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Speaker 1: And welcome in lank Kick is live and is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: April nineteenth, Year of our Lord, twenty twenty two. Some

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Speaker 1: of you have lost your minds, but I'm here to

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Speaker 1: help you find it. I asked for boldness today and

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Speaker 1: you gave me a whole lot of it.

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Speaker 2: About twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: The key was, I want you to say things you

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Speaker 1: would be willing to bet your own money on, and

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Speaker 1: some of you I think stretched that just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We are jam packed high a top a sun splashed

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Speaker 1: downtown Nashville, Tennessee. We got spring intel on the show tonight,

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Speaker 1: quite literally from all over the country, coast to coast.

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Speaker 1: How bold are you willing to be when it comes

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Speaker 1: to going on the record about twenty twenty two, the

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Speaker 1: year of Our Lord In college football, I will discuss

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Speaker 1: in about ten different bullet points. About fifteen minutes from now,

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Speaker 1: the mood Tracker is back. Finally, It's Miami time tonight.

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Speaker 1: One of our most dare I say, the most requested

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Speaker 1: mood trackers so far in the entire series has been Miami.

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Speaker 2: And we've made them wait. We've made them wait. Here

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Speaker 2: we go.

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Speaker 1: Now. If you watch the show for any length of time,

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Speaker 1: you know that what's happening in South Florida matters extending

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Speaker 1: well beyond just the boundaries of Miami. So I'd be

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Speaker 1: paying attention no matter where you are in this great

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Speaker 1: world of ours tonight, not just the country, because we

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Speaker 1: have international viewers all over the place. I'll explain that

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Speaker 1: in just a second. But a lot of you have

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Speaker 1: been tuned in from the very beginning and we appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes I give you little statistics and whatnot. And

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Speaker 1: then others of you think we brag about the show

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Speaker 1: too much. But is it hard or is it easy

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Speaker 1: to tell how much the show has grown?

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Speaker 2: Some people say, oh, that's hard.

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Speaker 1: You can never really put an exact kind of finger

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Speaker 1: on how much the show has grown, and I would disagree.

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Speaker 1: And South Carolina helped us in this vein over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Colin has the footage. Let's take a look. This is

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Speaker 1: the spring game at Williams Brice Stadium, which we will

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Speaker 1: talk about a little bit later.

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Speaker 2: But who is that on the big screen there? Well,

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Speaker 2: it's US.

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Speaker 1: I know it looks like me, but it's US and

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Speaker 1: Roman Harper for that matter. So lank Kick featured not

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Speaker 1: only in Hype videos from South Carolina, Michigan State, several

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Speaker 1: others over the past couple of weeks. But also we

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Speaker 1: made it to the spring game. How about that sandstorm

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Speaker 1: late kick on the video board? What more could you want?

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Speaker 1: As we've said many times, you put us in the

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Speaker 1: hype videos or especially if you play us in the stadium,

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Speaker 1: we are showing you love on the show. Appreciate that

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Speaker 1: they're watching us tonight in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. And I

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Speaker 1: would imagine North Carolina too. A lot of debate as

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Speaker 1: to how to pronounce this city in the newsroom today.

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Speaker 1: Ramstein is our best guest. Germany, Seattle and Portland both

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Speaker 1: checked in, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky checked in. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: some spring intel and whispers, because we've got a jam

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Speaker 1: packed show tonight and we got a lot that I

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of spring games coming up this weekend,

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Speaker 1: but the ones that have just happened. Let's dive in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Spring game just wrapped up this past Saturday in Athens.

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Speaker 1: A lot's going to be made of Carson Beck, the

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Speaker 1: And Bennett still gives us the best chance to win.

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Speaker 1: So on this show, we're not going to do a

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Speaker 1: we've ever come under Kirby Smart to saying that a

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Speaker 1: Georgia team's primary identity is offense. Now, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: They don't have a shortage of able playmakers at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Now that's important because they don't really necessarily need him.

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Speaker 1: Smart after what we just saw them do defensively, could

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Speaker 1: see how much multiple felicity there was, I guess is

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Speaker 1: They had different formations, different looks, and they.

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Speaker 1: They were more multiple in their spring game than they

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Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be, obviously, but for those

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Speaker 2: Of scores, we can get them through the air. We

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Speaker 1: You had a reason to believe that you have been

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Speaker 1: on the recruiting trail. They've got the best of the best,

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Speaker 1: In fact, one of the key talking points around Ohio

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Speaker 1: Ohio State is primed to make another run at the

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Speaker 2: Arkansas. Meanwhile, this run game last year was really good.

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Speaker 1: There's no character concern, there's no other reason he was

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Speaker 1: He's been a standout for Arkansas the spring, a certain

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Speaker 1: about a lot nationally because Bryce Young's the quarterback there,

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Speaker 1: Can they just shave it in half? Can they get

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Speaker 1: in the top sixty, top sixty five could make a

441
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Speaker 1: huge difference there. So that I mean, they've got better

442
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Speaker 1: depth defensive line, linebacker, corner, pretty much every level Defensively,

443
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Speaker 1: there's reason to believe they got better depth there than

444
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Speaker 1: they did this time a year ago. It's exciting to watch.

445
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Speaker 1: You know, Peyton thornstill the quarterback there. They got a

446
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Speaker 1: lot of returning pieces. I think they returned nine defensively.

447
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 1: It's not always the end all be all, but we'll see.

448
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Speaker 1: So those are just some of the whispers and intel

449
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Speaker 1: that we've taken away from spring camps all across the country.

450
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Speaker 2: We're not done with that.

