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Speaker 1: And welcome to lakeick Is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday night, December nineteenth, Year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, jam packed high a top downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: You know, imagine a sport that is all year long.

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Speaker 2: There is no season really because we celebrated.

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Speaker 1: Around here all year long. So yeah, we're close to Christmas, but.

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Speaker 2: We're still live here and we will have things running

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Speaker 2: for you during Christmas and through Christmas. And of course

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Speaker 2: we got a head somewhere which I'm about to announce

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Speaker 2: in just like forty five seconds to a minute from

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Speaker 2: now for the college football Playoff semi finals, and then

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Speaker 2: we will obviously be full speed ahead into twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two and also headed to Steve Wilfolk's hometown of Indianapolis,

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Speaker 2: Indiana for the National Championship game. But let's not get

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Speaker 2: ahead of ourselves. We'll get a jampack show tonight. We've

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Speaker 2: got a lot to get to bowls or underway. Some

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Speaker 2: people out there claim that we need to fix bowl season.

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Speaker 2: I get where you're coming from. We have been offering

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Speaker 2: solutions on this program ever since before Director Colin and

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Speaker 2: I even met, before I was down in Columbus doing

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Speaker 2: things independently. I will refresh your memory as to how

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Speaker 2: we got to get this thing back on track. The

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Speaker 2: kids made the mess, the adults have to clean it

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Speaker 2: up as usual. We will discuss that tonight. Also the

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Speaker 2: early signing day bomb that went off in this sport.

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Speaker 2: For lack of a better term, it still kind of

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Speaker 2: got a big mushroom cloud above it, and so we

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Speaker 2: really still can't make sense of what just happened. But

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you I think an earth shifting

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Speaker 2: at least the future of college football is earth shifting.

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Speaker 2: Bunch of stuff happened on signing Day, and I'm talking

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Speaker 2: about several.

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Speaker 1: Programs and the things that we'll.

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Speaker 2: Be talking about in twenty two, twenty three, twenty four

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Speaker 2: when it comes to this time of year, may have

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Speaker 2: been decided the other day.

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Speaker 1: You just don't know it yet because you can't see

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Speaker 1: the future.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to discuss that we have to dust off

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Speaker 2: the mood tracker tonight. It is time to do a

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Speaker 2: Florida State mood tracker. You talk about a bomb going off,

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Speaker 2: you talk about unexpected things happening.

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Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is not a Florida State seminole, nor will.

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Speaker 2: He be, and it was tough. It was tough for

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Speaker 2: the seminal fans there on signing day. It was jaw

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Speaker 2: dropping for the rest of us. We're sitting I'm there

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Speaker 2: hosting in Fort Lauderdale. We've got an entire production team

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Speaker 2: behind the wall scrambling. I got Andrew Ivans and I

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Speaker 2: think it was Chris Singletary at the time, or Cooper

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Speaker 2: Protecna was on set.

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Speaker 1: No one knew what was happening, and to some degree

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Speaker 1: people still don't really know what happened. We're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit more tonight.

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Speaker 2: Also, Five Countumn five added best Bets this evening. We

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Speaker 2: were two and one already on the young and soon

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Speaker 2: to mature college football bowl season aboard the Ramen Noodle Express,

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Speaker 2: so obviously a loaded show.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys.

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Speaker 2: We have had great traction on the channel and I

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Speaker 2: hope that continues, and I leave it in your hands

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Speaker 2: to continue that through December. The other day, as you know,

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Speaker 2: we went down to Fort Lauderdale for our early signing

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Speaker 2: day show. You guys made that much bigger success than

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Speaker 2: even the most ardent of supporters of the idea around

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Speaker 2: here ever thought it would be.

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Speaker 1: So another thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: But also, you know, something hit me as I walked

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Speaker 2: anything frivolous in nature, but I just walked out there,

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Speaker 2: palm trees. We're down there, just north of Miami, and

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Speaker 2: I realized something.

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Speaker 2: I realized, I have an opportunity to take another all

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Speaker 2: expense paid trip for an entire week down here in

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Speaker 1: How could I pass that up? So? I love Dallas.

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Speaker 2: We got a lot of friends in Dallas. We've been

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be Georgia and Michigan.

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Speaker 2: That's the late game, I think seven thirty Eastern time

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Speaker 2: Something happens to you if you live in Nashville where

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Speaker 1: I kid you not about that. People told me that.

