1: It's that simple.

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Speaker 1: wherever you are.

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Speaker 2: I honestly need to gather my thoughts.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a sip of water right quick, because

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do what I'm about to do,

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Speaker 1: but you're making me do it.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: There are few places I want to be in life

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Speaker 1: less than sitting here defending the college Football Playoff or

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Speaker 1: the college Football Playoff Committee. Okay, they put a championship

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Speaker 1: game in a non college football venue in southern California

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Speaker 1: on a.

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Speaker 2: Monday in January.

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Speaker 1: These are not exactly people that I am in love

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Speaker 1: with at the moment. These are people that are soon

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Speaker 1: expanding a playoff.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to expand it. You know, my thoughts

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Speaker 2: on all that. That's not what I'm here to talk about.

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Speaker 1: But you guys, not all of you, not nearly all

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Speaker 1: of you, but a vocal minority last night, whether it

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Speaker 1: be in the eye Joshua and my DMS or just

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Speaker 1: publicly on Twitter something you get paid to talk about

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Speaker 1: this stuff. By the way, I saw a lot of

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Speaker 1: you last night, and you watched the game start getting

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Speaker 1: out of hand, and a sadly yet predictably, you started

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Speaker 1: second guessing the playoff field. Now, as I've said before,

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Speaker 1: if you've got a problem with the four teams in

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Speaker 1: the playoff the moment the playoff is announced or up

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Speaker 1: to the.

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Speaker 2: Moment of the kickoff of the semi finals.

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Speaker 1: And you publicize that, even if I disagree with you,

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Speaker 1: at least I'm okay with it in principle, I can listen.

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Speaker 2: To the logic and decide for or against. Here's what

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Speaker 2: you can't do.

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Speaker 1: You can't wait until the games happen and then retroactively

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Speaker 1: use benefit of hindsight. The committee doesn't have hindsight. The committee,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, does not have the ability to

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Speaker 1: rub the old crystal ball. See what would happen if

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Speaker 1: they put certain teams in and say we do not

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Speaker 1: want that outcome, so therefore we're not going to put

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Speaker 1: that team in. And before you tell me that what

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Speaker 1: happened last night was predictable and everyone knew it was

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Speaker 1: going to come. Half of you saying that said Michigan

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Speaker 1: was going to do the same thing, and they did. So. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not all predictable. And secondly, forget about the predictability

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Speaker 1: for just a second. I want to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about competition, and I want to talk to you about

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Speaker 1: how I view the playoff selection process, how this actually

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Speaker 1: should happen. So here's here's been my states. It's very simple,

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Speaker 1: very very simple, very straightforward. Nothing that happens in the

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Speaker 1: playoff changes the criteria about who should make the playoff. Translation,

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Speaker 1: you picked Bama, and you well not Bama was last year.

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Speaker 2: Nothing.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm just gonna rephrase this because I want

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Speaker 1: to clip it for later. There was a little bit

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Speaker 1: of noise off to the side. Nothing that happens in

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Speaker 1: the playoff should change the criteria for who should have

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Speaker 1: made the playoff. So this year you got Georgia in there,

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Speaker 1: you got Michigan in there, you had TCU, you had

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. That's your one through four. You look at

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Speaker 1: their resumes, you look at their bodies of work. You

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Speaker 1: don't acknowledge what a point spread says would happen, because

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Speaker 1: we just played twelve or in some cases thirteen games

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Speaker 1: that showed us what did happen. Everyone had plenty of

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Speaker 1: opportunity to pad and build their resume, and we got

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Speaker 1: what we got. And so then you decide. What you

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Speaker 1: can't do is you can't watch the game's play out

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Speaker 1: and then retroactively say, well, I think the number five

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Speaker 1: team would have done better. I think the number six

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Speaker 1: team would have done better. That's that's like looking at

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Speaker 1: an honor student who graduates high school four point zero gpa.

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Speaker 1: They get all the awards and then they go get

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Speaker 1: addicted to smack and they end up living under a

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Speaker 1: bridge somewhere. Do you take the honors away from them?

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Speaker 1: Do you take the certificate away from them?

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Speaker 2: No, they made the grades. What they did happened. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't change it.

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Speaker 1: That was their resume and the criteria based on their

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Speaker 1: body of working in the classroom warranted them getting honors.

