Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal Hell that for me, I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
Speaker 1: for Dake Edith Steak is that woo woof? And then
Speaker 1: and Tye, welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls,
Speaker 1: my name is ty Hildebrand, joining me as always over
Speaker 1: there in Chicago Land on this regal occasion. Regal the
Speaker 1: one and only Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you? I'm great.
Speaker 1: I miss having a live audience for this show. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. You know, le bras being thrown at
Speaker 1: the stage, you drunkenly needing to be revived with smelling
Speaker 1: salts backstage. There's just there's a certain character, there's a
Speaker 1: certain texture to the live fantasy Fantasy things experience. That's
Speaker 1: what they say, by the way, in Barcelona fandom many things,
Speaker 1: uh that it can't be replicated anymore. Now that we've
Speaker 1: gone in that direction. Did we even do fantasy things
Speaker 1: last year? I don't think we did. We were crustfallen
Speaker 1: last year. Dan, Yeah, we didn't know what to do well.
Speaker 1: I mean the season was starting at different points for
Speaker 1: different conferences, so it wasn't clear when we should actually
Speaker 1: do it, so we just we decided to take a
Speaker 1: by year. So happy to be back with the theme,
Speaker 1: but sad that we are not doing it in a
Speaker 1: theater with verbaler's stacked up to the rafters. It is sad,
Speaker 1: but we are going to go on with this show
Speaker 1: because the Fantasy Things, I think, without question, one of
Speaker 1: our favorites that we do every year. I know it's
Speaker 1: a crowd favorite obviously for the last couple seasons, not
Speaker 1: last year, but twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen. This
Speaker 1: is a thing that we did live. So we will
Speaker 1: explain what Fantasy Things means momentarily in case you are
Speaker 1: new to the program. If you are welcome in. I'm Ty,
Speaker 1: he is Dan. This is the Celiverbal College Football Podcast.
Speaker 1: We have been going three times a week now for
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Go back and listen to
Speaker 1: all of our conference previews done, all the Power Five,
Speaker 1: all the Group of Five, all of the Independence with
Speaker 1: the lone exception of Yukon. But we decided, I think
Speaker 1: as a group, if that's okay, we should have in retrospect,
Speaker 1: disrespectfully previewed like the two thousand and three Yukon women's
Speaker 1: basketball team, or whichever was like the greatest, considered to
Speaker 1: be the best, like you, we should have like very
Speaker 1: like we should have done a deep dive on Diana
Speaker 1: Tarassi's perimeter game where we could have celebrated Yukon excellence
Speaker 1: instead of wallowed in the depths. In lieu of a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Yukon preview, we're going to spend five
Speaker 1: good minutes talking about Jordan Todman. Now ready said, yeah,
Speaker 1: II have good minutes about Jordan Todman. Sure, Dan Orlovsky
Speaker 1: can get into the conversation anybody you want. Also going
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Speaker 1: In addition to those three shows that we're doing per week,
Speaker 1: we do offer some bonus content as well, early access
Speaker 1: to all of the shows that I just mentioned. Certainly
Speaker 1: as we get into the season, you can get preview shows,
Speaker 1: you can get recap shows, you can get everything a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier than the general public. Forballers dot com,
Speaker 1: you will also get access to a special thing that
Speaker 1: we are working on, which we are not ready to
Speaker 1: take the bubble wrap off of quite yet. It will
Speaker 1: be available only to our Patreon subscribers. As we said
Speaker 1: on the last program, you will have access to a
Speaker 1: prize potentially if you do well enough that we are
Speaker 1: utterly certain has never been offered before. Oh, we're so
Speaker 1: silly for Ballers dot Com. Though, for Ballers dot com
Speaker 1: Orballers dot Com, we'll get you access to that. More
Speaker 1: information on that to come. All right, Dan, here we go,
Speaker 1: Fantasy Things explain for the fine folks out there who
Speaker 1: you know, maybe their mind is a little bit stale.
Speaker 1: They've listened to us for a while, but they didn't
Speaker 1: hear the Fantasy Things show a year ago. What is it?
