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Speaker 1: I just did not come from the law school side

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Speaker 1: of campus. And as for now, Deuce Night Auburn to

429
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss. Look, maybe he starts for them this year,

430
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Speaker 1: maybe he sits one year. He's got a ton of potential.

431
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was a five star in the class

432
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, so he just went to Auburn

433
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Speaker 1: and nothing at Auburn worked out this year, including duce Knight.

434
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Speaker 1: But I mean the word on him out of high

435
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 1: school was he was pretty raw to begin with. But

436
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Speaker 1: once he gets developed, if he gets developed, he's a

437
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Speaker 1: little over six four to ten thereabouts. He's the number

438
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Speaker 1: forty nine overall player in the ON three portal. I

439
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: think his upside's way higher than that. It's just unrealized potential.

440
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Speaker 1: Kenny Minschee, What a world, What a world? What a story.

441
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: So Kenny Minsche last week was committed there's that word

442
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Speaker 1: again to Nebraska. He verbaled, if you will to Nebraska,

443
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 1: and it was all done, but the signature on the paper.

444
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 1: It was all done, but the most important part. And

445
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 1: then he wasn't Kenny Minshe just ripped Nebraska's heart out

446
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Speaker 1: and Will Compton's heart out in the process. And he's

447
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,120
Speaker 1: now landed at Kentucky. Kentucky's doing some good things and

448
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: they've added other players as well. But I'm thinking about Nebraska,

449
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: like you guys thought for several days you had your

450
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Speaker 1: portal quarterback. Then you don't, and so what are you

451
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Speaker 1: going to do? I got a disturbing call from Will

452
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Speaker 1: Compton the other night. I thought his family was in trouble.

453
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Speaker 1: I thought his home had been broken into. He used

454
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Speaker 1: some very serious language, and in reality, all he was

455
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Speaker 1: calling to inform me of was Kenny Minshe had sort of,

456
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: you know, hoodwinked Nebraska and he was headed to Kentucky

457
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: and he was desperate. And that is where Anthony Calandria

458
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Speaker 1: of UNLV fame enters the equation. And I got to

459
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Speaker 1: tell you, I think it's going to be a great

460
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Speaker 1: fit at Nebraska. But don't take my word for it.

461
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 1: We have Jesse. I think this is a pretty exclusive.

462
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Speaker 1: We have exclusively obtained the will Compton scouting report of

463
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Speaker 1: Anthony Calandria. You see it right here. Okay, these are

464
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Speaker 1: inarguable super live arm full of pisson, vinegar, magic in

465
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Speaker 1: his legs, total gamer. What more could you want if

466
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Speaker 1: you were a Matt Ruhle. Has it ever been more

467
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Speaker 1: obvious that a double digit win season is incoming than

468
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Speaker 1: it is at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Anthony Calandria just tooting

469
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Speaker 1: the horn there in the engine. They're fine, They're fine.

470
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Speaker 1: And if you didn't believe it before Willie sees scotten

471
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Speaker 1: report there, you got to believe it now. Austin Simmons

472
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Speaker 1: to Missouri, which I don't know why a bigger deal

473
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Speaker 1: is not being made about this. Maybe it is and

474
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: I've just missed it. But this is a huge deal

475
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: to me. It's extremely underrated. What is it rated? Well,

476
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Speaker 1: it doesn't look rated very high. He was the number

477
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen overall player in the on three

478
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Speaker 1: portal rankings. I'm not on the committee. I disagree, but

479
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Speaker 1: whatever clean up turnovers get him healthy, and that's a

480
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Speaker 1: really good player. So Eli Drinkwitz got himself a quarterback

481
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Speaker 1: that I didn't know that they were going to be

482
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Speaker 1: able to get. They got him. This is semi old news.

483
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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about it on the show yet. And

484
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Speaker 1: then the other one that I have circled, everyone has

485
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Speaker 1: circled is Dylan Royola, the Curious case of Dylan Roola.

486
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Speaker 1: So he's in the Portal, and Oregon, according to Pete

487
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Speaker 1: and Nkos is where he's visiting. I think he's up

488
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: there even right now, and reportedly Oregon is still a

489
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Speaker 1: potential dea even if Dante Moore returns and doesn't go

490
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Speaker 1: to the draft, which would be ironic because that would

491
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Speaker 1: put Dylan Riola on the Dante More path. Remember Dante Moore,

492
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Speaker 1: once upon a time was committed to Oregon and then decommitted,

493
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: went to UCLA, and then he came back and he

494
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: sat behind a guy for a year, and then he

495
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: assumed the rains this year, and that might end up

496
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Speaker 1: being what Dylan Riola does. So, like I told you,

497
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Speaker 1: there are a million and one things going on in

498
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Speaker 1: the Portal right now. It's very important to follow if

499
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Speaker 1: you really, really really want to be up on roster

500
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Speaker 1: retention construction. I mean, those are just quarterbacks that I

501
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: talked about. I got a whole nother segment coming later

502
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: about some of the other stuff going on. But I

503
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: do understand if you're turned off by it, it's okay.

504
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: It's okay to just just hit fast forward on that

505
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: part of the show. I do get it. I understand

506
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: it's not for everyone. What is for everyone, perhaps especially

507
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: if you're a Miami or Indiana fan, is the National

508
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Speaker 1: Championship Games next Monday night. We have fresh INDs. The

509
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: paper's still kind of hot. Jesse just handed it to me.

510
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: We have secured a great deal with seat Geek. They've

511
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 1: never agreed to this kind of deal with us. So

512
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: National Championship Game is in Miami next Monday night. We'll

513
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: be there. Many of you want to be there. I

514
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: know you've seen the ticket market. I know it's pricey.

515
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: So a lot of times we'll get you like ten

516
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Speaker 1: percent off, But in this case, we just need to

517
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Speaker 1: get you more. And I just need to guarantee you

518
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: the amount of money i'm gonna get you discounted. So

519
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: if you're buying tickets to the National Championship Game, I'm

520
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,239
Speaker 1: getting you one hundred dollars off your order, and that

521
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: is if you enter the promo code paid one hundred

522
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Speaker 1: pate one zero zero at checkout. I know it's pricey.

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Speaker 1: This is the way I've always looked at this. If

524
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Speaker 1: you're a Miami fan, if you're an Indiana fan, you

525
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: hope that this is the first of many. But you

526
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: don't know, you do not know. So I heard Colin

527
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Speaker 1: cow Heard a long time ago gave me my entire

528
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: philosophy on this sort of thing in life, and that

529
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: is lease your fun, but buy your memories. So obviously, man'

530
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: that's a hefty price tag that you're gonna have to

531
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: pay a lot of people spend money on like speed boats,

532
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: A lot of people spend money on all sorts of

533
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: things that are kind of commodities that honestly, you could

534
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 1: just lease or just borrow your friends or go find

535
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: a friend who has it all. That was my strategy

536
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: growing up. But the memories are invaluable. So like, if

537
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to spend thirty three hundred dollars on a

538
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: thing over here or spend thirty three hundred dollars on

539
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 1: a memory, I've always been a buy the memory kind

540
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: of guy. Luckily we can get you a little bit

541
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: of a discount on it paid one hundred. But I'm

542
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: speaking philosophy right now. If you're on the fence, if

543
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: you can't afford it, you can't afford it. I know

544
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: it sucks that prices are what they are. Trust me,

545
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: I've been bitten by that many, many, many times in

546
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: my former life. Before I fool people into credentialing me

547
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: to these games, I get it. I have lived in

548
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: that world for years and years and years. If you

549
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: can swing it, I highly advise. I mean, ask Indiana

550
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,719
Speaker 1: fans that were in Atlanta the other day, that's a memory.

551
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: No one takes that from you. Even the NC DOUBLEA

552
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: can't take that from you. All right, let's move on now.

553
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: They try all the time, But I got Michigan buddies

554
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: who still swear by the fact that that night in

555
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: Houston a couple of years ago is one of the

556
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: best memories of their lives. Come what may from the

557
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: NC double A, man, the portal's insane, all right. I

558
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: talked about quarterbacks like in an entire separate part of

559
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: the show earlier tonight. If you're just watching this video,

560
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: I did a whole thing on the quarterback. So when

561
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: I don't mention quarterback here, that's why Texas has gone off.

562
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: Texas is all in. Texas is going to be a

563
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: lot of preseason picks to win the national championship this

564
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Speaker 1: upcoming year, maybe mine, I don't know, but they just

565
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 1: went and got Cam Coleman. This has all happened today.