451
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Speaker 1: A lot of the spring games for the Pac twelve

452
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Speaker 1: happened this weekend, so we'll have a lot more to

453
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Speaker 1: talk about on the Sunday show. A Ji Hall has

454
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Speaker 1: transferred to Texas. That's the breaking news. Alabama wide receiver

455
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Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian at the very least familiar with him from

456
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Speaker 1: the recruiting trail when he was at Alabama. A Ji

457
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Speaker 1: Hall transferring to Texas. And you want to know who's

458
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 1: reporting that the teleprompter, that's who's reporting it. What do

459
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Speaker 1: we think about this? By the way, a Ji Hall

460
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Speaker 1: is a guy who didn't play at Alabama a whole lot.

461
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Speaker 1: Certainly wasn't because he lacked the physical potential. It's because

462
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Speaker 1: everything from the neck up was far from what Nick

463
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Speaker 1: Saban and his coaching staff demanded in order for you

464
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Speaker 1: to get on the field at Alabama. Sometimes guys need

465
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Speaker 1: a change of scenery. Sometimes guys are just troubled. A

466
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Speaker 1: Ji Hall is way too young for us to draw

467
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Speaker 1: conclusion as to which way that falls. Maybe Alabama just

468
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Speaker 1: wasn't for him. It's part of the recruiting pitch at Alabama.

469
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Speaker 1: It's not for everyone. Maybe it just wasn't for a

470
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Speaker 1: Gi Hall. Maybe Texas will be for a Gi Hall.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. It's always fun to look in

472
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal and to see a bunch of former

473
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Speaker 1: stars next to a kid's name from high school, and

474
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Speaker 1: you watch the last spring game, for example, there's no

475
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Speaker 1: doubt physically what a Jihall can do for you. What

476
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,080
Speaker 1: are they trying to do at Texas right now? They're

477
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Speaker 1: trying to overturn a culture. They're trying to inject what

478
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Speaker 1: they want into that program, and they're trying to rid

479
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Speaker 1: themselves of a lot of the past issue. It's easy

480
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 1: to see the physical potential in a guy. Let me

481
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Speaker 1: tell you where the risk is here. The risk is

482
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Speaker 1: in what we don't know. Because we don't know, we

483
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Speaker 1: have no character evaluation on a Ji Hall. We don't

484
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Speaker 1: really know what went wrong at Alabama. But I can

485
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Speaker 1: tell you this, you better have done your homework if

486
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Speaker 1: you're Steve Sarkisian. You better have done your homework if

487
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Speaker 1: you're Texas, because they are not a rock solid cultural

488
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 1: force over there that stood the test of time and

489
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 1: year over year over year, they've been a proven commodity.

490
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Speaker 1: They're very much a work in progress. You got to

491
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Speaker 1: be very careful. It's a necessity that they had to

492
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Speaker 1: go in the transfer portal this past cycle.

493
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Speaker 2: Trust me, we talked about it a lot on this show.

494
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Speaker 1: Who do you add and what do you add with

495
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Speaker 1: those folks you bring in?

496
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Speaker 2: It's very important the who is a Jihall? In this case?

497
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Speaker 2: What are we getting?

498
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Speaker 1: Well, we're getting a supremely talented player. What else are

499
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Speaker 1: we getting? That's for us to eventually find out. That

500
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Speaker 1: is hopefully something that Steve Sarkisian and his staff have

501
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Speaker 1: a very good read on. I don't doubt they do,

502
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Speaker 1: because otherwise I don't think they would have rolled the

503
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Speaker 1: dice here. They already figured to be a very good

504
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Speaker 1: offensive team this fall. So hopefully they did a very

505
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Speaker 1: very strong and well vetted assessment on this and they

506
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Speaker 1: just realized that's Alabama wasn't for him.

507
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Speaker 2: We'll give them a change of scenery here.

508
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Speaker 1: This isn't even the first Alabama transfer they've taken this

509
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Speaker 1: past cycle, so we'll see how that works out. There

510
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: is no doubting the football ability of the guy they

511
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Speaker 1: just picked up, though, I mean, there's it's a really

512
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: good thing when the tangible that's in the room you

513
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Speaker 1: can look at and say, I don't have a doubt.

514
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: You can look at a gy hall and say that.

515
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 1: You can also say that anytime you walk into Academy.

516
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Speaker 2: Sports and Outdoors.

517
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you all know that to be true.

518
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: This Friday, some of us in this building are getting

519
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: involved in softball up here, which means we got to

520
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: buy equipment. Now we already know where we're going.

521
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 2: For our equipment.

522
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Speaker 1: I hope you know, I mean, I really hope you

523
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Speaker 1: guys know you can go to Academy Sports and Outdoors

524
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Speaker 1: not only will they have your hookup on equipment. Dare

525
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Speaker 1: I say if you're a newbie, like some people around

526
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Speaker 1: here are about to be. In certain sports, especially the

527
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Speaker 1: land sports, you.

528
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Speaker 2: May actually get some pointers. I'm not promising you this.

529
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Speaker 1: It really depends on location, but I bet you they

530
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Speaker 1: could teach you a thing or two at Academy Sports

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Speaker 1: and Outdoors. We also found out today Jesse barely knows

532
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Speaker 1: how to ride a bicycle. So I know they got

533
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: the bikes at Academy. Perhaps they have the role model

534
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: that Jesse did not have in his life growing up.

535
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Speaker 2: They could teach.

536
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Speaker 1: Him how to ride that bike, maybe down Aisle three.

537
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Speaker 1: I've stepped up. I volunteered to do it. He is

538
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 1: not let me know one way or the other on that.

539
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: But also, you know, someone popped in the chat earlier

540
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Speaker 1: today and say it was Logan, and Logan said, I

541
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Speaker 1: just got home from Academy Sports and Outdoors right in

542
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Speaker 1: time for the show, a perfect timing. And then someone

543
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 1: else stepped up and said thank you for your service, Logan.

544
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 1: I couldn't have said it any better, because that's exactly

545
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Speaker 1: what Logan is doing. He is serving because Academy serves us.

