1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: And just like that, we're back, but for the first 2 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: time this year. It is Tuesday morning, January fourth, the 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: year of our lower twenty twenty two. It is the 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra podcast. Ah feels good to say. We 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: haven't done extras in quite a while now. If you've noticed, 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: if you've been listening to Late Kick Live or watching 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: late Cak Live, I've been supplementing a little bit of it. 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: I've been putting some of your questions in there. I 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: wanted to give the old mainstream audience a taste of 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: what we over here do amongst ourselves on Tuesday morning 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: and Thursday morning. And for those of you who have 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: no idea what I'm babbling about right now, this is 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: a podcast only feature. See, you see a lot of 14 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: products come in this podcast feed every week, but some 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: of them say Late Kick Live if you've noticed, and 16 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: some of them say Late Kick Extra. Late Kick Live 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: that is an audio replay of the live show that 18 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: we do on YouTube, the twenty four to seven Sports 19 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: YouTube channel. That's Sunday night, Tuesday night, Thursday night, so 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: you get it in your pod feed the next morning. 21 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: But this right here what you're about to listen to, 22 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: hopefully Fingers Crossed is a podcast only feature. You can't 23 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: get this anywhere else. This is all Q and a 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: question and answer for those of you unfamiliar, and according 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: to virtually everyone, including my family members, this is the 26 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 1: best stuff we do all week. So a stance to reason, 27 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: maybe we should make bigger production out of this. But 28 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that 29 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: at all. I've been thinking about that this morning, and 30 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: it's been in relation not just to this Late Kick podcast, 31 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: but also to just college football in general. I'll tell 32 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: you what I mean in a second. Thank you so much. 33 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: We have got a ton going on. I mean a 34 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: ton going on. I don't kid you when I say 35 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty two kind of snuck up on me. 36 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: I this is a true story. I'll tell you this 37 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: story right quick. So the other night, obviously the playoff 38 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: games happened on New Year's Eve, and so we're down 39 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: at the Orange Bowl. We were down there all week. 40 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: Miami was just incredible. We were anywhere from Fort Lauderdale 41 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: to Miami all week. So we're at the game and 42 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: it's been a great week and you're wrapping it up 43 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: and I've got a six am flight New Year's Day, 44 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: so I know a lot of things were about to 45 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: have to happen really quick. So the game is going 46 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: on and it was what it was. Then we're doing 47 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: postgame stuff, so I did a lot of work on 48 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: the field with CBS. Right after the game, we do 49 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: several minutes worth of a live hit for CBS Sports HQ. 50 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: Then I told them I don't want to wait until 51 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: Sunday night to do Late Kick live, and that'd be 52 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: the first time that anyone hears my reaction to this game. 53 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: And so if you've paid attention on the YouTube channel, 54 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: what you saw is a video that looked kind of 55 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: like one of those Late Kick cut videos, but it 56 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: was of me standing on the field. And so what 57 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: I did was I just gave a reaction, send it 58 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: to director Colin. He chopped it up, put it on 59 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. And the funny thing about that is, 60 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: as you know that game started at seven thirty on 61 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: the East Coast, it gets over about eleven eleven fifteen 62 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: or whenever. As I was fulfilling my duties with CBS 63 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: and then got off as probably about eleven fifty, I 64 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: was recording that video. Now this is how wrapped up. 65 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: I was the moment I'm recording the video. In the 66 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: middle of my recording, all this music starts blasting behind me. 67 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: It's in the stadium, which is totally empty except for 68 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: media at that point, and so I'm getting mad. But 69 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: I didn't stop. I didn't break stride. I kept going. 70 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: But I even said on the video, if you watched it, wow, 71 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: they're really cranking up the music here on us. Well, friends, 72 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: what was happening is everybody else in the world that 73 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: wasn't solely focused on Georgia Bama was realizing, Oh it's midnight. 74 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: That means it's twenty twenty two. Now. Your boy, meanwhile, 75 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: is smack dab in the middle of talking about how 76 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: Michigan's offensive line could not hold up like Alabama's did. 77 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: But I wonder if it's more a matchup thing than 78 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: a personnel thing. And then music's going in the background, 79 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: Fireworks are going off, and I am totally oblivious to 80 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: the fact that a new year has happened since I 81 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: started recording the video. So that video, if you watched 82 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: it on YouTube, it began in twenty twenty one, it 83 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: ended in twenty twenty two. But not to get sidetracked. 84 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: So what I was telling you was I was thinking 85 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: to myself, Yeah, on one hand, we have such success 86 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: with this podcast, and I like doing this format just 87 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: between you and I. I like doing this format the 88 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: best where it's Q and A and I put it 89 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: out a little ahead of time. And for those unfamiliar, 90 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: the way that works is you can hit me up anytime, 91 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: really if you've got a question at Late Kick Josh 92 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: on Twitter, at late Kickjosh on Instagram. The email inbox 93 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: is Josh pat seven zero six at gmail dot com. 94 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: Yes that is my personal email address, and so well 95 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: it's one of my personal email addresses. But that's how 96 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: you can hit me up. But here's what I was 97 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: thinking this morning. I was thinking to myself one of 98 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: two ways this could go. We could take it the direction, 99 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: especially once the season ends. And that does not mean 100 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: once the off season begins, because we don't believe in 101 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: that here, but once the regular season ends and we're 102 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: a little bit looser in terms of how we can 103 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: format the show, what we could do is we could 104 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: take the Late Kick Extra what we're doing right now 105 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and we could make a bigger 106 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: production out of it. We could put a video product 107 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: on this, we could We have a number of things 108 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: we could do. But I was asking myself self, do 109 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: we really want to do that or does it get 110 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: to the point where one more brushstroke could ruin the painting? 