566
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Speaker 1: A lot of this has happened today. Cam Coleman from Auburn.

567
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Speaker 1: He was the number one overall player in the portal,

568
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Speaker 1: former five star wide receiver, all the talent in the world,

569
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Speaker 1: and this dude is going from the Peyton Thorne, Jackson

570
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: Arnold experience to the arch Manning Steve Sarkisian experience, and

571
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: that is what we in life call an upgrade. So

572
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: congratulations to Steve Sarkisian and Cam Coleman and everybody involved

573
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: out there, because I would say him and Wingo probably

574
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Speaker 1: entered the season as one of, if not the best,

575
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Speaker 1: one to two combos in college football. Ohio State always

576
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Speaker 1: has something to say about that, but I'm gonna say

577
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Speaker 1: one of. But that's not all. Relip Brown from Arizona

578
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Speaker 1: State is a tailback who had committed a day or

579
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: so ago, I think, which sort of triggered Hollywood's Smothers

580
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Speaker 1: the NC State running back to Alabama, and it was

581
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Speaker 1: one of those commitments which we have since learned mean

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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. They mean even less than when kids are

583
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Speaker 1: coming out of high school. So today Texas decided, no,

584
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Speaker 1: we just want both of them, and so they went

585
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Speaker 1: and also purchased. Is that the right word? I mean?

586
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: Is anyone else uncomfortable with me saying this? It's listen.

587
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,239
Speaker 1: This is big boy college football right now. Texas went

588
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: and also decided they wanted to purchase Hollywood's mothers. Why

589
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: settle for one when you can have both. They've totally

590
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: totally retooled their tailback room, like all their tailbacks left

591
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: and they just imported new ones. And then they, for

592
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: good measure, looked and said, well, we need to play

593
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Speaker 1: defense as well. So Rashem Biles, number one overall linebacker

594
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Speaker 1: in the portal at pitt Let's add him supermarket sweep style.

595
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: There's a top fifty corner from Rutgers. Let's knock him

596
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Speaker 1: in the basket. It's an all in season. If you

597
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Speaker 1: don't understand what I'm saying, it's an all in season

598
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: for Texas, then they're probably not done. South Carolina had

599
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: to make something happen on the offensive line, and they did.

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00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: Jacarius Peak was an offensive tackle. He's gonna play left

601
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Speaker 1: tackle for him thirty eight games over three seasons. South

602
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: Carolina was woeful last year in this department. They were

603
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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty first in sacks allowed. And so

604
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: it's one thing to get the quarterback back, like Lenora

605
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: Sellers didn't go anywhere and good, how refreshing for high

606
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: profile players to just stay somewhere. That's great, but it

607
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you can't protect him. So running the ball,

608
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: pass pro these basic concepts of offense, that's what they're

609
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: looking directify here. Tennessee is in the process of importing

610
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Speaker 1: a defense that started with Josh Hipel going and geting

611
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Speaker 1: Jim Knowles, who I guess was not retained at Penn State,

612
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: which has been a weird twenty four months for Jim Knowles.

613
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: He's on top of the world. They win a national

614
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: championship at Ohio State, and then he decides to leave

615
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: and he goes to Penn State right in time for

616
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Speaker 1: the whole staff to get shown the door. And now

617
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Speaker 1: he's in Knoxville, of all places. I don't know why

618
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: I said it that way. I just I didn't see

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Speaker 1: that coming twenty four months ago. Anyway. So Jim Knowles

620
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Speaker 1: comes in. Obviously he knows the Penn State defense very well,

621
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Speaker 1: and they've gone and they've taken several guys. Chess Coleman,

622
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Speaker 1: who for all the world I thought was headed to

623
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Speaker 1: Ohio State when he entered the portal, number five overall player,

624
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Speaker 1: huge upside. He's got the kind of skill that when

625
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: you look back, may make you say he should have

626
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Speaker 1: been rated number one in the portal. Could be an

627
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: elite pass rusher. Thought he was on his way to

628
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: being that at Penn State. Well, now if he's going

629
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Speaker 1: to do it, he's going to do it in Knoxville.

630
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Speaker 1: Amari Campbell, big time linebacker. He was Penn State's leading

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Speaker 1: tackler last year. He's headed to Tennessee. Xavier Gilliam the

632
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: defensive tackle lane, the safety. So why does Tennessee feel

633
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: the need to do this? Because they fell off a

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Speaker 1: cliff defensively. That's why there were number six in total

635
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Speaker 1: d two years ago and number ninety two last year.

636
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Speaker 1: And I remember we were at SEC media Days and

637
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: all the Tennessee folks were like, yeah, we'll take a

638
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: step back. Defensively, you took leaps in leaps and leaps backwards.

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to leap forward, but sometimes you leap backwards

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Speaker 1: or fall backwards, so that was necessary. Michigan, as expected,

641
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: is seeing some churn. Some of it's good, some of

642
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: it not good. The best currently is the fact that

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Speaker 1: John henry Day, who was the number one overall edge

644
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: player in the portal, he's headed to ann Arbor. He

645
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: was at Utah. He follows Kyle Whittingham six four, two

646
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: fifty five had eleven and a half sacks in eleven

647
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: games last year, so he's a really really good good player.

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Speaker 1: He'll fit right in. Jamie French also a former top

649
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty player in the ON three high

650
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: school rankings. He's a big time talent at wide receiver.

651
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: Two f's in the last name mind you. And then

652
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: Justice Haines headed elsewhere. Went healthy. Was really good from

653
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Speaker 1: Michigan last year, number twenty one overall player in the

654
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Speaker 1: portal rankings. And I was looking at some of Nacos

655
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Speaker 1: and wilf Fong's reporting on this, and Georgia Tech's been mentioned.

656
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Speaker 1: Georgia Tech's been mentioned for a number of guys. So

657
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: they're not sitting still either, And just go back to

658
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: the state of Texas right quick. Everyone's making moves out here.

659
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: So A and M and Texas Tech are looking down

660
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: the road in Austin and saying, I mean, it's basically

661
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Southwest conference mode. You think you're about to outspend us,

662
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. And so Texas Tech currently has the number fifteen,

663
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: number sixteen, number seventeen, number fifty two, and number fifty

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Speaker 1: eight rated players in the portal. They're crystal bald for

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Speaker 1: the number fourteen rated player in the portal. And this

666
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: is the Texas Tech way right now. Now, look, it's

667
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: not like they're sitting back and not recruiting high school,

668
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: because they're recruiting high school very well too. They just

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Speaker 1: understand in the interim we have to go about it

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: in a little bit different way. I mean, we don't

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Speaker 1: have like a Georgia roster or an Ohio State roster

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Speaker 1: just sitting here at our disposal. They got the number

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Speaker 1: one portal class in the country right now. I thought

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00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: A and M made a big move today too. They

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Speaker 1: got Isaiah Horton. Isaiah Horton was a go to guy

676
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: for Alabama this past year, most of the big touchdown

677
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: catches that you saw them have were Isaiah Horton. And

678
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: now he is at Texas A and M and that's

679
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: one that because there's so much movement, it won't get

680
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: talked about a whole lot. That's the kind of guy

681
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: in big games for them next year. It's not theoretical,

682
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: it's proven. You can depend on him. Speaking of Texas,

683
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: they're watching us in prosper Texas. They're watching this in

684
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Speaker 1: Elk Grove, California, and Moleen, Illinois. Thank you guys so much.

685
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: I mentioned we checked the mail bag today and it's

686
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: a good thing. He didn't check the mail as often

687
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: as he needs to, and so that thing was just loaded.

688
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: They probably think we moved or we died. It's just

689
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: overflowing with great questions. I'm gonna hit several of them

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Speaker 1: right now. We had a couple of questions that are

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00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: basically about Indiana. So Sean asked one and then Ohio

692
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: divided asked another one. And so you see him on

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Speaker 1: the screen. If you can't see him on the screen,

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read the first

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Speaker 1: one and then Bradley, I'll just have you throw this

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Speaker 1: back up in a second. I'll read the second one.

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Speaker 1: So the first one from Sean in Rochester, New York.

