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Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake Kick is Live. It is Tuesday

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Speaker 1: Night Special Tuesday Edition April twenty sixth of the Year

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Speaker 1: of Our Lord, twenty twenty two. Hey, I got a

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Speaker 1: question for you. What happens if there is a problem

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Speaker 1: and no one does anything about it? Well, stick around

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Speaker 1: college football for a little while. It looks like you're

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Speaker 1: about to find out. We're jam packed. We're high at

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Speaker 1: top a picturesque downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Beautiful, a little bit

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Speaker 1: on the cool side, but beautiful today. Where are we

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Speaker 1: going tonight on the show? Where are we going? Where

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Speaker 1: is the sport going? A lot of questions that need answers.

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Speaker 1: Your boldness is back. We have got bold takes from

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Speaker 1: this side of the room to that side of the

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Speaker 1: room about this year in college football. You claim you

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Speaker 1: would put money on these. So we are going about

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Speaker 1: five deep again tonight on that front. And we've got

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Speaker 1: a mail bag that also takes us coast to coast.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about LSU quarterbacks, we talk about

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Speaker 1: Texas receivers, We're gonna talk about home field advantage in

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Speaker 1: college football. All sorts of different things tonight and breaking

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Speaker 1: news just in the past hour, so We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to it. Believe me, We're gonna get to it. They're

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Speaker 1: watching us tonight in Dearborn, Michigan. They're watching us in

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Speaker 1: Boulder City, Nevada. Atlanta, GA is tuned in, as is

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Speaker 1: Rock Valley, Iowa. With that in mind, I have a

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Speaker 1: statement I'd like to read. So, if you're just getting

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Speaker 1: off work, you know, maybe you haven't been tuned in

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Speaker 1: to the goings on in the college athletics world today.

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Speaker 1: NCAA President Mark Emmert stepping down as of June twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. You look at that, maybe if you're just

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Speaker 1: and you may say, oh, that's big news. Wonder what

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Speaker 1: went into that. If you are part of Pate State,

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Speaker 1: or if you're even remotely familiar with the lens through

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Speaker 1: which I viewed this sport, you thought he's gonna run,

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Speaker 1: isn't he? That's what the statement is about. Just allow

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Speaker 1: me about thirty seconds here. Let there be no confusion.

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Speaker 1: I want the role of NCAA president. My first act,

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Speaker 1: detach college football from the NCUBA. My second act appoint

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Speaker 1: myself college Football Commissioner, and then throw up the deuces

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Speaker 1: to NCAA headquarters, never to look back. My qualifications I

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Speaker 1: really want it. I actually watch college athletics and love

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Speaker 1: them just a plus these days, especially in the beloated

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Speaker 1: bureaucracy that has become the NCUBLEA and college athletics, I'm

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Speaker 1: better than anyone you have. I welcome a debate on

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Speaker 1: that statement. In conclusion, my balls are in your court

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Speaker 1: and I anxiously await your acceptance. That's the end of

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Speaker 1: the statement. Let's get into the show tonight. Big news

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Speaker 1: there though, Mark Emmer stepping down as of what next

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Speaker 1: year April May June, a little over a year from now,

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Speaker 1: so I'm sure we'll have plenty to say about that.

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Speaker 1: But as for tonight, I, Colin, I guess this is

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Speaker 1: your good endpoint here. I always want you to know

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Speaker 1: when you're watching the show, you're not wasting your time.

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Speaker 1: We don't put much filler in here. We think if

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Speaker 1: We would rather just end the show twenty minutes into

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Speaker 1: tell you that when we can listen to other people

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Speaker 1: tell you that. So Jack Swarbrick most of You know

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Speaker 1: who that is. If you don't, that's the Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: college football. He sat down with Sports Illustrated dot com

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Speaker 1: I think it was Pat forty specifically within the last week,

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Speaker 1: and he had some interesting things to say. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: that everything along that spectrum is valid. It's not a criticism.

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Speaker 1: On one end of the spectrum, you license the school

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Speaker 1: and requirements. And some would follow that, well, that's an

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Speaker 1: interesting parallel. That surely doesn't sound like four super conferences

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Speaker 1: memory roll at Colin. But there will be essentially two

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Speaker 1: looking every bit as hungry and every bit as good

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00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 1: as they did last year. That would be a little

429
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 1: bolder because of the consequences of success, as we talk

430
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 1: about on the show a lot. Next up, we're going

431
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: to ratchet up the bold and scale quite a bit here.

432
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 1: Bubba said, well, did he ask? Yeah, Bubba said, NC

433
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 1: State only loses one game, finishes the regular season top six,

434
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 1: and gets close to making the college football Playoff. Obviously,

435
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,439
Speaker 1: you look up what you think about NC State, Like

436
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: I said the other day, kind of an anonymous program,

437
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: not for those of you and Raleigh, but kind of

438
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 1: an anonymous program nationally. So you know about Devin Leary,

439
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: you know they play good defense, and you would be

440
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 1: right on both accounts. They were a top twenty defensive

441
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: unit last year. Return mostly intact. They don't have to

442
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 1: worry about any complacency there because they didn't really accomplish

443
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: anything last year in terms of winning, you know something

444
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: that you can put in a trophy case. I don't

445
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: doubt that. I don't doubt Dave Dorn will have them ready.