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Speaker 2: When I came here, I called bs on him. Here's

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Speaker 1: Does basically the same thing at the same time every year.

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Speaker 1: They were right. I was wrong. It's depressing and there

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Speaker 2: Here is much more sunshine, much higher temperatures, and much

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be down there for an extended period of time,

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Speaker 1: Those of you already rolling.

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Speaker 2: Your eyes are rolling them because you remember what happened

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Speaker 2: last time we tied to take the show on the road.

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Speaker 1: But don't worry. We got plenty of lead time. Now

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Speaker 1: We got more than a month's heads up.

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Speaker 2: Now we've been working on this, so hopefully across every

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Speaker 2: More on that to come, and also not that we're

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Speaker 2: Not much more to say about that. A pretty notable

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Speaker 2: let's dive into what did matter. We have Over the

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Speaker 2: last month or so been talking about the coaching carousel,

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Speaker 1: Colin. I think this is a better end right here.

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Speaker 2: Transfer portal, coaching carousel, early signing day, that kind of

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Speaker 2: You could already see it coming. There's a big mess

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Speaker 2: of like the flash bang effect. If you've ever been

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Speaker 2: in a room where one of those flash grenades goes off,

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Speaker 2: but it's meant to temporarily paralyze your senses, temporarily blind,

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Speaker 1: You're neutralized. Well, we all got neutralized the other day.

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Speaker 2: No one really had a clue what to do because

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Speaker 2: you're looking at all these big time players de commit,

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Speaker 2: And then you got the Travis Hunter stuff as the backdrop.

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Speaker 2: But so much movement was happening it was tough to

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Speaker 2: So much happened. It's like trying to drink news from

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Speaker 2: so we're a few days removed from it, but still

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Speaker 2: you're looking at it and to what degree do you

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Speaker 3: Do you just say, yeah, that was crazy, man, that

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Speaker 3: signing day was crazy. It's more than crazy, Like the

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Speaker 3: story of Fleetwood, Max crazy, That's a pretty crazy story.

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Speaker 3: This was earth shattering, Like this is a fundamental change

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Speaker 3: in the future of this sport for multiple programs. When

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Speaker 3: beyond what happened Wednesday, and to a larger degree, what

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Speaker 3: to blame to degree will we have seen the future

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what I wanted to dive into tonight.

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Speaker 2: But if you just know some stuff happen, but you

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Speaker 2: really need to have it contextualize a little bit, That's

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Speaker 2: what I wanted to do tonight. These are major, like

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Speaker 2: of this stuff. Start with Michigan. I saw Max Olson. Actually,

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of who was here and then who

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Speaker 1: If you haven't already, I would print it out now.

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Speaker 2: If you know nothing else, just think about the Michigan

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Speaker 2: Wolverines currently having a top ten class for the twenty

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Speaker 2: they there? Well, I'll tell you exactly how they're there.

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Speaker 2: They picked up key on sob on signing Day. We

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Speaker 1: The week before Brent Vinnables leaves to go to Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: See how this works. And then sab d commits. One

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Speaker 1: None of them went back. Sab goes to Michigan. That's one.

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Speaker 2: Dereck Moore was committed to Oklahoma, four star defensive Lineman

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Speaker 2: They're as excited about him as they are any player

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Speaker 1: He was an Oklahoma commit.

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Speaker 2: What about Amrion Walker, three star athlete at one time

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Speaker 2: committed to Notre Dame Brian Kelly Leaves he decommits. Those

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Speaker 2: are three premier players. Oh and by the way, it

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Speaker 2: wasn't a classic d commitment. But Darius Clemens is a

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Speaker 2: big bodied receiver from Portland, Oregon. And for all the world,

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Speaker 2: I would have thought had Mario Christopall stated in Oregon,

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Speaker 2: that's probably a kid who stays home. When Mario Christaball didn't,

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Speaker 1: Those are four cornerstone.

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Speaker 2: Pieces of Michigan's current top ten class that may or

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Speaker 2: board to begin with.

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Speaker 1: Academy checks all of our boxes. They check our boxes.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it, and I really appreciate it hearing from

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Speaker 2: shop at Academy Sports and Outdoors. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: have confirmed it.

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Speaker 1: It is December nineteenth. You got six days.

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Speaker 2: You know good and wealth what I'm talking about, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say life needs.

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Speaker 2: They really want me to say tailgating needs. But let's

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Speaker 2: be real. This extends well beyond just tailgating. It's your

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Speaker 2: life needs. You can use this for so many things.

