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Speaker 1: And then I put Penn State all the way up

430
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Speaker 1: at number three. Guess why I put them up there.

431
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: There's a familiar theme for me, and that is proven production.

432
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 1: And I had it wasn't even a person I had,

433
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 1: like a show someone sent me a clip of it.

434
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Speaker 1: I can't remember what the show was. Someone sent me

435
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 1: a clip, and ironically, the premise was I'm out of

436
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: touch for having Penn State number three. They said, Penn

437
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: State doesn't belong in the top twenty. It's just drug use.

438
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 1: You're just high. Like, what are you talking about? If

439
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: you want to argue with me, they don't belong in

440
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 1: the top five. Okay, I disagree, but there's not really

441
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: a big difference between three and six. Penn State not

442
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: in the top twenty. It just goes back to this

443
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 1: disease that people suffer when it comes to Penn State. Well,

444
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 1: Penn State can't win a big game. You mean they

445
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: can't beat like the best teams in the country. Well,

446
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: Drew aller Man, he sucks. No, No, he's about a

447
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 1: B minus to a B level quarterback. It's not A

448
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 1: or F. It's not ten or trash, it's not all

449
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: or nothing. There're ten runs on the ladder. Penn State's

450
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: been like seven or eight for a long time, last

451
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: year especially, and now they bring virtually all the good

452
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 1: pieces back. They've got another year of experience at quarterback

453
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: of a guy who probably hadn't played his best football

454
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: yet they went and replenished their wide receiver room like

455
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen him do in a while. They're gonna

456
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Speaker 1: be able to run the ball. They got two thousand

457
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: yard caliber backs if they were feature backs. They're good

458
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. They just signed Jim Knowles as

459
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They're good at all three levels. There who's

460
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: more proven than that? And coming out of spring now

461
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about comparatively Penn State. There's not a huge

462
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: question mark on that team. They're tiny question marks. There

463
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,239
Speaker 1: are bigger question marks, relatively speaking, on some of these

464
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Speaker 1: other teams. They'll play Ohio State eventually, and by the

465
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: time they play Ohio State, Ohio State may be better

466
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Speaker 1: than them. Ohio State likely will be favored against them.

467
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: Ohio State would be favored against them if they played

468
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: to start the season in all likelihood. But this is

469
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 1: not the JP pole. If this was jppole, I probably

470
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Speaker 1: have Ohio State ahead of them. But this is just

471
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Speaker 1: good old fashioned rankings. I had Florida in Oklahoma pretty high.

472
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Speaker 1: Now I knew that would raise some eyebrows, which begs

473
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Speaker 1: the question, did we do it for clickbait or did

474
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Speaker 1: we just do it because that's what we think. Well,

475
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: it's the latter, So Oklahoma was at number ten. Oklahoma

476
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 1: pretty simple. I believe the roster is one of the

477
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Speaker 1: most underrated in the country because they were terrible last

478
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: year record, because their offense was a disaster. But I

479
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: don't think the team was a disaster. I think what

480
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,719
Speaker 1: we're looking here looking at here is a top twenty,

481
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 1: top fifteen caliber defense that largely returns at that level.

482
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: And I think that the quarterback offensive coordinator addition there

483
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: one and the same. They don't come from different places,

484
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: they both came from the same place. I think it

485
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: greatly enhances and rejuvenates their offensive firepower ability and elsewhere.

486
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: They're like three top ten caliber classes baked into the roster.

487
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: I just think they're really underrated, and so I don't

488
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: care about last year because they addressed problems from last year.

489
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Speaker 1: This is not some sport where you just hit the

490
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Speaker 1: pause button in late December and then you hit play

491
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Speaker 1: the next August. I don't believe in bowl momentum. I

492
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: never believed in any of that. There's not carryover, like

493
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: there are wild swings and fluctuations in results a year

494
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: to year all across the country in this sport just

495
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: boggles my mind. How everyone seems to get amnesia about

496
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: this stuff. You watch the same thing I watch every fall.

497
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: You watch this team look nothing like they looked last year,

498
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: case by case, every fall, and yet come spring, so

499
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: many people cannot divorce themselves from the last thing they

500
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: saw last year as it relates to predicting this year.

501
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: And that is an overwhelming sentiment. And that's why overwhelmingly

502
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: the public loses when they try and bet on this stuff,

503
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: and yet so many people just cling to it. It's crazy.

504
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 1: Florida at nine. I think a huge defensive leap is

505
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: in coming for them. A lot of the guys that

506
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 1: they'll lean on the most have a ton of snaps

507
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: under their belt. I was down at Florida the other day.

508
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 1: I just asked Napier about Lagway. I have very very

509
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,199
Speaker 1: little concern about him coming out of that conversation. I

510
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: think he'll be fine. I think they'll be fine. I

511
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: just think very highly of Florida. Also, I should note

512
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Speaker 1: nothing about me raking Florida or Oklahoma top ten is

513
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: me projecting what the record will be. Because I think

514
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: they got really tough schedules. They could both lose four

515
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: games or more. First off, I could just be wrong

516
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: about him. But even if I'm right about them, these

517
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: are very tough schedules. These could be three four lost teams,

518
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: even if I'm right about the caliber of team they are.