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Speaker 2: Then whatever happened afterwards happened.

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Speaker 1: Afterwards. Maybe they just drop out of college, Maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: they're in a substance is involved, Maybe they just make

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Speaker 1: some poor decisions. The point is you don't retroactively change

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Speaker 1: your decision making. The criteria is the criteria.

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Speaker 2: But here's what got a little aggravated to me last night.

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Speaker 1: When one or two people said Bama would have done

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Speaker 1: better than TCU, I said, okay.

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Speaker 2: Aha, But then when like one hundred.

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Speaker 1: People said it, I realized, oh, you guys are serious,

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Speaker 1: you really think Alabama should have been here.

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Speaker 2: The committee didn't keep Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Out of the playoff. Alabama kept Alabama out of the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Like you're insane if you're sitting here right.

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Speaker 2: Now saying no, no, no, no, no, no no no. I

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Speaker 2: know TCU's resume was what it was.

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Speaker 1: It should have been Alabama two loss, Alabama, even with

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Speaker 1: the wins being raised or thin. Should have been Alabama. No,

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Speaker 1: it shouldn't have been shouldn't have been at all? Why

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Speaker 1: because they didn't deserve to be in. And then I

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Speaker 1: get the point spread argument thrown at me, which, as

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Speaker 1: I always tell you, there are a lot of things

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Speaker 1: about Vegas that I love. I love that we've legalized

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Speaker 1: sports betting in more states. What I hate is casuals

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Speaker 1: now talking sports betting and now talking odds making. Because

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Speaker 1: if you're sitting there telling me who would be favored

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Speaker 1: over who on a neutral field that they play tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and justifying who you think should have retroactively been.

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Speaker 2: Put in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: You don't understand the theory of competition versus odds making.

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Speaker 1: Odds making and point spreads are not a body of work, guys.

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Speaker 1: They're not a resume. They are a number that would

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Speaker 1: be put on a game if it were played in

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Speaker 1: sut It's a half decent indicator of who the better

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Speaker 1: team is and who is it, But it's.

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Speaker 2: A power rating.

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Speaker 1: Bama, by the way, favored against LSU and lost. What

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Speaker 1: did the points spread mean that day? Bama favored against

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and lost? What did the points spread mean that day?

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Speaker 1: Didn't mean anything other than that's what That's what odds

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Speaker 1: makers put on the game going into the I don't

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Speaker 1: need to explain odds making to you.

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Speaker 2: What I need to tell you is you take care

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Speaker 2: of your business and then.

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Speaker 1: You let the chips fall where they may. You trust

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Speaker 1: your preparation, You play the games, you put together your

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Speaker 1: body of work.

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Speaker 2: They put the four right teams in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: They put the four right you know, good and well.

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Speaker 1: I'd tell you if I thought they didn't they put

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Speaker 1: the four right teams in there at TCU got obliterated

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Speaker 1: last night. Nothing about what happened last night changes what

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Speaker 1: the criterion, what the resume was on whatever Sunday it

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Speaker 1: was after the SEC Championship when they had to make

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Speaker 1: the call. They made the call based on the information

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Speaker 1: at hand. No one knows what's gonna happen once you

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Speaker 1: put those teams in there. Here's the other thing about that.

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Speaker 1: If you are of the belief, and I've talked to

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Speaker 1: two people who I respect this morning who think this,

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Speaker 1: If you're seriously of the belief that Alabama should have

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Speaker 1: been in because odds makers say they wouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: a two touchdown underdog against Georgia, they wouldn't have lost

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Speaker 1: that badly against Georgia. Well, I'm gonna ask you this,

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Speaker 1: is that really the road you want to go down?

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Speaker 1: Do you really believe that's how competition works? Do you

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Speaker 1: really think the committee kept Alabama out instead of Bama

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Speaker 1: keeping BAM out? Because if you believe that, how about

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Speaker 1: this toss another Alabama loss in there. Have them be

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Speaker 1: nine to three. What if I told you ESPN thirty

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Speaker 1: for thirty stocks. What if I told you, a three

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Speaker 1: loss Bama still wouldn't drop below number four in the

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Speaker 1: odds maker's eyes. There still aren't more than four other

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Speaker 1: teams that would be favored over three loss Alabama in

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Speaker 1: the odds making community. So what do we do there?

