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Speaker 1: And welcome in. The Late Kick is live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, December fourth Viear of Our Lord. Twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two could be a long December, but there is reason

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Speaker 1: to believe this year will be better than the last.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of thoughts on Conference Championship Saturday.

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Speaker 1: We're jampacked, We're high a top of gray, gloomy downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: But that's okay because it's been a happy weekend for

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Speaker 1: some of you. I told you I learned a lot

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Speaker 1: over Conference Championship Saturday. Some of it was about teams,

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Speaker 1: other parts of that was just about people. I learned

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Speaker 1: a lot about people over the last few days, and

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Speaker 1: I think you have too. We'll talk about it. A

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Speaker 1: lot of reaction. I got college football playoff thoughts. I

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Speaker 1: have got some thoughts on Dion Sanders going to Boulder, Colorado,

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Speaker 1: who had that put together in the old Bingo card

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Speaker 1: five years ago or even five months ago. Also, tomorrow

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Speaker 1: is going to be insane. It is Portal Monday for

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Speaker 1: lack of a better name, that we will eventually arrive at.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is going to be crazy, and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: get you ready for it and I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 1: some names to keep an eye on. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you some programs to keep an eye on. Tomorrow for

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Speaker 1: those unfamiliar, which is basically all of you, because this

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Speaker 1: has not happened before in this manner, is the portal

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Speaker 1: window opens tomorrow. That's the day that you can officially

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Speaker 1: go into the transfer portal. You've seen a lot of

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Speaker 1: kids indicate they intend to go in. This is when

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, so we'll get you ready for that.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a paper pop special, a jam

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Speaker 1: pack show. Don't skip any parts of this. In San Antonio, Texas,

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Speaker 1: they're watching us tonight. In Knoxville, Tennessee, and Abbaville, Alabama.

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Speaker 1: In Swainsboro, Georgia, and Boise, Idaho, they're watching us. They're

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Speaker 1: listening to us. We thank you guys so much. We

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Speaker 1: are approaching now one hundred and sixty thousand subs and

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Speaker 1: we're still trying to figure out the prize for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand subs this week. At some point,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kind of call it. I'm taking suggestions from you.

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Speaker 1: Who do you want us to collaborate with? Who do

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Speaker 1: you want me to do special episode with because I

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Speaker 1: really the post its were on the desk, that's unprofessional.

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Speaker 1: I really want to get this recorded before Christmas. So

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Speaker 1: we're talking about in the next few weeks. So let's

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Speaker 1: get a name. There's a whole lot of Joel Clad

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Speaker 1: out there would love that. There's a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: Brandon Walker out there, would would despise that. But you

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Speaker 1: know what, It's not up to me, it's up to you.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, Jeff Tetford has been suggested as well.

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Speaker 1: So there are a lot of names out there. Keep

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Speaker 1: them coming and then we will draw a line and

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Speaker 1: make a conclusion at some point this week. Playoff matchups

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Speaker 1: are set this morning. A lot of you tuned in.

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Speaker 1: I myself did not because I knew that it was

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Speaker 1: gonna take a little while. But eventually, I, like the

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Speaker 1: rest of you, found out who's gonna play. Who's the one,

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Speaker 1: the two, the three, the four. Georgia. Last night I

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Speaker 1: a little while. They are the one seed. They are

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Speaker 1: favored by six and a half as it stands right

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Speaker 1: now against Ohio State, the four seed. They're going to

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Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl against TCU. There's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: I am of the opinion then when things are said,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't just forget them. That includes predictions that go wrong,

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Speaker 1: That includes predictions that go right. But do you remember this,

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the whole the committee will never let

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Speaker 1: the G five in the playoff? Remember how that all

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Cincinnati got put in the playoff. Then

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Speaker 1: the same casuals who told you that told you, well,

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Speaker 1: they're only in there because there were no other options. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But then separate and apart from that, you also told me,

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Speaker 1: put TCU in. If TCU loses, they're gonna be out.

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Speaker 1: They have to be perfect. The ball is infinitely higher

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Speaker 1: And once again, friends, let's go back. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: get told just like I do. Every spring, every summer,

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Speaker 1: never had the same four team field twice. Those are

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Speaker 1: the lies that they have told you and continue to

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Speaker 1: tell you. Now, let's talk about some lies about Alabama,

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna have all the time in the world

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Speaker 1: to break down the games. So congrats to Georgia, talk

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Speaker 1: about them later. Congrats to TCU, Michigan Ohio State. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we put both of them in the playoff in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: if you'll recall. Now, I had Utah in there too,

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Speaker 1: So let's call that like it is. That's a whiff.

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Speaker 1: But I did have Michigan and Ohio State in the playoff,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of people slandered me, said, you idiot.

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Speaker 1: Do you realize they played the last game of the year,

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I don't really know college football

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban's doing? And I'm like, what, watching TV like

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Speaker 1: the rest of us at home, because he's not playing today? No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: can you believe what he just said? On Fox? And

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Speaker 1: And there he was Nick Saban, lobbying, pleading on behalf

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Speaker 1: i'd hear Nick Saban do, and I wish a lot

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Speaker 1: of you wouldn't do, and that is talk about hypothetical

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Speaker 1: point spreads. He went down that road. In fairness, he

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban was out of cards. He had he had

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Speaker 1: think he knows that's BS okay. I think Nick Saban understands.

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Speaker 1: ask the committee rhetorically would we be favored or would

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Speaker 1: we be an underdog? He knows how ridiculous that is.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have any other card to play. That's Nick Saban.

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Speaker 1: A lot of other people don't know better, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of other people were really coming at me with

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Speaker 1: not who's most deserving? The committee is supposed to put

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Speaker 1: the concept of power ratings and the concept of odds

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Speaker 1: saying because BAMA would be favored over Michigan, who they

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Speaker 1: it doesn't, No, it doesn't. Here's what you're suggesting, by

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Speaker 1: lost a third game, that still be favored over TCU. Guys,

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Speaker 1: least one of the fourteen participants they should be in.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you think that should work? Nobody out

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Speaker 1: there's that dumb. There's no way you seriously think like that.