111 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why I was thinking in those terms. 112 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: This morning, I get on Twitter. I see Noah Taylor. 113 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: I believe it was has tweeted out a video and 114 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: it was the video of the intro to the two 115 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: thousand and five National Championship game, which was played in 116 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: early two thousand and six. It was Texas versus USC. 117 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: It was the Reggie Bush Matt Lionert team versus the 118 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: Vince Young team. It was Texas in a classic, maybe 119 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: the best national title game we've ever seen. Twenty Seventeen's there? 120 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: Two thousand and five? Is there? You remember the game 121 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: fondly if you were like me? But he tweeted out 122 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: the intro. The intro was, of course the College Football 123 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: on ABC theme music. It was Keith Jackson's last big game. 124 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: It was, even though we may not have realized it 125 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: at the point, it was what I view as the 126 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: pinnacle of college football. If I were to tell you 127 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: present day, fifty years ago, ten years ago, thirty years ago. 128 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: If I were to point to a moment, that's the 129 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: pinnacle of college football. You've got the greatest of all 130 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: time calling the game, and he's also voicing the intro. 131 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: You've got, for my money, the best right there with 132 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,679 Speaker 1: the SEC on CBS music. The best theme music for 133 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: any kind of sporting event that I've ever heard is 134 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: the College football and ABC right there with the SEC 135 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: on CBS. I think those are great at underscoring the 136 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: urgency and magnitude of what you're about to see. There's 137 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: no apologizing for it. No one's trying act cool, no 138 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: one's laid back. Everything is right on the edge of 139 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: the cliff and something huge is about to happen one 140 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: way or the other for your team, or even if 141 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: you don't care about the teams, you better be tuned in. 142 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: You can't miss this. Like. That's what those those nights 143 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: felt like. That's what that game felt like. We didn't 144 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: know it at the time because it was the norm 145 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: at the time. No one knew that. No one was 146 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: thinking that night, well, there's the pinnacle. It's like I 147 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: wasn't sitting in my living room the night of WrestleMania seventeen, 148 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: Austin Rock. Austin's heel turned, saying, well, there goes the 149 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: attitude era. But it did. But it did, you just 150 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: didn't realize it at the time. Well, I'm not saying 151 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: college football fell off a cliff in two thousand and six. 152 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that was the pinnacle of the sport. 153 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: And so how does that relate to this podcast. Well, 154 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: what I was doing was I was looking at that 155 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: this morning. Now, I was looking at the production of 156 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: the intro, just the intro. You can go to my 157 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: Twitter right now. I tweeted it out this morning. You 158 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: can look at the production. You can look at the 159 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: way it's teed up. You can look at the way 160 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: that Keith Jackson's narration is woven into the intro. But 161 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: there's also obviously copious amounts of team B roll. But 162 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: everything about the intro was perfect. So everything about the 163 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: production was perfect. Everything about the way the sport was 164 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: being handled in was perfect. Now, if we were living 165 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: in those times, if I could take you back to five, 166 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: I remember five very vividly. I can tell you there 167 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: were a ton of people complaining, just like they are 168 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: right now at that time they were complaining about the BCS. 169 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: At that time, there were all kinds of different things 170 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: that people were complaining about. So you would teleport back there. 171 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: If you're nineteen years old, you would tell with me 172 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: back to five and you would look around and you 173 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: would say, why are all these people complaining? This seems 174 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: like heaven Compared to what we're dealing with up in 175 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, This seems like heaven. I mean, there's 176 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: no transfer portal here, Like everybody goes to college and 177 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: they just stay there. No one's talking about nil. Those 178 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: are three letters that haven't even been put together. Everybody 179 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: seems jacked to go to a bowl game, no matter 180 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: which bowl it is. Everybody seems to also understand that 181 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: the regular season is the most priceless and precious commodity 182 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: this sport has to offer. Everyone's dialed in every single Saturday. 183 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: And there are some of these teams. I can't help 184 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: but notice jp there some of these teams that are 185 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: eight and four and seven and five playing at the 186 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: end of the year. Yet they're still speaking to the cliff, 187 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: willing to go over it because they're valuing each and 188 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: every regular season win. They understand that there are tiers 189 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: of accomplishment. Seven and five is one tier eight and four, 190 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: nine and three, ten and two. No one's looking around saying, well, 191 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: if we don't make the playoff, then everything's been meaningless. 192 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: What are they complaining about? That's what I want to know. 193 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: What are they complaining about? Well, in relation to what 194 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: we have today, nothing. They weren't complaining about anything. Everything 195 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: was great. That's how I remembered. At least everything was great. 