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Speaker 1: number four for everyone who just had problems because you

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Speaker 1: had problems with it, well, what's your solution. I didn't

429
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Speaker 1: have a single person that, no matter how much they disagreed,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a single person that came back at

431
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Speaker 1: me and said I hate this because I love the

432
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Speaker 1: way it is currently, nobody's said that. I didn't have

433
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Speaker 1: a single person say I love Waiting until almost February

434
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Speaker 1: to play a national title game. This season doesn't drag

435
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Speaker 1: on at all for me. Hey, I think it's totally

436
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: cool that we have National Signing Day and the transfer

437
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,199
Speaker 1: portal while teams are still playing games. It makes all

438
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Speaker 1: the sense in the world to me. Hey, I love

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Speaker 1: neutral site venues. Oh Man, forget on campus games. I

440
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Speaker 1: can't stand that. You know less Tuscaloosa, Alabama and more

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Speaker 1: fill in the blank. I don't want to hate on

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Speaker 1: any city Arlington. I don't want to hate on any city.

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear any of that. So if you disagree

444
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Speaker 1: with my proposal, you got one better. I'd be happy

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Speaker 1: to listen. I would be happy to listen. But just

446
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 1: so everyone knows, you want a paper popper of a

447
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 1: stat how about this one. As of right now, it

448
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Speaker 1: is six twenty three pm Central Time on January twenty second.

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Speaker 1: Do you realize a year from today we will still

450
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Speaker 1: be two hours from the National Championship game. That's how

451
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 1: late we're playing that game next year. But by all means, man,

452
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: let's not try and fix things. That's not the attitude

453
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Speaker 1: that built Quick Trip. I can tell you that it's

454
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Speaker 1: not the attitude that built America. And it's not the

455
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: attitude that built Quick Trip. You know. So they are

456
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Speaker 1: going to fuel a lot of you this upcoming weekend.

457
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: In fact, I would I always encourage you to just

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Speaker 1: go to Quick Trip once or twice a week period.

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Speaker 1: But many of you are going to be stuck for

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Speaker 1: the foreseeable future due to factors outside your control weather.

461
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: So one factor in your control is you can go

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Speaker 1: gas up. I don't think there's any rule Jesse about

463
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Speaker 1: just going and filling fifteen cups of cold brew on tap. Now,

464
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: we don't want to rush on the cold brew. We

465
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Speaker 1: don't want that, So we don't want colbrew shortages. All

466
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Speaker 1: of the folks in school taught me about the gas

467
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Speaker 1: shortages of the seventies. We don't want a cold brew

468
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: shortage at Quick Trip. Okay, those taps can run dry.

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Speaker 1: Be responsible, but be a little aggressive here. Big time

470
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: winter storm coming in, so you can fuel up. You

471
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: can caffeine, can caffeine up, you can trail mix up.

472
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: You know, you can fill the cupboards. There's no there's

473
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Speaker 1: no harm in having a little bit too much food

474
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Speaker 1: during a winter storm. There's a ton of harm to

475
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Speaker 1: the alternative. So Quick Trip. In fact, I'm gonna go

476
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Speaker 1: ahead and say it. It doesn't say it on the

477
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Speaker 1: piece of paper, because the piece of paper never says anything.

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Speaker 1: Your official winter storm supply headquarters, Quick Trip. You're welcome.

479
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 1: Joe I routinely do his job for him. You are welcome.

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Speaker 1: Let us move on. Got a lot to talk about

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Speaker 1: with jampacked. I just want to say hello to the

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Speaker 1: live chat. There we go. Top twenty five is already out.

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Speaker 1: James hit us up from Oklahoma City. He said, did

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Speaker 1: you vote in this preseason on three top twenty five?

485
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Speaker 1: If so, explain yourself. I didn't know that it was happening,

486
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: which is smart because I probably would not have gotten

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Speaker 1: my vote in in time. But it is true that

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Speaker 1: at on three they took, as best we could tell,

489
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Speaker 1: five or six different contributors and they all submitted their

490
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Speaker 1: top twenty five. They're way too early top twenty five

491
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Speaker 1: for this upcoming year, and then they threw it all

492
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Speaker 1: in a blender poured it out, and this is what transpired.

493
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Speaker 1: So someone in the comments and the replies to the tweet,

494
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Speaker 1: they pointed out that this time last year, the fine

495
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Speaker 1: folks here at on three they also did a way

496
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Speaker 1: too early top twenty five this time last year, and

497
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Speaker 1: they were trying to hate on it by saying number

498
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Speaker 1: twenty one versus number twenty three ended up being the

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Speaker 1: national title game. Like, I don't think that's the flex

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Speaker 1: you think it is. Did you have Indiana and Miami

501
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Speaker 1: one and number two? I don't think you did. I

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone did. Now a lot of people will

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Speaker 1: take that to be evidence that there should be preseason rankings,

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Speaker 1: which is foolish. To me and I'll explain whay in

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Speaker 1: a second. So it's always important to state the goal

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Speaker 1: of a top twenty five. We go over the drill

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Speaker 1: every August. I guess we could do it in January two.

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Speaker 1: What is your goal? If you're doing a top twenty five?

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00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: What is your goal? First thing we got to establish

510
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Speaker 1: are you doing power ratings or are you doing rankings?

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Speaker 1: So are you doing like neutral field favorability or are

512
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Speaker 1: you just ranking them as if you were an AP voter.

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Speaker 1: That's the first thing. This is the latter, this is

514
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Speaker 1: true rankings. Number two, are you doing a real time

515
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Speaker 1: like are you ranking Ohio State number one and Oregon

516
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Speaker 1: number six because that's how you think they'll start the season,

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Speaker 1: or are you ranking Ohio State number one and Georgia

518
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Speaker 1: number two because you think that will be the national

519
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Speaker 1: Championship game matchup and therefore that's how I'm going to

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Speaker 1: have it in the preseason? In other words, are you

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Speaker 1: projecting with your rankings? So you always have to establish

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Speaker 1: that there could be different points of view on that,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't do the projection thing. If I thought

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Speaker 1: that LSU was going to start the season slow, but

525
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Speaker 1: really get their act together, mid season and then surge

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Speaker 1: towards the National Championship. I wouldn't rank them number one

527
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Speaker 1: to start the year. If I were projecting, I would

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Speaker 1: so Texas and Notre Dame. Someone had a point to

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Speaker 1: make about that. In fact, several people had points to

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Speaker 1: make about several of these teams. So Brandon hit us up.