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Speaker 1: He said, you said Cinderella's would never happen in college football. Well,

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Speaker 1: isn't Indiana somewhat of a Cinderella. They've got eight four

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Speaker 1: or five star players, there's a huge talent deficit, and

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00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: they still throttled Alabama and Oregon. Cinderellas have great coaching

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00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: and they play harder than their opponents. Yeah, I see

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Speaker 1: where you're going with that. I absolutely said that the

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Speaker 1: college football playoff expanding completely eliminated the chances we would

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Speaker 1: ever have at seeing a Cinderella run. Indiana's not a Cinderella,

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Speaker 1: at least as I define it now. You made fine Cinderella. Differently,

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Speaker 1: I define a Cinderella as a have not in college football,

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Speaker 1: making a run to play for or win a national championship.

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Speaker 1: So Indiana is not a have not. Indiana is a

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Speaker 1: has not. There is no way that a Big ten

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Speaker 1: or an SEC school could ever be classified as a Cinderella.

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Speaker 1: To me, I understand the history of the sport has

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00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: seen Indiana be terrible in football forever. If you are

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Speaker 1: affiliated with the Big ten or the SEC, you are

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Speaker 1: not a have not. You just aren't. Everything financially about

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Speaker 1: the table of college football is tilted in your favor,

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Speaker 1: and it has been more so recently than ever before.

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Speaker 1: So there will never be a Cinderella story from the

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Speaker 1: Big ten or the SEC. You could argue from the

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Speaker 1: power for but especially from the Big ten or the SEC.

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Speaker 1: Now that's not to say I'm short change in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Indiana maybe the best story in college football I've seen

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Speaker 1: in several several several years, maybe in my life, although

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Speaker 1: I don't like to say that is. The story is

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00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: still being written. So I mean, got all the respect

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00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: and admiration in the world from what they're doing. For

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00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: what they're doing, I don't classify it as a Cinderella story.

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Speaker 1: Here's what the Cinderella story would be. The Cinderella story

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00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: would have been had Sig stayed at JMU and took

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Speaker 1: JMU on this run. That would be the Cinderella story

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Speaker 1: at Indiana. It's just an incredible story. It's an unfathomable story.

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Speaker 1: It's not a Cinderella story. The Cinderella story is to

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Speaker 1: have not making the run give you in a little

734
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Speaker 1: bit of example here, Fernando Mendoza just won the Heisman.

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Speaker 1: Indiana is not where they are right now without Fernando Mendoza.

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Speaker 1: Right They spent reportedly about two two and a half

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00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 1: million dollars on Mendoza, which which just means they got

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Speaker 1: him on the cheap relative to the quarterback market right now.

739
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: But let's say two and a half million dollars, that

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00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 1: alone is a higher price tag than the entire payroll

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Speaker 1: of all the G five teams. So that's not a

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00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 1: Cinderella story. It is a superb job of evaluating talent

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Speaker 1: and acquiring the talent and then plugging them into an

744
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: incredible system. And you don't need to sell me on

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00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: the efficiency and the execution level and all the coaching

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00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: and the buy in. All that stuff is a plus

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Speaker 1: in Indiana. That's different than it being a Cinderella story,

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00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: all right. So that's the Cinderella part of it. Now, Bradley,

749
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Speaker 1: throw the questions back up, because there was another question

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Speaker 1: about recruiting rankings that everyone thinks Indiana has shot a

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Speaker 1: whole end. Ohio State Divide had hit me up and said,

752
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: is high school recruiting dead? Not at all? It's just evolved.

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00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: It's just evolved. All these folks like to compare the

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00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: NFL to college football, which I hate, but let me

755
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: use their arguments against them. Not you, per se, but

756
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: let me use their arguments against them. Would you ever

757
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: hear NFL fans watch a team acquire big time free

758
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: agent talents and those free agent talents lead a team

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00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and say, well, I guess, I

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00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: guess the draft is dead. No, it'd be stupid. The

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00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 1: draft is never dead. Recruiting's never dead, And I don't

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Speaker 1: really even care in what context you're asking the question.

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00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: It's not dead. The reason I say that is there

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00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: are a couple of different contexts in which people are

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00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: talking about high school recruiting right now, in the wake

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Speaker 1: of Indiana making this run they've made. The first is, well,

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Speaker 1: high school recruiting's dead because now you just need to

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Speaker 1: portle your team in which is a fallacy. I think

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Speaker 1: most people who understand roster construction know that there is

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Speaker 1: another group of people out there saying recruiting rankings are

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00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: dead in a sense that recruiting rankings are flawed, because

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Speaker 1: if recruiting rankings were accurate, then these former three stars

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00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like torching their way through these rosters littered

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00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: with feign five star talent. And I'm looking at that,

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00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: and I assume what you're saying is you're saying that

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00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: recruiting rankings aren't the end all be all. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, no one ever said they were. I'll make

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00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: my argument here. I can't speak for anyone else. What

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Speaker 1: I've always thought about recruiting rankings in a fifty thousand

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00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: foot perspective is that they are are the greatest tool

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Speaker 1: at predictive success in college football. They have been for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Not perfect, but the best tool we have.

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Speaker 1: And anyone who disagrees with that, I would encourage you

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Speaker 1: to hit rewind thirty seconds and listen to what I

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Speaker 1: actually said, because sometimes I think when people disagree with that,

786
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: they heard what you didn't say. So hear what I

787
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: did say, and then if you still disagree, I want

788
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: you to tell me what better tool is there for

789
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: predictive college football success than high school recruiting rankings, team rankings.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you have one. You can anecdotally pull

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00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: me examples of two stars that have gone on to

792
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: be first round draft picks. You can anecdotally pull me

793
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: examples of five stars that ended up never doing anything.

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Speaker 1: But see, I never denied that those exist. I said,

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Speaker 1: it's an imperfect system that still remains the best predictor

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00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: of success. With that in mind, every rule in life,

797
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: at least every rule in sports has an exception to it.

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00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: You're looking at a glaring exception in Indiana. But guys,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's this massive exception to

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Speaker 1: the rule that everyone's making it out to be. Like

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00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: everyone keeps putting these graphics up about how many former

802
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: FEI and five star recruits they have versus your Organs

803
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: or your Alabamas, and then they run rushot over those teams.

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00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, man, I guess those players were overrated.

805
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: I guess Indiana's players were underrated. Hey, conditionally, maybe some

806
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: of them were on each side of that coin. Could

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00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: I also present you that talent does matter a whole

808
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: lot here, but so does development, and so does experience,

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00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: and so does age. And I've always thought there is

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00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: a glaring inefficiency just in player ratings in general, but

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Speaker 1: not high school ratings. I've always wondered why in the

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00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: world we rate kids out of high school and then

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00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: stop when they're in college, and the next time we

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00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: rate them is when they're going out for the draft.

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00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: Like to me, I'm not passionate enough about this to

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00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: do it. But like I've told Shannon before, said, hey, man,

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00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 1: if I were going to invest in manpower and resource,

818
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: what I would do is I would build an entire

819
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: department to put living, breathing grades on every active college

820
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: football player. It's a huge undertaking, of course it is.

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Speaker 1: I think it'd be worthwhile. Here's what I think you'd see.

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Speaker 1: What I think you'd see is, let's just take a

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00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: random Indiana three star. All Right, I'm speaking generically here.

824
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: There are gonna be exceptions on both sides of this.

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00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: Let's say you got an undersized kid comes out of

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Speaker 1: Monthsie Indiana and he doesn't get offers from Ohio State

827
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame, and Indiana takes him all right, and

828
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: he's a three star. And then he's a freshman and

829
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Speaker 1: he doesn't play. And then he's a second year guy

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00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: and he doesn't play, third year guy special teams, and

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00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: he's a reserve. Fourth year he starts to get in.

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00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: He's using his red shirt year. So then by his

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00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: fifth year he's a big time player. Sometimes you get

834
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: a medical These guys that got COVID years, they're in

835
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: their sixth year. You're over half a decade older. You're

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00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: over half a decade removed from your high school recruiting ranking. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's say you've been in a program for those six years.

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00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: That is a plus at development, a plus at culture,

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00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: a plus at strength and conditioning, aplus at nutrition, a

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00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: plus at everything it takes to take a former three

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00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: star and cultivate them. What do you think that kid

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00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: could be six years later? And then what do you

843
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: think a whole group of them could be six years later?

844
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: So what I'm trying to say is, I don't just

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Speaker 1: look at the twenty three year old former three star

846
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: and think, because he's playing out of his mind, that

847
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 1: the recruiting industry missed when they ranked him. I think

848
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: people need to properly understand what a recruiting ranking is.