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Speaker 1: And you're talking to someone here who doesn't even acknowledge

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Speaker 1: the a people who only traffics in power ratings. But

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Speaker 1: I also clearly draw the line not in pencil, but

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Speaker 1: These are for entertainment purposes only. In no shape, form

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Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff Committee should rank teams because we

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Speaker 1: play the games for a reason. This stuff right here,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do something. I'm gonna do something on

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Speaker 1: this piece of paper right now. I'm gonna put Bama

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Speaker 1: minus ten. Okay, they're favored on the piece of paper.

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Speaker 1: Now watch what happened. Did you see how easy that was?

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Speaker 1: wag their finger at anyone who doesn't praise him, who

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Speaker 1: were counting him out and who were touting JT. Daniels

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Speaker 1: as the guy who should start in the playoff for

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Speaker 1: Georgia last year. People forget it because they're winning now,

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Speaker 1: and they've already won a national championship and they're the

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Speaker 1: favorite to win another one. It hasn't been that way.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't been easy at all. This hasn't been smooth sailing.

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Speaker 1: It was extremely rocky just one calendar year ago. So

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Speaker 1: that's why it's a big deal. They won the SEC

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Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett did it, and now they're the favorite in

436
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Speaker 1: the playoff. It hasn't been smooth. It's been very very

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Speaker 1: bumpy now. The other thing to keep in mind as

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Speaker 1: you looking at this, and you take away with every

439
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Speaker 1: other game that you watch, is when teams win a

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Speaker 1: national title, naturally there's a big spotlight on them. And

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Speaker 1: I think I heard a lot over this summer. I

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Speaker 1: heard a lot of notions about how Georgia wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to be able to do fill in the blank this year,

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Speaker 1: and how they lost a lot of guys to the draft,

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Speaker 1: and Alabama was going to be really good, and I

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Speaker 1: believe Bama was going to be the best team in

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Speaker 1: the conference. But I certainly remember Georgia losing a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys in the draft. But I remember people just

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Speaker 1: making these definitive statements. And you got to be careful

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Speaker 1: with the definitives, because you get fooled into thinking because

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Speaker 1: a team is not as good as last year, in

452
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Speaker 1: your mind, that means they can't accomplish the same end

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Speaker 1: result that that team did. But that's only true if

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Speaker 1: they don't measure up to the other teams around them.

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Speaker 1: It's not about whether george is as good as they

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Speaker 1: were last year. It's about whether they're better than all

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Speaker 1: the other teams around them in calendar year twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: This year they have been could argue that's because the

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Speaker 1: sports down or whatever you want to that's not their fault.

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Speaker 1: They're just playing their best ball right now and they

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Speaker 1: are reaping the rewards. They're a one seed yet again.

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Speaker 1: But spring and summer benefited them greatly. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you why. You're supposed to be dealing with a

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Speaker 1: lot of complacency right now. George is not supposed to

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Speaker 1: be in the position they're in. You're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: dealing with guys struggling to rev their engines internally to

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Speaker 1: the degree they did a year ago. You're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be struggling, maybe even with parts of your staff. And

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be struggling with folks being fat and

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Speaker 1: happy because they did something they hadn't done in a

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Speaker 1: couple of generations, and they're not dealing with it. George

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Speaker 1: is not dealing with it, at least to the degree

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Speaker 1: that we can see. I'm not saying there haven't been

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Speaker 1: days where Kirby's not had to jump down someone's throat

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Speaker 1: for it. I'm saying, on the whole, that program looks

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Speaker 1: every bit as hungry as they did last year. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you two reasons I think have contributed to that.

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Speaker 1: Number One, they lost so many guys, something that people

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Speaker 1: told you would make them weaker. They lost so many

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Speaker 1: guys to the draft. A lot of the ones you

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Speaker 1: see playing critical roles for this team now were not starters.

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Speaker 1: Last year. Therefore, they don't have the sense of entitlement

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Speaker 1: that typically would come if you had already started and

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Speaker 1: won a title. A lot of these guys have had

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Speaker 1: it preach to them over and over again. You haven't

486
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Speaker 1: proven a thing, and that's true. That's not a mind game.

487
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Speaker 1: The other thing is there was so much going on

488
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Speaker 1: off the field in college football in the winter and

489
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Speaker 1: spring and summer, no one had time to talk about Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this over the summer, said, for a team

491
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Speaker 1: that just won a title for the first time in

492
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Speaker 1: forty years, there sure hadn't been a lot of talk

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Speaker 1: about him on this show or elsewhere. And it wasn't

494
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Speaker 1: because they're a no name team. It's just because so

495
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Speaker 1: much was happening, playoff talk, portal talk, nil talk. The

496
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Speaker 1: sport seemed to blow up every week. Georgia kind of

497
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Speaker 1: flew under the radar, so they didn't get praised like

498
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Speaker 1: you normally would. They don't have a huge chunk of

499
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Speaker 1: a returning national championship team like you normally would. There's

500
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Speaker 1: very little complacency. They just haven't had to deal with it,

501
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Speaker 1: and it's refreshing to see. I guarantee you Kirby smart

502
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Speaker 1: loves it. Some thought that's on LSU here right quick.

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Speaker 1: I think last night's going to pay dividends, and pay

504
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Speaker 1: dividends immediately because I think you finally saw what a

505
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Speaker 1: lot of us speculated you may have in Garrett Nusmeyer.