546
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: They put us on air the very least that we

547
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: can do in exchange for what they give us is

548
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: by the things that we're all ridding in a buy

549
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: anyway at Academy Sports and Outdoors. And if you can't

550
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: get there in person, that's fine. I did confirm there

551
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Speaker 1: is not an Academy a Lost Crusus, New Mexico, and

552
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: so the fine folks in Las Crusus and everywhere else

553
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: around the world, you just go to Academy dot com

554
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: order whatever you need, give it a couple three days, obviously,

555
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: but order whatever you need. It'll be there Academy Sports

556
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: and Outdoors. I've got papers all over the place here,

557
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: so I think we're going with this next. Yeah, Boldness,

558
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: it's a very important thing in life, right to a degree.

559
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,199
Speaker 1: That is true. Earlier today I asked you guys on Twitter,

560
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: what is the boldest thing you believe about twenty twenty

561
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: two that you would bet money on? So I'm not

562
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Speaker 1: asking you to just throw something out landish out there.

563
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: And now most of you still fell victim because you

564
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: knew money really wasn't on the line and no one

565
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: was ever gonna go back in and vet this six

566
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Speaker 1: months from now. But I got about ten of them

567
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: here that we need to talk about right quick. I

568
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: mean one of them was something that's always floated around

569
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Speaker 1: for like the past decade. John Done, for example, says

570
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Speaker 1: this is Saban's last go round. How many of you

571
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Speaker 1: believe this, John does? I don't believe that that's the case. However,

572
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: I will say this, if Nick Saban were to have

573
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Speaker 1: a year this year that was like twenty twenty where

574
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Speaker 1: it's just one of the best teams he's ever coached,

575
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,959
Speaker 1: and there's a storybook ending and you just look at

576
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: it and you say, man, he can't get much better

577
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: than that, and he's a little more fed up with

578
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 1: nil and transfer portal than we know. I guess there's

579
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: this five ten percent chance, since he's been doing it

580
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: as long as he has, I guess there's a small chance,

581
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: a small window. But that's not something I see happening.

582
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: Then again, when will you ever see it coming?

583
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: So some of you do believe this.

584
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: I think maybe you're trying to wish it into existence,

585
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: but some of you do believe this may be Savings

586
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: last year. I don't think we're there yet. I think

587
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: we're a few years away from that next up. I

588
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: think this is a little bit ridiculous, But you know what,

589
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: let's talk about it anyway. Rev suggesting a Georgia tight

590
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Speaker 1: end will be a Heisman finalist, el dog down. There

591
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: goes a step further Stetson Bennett will be in New

592
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: York as a Heisman finalist. Where's the bubble at Let's

593
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: just say the bubbles over here. Okay, I got a

594
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Speaker 1: pen in my hand. Pop, There's not going to be

595
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Speaker 1: a Georgia offensive player as a high Heisman finalist.

596
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: That is not Georgia football. It's just not.

597
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: And I'm the guy who fifteen minutes ago told you

598
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: I think offense could kind of secretly be the identity

599
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: of this team this year.

600
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: I've been wrong before, like two or three times. To

601
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: be honest with you.

602
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: If a Georgia offensive player is a Heisman Trophy finalist,

603
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: I'll just sit here and tell you I'm wrong.

604
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be the case.

605
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: I think they'll be as good an offensive product this

606
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: year as they've been under Kirby Smart.

607
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 2: So I'm not hating on the offense.

608
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, do you know how good you have

609
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: to be to be a Heisman Trophy finalist offensively? And

610
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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna leave it there because I want to

611
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: be nice to my home state. Moving on, let's stay

612
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: in the SEC East and let's just talk about what

613
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: Jim suggested. Jim, I'm telling you, I don't think you

614
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Speaker 1: believe this, but you said it, and so I'm going

615
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: to repeat it. Game Cocks win the SEC East. If

616
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Speaker 1: you said they win nine games, that'd be different, and

617
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Speaker 1: I would challenge you on it, because I.

618
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Speaker 2: Think they're maybe more than the eight win range. But

619
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Speaker 2: you said win the East.

620
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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of stuff that has to happen

621
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Speaker 1: for them to win the East. Namely, they got to

622
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Speaker 1: be better than Georgia. Now, they got Georgia coming to

623
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Speaker 1: town early, and a lot of folks have that game

624
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Speaker 1: circled in Columbia. They got them in Columbia week three. Okay,

625
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Speaker 1: let's say that goes your way.

626
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 2: You still got to have Georgia.

627
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just say Georgia runs the table the

628
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: rest of the way. You still got to make sure

629
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Speaker 1: you don't lose more than one conference game. You've got

630
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Speaker 1: at Kentucky, you got Texas A and M coming in there.

631
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Speaker 1: You got Missouri, you go to Florida late in the year.

632
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: You got Tennessee late in the year. I'm just saying

633
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: it's a tall, tall task. But if it were to happen,

634
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: and I would say crazier things have happened, I would

635
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: be here because this is all going in the can,

636
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: it's all going on the YouTube channel.

637
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 2: It'll be there in December.

638
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: But if South Carolina wins the East, it would be

639
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: one of the more surprising things.

640
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 2: Or maybe the most surprising thing on this list.

641
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: Trending the right direction, no doubt about that, but I

642
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: still think we're a little ways away from that headline.

643
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,239
Speaker 2: Next up. Yeah, I think this is bold so far.