446
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: But this is not just about Okay, well can they

447
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 1: beat Clemson or it's not even about you know, is

448
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: the team solid, because we didn't say our prediction is

449
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: for them to finish top twenty, that'd be good. We're

450
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 1: talking about them bordering on playoff contention here. To do that,

451
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: you have to handle the altitude that no one on

452
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: that team has dealt with yet. Doesn't mean they're incapable

453
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: of it, just first time for everything. But I'll get

454
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: back to that in a second. But I don't see

455
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: any buzz saw team in their conference. I don't see

456
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: a buzz saw team therefore on their schedule. And what

457
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: that means is, if you've got the kind of defense

458
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: that I highly expect they'll have, and you know who

459
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: are you going up against. You're going up against Florida State, Clemson,

460
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech, you know their acc schedule, there's no offense

461
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: you look at and you go ooh, I don't even

462
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: think our defense is going to match up there. Quite

463
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: the opposite most teams on their schedule, are looking at

464
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: saying we got to go up against that NC State defense,

465
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: that in and of itself is something to be proud of.

466
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: But then let's just say, for argument's sake, they start

467
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: off one, two, three, four. Let's say they start off

468
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: four and oh. Don't overlook that Texas Tech game, by

469
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: the way. They start off four to oh, and then

470
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: they go to Clemson to start October and they win

471
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: like they did last year, they beat Clemson on the road. Okay,

472
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: then you'd be five and oh, you still got over

473
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: half of your season left to go. You'd have Florida State,

474
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: you'd go to Syracuse, you'd have Virginia, you'd have Wake

475
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: really tough back to back there, you'd have Boston College

476
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,479
Speaker 1: after that at Louisville at North care line of the

477
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 1: thing about trying to make the playoff is even that

478
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: November nineteenth game at Louisville. You look at that and

479
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: you say, well, if we're good enough to be Clemson,

480
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: we should be handling Louisville. Should is the optimum word there,

481
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: because a lot of potential playoff contenders when they get

482
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: into November end up not doing things they should do.

483
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: What is it, well, it's the altitude. It's the difference

484
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: in walking the tight rope ten feet above the ground

485
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: versus ten stories above the ground. It's still you. Balance

486
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: still works the same, The tight rope is the exact

487
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: same width, but all of a sudden because you know

488
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: what the consequences are if you fall. Human nature is

489
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: a funny thing. The human mind is a funny thing.

490
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: So this is bold to a point of seven on

491
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: the one to ten scale to suggest they finish top six.

492
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: Not because I think they're incapable, just because I know

493
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: how hard it is to be a contender all the

494
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 1: way through, as opposed to just being one through Halloween.

495
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: A lot of folks still in the mix at Halloween

496
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: time that aren't in the mix. Come Pearl Harbor Day

497
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: if I know, because it's my birthday. I don't want

498
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: to have said that, But we're live. We move on.

499
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 1: It gets personal here with the next one, Asphalt Cowboy.

500
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: His bold prediction is that my beloved Arkansas is not

501
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 1: going to be as serious as I think they are. Now.

502
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: What he did not do is follow it up with

503
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: how serious do I think Arkansas is a lot of

504
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: you have a misconception about me and Arkansas. The misconception

505
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: is not that I love them. I absolutely love them.

506
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: The misconception is I think some of you honestly believe

507
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: I've predicted them to win the national championship this year.

508
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: I have not gone that far yet. But what I

509
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: have done is I have painted a pretty clear picture

510
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: of my impression of the program. So to be clear,

511
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: if we don't know what my expectation for Arkansas is

512
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: this year, I'm not going to give you a predicted

513
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 1: record in April, mainly because it would be dumb. But

514
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: what I will tell you is I expect this team

515
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 1: to be at least as good as last year squad. Defensively,

516
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: I think they'll be better than last year's squad. Unlike

517
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: a certain colleague of mine, I believe kJ Jefferson is

518
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: and will be a top three quarterback in the SEC

519
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: this year, but if not, still a very very solid

520
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 1: player there Jaden Hayeswood plugging him in, plugging guys like

521
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: Drew Sanders in, It's gonna make an impact. I also

522
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,360
Speaker 1: highly expect that they have one of the toughest schedules

523
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: in the country, and because of that, this could be

524
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: a top ten caliber team and still lose multiple games.

525
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: It's all relative. You are not what your schedule says

526
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: you are in college football one hundred percent of the time.

527
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: So I expect them to be in that nine win range,

528
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: but with an opportunity to compete in every game. So

529
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: it wouldn't shock me if they won double digit games.

530
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me if they won eight games. This

531
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: is the kind of schedule where you could win eight

532
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: games and I could still have you power rated like

533
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: number fourteen or fifteen in the country. Those are my

534
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: expectations for Arkansas. Now, if you tell me they're gonna

535
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: fall short of that, I'm telling you that's a nine

536
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 1: on the Boldness scale. They're not falling short of that.

537
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: Unless they suffer catastrophic amounts of injuries. They're not going

538
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: to fall short of that. They can lose to Censi

539
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: in Week one and still I don't think that falls

540
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: short of it. I don't predict them to but I'm

541
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: just telling you I think it's about more than twenty

542
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: twenty two with them. But if you're talking about twenty

543
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: twenty two, this is going to be a really good team.

544
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: I keep saying the same thing about Arkansas that I'll reiterate,

545
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: and I say it about Ole miss and I just

546
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: think they're a prisoner of their conference when it comes

547
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: to expectations. Now, when you play the game, expectations don't matter.