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Speaker 1: They use that.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, I want at least to cut

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Speaker 2: of those proceeds. We're not in twenty twenty two yet,

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Speaker 2: but we are in bowl season. I want to present

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Speaker 2: a simple question to you tonight, and then I want

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Speaker 2: you to sizzle on it and let's marinate on it

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Speaker 2: and talk through it together.

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Speaker 1: Does bowl season need fixing?

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Speaker 2: And if your answer is yes, which portion or portions

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Speaker 2: of season need fixing. Now this is not directed at

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Speaker 2: the there are too many bulls crowd.

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Speaker 1: Those people are in their own separate compartment.

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Speaker 2: In fact, when I'm college Football Commissioner, anyone who says

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Speaker 2: there are too many bowls will be guilty of hate speech.

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Speaker 2: We will not allow that. In that world of college football,

477
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Speaker 2: there are not too many bulls. Do you understand what

478
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Speaker 2: the alternative is? On December twenty third, if you're not

479
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Speaker 2: watching a football game, have you scanned the options? Those

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Speaker 2: of you who aren't relying on YouTube TV? Have you

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Speaker 2: scanned the options that are out there alternative to a

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Speaker 2: live football game? On December twenty sixth, you're telling me

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Speaker 2: there are too many bowl games. I'm asking you, what

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Speaker 2: in the world else are you watching on TV? I

485
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Speaker 2: love It's So Wonderful. Life's my favorite Christmas movie. I

486
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Speaker 2: can only watch it so many times. What are you

487
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Speaker 2: watching Hallmark reruns. Home Alone two is going to be

488
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Speaker 2: there in February, May, April. You don't have to just

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Speaker 2: watch it around Christmas. Point being, there can never be

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Speaker 2: too many Bowl games. And for those of you out

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Speaker 2: there who say, well, it's a byproduct of the everyone

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Speaker 2: gets a trophy, e we have long since passed that.

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Speaker 1: I want the trophy, That's what happens. I want the reward.

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Speaker 2: I want to be able to watch as much as

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Speaker 2: I possibly can in December. So this is not a

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Speaker 2: segment to calm myself down that is directed at that

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Speaker 2: there are too many Bowl crowds. What I do want

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Speaker 2: to talk about, though, is the crowd out there sizeable.

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Speaker 2: Many of you are among them, and I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to disagree with you. I'm going to try and meet

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Speaker 2: you and understand what you're talking about. When you say

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Speaker 2: Bowl season, just ay what it used to be a

503
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Speaker 2: lot of you are talking about opt outs. Mainly you're

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Speaker 2: talking about opt outs. Shame on Kenny Pickett for faking

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Speaker 2: that slide.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we.

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Speaker 2: Were showing b role there of Kenney Pickett. We're showing

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Speaker 2: b roll right now. If Kenneth Walker the third if

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Speaker 2: you're watching on YouTube, because those are two kids whose

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Speaker 2: programs are going to face off.

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Speaker 1: I believe in the Peach Bowl and it's Michigan.

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Speaker 2: State versus PIP But you will not see the premier

513
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Speaker 2: player for either of those teams because they are both

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Speaker 2: opting out to get ready for the NFL Draft. This

515
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Speaker 2: is a fairly new phenomenon in college football. It was

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Speaker 2: easy to see coming from ten miles away before I

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Speaker 2: ever got to twenty four to seven when I was

518
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Speaker 2: back in Columbus and we celebrated having like twenty viewers

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Speaker 2: on the show.

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Speaker 1: So therefore, not many of you are going to be

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Speaker 1: aware that I said this.

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Speaker 2: I was yelling in any megaphone that someone would hand me.

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Speaker 2: We are headed towards a time where people are not

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Speaker 2: going to play in bowl games. Here's why I said that.

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Speaker 2: You didn't have to be that smart. I know because

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Speaker 2: I figured it out. I was looking around and I

527
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Speaker 2: kept hearing this phrase come out of people's mouths, and

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Speaker 2: the phrase was meaningless bowl game.

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Speaker 1: I had never heard people.

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Speaker 2: Say that before we had a playoff, and therefore I

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Speaker 2: had never seen people really opting out of bowl games,

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Speaker 2: especially in large quantities, before we had a playoff.

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Speaker 1: But these people who allegedly.

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Speaker 2: Love the sport and are paid to cover the sport

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Speaker 2: and should theoretically have the sport's best interest in mine.