519
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: So you are not always what your record says you

520
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: are in college football. Now, my more season viewers who

521
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: like to criticize will say, there he goes. He's already

522
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: baking in an excuse, which I kind of am. I

523
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: won't even try and dodge that allegation. And I already

524
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: know it's coming Bama at number four. I knew people

525
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: would think that's too high. It's an Ohio State vibe

526
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: from last year with me. They got so many guys

527
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: that could have left, either via the draft or via

528
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: the portal, that are returning. Penn State's got that to

529
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: a degree as well. That's why I got Penn State

530
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: and Alabama really high. And I think once upon a time,

531
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Speaker 1: I'm going to speak about Alabama in a weird way here,

532
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: but follow me. I think once upon a time, when

533
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: you had your Ohio State's or your Georgia's or Alabama

534
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 1: under Saban, you just accepted that it doesn't matter how

535
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: many question marks there are. They are so far above

536
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: and beyond talent wise the rest of the field that

537
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: they'll more than make up for it. I don't believe

538
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,719
Speaker 1: that's the state of these rosters anymore. I think the

539
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: tops of the trees, especially from a depth standpoint, has

540
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: been shaved off to the point where, first off, Alabama's

541
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: got a top five talent roster anyway, but even if

542
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: they didn't, like Penn State probably doesn't have a top

543
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: five talent roster. Top ten maybe, But when a bunch

544
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: of that proven production returns and then you look elsewhere,

545
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: and you got a lot of question marks on a

546
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: loaded roster talent wise elsewhere. These days, I will give

547
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: the lean to the more experienced and proven team. But

548
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: Bama's not proven at quarterback is the obvious follow up

549
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: to that. And then my follow up back is but

550
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: I don't think they need elite quarterback play. In fact,

551
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: I look at a number of areas of Alabama's team.

552
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: If you, if you could just promise me right now,

553
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: they'll be solid at quarterback, they'll be solid at running back,

554
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: and they'll have a nice solid pass rush. Give me

555
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: b level play in those three compartments. That team could

556
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: compete for a national title because elsewhere I think they're

557
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: insanely strong. So it's just a dibor staff. I'm really

558
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: high on too, So that was the reason. It's post spring,

559
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: That's all it was. We put it together in like

560
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: forty five to fifty minutes. It's post Springs, not the

561
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: end of the world. Shawnee, Oklahoma is tuned in, Phoenix,

562
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: Arizona is tuned in, and I cannot believe it. But Camilla,

563
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: Georgia is tuned in. Biggest bugs on the planet, Camilla, Georgia, Dawson, Georgia.

564
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: We used to play baseball tournaments down there, and I'm

565
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: making this up, but the fable kind of grew with time.

566
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: We would come back from those tournaments and we would

567
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: tell the kids who didn't play sports in the summer.

568
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: We would tell them that the bugs were so big

569
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: and Dawson and Camilla that when you hit a fly ball,

570
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: the size of the bugs would change the trajectory of

571
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: the fly balls when the baseball hit them on the fly,

572
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: which I'm not quite sure ever happened, But I'm also

573
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: not quite sure it didn't almost happen. So there's a

574
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: double negative in there somewhere and it was all a

575
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: lie to begin with. But good stories, good times. I'm

576
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: pretty sure it's the hottest place on the planet too,

577
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: all things considered. Hey, we got a question about what

578
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier. Let's go ahead and tackle

579
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: this one. Mark from Jackson, Mississippi. He said, in the

580
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: last few years, college football is looking more and more

581
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: like the NFL. Now we might be adding OTAs. Is

582
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: there a line that college football crosses over that the

583
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: sport loses its identity and turns into a watered down

584
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: version of the NFL? Or am I worrying too much?

585
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: OTAs Organized team activities. It's what the NFL has. It's

586
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: not like an official practice, but it's a period where

587
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: your team is allowed to get together and have activities

588
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,959
Speaker 1: under coaching supervision, kind of T shirts and shorts kind

589
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: of stuff. NFL's done it for a long time. So

590
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: he's saying that because there was a headline out of

591
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: ACC Media Days where a committee met with the coaches

592
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: and one of the rules they're looking at possibly is

593
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: adding in six potential OTA days. I think it was

594
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: six that they can use if they want to. You

595
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: don't have to use them. I was down at Miami yesterday.

596
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: I talked to Mario Cristobal about that. He said, yeah,

597
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: they presented it to us. I don't even know if

598
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: I would use them, but it's nice to have the

599
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: option to use them. So Mark, I would say this.

600
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Speaker 1: I get that you may be concerned that the Saturday

601
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: game is taken on a little bit too much of

602
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: a Sunday feel. I do get that. I've talked about

603
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: that case by case myself on this show. So there

604
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: are plenty of valid complaints to be had on this front.

605
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: But this is not one of them. It's not one

606
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: of them to the point where have you ever even

607
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: paid attention to practice structure in college football? Or put

608
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: another way, Mark, if you didn't read that headline, would

609
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: you ever even know this is happening? Which is good logic,

610
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: and it applies across a broad expanse of college football complaints.

611
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: I have to tell myself this a lot because I

612
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: do a college football show year round. So if I'm

613
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 1: not careful, I'll go down these rabbit holes of complaints,

614
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: and then I'll go back and listen to one of

615
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: our shows and I'll say, you make this stuff sound

616
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: a lot worse than it is. Man. If I was

617
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: an agnostic fan and I came and listened to your show,

618
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: I'd be turned off from this sport. We never want

619
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: to do that because we got to get ready sport

620
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: in the world. So sometimes I have to take a

621
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: step back and I have to ask myself what I

622
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: would suggest you ask yourself about this. Do you really

623
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: care how guys practice? Do you ever keep up with

624
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: how guys practice? Is this ever something you really track? Like,

625
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: I'm on these campuses a lot. I'm watching player led workouts.

626
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: I go participate in some of them, not quite to

627
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: the degree that those players do. So there's a little,

628
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: you know, drop off from production when I'm on the field.

629
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,479
Speaker 1: But it's fun to mix in with those guys sometimes

630
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: point you don't even know they're happening. You don't even

631
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: know they're happening. This is just kind of a headline

632
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: that comes out and then someone takes it and they

633
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: plug it into another chain and a link of narrative

634
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: that college football is selling out going the way of

635
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. Hey, look, if it is, this is not

636
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: the evidence, like this is not the smoking gun. Mark

637
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: good advice, like I said, is how big is the

638
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: crisis if you would have never known it was happening,

639
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,239
Speaker 1: had someone not tapped you on the shoulder and told you.