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Speaker 1: Do we just let certain teams because of the skill

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Speaker 1: level of their roster, which is heavily baked into odds

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Speaker 1: making by the way.

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Speaker 2: Do we just let underachieving, ultra talented teams in.

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Speaker 1: Based off the default that we care about what odds

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Speaker 1: makers say more than what actually happens on a football field.

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Speaker 1: And then if that's your answer, I ask you, do

637
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Speaker 1: you think this right here is a piece of paper.

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Speaker 1: You hear it there on the podcast?

639
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Speaker 2: Do you think that's what this game is played on?

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Speaker 2: You grew up playing this sport.

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Speaker 1: And if you didn't grow up playing this sport, you

642
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Speaker 1: probably grew up playing sports. At any point when you

643
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Speaker 1: were in pee wee football and you lost, did you

644
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Speaker 1: go to the parking lot and sip the Caprice sun

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Speaker 1: and eat the orange wedges and get rehydrated and have

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Speaker 1: your mom stan it's okay. You didn't really lose today,

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Speaker 1: because you would be favored over them if you played

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Speaker 1: again tomorrow. No, because at the purest form, that's not

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Speaker 1: a competition. Worse, it's not till you get to the

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Speaker 1: higher levels and the spectacle is big enough that it

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Speaker 1: warrants odds being placed on these games because they're popular

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Speaker 1: enough to be wagered on that you even get into

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Speaker 1: this nonsense about talking about odds making. I'm all for

654
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: odds making. We talked about gambling on the show. There's

655
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: a big difference in competition and the outcomes and respecting

656
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: the outcomes of competition and the spirit of which versus

657
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,479
Speaker 1: odds making. So no, Alabama should have been in the playoff,

658
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: And yes, they would have fared a lot better against Georgia.

659
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: It's a shame they weren't there. Whose fault is it.

660
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: It's not my fault, it's not your fault. It's the

661
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: guys in Tuscaloosa. And for that matter, you could extend

662
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: that conversation. Ohio State would have fared a lot better.

663
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: You know how, I know because they played the game

664
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Speaker 1: ten days ago. I thought about Ohio State a lot

665
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: last night. I thought about Tennessee a lot last night.

666
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: If Tennessee would have taken care of their business against

667
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: South Carolina, if Tennessee would have been just a one

668
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: lost team. They would have been in the playoff in

669
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: all likelihood. I don't know what would have happened from there.

670
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: I know that team wouldn't have been any fun to

671
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 1: deal with. I saw what Joe Milton even looked like

672
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: against Clemson. I don't think they would have been any

673
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: fun to deal with. The point is, you got what

674
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: you got, and I think you got the right four

675
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to sit there and change my

676
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: mind after the fact, with the benefit of a hindsight

677
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: that no Playoff committee member has. And that is the

678
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: first and last time that I will spend this much

679
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: time defending that group of people on this program.

680
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: We move on. Oh sorry.

681
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: All the way from across the country in Nashville, Colin

682
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: and Jesse simultaneously yelled, in my ear, you need to

683
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: like the video and subscribe to the channel, and I

684
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: share that sentiment. They were just a little bit more

685
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: enthusiastic about it in my ear. So from Colin and

686
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: Jesse's lips to your ears, We're not going anywhere after this.

687
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: We'll be right back on the air Thursday night. We're

688
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: not done with the show right now. But if you

689
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: like what you're seeing, or even if you don't, maybe

690
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: we'll do better in the future. Please subscribe to the

691
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: channel and like the video because we've got like three

692
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: thousand people on here right now and we've got four

693
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen likes and they don't think that's good enough.

694
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, I agree with him all right. Speaking

695
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: of the future, Hey, per pop, what's going to happen

696
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: in the year of our lower twenty twenty three? Who's

697
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: winning this thing next year? Is there a TCU out there?

698
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: Is there a team that comes out of nowhere?

699
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: You know who it would be? For me, Texas A

700
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: and M. If there was a team that would.

701
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: Just come out of nowhere and defy all the going

702
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: from some five hundred to playoff, there'd be A and M.

703
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about an, A and M

704
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: right this yet. I'm going to circle back around to them.

705
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Big ten Ohio State.

706
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm very, very curious about what happens at quarterback there.