644
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: Spur Horn, Texas is gonna have the number one scoring

645
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: offense in the country next year. I don't think this

646
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: is out of the Roman possibility. What were they, Jesse,

647
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: There were top ten, I think we said this past year,

648
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: and so they were up there a lot of the

649
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: critical metrics. They were up there offensively last year. And

650
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: that's before we brought Quinn viewers in the building. And

651
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: we just within the last hour we've added the likes

652
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Speaker 1: of a Jy Hall at wide receiver. They got one

653
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: of my favorite playmakers in the country, an Xavier or Worthy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've been talking about him since the day

655
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Speaker 1: he stepped on campus. Texas number one scoring offense. It's

656
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Speaker 1: hard to do. So let's safely say still a bold

657
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Speaker 1: top three. I think that's one of the least bold

658
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Speaker 1: out of the bold proclamations that were made today. Texas

659
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: could absolutely end up locking down the number one scoring offense. Now,

660
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: the follow up is how much of that is out

661
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: of necessity because they find themselves still having to score

662
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: thirty five or forty to win, which is a defensive

663
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: question or a defensive question. Really emphasize the D on

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Speaker 1: this show.

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Speaker 2: Immunity. Moving on here.

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Speaker 1: This one's a little juicy. This one is crazy on

667
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: the surface, but then the more you just sit back

668
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: in your chair and think about it, the more you

669
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: find yourself going, well, wait a second. Okay, So if

670
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Speaker 1: you're listening on podcasts, here's what it says. This is

671
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: from Thomas j. He says, Pitt is going to make

672
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: the playoff. Like I told you, when I first say it,

673
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: you look in your mirror and you say, is he

674
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: outside his mind?

675
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: What is he high on? I get it, I get it.

676
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: PITT is a very good program right now. A lot

677
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: of the advanced metrics folks out there, that's the team

678
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: they're whispering about because all people know is, well, without

679
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett, what are they going to do?

680
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 2: Well? They added Keaton slogans.

681
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got a plug and play quarterback there,

682
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: They've got culture now, Pitt's one of the quietest, solid

683
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: cultures and solid developmental programs in the country. And now

684
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Speaker 1: they get an opportunity without Clemson on the regular season schedule.

685
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Speaker 1: And I don't think they're scared to play Clemson, but

686
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity where they have a unique mixture

687
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Speaker 1: of avoiding the perceived favorite in the conference in the

688
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: regular season, but they also get enough out of conference

689
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: beef if we could, Guys, can you throw the schedule

690
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: back up there for a second. They've got enough here

691
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: where they're not one of those ACC teams where you

692
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: look and you say, oh, they've got to go undefeated

693
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: because they got West Virginia on the schedule to open,

694
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: They've got Tennessee. Those are two big out of conference

695
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: games to open the season.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back backyard brawl, by the way.

697
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Speaker 1: And then they get into conference play and they play

698
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Speaker 1: enough of the middle.

699
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 2: To upper tier of the ACC.

700
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Speaker 1: They play Virginia Tech, they play North Carolina, they play Virginia,

701
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Speaker 1: they play in Miami.

702
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: They've got enough meat on the bone.

703
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: Here where they could afford to lose a game and

704
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: if they win the ACC they could still be a

705
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Speaker 1: playoff team happen. I think it's bold. Yes, certainly, that's

706
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Speaker 1: why we're talking about it on the show. This would

707
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: not be the craziest thing in the world. Like they

708
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: could go on a Michigan State type run this year

709
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Speaker 1: and easily find themselves in contention. And while we're at it,

710
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: I do want to apologize to Pitt and tu Lane

711
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: because the other day we were talking about best color

712
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: combos in college football. Pitt's got one and two Lanes

713
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: got one. So I apologize for leaving them out. We

714
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: move along here. There's a lot of boldness. I told

715
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Speaker 1: you that's what we were looking for. AJ never heard

716
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: of her.

717
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 2: Aj. USC wins ten games. This could be true. Could

718
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: also be true they win seven games.

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Speaker 1: USC is going to be a high octane team to

720
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Speaker 1: watch this year. There's going to be wild volatility and

721
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: potential outcomes.

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Speaker 2: They open.

723
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Speaker 1: Do you know what, let's have a little quiz here.

724
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Speaker 1: Do you know who USC opens with this year? It's

725
00:32:54,760 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: not UCLA, Nope, it's not Oregon Rice. What is the

726
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: number one rule on the show? Do not lose to

727
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: food or in this case, don't let food come within

728
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: four touchdowns of you. But then they open conference play

729
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: the very next week on the road at Stanford. This

730
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: is a schedule where you look at it and you say,

731
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Speaker 1: we'll be favored there, there, there, there, there, and there.

732
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Speaker 1: But it's also a schedule where you say, oh, we

733
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Speaker 1: could get upset there, we could get upset there. So

734
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Speaker 1: it's just going to be I don't think there's any

735
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Speaker 1: skill in really predicting this right now. There's so much unknown,

736
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Speaker 1: Yet there's so much skill, there's so much excitement. They

737
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Speaker 1: go to Utah and Arizona back to back at a

738
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Speaker 1: bye week between there. Listen, it could happen JP angels

739
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Speaker 1: in the outfield, it could happen mildly. Bold take there

740
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Speaker 1: by AJ This one I disagree with. But it's not

741
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Speaker 1: the ACC one. Yeah, so let's do the ACC. Let's

742
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Speaker 1: leave this up Robert Brewer. His bold take is the

743
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Speaker 1: ACC will easily be the second best conference. And I

744
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: want to stress the word easily because that's the last

745
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: bit of credibility I'm gonna give this tweet, the ACC

746
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: will not be the second best conference east of the

747
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Speaker 1: Mississippi River.

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Speaker 2: So this is ridiculous.

749
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Speaker 1: Easily the second best conference in the country is a

750
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: stretch too far for me to even entertain.

751
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: In the Bold.

752
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: Takes segment of Lake Caick in April, there's a long

753
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: way to go.

754
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 2: Okay, there's no top dog in the conference right now

755
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 2: like Clemson is. There is there.

756
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: Any guarantee because that's what you're predicating everything on Clemson's back.

757
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: And then Mario pops a nine or ten win season

758
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: year one of Virginia Tech or Virginia one of the

759
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: Virginia schools pops in year one, Jeff Collins hopefully gets

760
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech back on track, and then wake Forest continues

761
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: to do Wake Forest things.