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Speaker 1: He said, Man, why don't they just why do they

532
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Speaker 1: just inject Texas and Notre Dame into top five spots?

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Speaker 1: They did nothing to deserve that preseason. No one's done

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Speaker 1: anything to deserve anything preseason. Brandon, again, according to the

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Speaker 1: way I view rankings, how could you have done anything

536
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Speaker 1: to deserve any preseason ranking? To me, there should be

537
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Speaker 1: no carryover. It's not like you won the World Championship

538
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: belt at Summer Slams, so you still have it on

539
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 1: your shoulder at Survivors Series because no one's beaten you

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Speaker 1: for it. You're not defending anything. There's no carryover. Your

541
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Speaker 1: roster's not the same. Nobody roster is the same, and

542
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Speaker 1: even if your roster was the same, there's no carryover.

543
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: So as long as every team starts zero and zero

544
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Speaker 1: the following season, how have you earned anything? The detractor

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Speaker 1: will listen to me and say, you just provided the

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Speaker 1: entire evidence that there shouldn't be preseason rankings. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I just provided logic behind the fact that what you

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Speaker 1: did last year shouldn't really have a bunch of bearing

549
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Speaker 1: on how you rank a team this year. So Texas

550
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Speaker 1: is going to be a loaded roster this year. The

551
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Speaker 1: arch manning into the season very strong. They went hard

552
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Speaker 1: in the portal. Marcus Freeman's got first off, a workable schedule,

553
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Speaker 1: and secondly, probably his best team to date. Those are

554
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Speaker 1: the reasons why you may want to put Texas and

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Speaker 1: or Notre Dame top five. That's it, that's the only

556
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Speaker 1: that's the only merit you need. In January, no one's

557
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: played a game. What about the Penn State tweet. We

558
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: saw a lot of feedback on this For people who

559
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: don't care about preseason rankings, there was a lot of

560
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: feedback on this. Someone said, this always ages so poorly

561
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: see Penn State. Literally every year, I've noticed the folks

562
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: who use the crying laughing emoji disproportionately are making bad points.

563
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: That's what I've noticed in my own replies. Penn State

564
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: most years has been fairly properly rated. Last year was

565
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: a glaring outlier, but again, it ages poorly only if

566
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Speaker 1: you're treating preseason rankings as something that has to hold

567
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Speaker 1: up top to bottom at the end of the year

568
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: or else hashtag you don't know ball. Did anyone, anyone

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Speaker 1: whose opinion you would even fractionally respect, have Penn State

570
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Speaker 1: outside their top ten or top fifteen at the worst

571
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Speaker 1: preseason last year? I didn't see anyone. Everyone had them

572
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Speaker 1: up there. They're just going to be outliers every year.

573
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: Penn State was just an outlier. I mean, they had

574
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Speaker 1: all the metrics that you would think you need to check.

575
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Speaker 1: They got an extremely experienced, highly paid coaching staff, They

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Speaker 1: got a veteran layen roster. They made a few key

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Speaker 1: additions to the portal. In the one area that you

578
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Speaker 1: thought was one of the remaining areas they lacked, which

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00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: was wide receiver. All the indicators were there. They lost

580
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Speaker 1: the Oregon game and it completely tore the dam. That's

581
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Speaker 1: really that was the Penn State story. If anyone claims

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Speaker 1: that they saw that coming, you be my guest. You

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Speaker 1: show me your work. First off. I want to see

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Speaker 1: the work. I want to see your preseason rankings. Last year,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it aged poorly at all. I just

586
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: think a college football season happened. You take whoever you

587
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: think the smartest football mind in the world is, have

588
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: them write their preseason rankings in January or August, I

589
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: don't care, and then hold it up to the light

590
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: in January and look at how frequently you could pick

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Speaker 1: that apart if you wanted to. Which brings me to

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Speaker 1: my next point. Well, not my point. Someone else made

593
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Speaker 1: a point. I just want to react to it. It

594
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: has to do with the bias. Someone's claiming bias. Rank

595
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: quote from someone else. Rankings shouldn't start into Week six.

596
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: Rankings dictate so much outcomes in the season, and the

597
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: bias towards certain programs isn't fair. With the transfer portal,

598
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: it is too hard to know how good teams will be.

599
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: This in no way invalidates the concept of why you

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00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: would want preseason rankings. It just means your methodology has

601
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: to be sound. So take Penn State last year, for example.

602
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with using your best judgment and using

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Speaker 1: it to rank Penn State number four to start the season,

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Speaker 1: as long as here's the important part, as long as

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Speaker 1: you're willing to adjust them on the fly, and as

606
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: long as you value the results on the field way

607
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: more than your preconceived notions, because at that point, it

608
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: really doesn't even matter if bias was involved. It really

609
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you were disproportionately biased towards big name

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Speaker 1: programs and you really did so at the expense of

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Speaker 1: not giving a second look to Indiana. Once Indiana starts

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Speaker 1: winning and once Penn State starts losing, as long as

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Speaker 1: you move them appropriately and as long as you value

614
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: one football games outcome more than six months of you

615
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: sitting around talking and reading magazines, it's fine. What the

616
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: bad part is is not everyone feels that way. There

617
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Speaker 1: are some folks out there who traffick in preseason rankings

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Speaker 1: and then they get married to their preseason ideas, which

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Speaker 1: aren't based in any games that have actually been played,

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Speaker 1: and then they stick to their preseason conceptions in spite

621
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Speaker 1: of actual evidence on the field to the contrary. Now

622
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: that's a problem, and those sorts of people aren't to

623
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Speaker 1: be taken seriously. But as long as you're not that way,

624
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Speaker 1: I don't really care. As long as you're willing to

625
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: adjust on the fly, I don't care. So my personal

626
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: thoughts on this thought number one. I'm not ready to

627
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Speaker 1: put out my preseason top twenty five point number two.