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Speaker 2: That's a tall thing to ask, But you know, I

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Speaker 2: listened to them, and they kept calling these bowl games

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Speaker 2: meaningless ball games. Well, here was my logical conclusion. Players

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Speaker 2: are going to listen to you, and eventually, if they're

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Speaker 2: playing in the cheese At Bowl or they're playing in

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Speaker 2: the Monique Carcare Bull all due respect to those phenomenal

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Speaker 2: brands I have patronized both over my years, they are

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Speaker 2: going to hear you call those bull games meaningless, and

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Speaker 2: if they have prospects beyond just the college game, they're

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Speaker 2: gonna listen and they're gonna believe you, and they're not

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Speaker 2: gonna participate in a meaningless bowl game. Your words, not theirs.

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Speaker 2: Kids never said it. The adults in the room said it,

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Speaker 2: and sure enough it happened, and sure enough we had

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Speaker 2: about twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, somewhere along those lines, we

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Speaker 2: start seeing.

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Speaker 1: The opt outs.

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Speaker 2: And at first it was just a couple of big names,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Christian McCaffrey's of the world, Leonard Fournett's,

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Speaker 2: But then came the floodgates opening up, and now we

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Speaker 2: have what we have present day, and so of course

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Speaker 2: the solution from the same folks who made the mess

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Speaker 2: initially is to just add more of.

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Speaker 1: The thing that made the mess. Not to me when

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Speaker 1: you inserted.

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Speaker 2: A college football playoff into the equation, and then you

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Speaker 2: also had the Who's in era, as I like to

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Speaker 2: call it, were a certain unnamed major sports me media

563
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Speaker 2: conglomerate just up the East coast a couple thousand miles

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Speaker 2: started using that as their marketing slogan.

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Speaker 1: It came at the expense of all the other bowl

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Speaker 1: games out there. Suck the oxygen out of the room.

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Speaker 1: And you were.

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Speaker 2: Told, if you're not playing in a playoff game, your

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Speaker 2: bowl game's meaningless.

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Speaker 1: Then you believe them. Then they wanted to try and

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Speaker 1: scold you when you listen to them.

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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, that crowd that caused the initial mess, the

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Speaker 2: casuals of the world, if you will, They think the

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Speaker 2: answer is, well, let's just insert more of that thing

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Speaker 2: that initially led to this problem. More playoff will clean

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Speaker 2: up the mess that playoff and the way we treated

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Speaker 2: the playoff initially made. Of course, you know my thoughts

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Speaker 2: on that that's like watching Big Daddy when the kid

579
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Speaker 2: spills the milk all over the place and Adam Sandler

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Speaker 2: comes in, picks some newspapers and just covers the milk

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Speaker 2: and newspapers and tells the kid, there you go.

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Speaker 1: You can't see the milk anymore, so the mess is

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Speaker 1: cleaned up.

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Speaker 2: That is essentially the logic that we were applying to

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Speaker 2: this current state of affairs. I obviously don't believe that

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Speaker 2: more playoff will solved this problem. In fact, I believe

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Speaker 2: that you would end up getting to a point where

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Speaker 2: you would have playoff opt outs.

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Speaker 1: But none of you think that's ever possible. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to use this time tonight to reltigate that.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you you also thought, once upon a time,

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Speaker 2: pitt in Michigan State, each respectively making it to the

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Speaker 2: Heights under their current administrations they haven't made before, would

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Speaker 2: make it impossible for players to opt out of those

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Speaker 2: Bowl games. But yet we have it now, So never

596
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Speaker 2: say never. Trust me, things can happen, and on those

597
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Speaker 2: slippery slopes, they can.

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Speaker 1: Happen pretty quickly. But I'm not here to talk about that.

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Speaker 2: What I do want to ask is, given that this

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Speaker 2: is now twenty twenty one, and we.

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Speaker 1: Have what we have. I want to present the.

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Speaker 2: Idea that I have had since about twenty eighteen, and

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Speaker 2: I was doing this at the time in Columbus. I've

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Speaker 2: probably done this segment four or five times. I think

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Speaker 2: we've done it maybe one time here Colin when we.

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Speaker 1: First started the show at twenty four seven.