548
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: Predictions don't matter. We all know that. But this team

549
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: has a chance to take the world by surprise, not

550
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: because they're going to show potential that you didn't know about.

551
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: They may just upset a few people you didn't think

552
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: they were capable of upsetting. The potentials there. If that

553
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: team was in the ACC, you would see them on

554
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: magazine covers, all over, news stands, all over every grocery

555
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: store in town in the South. But they're in the

556
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: SEC West, and so the first thing you think is

557
00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: they can't beat Bama. What if they don't? Could the

558
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: number two team in the country and not beat Alabama?

559
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: So what does that really mean? So Arkansas, Yeah, you

560
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: think they're gonna fall short of my expectations. That's a

561
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: nine on the boldness scale. Next up, we head to

562
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. Interesting submission here, Jacob Scott Ringwald said,

563
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: Michigan's gonna win to Big Ten. I don't think they're

564
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: necessarily better than Ohio State, but I think their schedule

565
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 1: is more favorable. Well, here's the problem with that. If

566
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: you think their schedule is more favorable to the tune

567
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: of separation by two games, then I'll listen to you.

568
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: But unless Michigan goes into the Horseshoe undefeated and Ohio

569
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: State's already got two conference losses, that doesn't really matter

570
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: because the tie breaker would come into effect. So I'm

571
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: looking at their schedule right now. If you're watching on YouTube, Yeah,

572
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: it is a favorable schedule. They don't leave home until October.

573
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: They go back to back Iowa and Indiana on the road,

574
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: then they got Penn State Michigan State back to back,

575
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: but with a bye weekend there. They close it out

576
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: with a three game stretch before the end of season

577
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: rivalry game against Ohio State. About as fortuitous as you can.

578
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: They go to Rutgers, they got Nebraska, and they got Illinois.

579
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,479
Speaker 1: So here's the big question with Michigan, several of them actually.

580
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: Number one, what we can't know is where is the

581
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: program collectively mentally after the whole Jim Harbaugh thing. Can't

582
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: know that. I'm not suggesting anything. I'm saying we flat

583
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: out cannot know whether he fully checked back in. Remember

584
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: they lost both coordinators. McDonald went back to the Ravens,

585
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: I got us went to Miami. They lost both coordinators.

586
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: Now and you've got a head coach that actively tried

587
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: to get out and only is back because they wouldn't

588
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: have him. That may not mean anything. You may be

589
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: watching in week three and say, remember when folks thought

590
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,239
Speaker 1: that was going to be a big deal. Maybe that's

591
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: the way it'll go. I'm quite literally telling you we

592
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: don't know. There's another one on the quite literally chart.

593
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: But after that, there's some things we do know, and

594
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: we know, for instance, the coordinators are gone, but we

595
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: also know they got both quarterbacks back. We know that

596
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: last year, or at least we think we know, changed

597
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: something about the psyche of this team. They did a

598
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: lot of stuff last year that you were told, and

599
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: they were told for a long time they had just

600
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: grown incapable of doing and that was never the case.

601
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: But yet I guarantee as some of the folks in

602
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: that organization needed to see it be done to think

603
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: it could be done. So twenty twenty two, what part

604
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one will be reflected? Will it be

605
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: a lot of knocking down of Berlin walls and now

606
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: everything is possible, and they play like it because they

607
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: saw that it could all be done, and they just

608
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: play with a sum greater than the individual part sort

609
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,959
Speaker 1: of mentality. If they're that they can win the Big

610
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: Ten again this year, they certainly can. But there's also

611
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: the other possibility that in good conscience you have to

612
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: acknowledge it could also be that they didn't get all

613
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: the way back. They had some key losses. Let's talk

614
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: about it now. Let's not just ignore the elephant in

615
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: the room. They've got some key losses. They got some key,

616
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: big time role players defensively to replace Coordinatlace. But also

617
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: if Harbaugh didn't get himself in his program fully checked

618
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: back in, then if that part of twenty twenty one

619
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: is reflected in twenty twenty two, they'll lose several games

620
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: and that game will be an off afterthought for the

621
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: rest of college football. By the time they get to Columbus.

622
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: Do they get to Ohio State with one loss max.

623
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: If they can do that, then by that time, by

624
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: nature of their record, they've shown you they're fully dialed in,

625
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: and you will no longer go into that Ohio State

626
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: and Michigan game thinking there's no chance, there's no shot

627
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: the Ohio State will be favored. All the trappings will

628
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: still be there to indicate Ohio State should win. The

629
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: mentality that exists in that locker room is all I

630
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: care about. So with that in mind, I gave this

631
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: a seven. It's tough but not impossible for me to

632
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: see Michigan repeating as Big Ten champ. But I'd be

633
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: just as impressed if they go ten and two this

634
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: year and one of those losses is to Ohio State

635
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: and the buck guys beat them forty two to twenty

636
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: seven and route to winning the Big Ten and headed

637
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: to the playoff. If Michigan still finishes ten to two

638
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: year after all that stuff, after the season concluded last year,

639
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: that it'd still be a really really good follow up

640
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: effort there on the heels of the Big Ten championship

641
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: because they can't take that conference title away from you.

642
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: We've got one that is. It brings me no joy.