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Speaker 1: State's number fourteen. I kind of get it. Some people

629
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Speaker 1: said they looked overrated. I kind of get it. Their

630
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: schedule is workable, which shouldn't matter here, but let's be real,

631
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Speaker 1: a lot of people make it matter. But the Iowa

632
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: State imports and the fact that I believe in Matt Campbell,

633
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Speaker 1: and the fact that they're not ranked fourth, they're ranked fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. USC looks low to me at nineteen.

635
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Speaker 1: If Lincoln Riley's going to make some serious playoff noise

636
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Speaker 1: at USC, next year will be the year they do it,

637
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Speaker 1: and I think they may start the season off in

638
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: a really good place. Gary Patterson as a defensive coordinator,

639
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: I love the higher. We didn't talk a lot about that.

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00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: I love the higher. So USC I think is kind

641
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: of low at nineteen, and look at the start to

642
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: their season. They get three games that should be all

643
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: due respect to Fresno State should be fairly good tune

644
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: up games for Ohio's. Actually that's not even scheduled, is it. Jesse?

645
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: Wait a second, Wait a second, do we know I

646
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: hear you? Do? We know when they're going to announce

647
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: the date. Okay, we should go back to segment one.

648
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,919
Speaker 1: We gotta do better at schedule releases. I didn't even

649
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: know that the Big twelve announced their schedule released the

650
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: other day. It just kind of randomly popped up on

651
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: a graphic somewhere and I said, wait, did they release

652
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: their schedule? Come to find out they did, So I

653
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: take that back. We don't know when USC is going

654
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: to play Ohio State. Oh. By the way, January twenty

655
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: seventh is when it comes out. Okay, so five days

656
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: from now, oh Man, we got work to do. Think

657
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: about the viewpoint of USC. By the way, so USC

658
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: knows that they're going to go two Penn State, two Rutgers,

659
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: and two Wisconsin. They could be going to Madison, Wisconsin

660
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: in early September. They could be going to Madison, Wisconsin

661
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: in late November. They don't really even know. It could

662
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: be seventy two degrees, it could be twelve degrees and

663
00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: they don't even know. That's tough. Lincoln Riley think he

664
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: lives a cushy life, and he does. But man, that

665
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: schedule there's a wild fluctuation and the potential outcomes anyway,

666
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: I think us he's a little low at nineteen Washington

667
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 1: at eighteen. I have no idea what to expect with

668
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: a dynamic there. If I had a quarterback who looked

669
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: me in the eye and said, I'm with you, and

670
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: then he sprinted towards the door and throwing up the

671
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: deuces the whole way, yelling suckers, and then he runs

672
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: face first into the door and realizes, oh, it's locked.

673
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: And then he turns back around and tries to come

674
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: back over here and sit with us like nothing happen.

675
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just don't think it would

676
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: be the most fun spring ball period I've ever been through.

677
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the dynamic is going to

678
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: be there. And there is one team not listed here

679
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: that I think could be a big time wild card

680
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: type team this year, and that's the Auburn Tigers. So

681
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they should be top twenty five. I'm

682
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: just saying that I may place them ahead of a

683
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: few teams that are in the top twenty five, which

684
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: is essentially saying I think they should be in the

685
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 1: top twenty five. So there you go. You asked, I delivered.

686
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: Those are my thoughts. They're watching us in Boardman Ohio, Valdosta, Georgia, Rancho, Mirage, California.

687
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: I think that's near Palm Springs. I think let us continue.

688
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,959
Speaker 1: Got transfer portal intel here And you may be thinking

689
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: to yourself, how's that possible. The portal's closed, Yes it is,

690
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of names still rattling around

691
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: in there. Just ask lsu so big defensive commitments coming

692
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: off the board, all right, Princeville, Uman me Ellen very close. Yeah,

693
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: to lsu Here's what I do know. I do know.

694
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: They just picked up a premier edge rusher nine sacks

695
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: last year six five, two forty five, and they're still

696
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: in it for other guys like lsu is doing a

697
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: really really good job in the portal. I told you

698
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: the other day, I was talking to a GM from

699
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: another big time program and he talked about his team,

700
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: and then he talked about lsu. So. Lsu is is

701
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: a lot of people are taking notice of what they're doing,

702
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: way too early. Fifteen team. That's the rumor on the

703
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: street for twenty twenty six. So that's happening. Also, Damon

704
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: Wilson to Miami is official now. And this is a

705
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: big one because you just watched Reuben Bain terrorizing everyone,

706
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: a key mesador terrorizing everyone. Well, they're gonna be playing

707
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: their ball on Sundays next year, who knows, maybe in Miami,

708
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: but it won't be for the Hurricanes. So they had

709
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: to backfill and they were gonna be aggressive. And they've

710
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: got Damon Wilson and this is a big, big, big pickup.

711
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: Six four twot fifty was second team All SEC last year.

712
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: Now great in edge rusher category, run d That's probably

713
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: the one where like you're gonna look at it and

714
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, if there's a vulnerability there, then that's

715
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: something that you keep an eye on. But you've got

716
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: available what you've got available in the portal. So you

717
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: got him, you got Lightfoot, they got others there. I

718
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: think Miami has more than done a good enough job

719
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: sort of backfilling losing some premier guys to the NFL.