Speaker 1: How did it come to fruition? If you're new to
Speaker 1: the show, what the hell is a Fantasy Thing? Give us?
Speaker 1: Give us the backdrop here for what the Fantasy Things
Speaker 1: draft all entails. We draft narratives, We draft storylines, We
Speaker 1: draft occurrences. We build teams out of narrative, storylines and occurrences, tropes,
Speaker 1: anything that that sort of can be repeatable throughout the
Speaker 1: season that isn't just a player performing, which is what
Speaker 1: we're used to as fantasy sports. That we're drafting players,
Speaker 1: and the better the players that we draft do the
Speaker 1: better our individual team does. No it is. For example,
Speaker 1: are some of our favorite things over the years? Is
Speaker 1: SO and SO has a little bit of Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: in them? What does it mean? Unclear? A little bit.
Speaker 1: There's some Baker Mayfield to them, A little Baker may
Speaker 1: I see some Baker Mayfield. Right, the backup is better
Speaker 1: than the starter. The new defensive coordinator plans on bringing
Speaker 1: an attacking, aggressive mentality and attacking aggressive defense of the team.
Speaker 1: Strength coach. New strength coach doesn't know what they were
Speaker 1: doing here before, but we're this is the big leagues. Now,
Speaker 1: they're in for a rude awakening. The band playing Old
Speaker 1: Town Road, all of these things, right, these commonalities. Dean
Speaker 1: Blandino is wrong about a call he's weighing in on.
Speaker 1: We like Dean Blandino. So yeah, the things that are
Speaker 1: under the radar, funny or weird. That makes college football
Speaker 1: what it is because it keeps happening in weird ways.
Speaker 1: Like you're big on weather, So like a lightning delay,
Speaker 1: You love a good lightning delay because then it gets
Speaker 1: us some radar information. The monsoon game, right, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I have down here, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're going to draft it. But like, an example from
Speaker 1: this year is when a game is going to overtime
Speaker 1: and the next game has to be shifted to Fox
Speaker 1: Business and we're like, wait, I have no idea what
Speaker 1: Fox Business is on this cable CNBC, this game is
Speaker 1: on CNBC, this game is on True TV, as is
Speaker 1: the case with the NCAA tournament. So like, weird stuff
Speaker 1: that does happen during the season doesn't always happen, but
Speaker 1: gives us an excuse to celebrate the idiosyncrasies of the sport.
Speaker 1: Idiosyncrasies I think is the name of the game here.
Speaker 1: And at this point, I don't even think we're trying
Speaker 1: to win now. I just think we're trying to dig
Speaker 1: further than the other person, dig farther into the muck
Speaker 1: that is the college football season, to come up with
Speaker 1: the weirdest possible roster. We've tried a couple different ways
Speaker 1: of keeping score. The first year, we just hashed it
Speaker 1: out you and I. We got a rim one January.
Speaker 1: The only feedback I got in response to that show,
Speaker 1: how you bullied me, put me around. You didn't really
Speaker 1: win by that much, but it made it worse. I'm
Speaker 1: a competitive person. I don't know what to tell you, ty.
Speaker 1: We tried to argue it out and that didn't really
Speaker 1: work as well for me. We tried on a couple
Speaker 1: separate occasions to actually keep track on a week to
Speaker 1: week basis, and that just got laborious. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We're now at the point now where we're just going
Speaker 1: to throw out some things that we're looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing this coming year. We can literally just we can
Speaker 1: post our rosters on Twitter and conduct a poll whose
Speaker 1: team seems more fun and weird exactly. So what we're
Speaker 1: going to do. We have a long list here. It's
Speaker 1: two pages, it's single space, It's a big old Google doc.
Speaker 1: In traditional solid verbal fashion, we're going to go through
Speaker 1: and follow the template that we did live. Each of
Speaker 1: us is going to pick six items, count them six
Speaker 1: items for our teams. As we are ready to give
Speaker 1: our selections, you will hear that ESPN draft sound that
Speaker 1: I stole from some website on the Internet to signify
Speaker 1: that a selection isn't coming, And then we are going
Speaker 1: to make our picks fill out our teams. It is
Speaker 1: a snake draft that makes sense. How should we decide
Speaker 1: who goes first? I will flip here, I have a
Speaker 1: camera lens. I'm showing flimp camera for people who are
Speaker 1: watching on the Patreon. I'll take sonny side up, Sony
Speaker 1: side up. Yep, all right, here we go. I like
Speaker 1: my eggs sony side up. It is you get selection?