506
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Speaker 1: I'm one who thought he may start for them from

507
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Speaker 1: the opening gun. It ended up being Jaden Daniels. Jaden

508
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Speaker 1: Daniels had a great year for them. They're in the

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Speaker 1: SEC Championship game in large part because of him. But

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Speaker 1: last night you saw Garrett Nusmeyer get pressed into action. Now,

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Speaker 1: I understand it's a big difference when you face a

512
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Speaker 1: team and you're already trailing and you're in nothing to lose,

513
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: just throw it against the wall mentality, and that team

514
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Speaker 1: hasn't prepared for you. I understand there's a difference between

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Speaker 1: that and being the full time starting quarterback. I think

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Speaker 1: Garrett Nusmeyer is fully capable of being the full time

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback at LSU. Now we enter a very critical

518
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Speaker 1: stretch because there's a lot of division, not toxic division,

519
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of healthy division amongst LSU fans

520
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Speaker 1: as to what they think is going to happen. Some

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Speaker 1: people thought nus Meyer was going to go in the

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Speaker 1: poortl because up until last night it kind of looked

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Speaker 1: like Jade and Daniel's team, and then surely he'll be

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Speaker 1: the starter next year. And now all of a sudden,

525
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Speaker 1: you see what Nusmayer can do, and you're like, wait,

526
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Speaker 1: if we build the offense around him, if we fortify

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, which is priority A, if we continue

528
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Speaker 1: to build at the running back and receiver positions and

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Speaker 1: we got nuss Meyer back there, might our ceiling be

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Speaker 1: higher with him? I think the answer is yes. Like

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Speaker 1: I'm of that opinion without having to not Jayden Daniels,

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Speaker 1: I'm of that opinion. Well, you know, the transfer portal

533
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Speaker 1: window opens tomorrow, and that's what you have to keep

534
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Speaker 1: an eye on. No one knows what's going to happen here.

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Speaker 1: I don't even think the LSU staff has a firm

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Speaker 1: grip on what's going to happen here. Selfishly, I want

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Speaker 1: to see what he can do. I want to see

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Speaker 1: what Garrett Nusmer can do in an entire season down there.

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Speaker 1: And I also think that if you were to if

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Speaker 1: you were to take that film, if you're Brian Kelly

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Speaker 1: and Mike Denbrock and that staff, and you're to say,

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Speaker 1: this is the future of LSU football next year, in

543
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Speaker 1: the year after, this is the future where I can

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Speaker 1: go fishing for some big perimeter skill talent in the

545
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Speaker 1: transfer portal, and I've got a really good recruiting class

546
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Speaker 1: coming in. I'm not saying the portals the end all

547
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: be all. I think you can be right back in

548
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: the conversation again next year and years to come. This

549
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: was ahead of schedule. It just so happened. The West

550
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: was a little bit down and LSU was opportunistic enough

551
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: to beat Alabama. And good for them. It's not a

552
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: bad thing they got blown out. It's a good thing.

553
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: They were there to begin with and they got to

554
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: experience that. Good things coming for LSU. I just I'm

555
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: very curious how that quarterback situation is going to play out.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's take a sip from the Cellis tastes

557
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: like a Clemson ACC championship there. Make sure, if you're here,

558
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: do me a favor. Liked the video and subscribe to

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00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: the channel. And remember, a lot of you have tuned

560
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: in for the first time this year. In fact, hundreds

561
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: of thousands of you have tuned in for the first

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Speaker 1: time this year. Thank you. Sometimes I take it for granted.

563
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: You know what this show is about. We are three

564
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five days a year nothing but college football.

565
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: We don't take off seasons. We don't even say the

566
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Speaker 1: word off season out loud. We refuse to do it.

567
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: So if you think that we're approaching the finish line

568
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get past the national title game and

569
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Speaker 1: then you won't have any more college football coverage in

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Speaker 1: your feed, good news, You're dead wrong. In fact, we

571
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: have as fun with our format in what the casuals

572
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: would call the off season as we do during the season.

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Speaker 1: So don't go anywhere and make sure you're subscribed, is

574
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: my point. And tell your friends as well, make sure

575
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: you get that word out. We do this thing all year.

576
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: We don't have seasons around here. Okay, Clemson thirty nine,

577
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: North Carolina ten. This was them. This was the Clemson

578
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: that I thought may somewhere deep down inside exist and

579
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: we finally saw it. And who was leading the charge

580
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: dj Ouien No, No, it was Caid club Nick more

581
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: on him in just a second. This is the seventh

582
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: ACC championship in the last eight years for Clemson. Here's

583
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: a little stat. They've won their last five conference titles

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Speaker 1: by at least twenty four points. Not an overly entertaining

585
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: product that's been put on display in Charlotte when the

586
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: Tigers have won this thing, but they have won it,

587
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: nonetheless fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty two.

588
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: Parody has not come to the acc quite yet. Here's

589
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: a padlock stat though defensively. I know everyone's talking about

590
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: Caid Clubnick, and I am about two as well. Trust

591
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: me about two as well. But you want a padlock

592
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: stat here, I can't give you one. But if you

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00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: want padlocks stats plural, I can give you one. It's

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00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: called the Clemson defense. And they scored themselves a touchdown.

595
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: They forced themselves three turnovers, They recorded four sacks, they

596
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 1: had eight quarterback curries, they had seven tackles for loss.

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00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: That is assault legal in nature, and they did it

598
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Speaker 1: all night long. Immunity to North Carolina. I've got to

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00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: tell you something before I get into the true crux

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Speaker 1: of this game. Surely Caid Klubnick is the story of

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Speaker 1: this game. And he went twenty of twenty four, had

602
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy four passing yards. He had thirty

603
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: on the ground. And some of you out there may

604
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: not have watched Clemson a lot this year, and you're wondering,

605
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: even this late, you're maybe wondering, who's kid Clubnick. That's okay.

606
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: Not everyone has time to watch every one of these games.

607
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: Kid Klubnick, to remind you, was a five star quarterback,

608
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Speaker 1: is a true freshman. We talked about him a lot

609
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Speaker 1: this time last year because he was committed to Clemson,

610
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: and the question after DJ even struggled last year, was

611
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Speaker 1: could he start as a true freshman. It was the

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Speaker 1: entire focal point of our spring and summer coverage of Clemson.