720
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: Jordan's Seaton watch is still on. Jesse. I don't know,

721
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: since we started to show if anything's really happened, it

722
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's happened. So you know, he took

723
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: the visit to LSU and didn't sign with LSU. And

724
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: anytime you go to LSU and you don't sign, Lane

725
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: chases you in his plane after you leave, and so

726
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: in this case, I think Jordan's seaton ended up in

727
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: Atlanta and he canceled his visit to Oregon. But then

728
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: Oregon and Dan Lanning hopped down to Atlanta to visit him,

729
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: don't know where, and then Lane chased him. And then

730
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: Miami's still in this thing. So you've got a Miami

731
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: LSU Oregon sort of battle. Was looking at Nakos's work

732
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: on three dot com earlier. Maybe still edge to LSU,

733
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: but it's fluid. I guess that's the best way to

734
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 1: describe this right now. If LSU gets him, that would

735
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: be three of the top four guys in the portal rankings,

736
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: So they're making big moves there. Darien Mensa is in

737
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: the portal, as we told you the other day, all

738
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: the legal wrangling at Duke, notwithstanding obviously nobody ever wins

739
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: a lawsuit. The NCAA never wins lawsuit, So he was

740
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: going in the portal. He is in the portal. It's

741
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: brutal for Duke. I hate that it's happening. Miami is

742
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat there. He's going to go to Miami.

743
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: Cooper Barcade, who we think is the last name that

744
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: we've pronounced right here. What we do know is he

745
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: was Duke's top receiver, one thousand yard guy. That is

746
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: a guy who's probably following him to Miami. So Miami

747
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 1: was in a unique situation because they had to play

748
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: the national title game, which means they kind of had

749
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: to delay making a lot of their moves. So now

750
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: they're making their moves. Dabo may retire man Dabo for

751
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: a long time shirked the portal, and I had my

752
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: thoughts on it, and everyone had their thoughts on it.

753
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: Daboswenty has finally dipped his toe into the portal and

754
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: it's freezing like he may jump out and may never

755
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: even pull his shirt off. He's not going to jump

756
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: in after experiencing what they have with Luke Farrelli. So

757
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: here's what happened, all right, tough scene for Clemson relates

758
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: to Luke Farrelli because you're watching the screen and you're saying, well,

759
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,479
Speaker 1: you mean Clemson. There's an old miss logo. There wasn't

760
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: last week. So this dude's an acc defensive Rookie of

761
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: the Year at Cal and then he portals to Clemson.

762
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: But hey man, that was in another world, another time.

763
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: That was all the way back on January seventh. And

764
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 1: then you're walking around on Clemson's campus and you walk

765
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: into class and you may have even seen Luke Farrelli

766
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: and you're attending some team functions and you may have

767
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: even seen him there. He's wearing the orange polo with

768
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: the Tiger paw on it. And then Old Miss decides, no,

769
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 1: we want him. And since there are really no rules

770
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: of parameters or barriers or guardrails, they just said we'll

771
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: go get him. And so they dropped a bag, as

772
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: you do these days, and Luke Farelli said, you know,

773
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm enrolled here anymore. I don't think

774
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: I'm a Clemson Tiger anymore. I'm going Old Miss. And

775
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: so I sit there and begged forever for Debo to

776
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: utilize the portal, and he does and this happens, and

777
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: I can only imagine his reaction when he finally gets

778
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: drug kicking and screaming into this thing. And this is

779
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: one of the first examples of what it's like to

780
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: dance in the portal. This is tough. Caden Lee, Ole

781
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: Miss wide receiver entered yesterday, and so we're keeping a

782
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: close eye on this. Missouri looks to possibly be the

783
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: team to beat. And I keep in mind it's another

784
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: one of these legal things with Trinidad Chambliss. He isn't

785
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: allegedly gonna play college football anymore because he's out of eligibility,

786
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: except that they're trying to legally pursue another year for him.

787
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: No one knows which way that's gonna go. Cayden Lee

788
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: doesn't know which way it's gonna go, but he had

789
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: to get in the portal just in case it didn't

790
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: go the way he wanted because he can then follow

791
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: Austin Simmons to Missouri. So there's a lot of uncertainty

792
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 1: as to whether he'll hop back out of the portal.

793
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, the portal is everything that you would expect

794
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: it to be this time of year, as is statematerial

795
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: dot com. Now. About so an hour ago, out offense

796
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: McMahon moment on Pres because Pres made this fancy new

797
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: graphic down here in the lower right portion of the

798
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: screen as I'm looking at it, but it said new

799
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: merch out And like Vince McMahon was famous back when

800
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: he was running programming every day. For having these little

801
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: idio secrecies, these little phrases. He didn't like, like he

802
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: didn't like hospital being said on air. He wanted it

803
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: to be medical facility. So I never do that, except

804
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: I've never been a huge fan of the word merch

805
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: for our store. I prefer items. So I told Pres

806
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: would like ten minutes warning, change that to items, and

807
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: I just noticed he did it. So never say Jesse

808
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: thought he couldn't do it. But Jesse always underestimates press

809
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: and Pres always comes through. So there are new items

810
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 1: available at paytstatemateial dot com. Like, for example, perhaps you've

811
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: pro created recently and you are a new father. We

812
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: are happy to celebrate with you. It's a problem that

813
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: I can see the staff now with his glass in

814
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: front of me, Pate State Dad, and we got Paate

815
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: State Mom in there too. Is just ninety four percent

816
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: of our audience as male, so I assume there are

817
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: more fathers than mothers that watch the show. So there's

818
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: some Pate State Dad items. Some would call it merch.

819
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: I would call it an item. Also, the McLaughlin School

820
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: of Music shirt is moving. It's moving. Happy with that boy?

821
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: What a number in front of me. I didn't plan

822
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: on talking about this on the show. Let me take

823
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: a sip of water. I don't talk TV ratings on

824
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: the show. I think it's dumb because it doesn't concern you,

825
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: but this one may. Let me take a sip. Hold on,

826
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: just say if you're listening to a podcast, I'll be

827
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: right back. Thank you. Callowie Bleu bottled in Harris County, Georgia.

828
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: By the way, all right, David from Bloomington, Indiana, what

829
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the national title TV ratings and

830
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: what could be any better? This is a monster number.