640
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: And a lot of that stuff happens in college football,

641
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: a lot of it from nil or the way the

642
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: portal works, how much guys are getting paid now, how

643
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Speaker 1: much an agent is involved. I'm not saying I love

644
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: all this stuff or hate all this stuff. I'm saying

645
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people have had complaints about this. So

646
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: just take the OTA headline, toss it up on top

647
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: of the heat mark, and think about all of it,

648
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: and then ask yourself, does Saturday still feel like Saturday

649
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: in the fall? Because that's really the great Barama. So

650
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: my answer is, yes, Saturday still feels like Saturday in

651
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: the fall. I am looking at b Roll right now.

652
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: Colin's showing me Georgia b Roll. So let's say Tennessee's

653
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: in town, There's Ohio State. Let's say Michigan's in town.

654
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: And let's say it's midway through the third quarter and

655
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: they're deadlocked at seventeen and it's fourth and one on

656
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: your own thirty eight yard line and they're opting to

657
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: go for it. Clock's ticking down, huddle breaks five, four,

658
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: three crowds at full throat, just pause, right, there is

659
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: anybody thinking about whether Ohio State had ota workouts? Is

660
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: anybody thinking about how much the left hackle's making You're not. So.

661
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: The point is the game hasn't really been ruined at all.

662
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,280
Speaker 1: If that moment feels different, If that moment is ruined,

663
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: then college football has ruined itself. But I think college

664
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: football is extremely resilient, like it is extremely strong. It's

665
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: the redwood. You could chop a redwood down, but you

666
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: don't do it with five or ten swing. You don't

667
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: do it with five thousand or ten thousand swings. It

668
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 1: take a lot to chop down a redwood, all concentrated,

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00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: all at one spot on that tree, and don't do

670
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: it because you'll get arrested. But point being, it takes

671
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: a lot to ruin college football. That's a byproduct of

672
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: how great it is. And so you know, if Wake

673
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 1: Forest has coaches on the field and guys in shorts

674
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: and T shirts in early July for a couple of days,

675
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: I just don't think that that is tantamount to us

676
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: becoming NFL. Like that's my take on that. I think

677
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: it's worth popping a Zva after that, we gotta be careful. Oh,

678
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: because I ran upstairs pretty quick. I thought the cream

679
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: soda would be all over me. And by the way,

680
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: cream soda is proudly back on the show tonight, zero

681
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Speaker 1: sugar cream soda. Might I add, instead of three steps,

682
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: just did one long step tonight? Okay? What next? Full

683
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: prediction season still upon us? Yes, it is bold predictions

684
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: to whole season on this show. What do you believe?

685
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: That's really bold? But you're brave enough to state publicly

686
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: and risk shame and embarrassment if it falls flat on

687
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: its face. Well, here are some of them. This one's creative,

688
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: This is a good one. Good friend, DG and Houston,

689
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: good friend. He said, at least three of these teams

690
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: will be in the final fourth and he puts LSU, Oklahoma,

691
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Clemson. Ohio State has the first best

692
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: odds to win it all. Clemson seventh, LSU ninth, Oklahoma seventeenth.

693
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna put a nine point seventy five on

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00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: this prediction, none of I think. Well, Oklahoma's over under

695
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: win total six and a half. I'm a little higher

696
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: on them. It's gonna be hard for Oklahoma. To make

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00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: the playoff, even if I'm right about them, because their

698
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: schedule is tough. But even if they all were to

699
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: make it, and three of them have to make the playoff,

700
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: by the way, even then you would still need bracket luck.

701
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: What if two of them face off in a first

702
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: round or second round. You've got to have all of them.

703
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta have all them advanced. So predicting

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Speaker 1: the final four, predicting seventy five percent of the final

705
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: four is tough. So I'm putting nine point seventy five

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00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: on that one. Next up, this one's not so bold.

707
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: Daniel in Nashville, a fellow Nashvillian. He said, A and

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00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: M Texas A and M has the best rushing attack

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00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: in the SEC this year. Yeah, that's like a seven

710
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: point five for me. I think they may be the

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00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: best rushing team in the SEC this year. They got

712
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: three really good tailbacks, They've got a good offensive line

713
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: coming back. They've got what I would say is a

714
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: plenty complementary enough group of talented just offense in general,

715
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: but wide receiver. I'm thinking quarterback here. I'm thinking about

716
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: how they don't have to do one thing. It's not

717
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: imperative you know that they do one thing. It's not

718
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: like watching Notre Dame last year. No, no, No, Dame's got

719
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: to run the ball. They don't trust themselves to throw

720
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: the ball. A and M I think will trust Marcel Read.

721
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: I think they trust their wide receiver unit. Because of that,

722
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: I think the hallmark of their offense will still be

723
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: the ground game. I think it's the overall identity of

724
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,479
Speaker 1: that team, and I think skill wise there are plenty

725
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: good enough to where they may lead the league in

726
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: that category. So I'm putting a seven point five on that.