762
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,959
Speaker 2: Maybe Pitt does surprise people.

763
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Speaker 1: Like we just talked about, there is a lot that

764
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Speaker 1: has to go right North Carolina, who I happen to

765
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: be a believer in needs to be this year what

766
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: folks expected to be last year. There's a lot of hope. Okay,

767
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: there's a lot of needs there, and I don't think

768
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna fulfill them all. You're talking about the SEC

769
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: and the Big ten, just East of the Mississippi that

770
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: the ACC is not going to be better than this year.

771
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Speaker 1: So I think I'm right on that one. I'm gonna

772
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: speak pretty definitively. There's a little ways to go before

773
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Speaker 1: the ACC starts talking like this. Now, this next one

774
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: is the one about the playoff.

775
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, how about this?

776
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: John says there will be no first timers making the

777
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: college football Playoff. Now we're several years in. I think

778
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: we're like eight years in now, so it's getting it's

779
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: getting easier and easier to say this, But I still

780
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: think he's wrong. I still think there's going to be

781
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: a first timer in the playoff this year. Now, we

782
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: were starting to look down the list at how many

783
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: teams would be first timers. Miami would be a first timer,

784
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: Pitt would be a first timer, Michigan State would not.

785
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 2: You gotta remember they made it. But you know who

786
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: would be?

787
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: USC would be, Texas would be So there's still a

788
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: couple of really big brand names out there who would

789
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 1: be first time playoff teams.

790
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 2: I don't know who it's going to be.

791
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: None of you were talking about, well maybe some of

792
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: you were talking about Cincinnati last year, but no one

793
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: was picking Michigan to make college football playoff last year

794
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: they did, so I still think there's a first timeerer

795
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: out there, and I think this fall we will have

796
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: a first time or make the playoff.

797
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: What I'm not ready to do quite yet.

798
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: Because it would be bad for business is revealed to you, hoops.

799
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: That is pause book market. Those are the college football

800
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: Playoff participants if you're watching on YouTube so far. By

801
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: the way, I think people forget Michigan State made it.

802
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: I think people forget Washington made it. Florida State. That's

803
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: the first year back there in twenty fourteen. So FSU

804
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: and Oregon made it that first year and since then,

805
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's s been a lot of monotony there.

806
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: Alabama's made it seven times since Sanity. Okay, there are

807
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: two more here. Then we got a juxtaposition here. We've

808
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: got dueling bold proclamations to talk about with LSU. So

809
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 1: Robbie thinks Jaden Daniels will be a top three quarterback

810
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: in the SEC. Cooper Patagna, who I'm told has darkened

811
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: the door of LSU a time or two down there,

812
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: he's talking about an over under of starting quarterbacks at

813
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: LSU being two and a half. So there's one guy

814
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: who so happens to be employed here who thinks there's

815
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of twists and turns in the

816
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: LSU quarterback situation. And then we got one guy I

817
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: thinking Jade and Daniels is gonna lock that thing down

818
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: to the point where he's a top three quarterback in

819
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: the SEC. I in classical fence riding fashion, will choose

820
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 1: to place my prediction somewhere in the middle. I don't

821
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm a little bit closer to Cooper.

822
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: Actually pains me to say that sometimes, but I just

823
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: I've told you ever since the beginning of spring, I'm

824
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: not embracing this Jade and Daniels hype train quite yet.

825
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,720
Speaker 2: They have their spring game this Saturday.

826
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Speaker 1: I think LSU does so, not that that'll be the

827
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: end all be all, but I got to see that

828
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: guy come in there and beat everyone out. I got

829
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: to see him beat nuss Meyer and Miles Brennan out.

830
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: If and well, we'll say if slash. When that happens,

831
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: then I can start talking about cause we're talking about

832
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: Bryce Young. I happen to believe in Hendon Hooker, but

833
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson at Florida. You got kJ Jefferson stats in

834
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: Bennett is just there at Georgia.

835
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 2: That's bold. Yeah, I think it's bold.

836
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: Not out of the realm of possibility, but I think

837
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: it's bold. Last one here, this one would be a

838
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: first time in making the playoff for sure. Anthony just

839
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: flat out calling the shot Ole Miss makes the college

840
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: football Playoff.

841
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: Now what I was.

842
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: Looking at immediately I went to their schedule. Of course,

843
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: if they win the SEC West and they go to

844
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: Atlanta and win the SEC title, they figured to be

845
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: in the playoff. Okay, But then the follow up we've

846
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: seen it happen in the SEC before, is they get

847
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 1: beat let's say by Alabama, and that's in what the

848
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: third to last week of the season. But what if

849
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: they're unblemished the rest of the way. It's a long shot,

850
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: but let's just say the best case scenario unfolds, Well,

851
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: can they still make it in I think the answer

852
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: is yes. When you consider who all they would have played.

853
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: They've played an SEC Western Division schedule. They've got LSU,

854
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: they got Bama at home, they got LSU on the road,

855
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: A and M on the road, Arkansas on the road.

856
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: I think got three road games and a four game

857
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: stretch on the road. If they were to go through

858
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: that and their only losses to Bama, especially if Bama

859
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: goes on to Atlanta and wins and make the playoff, Yeah,

860
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: Ole Miss could be one of those non division winners

861
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: that sneaks in because they have that good a streat

862
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: the schedule. They would need dominoes to fall elsewhere. But

863
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: we were talking good about Ole Miss the other day

864
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: and Lane Kiffin retweeted it and said.

865
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: It's rat poison.

866
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: It's a lot more preferable to have to deal with

867
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: the rat poison than for no one to be giving

868
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: you rat poison to begin with, because if you're not

869
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: at least being fed some rat poison, that means the

870
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: potentials probably not even there. So that's some boldness that

871
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: a lot of you had. We're not even really close

872
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: to done with this. We had about five or six

873
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: hundred submissions, likely more than that.