Speaker 1: I will I will take the number two and number three.
Speaker 1: You want the bookend picks? Yes, alrighty. That means your
Speaker 1: boys up first, Dan, Are you ready for this? I
Speaker 1: put on a collared shirt. I'm excited. Oh I didn't
Speaker 1: I have a T shirt with ping pong paddles on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have faces though they're happy ping pong paddles. Well,
Speaker 1: one of them is with my first selection in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Solid Verbal Fantasy Things Draft. Yes, I
Speaker 1: would like to select weird COVID training rituals, Dan uh,
Speaker 1: not as relevant this year. You're talking about training at
Speaker 1: a park in the garage, something like that. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is going to be something that all the
Speaker 1: studio shows, that all the broadcasts that they lean a
Speaker 1: little heavier on they were in fall camp. Though Counterpoint
Speaker 1: a game is thirty eight to three, five minutes left
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the announcers still need something to
Speaker 1: talk about. Let's talk about a kid pushing a tire uphill.
Speaker 1: You know it's coming. Sure, this is what we call
Speaker 1: announcer porn. Dan says here Michael bailed Hay to maintain
Speaker 1: his upper body strength. Come on, you know they love
Speaker 1: this stuff. Weird COVID train Did you do any weird
Speaker 1: COVID training rituals? Did you alter your workouts? No? I
Speaker 1: haven't done any training rituals. I haven't been to a
Speaker 1: gym in a year and a half now, if that counts.
Speaker 1: I used to go to a gym in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 1: now I just get yoked at home and go for
Speaker 1: runs and play tennis. So I guess I've altered my
Speaker 1: training rituals. I don't think it's going to be all
Speaker 1: that different. I don't, I mean than normal times for
Speaker 1: these guys. The weight rooms are open. I want it's
Speaker 1: a risky play, but it definitely is. I'm not convinced
Speaker 1: that the college football media landscape is over COVID the
Speaker 1: way much of the country seems to be so any
Speaker 1: little shred of goofiness in a training ritual, I expect
Speaker 1: to hear that on a broadcast come Saturday. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have two picks. Now correct, you do all right? The
Speaker 1: pick is in pick number two. I'm going to go
Speaker 1: with weird, goofy, curious, all of the sudden, nil endorsement.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one. I'm going to go with
Speaker 1: a kicker who just demolishes a sixty yarder to upset
Speaker 1: a ranked team and gets an endorsement from Doctor Schulz.
Speaker 1: You know something that's just like because doctor Schulz has
Speaker 1: that sweet cash ty, I'm going with that impromptu out
Speaker 1: of left fields. It doesn't have to be impromptu. It
Speaker 1: could just be somebody who becomes a star and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden is more attractive to brands. But then
Speaker 1: the deal that they sign is with somebody odd I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to definitely foresee somebody signing a
Speaker 1: deal that that school's compliance department or the NCAA is
Speaker 1: going to say, now, I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: do that. They don't know what I don't and can't do.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can endorse a casino in Macau.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's going to fly. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to go with something. I mean, I know this
Speaker 1: is vague because I use a lot of adjectives, So
Speaker 1: I will say either you said exceedingly curious, and I
Speaker 1: think that's a good fit. So something that happens all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, or something that you know, there's like
Speaker 1: a shady brand or somebody signs the deal but then
Speaker 1: they have to walk it back. I'm going with that
Speaker 1: with NIL weirdness. And by the way, there's another element,
Speaker 1: another couple elements that I'm not taking. This is not
Speaker 1: a blanket NIL, but yeah, exceedingly curious, name, image, likeness, endorsement,
Speaker 1: sponsorship opportunity. Yeah, I think that's a good one, Dan,
Speaker 1: and especially because it is such of a wild west
Speaker 1: right now as it relates to player endorsements. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there will be things that happen throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the season. We must have we must have half a dozen,