727
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: I think it may end up being my prediction in

728
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: the SEC. If we predict that, I may actually think

729
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 1: A and M is going to do that. Next up,

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00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: here's one that's bold. It's in the nines. We'll see

731
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: what we put on it. We're going to Overland Park, Kansas. Here,

732
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: Arizona State repeats as Big twelve champ. They make it

733
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: to the National Championship Game. Oh wow, okay, so nine

734
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:49,919
Speaker 1: point twenty five. They're number two in returning production. There

735
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: are nine Big twelve teams that are plus thirteen hundred

736
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: or lower odds I guess or higher odds to win

737
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: the conference. Means in typical fashion the Big Twelve, like

738
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: half of the teams have very comparable odds. It's just

739
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: a crapshoot. Texas Tech and Arizona State and Kansas State

740
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: all have the same odds to win it. Baylor and

741
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: Utah almost it's almost a five way tie atop the

742
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: Big Twelve for best odds to win the conference. Just crazy,

743
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: tightly compacted. So I disagree with that. I've already bet

744
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: Arizona State. I do think that I wouldn't say they're

745
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: the runaway, but I do think they're the clear favorite

746
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: in my eyes. But it's the Big twelve, so when

747
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: anything can happen. However, to give you an idea of

748
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: how compacted the Big Twelve is, so I told you

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00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: there are nine teams that are plus thirteen hundred or

750
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: better to win the conference. In the ACC, there are

751
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: five teams plus thirteen hundred or better. So this is

752
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: not normal. It's normal by Big Twelve standards, but it's

753
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 1: not normal anywhere else. I'm gonna put a nine point

754
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: twenty five on that because even if they make it,

755
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: they still got to go to the national title. G Now,

756
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: I do think there are two talent rosters in that

757
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: league that if they get good and they're good enough

758
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: to win the conference, they actually could make a run

759
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: in this year's playoff field. Arizona State and Texas Tech

760
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: are those two teams. They may lose six games, but

761
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: if they click, I actually do think on the high

762
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: end they have the talent rosters to make it there. Unlikely,

763
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: but not impossible. Nine point twenty five on the boldness scale.

764
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: And let's go to the Land of Lincoln by way

765
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. This is Mike from State College. He said

766
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: it may be bold or not, but the win total

767
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: is over under seven and a half for Illinois. I

768
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: think they'll be a playoff team. I put an eight

769
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: point five on this. I don't think it's that crazy.

770
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: It's a top five returning production team from a ten

771
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: win season last year. Now, just as sure as I

772
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: say that, I talked to you thirty minutes ago about

773
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: how this is not a carryover sport. You don't just

774
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: get to carry all that over. But it's a sign

775
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: that you're returning a lot of proven production, including your quarterback.

776
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: But it's not a magazine, it's a sport. And the

777
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: reason I say that is a lot of these teams

778
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: like Oregon is going to be there every year, Ohio

779
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: State's going to be there every year, Penn State's going

780
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: to be very competitive every year. Illinois has not been that.

781
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: So Illinois entering the season with expectation is a rarity.

782
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: I think it was for Nellie tom Fournelli. I heard

783
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,959
Speaker 1: talking about this the other day. He was just talking

784
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: about the history of Illinois and the history of Illinois

785
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: coming off a good season. It's not good, and it

786
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: makes sense. You get a little complacency, you lose your

787
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: way a little bit. No one ever predicts that's going

788
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: to happen, so there's a chance that that's a non issue,

789
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: but there's also a chance it does creep in a

790
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: little bit. Also, everyone circles you now, like USC goes

791
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 1: to Champagne in late September, they're aware of that game.

792
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: In a normal world, USC is not circle in Illinois,

793
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 1: nor is Ohio State. But everybody knows to be careful

794
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: against you this year, which means you get everyone's best shot.

795
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: Maybe you still win, but it's a lot tougher, So

796
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: that water gets a lot deeper when you've got expectations

797
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: around you. I'm gonna put an eight point five on

798
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: the boldness scale. There, Oh, let's move merrily along. I

799
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: should have told you that we've been we've been working

800
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: with Quick Trip. As you know, I have a wedding

801
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: coming up. A Quick Trip has agreed to involve themselves.

802
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: And what that means I can't be specific. I don't

803
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: necessarily know that Quick trip's looking to get at the

804
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: wedding catering business. Maybe they are, but at fun times

805
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: they had turnbuckle ad placement in the last WWE event,

806
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: and then lo and behold, they pop up at what

807
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: some are calling the Wedding of the Spring. Not my words,

808
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: but somebody's words. I'm sure somewhere out there someone said that.

809
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: So good for Quick Trip. And if you're not a

810
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: pro wrestler or get married this month, you just go

811
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: get gas at quick You get some cold brew on tap,

812
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,800
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813
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: get some nice crackers and get your protein shake or

814
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: a slice of pizza and get on your way. But

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Speaker 1: you know what you're purchasing it from. Friends, That's what

816
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Speaker 1: you need to know. Friends of the program at Quick Trip,

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Speaker 1: we continue. Okay, so I put this a little deeper

818
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: in the show tonight because I get tired of leading

819
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 1: the show with this colin. Let me take a little

820
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: chug of a little chug of water here for just

821
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: a second. We want to hydrate for this kind of segment.

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Speaker 1: So you know as well as I do. The college

823
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: football playoff is about to change. Or we think we

824
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: know that, right, because every other headline every day is

825
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 1: about that. And you know that all the higher ups,

826
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: the high level mustaches, the suits and whatnot, they've been

827
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: meeting about what they're going to do in twenty twenty

828
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: six and how many teams are going to be in

829
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: the playoff? Are there going to be automatic qualifier spots?

830
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: Is it just going to be straight seting DoD blah

831
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: blah blah, yahda YadA yah. All this has been going on.

832
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: We've been talking about it on this show too, and

833
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: it sounds like things aren't clearing up. In fact, it

834
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: sounds like they're getting messier by the day. You know,

835
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 1: when you're starting to descend, if you're about to land,

836
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: normally you go through clouds, but what do you usually know?