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Speaker 1: I went on the record pretty emphatically and told you

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Speaker 1: if they are going to win the ACC, it's going

615
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: to be because he is starting. It did not play

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Speaker 1: out like I thought it would, because I thought Clemson

617
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: winning the ACE was also going to be tantamount to

618
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: them punching their ticket to the playoff. They waited too

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Speaker 1: late to make the switch. I don't know how else

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Speaker 1: to put it, Guys. I am very very against questioning

621
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Speaker 1: play calling or personnel decisions, but I feel pretty comfortable

622
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Speaker 1: telling you they cost themselves an opportunity to win the

623
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Speaker 1: conference and then some in the playoff by playing the

624
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Speaker 1: second best quarterback on the roster. And I think if

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Speaker 1: you didn't watch last night and come to that conclusion,

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00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: we just disagree. Kate Clebnick's been the best quarterback, and

627
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: not the best from a skill level. I mean, he's

628
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: been the most equipped. He's given them a better shot

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Speaker 1: to win than DJ for quite a while now. Having

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Speaker 1: said that, there's a loyalty factor. I understand on the

631
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Speaker 1: surface why Dabo made the decisions he did. I don't

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Speaker 1: agree with them. I'll put it that way. Now. While

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Speaker 1: he goes in the game and he goes twenty of

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Speaker 1: twenty four, and he didn't start by the way he

635
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Speaker 1: got in the game when they started slow, Mack Brown

636
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Speaker 1: and his team had a decision to make during the

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Speaker 1: week leading up to this game. They had a decision

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Speaker 1: to make. How were they going to prepare for Clemson?

639
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: And I don't know that I've heard a more stunning

640
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: SoundBite from a head coach after a game in quite

641
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: a while. Maybe it's just because the rest of them

642
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: aren't honest and Mac Brown is, but Mack Brown was

643
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: brutally honest to the point of being regrettably honest last

644
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: night in the postgame, So to tee it up before

645
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Speaker 1: we show you this quote, and I'm gonna read it

646
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: for you if you're on podcast. Mac Brown got asked,

647
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: how did you guys prepare or did you guys prepare

648
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: for Kai Klubnick. Now, mind you, Klubnick's been in games

649
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: already this year, and the talk around Clemson all week

650
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: was about whether he was going to play. Okay, so

651
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: forget about coaches, forget about insiders. This is mainstream conversation

652
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: around the program all week. Are we gonna see Cade Saturday?

653
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: He gives us our best chance to win? Blah blah blah.

654
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: With that as the backdrop, Mack Brown got asked, did

655
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: you guys prepare for him? Listen to this? No, was

656
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: his answer. He didn't beat around the bush. No, we

657
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: didn't prepare for the backup quarterback Cad had played very

658
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: little all year. When he went in at Notre Dame,

659
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: I think he threw an interception. So we totally thought

660
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: we would see DJ because they hadn't changed all year.

661
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: We stopped them the first two times. DJ was struggling.

662
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we thought would happen. And hope would

663
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: happen because he's played good at times, but he didn't

664
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: play well last week and he was really struggling. He's

665
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: talking about DJ. They weren't trying to run the ball.

666
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: We thought they would try to line up and run

667
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: the ball like Notre Dame did. But then Caid came

668
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: in and hit twenty of twenty four and ten of

669
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: eleven in the first half and really played great. If

670
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Speaker 1: my head coach said that, I would accuse him of

671
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: a dereliction of duty to the football program. He's not

672
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: paid to coach my team. Among other things, mac Brown

673
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: does not teach a full course load. He doesn't act

674
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: as a pe teacher in Chapel Hill and then coach

675
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: football after three point thirty in the afternoon. That's his job.

676
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: That's his staff's job. I didn't prepare for the backup

677
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: quarterback is ridiculous on the surface. I didn't prepare for

678
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback who the entire world's been talking about

679
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: playing this Saturday. Is egregious. That is a dereliction of

680
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: your duty as the head football coach of a program.

681
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: It's a pathetic statement. I love Mac Brown, that's a

682
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: pathetic statement to say that's one. As much as I

683
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: appreciate honesty, I would much rather you just keep to yourself.

684
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: I'd much rather hear that five or ten years from

685
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: now when a staffer who was there at the time

686
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: tells me, you know, we didn't we didn't even prepare

687
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: for Cade that game. That's why we look so bad. Okay,

688
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: fun little anecdote at a clinic five years from now.

689
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to be hearing that from my head

690
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: coach the day after the game. Wolf. At the same time,

691
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: good year for North Carolina, Okay, I think they improved

692
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: on last year. It's not a program that's in a

693
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: bad place. It's an interesting program at a crossroads, I think,

694
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: And part of that is because a lot of the

695
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: rumors that will surround Drake may are not gonna go

696
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: away until he makes a definitive statement about the portal

697
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: and whether he's gonna leave or not. But they go

698
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: nine and four this year, so I know it ended

699
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: with a thud yesterday, But good year for them. I

700
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: completely think it's right to question Dabo Swiney here and

701
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: the way he handled his quarterbacks. But yesterday is yesterday today,

702
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: and moving forward, as I told you, last week. I

703
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: think they'll do a healthy inventory of their team. I

704
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: think they'll make some changes. Don't know what they'll be yet.

705
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: But here's where I'm most interested. Dabo has been reluctant

706
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: to dive into the portal. But if I take that

707
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: game film yesterday said the same thing about Garrett nusmerd Lsu.

708
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: If I take that game film and I show you

709
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: what Cade Clubnet can do, and I guarantee you he's

710
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: here next year, I can go get some big time

711
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: receiver talent which they used to have and win with,

712
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: and they don't have, and they're not winning with right now.

713
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: And I know that Clemson hasn't been a player in

714
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: the portal. Maybe Clemson will be a player in the portal.

715
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: We'll see. That is one of many things to pay

716
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: attention to. It's gonna start tomorrow, but it's gonna go

717
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: on for forty five days. So let's just see. The

718
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 1: Tigers are kind of on the outside looking in. They're

719
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: not gonna be at the forefront of these conversations. They're

720
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: absolutely a program. I'm keeping an eye on. Some added

721
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: takeaways here from what was an interesting conference championship couple

722
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: of days Michigan beat Purdue last night forty three to

723
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: twenty two. I felt that they had downhill momentum. I

724
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: felt like they could turn it on at any point

725
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: they wanted too. Against Purdue, they did. They won comfortably.

726
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: They covered. They've got twenty five wins the past two years.

727
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: That is the most in a two year stretch in

728
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: the history of Michigan football. They got out, gained, didn't matter,

729
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: and so of an edwards. Remember Blake Orm's out for

730
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: the year now. Donovan Evers had one hundred and eighty

731
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: five yards. Not a lot to say about this game.