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Speaker 2: I have not tweaked this plan hardly at all, and

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Speaker 2: so I could just recite it off the top of

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Speaker 2: my head. The point, though, is this is not my

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Speaker 2: ideal solution. My idea solution would be for none of

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Speaker 2: this to have ever happened. And my ideal solution would

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Speaker 2: be for people to be jacked out of their mind

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Speaker 2: to play in the out bag bowl. That's a big

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Speaker 2: deal to me, but that's not where we are. So

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Speaker 2: the old toothpaste is already out of the tube. Now

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Speaker 2: that it's there, how do we fill up the incentive reservoir?

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Speaker 1: Because that's really what we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about a de incentivized nature for non playoff games.

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Speaker 2: You've been told their meaningless. Therefore you've got players opting

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Speaker 2: out of them. Well, how do we raise the incentive level?

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Speaker 1: Again? There is one school of thought that I don't dismiss.

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Speaker 2: I'm very interested in this that some of you have,

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Speaker 2: and that school of thought is, let's just not see

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Speaker 2: the playoff until after bowl season. In other words, you

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Speaker 2: kind of make the ball season part of the playoff,

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Speaker 2: so to speak. And while that's not part of my plan,

627
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Speaker 2: I don't mind that. I certainly don't push back on it.

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Speaker 2: I think it is better than what we have at

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Speaker 2: the present moment.

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Speaker 1: But here's what I've always wanted to do. Let's just

631
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Speaker 1: table that in.

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Speaker 2: Lieu of actually changing the playoff seed structure, and in

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Speaker 2: lieu of expanding the playoff.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about that right now.

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Speaker 2: Money, that's how you feel the incentive reservoir money. Now, again,

636
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Speaker 2: before I dive into this, understand note this is not

637
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Speaker 2: my ideal format, but it is a reality based format

638
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Speaker 2: that I think is best at this.

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Speaker 1: Point, the whole payate state model.

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Speaker 2: You know, if your boy here's commissioner of college football.

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Speaker 2: The way that I would love to go about this

642
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: is to acknowledge that college bowl games are not regular

643
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Speaker 2: season games, so we can do things with them that

644
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 2: we could not do with regular season games. My model

645
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Speaker 2: since twenty eighteen has always been a revenue sharing model

646
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Speaker 2: that's instituted for every Bowl game. And where you get

647
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Speaker 2: that revenue pool that you're going to then share with

648
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 2: the players comes from everything from TV money to add revenue.

649
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Speaker 2: Pay attention to this third part, to gate revenue, to

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Speaker 2: merchandise revenue.

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Speaker 1: In other words, if.

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Speaker 2: You were on tour as a band, the same way

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Speaker 2: that it would be dictated how much.

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Speaker 1: Money, how big of a cut you're getting from.

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Speaker 2: Your tour, is the same way we're gonna determine what

656
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Speaker 2: kind of cut these players are getting.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I would love to do.

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Speaker 2: I would love to take that pool of money, and

659
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Speaker 2: I would love to distribute it evenly to the two teams.

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Speaker 2: Seventy five percent goes to the winning team, twenty five

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Speaker 2: percent goes to the losing team. Both players are gonna

662
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: make money. The winner's gonna make more money. You have

663
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,719
Speaker 2: to participate in the game to be available to receive

664
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Speaker 2: any kind of revenue sharing from the ball game in

665
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: which your team made it. Now, here's what I've just

666
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: incentivized with my plan. You incentivize players playing, you incentivize

667
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 2: players winning, And here's the third part. You incentivize players

668
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: taking an active role in promoting the game and promoting

669
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Speaker 2: the sport, because you want your piece of the pie

670
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: to be as big as possible. Therefore you want as

671
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 2: many people watching as possible. Therefore you want as many

672
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: advertisers tied in as possible. Therefore you want as many

673
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: people in the stands as possible, And therefore it really

674
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: benefits you. And therefore it makes a lot of sense

675
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 2: for you to be out there in the days leading

676
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: up to the game taking an active role in promoting

677
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Speaker 2: your own sport.

678
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Speaker 1: And your own event.

679
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that can work alongside or maybe

680
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: hand in hand with the whole wait until after Bowl

681
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: season to see the playoffs plan. If anyone can convince

682
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Speaker 2: me it can't, I would be happy to be on

683
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Speaker 2: board with it. You know, why not throw twenty gallons

684
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Speaker 2: of water at a ten gallon fire.

685
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. That's cool with me. I don't

686
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Speaker 1: know any other.

687
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Speaker 2: Way that we get that we get the spirit of

688
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: Bowl season back to the way it used to be,

689
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Speaker 2: or anywhere close to it, other than filling the incentive

690
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Speaker 2: reservoir back.