643
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: But John Yates says Brian Harson is going to be

644
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: fired before Early Signing Day this year. Early signing day

645
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: is after the end of the regular season, that's before

646
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: the bowls start, so it's mid December. This is not

647
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Speaker 1: that bold. Unfortunately, I gave it a four. That's about

648
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Speaker 1: how bold I think that is. I think that I

649
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: just don't feel good about it. I don't feel good

650
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: about where Auburn is right now. There are many parts

651
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: of the program, let alone the team this year that

652
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: are really loose. Feeling Brian Harson, I've been on record

653
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: several times telling you how I feel about him. I

654
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 1: thought he was done extremely wrong by some people around

655
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: and inside that program, not most, just a few, and

656
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: anyone around Auburn knows who I'm talking about. But that aside,

657
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: there's still stuff you have to do. You gotta recruit,

658
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: you got to develop, and you got to win enough games.

659
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: And if they don't do that, it doesn't matter whether

660
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: I like him. It doesn't matter whether he preaches the

661
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: right things if he's not delivering results, and he does

662
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: not have benefit of the doubt on his side, because

663
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: the same folks that got tossed out the window are

664
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: just in the parking lot doing pushups right now. They'll

665
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: run right back up the stairs if he doesn't win

666
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: eight plus games in my estimation, and they'll want him

667
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: out of there, and they'll think they have justification. And

668
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: then you have to peel open that preview magazine and

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00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: you have to look at who Auburn plays. It's the

670
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Speaker 1: reason I say this is the toughest job in major

671
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: college football because of the expectation blended with the annual

672
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: challenge of the schedule they play. This is the only

673
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: team that has to play Georgia every year. It's in

674
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Speaker 1: the West. They also just decided to add Penn State

675
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: for good measure on their out of conference schedule. This

676
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: year they play Penn State, LSU at Georgia, at Ole,

677
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: miss Arkansas, at Mississippi State, Texas A, and m at Alabama.

678
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: That is a tough five year stretch and they're going

679
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Speaker 1: to do it in the span of three and a

680
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: half months. Where in the world are the wins. You've

681
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: got Mercy, You've got San Jose State, and there's Western

682
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: Kentucky towards the end of the year. They don't play

683
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 1: Vandy this year. Games like Missouri are not a gimmey

684
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: w for them, even if it's home. There's just not

685
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: not this year. They don't know who the quarterback is

686
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: going to be there. They are picking from a very

687
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: average quarterback room. They do not have the skill out wide.

688
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: They can't break games open. Everything's got to go right.

689
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,959
Speaker 1: They got to play at an A minus or better

690
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: level every week in conference play, and so listen, if

691
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: he gets that thing above seven wins this year, I

692
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: don't want anyone to even sneeze at him because he

693
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: has earned another year. You know, I always want him

694
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: to have three years minimum. But that's not who makes

695
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: the decision. I don't make the call there. The folks

696
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: who make the call make the call. Obvious statement. But

697
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: you say Brian Harson's out of there, I say that's

698
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: about a four on the boldness scale. What's the number?

699
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Speaker 1: How many games does he have to win? That's kind

700
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Speaker 1: of what I'd love to know. I'd love for someone

701
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Speaker 1: who actually does pull the lever down there to tell

702
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: me how many games does he need? It's never that easy, though.

703
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Speaker 1: Let's open the mailbag. Appreciate you guys being tuned in.

704
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: They're tuned in in Saint Louis. They are tuned in

705
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Speaker 1: in Amarillo, Texas, probably by morning too, and they're tuned

706
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Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We also had Bangkok, Thailand check

707
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Speaker 1: in and a city in Japan I couldn't pronounce, and

708
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: I tried, but boy, I screwed up a town in

709
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Speaker 1: Alabama last show. So I'm just I'm gonna leave the

710
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Speaker 1: japan city on the shelf and I'm gonna get the

711
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Speaker 1: pronunciation guide. I'll get direct Colin to help me, and

712
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Speaker 1: we'll get that sorted out by Sunday. All right, the

713
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Speaker 1: mailbag is open, let's dive in. Appreciate you guys being

714
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Speaker 1: tuned in. As I said, just wanted to submit something

715
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: there in the live chat first up ut for Life

716
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: asking what is a Ji Hall gonna do for my

717
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns. I can't wait to see him this season

718
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: with Country Sunshine viewers hashtag pat State quinn Ewers. I

719
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: do believe will be the starting quarterback there. So Aji

720
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: Hall is the Alabama wide receiver transfer former high four star,

721
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: five star guy. Depending on which service you looked at

722
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: and which time you looked at, it really good. Now

723
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, we're showing footage from the

724
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: spring game last year where a Ji Hall caught like

725
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: thirty seven balls for a million yards and everyone including me,

726
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: thought he was setting himself up for a breakout freshman campaign.

727
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: The reason that footage is important is because none of

728
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: that's animated. That's all real. He does possess that physical ability.

729
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: What is going to determine a Ji Hall success this year?

730
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: He is that thing on top of his shoulders that

731
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: will determine how impactful he is at Texas. Here's the luxury.

732
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have talked about the

733
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: risk Sark is taking by bringing in a guy that

734
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: could be a character red flag. I follow that up

735
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 1: up with the fact that you don't really know anything

736
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: about him. Sark, I would imagine did do his due diligence.