707
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm very curious about how close they just came and

708
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: whether they make tweaks or wholesale changes. I'm supremely interested

709
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: as of this moment, even in what happens with Michigan.

710
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if Jim Harbaugh is going to be

711
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: the head coach there in a week, how much less

712
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: this fall, but yet either way, unless there's a mass

713
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: exodus via the transfer portal if he does leave, they're

714
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: set up very well to succeed in the next several years.

715
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: And they've shown that they can do everything they need

716
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: to do in the transfer portal. That's another team that well,

717
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: they were already in the playoff, so they're on the

718
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: presspass every year now, as is Ohio State of being

719
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: a playoff team the one that hadn't made it yet

720
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: up there that I am probably buying about as much

721
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: stock in as any non playoff team out there.

722
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 2: So far as Penn State, I think twenty twenty.

723
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: Three is the closest I've seen them to being on

724
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: the brink of a playoff breakthrough. I don't just mean

725
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: a good, solid ten win season, but they lose the

726
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: two or three big games again, I mean make the playoff.

727
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: We finally get to see the Drew Aller era up

728
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: you know, we get to see Manny Dias in that

729
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: defense in year two if he's still there, And I

730
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: don't say that to spark any rumor. I just mean

731
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: I never assume that anyone's coaching staff is safe until

732
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: I see him on the field in the fall. Texas

733
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: is the program for the second year in a row

734
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: that will be one of the most interesting going into

735
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: spring and then ultimately fall camp because it's year three

736
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: under Stark. I talk to you about this a few

737
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: days ago. How I think if you don't pop immediately,

738
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: if you don't get hired and then win the Big

739
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: twelve or go to the Playoff in your first couple

740
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: of years, people just assume, oh, that means you don't

741
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: have it. Well, they went five and seven their first

742
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: year there. I think they went eight and four this

743
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: past year. That's improvement. So linearly you're one of year two.

744
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: We've had improvement.

745
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: I still think though, that some people have checked out

746
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: on Texas now fairly a lot of you didn't check

747
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: in yet, and that's okay. That's not a program that

748
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: is miles and miles and miles away. They lost a

749
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: lot of close games this year. They still really weren't

750
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 1: what they need to be at quarterback. So the quarterback

751
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: situation is interesting at Texas because now I think it's

752
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: safe to say one way or the other, you're going

753
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: to get quality play there, because if it's not Quinn yours,

754
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: we got a kid named arch Manny coming in town now,

755
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: like we finally are are on the brink of having

756
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 1: that happen. And so Texas is in that conversation, Oklahoma

757
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: could make a big jump. You're one to year two,

758
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: hunder bred of animals. They barely made a ball game

759
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: this year. What do all these teams have in common,

760
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: even the ones who underachieved, Just like I mentioned A

761
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: and M a second ago, they have this in common.

762
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: They've got talented rosters. I am not someone who sits

763
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: there and bangs the table. This team's the more talent team.

764
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: That team's the more talented team. It's one of the

765
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: more overrated talking points when predicting a game that you

766
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 1: can mention. But when we're looking broad scope, wide kaleidoscope,

767
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: you look at talent, and that's a very very good

768
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: metric for just just trying to find out who's underachieving

769
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: with talent. Because the programs that underachieved with talent, I e. Texas,

770
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: Oklahoma this past year.

771
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 2: They have the least incentive to keep everything the same.

772
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: So they're gonna keep a lot of talent, but they're

773
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: gonna make big changes around the talent. Sometimes it doesn't work.

774
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just burn out again. But sometimes you make

775
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: the right changes and all of a sudden, you go

776
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: from a mediocre bowl game to oh my goodness, we're

777
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: in November and we're in the thick of the playoff race.

778
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: Oklahoma could be that. What about the rest of the

779
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: Big twelve?

780
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 2: By the way, are we going.

781
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 1: To get a duplicate performance from Chris Climbing in Kansas State?

782
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 2: What's TCU going to be that?

783
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: We just watched them in the National Championship Game like

784
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen hours ago. Elsewhere. You know, Kansas made

785
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: some noise this year. Texas Tech made noise this year.