196 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: In reality, it wasn't all great, But relatively speaking, I 197 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: take that era over what I'm looking at right now. 198 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: And so again it's taken me too long to explain this, 199 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: But again, as I was thinking about the way we 200 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: handle Late Kick Extra, there is a very very interesting 201 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: dynamic that we have with this current product. I'm not 202 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: necessarily sure I want to tinker with it, because you 203 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: never know. It's a fine line you walk between diluting 204 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: something and enhancing something, very fine line, and unfortunately you 205 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: don't get to rub a magic eight ball. You don't 206 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: get to see into the future and look at how 207 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: things will pan out. So there's an authenticity that I 208 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 1: know we have with this show in general. That's why 209 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: I've already said no to a lot of things that 210 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: people have wanted to do with the show, and to 211 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: their credit, CBS has listened. No one at CBS has 212 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: forced me to do anything. So if we do something here, 213 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: it's cause we have chosen to do it. And by we, 214 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: I mean you and I I don't mean in a nameless, 215 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: faceless manager in a office tower fifteen hundred miles up 216 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: the East Coast. That's not the way it's worked here. 217 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: But I just want to be careful with it. So 218 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: at any point, if I ever have planned on changing 219 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: the show, as you know, I've always consulted you guys. Anyway, 220 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: you have turned me off from like three different things 221 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: in the past six months alone. Remember the theme music controversy. 222 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: Remember how I told you I'm not particularly fond of 223 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: the music we have here. I could it was like 224 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: I was trying to rip your new puppy out of 225 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: your arms. You guys came at me knives drawn, and 226 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: so I said call. I texted a couple of you, 227 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: calm down. It's just a suggestion, people, calm down. So 228 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: we took that proposal off the table. You got your 229 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: precious music. I'm not crazy about it again. I think 230 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: it's lackluster at best, But you guys love it. It's 231 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: your show, it's not my show, So keep your music. 232 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: Maybe you'll get tired of it one day and we 233 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 1: will hand in hand go down the Royalty free music 234 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: isle and we'll find something else. Even as I say that, 235 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: knowing we work it major corporation so we can actually 236 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: afford to pay for music. But I'm still used to 237 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: living the independent creator lifestyle. So let's dive in. I 238 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: have a philibuster too much of your time this morning. 239 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: But if you took nothing else from what I just said, 240 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: especially if you're in the crowd that is high school age, 241 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: college age, very young adult age, you're just a little 242 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: bit too young to have remembered a game that was 243 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: on in two thousand and six. Go look at what 244 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: I tweeted out this morning. It's gonna look like it's 245 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: technology from the sixties. It is wild what technology has 246 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: done just in the last fifteen years, Like technology in 247 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: the last fifteen years in some ways has come further 248 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: than it had in the previous forty years. Now other 249 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: ways it hasn't. But the crispness of the picture that 250 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: you get beamed into your living room is insane. So 251 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: ignore how old the footage looks. It's only about fifteen 252 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: or sixteen years old. But look at how that game 253 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: was brought on air. Look at how Keith Jackson. A 254 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: lot of you do not remember Keith Jackson point he 255 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: was the goat, still is, and you have consensus on that. 256 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: In our industry, it's not debated. Everyone just knows Keith Jackson. 257 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: That's the bar we're all measuring ourselves against. But just 258 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: go look, look, listen, feel it. It leaves no doubt 259 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: in your mind that what you're about to witness is 260 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: something historic, and that's the way it should be anytime 261 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: a championship game comes on air. So having said that, 262 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: let's dive into the mailbag. I think this was This 263 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: was several days ago. This was going into Thursday, when 264 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: I was still down in Fort Lauderdale and we were 265 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: doing the show from down there. And thank you to them, 266 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: by the way for hosting us. I did some Q 267 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: and A late on that show. Well, there were so 268 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: many that I'm just going to go back through this 269 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: because I didn't even hit a fraction of them. A 270 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 1: lot of you were asking, just in general about the 271 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,599 Speaker 1: whole transfer portal nil thing. Look, I'm not going to 272 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: do fifteen minutes on this or even five minutes on this. 273 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: We'll probably end up talking about it in some form 274 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: or fashion tonight on Lake Cake Live. Here is what 275 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: I have noticed. I've noticed that there is obviously a 276 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 1: divide once college football about how you feel about this. 277 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: There are some folks who say, well, this is the 278 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: way it always should have been. Amateurism was always just 279 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: to disguise, and it was free labor, and they found 280 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: any way they could to mask it for as long 281 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: as they could. Then you got the other side that says, well, 282 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: this is not apples to apples to the regular professional 283 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: free market. There's a scholarship here. There's obviously a platform, 284 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: and don't understate this, by the way. What I'm about 285 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 1: to say, there is a platform that you are being 286 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: given with which to build your brand that was built 287 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: long before you ever got there. Ie, you put on 288 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: an Auburn Tiger jersey, you play in Jordenhair Stadium, you 289 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: are featured with