691
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Speaker 1: And if anyone out there has.

692
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Speaker 2: Any other alternative suggestions, I'd be happy to listen. That's

693
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: the best I can come up with. Though the mood

694
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Speaker 2: tracker is something normally we do in the spring. The

695
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 2: mood tracker is something we normally do after the spring.

696
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Speaker 2: But the mood tracker is something we need to do tonight,

697
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: and we need to direct the mood tracker right in Tallahassee,

698
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Speaker 2: Florida at Florida State football. Some people say it's better

699
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 2: who have loved and lost than to never have loved

700
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Speaker 2: at all.

701
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Speaker 1: It may be.

702
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 2: True in the movies, but it is not true in recruiting,

703
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: because I can assure you that Florida State fans ten

704
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: times out of ten would rather have never heard the

705
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: name Travis Hunter than to have gone through what they've

706
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 2: gone through this past week. Quick recap, close your ears

707
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: if you are a Florida State fan, that, if you're

708
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: looking on your screen right now, is the number one

709
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: player in the country. He was committed to Florida State

710
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: it feels like forever. And then on signing day he says,

711
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Speaker 2: never mind, I'm going to go to where Jackson State

712
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: and he tossed the Florida State hat for good measure,

713
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Speaker 2: which I've never been a fan of.

714
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Speaker 1: Anyway, There's Travis Hunter he's out of here. Now. Now

715
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say something out loud, So I want

716
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Speaker 1: you to pretend like you don't really know a whole lot.

717
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Speaker 2: Let's just pretend you're an agnostic fan. You watch every

718
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: now and then if college football is on at a bar,

719
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Speaker 2: but you don't really follow it day to day.

720
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Speaker 1: I'm going to rate a scenario out here to you.

721
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: I wrote it. Now.

722
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Speaker 2: I want you to tell me off the top of

723
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Speaker 2: your head if you're just a casual fan out there,

724
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Speaker 2: not a casual in the classical sense, but a casual fan,

725
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: how would you feel about this. Let's say your team

726
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: goes far five and seven and then you land the

727
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Speaker 2: number fourteen recruiting class in the country.

728
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Speaker 1: My reaction, if I didn't know any better, would be, well,

729
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: it's not that bad.

730
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Speaker 2: It's actually much better than I thought we'd do after

731
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Speaker 2: going five and seven. I think that would be a

732
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Speaker 2: lot of your responses. But here is the problem.

733
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Speaker 1: When we zoom in, we get a little bit more

734
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Speaker 1: down in the weeds.

735
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 2: We have not factored in for what we on this

736
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 2: show call the recalibration of expectation. That's kind of like

737
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 2: Michigan State football this year Michigan State's over under win

738
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: total was four and a half. Yet they get to

739
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: like the eight or nine win mark, and they're being

740
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 2: told once they lose to Ohio State, they were frauds. No,

741
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: they were never frauds if you viewed it through the

742
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Speaker 2: proper lens.

743
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Speaker 1: But when Michigan State gone on into the season.

744
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: In a little ways, you get to a certain point

745
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 2: where people forget what the initial expectation was and they

746
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 2: recalibrate the expectation. Thus the recalibration of expectation, and then

747
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they're saying stupid things about Michigan State. Well,

748
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: Florida State fans, if you never had heard the name

749
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Speaker 2: Travis Hunter, and let's just pretend like you guys land

750
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: a lot of kids late, and you finished strong, and

751
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: then you landed the number fourteen class kind of did

752
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: what Auburn did.

753
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Speaker 1: I mean, Auburn and Florida.

754
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Speaker 2: State have comparable classes, they just didn't close in anywhere

755
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 2: close to the same manner.

756
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: Well, if you.

757
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: Did what Auburn did and you never had Travis Hunter,

758
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 2: this would be an acceptable class. You'd want a few

759
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: more pieces, but it would be acceptable. But you had

760
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 2: long since recalibrated your expectations, and you had baked Travis

761
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Speaker 2: Hunter in to even the worst case scenario. Losing Travis

762
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 2: Hunter was not possible. That was beyond the worst case scenario.

763
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 2: So when you lost him, it's a disaster. It is

764
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Speaker 2: essentially it puts you in such a shaken mentality that

765
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Speaker 2: you don't know which end is up and the mood

766
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: there I wrote down it's kind of the post impact assessment.