849
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Speaker 1: A recruiting ranking is at seventeen or eighteen years old,

850
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: when you get spot out of high school, a talent

851
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: based measurement of who you are, or who guys subjectively

852
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: think you are when they're grading you. It doesn't measure

853
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: you from the neck of first off, because you can't

854
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: grade kids mentally because you don't have that kind of

855
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 1: access to him. So what are you graden? You're grade

856
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: in a high school film, some combine type stuff. If

857
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: they go to camps and things of that nature, you're

858
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: probably a little bit influenced by their offer sheet, and

859
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: you can debate whether that has merit or not, but

860
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: by and large, you're talking about a snapshot of an

861
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: athletic profile of a guy when they're seventeen years old.

862
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: Some of these guys are twenty three years old. So

863
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: if I take a twenty three year old former three

864
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: star who's done everything the right way inside the walls

865
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 1: of a great program, and I put him up against

866
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old freshman five star and he whips

867
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: his tail, that's not automatically an indictment on the recruiting

868
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: industry to me as much as it is a reflection

869
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: of what age and experience do in relation to talent

870
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: when talent is raw versus a grown man that to

871
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: me has been Indiana football this year. And then the

872
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: other thing that I would say is maybe it is

873
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: the case that it takes a healthy look at how

874
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: you're grading guys, But that should be happened in any way.

875
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: If Indiana serves to be a wake up call, so

876
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: be it. But I always think that the recruiting industry

877
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: as a whole should be evaluating itself. It should be

878
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: quality controlling itself. And maybe if Indiana serves as some

879
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: wake up called, okay, it hasn't been the indictment on

880
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: the recruiting industry and the star rating system and the

881
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: team ranking system that I've seen a lot of people

882
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: make it out to be. That's all I'm saying. I

883
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: do not view it the same way that many people do.

884
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: And no, I certainly don't think high school recruiting is dead.

885
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: I challenge you to find me anybody that's about to

886
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: build for long term, sustained success that is not first

887
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: and foremost prioritizing high school recruiting. I'm not asking you.

888
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: Are there examples to the contrary. I'm not asking you're

889
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: gonna point out Texas Tech to me. And if I

890
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: Joey MacGuire on the show right now, if I Cody

891
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: Campbell on the show right now, they tell you, dude,

892
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: we're heavily leaning into high school recruiting, heavily leaning into it.

893
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 1: Heavily investing in it. That's what it'll always be about.

894
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a lot of these schools right now.

895
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 1: The model, the model to build a winner is still

896
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: the same as it's been, just it's evolved a little bit.

897
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: It is recruit and develop and then invest in your

898
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: high school recruits, because that's how you build. You want

899
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: guys multiple years in your system, and you recruit them

900
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: out of high school, and you develop them and hopefully

901
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: they improve, and you take your money and in a

902
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: perfect world, you're doing what Notre Dame's doing right now.

903
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: They hadn't taken a single kid out of the portal.

904
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: It's not a poverty program, this Notre Dame. But they

905
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: hadn't taken a single kid out of the portal because

906
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: they believe in their guys they have in house. Right now,

907
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: you don't think they're spending money at Notre Dame, of

908
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: course they are. They're spending it on the guys they

909
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: have in their system. That's the model. Anybody who tells

910
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: you otherwise is lying to you. The way Notre Dame's

911
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: doing it right now is the envy of everyone else.

912
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: They wish they hit one hundred percent. Everyone wants to

913
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: bat a thousand on their kids. They recruit out of

914
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: high school. You don't think that, You don't think. You

915
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: don't think Alabama or Texas or Texas A and M

916
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: would love to bring guys up three four years in

917
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: the same system and then just pay them instead of

918
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: having to go to the portal. Of course they would,

919
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: but they've swung and missed. And so the second part

920
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: of the model is you supplement or if you can,

921
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: you upgrade via the portal. You don't build through the portal.

922
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: No one's doing that and sustaining long term success. Now,

923
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: if you want to go bibble rocket approach and just

924
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: light the fuse and watch it pop off one time,

925
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: Florida State did that a couple of years ago, and

926
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: then what happened to Florida State. So if you want

927
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: to chase that model, be my guest. I don't think

928
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: many people with a proper head on their shoulders are

929
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: chasing that model. Let us move on. I told you

930
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: it's a lively mail bag tonight. We ought to do

931
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: this more often. I say that as I'm in full

932
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: control of what we do on the show. Uh, all right,

933
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: So Pablo from Potomac, Maryland, he said, can we finally

934
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: admit that, with the SEC not in the title game

935
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: for a third straight year, the Big Ten has overtaken

936
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: the SEC? Pablo, it's a groundbreaking question, my friend. No

937
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: one's talking about it, is anyone bringing this up? Well

938
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: aside from everyone. Let me ask you a question, Pablo,

939
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: what if ole Miss won the other night, would it

940
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: change anything? I mean, I think these are such bad

941
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: faith arguments. I think the Big Ten's overtaking the SEC

942
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: no matter if old Miss is in the title game

943
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: right now, Like if Carson Beck would not have been

944
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: able to run that ball into the en zone the

945
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: other night and ole Miss forces a fumble and they

946
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: turn it over and they bleed the clock and they

947
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 1: win the game and they're going on to play Indiana,

948
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,439
Speaker 1: how does that fundamentally change the balance of power between

949
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: the Big Ten and the SEC right now? So to

950
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 1: let you know how irrelevant that point is to me,

951
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: Let's assume ole Miss won the game the other night,

952
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: and Ole Miss is headed to Miami and got the

953
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: whole sidebar with Lane Kiffin and Pete Golding and whatnot.

954
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: But if ole Miss was in the game, the SEC

955
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: would still be lagging behind. So it's there are these

956
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: cutting dry stats people put out there, like, Man, the

957
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: SEC's missed out on the title game for the third

958
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: straight year. What if they made it? What if Ole

959
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: miss was in it, which they were very close to

960
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: being Like that doesn't fundamentally change anything to me, because

961
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: I'm still telling you I think the SEC's lagging behind

962
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: the Big ten. So my question is not are they

963
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: lagging behind. I'm gonna give you some reasons why I

964
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: think they are. My question is not whether they're lagging behind.

965
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: My question is this, who's arguing against this right now?

966
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: I don't mean random dudes on Twitter. I mean find

967
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: me people whose voices you really respect, who are beating

968
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: this drum right now. I can't find them. I can't

969
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: find them. The way I know a lot of it's

970
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: manufactured is cause half the internet's telling you I'm saying it,

971
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: which is always how you can tell who does and

972
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 1: doesn't watch the show. The ones who don't watch the show,

973
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: they try, and they like manufacture a counter to their argument.

974
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: And in this case, the counter that they're manufact is

975
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: they're imagining this army of people out there that are

976
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: still steadfast standing behind the SEC, chanting SCC and you know,

977
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: tramp stamping, it just means more on their lower back.

978
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: Where are these people, reputable people, people that you would

979
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: admit you respect their opinion. Who are they? So it's

980
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: not me, It's certainly not me. Jesse reliably has informed

981
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 1: me much of the Internet believes I am that person.

982
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: But the thing about having your own show is you

983
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: don't have to rely on the Internet to find out

984
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: what I think about the Big Ten compared to the SEC.

985
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: Just come here, I'll tell you the SEC is lagging

986
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 1: behind the Big Ten at the top. I would even

987
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: venture to suggest maybe the middle tier now is at

988
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,879
Speaker 1: least comparable, if not slightly lagging behind. That's probably where

989
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: my perception has changed as of late, more so than

990
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: at the top. So I'm not beating that drum. The

991
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: Internet will continue to tell you I am because the

992
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: Internet doesn't watch the show. So a couple of culprits here.

993
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: These are excuses, These are culprits. These are just things

994
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: that I think are in play. Firstly, we had Cublic

995
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 1: on the show last week or within the last couple

996
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: of weeks, and I shot it in my kitchen. But

997
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: he and I had like a thirty minute discussion on this,

998
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: and I would encourage you to go listen to it.

999
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: He made a really good point. I think I made

1000
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: a sound point as well. But the two of us

1001
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: made points that I haven't heard mention many other places.