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00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 1: You usually know we're gonna go through clouds ten thousand feet,

838
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: eight thousand feet, five thousand but about the time you

839
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: get to five thousand feet WSH, you come through the

840
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: clouds and then you can see the ground, and then

841
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: you hear the landing gear deploy, and then you land

842
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: and you're good to go. But we're not coming out

843
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: of the clouds. We've been in them for a while,

844
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: and I'm starting to think that it's just foggy everywhere

845
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: and we may not end up landing this thing. So

846
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: Ross Dellinger doing a really good job covering this, and

847
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: he just put out one of several articles he's written

848
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: lately on Yahoo sports dot Com the other day. I'm

849
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: not gonna read you the whole thing. You can go

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00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: read it if you want to. There's not really that

851
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: an update, except he's trying to say this thing's not

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00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: figured out, and it's not getting figured out right now.

853
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: I've got a paragraph on the screen right now. This

854
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: is just an example of the body of the article.

855
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: I'm going to read it for you. It's just out

856
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: of context. Taking a little clip from it. The fight,

857
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: it appears, is getting messy. Negotiations among the four Power

858
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: Conference commissioners they've started meeting separately from the other leaders

859
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: have produced disagreement, discord lingers over the amount of automatic

860
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: qualifiers designated for each conference. So, not surprisingly, the SEC

861
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten want guarantees and no one else

862
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: wants to give it to him. The ACC just had

863
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: their spring meetings. It will not shock you to learn

864
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: there was zero support on Amelia Island for the SEC

865
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: and the Big Ten to have guaranteed anything. The coaches

866
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: didn't like it, the athletic directors didn't like it. Again,

867
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: this is not breaking news. It's just that I guess

868
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 1: a lot of folks kind of assumed, well, the more

869
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: we get down the road, the more they'll come to

870
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: compromise or or the big boys may get their way,

871
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: or they may resolve this and they may trade that,

872
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 1: and it's just not happening. And there's no commissioner at large.

873
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: There's no college football commissioner in the room to say,

874
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: you guys better get this done or I'm getting it

875
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 1: done for you. And so we have this. So everyone's

876
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: wondering when this playoff drama will get itself figured out.

877
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: When will we get the new playoff format figured out?

878
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: And I'm going to ask you a question on tonight's

879
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: show that I asked a year ago. Who says it

880
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: will get figured out. Who says it will? What are

881
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: you talking about, Josh, It's got to get figured out?

882
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: Who says it has to get figured out? So this

883
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: is not a new theme on this show. I'm going

884
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: to take you back to a year ago when, believe

885
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: it or not, this same topic was being discussed on

886
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: this same show and I said something then that I'm

887
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: going to reiterate in just a few seconds. Troll it, Colin,

888
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: How will all this get sorted out? People want to know.

889
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: Maybe it won't. Maybe you will come to an end pass.

890
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't get decided by the deadline. Maybe the

891
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: SEC and the Big Ten look you across the table

892
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: and say the two most important words that I think

893
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: they're trying to get to all the while, and that is,

894
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: we tried, We tried. I've been a big believer during

895
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: this whole process that the SEC and the Big Ten,

896
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:43,959
Speaker 1: unlike other institutions out there, have had one guiding north star,

897
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: and that is, eventually they want to get to a

898
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: world that looks like the NFC and the AFC or

899
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 1: the NFL model, only in college football terms it would

900
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: be SEC, Big Ten. And however you get to that's

901
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: however you get to that. It's no different than a GPA.

902
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: I'm in Nashville right now. If I want to get

903
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: to Albuquerque and I type in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it's

904
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: going to offer me five different routes, and I could

905
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: zigzag my way there. But I know the direction I'm

906
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: headed is generally west, and generally I'm going towards Albuquerque

907
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 1: because that's where I'm gonna end up. And I feel

908
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: like this process has been the same thing. You get

909
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: so far down in the weeds, you put the magnifying

910
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: glass on the story, and there's new details and new

911
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: breaking reports and anonymous source this, and league officials say that.

912
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: But if you just zoom it out, think about this

913
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: for a second. If they were headed that direction, how

914
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: would they do anything different than they've already done. They

915
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: expanded their conferences, which was the trigger point for this

916
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: whole thing. Make no mistake. The entire premise of the

917
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,479
Speaker 1: SEC and the Big Ten having the audacity to even

918
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: assume everyone would go along with them getting added beneficial

919
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: seats at a table is they think they've earned it

920
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: or deserve it because they're disproportionately more powerful than everyone else,

921
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: which they can reasonably claim because they went and swallowed

922
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: up Texas and Oklahoma, they went and swallowed up Oregon

923
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: and USC. There are very few primetime player college football

924
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: brands out there that don't have an SEC or a

925
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: big ten helmet sticker. Notre Dame's won, Clemson's one, but

926
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 1: there aren't many out there anymore. So it all started

927
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: the trigger point. The flashpoint was conference realignment. Then you

928
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: get a little bit further down the road, you know,

929
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: one hundred or two hundred breaking news stories later, we're

930
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: trying to restructure the playoff. And I'm telling you, if

931
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: I were them and I wanted to get to the

932
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: end goal of NFC, AFC, Big ten SEC rules the world,

933
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: this is how I do it. I would muddy the

934
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: water enough. I would put out unrealistic, unreasonable proposals that

935
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: I know my peers will not go along with, because

936
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: my goal is not for them to accept my proposal.

937
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: If they're stupid enough to good, if they're desperate enough

938
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: to good, we win either way. But my real goal

939
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: is to have them call my bluff so that I

940
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: can throw my hands up and say we tried, so

941
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: that I can go do what I really wanted to do.