737
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: But this is not a feast or famine thing. This

738
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: is not a desperation hail mary attempt to get some

739
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: offensive production. They got Jordan Whittington there, they got Xavier

740
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: Worthy there. They got Isaiah and Nayer from Wyoming. They're

741
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: okay at receiver. Now, whatever a gy Hall adds, They

742
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: got billings Lee from Alabama. Whenever he adds, that's gonna

743
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: be great. But that's a lot more icing on the

744
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: cake than the cake itself. They do not need a

745
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: Ji Hall. They desperately want him. He is an impact player.

746
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: He hasn't the physical potential to be the best receiver

747
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: on that team that includes Worthy, and you know how

748
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: big a fan I am of him, But they don't

749
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: need it, so that's the luxury. So I look forward

750
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: to seeing it. I just you can't know until you

751
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: see it happen. It's gonna be about two weeks into

752
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: fall camp when that stuff starts sorting itself out and

753
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: the live bullets start flying in those scrimmages there, and

754
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 1: it's behind closed doors, so everything is up in the air.

755
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: It's not dressed up for TV. And you got to

756
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: see how he handles it. You got to see how

757
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: he's acclimating. They are overturning a culture there. I almost

758
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: said it quite literally. I almost said it, but I

759
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: caught myself. They just overturned forty percent of the roster.

760
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: If you think Steve Sarkisian is about to let a

761
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: guy who is who is running counter to that mission

762
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: remain on that team, you're kidding yourself. He won't. So

763
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: it's across your fingers hope and see there's always a

764
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: little bit of risk with this, So I look forward

765
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: to it. I think he'll do good, but if he doesn't,

766
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world for Texas. Let's

767
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: go over to Baton Rouge a question here about a quarterback.

768
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking a lot about this. Let's just

769
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: go ahead and get it out in the open. By

770
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: the way, this question comes to us by way of

771
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 1: financially responsible tiger prints and hoops to amongst us. Doesn't

772
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: need one of those in our lives. He needs details

773
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: for the LSU quarterback. Nuss Meyer looked like a dog

774
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: in the spring game. Brian Kelly has so many options.

775
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: Tell me how he won't choose wrong, dude. That's what

776
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: Rusty Manziel calls me. So I must be one. This

777
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 1: is a good spot to be in. They've got dependable depth.

778
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: And the reason I say it's a good spot to

779
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: be in. The worst spot to be in is having

780
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: a bunch of average options to choose from. Unless she's

781
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: in a really good spot here coming out of spring.

782
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of plus options to choose from

783
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, including Jaden Daniels coming in. Of course,

784
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: You've got Miles Brennan there, you've got Garrett Nussmeyer. We

785
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: saw all of them in the spring. Brian Kelly seen

786
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: him throughout spring. It's a good problem to have. They've

787
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: got more than one guy that theoretically they can win with.

788
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: And then part two is there is no clear standout.

789
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: Right now, it sounds like a bad thing, but that's

790
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: a good thing because that ensures that most likely all

791
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: of them are going to remain on campus. You won't

792
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: have any portal exits in the middle of the night

793
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: because guys see the riding on the wall. A lot

794
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: of staffs out there are trying to manu fact sure

795
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: the illusion of quarterback battles as far into the summer

796
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: as they can. They don't have to. They got the

797
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: real thing at LSU. Decision making and accuracy will decide

798
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: this competition. It's why I was never on that jad

799
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: and Daniels hype train as much as some people have been.

800
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: That mean he can't win the job. But there's this

801
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: misnomer out there that if you are an incoming transfer

802
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: portal guy, if you portal into the program, you automatically

803
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: have the benefit of the doubt. You don't you come

804
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: in to compete. There's not a prayer that Brian Kelly

805
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,919
Speaker 1: picked up his Eyebrian and said, Jaden, if you come

806
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: here now, even though I'm looking at Miles looking at us,

807
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: they're both in the office with me. If you come here,

808
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: it's your job to lose. That doesn't happen in major

809
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: college football, especially in a room where you actually have

810
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: other warm bodies. That doesn't happen that way. My money

811
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Speaker 1: would not be on Jaden Daniels being the starting quarterback

812
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: for LSU, But I wouldn't bet a lot of money.

813
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: My money would be on either Miles Brennan or here

814
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: At Nusmeyer. And the closer you get to the program,

815
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: the better people talk about Garrett Nusmeyer. They know him

816
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: better than anyone down there. Garrett Nusmeyer just it would

817
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: not shock me as much as it would shock a

818
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: lot of people to see him be the guy ultimately

819
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: this year. But accuracy, poise one of the hardest things

820
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: to teach any quarterback, and decision making. Those will be

821
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: the hallmarks of the guy that eventually lands this job.

822
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: I ever so slightly lean Miles Brennan over Garrett Nusmeyer

823
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: ever so slightly, But that's going to change a lot.

824
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: I think I'll flip my prediction like seven times. Let's

825
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: move out West. Interesting question here kind of ties back

826
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Speaker 1: into how we led the show. CALLI surfbro hits me up,

827
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: said love your show. Was it smart for Lincoln Riley

828
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Speaker 1: and Dan Lanning to go to the PAC twelve with

829
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: all the uncertainty around the future of the conference, Well,

830
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: in light of the way we led the show tonight,

831
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: that is a really, really good question to ask, especially

832
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: in this show. I don't think head coaches can afford

833
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: to think that way. Like I don't think you can

834
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,720
Speaker 1: be Lincoln Riley if your heart is set on taking

835
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: the USC job, or if you're Dan Lanning and you've

836
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: never had a head coaching job and you're the defensive

837
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: coordinator at Georgia and a big job opens up at

838
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: Oregon they offer you, and you stop and you talk

839
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: to your agent and say, yeah, but what's the PAC

840
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: twelve gonna be three years from now, five years from now?