1002
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: I haven't heard of mention any other place. The point

1003
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: he made was when he sits down with these coaches,

1004
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 1: a lot many of them have coached in both leagues,

1005
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: and they therefore can talk about how the Big ten

1006
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,959
Speaker 1: player compares to the SEC player. Again broad brush there,

1007
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: but how the Big ten players in general compared to

1008
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: the SEC players. And I have sort of evolved my

1009
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: thinking on conference culture. I think conference culture is a

1010
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: real thing. They're gonna be exceptions to it, obviously, but

1011
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: conference culture meaning, on average, how does an SEC player think,

1012
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: how does he act? What is his college football and

1013
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: athletic worldview versus his Big Ten counterpart? And what we

1014
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: came to agree upon is maybe football is just a

1015
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 1: little bit more important to the Big ten folks. Maybe

1016
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: the average Big Ten player is wired a little bit differently.

1017
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: Maybe they focus a little more on the football aspect,

1018
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: the meat and potatoes aspect of football, instead of the

1019
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: more highlight ish branding aspect of football. I think there's

1020
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: something to that you're going to have exceptions to that rule.

1021
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: I think it's become a rule. That's me do I

1022
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: think I walk the halls of the University of Georgia

1023
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: and have major issues with guys being committed to football. No,

1024
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: not really, But I'm not speaking specifically about one side

1025
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: of the ball at Georgia. I'm speaking holistically about the conference.

1026
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: That's the first thing that was sort of Cublick's angle.

1027
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: And then I said something that you've heard me say

1028
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 1: it on a number of shows, probably recently. I don't

1029
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: think I said it on this one. Again, this is

1030
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 1: a very very broad brush I think for a long time,

1031
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: people in the SEC came to take the talent advantage

1032
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: and the talent edge they had over the rest of

1033
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: college football for granted, because they just always assumed it

1034
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: was going to be there. The SEC thought for a

1035
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: long time that the talent edge they had over the

1036
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,959
Speaker 1: rest of college football was a constant, But it wasn't.

1037
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: It was a variable, but for the time being and

1038
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: for an extended times being, they could assume it. Because

1039
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: the talent had every reason to choose Tennessee over Michigan.

1040
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,720
Speaker 1: The talent had every reason to choose Alabama over Iowa,

1041
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: and the sports changed and the landscapes changed. Portland and

1042
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: i L have done that. So the talent edge, even

1043
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 1: if it's still there, it's been greatly reduced, and doubly

1044
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: especially if you look at the depth of these rosters.

1045
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 1: The number twos at Alabama and Tennessee and LSU don't

1046
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: look like the number twos used to look because they're

1047
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: starting elsewhere. So that's a reality. Everyone knows that. My

1048
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 1: point is, I think because the SEC became so comfortable

1049
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 1: that they were just going to have a massive talent

1050
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: edge on the rest of college football every year, they

1051
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: got lazy in certain aspects of their operation, And the

1052
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: first one that I've started to notice was staffing. You

1053
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: would think to yourself, man, if you're really serious about football,

1054
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: you hire the best head coach you can hire, and

1055
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: then that head coach fills the building with the best

1056
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: of the best in terms of position coaches beneath them.

1057
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 1: That's what you would think. That's how football is supposed

1058
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: to work. That is not always how it worked in

1059
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: the SEC. What the SEC did is they realized, wait

1060
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: a second, if we're going to load these buildings up

1061
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: with better talent than they have anywhere else in the country.

1062
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: We can out athlete a lot of people. Therefore, when

1063
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: head coach gets in the building, Unfortunately, the way it

1064
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: started to work in the SEC is that had coach

1065
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: prioritizes filling his building with recruiters over coaches, or even worse,

1066
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: that head coach looks at his representation, credits them for

1067
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: getting him the job, and the favor that he returns

1068
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: to that representation that agency is he fills his building

1069
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: with clients of set agency. If you think that's ridiculous,

1070
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: it's because it is. But that's been standard practice in

1071
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: the SEC for quite a while. I don't find that

1072
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: to be the case in the Big ten, at least

1073
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: nearly as much. The Big ten knew they didn't have

1074
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: the edge, so the Big ten had to live a

1075
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: little bit more on the margins. This is in a

1076
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: previous life. Things have changed now, but I think the

1077
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: SEC is still suffering the consequences of some very lazy

1078
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: practices from a generation prior. We're defining generation as like

1079
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and so I still think there's a

1080
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: lot of that residue. So when you wonder how the

1081
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: SEC could still have better talent rosters, but they're sort

1082
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: of getting outperformed on stages by the Big Ten. I

1083
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: think those are a couple of reasons why. That's just

1084
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 1: my opinion. Academy Sports and Outdoors present in the SEC,

1085
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten, and they are pretty much one

1086
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: stop shop. They don't say that, you know, they're not

1087
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 1: that gaudy, but I will be for them. Spring sporting

1088
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 1: season is coming up, and I just encourage you, slash

1089
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 1: implore you make sure you stop by Academy. You gotta

1090
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: have the kiddos properly geared up. You don't want them

1091
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Speaker 1: to be the one dragging the same bat to the

1092
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: game that you used when you were a kid. I'm

1093
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: sure it performed admirably for you, but frankly, technology has

1094
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: come a long way since then. And little Stevie and

1095
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: little Lorie they need to be swinging the best. They

1096
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: need to be catching with the best. They need to

1097
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: be geared up with the best. They've got it at Academy.

1098
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: And if you cannot get there in person, that's okay.

1099
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: Academy dot Com. Now, I know what some of you

1100
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: are thinking, but Josh, I don't even have kids. Great,

1101
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: maybe change that one day. But in the meantime, live

1102
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: your life. I assume you have one. I know our audience,

1103
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: you don't have much losers watching this show. Our audience

1104
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: has a life, and a lot of it has to

1105
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: do without door activity academy sports and outdoors. Yeah, you

1106
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: can get bats and balls there, but you can also

1107
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: get a kayak there if you want to. You can

1108
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,439
Speaker 1: get a tent there. You can get a grill there.

1109
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: So there've been longtime friends of the program that can

1110
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: be a friend to you. Let's continue, Let's move on.

1111
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: I told you the mailbag was full. This is great.

1112
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean I can do this all night. Immunity jay

1113
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: Z from Western Florida. Does Miami making the National championship

1114
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: as a ten seed justify playoff expansion? Will this spark

1115
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: a future expansion to sixteen teams? I think we're probably

1116
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: headed towards sixteen, But that's not what you asked me,

1117
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: and Jacu asked me. Does it justify playoff expansion? Well,

1118
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: I assume you've watched this show for a while. You

1119
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: know my feelings on this. No, No, it doesn't. Miami

1120
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: making the playoff doesn't affect I view on college football

1121
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: playoff expansion one bit. But I was meant this up front.

1122
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: I just have a different viewpoint on this than most people.

1123
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: It really all boils down to your college football worldview,

1124
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: jay Z, So capability is never what it was about

1125
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: for me. I was on Get Up the other morning

1126
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick, who there are very few opinions I value

1127
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: more in this sport than Lewis Riddick. He and I

1128
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,439
Speaker 1: disagreed on this, and it pained me because I don't

1129
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: want to be disagreeing with Lewis Riddick very often. But

1130
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: his opinion was if you look at a team like

1131
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: Texas or a team like Vanderbilt who were left out

1132
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: of the playoff, his opinion was, I think those teams

1133
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: could have made a run. Therefore, I think the playoffs

1134
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: should be big enough for all those teams to be in. Well,

1135
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: that is his college football worldview. Mine just happens to

1136
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: be different. I've never cared about what you're capable of.

1137
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: I've cared about what you've earned. And I've looked at

1138
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: college football and I've said the best format is not

1139
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: one that's big in though to fit all the teams

1140
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: capable of winning the title. To me, the best format

1141
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: is the one that's built to maximize the impact of

1142
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: the regular season, because I care about the regular season

1143
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: more than the playoff. Now, again, that is my worldview.

1144
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: If you disagree with that, that probably means you're going

1145
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,479
Speaker 1: to disagree with all the points that I'm making right now.

1146
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: But I know they're a healthy amount of us who

1147
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: prioritize and love the regular season of college football more

1148
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: so than the playoff. And you got a fair amount

1149
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: of people who just look forward to the playoff. It's

1150
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: a more pro sports minded approach to college football. That's

1151
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: okay if you have that. I just never grew up

1152
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: that way and I don't feel that way now. Like

1153
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: I've evolved my thinking on a lot of things in

1154
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: college football, but you'll never ever ever see me evolve

1155
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: my thinking that the pinnacle of college football is not

1156
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: the National championship game. The pinnacle of college football for

1157
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: me is not the playoff. The pinnacle of college football

1158
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: is the twelve Saturdays that I'm guaranteed to get in

1159
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: the fall. That's what I love. And so all due

1160
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,439
Speaker 1: respect to Vanderbilt, I don't care if you got left out.