786
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 1: They're very excited as they should be in Lubbock about

787
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: Joey maguire. The acc is one that I want to

788
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: talk about quickly because it starts with Clemson. It still

789
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: starts with Clemson. But I'm gonna get a lot of

790
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: pushback on that statement, thankfully for the first time in

791
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: several years. You know why, because they are going to

792
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: be several of you. I smile as I say it

793
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: because who knows. I may be right there with you.

794
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: They're going to be.

795
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: Several of you who bet a ticket that says FSU

796
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,439
Speaker 1: preseason ACC Championship this coming fall. I may be here

797
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: for it.

798
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: You know.

799
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give you predictions in January. I barely

800
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,439
Speaker 1: do them in August. But I like what they're doing.

801
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: See the reason I'm not as nervous as some people

802
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: when it comes to picking FSU is because I don't

803
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: think there's any one hit wonder aspect of that team.

804
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: I think they've been built from the inside out. They

805
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 1: do legs. They are a program that does legs. It's

806
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: not all popcorn muscles. It's not all chest and biceps

807
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: five or six days a week. They've built it the

808
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: right way. Yet they're still leveraging the portal horror. They've

809
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: done it every cycle. As of two days ago. I

810
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: haven't checked this morning. They've got the number one portal class.

811
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 2: In the country.

812
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: Good things happening now there. Jordan Travis bag Jahean bell

813
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: is transferred in. There's a lot to love about FSU.

814
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: And you know why that's good for Miami because it

815
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: lets them just kind of do what they want to do.

816
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: Down in Coral Gables. You got the Clemson factor in

817
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: the room. Now, folks are going to talk about FSU

818
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: and kind of out of the spotlight. Didn't make a

819
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: ballgame at Miami, bringing a good recruiting class. What they're

820
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: going to do in the portal is ongoing. We'll see

821
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: what they do in the portal. That's going to be

822
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: a markedly improved team, obviously, because it can't go backwards much.

823
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: It's going to be a markedly improved team in twenty

824
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: twenty three. There's a really good Vertical Horizon song playing

825
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: here right now, but I can't play.

826
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 2: It loud for you for rights fees purposes.

827
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: Love that song, though, But the Clemson thing, like a

828
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: lot of this is still in their hands, Like a

829
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: lot of this is still up to Clemson. They'll still

830
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: have the most talented roster. Talent is a starting point,

831
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: it's not the finish linear point. They got Kate Klemnant

832
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: there at quarterback. I really want to see how many

833
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: changes Davis when he makes to his staff. I really

834
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: want to see how many organizational changes he makes. There

835
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: are two schools of thought out there, diametrically opposed by

836
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: the way One school of thought is he's stubborn, he's

837
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: set in his ways, and his past success is going

838
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: to be his future detriment. And there are other people

839
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: who say, nah, he knows what the internal changes that

840
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: are needed are. He's just not going to satisfy you

841
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: by saying here's exactly what I'm gonna do.

842
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 2: No, You're just gonna have to wait to find out.

843
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: I have no clue. I'm sitting here right.

844
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: In the middle. I'm Switzerland on this, and I'm looking

845
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: both ways saying, are you right? You sound pretty convincing. No, no, no,

846
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: you sound like you know what you're talking about.

847
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 2: Just wait and see.

848
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: I guess with Clemson Notre Dame, Sam Hartman, big quarterback

849
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: pick up, the same Notre Dame that started oh in

850
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: two and people don't Marcus Streaman maybe one and done,

851
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: not this person, but people the streets were talking, maybe

852
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is that team? Are we ready to do

853
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: that again? Are we ready for Notre Dame November playoff?

854
00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: Talk again? And of course, in the SEC I thought

855
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: Bama would win the national championship this year. I told

856
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: you that in August. They didn't.

857
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be right there again.

858
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: I think they'll be right there again on Tennessee. I

859
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: think they have staying power. Certainly they are recruiting the

860
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 1: most important position. The way that you have to watch

861
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: spring in Knoxville. You want, you want a really good

862
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: team that's not your own team if you don't live

863
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: in and around Knoxville to watch in the spring.

864
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 2: Joe Milton.

865
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: There are a lot of folks who thought he'll start

866
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: the ballgame, he'll keep the seat warm.

867
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 2: Nico will come in, he'll take the job from him.

868
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: It'll be clear after spring practice and it'll be Tennessee

869
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: led by.

870
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 2: Nico iam Aliava. I think I got the name right.