767
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: If you've ever been in a wreck.

768
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the seconds after you've been in erect

769
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 2: and you still got the steering wheel gripped tight.

770
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: It's not bad enough to where you're knocked out, but you.

771
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: Got an a wreck and it's shaken you, and only

772
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: a few seconds have gone by. You could be anywhere

773
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: from looking it just a badly dented car to its totaled,

774
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 2: and I hear.

775
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: The ambulance on the way. I'm about to spend a

776
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Speaker 1: week in the hospital.

777
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Speaker 2: You are still assessing post impact well with Florida State graphic,

778
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: though that may have been Florida State fans. They don't

779
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: really know what to make of this yet, and I

780
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 2: got several of them. I've had to talk a couple

781
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Speaker 2: of them off the ledge. Just today, I told them

782
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: I was going to do this segment. It's post impact,

783
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: and this gutted Florida State. It gutted the coaching staff.

784
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 2: They didn't see it coming. They got blindsided by it.

785
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: And anyone who's too prideful to it but otherwise is

786
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: lying to you. Now they've owned it and they've taken

787
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: it in stride. But it is gutting because you're not

788
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 2: sure of anything. It's like people taking the rug out

789
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 2: from under you. So it's like if you never believed

790
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 2: in aliens and then you saw flying saucer land in

791
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 2: your front yard tomorrow morning.

792
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Speaker 1: You're not sure of anything anymore. They're not sure of

793
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: anything down there right now. But it doesn't mean all

794
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: is lost.

795
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 2: This class is not ranked thirty eight, they's ranked fourteenth,

796
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: and they still got the transfer portal to go.

797
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 1: The problem and the reason that they're so.

798
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 2: So shaken, aside from the obvious, is there could be

799
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: bigger implications here. You start to convince yourself if you're

800
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 2: not careful, if you're not mentally tough, you start to

801
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: convince yourself, well, if we're capable of losing that guy.

802
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: No one's ever secure anymore.

803
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: And if we're not capable of locking him down and

804
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 2: we lost him to Jackson's State, like we didn't lose.

805
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: Him to a program.

806
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 2: I'm just going to state it like it is to

807
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: a program that we think we should lose a kid too.

808
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: You know, if.

809
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 2: Georgia came along and got him, it would be terrible,

810
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 2: but at least we'd understand we let Dion come and

811
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: take him from us.

812
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: I don't care what the circumstances were. I'm speaking as

813
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: a Florida State fan.

814
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 2: Now, we let Dion take him from us never should happen,

815
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 2: and we certainly should have an idea whether that's fair

816
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 2: or not, Whether that's fair or not, you know, good andwell,

817
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 2: that's how a lot of you guys down their field.

818
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming you, I'm just saying, you know, that's

819
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: the way it is. So given where we are right

820
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: now in the sort of post impact assessment.

821
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: Portion of the recovery process.

822
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 2: How Mike Norvel handles the transfer portal over the coming

823
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: months will define the future of his program and his

824
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 2: tenure at that program. And to be clear, there's several

825
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: holes that need to be patched. This is well beyond

826
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 2: just a Travis Hunter. Think they were going to have

827
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: to do this even if they landed Hunter. But now

828
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 2: there's a magnifying glass on the program. They got to

829
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: get defensive line help. They got to get wide receiver help.

830
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: Probably a couple of them need help on the offensive

831
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 2: line at the tackle land guard positions. They need linebacker help. Now,

832
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: the good news is there are options. As I said,

833
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: there are roughly forty seven million kids in the transfer

834
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: portal right now. There will be options. They've got to

835
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: hit on all of them. They've got to pull in

836
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: Michigan State. They've got to hit on all of them.

837
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: And then they certainly have to upgrade their staff. I

838
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 2: was over on Noles twenty four to seven today. I

839
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 2: was looking at Brendan Sanone doing a long form thread,

840
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 2: just kind of an ask me anything thread, and they

841
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 2: were talking a lot about this what has to change.

842
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: It's not one answer, it's not one sentence. It's a

843
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: lot of this.

844
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 2: And this happened, then maybe you're looking at an eight

845
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 2: or nine win campaign. But if all those things don't

846
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 2: coalesce and come together, then you're talking about.

847
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 1: Stuff that you don't want to be talking about. Hot

848
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: Seat talk, is it?

849
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 2: Time to make a move, all that stuff that we've

850
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 2: been speaking about so much with other programs recently, you

851
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 2: don't want to get there.