874
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 2: We checked two hours ago. So we've got we got

875
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: a lot of meat left on the bone.

876
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: Said that a lot tonight. We had a lot of

877
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: meat left on the bone. But some boldness there. I

878
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: respect it, most of it. I respect. Are you serious?

879
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: We've got more breaking news. When is the last time

880
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: we had cut ins. We're breaking news. Truth be told.

881
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: Jesse just found out how to use the teleprompter. Okay, Jesse,

882
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: you ready, I'm breaking news. Notre Dame has moved back

883
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: to the number one class in twenty twenty three after

884
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: top two four to seven commit Brayln James committed.

885
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 2: Texas Tech is.

886
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,240
Speaker 1: Now number two, which greatly upsets me that this couldn't

887
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: have waited an hour because we got a little something

888
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: we're doing at the end of the show about Texas Tech.

889
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: But yes, you heard that right, We're going to talk

890
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes about Texas Tech.

891
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: But you know what, that's fine.

892
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: We adjust on the fly here as soon as I

893
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: shuffle through all these papers and I remind myself which

894
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: segment was next. Okay, look good for Notre Dame. I

895
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to rain on Notre

896
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: Dame's parade. There is something that greatly aggravates me about

897
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: recruiting this time of year, but I'm gonna save it

898
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: for the very end. But I guarantee you it's going

899
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: to happen with Notre Dame, just as it has been

900
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: happening with Texas Tech, so Brayln James commits the Notre name.

901
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: Notre Name now number one in the twenty four to

902
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: seven Sports team recruiting rankings for twenty twenty three.

903
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 2: You know what we have to do, though, first thing

904
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 2: I have to do straighten my microphone. I can't stand that.

905
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: The second thing we have to do is we got

906
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: to bring the mood tracker back. The mood tracker's been

907
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: gone for quite a while because we wanted to let

908
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: spring practice come and go. The mood tracker is back tonight.

909
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: What is the mood tracker? It is simply us taking

910
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: a temperature of the fan base. And which fan base

911
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: are we taking a temperature of tonight? None other than

912
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: the Miami Hurricanes. As I said to start the show,

913
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: probably the most requested mood tracker in America, any conference,

914
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: including Georgia, Bama, et cetera. It's been Miami and so

915
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: at long last. Here tonight, April nineteenth, we're talking about Miami.

916
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: I went on inside the U dot com earlier today

917
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: and I asked them, what do you think fill in

918
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: the blank? My current mood towards Miami football is what

919
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: There was no mixed emotion over there. I mean, I

920
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: think a lot of you on the outside kind of

921
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: sort of understand how excited they are down in South Florida,

922
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: but you don't really fully get it.

923
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 2: That hole.

924
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: It's a cane thing. You wouldn't understand. Boy is true

925
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: with this. They are over the moon excited. And I

926
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: took all that and I packaged it up. And you

927
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: know what the mood in Miami is right now. The

928
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: mood at Miami is our time. A lot of people

929
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: say that, but there's a specific thing I mean around

930
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: Miami when I say our time. If you're a Hurricane fan,

931
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: you know what you've been forced to stomach over the

932
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: last decade or two. You've been forced to stomach a

933
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: lot of the administration trying to do it in a

934
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: way other than the way you want to do it.

935
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: And so you got on board, Like with Randy Shannam,

936
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: you got on board, but it never felt like there

937
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: was full synergy and buy in and everything's moving the

938
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: same direction even though it was one of your guys.

939
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: You had the al Golden era. You were on board,

940
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: but it wasn't going the direction you wanted it to go.

941
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: You had Mark Ricked, a former guy that you knew,

942
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: he knew Florida, you knew the state. It felt like

943
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: he dove back in too quickly from Georgia. He didn't

944
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: take any time off, and it never really clicked down

945
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: there like you wanted it to. And then you have

946
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: Manny Diaz come in and you bought in again, it

947
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: never really clicked like you wanted it to. My point is,

948
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: Miami folks have had to stomach a lot of doing

949
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: it the way they don't want it done. And now,

950
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: for the first time in some of their lifetimes, if

951
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: they're like eighteen or twenty years old, finally the administration

952
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: around Miami.

953
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 2: Is doing it their way. They're doing it the cane way.

954
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: And that's why everyone's so excited because now they look

955
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 1: at it and they say, this is actually our time

956
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: because for the first time and forever seemingly, the administration

957
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: buy in is there. We got one of our guys

958
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: in the head coaching chair. We got a guy who

959
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: helped build the culture here. He fully gets the culture.

960
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 1: You cut him open. He bleeds the culture of Miami.

961
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: But also that weren't checked previously or checked. No one's

962
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: questioning whether we're going to have funding for this or

963
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: full administrative buy in for that. It's all there. That's

964
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: why I feel so different. It's not just Mario Cristaball.

965
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: It's what all came with Mario Christaball, which I don't

966
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: think outsiders get quite yet. They're looking at Miami and

967
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: they think it's the same old Miami, just with a

968
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: new head coach. And they've already decided for themselves. No

969
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: head coach is going to succeed down there as long

970
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: as Miami is what they are. That was true, But

971
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: you're speaking in the present tense. That's the past tense,

972
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: total new day at Miami now. So it's not only

973
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: that they got their guy that they wanted for a

974
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: long time. They got their guy and they got their

975
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: set of conditions, so it's on their terms now. So

976
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: when I say it's our time, that's why Miami fans

977
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: feel that way. They feel that way because they got

978
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: their guy and then they got it on their terms too.

979
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: The rest of the country's going to scoff at this,

980
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 1: and I understand that, and my humble advice to Miami

981
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: folks is don't worry about it. We all know what

982
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: history has shown us. The rest of the country thinks

983
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: of you when you're on the right track. So I

984
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: would actually wear it as a badge of honor. The

985
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: more irritated the rest of the country gets at the

986
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: talk about Miami, but there's a very specific way that

987
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 1: things have to be at Miami for them to achieve

988
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: their ultimate potential. Hadn't been there for a long time.