831
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: Now I'm a nerd for this stuff, but I hate

832
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: talking about it on air, and I cannot stand when

833
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: people start throwing around TV ratings numbers a lot because

834
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: number one hardly anyone knows how to properly interpret it.

835
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: There has been recent Nielsen calibration that probably has given

836
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: us more proper metrics, but anyway, that's nerd stuff. Number

837
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: two and probably more fundamental. And why I've always despised

838
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of fans talking about TV ratings is they

839
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: don't concern you. Like you like what you like, you

840
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: should watch what you like. And if a billion people

841
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: are watching along with you, or ten people are watching

842
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: along with you. If you enjoy it, you enjoy it.

843
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: So it never made much sense to me. Having said that, boy,

844
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: this is a big number. Thirty point one million viewers

845
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: for the National Championship game, thirty three point two million

846
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: at the peak. That's what Miami Indiana did the other night.

847
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: And if you're wondering, okay, what does that mean in

848
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: relation to what it's the most watched National title games?

849
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: It's twenty fourteen. It is the most viewed non NFL

850
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 1: telecast period since twenty sixteen. It was up thirty six

851
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: percent year over year from last year, which was Ohio

852
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: State Notre Dame. So I cannot overstate enough how mind

853
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 1: boggling this viewership number was. Now there are many different

854
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: reasons why. I don't even get why people try and

855
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: figure out why a lot of people watched something almost

856
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: like you're explaining it away. Well, yeah, but it was

857
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: a close game. Yeah, d we all watched it, man,

858
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: thirty point one million people, did we get it? Well? Yeah,

859
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: but Miami and Indiana that was new blood. Yes, Yet

860
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 1: you're you're not explaining anything we don't already get. One

861
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: of the worst kinds of folks that walks in the room,

862
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 1: by the way, is a window licker who thinks he's

863
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: intellectually just floating at a different level in the room,

864
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: and he's just saying the most obvious stuff possible. Yes,

865
00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: there are a lot of reasons. There are a lot

866
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: of reasons for anything that happens. But what this proved

867
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: to me is a fewfold. But firstly, unequivocally, Indiana is

868
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: a huge draw and I never expected that. So I

869
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: think we learned a lot about Indiana as a fan

870
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: base brand university this past year. From a sports standpoint,

871
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: I did not know how big their alumni base was.

872
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: I think outside of Indiana most people did not know

873
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 1: that so massive alumni base. But even having been armed

874
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: with that knowledge, I didn't know how much that would

875
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: translate into viewership, you know, because sometimes you have a

876
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: big alumni base, but they don't care about sports. Well,

877
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: Indiana has cared about basketball for a long time. Would

878
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: they care about football? Answer? They care a whole lot

879
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: about football. They invaded Atlanta for that Peach Bowl in

880
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: a way that would make Sherman look and say, wow,

881
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: that's a pretty impressive invasion. And then they took over

882
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: Miami's own building, probably seventy thirty seventy five to twenty five. So, yeah,

883
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: they traveled, and yeah they were jacked up and they

884
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: were excited, and they spent a ton of money. But

885
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: they also watched and a bunch of non Indiana folks

886
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: watched Indiana, so Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon, USC, Michigan,

887
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: like those are big time TV draws. Indiana is a

888
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: big time TV draw, like a legitimate big time TV draw.

889
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: And I underestimated that. I knew Miami would have appeal.

890
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: I didn't know Indiana would have that kind of appeal.

891
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 2: All Right.

892
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: The second thing is I love this and I hate this.

893
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: I love it because it's a ton of people watching

894
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: college football, which is a great thing across the board.

895
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: The only reason I hate.

896
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 3: It is because it gives people who suck at leadership

897
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 3: and who have made a mess of a lot of

898
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 3: things in college football this false ammunition in the way

899
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 3: of a big TV rating, to fire in people's face

900
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 3: and try and claim they're doing a good job.

901
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: College football is not thriving because of great leadership. It

902
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: is thriving despite great leadership. And I would argue quite

903
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 1: the opposite. I would argue college football is not close

904
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: to its seal. It is thriving in spite of poor structure,

905
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: and if college football ever gets out of its own

906
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: way and it's properly structured and it's properly led, it'll

907
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: explode even more. You look at that number, and that's

908
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: a huge number. But what you don't know is what

909
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 1: the maximum saturation point is. Where is the ceiling? My suspicion,

910
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: my instinct, and we look at a ton of data

911
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: on this all year, is if this is a ten

912
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: rung ladder, college football is on about run six or seven.

913
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: It's just still by far the number two most popular

914
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 1: sport in the country because this is a football drunk country.

915
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: And college football, for some of the same reasons and

916
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: for some different reasons than the NFL is great, is

917
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: also great. But the NFL is run extremely ruthlessly efficiently.

918
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: College football is not. And yet it still thrives. But

919
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: it could thrive more. Now, Bradley, do me a favor.

920
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: Put up the question again. I want to go back

921
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: to the second part of it just a second, and

922
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 1: also I want to buy myself five seconds to put

923
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: on some lip ball. All right, there we go. You

924
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 1: see the second part. This one piqued my interest a

925
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: little bit. David said, what could be any better? So

926
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: Miami and Indiana just did a huge number thirty point one.

927
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is what David meant, but

928
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: I took it to mean, what matchup, like, what National

929
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,720
Speaker 1: championship game matchup could we put on the field currently

930
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: that would get the biggest TV rating imaginable? And I

931
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,479
Speaker 1: came up with Texas USC. I think Texas USC would

932
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 1: blow anything out of the water. Right now. You would

933
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: get the big ten sec thing, So you would get

934
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: culture versus culture. You would get conference versus conference, but

935
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: also you would get new blood because neither of them

936
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: have been at that level in about a generation. You

937
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: would get the nostalgia piece times ten because they have

938
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: a history this millennium of playing for a national championship,

939
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 1: probably the best national championship game that we've seen this millennium.