Speaker 1: if not more NIL related items on our shared idea
Speaker 1: bank here. Any never different directions you could go with this,
Speaker 1: So I like it. I actually tweeted out shortly before
Speaker 1: we hit record today the old commercial from Major League
Speaker 1: One when they were just taking on whatever endorsements they
Speaker 1: could get. I'm hoping we get awkward commercials like that
Speaker 1: as we move forward now into this NIL era. I'm
Speaker 1: very hopeful that somebody endorses something, and maybe it's an
Speaker 1: FCS player. Maybe there's just somebody that's clearly just going
Speaker 1: to be a one week wonder, who's like, lo're going
Speaker 1: to get taller, take these silver pills. Some don't know
Speaker 1: this is not advisable. Yeah, I'm excited for that. All right,
Speaker 1: you're on the clock. All right, pick number two for me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with something very specific here. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go with coach gets caught doing something in
Speaker 1: the booth, possibly picking their nose, picking their ears, choking
Speaker 1: on iced tea. There. It's a very specific thing that
Speaker 1: might happen once all year long, but when it does,
Speaker 1: I treasure it. I absolutely treasure when a coach is
Speaker 1: their glasses are all fogged up, there's something weird happening
Speaker 1: to a coach in the booth. I love it. I
Speaker 1: just do. I don't know why I'm picking at this highly,
Speaker 1: but I love it and I wanted it on my team. Initially,
Speaker 1: we jotted down coach gets caught picking nose right on
Speaker 1: the broadcast, So now we're expanding that to gets caught
Speaker 1: doing something. So a coach caught being a human being
Speaker 1: in the booth. So anything beyond looking at his play sheet,
Speaker 1: calling in a play, or talking to another coach in
Speaker 1: the booth, Like if there's just a coach housing a
Speaker 1: chili dog in the booth, that counts. That absolutely counts
Speaker 1: any coach doing something relatably human. I'm not saying picking
Speaker 1: the nose and eating your boogers is relatable, but I
Speaker 1: will take it. I don't think this happens all that much.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen all. You just want you just want it.
Speaker 1: I am going to be laser focused. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be laser focused on coaches doing fun, weird things in
Speaker 1: the booth. Does it when they hit a big play
Speaker 1: and they sort of erupt in celebration with high five? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's a coaching thing to do. No, that doesn't count. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're talking just a normal human type of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something something that would make that coach's wife say, you know,
Speaker 1: I really wish the camera weren't on him on that moment.
Speaker 1: I really wish this weren't captured in ten ADP. I'm
Speaker 1: on the clock. Yep, my second pick in the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Things Draft. Dan, It's great to have the fans back.
Speaker 1: Is that the thing it is so great to have
Speaker 1: the fans back. How many times do you think we're
Speaker 1: going to hear that throughout the course of the season, many, many, many,
Speaker 1: many many. Great to have the fans back. Great to
Speaker 1: have the fans back. Great to have the fans back back.
Speaker 1: And my second pick, I select it's great to have
Speaker 1: the fans back. I fully expect that we're going to
Speaker 1: hear this at every studio show before the start of
Speaker 1: every broadcast, probably three times during said broadcasts throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the college football season, at least for the
Speaker 1: first month, month and a half or so. How great
Speaker 1: is it to have the fans back. It certainly adds
Speaker 1: something to the TV product. That was one thing we
Speaker 1: talked about at nauseum last season. It was just not
Speaker 1: kind of not the sane. We don't have a crowd there.
Speaker 1: There's not the same environment. It's different the whites, it's hollow.
Speaker 1: They're pumping in other sounds. It's weird, right, It's great
Speaker 1: to have the fans back. Do you think there will
Speaker 1: be goofs with teams that are not playing well, that
Speaker 1: have empty swaths of their stadium, that there will be
Speaker 1: cracks like they know that you can come back now, right, No,
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt fans can come back. No Stanford fans they should
Speaker 1: know either they're allowed in the stadium. They never left.