871
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: This fault. Well, then Joe Milton kind of showed out

872
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 1: in the ball game, and now some people are saying.

873
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 2: No, I think Joe may start the season.

874
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: Then we'll see, you know. It's kind of like that

875
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: DJK club Nick talk of DJ's going to start the season,

876
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: but at some point it'll be KA club Nick. I

877
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: don't know.

878
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 2: I don't know.

879
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: Very exciting spring to come there in Knoxville. I'm gonna

880
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: say A and M for last LSU same question. Jayden

881
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: Daniels is coming back. You go year one to year two,

882
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 1: they overachieved. Just pretend LSU was seven and five, Pretend

883
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: they didn't make the SEC Championship game. What would you

884
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: expect from them in year two? You would be saying, Oh,

885
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: this is the year I think that they'll contend. Okay,

886
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: just because they were head of schedule doesn't mean the

887
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: year two expectations any different. This is the year where

888
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: you really should see a quantum leap. And I know

889
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense because you saw him make the

890
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 1: SEC Championship game. You did.

891
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 2: You also saw him.

892
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: Lose games handily to the likes of Texas A and M.

893
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: You saw him lose Week one to FSU. It was

894
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: not a flawless team, not even close to that. Good

895
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,919
Speaker 1: foundation there too. Recruiting's very good. Brian Kelly's doing things

896
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: in recruiting. They said he could never do. No, he

897
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: just hadn't done it. It wasn't that he couldn't, it

898
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: was just that he had none in Texas A and M.

899
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: You want to say do or die, You want to

900
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: look at a situation that's dow or die.

901
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 2: I got you one. I think his college station Texas

902
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three.

903
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: It's got to happen. Gotta happen. I don't mean seven

904
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: wins either. I don't mean getting back above the bowl threshold.

905
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher's got to put a contender on the field

906
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: this year. I don't care how big the buyout is.

907
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: Brandon Walker's wrong about virtually everything else in life. He's

908
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: right when he says one thing. Buyouts are meaningless. There

909
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: is no buy out big enough when you sit on

910
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: oil fields. No buyout is big enough out there, especially

911
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: if you are a mockery in your own division, in

912
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: which you're recruiting better than almost anyone, you're paying more

913
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: than almost anyone, You've got better resources than everyone, and

914
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: yet you still can't get out of your own way.

915
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: That can't happen two years in a row. They just

916
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: hired Bobby Petrino as offensive coordinator. It can't be a process.

917
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: It's got to be quick. It's got to be like that.

918
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: I think that would be the more shocking headline out

919
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: of all possible shocking headlines next year is Texas A

920
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: and M goes from afterthought to being right there in

921
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: the conversation in November.

922
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 2: That's where my head's at right now.

923
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: Those are some of the programs I have my eye on.

924
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 2: The West coast usc.

925
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: USC there's a ceiling on until well, there's kind of

926
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 1: an indefinite ceiling on a Lincoln Riley led program.

927
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 2: They can be as impressive.

928
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: Any given a week as any program in the country,

929
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: any team in the country. But until you up the

930
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: level of play defensively, you're eventually gonna run into a

931
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: brick wall. You're eventually gonna get this late in the season,

932
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: You're gonna face a Utah in the conference title game.

933
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: Do you know what would have happened.

934
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 2: Had had USC had to face Georgia. It would have

935
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 2: been ugly too. They would have been disassembled too. Absolutely

936
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 2: would have happened.

937
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean it's the way it's always got to be, though,

938
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: And I give Lincoln Riley all the credit in.

939
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,879
Speaker 2: The world year one. He did more in year one.

940
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: That he ever should have been able to do. So

941
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: this is not me doubting him, per Sae. I'm just

942
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: saying I'm more doubting the people that are injecting USC

943
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: automatically into that national championship conversation.

944
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 2: Not until we see better play defensively.

945
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 1: Is the one on the West coast that I'm buying

946
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: a lot of stock in because they're taking defense. Seriously,

947
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: look what they're doing in recruiting in the portal on

948
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: the defensive line.

949
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 2: They got bo Nicks to come back. I don't think

950
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: they're done.

951
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: Two hiccups back to back.

952
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: It's like an earthquake out here.