732
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to say about Michigan now

733
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: being in the best position they will have been in

734
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: this millennium to potentially win a national championship, because they're

735
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: gonna go in here and they're gonna be favored against TCU,

736
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: And we'll pick that game when it's time to pick it.

737
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: But JJ McCarthy's playing well this team, especially now that

738
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: everyone has a chance to get healthy. You expect the

739
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: best version of them that you will have gotten all year.

740
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: It's a healthy challenge for them, just like last night was.

741
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: But their biggest game was a week ago, and then

742
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: the remainder of their biggest challenges lie ahead. I'm very,

743
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: very interested offensively to see how they go about things

744
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: against TCU. Speaking of TCU, they fell yesterday to Kansas

745
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: State thirty one to twenty eight. I was right, it

746
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: wasn't hard to see coming. But this was the game

747
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: of the week. The Big twelve Championship will always liver.

748
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: Did you notice this is the second consecutive year that

749
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: game has essentially come down to a goal line stand.

750
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: Last year it was Baylor, this year it was Kansas State.

751
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: And for the second year in a row, I am

752
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: huddled at the SEC Championship game around a monitor with everyone,

753
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: and folks are just going crazy. They're living and dying

754
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: with every single play. I mean again, if you're calling

755
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: me and you claim to be my friend and it

756
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: is seven thirty eight pm on a Sunday night, are

757
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: you really my friend? Do you really not know where

758
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: I am? Right now? We move on. Kansas State wanted

759
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: another crack at them so bad. I mean I was.

760
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: I was out in Manhattan after they had already played

761
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: that game, and it wasn't disrespectful, it was far from that.

762
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: It was just when I was around that staff and

763
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: that team. I got a sense that they would give anything,

764
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,479
Speaker 1: they would give their right arm to have another crack

765
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 1: at TCU because of the way that first game went down,

766
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 1: and they got it, and they trailed at the half,

767
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: and they didn't allow themselves to get both raced. Remember

768
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: TCU went on a twenty eight run to end the

769
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: game that first time around. It did not happen here. Now,

770
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,919
Speaker 1: the padlock stat very very clear. TCU held to two

771
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: of fifteen on third down Boom padlockstat. End of story.

772
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, Max Duggan in a loss. Max Duggan,

773
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: TCU quarterback, first player with two hundred and fifty passing

774
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: yards and one hundred rushing yards in a conference title

775
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: game since Deshaun Watson at Clemson. Max Duggan had a

776
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy worthy season this year. We'll see how that

777
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: award is voted. On how it shakes out. I've got

778
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: some friends. I'm going to clap for you guys. Congratulations

779
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: freshly minted Heisman voters. I myself am not I'm not

780
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: quite enough into this college football team to get a

781
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: Heisman vote. But I'm not bitter. Far be it for

782
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: me to be bitter? I'm much more likely to just

783
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: start my own award over here. But congrats to our

784
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: newly minted Heisman voters. Let's go to Friday night. What'd

785
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: you think about USC Utah once Caleb Williams got hurt.

786
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: I think we played an entirely new game. But the

787
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: way that you have to be careful about this is

788
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: you got to be careful in how you talk about it.

789
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: Look at Jesse slinging it at quarterback there for Utah.

790
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 1: You got to be careful because it sounds like you're

791
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: discounting Utah when you talk about quarterback injury. For USC,

792
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that at all, because they

793
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: helped the Caleb Williams lost to Utah earlier in the year,

794
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: so it's not like I'm telling you it was solely

795
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: because of one thing. But I also think we need

796
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: to acknowledge USC started extremely fast. I guarantee you there

797
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: are a lot of you who thought they were about

798
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: to run away with that game when you watch the

799
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: way it started. Lincoln Riley teams have started fast and

800
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: finished slow in the past, so there are things we

801
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: simply can't know. I cannot tell you how the game

802
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 1: would have gone if Kayleb Williams remained one hundred percent.

803
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: So what I can tell you is Utah is one

804
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: of the best stories in college football. They have been

805
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: for a while. Kyle Whittingham is one of the best

806
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: coaches in college football. He has been for a while. Selfishly,

807
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: close your eyes in Salt Lake City, Close your ears

808
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City. I've wanted to see him take

809
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: a bigger job or either. I've wanted to see the

810
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,280
Speaker 1: sport evolve to where they could get more premier talent

811
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: to Salt Lake City so that if they were to

812
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: have runs like this, they didn't fall three times during

813
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: the season. They lost three times this year and it

814
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: cost him a shot. I thought they were going to

815
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: go to the playoff. I picked him to go to

816
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: the playoff. They're a good team. It's just you put

817
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: a lower ceiling on yourself. You've got to play B

818
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: plus or better football more often the lesser your talent level.

819
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: Recruiting is not everything. Even talent is not everything. You

820
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: can get by with a lesser caliber roster, but single

821
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: injuries have a more critical impact, and you have to

822
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: play collectively at a higher level, and it's hard to

823
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: do it. For twelve weeks. It just is. But when

824
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: you do it any one given week, you're capable of

825
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: making anyone look foolish. The second half rushings to tistics

826
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: in this game are only possible in college football because

827
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: they count sack yardage as rushing yardage, and that is

828
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: why Utah outrushed USC one thirty seven to negative thirty

829
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: four in the second half. Around here, we call that

830
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 1: a padlock stat Beware, though, of the recalibration of expectations.

831
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: Beware of that because it's happening with USC. It's happening

832
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: because a lot of folks hate USC, and therefore they

833
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: take pleasure in watching Lincoln Riley tote one in the

834
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: last game of the season. Lincoln Riley's in a game

835
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: he had no business being in. USC was in a

836
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: game they had no business being in. By any common

837
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: sensical metric, there's no way he should have been able

838
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: to do that in year one, but he did well.

