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Speaker 2: I've never actually spent more than twenty four hours in Houston,

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Speaker 2: Washington versus Michigan. That's okay, But I'm going to talk

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Speaker 2: the room. No, no, I was never right about these teams.

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Speaker 2: But I can still enjoy this thing. I have got

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Speaker 2: to talk to you about several things. Okay, So I

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Speaker 2: know that I'm here for the National Championship Game, but

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Speaker 2: I know many of you aren't Michigan or Washington fans,

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Speaker 2: and we've already done the game breakdown. So what I

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Speaker 2: the four or five things you've been talking about the most.

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Speaker 2: And I've been gathering some scuttle butt here when all

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Speaker 2: about parody in the game and talk about the playoffs

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Speaker 2: future college football's future. Does anyone really care about ratings

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Speaker 2: they're watching us in Houston, Texas, they're watching us in Columbus, Georgia, Columbia,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you're following on Instagram and Twitter at let

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Speaker 2: kick Josh always get a ton of good behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes content from these national championship games. And really anytime

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Speaker 2: we're on the road, man, the Once upon a Saturday

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Speaker 2: So appreciate you guys from making it possible as well. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's dive into this. So Washington Michigan for a national

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Speaker 2: championship game not something that I necessarily predicted at any

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Speaker 1: But also we've had a lot of.

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Speaker 1: The scars have the past, or have the power.

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Speaker 2: To remind us that the past is real, as Hanniballector

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Speaker 2: I have been flooded in my inbox with how tortuous

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Speaker 2: As much as I love talking about big brands, and

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Speaker 1: Guys, I love Washington being here.

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Speaker 1: Thirty percent of my social circle is with me. Seventy

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Speaker 2: The expanded playoff and I have spoken to many of them,

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Speaker 1: But you are right. You di get more inventory on

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Speaker 2: It is true that more teams will be alive for

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Speaker 2: You're gonna by the by the very nature of expanding

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Speaker 2: If you just keep expanding the thing, everyone makes the

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Speaker 2: But to me, this is the opportunity. Having a four

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Speaker 1: They have to go.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I've got to take a sip from not.

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Speaker 1: You know my answer to, but you don't, because I'm

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Speaker 2: What I think is a joke is is people who

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Speaker 2: Now here's why I am hopeful that I may get

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Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't mind that at all, although.

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Speaker 2: Most of you would. So let's just say we keep

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Speaker 2: And in other news, some of you don't really care

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Speaker 1: I do too. I do too.

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Speaker 2: I would be lying to you if I said I

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Speaker 1: Here's the difference. This is what I think we have

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Speaker 2: Jared, you didn't do this, but I've seen several people

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Speaker 2: do this, getting mad at the players for taking advantage

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Speaker 2: the system's broken, hopefully not irreparably, but.

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Speaker 1: The system is broken. But the thing about it is.

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Speaker 2: A sophomore at the University of Missouri has no control

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Speaker 2: over that. A sophomore at the University of Missouri just knows. Hey,

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Speaker 2: someone else just reached out and tampered with me. True enough,

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Speaker 2: they just offered me Let's see, that looks like a

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Speaker 2: one hundred seventy five thousand dollars per semester to go

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Speaker 2: play outside linebacker for them. I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 2: ever gonna play in the NFL. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Am I really gonna say no? Cause fans are gonna

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Speaker 1: get mad at it. No, you would never think like that,

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Speaker 1: Jared or anyone else. You guys would never think like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's very important if you're forty two years old,

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Speaker 2: fifty two years old, or even thirty two years old,

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Speaker 2: Like put yourself in the position.

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Speaker 1: You were in your first second third year in college.

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Speaker 2: If someone just offers you mid six figures to do

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Speaker 2: what you do somewhere else, you wouldn't think twice about it.

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Speaker 1: Nor should they.

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Speaker 2: It's not their fault. The system sucks. Now, The question,

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Speaker 2: of course, is not does it suck? Yes, it's terrible.

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Speaker 2: Hardly anyone likes it. Some of the players don't even

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Speaker 2: like it, even though they're taking advantage of it. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I will tell you this, Jared, and we can have

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Speaker 2: more time to talk about this after the season winds down.

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Speaker 2: I think we're in a window right now, Okay, the

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Speaker 2: window is prior to a few years ago, what's happening

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Speaker 2: now could never have happened, and you never even would

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Speaker 2: have envisioned it. It's so much so that some people

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Speaker 2: didn't budge on evolving the structure of the sport a

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Speaker 2: little bit so that a lot didn't get out of control.

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Speaker 2: But nevertheless, ten years ago you never could have envisioned

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Speaker 2: this kind of chaos. I think ten years from now,

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Speaker 2: well before ten years from now, you will look back

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Speaker 1: Believe that's the way it was for a little while,

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Speaker 2: did that. I can't believe we actually had to do that.

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Speaker 2: I am not equating the transfer portal necessarily to infectious

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Speaker 2: to accept that for a little while. I'm so glad

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Speaker 2: Pooms to stuff has the power to fix it.

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Speaker 1: The answer is no one. It takes a collective.

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Speaker 2: But I do feel that change is eminent. Talk to

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Speaker 2: you about that the other night. I do feel changes eminent.

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Speaker 2: It is on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: It has to happen.

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Speaker 2: This is one of those put them in a room

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Speaker 2: Leaders at the college football table are gonna figure that out,

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