953
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: I don't think they're done in the portal either. So

954
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 1: and from that matter of recruiting is not done. Yes, yes, friends,

955
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: we do still have a signing date in February. I

956
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: know they've told you otherwise, but we do still have

957
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: a signing day in February. So that's where that's where

958
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: my head is at. Okay, let me let me talk

959
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: to you about a few things before we go. Have

960
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: they disassembled this whole hotel? Yes? Okay, we're done with

961
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: the every given Saturday tour, crazy like out of this

962
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 1: world's success. There's a ton of things to be given.

963
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: I do it every week. But all the coaches that

964
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: are so accommodating and their support staff and their sids,

965
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: there was not a place we went this year where

966
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 1: we were not given the kind of access we need.

967
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: There was not a place we went this year, frak

968
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: where coaches weren't open and accommodating. But Here's the thing.

969
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: This show runs on a few really big pillars. Entertainment, access, information.

970
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: Those are the three things we try and give you.

971
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: If we don't have those three baked in or at

972
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: least two of the three into a segment, we don't

973
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: do the segment.

974
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: That's the philosophy of the show. Here's what helps.

975
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: When you can constantly get feedback from coaches, and you

976
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: can constantly get very very worthwhile information from coaches because

977
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: they trust you. There's every reason to trust us. We

978
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: don't burn anyone. I appreciate it so much now, not

979
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: just we. I appreciate it so much because it gives

980
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: us the ability to have a far more informed conversation.

981
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: We don't have to guess nearly as often. We can

982
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about because you guys help that out,

983
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: and we try and help you out as much as

984
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: we can. So from me to you, I really appreciate

985
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: that Colin and Jesse have had one vacation or two

986
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: vacation days or thereabouts since August and have never complained

987
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: a second. And so they're back in Nashville right now.

988
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: This is actually one of the easiest they'll ever do

989
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: because we're out in California thanks to them. Mike's here,

990
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: Gelbie's here. We've been on the road this entire year.

991
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: Big Game, Dane watching from somewhere. Coach Quinn even made

992
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: an appearance. In true fashion, she waited until the title

993
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: game and she made an appearance. But there are several

994
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: changes coming to the show. All of them were positive.

995
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: I told you this last year and it happened. There

996
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: will be more changes coming to the show. Not that

997
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: I'm going anywhere. I'm saying we're going to add some

998
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 1: more layers because you've given us the ability to do that.

999
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: You have grown in numbers, and you have spoken so

1000
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: vocally that management really can't ignore it. And so as

1001
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: much lee way, as much rope as they gave us

1002
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: this year. I've had some really productive conversations over the

1003
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. We're going to be given more rope.

1004
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna be given more leeway, we're gonna be given

1005
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: more resource, and because of that, we're gonna be able

1006
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: to do even more of what you want to do.

1007
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: So there is no off season. We don't even mention

1008
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: the word. We've got a live show forty eight hours

1009
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: from now. We'll be right back in Nashville. But I

1010
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: just want to let you know because I know some

1011
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,959
Speaker 1: of you tune in the day after the title game

1012
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,240
Speaker 1: and then you think everyone goes on vacation, maybe because

1013
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: that's how your other shows do it, or you think, well,

1014
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: they won't be able to talk about anything again to

1015
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: spring practice. Watch us, watch us talk about something every

1016
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: day until spring practice. So you keep it luck on

1017
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: this channel or the podcast. We make it available however

1018
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: you want it, but just do me one favor.

1019
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 2: You don't tune out. We'll give you everything you want.

1020
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: Make sure you're subscribed on all those platforms, and make

1021
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 1: sure you're following on social at late Kick, Josh, if

1022
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: we don't cut it off in.

1023
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 2: January, February or May June July, there's no reason for

1024
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 2: you to go anywhere. So, like I said, Pig, thanks

1025
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: to you guys.

1026
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: Great recap and semi final week was a little bit

1027
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: better than championship week, obviously, but we had fun.

1028
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 2: We get to do what we love for a living,

1029
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 2: and you make that possible.

1030
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: So for producer Jesse and director Colin back home, Mike

1031
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: and Golby here in so Cal, I'm Josh Fate.

1032
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 2: I'm going to.

1033
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: Head across the street, essentially at lax at home and

1034
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Speaker 1: sleep for about twenty seven hours. We'll see you Thursday

1035
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: until they take care for God bless