942
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: And what I really want to do is sign off

943
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: with any of a number of major brands that are

944
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: ready to buy the media rights deals to the SEC

945
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: and the Big ten just doing their own thing because

946
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: it's in the best college football. No, but again, there's

947
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: no one in the room that's looking out for the

948
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: best interest to college football. And so until you get that,

949
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: this could be the trajectory that we remain on. The

950
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: evergreen issue here is everybody's points are valid. That's the

951
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 1: evergreen issue. That's why you're not going to have resolution

952
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: in this or it's hard to imagine unless someone completely caves.

953
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine the ACC ever saying okay, that's fine,

954
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: take all your automatic qualifier spots, or the Big twelve

955
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: saying that it's just hard to imagine it. If they do,

956
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: they do. But if they do, that means they totally caved,

957
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: and the SEC and the Big ten one anyway. But see,

958
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: here's the thing about it. As much as it sounds

959
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 1: like I'm trashing the power too there, well that's because

960
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: I sit behind a microphone and I love the sport.

961
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't love two conferences. But if I were Tony

962
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: Petiti or if I were Greg Sinki, My job's to

963
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: answer to my university presidents. Those are my bosses, by

964
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: the way, and my bosses have told me, acquire as

965
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: much power and influence as you possibly can. Make this

966
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: conference as profitable as you possibly can. It's how we

967
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: fund all of this. Do you know what Auburn University

968
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: is minus Auburn football? Do you know what Purdue is

969
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: minus Purdue football for that matter, in Michigan State or LSU.

970
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: So all of this stuff operates based on athletic revenue.

971
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: Make it as profitable as possible. You don't have a

972
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: college football commissioner you have to answer to, by the way,

973
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: so you can do whatever you want to. It's really crazy,

974
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: but that's the reality. And so if I were them,

975
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: I do either one of two things. I do what

976
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: they're telling me to do, or I get fired and

977
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: they find someone else who will. So if I were Greg,

978
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: sayk you, Or if I were Tony Petiti, I can't

979
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: definitively say I wouldn't do the same thing. My point is,

980
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: at the very least, they sit at the table and

981
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: they say, hold up, we're playing the toughest schedules in

982
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: the country. We're bringing in the most money in the country.

983
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: Ninety percent of the best teams are in our conferences. Anyway,

984
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: you're you're bulking at us, demanding the bare minimum. We

985
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: ought to just take it all. At least we're offering

986
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: you something that's literally their attitude, so they think they

987
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: have logic based reasoning behind that. And then on the

988
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: other side, if you're the ACC commissioner, you're looking at

989
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: it and saying you have completely pillaged and plundered everything

990
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 1: about this sport. If you're the big twelve commiss you're

991
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: saying the same thing. And the last little bastion of

992
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: opportunity we have is the playoff. And now you want

993
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: to swallow up all the seats at the table. They're

994
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: absolutely not. That's also logical. You see my point there.

995
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: Every bit of it's logical. Now. You if you're watching

996
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: or listening, you certainly have a point of view and

997
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: you hate the other side, you hate their point of view.

998
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: But I'm just watching it and I'm thinking there's no

999
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: way we're gonna get resolution because everyone thinks they're right.

1000
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: And unlike other sports and other places out there where

1001
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 1: there's a lot on the line, there's no gavel, there's

1002
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: no judge that ultimately rules on this. It's just kind

1003
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: of tears for fears mode. Everybody wants to rule the

1004
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: world and that's where we are right now. So playoff

1005
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: headlines still to come resolution. Know we're in sight. Can't

1006
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: wait to see how that turns out. I need to

1007
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: address something else. We're kind of putting this in the

1008
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: back half of the show, but I need to address

1009
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: something else. It's about Michigan. I can't believe this happened.

1010
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: I cannot believe this happened. So Max in Dexter Michigan said,

1011
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: I see you and Joel Clatt backtracking on your Michigan takes.

1012
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: Is it time to apologize on air or are you

1013
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: still holding out hope they get off. I don't hope

1014
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: anything about Michigan, never have. I haven't backtracked on Michigan.

1015
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: I can't vouch for Klatt. I don't know what he said,

1016
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: but I haven't backtracked on Michigan. I got something though,

1017
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 1: So somebody DMed me a video the other day, and

1018
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what all this means in the second

1019
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: I'll tell you exactly what I think about Michigan and

1020
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: the NCAA stuff and what's gonna happen. I'll tell you

1021
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: what I think about all that again. But I got

1022
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: sent a clip. I normally don't play clips from other

1023
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:48,439
Speaker 1: people's shows on ours, but there is a guy by

1024
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: the name of Mike Valenti. I don't know him, I've

1025
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: never met him. I think he does a radio show.

1026
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: He was talking about this the other day, and I

1027
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: just want to play you a clip from it, and

1028
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,280
Speaker 1: I will try my best to explain my point of view.

1029
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: On the other side, people.

1030
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 2: Who have told you from the start there is nothing

1031
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 2: to see here. There are no penalties, only people who

1032
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: care about eyes and spartan. All of a sudden, now

1033
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 2: these same people on a national level, well, you know

1034
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 2: I do. I expect a vacating of wins. That was

1035
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 2: from noted Michigan boot lick or Josh Pate, then the

1036
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: ultimate Dinder Mifflin dull ass Joel Klatt. Today, Oh something

1037
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 2: big is coming. Wait, Joel, you spent the last two

1038
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 2: years telling us it was nothing. It was, in fact

1039
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 2: a nothing.

1040
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:47,760
Speaker 1: Burg I laughed at ten minutes when my wife that earlier. Today,

1041
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if we play bingo, if you or

1042
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: if you just made me bet my salary on things

1043
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: I won't be called in a given year. I would

1044
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: have bet multiple salaries, multiple years salaries on me not

1045
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: getting called a Michigan boot liquor. I just never saw

1046
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: it coming. It came out of left field. It slapped

1047
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: me in the face, and I laugh. I can't even

1048
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: be mad at it. So Mike Valenti, I don't know him,

1049
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: I cannot even be mad at it. He has no

1050
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: clue he's talking about, but at least as it relates

1051
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: to me. But I take it he doesn't watch his show.