841
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: I can't afford to do that. The game, at least

842
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: as far as your concern, is not happening in five

843
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: year increments. It's happening day to day. It's right now.

844
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: You got to make your decision now, and you just

845
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: let the rest of the tumblers fall into place. Dan

846
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: Lanning did the only thing he could do. You've got

847
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: to take that job now. Lincoln Riley didn't have to

848
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: take the job, but based on his desires, and that's

849
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: all that matters here. Quite frankly, he took the job.

850
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: That's all he could do. He took the job that

851
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: he wanted. Now, there was another quote that Notre Dame

852
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 1: Athletic director Jack Swarbrick gave in that interview that we've

853
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: mentioned several times in this show to SI dot com,

854
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: and it was about conference realignment and he said, and

855
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: I quote, there are so many teams trying to get

856
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: out of their current conference. They just can't all do it.

857
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: If I were a betting man, if I were to

858
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: load up the Rama Noodle Express right here in the spring,

859
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: I would say USC's probably one of those teams heavily

860
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: exploring an exit. I would say Oregon is probably one

861
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: of those teams. And if they're not, it would be

862
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: in their best interest to be exploring that. So you

863
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: just go. You keep your nose down. You worry about

864
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: what you can control. Lincoln Riley can control the guys

865
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: they take from the transfer portal through May One. Dan

866
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: Lanning can control what kind of defense they run in Eugene.

867
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: They can't control all this stuff. They don't know what's

868
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: happening at the Conference office day in and day out,

869
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: Nor do they need to be concerned about it. If

870
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: the worst were to happen and those programs just cease

871
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: to exist, those two guys could find work tomorrow. Worry

872
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: about what you can control now. I don't have a

873
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: great feel for the future of the PAC twelve. How

874
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: can you right now? How can you feel good knowing

875
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: what the projections are and knowing where the SEC and

876
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: the Big ten are headed and the gap that's going

877
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: to be between them and everyone else. How can you

878
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: feel good about it? But at the same time, how

879
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: can you know that five or ten years from now,

880
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: three years from now, that USC football will have a

881
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: PAC twelve sticker on the helmet or Oregon football will

882
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: have a PAC twelve sticker. Point is, we don't know,

883
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: so worry about what you can control. Those are two

884
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: really good programs. Those are two programs that I do

885
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: not define as being in the PAC twelve. You are

886
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: not limited by the sticker on your helmet, by the

887
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: conference that you reside in. You're at a place in

888
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: Eugene or LA where they're giving you everything you need

889
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: to win, everything you need to compete. The blueprint is

890
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: there to recruit the way you need to, and both

891
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: of those guys can get it done. Dan Lanning can

892
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: absolutely get it done at Orgon Lincoln Riley can absolutely

893
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: get it done at USC. Don't really care what people

894
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: think may happen seven years from now. Moving on, interesting

895
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: follow up, and this is something I always love talking about.

896
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: James ask what specifically makes home field advantage matter more

897
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: in college than in the NFL. There are several things.

898
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: This is a really good question because everyone just says

899
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 1: home field advantage and it's kind of like word slid.

900
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: It just all jumbles itself together. There's a big difference,

901
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: So think it through with me. If you're a college

902
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: football player, there's a lot of firsts that you're experiencing.

903
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: So in college, the environments are louder, the stadiums are bigger.

904
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: I think the passion per capita in that stadium is

905
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: far more intense than it is in most pro stadiums.

906
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: So number one, it is just a lot more intimidating

907
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: an atmosphere to go into. And then the second part

908
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: is a lot of the guys going in are doing

909
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: it for the first time, and even if they're not,

910
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: even if they're seniors, you just don't have a lot

911
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: of that experience under your belt. You've got nine year

912
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: veterans in the NFL who have played in front of

913
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: at that point, like tens of millions of people combined

914
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: over their careers, and it's second nature to them. There

915
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: is nothing second nature for a nineteen year old kid

916
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: about playing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on a Saturday night.

917
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: There's just not. People tell you, oh, you get used

918
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: to it. You don't get used to it. That's like

919
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: people who play in the Big Ten saying, yeah, it's

920
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,839
Speaker 1: gonna be minus three at kickoff, but our guys are

921
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: used to it now, they're not. Half your recruits are

922
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: from Florida and they trained during the summer, and no

923
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: one gets used to playing in minus three weather. No

924
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: one gets used to playing in front of one hundred

925
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: and three thousand people either. So that's part two, but

926
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: part three and the part you don't get to see.

927
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: But the part that fascinates me the most is, unlike

928
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: the NFL, there is a legit disadvantage in terms of

929
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: the amenities and the actual infrastructure that is afforded to

930
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: a road team in most major college stadiums. And I

931
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: always use Auburn because I think it's the best example

932
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: that I've observed. At Auburn, You've of course got the

933
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: palatial locker room, and everything looks great for the home team.

934
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: It's right there, easy access to the field for the

935
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: road team. And I want you to keep in mind

936
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: how big the teams that play Auburn are, Alabama, Georgia, LSU.