1161
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 1: You had an opportunity to earn your way in. We

1162
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: got twelve spots. It's not like it's the four team

1163
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 1: era or the BCS era anymore, which, by the way,

1164
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: I had no problem with. But we've long since left that.

1165
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 1: So I got no problem that Texas got left out.

1166
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: Had Alabama been left out, I would have had no

1167
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: problem with it. Now there are teams that I think,

1168
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: based on the current model and the criteria, should and

1169
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: shouldn't get in. But like if they if they left

1170
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: Miami out, I'm not shedding many tears from Miami. You

1171
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: know why they lost to Louisville in SMU like they

1172
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: had a shot to earn their way in. So you

1173
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: lowered the bar already. We already lowered the bar. If

1174
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: you still can't clear that thing, I don't know what

1175
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: to tell you. So, Yeah, I look at Vanderbilt and

1176
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: I wonder what they would have done in the playoff.

1177
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: I look at Texas. I saw arch and the cheese

1178
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: at Bowl. That thing had over nine million people watching,

1179
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: by the way, I saw what he did. Yeah, I

1180
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: wonder what he would have done. But I do not

1181
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: look at the system and say, boy, we gotta expand

1182
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: this thing. We got to expand this thing. So I

1183
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: can find out whether Tech could have boy, I think

1184
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: Texas could have made a run. I think Brigham Young

1185
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: could have made a run. I don't really care if

1186
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: I think that. I don't care because it's not about capability.

1187
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 1: To me, it's about merit. You got to be aware

1188
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: of the casual counter arguments to this, though, of which

1189
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: there are many, but two of them you'll always get

1190
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: when you make the argument. There are some of us

1191
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: out there who make this argument, the argument being we

1192
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: don't need to expand the playoff any further. We may

1193
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: have already expanded it too far. The casual counter argument

1194
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: to that is number one, how can you deny that

1195
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: the expanded playoff has been amazing? And how can you

1196
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: deny that expanding it further would be even more amazing

1197
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: a product? I don't deny it. The playoff is awesome.

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01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: A sixteen team playoff would be must see. You make

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Speaker 1: the playoff as big as you want to. The playoff

1200
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: itself would be amazing. But that's opening the book at

1201
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: chapter four, ignoring chapters one through three. See, you're disingenuously

1202
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: skipping the meat of my argument to present the meat

1203
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: of your argument, because your argument is playoff centric. Mine's

1204
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: not mine's regular season college football centric. The playoff product's

1205
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: incredible right now. The playoff expanding the sixteen would be incredible.

1206
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: But that's where your sentence ends. Mine has an ellipses

1207
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 1: dot dot. But at what cost to the regular season?

1208
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: And if there's any cost to the regular season above

1209
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: and beyond what we've already done to it, I'm not

1210
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: for it. That's part one, part two of the casual

1211
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: counter argument to anyone resisting college football playoff expansion. This

1212
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: is the worst one, but it's also the easiest one

1213
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: to beat down. How can you say no to more football?

1214
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: I just don't get what you have against more football. Well,

1215
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: I understand the principle of scarcity. I understand the principle

1216
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: of value. If I have a one dollar bill in

1217
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: my hand, what is it worth. Well, in an ideal world,

1218
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: it's worth one dollar. But if I have a printing

1219
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: press over there and then I print a billion more

1220
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: of those one dollar bills, guess what I did to

1221
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: the one dollar bill I'm holding in my hand. It's

1222
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: not worth what's written on the piece of paper anymore.

1223
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: Why is that? Because its value was in a level

1224
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: of scarcity, and when we decrease the scarcity, we also

1225
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: decrease the value. Likewise, in college football, the more playoff

1226
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: spots you have, the less value there is on making

1227
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 1: the playoff. So hey, I love football. We already get

1228
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: plenty of it. Man. We're asking teams to win seventeen

1229
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: games in some cases to win a national championship. Right now,

1230
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 1: we're getting plenty of football. We've got plenty of it. Man.

1231
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 1: If you're sitting there in late August watching this thing

1232
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: all the way through to Martin Luther King Junior Day

1233
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: next Monday night and saying need more football, go watch

1234
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 1: spring football, I don't know what to tell you. We

1235
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: got plenty of college football right now. If it comes

1236
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: at the expense of the regular season at all, I'm

1237
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: not for it. This will expand, though, so make no question,

1238
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: make no arguments here. I understand it's going to expand.

1239
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: No one really cares what I think about this. If

1240
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: it does, it spand can I please please, just in

1241
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: the name of common sense, ask a couple of favors. Firstly,

1242
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: can we please get two rounds of playoff games on

1243
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: home CAMPI plural of campus? Can we please not watch

1244
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: Oregon traveling nine thousand miles across the country combined to

1245
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: go to three neutral sites, because that's what they would

1246
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: have had to do. Had they won the other night.

1247
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: Their fan base would have been asked to fly to

1248
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: Miami for a playoff game, come home, fly to Atlanta

1249
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: for a playoff game, come home, fly back to Miami

1250
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: for the national championship game. Beyond stupid, I mean Texas

1251
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: Tech never got to host a playoff game. Indiana never

1252
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: got to host a playoff game, which is insane. So

1253
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: if we expand to sixteen, you're already taking the first

1254
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: round byes away. I assume can we at least get

1255
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: a couple of rounds on campus. The second thing, can

1256
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: we please reformat the schedule. We are waiting twelve days

1257
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: to play the national championship game instead of the thing

1258
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: wrapping up on New Year's Day like it should. The

1259
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: college football calendar is nine kinds of screwed up, but

1260
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: even the playoff calendar itself is screwed up. There are

1261
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: several reasons why it is the way it is right now,

1262
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to tell me why it is.

1263
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm asking people who understand how to get the job

1264
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: done to get in the room, put your hands on

1265
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: the wheel and get the changes that are necessary. If

1266
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: it means starting the season a week earlier, don't love it.

1267
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 1: But if we have to, we have to. And then

1268
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,479
Speaker 1: the other part of that is, you know, you may

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Speaker 1: have to gird your loins up and walk down the

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Speaker 1: hall and knock on the door of the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: after you've done all the work developing their players and

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01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 1: developing marketing profiles for their players before they go to

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01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: the draft, you do all the favors in the world

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Speaker 1: for the NFL. Maybe ask for one in return. I

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01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: don't know. Seems bold enough that it just could work.

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01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: Next up, we're just taking care of all the price

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Speaker 1: problems tonight. This is a play the Hits kind of

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01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: show tonight one from Corpus Christi, Texas. Should all targeting

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Speaker 1: calls in the playoffs be reviewed by the NCAA to

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Speaker 1: confirm or overturn targeting to uphold the suspension for the

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01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: next game when it occurs in the second half, especially

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Speaker 1: in marginal situations. Okay, what one's talking about is Xavier Lucas.

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Speaker 1: The other night, I think early in the second half

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Speaker 1: of the game against Ole Miss, he got ejected for

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Speaker 1: targeting that means he misses the second half of a

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Speaker 1: playoff game and misses the first half of the national

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Speaker 1: championship game. And it's stupid. It's a very stupid problem

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Speaker 1: that college football has right now, but it's really a

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01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 1: problem football in general has. And the problem is no

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01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: one knows what targeting is. We do have rules, and

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01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 1: there are parameters and bullet points and indicators. Those are

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01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: all written down. No one knows when they see it.

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Speaker 1: You imagine we're gonna eject kids from games, but we

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01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: don't really know what we're ejecting them for. There's no

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Speaker 1: consistency in the way it's applied, even conference to conference.

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Speaker 1: The things enforced differently. Here's what we do know, most

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Speaker 1: common sensical people who are watching college football, or as

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01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: you might know them, fans, were watching it every Saturday,

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01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: and every one of us knows at the best this

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01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 1: rule seems way too hazy to be ejecting players for

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01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: flying in violation of it. So a couple of things. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I would be okay with the approach that you talked

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01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: about there, but not just for the playoffs. I think

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01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: that this thing should be able to be appealed no

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01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: matter what week three to week four. You could be

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01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: playing a game coming up the next week and week

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01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: four that will define your season. So why should it

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01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: only be able to be appealed and potentially potentially overturned

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01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: in the playoff, Like I'd go step further than that.