that logo on the side of your helmet. Yes, 290 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: you are giving to them, but they're giving a whole 291 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: lot to you at that point too. In other words, 292 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: it's not exactly the same as me going to work 293 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: for a law firm and then paying me a paycheck, 294 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: and also me being able to leave whenever I want to. 295 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: I'm not going down the rabbit hole. I understand all 296 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: the angles and all the arguments, and I could probably 297 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: have a one man debate right now, it's going to 298 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 1: be two mics, and I could state both opinions and 299 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: we would lose. We would all lose because we would 300 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: have just wasted time. No one's agreeing on it. Here's 301 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: what I will say. I will say that, of course 302 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: I am a traditionalist, so I'm not crazy about this 303 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: at all. And as you know, I used to be 304 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: one of the people who was saying, yes, we do 305 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: need to make some inroads into what is now called nil, 306 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: Yes we do need to make some adjustments to the 307 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: transfer portal. But what I was trying to do is 308 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: I was trying to turn the knob a little bit 309 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: so we could have a drip, drip, drip. Instead, everyone 310 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: knocked me out of the way and just took a 311 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: sledgehammer to the sink and now there's water going all 312 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: over the place. And by the way, the person who 313 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: took the sledge hammer to the sink, just walked out 314 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: the door and said, oh that suck. Y'all got a 315 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: lot of cleanup to do. See, yay, it's the NCAA. 316 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: In other words, the NCAA looked around and they're terrified 317 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: of being criticized because there's not a collective spine to 318 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: be found in the halls of Indianapolis, Indiana, where ironically 319 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: we will be later this week for entirely different reasons. 320 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: And so they got criticized. You know, it's kind of 321 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: like pulling up the rock and all of a sudden, 322 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: there go the little critters scattering all over the place. Well, 323 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: they got criticized, and social media has provided to be 324 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: a much brighter light that can be shown on entities 325 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: that have normally been used to operating in the dark. 326 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: They're nameless, they're faceless, they're bureaucratic, the red tape world, 327 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: as I call it. Well, they don't like the light 328 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: being shown on them. That is the nature of the 329 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: kinds that live under the rocks. They don't like the 330 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: light being shown on them. That's when you turn that 331 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: rock over. That's the reason they run so fast. And 332 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: so what they did is they panicked and so they 333 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: instituted a bunch of what, in other words, rules, but 334 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: they didn't institute anyhow or procedure and how to tactically 335 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: go about executing those things. They just said, alrighty, here's 336 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: how it's going to be, and then they left, and 337 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: it's up to you, a twenty three year old compliance officer, 338 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: to just decide how it's going to go. Well, unfortunately, predictably, 339 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: but unfortunately, people with varying forms of agendas have operated 340 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: in this vacuum. There is no authority right now. We 341 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: do not have a commissioner. I have not been elected yet. 342 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: I will grab the reins when i'm elected, but I 343 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: have not been elected yet. So there is this huge vacuum, 344 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: and there is just things flying all over the place, 345 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: and it's a lot of chaos, and so a lot 346 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: of chaos agents people with varying forms of agendas on 347 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: varying fronts. They have grabbed the wheel for themselves and 348 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: they have chosen to direct our discourse and our narrative 349 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: down roads with which college football really doesn't belong on, 350 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: but we're there anyway. And one of them is the 351 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: idea that this is right. There are some people who 352 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: look around right now at what's happening in college football. 353 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: They would tell you it's right. Players should be able 354 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: to just move freely about the country like it's a 355 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: Southwest flight, do whatever they want to, whenever they want to. 356 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: They should be able to make unlimited amounts of money 357 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: however they want to, wherever they want to, because that's 358 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: the way the free market works. I am a free 359 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: market absolutist, by the way, so don't misunderstand my tone here. 360 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: I'm all about the free mark. But there are free markets, 361 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: and then there are checks and balances within those free markets, 362 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: depending on which sector you're in. For a reason, if 363 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: it was a true free market, it would just be 364 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: wild West, and I could go up to you and 365 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: I could stab you in the neck, and I could 366 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: take your wallet and claim free market. Free market, got it? 367 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: Fighters keepers, Well, that's not exactly the way it works, Okay, 368 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 1: even on the street, that's not the way it works. Well, 369 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: at least it's not supposed to. And so in the 370 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: world of college football right now, what we are seeing 371 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: is we're seeing we're essentially seeing the ability to stab 372 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: someone in the neck. That's the sound bite that I'd 373 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: really love to have out there. No, what we're seeing 374 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: is we're seeing the ability to do whatever you want, 375 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: and there really aren't many checks and balances. And I 376 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: think that given the way that this was instituted, that 377 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: was inevitable. Now, if the sport is going to literally 378 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 1: survive as we know it, checks and balances are going 379 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: to have to be inserted into the equation. So here's 380 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: where my mind's at. What I'm getting really tired of 381 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: hearing is when anyone most of the time it's me 382 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: sitting on the sideline listening to a debate, and I'll 383 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: hear one person say, we have got to get control 384 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: of this. College football is out of control. It's not 385 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: even college football anymore. And then somebody else who really 386 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: just wants to seem intellectually superior, I mean, they really 387 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 1: want to flex their brain on the rest of the 388 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: room because they don't really mean what they're saying anymore 389 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: than anyone else does. They say something like, oh, what 390 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: what now? You don't want players to have rights? Well, 391 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: you don't want players to be able to move around 392 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: just like and here's the key phrase. You're gonna hear 393 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: it a lot. Here's what they always go to. You 394 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: mean that coaches can move around, but players can't. You 395 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,439 Speaker 1: heard that before, friends, you heard anyone say that? What 396 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: is your rebuttal to that? Or maybe you're the one 397 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: saying it, or maybe someone saying it to your face. 398 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: But I am very curious where does the conversation go 399 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: from there, because I've observed people fumble this horribly. I 400 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: haven't really observed anyone handle it properly. If someone were 401 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: saying that to me, Here's what I'd say, I'd say, yeah, yeah, 402 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: within the framework of their contract. I am all for 403 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: coaches being able to go wherever they want to, and 404 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: do I think that players should operate under a different 405 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: set of rules. You better believe I do. And you 406 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: know why. Here's the tough truth that no one just 407 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 1: wants to come out and say. I'll say it. Players 408 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: aren't coaches. How about we dropped that little pill of 409 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: honesty into the Seltzer. Players aren't coaches. They have entirely 410 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: different If you've seen that episode of The Office early 411 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: on where they put index cards on their foreheads, a 412 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: coach and player are two separate things. But that it's 413 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: not just in the world of football, that's in the 414 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: market also, they are two separate things. They are two 415 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: separate entities. But I get so tired, even if you 416 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 1: don't believe that, I get so tired of someone coming 417 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: to me when a kid wants to move around freely, 418 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: and if anyone pushes back on it saying, well, coaches 419 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: can do that. No, coaches can't do that. I know 420 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: it looks that way because coaches move around every year. 421 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 1: Are people really either ignorant or that intellectually dishonest about 422 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: the way this works. Coaches move around every year, That's right, 423 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: And that's as much as the headline tells you. You know, 424 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: what's happening after that. What's happening after that is an 425 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: army of lawyers are working behind the scenes because there 426 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,479 Speaker 1: is language in what is called a contract that that 427 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: coach so, and there are phrases like buy out, like 428 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: term of deal, like key man out clause. That's more 429 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: in my industry than a coach's industry. But what those 430 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: phrases are essentially built into those contracts to make sure 431 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: of is, yeah, if you really want to, it's a 432 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: free country. We can't stop you from moving around, but 433 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: we certainly can put parameters in here where you're gonna 434 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: have to pay a price to do it, and they do. 435 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: They do. You ever heard of coach leave? And the 436 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: school says, you know, technically you're supposed to pay us 437 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: this buyout, but ah whatever, forget it. You know, free 438 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: market and all. You know, you should just be able 439 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: to move around free market. That's not the way that works. 440 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: You can move. There's a price to pay. Now your 441 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: your future employer may be the one that pays the price. 442 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: You know, if I'm working at PAYT State, actually I 443 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: would never leave paid State. Let's say I'm working at 444 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: Katala Community College and then Paate State wants to hire me, 445 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: and Katala Community College has a two hundred and fifty 446 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: thousand dollars buyout. Well, Payate State may pay that bill, 447 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: or one of our many, many deep pocketed boosters they 448 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: pay that bill. We got rock Cory money at PAYT State, Texas. 449 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: They got the oil money down in Florida, they got 450 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: that juice money. Well, we got rock Cory money. Where 451 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: do you think your rocks come from? People? If we weren't, 452 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: the freights would be the coreyman. Ironically, those rocks are 453 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: taken out if you're in freight cars. So chug life. 454 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: But that's the way the real world works. You really 455 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: want to know about that free competitive market. That's the 456 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: way it works. There is a price to pay when 457 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: a coach wants to leave one place and go to 458 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: another place. Well, what's the price right now that Caleb 459 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: Williams pays if he wants to leave Oklahoma and he 460 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: wants to go somewhere else. You see, everyone wants the 461 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: benefits of the free market right now, at least on 462 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: the player side of things. Everyone wants the benefit of 463 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: that free market, but no one wants the parameters put 464 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 1: in place. So if this is the road we're going 465 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: to go down, then let's go down the road. And 466 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: let's change the language. Since this is no longer amateurism, 467 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: by the way, and all of a sudden, what used 468 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: to be evil locking these kids into a four year 469 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: deal to go to a school, Well this is not 470 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 1: amateurism anymore, ladies and gentlemen. So now we're free to 471 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: do the same thing being we do to real life 472 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: adult professionals. You signed that national letter of intent, You're 473 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 1: not locking yourself into one year anymore. You're going to 474 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: lock yourself into four years if you want to come here. 475 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 1: By the way, if I were running things, you elect 476 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: me as college football commissioner. I'm not going to leave 477 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: this to the universities to mandate, because see, the university 478 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: is going to be scared because they know someone out 479 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: there is going to get a competitive advantage, and they're 480 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: not going to institute this language. And so let's say 481 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: Texas A and M does it, but Texas doesn't. Well, 482 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: all Texas has to do is go out on the 483 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: trail and say, well, the evil aggies are trying to 484 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: lock you into four years, We'll just go year by 485 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: year here. Then, secretly, behind the scenes, when your boosters 486 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: are signing them to all kinds of nil deals, the 487 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: Texas boosters are the ones who make sure and say, now, look, 488 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: we're going to sign you with this car dealership, but 489 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: we need you to sign a separate piece of paper 490 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: without that Longhorn insignia on it that says you've got 491 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: to be here a minimum of two or three years. 