937
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: If you could see how deep these teams travel. The

938
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: team itself, the roster, but then you've got the support staff,

939
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: and you've got analysts, and you've got nutritionists, and you've

940
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: got trainers. They have like it looks like hundreds and

941
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: hundreds of people. They pull five buses in there to

942
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: carry their entire support staff. And then you've got some

943
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: folks who have already shown up before the game. The

944
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: locker rooms aren't big enough. They can't fit everything they

945
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: need to carry in the locker rooms. So if you're

946
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: at Auburn, I've been down there dozens of times. I

947
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: always love to go outside the road locker room because

948
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: there is not enough room. There's just spill out all

949
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: over this little platform that's back there. It's underneath the stadium,

950
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: kind of in the bowels of the stadium, and so

951
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: you've got, especially at halftime, you've got some guys that

952
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: don't even go in the locker room. They're just spilled

953
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: out into the corridor there, and it's dark, and you've

954
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 1: got grease boards, you've got position units talking, and you've

955
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: got guys getting retaped, and you've got guys just pouring

956
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: gatorade down their throat, eating pickles, everything you do to

957
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: stay hydrated during a football game. And when you try

958
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: and make your way back to the field, unlike the

959
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: road or unlike the home side, the road side is

960
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: a single file tunnel. You can't even walk next to

961
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: a dude, it's single file. Now do the math. How

962
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: long does it take to get an entire football team

963
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: off the field single file and back on the field

964
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: single file Versus what you deal with down there in

965
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: the home accommodations. What did you buy yourself there? You

966
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: may have bought yourself two and a half to three

967
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: more minutes of halftime adjustments, however you define that, than

968
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: your opponent there. How many points is that worth in

969
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: a game? I have no idea. I just know it matters.

970
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: And I mentioned Auburn because that's a specifically hostile place

971
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: to go in and play. That stuff doesn't exist in

972
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. Like the worst road locker rooms in the

973
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: NFL are still fine. No one ever complains about that stuff,

974
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: and if they do, it gets collectively bargained with the

975
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: league and it's just taking care of us, not a problem.

976
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: You would not be allowed to run the Mercedes been

977
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: Stadium in Atlanta that way, they wouldn't allow it. Plus

978
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: these some of these new stadiums have like five or

979
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: six locker rooms. That's how they host events like the

980
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament where you have multiple basketball teams in there.

981
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: That's how they host state playoff games for high school

982
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: where they have multiple teams in the building at the

983
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: same time. How do they pull it off. They got

984
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: more than two locker rooms. So it's not a problem

985
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: in the pro game. And I'm not calling it a

986
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: problem in the college game. I'm calling it legitimate home

987
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: field advantage in the college game. I do my best

988
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: when I'm on the road to take the eye Josh

989
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 1: and give you guys footage of that. If you follow

990
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: on Instagram at Lake Kick Josh, you see I post

991
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: a lot of that in the Instagram story. You just

992
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: have to be watching on Saturdays, but always fascinating those

993
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: road accommodations or lack thereof, Like you think Iowa painting

994
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: the locker room pink is a home field advantage. No,

995
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: imagine not even being able to see the locker room

996
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: because you can't get into it. That's home field advantage.

997
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: I hope nothing ever changes on that front. That next up,

998
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: This one's going to probably surprise some people. Carmen asked

999
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,959
Speaker 1: which cities have been your favorite to host national championship games?

1000
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: Checking in from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Well, you're gonna like

1001
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 1: the first answer here, Carmen, New Orleans is my favorite

1002
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: city to host the big games, host championship games, college

1003
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: football playoff games. It's a city that's built to host events.

1004
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: People just happen to live in it. Everything is perfectly

1005
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: set up. Those folks could yawn while they host these

1006
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: national championship games and Super Bowls. At this point, they

1007
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: just got it down to a science. There's footage of

1008
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: Santa Clara, California, which was my worst experience really through

1009
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: no fault of theirs, it's just not a place that

1010
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: has any business hosting a college football playoff for championship game.

1011
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: But New Orleans is wonderful. All the folks down there

1012
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: treat you great. It has a unique culture into any

1013
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: other city in America. I mean those of you who

1014
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: have just visited New Orleans know that. Now, imagine them

1015
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: turning the volume up to eleven as they host a

1016
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: major event like some of the biggest boxing matches in history,

1017
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: pro wrestling obviously, Super Bowls final fours, and college football

1018
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: playoff national championships like they've all been held there and

1019
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: they rotate through there every few years. Because it is,

1020
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: to me, the best host city in America. They're just

1021
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: perfectly built for it. And here's another important part of

1022
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: it that gets overlooked unless you're there. The city of

1023
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: New Orleans embraces its role as a host. Now that

1024
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: sounds like it could be taken for granted. Don't because

1025
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: I've been to cities where they do not embrace that.

1026
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: Just mentioned one a second ago, where the event. Yeah,

1027
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: true enough, it's happening in the city, but the rest

1028
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: of the city is just going about its business. Dude,

1029
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: In New Orleans, when they're hosting a big event, they

1030
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: take pride in it. They all kind of play their part.

1031
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: Like the community there they hit pause on whatever's going

1032
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: on in their personal lives and all eyes and focus

1033
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: are on that big event. I've been down there for

1034
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I've been down there for National championship. They

1035
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: do it right. New Orleans is basically the poster child

1036
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: by which everybody else met themselves. But I got another

1037
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: one for you, and this just happened in the past

1038
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: three or four months. Indianapolis was incredible. I had such

1039
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: low expectations only because, as the folks there will tell you,

1040
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: I hadn't been there for a major event before. That

1041
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: was on me. So I had listen to people gripe

1042
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: and complain because they like us covering the Georgia game.