940
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: You would get massive brands there, and I think the

941
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: appeal would be off the charts, and I think that

942
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: thing would hit thirty five plus. That's what I think

943
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: USC Texas and so like you could argue, what about

944
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: Ohio State Texas, I think it would be obviously to

945
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: be a huge draw. I just think there's a lot

946
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: to be said about the new blood factor that we

947
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: just got with Miami and Indiana like that obviously had

948
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: massive appeal. And if we got poundful pound, if we

949
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: got bigger brand names and we still filled those boxes,

950
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 1: we checked those boxes, I think that'd be a big number.

951
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: So you give me a usc Texas right now. It

952
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: would do an unfathomable number for a college football national

953
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: championship game. Not that we eat, sleep and breathe ratings,

954
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: but I mean, Indiana is a huge draw. Guys. We

955
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: can back it up in our internals. Like I was

956
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: very very I was very surprised at the amount of

957
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: traffic Indiana videos did this year. And like you hear that,

958
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: and if you don't live in this world is boring.

959
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move on in ten seconds. But like you

960
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: hear that, and you think, oh, that's so obvious. They

961
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: had a magical Cinderella run this year. It wasn't a Cinderella,

962
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: but they had a magical run this year. Hey man.

963
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: Of course a lot of people watched, dude. TCU had

964
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: a magical run. In twenty twenty three, TCU numbers were

965
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: non existent for us. Indiana is a massive, massive brand,

966
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: massive fan base, and I just didn't know. So I

967
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: guess we got to be better around here. That's on you, Jesse.

968
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors. You can buy Indiana gear right there.

969
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: You can still buy Miami gear there. I mean the

970
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: sun will rise probably a lot quicker in Miami than

971
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: it will else where, but sun will rise, and you

972
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: can go to Academy Sports and Outdoors and you can

973
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: get geared up with your favorite teams items. But you

974
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: can also gear up for spring sports season, like I've

975
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: recently purchased a couple of very very shiny new softball bats.

976
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: Season is going to be here before you know it. Bradley,

977
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: keep your Friday nights open and Academy dot com if

978
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: you can't get there in person, Like an Academy, they

979
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: got your cold weather gear. I would highly advise you

980
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: stocking up tomorrow, don't wait till Saturday, and they've got

981
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: everything else that you would need. Also big lead chew

982
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: in the checkout line. So Academy has been a partner

983
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: of ours for quite a while and they will continue

984
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 1: to be god willing and we appreciate them. Let's move

985
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: on very unique question here, but I thought we should

986
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: mix it in given that it's January twenty second. Nathan

987
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: from Las Vegas, Nevada hit us up and he said,

988
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: I heard you say the other night you don't do

989
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: an season, what can we expect from the show over

990
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: the next couple of months. It's a great question because

991
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of people ask a version of

992
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: this because we always add a bunch of new viewers

993
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: per year. So some of your veterans, you've been around

994
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: a long time, so you know the answer to this question. Well,

995
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,240
Speaker 1: I mean, we got hundreds of thousands of new people

996
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,919
Speaker 1: who just hopped on the bandwagon and enrolled at Payton

997
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: State this past fall. So no, he's right, we don't

998
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: stop like we are providing programming year round. Is just

999
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: college football, except for the very end of this show

1000
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: tonight when I'm going to dabble in some weather. But

1001
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: that's at the very end of the show. So here's

1002
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: the way it goes. We do three live shows per

1003
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: week during the season, Nathan, we back it down to

1004
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: two shows per week during this time of year. We

1005
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: do not use the word oh season. It's banned. Actually,

1006
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: it's one of the only band we're a free speech

1007
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: campus except for that word. We ban that word and

1008
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: a few others, and you know, it's mainly due to

1009
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: people abusing the YouTube chap, so we back it down

1010
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: to two shows per week. But the trade off there

1011
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: is we end up doing the Spring Speaker Series, the

1012
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: Pate State Speaker Series, which we haven't been nominated for

1013
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: in terms of like Nobel Peace Prize, Emmy, etc. But

1014
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: that's probably common. It's only a matter of time. That

1015
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkesan sit down we did last year, that Ryan

1016
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: Day sitting down we did last year, like that could

1017
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: feed families. That was good stuff. I still go back

1018
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: and watch that. So we'll do that again this year,

1019
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: like our plus long sit downs, really good conversational stuff

1020
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: with head coaches. Side note to any sids out there

1021
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: or head coaches themselves, whatever. I'm in the process of

1022
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: getting started lining that up, so figure out your calendars,

1023
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: figure out your dates, so we'll be doing that all spring. However,

1024
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: this is a new concept and I need your help

1025
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: on this. It's been brought to my attention that people

1026
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: beyond just head coaches want to be featured on the

1027
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: Speaker Series. I'm talking some football related people but people

1028
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: beyond the world of just college football, you like genuine

1029
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: celebrity types. Now, my inclination is to have a really,

1030
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: really thorough filter on who we allow on the Speaker series.

1031
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: But what I thought we should do is I thought

1032
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: I should put it out to you guys. Not a vote,

1033
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: but I should put it out and I'm open for feedback.

1034
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: And so just let me know, above and beyond head coaches,

1035
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: who would you like to see? Who would it interest

1036
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: you for us to sit down on this show for

1037
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: an hour and just peprum conversation slash question back and forth.

1038
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: I got a few. Some of them are big names.

1039
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: Some of them are off the wall, but once you

1040
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: heard the name, you would go, oh wow, that'll actually

1041
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: be pretty interesting. But I'm not the audience you are,

1042
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 1: so I will be on the lookout for some feedback there.

1043
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: But I do have some ideas. So, yeah, that's the

1044
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: spring and the summer is pretty much the same. And

1045
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: I mean we'll eventually we'll probably be doing some storm

1046
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: chasing in the spring. I don't know how much of

1047
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: that ends up on this channel. If you follow me

1048
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: on the social feeds, you see a lot of very

1049
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 1: eclectic stuff from about February through August on my feed

1050
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 1: at Josh pat CFB not to be confused with at

1051
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: Josh Pate Underscore CFB. Poor went out for our little

1052
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,760
Speaker 1: buddy the other day, flexed so hard, flexed so hard,

1053
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: flew too close to the sun, and he died. He's

1054
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: no longer with us. He is gone. We find parody

1055
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: accounts everyone, and we got a million parody accounts out there.