839
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: What happens is once people realize WHOA, You're way better

840
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: than I thought you were going to be, they forget

841
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: about what they thought you were going to be, and

842
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: then it's almost like they hit the reset button. Usually

843
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: around the first of November and they decide, Okay, I've

844
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: got a fresh set of expectations for a you that's

845
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: based on what you've shown me this year. Now you're

846
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: gonna have to play based on those expectations. And therefore,

847
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: starting in November, everyone all of a sudden made USC

848
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: the overwhelming favorite to win the Pac twelve. So the

849
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: fact that they did and means they failed, they underachieved. No,

850
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: that's not the way this works. You don't get to

851
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: do that. You don't get to judge someone in your

852
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: preview magazine season and then they make you look dumb.

853
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: So then you recalibrate your expectation to an untenable level

854
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: for them or an unrealistic one. They don't match up

855
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: with that, and then you call them the failure. They

856
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: proved to you that you're the failure. And that's what

857
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: USC did this year. But they're a very polarizing program.

858
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley's polarizing head coach, and I get why people

859
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: took delight in watching Utah slay Goliath. I don't think

860
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: they're a Goliath yet, but they're going to be a

861
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: beast moving forward. USC once they fortify lines of scrimmage,

862
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: which I think will be a priority here and once Look,

863
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: I think a lot of you have helped the doubts

864
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: about Alex Grinch defensively. I think they'll be better than

865
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: what they were and what they just showed. I thought

866
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams played great all year. You could easily cast

867
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 1: your vote for him for Heisman. Still, it's a shame

868
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: that he got hurt because they were training headlong towards

869
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: a playoff spot and we were gonna get to see

870
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: Kayleb Williams. You know another reason I'm not here to

871
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: re litigate the playoff expansion thing, but seriously, one of

872
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: the reasons that I think it's ludicrous to expand the

873
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 1: playoff is because the whole risk of player injury is

874
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: so real. Think about how different things are with Caleb Williams. Okay,

875
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: and then they're going back and forth in that game.

876
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: You got players dropping like flies, and you're entering into

877
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: the world into a world where if they were to

878
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: have somehow won that game, you're gonna ask them to

879
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: win three more games. You're gonna ask some of these

880
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: teams to win two or three more games. You're gonna

881
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: ask them to play and practice for another month, which

882
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: by the way stretches to January twentieth, a made update.

883
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: That's when the National Title Game will be played under

884
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: the new format first time, January twentieth. You start in August,

885
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: you go all the way August, and really you've been

886
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: doing stuff all summer too, but August officially is when

887
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: you start practice. September, October, November, December is when you

888
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: end your regular season. Then you start the playoff before Christmas,

889
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: and then it goes all the way to January twentieth.

890
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,919
Speaker 1: If you're a player with the NFL aspirations, you could

891
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 1: have played seventeen games, go straight to the Senior Bowl maybe,

892
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: which is the first week of February. If you don't

893
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: do that, you go straight into combine and you have

894
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: gone and gone and gone and completely zapped your body

895
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: in some cases for very little money. And what's the

896
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: incentive right now is to win a national championship. Hopefully

897
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 1: it's always thought of to be as valuable to players

898
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: as it is to us. Fingers crossed. John Summerole and

899
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: Troy won the Sun Belt in year one. I don't

900
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: want to overlooked at Caine Womack down at South Alabama

901
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 1: and John summerl heck of a job, both of them

902
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: in year one respectively at those programs A combined I

903
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: think twenty one wins this year just for those two.

904
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: And Tulane brings home the conference championship against UCF. And

905
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: I was down in New Orleans a month ago and

906
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: I watched that game and Gus Malzan and UCF comfortably

907
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: won that thing. So Willi Fritz, what a week it's

908
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: been for Willy Fritz. They win the conference title. And

909
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. There is a misnomer out

910
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,479
Speaker 1: there that Willy Fritz didn't get the Georgia Tech job

911
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: because Georgia Tech would not offer enough money. That's not

912
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: what happened. Georgia Tech wouldn't wait on Willy Fritz to

913
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: coach a conference title game. They were in too big

914
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: a hurry, so they hired Brent Key. Congrats to brin Key,

915
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: got no problem brin Key. I'm just saying, understand, they

916
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: just won a conference title, and that head coach Willie

917
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 1: Fritz four went an opportunity to grab a bigger job

918
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: because of the commitment he had to that team. So

919
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be celebrated down in New Orleans

920
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: because I think he made the right call. I don't

921
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: know if Georgia Tech made the right call, but congratulations

922
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: to the green wave because this is not a situation

923
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: that many of us thought they would be in a

924
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: month ago. All right, let's talk about the news of

925
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: the seemingly like the news of the season. At the

926
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: very least, it's the news of the weekend. Interested to

927
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: see the comment section on this one. Dion Sanders is

928
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: now the head coach at Colorado. I know it's a

929
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: shocking headline. If you just woke up from your cryogenically

930
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: frozen state, whyever you were in that for the past

931
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: three or four years. I'm not here to judge. I'm

932
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: just saying, welcome back. Deon Sanders is the head coach

933
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: at Colorado. What do you think? I mean? I really

934
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: want to what do you think? So I'm looking at

935
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: the live chat over here. I've seen a lot of comments.

936
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: I'll read the comment section. What do we think? I

937
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: think that this was coming in most of us since

938
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: there have been visceral reactions both ways towards this. How

939
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: bad has Colorado been? Though? I know a lot of

940
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: you were older and you remember a time where Colorado

941
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: was a serious national player. Some of you were in

942
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: high school or college and you have no clue what

943
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. And if you're of that age, you've

944
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: seen them obviously go one and eleven. This year they

945
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: finished last in the PAC twelve. They have two winning

946
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: seasons since joining the PAC twelve, which was all the

947
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: way back in twenty eleven. Two winning seasons. They just

948
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: lost double digit games for the fourth time since twenty ten.

949
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: They have eight Bowl games this millennium. They're one in

950
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: seven in those Bowl appearances. They have never finished higher

951
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: than thirty fifth in the recruiting rankings in the modern era,

952
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: and that was in twenty seventeen. Deon Sanders is a sellout.