1052
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: People who talk the most about this show usually watch

1053
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,919
Speaker 1: the least amount of it, so he has no clue

1054
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. But that's okay. He's not the

1055
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: first nor the last to suffer from that illness. The

1056
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: thing that happens a lot with this sort of thing

1057
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: is someone you know, like I'll have an opinion on something,

1058
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: and then somebody will clip fifteen percent of it and

1059
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: put it on the internet, and someone like that dude

1060
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: who doesn't watch the show, sees that fifteen percent and

1061
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: then accepts it as one hundred percent, and then they

1062
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: run with it. And then and then the bonus is

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Speaker 1: they victimize you of clickbaiting, even though you're not the

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Speaker 1: one who posted the fifteen percent out of context clip

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Speaker 1: on the internet to begin with, that's a nice bonus

1066
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: when that happens. So what he's referring to there is

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00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: I said what I said about Michigan the other day.

1068
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: I said what I thought would and wouldn't happen to him.

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00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: And I also was talking about it in the context

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00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: of what I thought was and wasn't real hardcore punishment.

1071
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: So some of the disagreements I've had with people is

1072
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: some of you think vacating Wins is major punishment. I don't. Philosophically.

1073
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: I just never thought that. So anyway, I went on

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00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: the show the other day and I said, I do

1075
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: not think that the way the media rights deals with

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00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: structured today is such that the NCAA is going to

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00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: be allowed to take big punitive measures against a school

1078
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: that depreciates their value as an asset, because I think

1079
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: there's too much money at stake from the media rights

1080
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: perspective and to understand how that all works. To be

1081
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: very clear, I'm not saying Michigan won't get punished. I've

1082
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: never said that. I dare you to find me any

1083
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: evidence of me is saying they're not gonna get punished.

1084
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: What I said is, I think they're gonna get punished

1085
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: in a way that doesn't affect their value in the future.

1086
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: And I don't think vacating wins removes their value in

1087
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: the future. And I don't think issue and show causes

1088
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: to coaches does that. It hurts, but it doesn't torpedo

1089
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: their value in the future. You could give show causes

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00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: huge fines. I think that will happen. I think a

1091
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: lot of punishment will be handed down. It's just that

1092
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: none of the punishment will be such that people are

1093
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: less likely to watch a Michigan game in the future.

1094
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 1: If you put a multi year postseason ban on them,

1095
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: that means that the audience dwindles a little bit. Josh, No, no,

1096
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: because they did that in the past and people still watch. Dude.

1097
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: First off, media rights skills were constructed very differently, far

1098
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: less zeros in the past than there are now and nowadays.

1099
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: Got to understand what's happening here with the billions that

1100
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Speaker 1: are on the line. Those billions are paid because you

1101
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: got some guaranteed draw assets. Ohio State's one, Oregon's one,

1102
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: Penn States one Michigan's one. Everything else is great, but

1103
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Speaker 1: you paid for those four. If you bought into Big

1104
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Speaker 1: ten media rights, you're paying money that is ultimately going

1105
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: to the universities via the presidents. The presidents give the

1106
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Speaker 1: NCUBA their power. The nc DOUBLEA exists to do the

1107
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: bidding of university presidents. That's the way the entire thing

1108
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: is set up. So if you think for a second

1109
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: that the university presidents that signed off on media rights deals,

1110
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Speaker 1: taking in billions in exchange for these assets having a

1111
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Speaker 1: certain agreed upon amount of value, are going to let

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Speaker 1: some nickel and dime operation of enforcement like the nc

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00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: double A issue punishment in the way of a postseason

1114
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: ban that devalues the value of Michigan because less people

1115
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: are likely to watch their games. It is my opinion.

1116
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: You're kidding yourself. That's been my opinion. So anyway, I

1117
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: said that on the show the other night, and some

1118
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: guy comes at me and says, you don't think anything

1119
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: will happen, And then well, how about this, how about

1120
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Speaker 1: we bet on whether or not they'll have a postseason band?

1121
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: And I said no, But then another guy said, all right,

1122
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: how about you know, we bet on whether they'll vacate wins,

1123
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Speaker 1: and I said, I do think they'll probably vacate wins.

1124
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: I would never bet that. Why would I bet that.

1125
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: I think that is a possible punishment. Well, you know,

1126
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: guys like this took that and said with look, he's backtracking.

1127
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm not backtracking. I've always thought that's a possibility. I

1128
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Speaker 1: just don't care. I'm telling you that. I don't think

1129
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: they'll swing a hammer that hits Michigan in the shins

1130
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: or in the knees. I think they'll swing one that

1131
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: hits them like in the small of the back or

1132
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: you know, on the side of the arm, and it hurts,

1133
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: but they can still run. They're still fine. Then when

1134
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 1: you say that, you will have a third voice that

1135
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: will come in the room and they'll say, this is pathetic.

1136
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: You're advocating for it being totally fine for teams to

1137
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: just cheat and get away with it. I'm not advocating

1138
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: for it at all. Michigan's facing multiple Level one violations.

1139
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: If we were in a world where what should happen happened,

1140
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: they would have a multi year postseason ban because they're

1141
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: facing multiple Level one infractions, and so by the letter

1142
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 1: of the law, that should happen. I'm not enforcing based

1143
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: on my specific moral stance in how I view the world.

1144
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: I am talking based on what I think will actually happen.