492 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 1: So they would still accomplish it, but look, I would 493 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: take that off the table. I as the commissioner the 494 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: governing body of college football, I'd make it mandatory that 495 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: any national letter of intent that signed has a minimum 496 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: time requirement on it, and then we're going to figure 497 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: out the adults in the room are going to figure 498 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: out what the language has to be if you want 499 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: to get out of that. You're not just going to 500 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: transfer around freely. You are not, in other words, going 501 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: to reap all the benefits of the free market as 502 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,919 Speaker 1: a professional adult, but not have to live under the 503 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: same guidelines that everyone else. Those coaches that you talk 504 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: about so much that they have to live under. Now, 505 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: what do we think about that? Now? Where are we 506 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: at all? All of a sudden, you've got a lot of pushback. 507 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: But see you've turned the tables, because right now the 508 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: folks that are yelling and then getting an index finger 509 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: pushed against their lips and told Tosh are the people 510 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: who are saying, I don't like this. This isn't the 511 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: way college football used to be. Well, the crowd that's 512 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: shushing you, they're saying you better get with the times. 513 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: These players, they're exercising their rights now, and look, I'm 514 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: not against players exercising their rights. But now here's what 515 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: we're going to do. On the other side. What we're 516 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: gonna do is we're gonna say, okay, let me flip 517 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: this table around Oh there we go. All right, we 518 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: move the table. Well, now what we're going to do 519 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: is we're going to operate in that true free market 520 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: environment you want to operate in, but we're going to 521 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: fashion it a lot more of the way a free 522 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: market really looks. When you sign something, they're going to 523 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: be parameters, they're going to be checks and balances in place. 524 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: There's going to be a penalty to pay if you 525 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: enter into an agreement with someone and then you feel 526 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: like just walking away from it. That's the way it's 527 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: going to work. Because the University of Missouri pays a 528 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: price to market itself every year. They pay a price 529 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: to keep those doors open. You know, they pay a 530 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: price and have long since paid a price to develop 531 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: that branding and to build that stadium, and to pay 532 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: all the nutrition staffers, and to pay your insurance and 533 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 1: the freight on your cost of tuition. That's coming from 534 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: the university's pockets, and so they are heavily invested. You're 535 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: not just going to take advantage of them. You claim 536 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: they were always taking advantage of you, But now you're 537 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: going to get paid on your name and image. So 538 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: there you go. You're being compensated now you're going to 539 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: let the market decide. I think some of you are 540 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: going to be very disappointed at how little the market 541 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: says you're worth. That's not on me, that's on the market. 542 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 1: So that's not my business. But now that you are 543 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: being compensated, you're no longer an amateur. You say you 544 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: never were, Well, we have confirmed it. Now you're no 545 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: longer an amateur. But you're going to live in the 546 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: real world. Eighteen years old, you're ready to live in 547 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: the real world. Let's live in the real world, and 548 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: so let's make you pay a price. You want to 549 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: move around so much, that's cool. You're going to pay 550 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: a price for it. Someone's going to pay a price 551 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: for it. So if you're playing at Missouri and you 552 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: want to transfer to Ohio State, there is some penance 553 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: that's going to be paid from the way of Ohio 554 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: State to the way of Missouri in exchange for you 555 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: go in there. That's the way it works in the 556 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: real world. So not to take up a vast majority 557 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: of one podcast on one question, didn't really plan on that. 558 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: I think. In fact, I said I wasn't going to 559 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: spend more than five minutes on it. The truth detector 560 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: revealed that that was a lie. But I had a 561 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: lot to say, And you know what, I've inspired myself 562 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,719 Speaker 1: to probably do a segment on this on Tonight's Late 563 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: Kick Live. So I apologize for a lot of you 564 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: who don't like to hear the same things come out 565 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: of my mouth. Twice. I apologize in advance. I'm not 566 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: to be held responsible. It's a very hot topic right 567 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: now in college football, almost as hot as whatever they're 568 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: about to read to you right now. I take it back. 569 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: I said last month, I thought we did the most 570 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: cleverly disguised ad toss that we had done all year. 571 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: That one right, there had to be one guy, the 572 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: vast majority of you. No one could have seen that comment. 