953
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: It is what I got told today. This one took

954
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: me by surprise a little bit. People told me that

955
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: folks were going to be mad at this. Didn't really

956
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: know how mad people were gonna be. And I don't

957
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: really care what reasons you have for being mad, but

958
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: let me just respond to it and I'll try not

959
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: to get worked up. I need a blank piece of

960
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: paper for this. Actually, second prop of the show. Someone

961
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 1: told me today with a straight face. I mean someone

962
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: told me today with a serious face. Dion Sanders is

963
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: a sellout for taking the Colorado job. Why is he

964
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: a sellout? Well, he took the money. He left those

965
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: kids behind. He lured to me, convinced them to come

966
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: to Jackson State, and then left them behind. Convincing, by

967
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: the way, only happens when you're talking to someone who

968
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: has a choice. So all those kids had a choice

969
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: to go to Jackson State in fairness, just like they

970
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,720
Speaker 1: have a choice now to leave if they so choose.

971
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: I got a list here in my hand of all

972
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: the people that are calling Dion Sanders a sellout that

973
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: have turned down two thousand percent raises and definitively better

974
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: jobs recently. It's a blank sheet of paper. No one

975
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: does it because you fools are hypocrites, a sellout. The

976
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: ones who call folks like Deon Sanders a sellout are

977
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: the ones who never and they know they'll never have

978
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: that option. You'll never have that kind of life changing

979
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: money put in front of you. The dude is making

980
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: three hundred grand a year now. Deon Sanders is not

981
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: hurting for money, but it's the principle of the thing.

982
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: He's making three hundred grand a year at Jackson State.

983
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,720
Speaker 1: Good money to coach there. He's about to make about

984
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: six a year, five two six million dollars a year,

985
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: and he will essentially be able to run the football program.

986
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: And he knows that he can get kids portal out there,

987
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: and it's a program where there's nowhere to go but up.

988
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: Every one of you makes this decision, every single one

989
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,959
Speaker 1: of you. The other day, I had someone who wasn't

990
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: being foolish, they were being respectful, but they were asking,

991
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: do you think that he's leaving too soon? Because he

992
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: promised to do certain things for Jackson State, which he

993
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: still is, like he's still funding facility enhancements there now.

994
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: But their point was, he promised to bring relevance to

995
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: historically black colleges. He promised to fulfill certain things at

996
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: Jackson State, and he hasn't. And he promised to bring

997
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: more attention. That was the wording that was using, and

998
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: he hasn't. And I'm like, what are we watching? Because

999
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: I remember, and I took you back to last signing

1000
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: day when they got Travis Hunter out of nowhere, and

1001
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: I remember sitting there down in Fort Lauderdale. Like I

1002
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: told you the other day, I mean, we were on

1003
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: air at one o'clock. We had already been on air

1004
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: several hours. A and M's in the process of loading

1005
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: up on a historic recruiting class. We had talked more

1006
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: about Jackson State than we had Texas A and M.

1007
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: On the day where an M was landing that class.

1008
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: He got seven former four and five star recruits to

1009
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: Jackson State on the roster right now. They may not

1010
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: all be there tomorrow. He made a huge difference. He

1011
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: brought college gate Day to Jackson State like that. Stuff's

1012
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: not happened in otherwise. So I seriously asked this, and

1013
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,879
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong here. There are a lot of people

1014
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: who thought Dion Sanders was going to go to Jackson

1015
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: State and stay there a decade if he had options

1016
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: to leave and go to a bona fide POWERFI program,

1017
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: even Colorado. Did people think that? I just never thought that,

1018
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: Like I always thought this was where his head was at,

1019
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: and it's a mutual trade off. You got certain things

1020
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: from him, he got certain things from you. That's the

1021
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: way it works. Hey, that's the way it'll work for

1022
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 1: Colorado too. I'm not saying Mike Norvel's in any hot

1023
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: water whatsoever. I'm just saying, if that Florida State job

1024
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: were to come open, or or any of maybe a

1025
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: dozen other jobs down the road that are more high

1026
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: profile in nature than Colorado. He'll be headed there. This

1027
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: is called progression, This is called natural elevation. This is

1028
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: how you work your way up the rungs of the ladder.

1029
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: Now Deon Sanders is Deon Sanders, so he can afford

1030
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: to do it in a little more unconventional of manner.

1031
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: But this is how you do it. And I think

1032
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: that this announcement, by the way, has to go hand

1033
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: in hand with what's going to happen tomorrow. And I'm

1034
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: going to talk about it more in a second. But

1035
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: tomorrowmorrow is when the transfer portal window opens up. We're

1036
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: gonna find out how many of those kids are gonna

1037
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: follow him to Colorado, how many kids who aren't at

1038
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: Jackson State are going to choose to go to Colorado.

1039
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big, big story to watch. I mean,

1040
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: they could just radically overhaul and recreate a program overnight. Seemingly,

1041
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:23,919
Speaker 1: Colorado probably gonna be a lot better on the field

1042
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: by default next year at the very least. Speaking of that,

1043
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: we are so right now, I assume it counts on

1044
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: the East coast so we're like four hours away from history.

1045
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: The transfer portal window opens Monday, twelve oh one am.

1046
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: It's open. That window begins. Let me tell you what's

1047
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: about to happen. No one's prepared for it. Let me

1048
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: try and get you as much prepared for it as

1049
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: you can be. It's tomorrow, Monday, December fifth, a day

1050
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: that will live in infamy, two days before Pearl Harbor.

1051
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: As it turns out, for forty five days, this thing's

1052
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: going to be open. So it's not like it has

1053
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: been where it's just open permanently and kids can go

1054
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: in and come out whenever they want to. It's been restructured,

1055
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: so it's a forty five day window. Then there's going

1056
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: to be another one post spring. So you got to

1057
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: go in there in these forty five days if you

1058
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 1: want to move. Hundreds and hundreds of noteworthy names are

1059
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: about to enter this. Notice what I just said. Hundreds

1060
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Speaker 1: of noteworthy names. Thousands of names are going to go in.

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Speaker 1: Hundreds of them that you recognize are going to go in,

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Speaker 1: not dozens if you're a hardcore fan, hundreds. I'm not

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00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: being hyperbolic there, it's going to be wild. Remember the

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00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: difference as I'm trying to get you ready for this.