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01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 1: It's insane. We're throwing guys out of games. Though. I

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01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: was watching this the other night, I was so irate.

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01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: I was there for Miami Old Miss and I watch

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01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: it with my eyes. Targeting gets called because you're just

1314
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: conditioned now. Anytime a guy puts a form hit on someone,

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01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: anytime there's like high level impact, just expect the flag.

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01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 1: So there it is, there's the flag, and you think

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01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 1: you know what you saw. But then you got to

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01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: look up at the monitor or the big screen if

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01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 1: you're in the stadium, and you got to make sure

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01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 1: you saw what you saw, and I did. It happens

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01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: all too often. What happens is if you're a defender,

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01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 1: the game's moving a million miles an hour, and as

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01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,799
Speaker 1: a defender, when you're going to strike a ball carrier,

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01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 1: whether it be a receiver going up for a pass,

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01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: whether it be a quarterback scrambling, or whether it be

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01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,599
Speaker 1: a running back coming straight at you there is a

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01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 1: certain point where you commit your body to contact, where

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01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:44,759
Speaker 1: you initiate the hit past which you have no control.

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01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: Now it's a split second, and when they slow it down,

1330
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: you'll frame by frame, it looks like it takes a

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01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: long time, but when you're moving, you know, at the

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01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: speed of automobiles in a school zone, you commit yourself

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01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: to contact, and a lot of times what happens is

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01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: a ball carrier or a receiver will be in the

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01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: process of making a catch or they're in the process

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01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: of lowering themselves, and here's what looks like. You commit

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01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: your body to the hit and you're aiming for their

1338
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: chest or their midsection, and then they lower themselves and

1339
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: you end up making contact in the shoulder area or

1340
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: the head area, and you get flagged for it, and

1341
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:23,799
Speaker 1: it's insane, and there's not an ounce of malicious intent.

1342
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: In fact, the guy's trying to execute making a hit

1343
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: or making a tackle the exact way he's been taught.

1344
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: And that's what rubs me the wrong way seeing guys

1345
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: ejected from games for playing football, seeing guys ejected from

1346
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: games for doing exactly what they've been coached to do.

1347
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:41,640
Speaker 1: Because a lot of times you want to go over

1348
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: to an official and you want to say, hey, could

1349
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 1: you do me a favor. You just ejected my guy

1350
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: from a game, and all he did is what we've

1351
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: coached him to do. Could you please, is he walks

1352
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: to the locker room, tell him what he should have done.

1353
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: You know what those officials will do, if they're honest,

1354
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: shrugged their shoulders. I don't necessarily blame it on the officials.

1355
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: They're only enforcing what they've been taught to enforced. I

1356
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,559
Speaker 1: don't put it on the shoulders of officials. I put

1357
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: it on the shoulders of people who went five miles

1358
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: further than they needed to when they rewrote these rules

1359
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 1: several years ago, because they were terrified of what was

1360
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: going to happen to him in court, because concussions in

1361
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: football were the big story in the news, and so

1362
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: they got really scared and they went way further than

1363
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 1: they needed to to get out ahead of being blamed

1364
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: for not taking enough action. But what they did is

1365
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 1: they really etched in stone something that they couldn't go

1366
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 1: back on. I've talked to guys about this. I'm not

1367
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: ignorant to this. I understand exactly what the nature of

1368
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:40,720
Speaker 1: the rule is what the purpose of the rule is

1369
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 1: and why you guys are terrified of going backwards because

1370
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,240
Speaker 1: if you go backwards an inch on it, if you

1371
01:10:45,320 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 1: even redefine or rewipe the rules, or you just add

1372
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,840
Speaker 1: some protocols, you're terrified that one day in court, a

1373
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: jury will look at you and a skilled lawyer will

1374
01:10:55,360 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: convince them that you eased up restrictions on conct hushion

1375
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: protocol and now you're on the hook for untold billions

1376
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: of dollars in damages. I get it. It doesn't mean

1377
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 1: I have to be happy about it, and it doesn't

1378
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 1: mean there still aren't actions that can be taken, because

1379
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 1: if you look at football today, it's never been safer

1380
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: than it is right now. You've never had less a

1381
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 1: risk of concussion than you do right now. The rule

1382
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 1: has had its intended effect. It's fundamentally changed the way

1383
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 1: that the games played. Do you see how many receivers

1384
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:34,040
Speaker 1: are totally carefree going up over the middle. Now, do

1385
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: you know why that is? Because a nineteen year old kid,

1386
01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 1: a nineteen year old receiver, or a nineteen year old

1387
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:43,600
Speaker 1: safety slash corner slash linebacker have now grown up in

1388
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:47,759
Speaker 1: an entire era from their pee wee days, to middle school,

1389
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: to high school and now college, where the game's been

1390
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: officiated that way, where rules have been enforced that way,

1391
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 1: so everyone's been conditioned to play the game that way.

1392
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 1: You're more likely to concuss yourself hitting your head on

1393
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 1: the grid than you are being hit by a safety now,

1394
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 1: and yet ignorantly, we're still tossing guys out of games.

1395
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: Xavier Lucas missed the second half of a playoff game

1396
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: the other night, and we'll miss the first half of

1397
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:18,639
Speaker 1: a national championship game for committing the crime of playing football. Basically,

1398
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. I'm using him.

1399
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:22,559
Speaker 1: There are a million examples of this, So what I'd

1400
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 1: love to see is very common sense. School basketball has

1401
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:28,800
Speaker 1: done it for a long time. Flagrant one, flagrant two,

1402
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,639
Speaker 1: essentially understanding there are tiers of fouls here, because when

1403
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: we watch a football game, I think we can all

1404
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: understand the difference between incidental contact in some cases that

1405
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: a defender could not avoid, versus a malicious hit. And

1406
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:45,360
Speaker 1: there aren't many malicious hits that are made, but the

1407
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: ones that are made, everybody knows it when one of

1408
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 1: them's made. Go on Twitter, everyone goes out of their

1409
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 1: way to point it out. Everyone goes out of their

1410
01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 1: way to say, get that guy out of there. That

1411
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 1: right there, there's no place for that in college football.

1412
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: It polices itself. Basically, that's your flagrant too, get him out.

1413
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: There's no place for it, there, never has been, never

1414
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 1: will be. But where there is plenty of room, or

1415
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: where there is plenty of room for is to understand

1416
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 1: something just happened here, maybe we even want to throw

1417
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: a flag on it. There is no way that kid

1418
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:18,520
Speaker 1: should be ejected from this game. There is room for that. Secondly,

1419
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 1: I would love a more rigorous appeals process where you

1420
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: got a panel of people, Like, in my opinion, if

1421
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: a kid's gonna have a half of a game stripped

1422
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: away from him, you ought to have a panel of

1423
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 1: ten people with at least eight of them agreeing on

1424
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,719
Speaker 1: the ruling. I don't know how you feel the panel

1425
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: should work. And then the third one is I would

1426
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: love full transparency on that. I know we don't seem

1427
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,719
Speaker 1: to be in the business of full transparency with any

1428
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: decisions being made in college football, whether they be rules

1429
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,600
Speaker 1: or whether they be in the name of officiating. But

1430
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: when i'm college football Commissioner, We're gonna have full transparency

1431
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 1: on how that playoff rankings process works, how officiating works.

1432
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: And then if we ever have an appeals process that

1433
01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:04,520
Speaker 1: is legit on targeting ejections, let's make that fully transparent

1434
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: as well. After all, what is there really to hide

1435
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 1: if we're doing things the right way. FanDuel was where

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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of my day yesterday. You know,

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Speaker 1: I actually had a FanDuel warning, a responsible gaming alert

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Speaker 1: come up on me yesterday. Now it's because I left

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1441
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01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:33,000
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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: and then I like to talk to you about responsible

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01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:41,680
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1449
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Speaker 1: probably need to take a little break now. In my case,

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Speaker 1: I just accidentally left it logged in, so I respectfully

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01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:13,839
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Speaker 1: always encourage any of our viewers or listeners who sign

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Speaker 1: Okay, we got we got one more question here, good

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Speaker 1: solid show tonight. Chris from Tacoma, Washington, home of the

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Speaker 1: Tacoma Dome. At least it used to be. I don't

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01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: know if it's still there. He said. I know you

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01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 1: were joking last week, but seriously, what's the difference between

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Speaker 1: James Franklin and Dan Landing at this point? Okay, Chris,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. One of the key differences is

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:17,600
Speaker 1: the fact that Landing beat James Franklin twice in the

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Speaker 1: past year, won in a conference championship game, the other

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01:17:20,479 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: in James Franklin's own building, which led to his firing

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 1: earlier this year. So I would say that's one key difference.