1145
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: And what I think will actually happen is they'll have

1146
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: to pay a lot of money and some coaches won't

1147
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: be able to work anymore. Don't know if that'll be

1148
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: Sharon More or not, but I think that will be

1149
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: handed down. Maybe they'll even have to vacate wins. And

1150
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: you can care about that if you want to. I

1151
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: don't because I saw the past happen, so it don't

1152
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 1: really matter to me, but that's your prerogative. I just

1153
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to have a multi year postseason ban.

1154
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: That's what I don't think. So there's no backtracking because

1155
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: I thought that from the beginning and I still think that,

1156
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: so to be clear, that's where I am on that.

1157
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Speaker 1: No backtracking. I hate to disappoint, no backtracking. FanDuel does

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Speaker 1: But you can go bet on Michigan to win the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten this year if you want. You can bet

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Speaker 1: All right, last thing, I wanted to get to one

1187
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Speaker 1: more batch of bold predictions. We've been doubling up on

1188
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Speaker 1: these in these shows and I've liked it. Would continue

1189
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Speaker 1: bold predictions. What do you believe? What do you believe

1190
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: that you will go public with? Got one here? It's bold.

1191
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: I will grant you it's bold. Ohio State with a

1192
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: whole new coaching staff will have four losses this year.

1193
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: That's Austin in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Rough weather up there tonight.

1194
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm told Austin you made a critical mistake. You did

1195
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: not tell me if you just mean the regular season

1196
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:19,919
Speaker 1: or not. If you're telling me Ohio State loses four

1197
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 1: games in the regular season, that's a ten, that would

1198
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: be a ten. But but if you're just telling me

1199
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Speaker 1: they'll lose four games, do you realize Ohio State can

1200
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: make the National Championship game and have that happen if

1201
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 1: you just think about it, Let's say they go ten

1202
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 1: and two in the regular season. One of the losses

1203
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: is to Texas, and let's say they got one conference loss,

1204
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: which means they probably go to the Big Ten championship game.

1205
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,760
Speaker 1: So they're ten and two, they go there, they lose,

1206
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: they're ten and three, but they're good enough to get

1207
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: in the playoff. Then they go on a run like

1208
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: they did last year. But they lose in the National

1209
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: championship game. Well, that means that they're what thirteen and four?

1210
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: They're a four lost team, but they also won thirteen games,

1211
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 1: so it's a nine point twenty five. Still bold, it's

1212
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 1: a nine point twenty five, but they lost two games

1213
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: in the regular season last year. All that lost production

1214
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: to the draft. It's not the craziest thing in the world.

1215
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,479
Speaker 1: But since you didn't specify regular season, I don't know, man,

1216
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: it's crazy to think with the way college football structure now,

1217
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: you could play in the national title game and be

1218
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 1: a four lost team. Crazy to think about. Next up, now,

1219
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: this one's fun. Mike from Florence, Alabama. Jackson Arnold will

1220
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: lead the SEC in touchdown passes. I put an eight

1221
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: point twenty five on this. Shockingly, I think this can happen.

1222
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: Now I also think he could flame out. It's a

1223
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: very very big risk reward proposition there at Auburn this year.

1224
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: Now we look the last four or five years, the

1225
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: average of the quarterback that leads the SEC in touchdown

1226
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: passes is thirty nine touchdown passes. That's where you got

1227
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: to be. Bryce Young had forty seven. Quinn Ewers led

1228
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: it last year with thirty one, So somewhere in that

1229
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 1: thirty to fifty range that's where you're gonna land. Jackson

1230
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: Arnold had twelve last year. That's misleading, of course, because

1231
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: he got benched and Oklahoma was terrible, and now he's

1232
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:19,760
Speaker 1: transferred to Auburn. Auburn was twenty eighth in past yards

1233
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: per game last year, and now they lost their leading rusher,

1234
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: which means they probably throw the ball a little more

1235
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: this year. They've got one of the sneaky best wide

1236
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: receiver rooms in the country. He'll need to throw the

1237
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Speaker 1: ball a lot. This could happen. This really could happen.

1238
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Speaker 1: So I'm only gonna put like a eight let's say

1239
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: eight point twenty five on it. That's what I'm putting

1240
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: Next up. This is really specific. Chris from South bend All.

1241
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 1: The schools that hosted a playoff game last season will

1242
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: host one again this year. So that's Texas, Ohio State,

1243
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: penn State, Notre Dame. Those are the four teams that

1244
01:06:55,160 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: host a playoff game, and three first year starting quarterbacks

1245
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: there that have to get the job done. On Notre Dame. Also,

1246
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 1: because they're one of them, Notre Dame needs to be

1247
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: number five, sixty seven or eight. They've got to finish

1248
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: exactly there. Well, one, three, eight, I guess. So there's

1249
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 1: a lot that has to specifically happen there. I'm gonna

1250
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 1: put a nine point seven five on that one. That's

1251
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: just it. They're all good teams, but again you're you're

1252
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: counting on four things to specifically happen. That's tough. And

1253
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: the last one, this is bold. This is gonna be

1254
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: a nine point five as well. Abilene, Texas checking in

1255
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Speaker 1: Sawyer Robertson becomes Baylor's second Heisman winner and he leads

1256
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: Baylor to a buy in the playoffs, which means they

1257
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: win the Big twelve. So you got the Heisman winner

1258
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: and they win the Big twelve. I put a nine

1259
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: point five on this, But strangely, neither would shock me

1260
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: if they happen, you know that's too bold. I'm gonna

1261
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: leave nine point five already said it. But they're correlated.

1262
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: If he wins the Heisman, it's probably caused they won

1263
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve obviously, So Baylor's got good odds. They

1264
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: got about as good odds as anybody else to win

1265
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:15,440
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. Sawyer Robertson is set up to succeed

1266
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 1: three thousand yard passing guy last year twenty eight to

1267
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: eight touchdown to it ratio. They've got a thing happening

1268
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 1: at Baylor right now where the guy who would be

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