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Speaker 1: There's a difference between legitimate portal entries and dipper entries.

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00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: The legitimate entries are guys who truly intend to go elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Simms at Georgia Tech. I don't think he's going

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Speaker 1: back to Georgia Tech. He fully intends to go elsewhere.

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00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 1: Not all these kids fully intend to go elsewhere. Some

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00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: of them are getting in the portal so they can

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00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: renegotiate deals, and they want to stay where they are.

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00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: They just want to make more money. Those are portal dippers.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a new term. It's just fresh because

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Speaker 1: it's a new concept. Programs I'm watching starting tomorrow and

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00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: moving forward. Auburn has a new head coach. Anybody who's

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00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: got a new head coach Colorado with Dion Wisconsin with

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00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,959
Speaker 1: Luke Fickel, They're certainly not gonna look at their roster

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00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: and say, yep, just one or two players away. Nah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna hit that portal hard. Hugh free Is at Auburn,

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00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna hit that portal very hard. Crystal Ball at

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00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: Miami will raid this thing napier. At Florida, they will

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00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: be a strong player in the transfer portal. Nick Saban

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00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: is going to cherry pick as he pleases and hopefully

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Speaker 1: they have a little better hit rate this time around Texas.

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00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:51,720
Speaker 1: I'm watching him TCU. I'm watching Penn State. Producer Jesse

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00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 1: tends to think the Penn State can make some moves

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00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: at receiver, but the players to watch on top of

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00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: the ones already in the portal dj Uangalley. I mean,

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00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: for example, that is a quarterback, Jesse am I seeing

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00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 1: this right by the way he is in the portal.

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Speaker 1: He has made his intentions known to go in the portal,

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00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: and I got nothing in my hear. Okay. So I'm

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00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 1: watching DJ because it seems imminent if he's not already

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00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: in there, that he will be in the portal. He

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00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: is in the portal, Okay. So DJ is probably not

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00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: gonna be at Clemson next year. I don't think that's

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00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: a shock to anyone, because we saw what ka Klubnick

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00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: did last night. Where does he go? What kind of

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00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: program is right for him? Is he a guy that

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00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: needs to descend to the G five level? Does he

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00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: go play at Washington or Oregon or somewhere like that

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00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: in the PAC twelve and just get closer to home.

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00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: Drake May at North Carolina last night said all the

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00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: right things. After their game, he was asked about the portal,

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00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: and he basically said what a prepared statement would have

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00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: him say. I don't have any firsthand knowledge that he's

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00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: going anywhere. There will be very little firsthand knowledge in

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00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,760
Speaker 1: this whole thing. I want to warn you about that too.

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00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: There's not going to be a ton of inside information

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00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: to be had because the circles are so small and

1111
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: things can change like that. You could wake up one

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00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: morning having no intention to go in the portal, and

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00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: if the right offer gets back channeled to you, you're

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00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: in the portal by sundown and you never even knew

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00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: it was coming. So if you didn't even know it

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00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: was coming, how's a reporter at the Dallas newspaper supposed

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00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: to know it's coming. How is someone at ESPN dot

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00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: com or twenty four seven sports dot com supposed to

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00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: know it's coming. So be careful of inside intel out there,

1120
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: or intel posing as being inside in nature. But Drake May,

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00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: that would be a game changer if he were to

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00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: go in. I don't want to speculate wildly like that

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Speaker 1: because I don't know anything. I'm saying Xavier Worthy wide

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00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: receiver at Texas, I don't know. There's just been speculation

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Speaker 1: will he go in. These are game changers, these are

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00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: guys who are the differences in games. So that's why

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00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 1: we're making a big deal about it. But just things

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00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: are gonna change fast, okay. And on that note, I

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Speaker 1: would also strongly encourage you guys on twenty four seven

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00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: sports dot Com and especially the twenty four seven Sports

1131
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: YouTube channel tomorrow, they're gonna be on air all day.

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Speaker 1: I'm even doing an appearance and I never do that

1133
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: on twenty four to seven Sports the YouTube channel, they

1134
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: have their own channel. Remember back in the summer, I

1135
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: think it was we got our own channel, and then

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00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: there's a new twenty four seven Sports channel. They will

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00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: be on live from ten to six tomorrow. That's how

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00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: historic that day is gonna be. They're gonna have all

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00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: the folks in here. Trey Scott's even in town. How

1140
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 1: about that that time a decade Hummer's here. I mean

1141
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: they were in the office earlier. It's going to be

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00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: very important. I would encourage you. If you remember back

1143
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: in the day, what watching coverage of National Signing Day

1144
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: was like that's what this kind of would be for you.

1145
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: So when you go to work tomorrow or if you're

1146
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: driving around just throughout the day, keep that twenty four

1147
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: to seven Sports YouTube channel pulled up and just keep

1148
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: that feed rolling. They'll be live, I mean, they'll be

1149
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: updating things all day. But it's gonna be a very

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00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: very useful resource cause you're not gonna get all the

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00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: information otherwise. Make sure you're tuned into that. I will be,

1152
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: and I'll be here too, a really good show tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a busy week. This is the new

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00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: world that we live in. It's gonna be a very

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Speaker 1: busy week. I appreciate you guys so much. We wrapped

1156
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: up what sixteen or seventeen weeks on the road, whatever

1157
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: it's been. It's gonna be that by the time we

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00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: get down in the season, and it's good to have

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00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: you along for the ride. So I appreciate it. Remember

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a lot, a lot to go over

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and then Tuesday, you know, we'll have our show.

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Speaker 1: But until then, the only favors I ask make sure

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00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: you follow wherever you're listening to the podcast, make sure

1164
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: you're following there leaving those reviews and on the YouTube channel,

1165
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: make sure you subscribe and liking the videos. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Everything's free. We want to keep it free. That's how

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Speaker 1: we keep it free. And you know what, if you

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Speaker 1: want to follow me on the sol Soos Athlete Kick, Josh,

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01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: I don't forbid that either. For producer Jesse, for director Colin,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. Thanks so much, have a great rest

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Speaker 1: of your evening, Take care and God bless