1056
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: We have fun with him, I interact with them, but

1057
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: imposter accounts, the swift arm of social media justice will

1058
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: be swung on you. Okay. One of our best friends

1059
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: in the world, Elon Musk, little known fact, and so

1060
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: he came to our rescue the other day and took

1061
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: out the trash, took out the trash. And I don't

1062
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: know if that individual is listening, that individual should probably know.

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00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: We know your identity. Man, there's one adult in the room,

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00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: at least in this equation. So I didn't out you,

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00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: but I know who you are. In fact, I even

1066
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: know what that account used to be before your former

1067
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: entity that you were aligned with dumped you. So we

1068
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: know who you are. It's just I guess what I'm

1069
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: trying to say is you're welcome. We could have made

1070
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: it a whole lot worse, but you wasted a forty

1071
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: five thousand follower count by trying to impersonate someone. And

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00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: it really wasn't me you pissed off. It was Savannah State.

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00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: So that's that's really where you took a wrong term.

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Speaker 1: Next up, I'm happy to announce that the Mood Tracker

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00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: is back. Worth another paper pop. Every year around this

1076
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: time we start taking the temperature of fan bases. We

1077
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: call it the mood Tracker. Tonight, I wanted to do

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00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: Michigan for just a second. Really, what we're trying to

1079
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: do here is we're trying to take a slice of

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00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: the fan base, and then we kind of cut off

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00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 1: the ten percent that are perma positive and the ten

1082
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: percent that are perman negative, and we try and take,

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00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: like the middle eighty percent, what's their general mood. It's

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00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: a very helpful exercise. With Michigan. I kind of get

1085
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: the sense that there's that mood that the curtain has dropped,

1086
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: or you could say the curtain is raised, but I

1087
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: just think curtain's dropping is more dramatic. So around Michigan

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00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: it feels like curtains have been up for quite a while.

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00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: It feels like for the past several years, if you

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00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: talked about Michigan football, even when they were winning, there

1091
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: was always this caveat if you were a non Michigan fan,

1092
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: or maybe even if you were a Michigan fan, you

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00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: just wouldn't admit it publicly. There was always this mystery.

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00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: In one case it was what's happening with the Stallion stuff?

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00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: In the other cases, man, what's happening when the NC

1096
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: DOUBLEA stuff? Even as recently as this year, Just because

1097
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: the Sharon Moore stuff took until December to blow up

1098
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the rumors weren't out there. So even

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00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: this year, Harbaugh's gone, the NC DOUBLEA stuff is allegedly

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00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: behind us. We are not mentioning Connor Stallions anymore. All

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00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: on this show. We do kind of a friend of

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00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: the show. But you thought even this year, man, there's

1103
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: just this kind of there's a curtain up, like I

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00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: wonder what's happening behind the scenes. Well, finally there's really

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00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: no wondering what's happening behind the scenes anymore. We know

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00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: that Sharon's gone, we know NCUBA investigation's gone, we know

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00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: we got a new head coach, in place in Kyle Whittingham,

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00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 1: and we know, like Bryce Underwood still here. So we

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00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: know we may not be pre season ranked number one

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00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: in the country, we may not be the favorites to

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00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: win the big but at least we know, or we

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01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: think we know, as much as we possibly can about

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Speaker 1: the state slash status of our football program. And so

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Speaker 1: now we're free to build, like we're free to dream.

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01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: We're free to emotionally invest again without the risk of

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01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: the fear of getting burned by some headline that randomly

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01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: drops Pete and Nko's just drops the bomb on your

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01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: forehead on a random Tuesday morning and you're like, I

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01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: didn't even know this was a possibility. Hopefully none of

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Speaker 1: that anymore. So if we are to believe that that's

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Speaker 1: the case, and I do, that's why I just said it,

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Speaker 1: then what do we think. Kyle Whittingham's a really solid

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Speaker 1: head coach, still got a lot of tread on his tires.

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Speaker 1: Michigan's going to be a real talent destination recruiting and portal.

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Speaker 1: I have all the reason in the world to believe

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Speaker 1: that they'll build that roster the right way, and I

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01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: don't think it'll take top five recruiting classes to do it,

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Speaker 1: although it's an added bonus if you do put it

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Speaker 1: together with that kind of talent. But the talent's one thing.

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Speaker 1: The mortar between the bricks, or as we would call it,

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01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 1: a team, that's another thing. And I think there'll be

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Speaker 1: a hard out up there, just in the foreseeable future,

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Speaker 1: as long as as long as the quote a Kyle

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Speaker 1: Whittingham football program unquote still means what it has meant,

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Speaker 1: and I got no reason to believe that it won't.

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Speaker 1: You know, there is this weird possible chapter in Kyle

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01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: Whittingham's bio that you're reading or watching one day where

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Speaker 1: he has all these years of success at Utah and

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01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: then you think forever he's going to retire at Utah

1140
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Speaker 1: and he's a Utah lifer. I thought that, and then

1141
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Speaker 1: he's not. And then the final let's just call it,

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01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: six years of his career are at Michigan and he

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01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: ends up having the most successful two year stretch or

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01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: three year stretch of his career at Michigan. You never

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01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: would have seen that coming. Kyle Whittingham himself, if you

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01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: showed him that chapter six years ago, would have thought

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01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: you were crazy. Like I'm not leaving here, first off,

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01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: cause he thought he was free to retire there and

1149
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: then he ended up getting forced out. And you just

1150
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: who in the world six years ago thought private equity

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01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: was going to be involved with Utah Athletics. So it's

1152
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 1: a crazy world in which we live. But that could

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01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: end up being to the benefit of Michigan. And at

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01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: the very least, I just the mood up there has

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01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: got to be kind of in line with that. There's

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01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: no more guessing, there's no more wondering, like for better