989
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,919
Speaker 1: I mean it's been a really long time. They've joined

990
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: the ACC in two thousand and four, they've had a

991
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: double digit win season once.

992
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,240
Speaker 2: That's eighteen years.

993
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: There are legal adults roaming the streets of South Florida

994
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: who have seen one double digit win season in their lifetimes.

995
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: That's totally inexcusable on every level. And so the reason

996
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot of excitement down there is because you

997
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: got thirty or forty year old or fifty year old

998
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: Miami fans who actually have once upon a time seen

999
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: it done the way it needed to be done. And

1000
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: then you had a lot of people with their hands

1001
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: on the wheel who had no business having their hands

1002
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 1: on the wheel.

1003
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 2: And I'm not even talking about coaches.

1004
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm talking about administrative types, talking about people who love

1005
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: to do the window dressing, they love to go to

1006
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: the speaking engagements, they love to throw up to you,

1007
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: but they had no business throwing it up because they

1008
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: had no clue what it meant. People in charge now

1009
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: have checked the boxes that lead you to believe they

1010
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: know what it means. And if they need to get

1011
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: out of the way and let some folks in the

1012
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: room who do know which direction to steer the ship,

1013
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: looks like they're willing to looks like they're willing to

1014
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: write the checks, and it looks like the people who

1015
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: are capable of writing those checks have come in the room.

1016
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: It's a different feel now, it's going to be feel

1017
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: for a while. You don't just get results right off

1018
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: the bat. There's a reason why the old staff is

1019
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: out and the new staff is in. But this is

1020
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: not an empty cupboard that they're inheriting either. So they

1021
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: got some players down there. I'll tell you what they

1022
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: do have. They got a quarterback, So if you got

1023
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: a quarterback, you got a shot to do some things

1024
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: right off the bat. But they've also got recruiting, and

1025
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: they will always have recruiting as long as Mario Cristaball

1026
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: is down there. They've got an understanding of what Miami

1027
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: is supposed to be, and that's not always something that

1028
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: you could confidently look in the mirror and tell yourself

1029
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: as a Miami Hurricane fan. Over the last several administrations,

1030
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 1: one double digit win season since O four. My bold

1031
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: prediction for the show tonight that drought's about to come

1032
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: to an m So that's the Miami Mood Tracker. Now,

1033
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: speaking of recruiting, we had a question that I wanted

1034
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: to close the show with tonight. To my knowledge, we've

1035
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: never done a segment on this program about Texas Tech.

1036
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 1: But it's time to do it tonight. Here's what one

1037
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: of you asked, and I want to tear Here's here.

1038
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: Let me tee it up first. So Steve Wilfong writes

1039
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: an article last week about Texas Tech and how they

1040
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: had the number one recruiting class in the country for

1041
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and I retweeted it, and so let's

1042
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: take a look at the question here. I'm going to

1043
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: read it for those of you on podcasts, and then

1044
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to respond. So Wilfong writes an article last

1045
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: week Texas Tech for the moments the number one rated

1046
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: recruiting class in twenty twenty three. I retweeted it, and

1047
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: so a number of you came at me. I'm just

1048
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: gonna use this one. Texas Strong, Built Tough is the

1049
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: Twitter handle at Lake Kick Josh. Why does anyone care

1050
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: what Texas Tech's class is ranked when we're still a

1051
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: year away from signing day. It's like taking a victory

1052
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: lap in week two? I would offer this follow up.

1053
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: Why do people who claim not to care about something

1054
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: always ended up being the ones who yelled the most.

1055
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: About that thing.

1056
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you how many dozens of people I

1057
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: had come back at me when all I did and

1058
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: all Wilfong did was speak reality.

1059
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,240
Speaker 2: It was not opinion. They were at the time.

1060
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: They're now number two as of tonight, but they were

1061
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: the number one recruiting class for twenty twenty three in

1062
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: the country.

1063
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 2: Is it early? Yes? Was everyone aware of that when

1064
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 2: we made that statement. Yes?

1065
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: Let me fill you in on how significant this is.

1066
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: We're not talking about Bama or Ohio State, Texas Tech,

1067
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: the rehetoraidors of Joey maguire.

1068
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 2: They were number one in the country.

1069
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: They have finished top thirty once in the past decade

1070
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: recruiting one time. So those of you who thought you

1071
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: were overthinking the room popping into my Twitter mentions and saying, well,

1072
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, they're not even gonna finish top five. I

1073
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: know that that's probably the least bold proclamation that's been

1074
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: made on that platform, and there was some really obvious

1075
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: points made on that platform over the years.

1076
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 2: Everyone knows that.

1077
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: My point is, if they dropped fifteen spots, it would

1078
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 1: be a historic class. If they dropped twenty spots, it would

1079
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 1: be one of the best classes they've had in forever

1080
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: out there. I was on the athletic today though, and

1081
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 1: I was reading some stuff from Matt Fortuna, who wrote

1082
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: an article actually about the Texas Tech program, and he

1083
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: made a good point about Texas Tech as a university.

1084
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: He said about Texas Tech, you know, people think about

1085
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: Texas Tech as being out in the middle of nowhere

1086
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: in Lubbock, and I don't really think that a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks understand how good the culture is out there

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00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: right now. And he's talking about the athletic department as

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Speaker 1: a whole. Now, I didn't know some of this.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: For instance, guys like Pat Mahomes to come through there.

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Speaker 1: They've had Lincoln Riley, they've had Cleef Kingsbury. The football

1093
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: part about it, I think a lot of us know,

1094
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Speaker 1: but to speak to the level that the athletic department

1095
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,359
Speaker 1: is capable of operating. At men's hoops National Title Game

1096
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, track and field won a national title that year.