573 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: I didn't even know I was going to do it 574 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: until right before I did. All right, let's move on 575 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: down the list. Here. Questions we have not gotten to 576 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: coach Chip hit us up. This is a question I 577 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: hope we're still a little ways away from answering. But 578 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: he said, what will a post Saban college football world 579 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: look like? He said, Dodge City pre Wyatt earp comes 580 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: to mind. I don't have time to explain the reference. 581 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: If you don't get it. Go do your research. A 582 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: post Saban world. I wish we could simulate this right now. 583 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: I'm a true believer in what I'm about to say. 584 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: I am a believer that if we could have a 585 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: post Saban world right now, you'd be able to shut 586 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: down like ninety five percent of the college football playoff 587 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: expansion talk. Because really, what's happened right now is you've 588 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: got the greatest of all time, and you've got him 589 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: existing in an on demand era. It's the worst possible 590 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 1: time in many ways for Nick Saban to exist. Think 591 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: about where we are in an entertainment capacity right now. 592 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: If you're twenty five years old, have really not lived 593 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: in an era where you have to wait on anything 594 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: for entertainment purposes. You've got all of your Paramount Plus 595 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: and your Hulu and your Netflix. You've got all of 596 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: the entertainment options that you could ever want, and they're 597 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: at your fingertips right now. You don't have to wait. 598 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: You have never purchased a TV guide magazine at the 599 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: local Pigley Wiggly and seeing that your favorite show comes 600 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: on Wednesday night at eight thirty on CBS, you have 601 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: to wait until then, and that's your only option, you 602 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: don't know that world. Well, what I have noticed, and 603 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: this is a theory of mine, what I've noticed is 604 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: I really think that a lot of people have blended 605 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: entertainment and real life. So in the entertainment side of 606 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: your life, you can get whatever you want, whenever you want. 607 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: I truly believe that people think real life is supposed 608 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: to work that way, and doubly when real life is 609 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: part of your entertainment. Football, there's a real people playing 610 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: a game. This is not wrestling, It is not predetermined. 611 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: So there are real people playing a real game. There 612 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 1: are real coaches coaching a real game. But it's still 613 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 1: entertainment for you. You think it should work on demand. Not 614 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: only should it largely be the way you want it, 615 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: but it should be when you want it. So we 616 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: throw Nick Saban into the middle of this era. Nick 617 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: Saban is the greatest of all time. He would dominate 618 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: in any era. He's dominating in this era. You're watching 619 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: it and a lot of folks are misdiagnosing what's happening. 620 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: You think that since there is one team dominating, then 621 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: that means something's wrong with the sport. Nothing's wrong with 622 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: the sport. I mean nothing's wrong with the competitive balance. 623 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: You just threw a shark into the swimming pool and 624 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: he's been here a while. It may still be here 625 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: a little while longer. But what's happened is instead of 626 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,959 Speaker 1: looking at the current situation and thinking the answer is, 627 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: let's get another Nick Saban. Now that's a tall task, 628 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: I understand, but let's compete against him. Instead of that, 629 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: there are people who have chosen to take a sport 630 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: that was around one hundred years before they were ever born, 631 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: and they think the answer, in all of their two 632 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: or three or four decades experience on this planet is 633 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: to completely upend the system. They didn't build it, but 634 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: they're going to upend it. They got all the answers. Now, 635 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: there are people way older than me who think like 636 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: this too. It's not a kid thing, it's not a 637 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: one generation thing. There is multi generational lunacy going on 638 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: right now in our sport, and it is from people 639 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: who think that Nick Saban is not what's causing this. 640 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: It's all of a sudden that the structure of the 641 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: sport is broken. And so even if the Pac twelve 642 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: sucks right now, and it sucks and you guys can't 643 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: tell me otherwise, we truly need a system that, even 644 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,719 Speaker 1: before we know who the champion of the conference is, 645 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: we are guaranteeing that champion a spot in a postseason tournament, 646 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: because that's what's going to fix things. It's not the 647 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: poor decision making up and down the West Coast, it's 648 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: not the lack of critical investment up and down the 649 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: West Coast. No, it's college football that's the problem. So 650 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,959 Speaker 1: we'll fix it. That's not the way you fix anything. 651 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,719 Speaker 1: You can't lipstick the pig to a title. That's not 652 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: the way you fix anything. But my point with Saban 653 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: is if I were to just remove Nick Saban, just 654 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: remove him from Alabama and put an average to really 655 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: good coach at Alabama, look around the rest of the sport. 