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01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: And that's kind of a low hanging fruit question. That

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01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: sounds a little disrespectful. I apologize. I knew this was

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01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: coming though. I told you, Jesse, did I not do

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01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: a whole segment on this last week? I did a

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01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: segment and I literally said, if Dan does not win

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01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: this game against Indiana, they're gonna comare him to James

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: Franklin because Franklin last year he had his shot in

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01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they didn't go to the Big Ten title game,

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01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 1: just like Oregon didn't this year. But ma'am, James Franklin

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01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 1: beat SMU at home, just like Oregon beat JMU at home.

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01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:58,599
Speaker 1: But it wasn't gonna matter because they we quote unquote

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01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: supposed to win those games. And Franklin went out to

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: the desert and they beat Boise, just like Oregon went

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01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: and beat Texas Tech in Miami. But hey still no

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01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:09,759
Speaker 1: credit for it, because they're supposed to win those games.

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01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: But what happened next, Penn State lost to Notre Dame. Oh,

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01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: James Franklin still can't win the Big One. And Dan

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01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:17,839
Speaker 1: Lanning I said, if he does not beat Indiana, they're

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01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 1: gonna start comparing him to James Franklin. And no, sooner

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01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 1: did it happen than it happened. So that was sort

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01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: of a low hanging fruit version of the question that

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01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: we've been getting. I just happened to put that one

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01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:31,720
Speaker 1: on air. The big difference is Dan Lanning's beating James

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01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:34,760
Speaker 1: Franklin a couple of times recently. But then Danny hit

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01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 1: us up from Eugene and he asked a little bit

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01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: more nuanced version of the question, He said, can Dan

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01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,839
Speaker 1: Lanning get Oregon to the next level with the intense

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01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: pressure to succeed. He's had an incredible record thus far.

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01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: He's only thirty nine years old, but he's starting to

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01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: get that national media tag as the next coach who

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01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 1: can't quite get there. By the way, real Duck fans know,

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01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 1: he's our guy. Yeah, of course he's your guy. Of

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01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: course he's your guy. He's one of the best, which

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01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: is in college football. A lot of people heard what

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01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:05,800
Speaker 1: I didn't say there. What they heard me say is

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01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:07,680
Speaker 1: Lanning's elite and he's the best in the game. Why

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01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: didn't say that he's not the best in the game yet?

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01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: Maybe one day he will be. I always have to

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01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: remind folks what Danny just said. Dan Lanning is fifty

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01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 1: nine years old. Oh wait, no, he's not. He's thirty

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01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: nine years old. Who do you guys think is the

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01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: best coach to ever do it? Give me your top five?

1544
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 1: I would assume you said the name Nick Saban somewhere

1545
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: in your top five? Right, many of you think he's

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01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: the best of all time. I wouldn't disagree with you.

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01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: Saban won what seven national championships? I think seven or

1548
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: eight point being he won so many you lose count.

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01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 1: He won his first title when he was fifty two

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01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:48,439
Speaker 1: years old. Lanning's thirty nine. Landing is over a decade

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01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: younger right now than Saban was when he won his

1552
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: first of seven or eight or however many rings he

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01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: ended up winning. So I would just humbly suggest to

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01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: you there could be a world where Dan still figuring

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01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: it out. Dan Landing didn't have two or three other

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01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: head coaching jobs before Oregon, By the way, this was

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01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: his first one, so has he been put in a

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01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: compromised position occasionally? Did Ohio State get up on him

1559
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: big last year? They sure did. Did Kurt Signetti, as

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01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: part of a legendary run, just dunk all over him

1561
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: and Oregon in the semi final the other day? Yes

1562
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: he did, Yes he did. There are bigger tragedies in life.

1563
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: One of them in football would be not even having

1564
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: a chance because you're not in the postseason to begin with.

1565
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: Is there plenty of high priced, highly paid head coaches

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01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: out there who are older than one Dan Landing that

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01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 1: aren't there. It's okay to criticize the guy. I just

1568
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 1: think the criticism needs to be way more nuanced. Like,

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01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:49,120
Speaker 1: if you don't think they're developing a specific position, if

1570
01:20:49,160 --> 01:20:51,839
Speaker 1: you don't think that they're executing in a certain facet

1571
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: of the game, that is totally valid criticism that I'm

1572
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,559
Speaker 1: sure he would share himself if he were on the

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01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: show right now. But he can't win the Big One

1574
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:06,320
Speaker 1: or he's overrated, that's just foolishness. There's plenty of room

1575
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 1: for that out there, plenty of shows like that. I

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01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 1: don't like the traffick in that here. I would also

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01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:14,720
Speaker 1: say this, You know, there are a fair amount of

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01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: people out there that are taking this opportunity to dunk

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01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: all over Dan Lanning and say he's hadn't won the

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01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:21,559
Speaker 1: Big One. He's not going to win the Big One.

1581
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 1: He can't win the big One. Those people don't want

1582
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 1: you to remember what they used to say about Kirby.

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01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:28,760
Speaker 1: It's been a little while now, it's been over half

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01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: a decade. But what if I told you there's a

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01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: person out there yelling from the nearest Twitter mountaintop Dan

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01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: Lanny can't ever win the Big One? Who used to

1587
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 1: say Kirby smart, can't win the Big One, because they're

1588
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: out there, See, Kirby didn't win Overnight at Georgia, he

1589
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,439
Speaker 1: started to win regular season games. He kept on running

1590
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:51,959
Speaker 1: into Alabama and losing and losing and losing, and then finally,

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01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:55,720
Speaker 1: several years in they lost to Alabama. Then they got

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01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 1: a shot in the rematch and they beat him, and

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01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: they won a national championship, and all of a sudden,

1594
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,599
Speaker 1: the same even hump that Kirby couldn't get over, it

1595
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: just turned out he hadn't gotten over it yet. The

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01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 1: national title, the big one Kirby couldn't win. It turned

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01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: out he only hadn't won it yet, because then he did,

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01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: and then he did it again, and then it was

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01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: a non issue. And what did they do? Did that

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01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 1: little feral group of internet people? Did they disappear? No,

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: they just moved on to the next piece of low

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01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 1: hanging fruit that they could swing at, because they're not

1603
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 1: very tall, so it's got to be low for him.

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01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 1: It just happens to be Dan Landing right now. James

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01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 1: Franklin's still there, but it happens to be Dan right now.

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01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: And you know what you can do to shut him up? Win?

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01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 1: You eventually got to win those games. All I'm saying is,

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01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: at age thirty nine, he still got a lot of

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01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: runway left in front of him to figure out how

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01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 1: to take off or, in other words, win it all,

1611
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: win a national title. My guess is he'll end up

1612
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: doing it. That's my guess again. Could just be a duck, Homer,

1613
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: a lot of us, a lot of us, and Homer's

1614
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: grown up in Columbus, Georgia, back in the day. All right,

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01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 1: that's our show. I appreciate you guys so so much.

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01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: I wish I could say the National championship game was

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01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Nope, it's a week from tomorrow night. But

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01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:13,960
Speaker 1: we'll be here every step of the way. Don't you

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01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:17,000
Speaker 1: worry about that. I appreciate everyone. Man, you can't tell,

1620
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: Bradley take a wide shot. You can't tell. But this

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01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: is a brand new studio. It's just that we truck

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01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: the entire set into the new studio. But we've had

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01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:29,839
Speaker 1: people here all weekend making sure this thing's lit properly.

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01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: We installed the brand new Nashville sign back there, which,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcast, is irrelevant, but just imagine

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Speaker 1: a bright, glowing picture of the Nashville skyline back there.

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01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 1: It is not easy to make this work seamlessly technically,

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Speaker 1: but we have the right people in house here and

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Speaker 1: so I can't really see them right now, but they're

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Speaker 1: all back there behind the glass. I appreciate them and

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01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:55,719
Speaker 1: our crew here as usual, because it is not easy

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01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: to make the show look normal, especially when everything over

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Speaker 1: the past two weeks been abnormal. So I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: They appreciate you, guys for watching and listening. Make sure

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