1097
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Speaker 1: Both men's and women's golf teams Top twenty right now.

1098
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 1: Baseball College World Series four out of the last seven years.

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Speaker 1: They do it kind of quietly. They're off the national radar. Texas,

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Speaker 1: Texas got a really solid athletic department and a really

1101
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: solid set of programs out there. Entered Joey McGuire, who

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Speaker 1: is the head coach out there that Harley An. If

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00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 1: you know anything about I think you would be shocked

1104
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: if you went and read about him, just knowing what

1105
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: his story is.

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Speaker 2: This is a guy who came from the high school ranks.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not talking about a guy who played in

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00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: high level college football, got drafted in the NFL, didn't

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00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 1: cut it, so spent a couple of years in high school,

1110
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,959
Speaker 1: and then quickly went into the college ranks.

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00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 2: He was in high school years and years and.

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Speaker 1: Years, and now after I think a stop in Baylor,

1113
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: he's at Texas Tech. We mentioned the word culture a

1114
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: lot on this show. We don't throw it around flippantly.

1115
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: We're talking about what Sam Pittman has, what Mel Tucker has,

1116
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: We're talking about what Mario Christoval hopes to have. We're

1117
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: talking about what some of these guys who, to varying

1118
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 1: degrees are culture fits and specific fits to their programs have.

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00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: Shane Beemer, for example, has some of this going on

1120
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: at South Carolina right now. Brent Vinnables, I think we'll

1121
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: have some of this going on at Oklahoma. It's going

1122
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: to be a lot quieter, but the early returns out

1123
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: of Lubbock are that Joey McGuire's brought a lot of

1124
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: that out there.

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Speaker 2: It's quiet.

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00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is not going to be something

1127
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: that leads Sports Center or College Football Game Day, College

1128
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: Game Day every other week. But it's something to keep

1129
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: an eye on because this is a conference that is

1130
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: about to be void Texas and void Oklahoma, and there's

1131
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: a lot of talk.

1132
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 2: About who's going to step up.

1133
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: Will it be one of the newcomers like Central Florida

1134
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: or Cincinnati, Will Baylor step up, will TCU step up?

1135
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 2: What if Texas Tech steps up? There's a different way

1136
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 2: they have to do things out there, too. But what

1137
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 2: if they step up.

1138
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: What if they do start making a little more noise

1139
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: on the recruiting trail. What if they are a little

1140
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: more active in the portal. What if they get their

1141
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: act together in Nil Just some things to keep an

1142
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: eye on. If you want a sleeper, if you want

1143
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: a team to watch for the next couple of years,

1144
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: if you want a B team that kind of velcrows

1145
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: itself to your favorite team, Texas Tech, I would advise

1146
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: you adopt the Red Raider program out there. They'll be

1147
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,720
Speaker 1: glad you did. I'm not going to talk about it tonight.

1148
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 2: That's the end of the show.

1149
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about this tonight. But there's

1150
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: something that I've probably got to spend a couple of

1151
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: days on. There's something going on right now. Some of

1152
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: you already know about it. Many more of you are

1153
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: going to find out about it. It's bad. It's not

1154
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's happening across the country. It has

1155
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: to do with everything from parking to concession, to ticket

1156
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: prices to what it costs for you to tailgate.

1157
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 2: I mean, some of.

1158
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: The things we used to take for granted as just

1159
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 1: being free, like that patch of grass there.

1160
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 2: If I can get it. It's free.

1161
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 1: You are being so thoroughly jipped and ripped off at

1162
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: a number of these programs. Some of them are very

1163
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: very close to this show, like we're gonna step on

1164
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: some toes when we eventually do this segment. But there

1165
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: is some garbage that you're having to deal with as

1166
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: a fan, as a ticket player, a player, and especially

1167
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: if you're a season ticket holder at some of these

1168
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 1: major universities. You are getting the shaft, and it's taken

1169
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: the sport in the direction I don't like. It's taking

1170
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: the sport in a very professional direction. By professional, I

1171
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: don't mean of higher integrity. I just mean it looking

1172
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: like the NFL looks. You watch the Super Bowl and

1173
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: you know it's a corporate setting. Those are corporate block

1174
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: seating structures. The average fan has long since been priced out.

1175
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: Well in college, we've always prided our ourselves on that

1176
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,240
Speaker 1: not being the case. You've prided yourself on your family

1177
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: being able to go to games, on being able to go.

1178
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 2: Back to campus.

1179
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: You've got your favorite tailgate spot, and you got this

1180
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: and that, and a lot of families are just being

1181
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: priced out of it. And it's not because this sport

1182
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: and these universities are hurting for money. Either it's because

1183
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: the wrong people have their hands on the wheel in

1184
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: some cases of this sport overall, but in a more

1185
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:29,879
Speaker 1: micro example, several athletic departments around the country. So if

1186
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: no one else is going to call them out, will

1187
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 1: call them out. I don't know if we're going to

1188
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: do it Thursday or Sunday. To be honest, I want

1189
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: to talk to some people in some of these athletic

1190
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 1: departments to try and get an explanation as to why

1191
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: some of this ratchetness is going on.

1192
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 2: But that's coming. So in the meantime, I'll tell you what.

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00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: If you've got a story about giving up season tickets,

1194
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,439
Speaker 1: whether it was by choice or because you couldn't afford

1195
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: them anymore, my dms are open. I would love to

1196
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: get some testimonials from me. Until then, we'll be back

1197
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: here Thursday night. This was just our makeup show from Easter.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back here Thursday night. Appreciate you guys watching

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Speaker 1: the show. Make sure you are subscribed, whether it be

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00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: podcast or the YouTube channel. Thank you guys so much

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Speaker 1: for direct commum For producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pete. Have

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Speaker 1: a great rest of your evening and God bless