656 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: Who else is really dominating? Because I think a lot 657 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: of people tend to say the big boys, and they 658 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: say Alabama and the big Boys. It isn't Alabama and 659 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: the big boys. It's Alabama. It's not Alabama and anyone 660 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: they have no equal It's not Ohio State, it's not 661 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: even Clemson. I guess Clemson would be the closest because 662 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: they beat him a couple of times. What Bold game 663 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: did Clemson play in this year, had the number one 664 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: quarterback or number two quarterback in the country come in 665 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: and they played for a game where the trophy was 666 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: a big cheese at logo on a championship belt, which 667 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm a fan of, by the way. But my point 668 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: is Alabama has no equal So if I just took 669 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: Saban away from Alabama, look around the rest of the sport. Look, 670 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: you wanted equality, that is it. There's parody already in 671 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: college football. You just can't see it because there's this 672 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: hardened layer of ice over the entire pond of parody, 673 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: which I think probably exists somewhere in like the Northwest 674 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: Territory of Canada. But the parody pond's there, it's just 675 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: you got the sabin layer of ice over it. And 676 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: instead of waiting, which will be the responsible thing to do, 677 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: instead of completely dismantling the greatest sport in the world, 678 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: instead of waiting for that ice to thaw, which is 679 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: a very very calloused way of waiting for someone to retire, 680 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: you just think we need to blow the ice up. 681 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: Here's the problem. Dynamite just blows the ice up and 682 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: then it refreezes. You're not actually accomplishing anything every change 683 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: you've tried to make to this sport. If you haven't noticed, 684 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: that guy in Tuscaloos has been five steps ahead of you, 685 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: and he has used to further tighten his grip on 686 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: the sport. If you just wait for him to retire. 687 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: I know that's in the on demand era. That's what 688 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: I go back to. That is not a popular word. Wait, 689 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: it's not a popular word. But if you just wait, 690 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: people would realize Saban's gone. Now. Oh wow, Absent a 691 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: Nick Saban two point zero, emerging doesn't tend to happen 692 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: with greatest of all time. Absent a Saban two point 693 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: Oh wow, it looks like the rest of this landscape 694 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: was still pretty evened out. Look over here, Michigan State 695 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: wins one year. Hey, look, usc is back, while Oregon's 696 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: really making some noise. Hey, hook em horns, Texas back 697 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: after all this time? Oklahoma State? Wow, what in the 698 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: world's happening at Florida? That's the way college football would 699 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: be without Nick Saban. But hey, we'd probably have to 700 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: wait a few years for that to occur. So I'm 701 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: of the opinion that I'm not going to take it 702 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: for granted. That I live in an era and actually 703 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: get to cover an era of college football in which 704 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: the greatest of all time that will be talked about 705 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: with reverence fifty years from now is roaming a sideline. 706 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose to enjoy it and being close to 707 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: it instead of wasting all my time being old man 708 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: who yells at clouds and wants to change everything about 709 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: everything and doesn't realize all the while. Wow, Actually you 710 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: are pushing back against greatness. You can't legislate around greatness, guys, 711 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: you can't format around greatness. The thing about greatness is 712 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do about it. It's like it's 713 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: the reason the movie Armageddon was so flawed. If the 714 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: asteroid's coming at you, there's really no weapon we have 715 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 1: on earth that can stop it. You're just gonna have 716 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: to wait for it. There is no Ben Affleck miracle 717 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: to be found here. It's just Nick Saban's world. Just 718 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: I know, if you're an Auburn fan, or if you're 719 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: anything other than an Alabama fan, it's not fun to 720 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,479 Speaker 1: listen to. That's why you always hear me preach stop 721 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: defining success and happiness in this sport solely around who 722 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: holds the trophy up at the end of the year. 723 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: It is not pro sports. College football is not pro sports. 724 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: So when your buddy across the street says, well, that's 725 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: the way the NFL does it, that's the way the 726 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: NBA does it, good for them. That's great, that's wonderful. Okay. 727 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: In Veil, in winter Park and Breckenridge, their entire economy 728 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: is based around the winter ski season. You know why, 729 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: because they get a ton of snow out there and 730 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: they've got the terrain for it. I'm from Harris County. 731 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: We've got Pine Mountain in Harris County. If there was 732 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: someone who came into Pine Mountain and said, we got 733 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: to build ski lifts here because that's the way they 734 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: do it out in Colorado, the town would go broke 735 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: because Pine Mountain is not the Rocky Mountains. Pine Mountain 736 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,879 Speaker 1: gets a little more snow than Forts and Georgia does. 737 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: They're different. They're different. It's not a one pill cures 738 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: all situation. It's different. And before I lose my voice, 739 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,800 Speaker 1: I think it's a real good place to end today. 740 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: So thank you so much for listening. Late Kick Extra 741 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: podcast has come back with a fury. I feel like 742 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: partially a failure because I only answered like two or 743 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: three questions, but I think we got in deep this morning, 744 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: and hopefully the world is all the better for it. Look, 745 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: make sure that you have left a five star review here. 746 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 1: I want to get the year started off on the 747 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: right foot, and naturally by that, I mean get in 748 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: the gym, eat, write, and leave a five star review, 749 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 1: and not always in that order. I'm also told on 750 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: Spotify now you can leave five star reviews brutal honesty. 751 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: I have not researched that myself, but you guys have 752 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,879 Speaker 1: shown me the screenshots, so I believe it. So thank 753 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: you so much for supporting the show in any way 754 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: that you do. Thank you for that. Got a huge 755 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: year coming up, nothing changes. We are going to push 756 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: it responsibly forward. We're not going to be the entity 757 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: that overturns everything even though we think things are already good. 758 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,320 Speaker 1: So we will tinker. We will just trim and prune. 759 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: We will not chop the tree down and start over. 760 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: So thank you so much for producer Jordan, I'm Josh 761 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: pat have yourselves a great rest of your day, and 762 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: God bless