852
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 1: But here's what else they know. If you're looking around and.

853
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: You're looking at more than just Florida State football, you're

854
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: looking at Clemson and you're seeing a program that seems

855
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: as vulnerable as they've been in several years.

856
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: What you absolutely.

857
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: Cannot afford to let happen is Mario christ ball in

858
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: Miami to get their wheels under them, which they will,

859
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 2: and you can't afford to watch programs like North Carolina

860
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 2: get distance on you. You can't allow that to happen, because

861
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: if Clemson's vulnerable, it's got to be you.

862
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: It's got to be you involved with those other programs.

863
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 2: If it's Clemson vulnerable and they're three or four teams challenging,

864
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 2: FSU's logos, got to be in one of those blanks.

865
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 2: If it's not, that's your worst fear, that's your worst

866
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 2: case scenario. That's what they're unsure of right now. That's

867
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: why they're in the post impact assessment a portion of

868
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 2: the recovery process. And I don't know how long that's

869
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 2: gonna last. I tend to believe it'll last even past

870
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 2: spring up to and maybe including media days and right

871
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 2: before camp opens, cause that's how late in the game

872
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 2: they're going to be working that portal to see what

873
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 2: kind of immediate additions and help that they can get

874
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 2: out of there. By the way, if you're watching live,

875
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: do me a quick favor this is all and subscribe

876
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 2: to the channel. We're approaching one hundred thousand there. I

877
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: don't know if we're going to get it by next week,

878
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 2: but we're approaching one hundred thousand, So do me a

879
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: favor and do that, and also be following on Twitter

880
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 2: at late Kick Josh because we have we have a

881
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 2: weird schedule coming up and it's going to be one

882
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: where you need to be notified of it. There are

883
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 2: some things coming that we ain't even announced yet because

884
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: we're not firm on the dates yet, so just be

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00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 2: following Twitter and Instagram at late Kick Josh. Okay, so

886
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 2: we're two and one so far with the ram Noudle

887
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 2: Express in Bowl season. I'm adding five games tonight, one, two, three, Yeah,

888
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 2: five games tonight.

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00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: Get ready. I don't know the names of these bowls,

890
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: but I do know the dates We're going to start

891
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: four days from now, Yeah, four days from now. On

892
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: the twenty third, we are going.

893
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 2: To take North Texas plus three, and we are then

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00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: going to take on the twenty seventh, so let's go

895
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Speaker 2: through Christmas.

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00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: On the twenty seventh, we're gonna take East Carolina Eastern

897
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: Carolina plus three.

898
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 2: We're gonna take Iowa State minus one and a half

899
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: on the twenty ninth. Also on the twenty ninth, a

900
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 2: rare move for me, we are going to take a

901
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 2: new coaching staff, an interim coaching staff, and multiple transfers.

902
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 2: We're still gonna take Oklahoma minus four and a half,

903
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna take Baylor on New Year's Day.

904
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: I believe in the Sugar Bowl against Ole Miss right

905
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 2: at Pickam. If they're giving you any points, that's great.

906
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 2: If you have to lay a point, that's fine. We

907
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: want Baylor, though. We're taking Baylor right out of Pickham.

908
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 2: Oklahoma minus four and a half, Iowa State minus one

909
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: and a half, ECU.

910
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: Plus three, North Texas plus three. We are out of here.

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00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: That is our show, A nice crisp thirty eight some

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Speaker 1: odd minutes tonight. Thank you so much to you guys,

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Speaker 1: for watching. I know some of you have.

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Speaker 2: Gotten Christmas started early. We had a Christmas party the

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Speaker 2: other night. Maybe I'll tell the story of how director

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Speaker 2: Colin exited that party one day. Some of you don't

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Speaker 2: think director. If you were at the Christmas party the

918
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Speaker 2: other night, you would have known just how real Direct

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Speaker 2: Colin is. Producer Jesse not Producer Jordan was there the

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Speaker 2: other night too, But thanks to them, thanks to our entire.

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Speaker 1: Crew, Thanks to you guys.

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00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 2: If you're already getting started on your Christmas festivities, Merry

923
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 2: early Christmas, mary Pole.

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00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: Season to everyone, and thank you guys so much for watching.

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Speaker 2: Big announcement's coming, So stay tuned on Twitter at late

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Speaker 2: kick Josh, we will see you later. Until next time,

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Speaker 2: have a great rest of your evening and godliness