1043
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: We were going to be in Miami for the semi final.

1044
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: Then we're going to go with a freezing cold weather

1045
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Well, you know when that doesn't matter when

1046
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: you never have to step outside in downtown Indianapolis, the

1047
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: Circle City, it's also perfectly constructed to host major events.

1048
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: Everything's connected by Skybridge. You go from your hotel to

1049
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: all the restaurants. You never step outside if you don't

1050
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: want to. You go from your hotel to where all

1051
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,240
Speaker 1: the media is set up, to where those media suites

1052
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: are set up, all the food. You never have to

1053
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: go outside if you don't want to. You walk from

1054
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 1: your hotel room, like I could walk outside my hotel

1055
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: door at the Marriotte and walk indoors into the stadium

1056
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,760
Speaker 1: and never walk outside. Doesn't matter if his fifty degrees

1057
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: below zero. And much like New Orleans, Indianapolis fully embraced

1058
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: the role as a host city. They took immense pride

1059
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: in it. Also, the stakes are incredible. So Indianapolis, I

1060
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: mean I talked about it at the time. I just

1061
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: want to reiterate it, like those folks did it right.

1062
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: I would absolutely go back. I know they're talking about

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Speaker 1: moving the combine all around and out of Indianapolis and stuff,

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Speaker 1: And the first thing I thought about was why think

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Speaker 1: about how centrally located everything is. And then I heard

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Speaker 1: all those nflgms and scouts and whatnot say, if you

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Speaker 1: move this out of Indianapolis, I'm not even showing up.

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Speaker 1: They had fallen in love with having that thing in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: so that place is a great place to host. Now

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Speaker 1: you may be thinking to yourself, how are you choosing

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Speaker 1: given the option to go to Indianapolis, Indiana over Miami. Well,

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Speaker 1: they talked about hosting a game. I've I love Miami.

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Speaker 1: Affinity for South Florida's well known on this show. If

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Speaker 1: I'm moving anywhere, it's going to be to South Florida.

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Speaker 1: But you got to drive a pretty good ways because

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Speaker 1: we normally stay in Fort Lauderdale or the surrounding area,

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Speaker 1: and the stadium's like thirty minutes down the road, so

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Speaker 1: you gotta drive around a little bit down there. It's

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Speaker 1: not the worst place in the world to be driving around,

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Speaker 1: mind you. I don't know. I wouldn't want my parents

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Speaker 1: driving on I ninety five down there actually, now that

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Speaker 1: I think about it. But Point remains very picturesque. It's

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Speaker 1: like a screen saver. But you just you got to

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Speaker 1: invest a little more time to get around. If I

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Speaker 1: were vacationing, yeah, probably gonna choose South Florida over Central Indiana.

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Speaker 1: And you guys would too, So I don't even need

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Speaker 1: to say all due respect, But as for a host city,

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Speaker 1: I'm there to work anyway. Give me Indianapolis. I went

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Speaker 1: to both cities back to back within the span of

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Speaker 1: a week, and I was just overly impressed. Still a

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Speaker 1: lot of love for South Florida too, so the over

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Speaker 1: hit tonight, but we did not go an hour. We

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Speaker 1: only went fifty four minutes. We had I just want

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Speaker 1: I thank you guys on the back end of the show.

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Speaker 1: We had a show the other night, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: we've had about a three week stretch now. It's blown

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Speaker 1: everyone's mind around here. I don't know how else to

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Speaker 1: say it. We're doing better traffic than we did at

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Speaker 1: almost any point during the football season last year, where

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Speaker 1: we did ridiculous traffic. So data guys would call it

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Speaker 1: the hockey stick effect. But that little portion of the

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Speaker 1: hockey stick where just ramps up really hard, really fast,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of where we are as a show, which

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Speaker 1: obviously means, hey, we're looking forward to a lot of

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Speaker 1: things around here. I've got a lot of things to

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Speaker 1: get straightened out professionally. I think I've been pretty clear there.

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Speaker 1: But once we do, then we can chart the rest

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Speaker 1: of the course throughout the summer in the fall. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of things happening here, so it can't

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Speaker 1: happen without you. Thank you. Unlike the NCAA and conference commissioners,

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Speaker 1: we won't take the fans for granted because we quite

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Speaker 1: literally don't exist without you, so thank you guys so much.

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Speaker 1: There was a man's name that I did not mention

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Speaker 1: on the show tonight that I have had a pretty

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Speaker 1: high profile back and forth with in the digital media

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Speaker 1: space today, and I'm going to wrap the show without

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Speaker 1: also mentioning that man's name, just because I didn't think

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Speaker 1: he deserved it. We'll wait for a lesser profile show.

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Speaker 1: Do you mention that name, So we'll just wrap it

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Speaker 1: up with saying the name Director Colin. Thanks to him,

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Speaker 1: Pursy Jesse, thanks to him, the production executives, Thanks to

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Speaker 1: all of them, and thanks most specifically for you're not

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Speaker 1: here Thursday. We're back Sunday, but we will get you

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Speaker 1: a podcast in the podcast feed on Thursday. Until then,

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Speaker 1: for everyone here, I'm Josh Bate. Have yourself a great

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Speaker 1: rest of your evening, and God Bles