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01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: or for worse. We know what we got now, and

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01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, the fan base has

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01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: done a pretty good job of selling themselves on the

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Speaker 1: idea that we'll be able to do what we need

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01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: to do with Kyle Whittingham. I know, I've talked to

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Speaker 1: a couple of Big ten coaches not at Michigan, and

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Speaker 1: I can assure you like it got their attention when

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Speaker 1: they ended up hiring him. And Bryce Underwood's still there

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01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: and he's second year guy now, so I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to look forward to there, And at the

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01:02:56,200 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: very least, there's not this constant looking over your shoulder, man,

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01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: is there a shoe that's gonna drop. Is there a

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Speaker 1: hammer that's gonna drop? And I'm waiting on it. No,

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Speaker 1: at least as far as I can tell, there's not

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Speaker 1: so right now. If you go to FanDuel, you eventually

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Speaker 1: will be able to bet your opinion on Michigan. This

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Speaker 1: upcoming year, however, you will have some title favorites and

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Speaker 1: you can be already getting a little action on that,

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Speaker 1: or if you're just looking ahead to this weekend. I

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Speaker 1: have it on good authority sources are telling me that

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is the most serious part of the show.

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Speaker 1: If you're a big fan of college football but weather

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01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: does not impact your life, you need to tune out

1201
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: cause the shows over. But I know good and well,

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01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: weather affects every one of your lives, so none of

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01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: you need to be turning the show off. Justin with

1204
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: the most important question of the new year so far

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01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,919
Speaker 1: from Richmond, Virginia, what is with your fascination with weather?

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01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 1: And do you have thoughts on the snowstorm that's going

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01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: to hit the East Coast this weekend? It's not just

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01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: hitting the East Coast. Okay, this is not just a nor'easter.

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01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: Like I know, the East Coast likes to think they

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01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: invented winter weather. No, no, no one did. God did.

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01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: And God has seen fit to just bury a strip

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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma City to Little Rock, to Nashville to Louisville

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Speaker 1: and then up to Richmond and then maybe Boston, maybe Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: It just depends on which model is right. I think

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01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: it's going to be a big one man full immunity

1216
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 1: on this, but I think that folks are going to

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01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 1: get crushed. Now we're in Nashville right now, so we're

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01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: under a winter storm warning and there is much wailing

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01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 1: and gnashing of teeth. The online weather community is beside

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01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: themselves and they've been pitted against each other because like

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01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: some people are what we would call GFS truthers, and

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01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: that's sort of the American model. And then there are

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01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: euro truthers. Now, you know as well as I do,

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01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: there are not many things Europe does better than the

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01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: United States of America, but one of them that they

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01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: do do better is modeling winter storms. And so I

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01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: tend to believe in the euro solution right now, which

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01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: is horrible news for us in Nashville because that means

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Speaker 1: about one or two inches of snow and then an

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Speaker 1: ice storm. Now in the off chance that the GFS

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01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 1: solution verifies, then we've got a foot of snow Saturday,

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Speaker 1: which of course you pray for. Not that either is ideal.

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Speaker 1: Kind of goes back to our playoff proposals. There is

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Speaker 1: no perfect solution here, but you greatly prefer a foot

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01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: of snow to an inch of ice. I also want

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Speaker 1: to caution everyone, Jesse Mitch Bradley Prez. Those of you

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01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: who are not bailing tomorrow, like some of us, may

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01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: have contingency plans to do sticking around Nashville or you're

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01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: Memphis or Jackson or like anywhere like that. I know

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01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: that you probably haven't dealt with something like thunder sleep before. Thunderstorms, yes,

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01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 1: thunder ice, thunder snow, thundersleep. No. Now, a lot of

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01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: you in the North have dealt with thunder snow before,

1243
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: but even some of you don't really understand the concept

1244
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: of thunder sleep and especially thunder ice. But the dynamics

1245
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: with this system are so insane just above the surface

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01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: that it is very possible, nay likely, that you're going

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01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: to be looking at Twitter on Saturday and you're going

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: to be refreshing social media feeds, and there is someone

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01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: randomly in like Hohenwall, Tennessee, who posts a vertical video

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Speaker 1: and there is heavy sleep falling out of the sky

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01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: and there are lightning strikes and thunder. Fully expect that

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01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: to happen. So you can say many things this weekend,

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01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: but what you cannot say is you were not warned

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Speaker 1: because this is your winter weather headquarters. For about three

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Speaker 1: minutes tonight, this was your winter weather headquarters. I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be really, really incredible. And then I

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01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 1: do want to tell everyone, once you think you're out

1258
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: of the woods, I fully expect to be dealing with

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01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 1: this again next weekend. So there's like a little suit

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Speaker 1: super highway, a very active pattern right now. Give it

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01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: about six or seven days per and I think we

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01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: may be dealing with this next weekend. So I'm Magic

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Speaker 1: Johnson on this. I'm not gonna be here. I'm running away,

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Speaker 1: But the rest of you who stick around, I wish

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01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: you the best of luck. I highly doubt we're going

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Speaker 1: to have a Sunday show. I cannot in good conscience

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01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 1: make Bradley drive to the studio and so I would

1268
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:29,759
Speaker 1: bet no Sunday show Tuesday hoops amongst us knows, okay,

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01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 1: our balls are not in our own court on this,

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Speaker 1: so it's totally up to the weather. So just follow

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Speaker 1: on the social feeds at Josh Pate CFP. But this

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Speaker 1: has been your winter weather update from Pate state. We're

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Speaker 1: keeping a close eye on it. Fingers crossed for the GFS.

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Speaker 1: Full confidence it's gonna cave and the euro takes the

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Speaker 1: day and major eye storm in Nashville. That's my guess

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Speaker 1: right now. Don't hold me to it. I mean famously,

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Speaker 1: I picked Indiana loose four games this year, so I

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Speaker 1: would not like to be held to this. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of very on edge here right now. Good

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Speaker 1: show tonight did not get it in under an hour.

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