Speaker 1: They just never came, period. Yeah, they never came. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that's good. Great to have the fans back,
Speaker 1: Great to have them back. My next pick, are you
Speaker 1: familiar with the term year zero? Dan? I am familiar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: year zero twenty twenty. Every preview publication that I looked
Speaker 1: at talking about guys like Mel Tucker, right, first year guys?
Speaker 1: Who else daved? Random? Year zero? Year zero? I don't
Speaker 1: know who came up with year zero. Maybe it's like
Speaker 1: a week zero. Who knows. Whoever came up with it
Speaker 1: got a lot of run out of it. Probably Bill
Speaker 1: Connolly if I had to guess, Yeah, here we are
Speaker 1: as we move forward into twenty twenty one. There were
Speaker 1: a slew of new coaches last year, and many of
Speaker 1: them unfortunate. Jeff Hafley, your boy the half Yeah, Nick Rolovich,
Speaker 1: these guys they had to install everything via zoom, which
Speaker 1: is not optimal. Right, We've said as much. They've said
Speaker 1: as much, and so what's happened now? I guess as
Speaker 1: a means of giving some of these guys a mulligan
Speaker 1: in some cases deservingly so. We've coined the term year zero,
Speaker 1: not year one, because year one wasn't really not a
Speaker 1: fully formed year. It was year zero. You can't count
Speaker 1: what happened last year. Come on, that didn't count. It's
Speaker 1: not even a it's a year zero training camp. I
Speaker 1: fully expect that we're going to hear a ton of
Speaker 1: Year zero, but probably early on in the season, maybe
Speaker 1: not so much, you know, mid October onward, right, because
Speaker 1: we're already sort of ensconced in the season. Totally fair,
Speaker 1: totally fair. I want to get my points early. Let's
Speaker 1: get them on the board. Let's not leave much to
Speaker 1: chance late. That's why we're going with weird COVID training.
Speaker 1: That's why we're going with great to have the fans back.
Speaker 1: There is a point at which this could all fall apart. Sure,
Speaker 1: trying to get my points early. Let's get in the clubhouse,
Speaker 1: let's make you play catch up. All right? Is it
Speaker 1: time for my picks? It is time for your picks?
Speaker 1: Oh man? All right? I have one, I have one tie.
Speaker 1: What do we got? I have an especially strange animated explainer,
Speaker 1: especially strange, and now does it have to be TV animation.
Speaker 1: I guess so if it's an animated explainer. ESPN has
Speaker 1: really dipped into the like remember when all of a
Speaker 1: sudden there was like a Korean animation firm that anytime
Speaker 1: anything relatively controversial would happen inwood I know, inwood Swoop,
Speaker 1: the Korean animation of like Lindsay Lohan getting in a
Speaker 1: car accident. Right, And so for whatever reason, ESPN has
Speaker 1: adopted that way of showcasing football things. And it's every
Speaker 1: year it gets weirder and like, I don't know why
Speaker 1: it exists, but it keeps existing. There was the one year,
Speaker 1: remember when the game day hosts put on the weird
Speaker 1: skin masks of coaches of teams that were playoff in
Speaker 1: the range of the playoff, and there was like a
Speaker 1: Gary Patterson mask and a Chip Kelly mask and a
Speaker 1: Less Miles mask, and the they're all sort of making
Speaker 1: cases for why their team was playoff worthy, but they
Speaker 1: were talking behind the mess. We have like David Pollock
Speaker 1: wearing an Art Brile's mask saying, just look at our offense.
Speaker 1: Just looking at our offense with any about it. It's
Speaker 1: just I appreciate going for it. I do, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to take that weird animation thing because ESPN is
Speaker 1: just getting stranger and stranger with them. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: talked about their awful belt of a scoreboard, their graphics package,
Speaker 1: so I have no doubt they're just leaning into this
Speaker 1: for to get the attention of weirdos like ourselves. So yeah,
Speaker 1: loing weird animated graphics and explainers that I feel as
Speaker 1: if there was something with like NFL teams, like the
Speaker 1: mascots represented with animation. Like it's just I love it
Speaker 1: and I hate it all at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we've now entered the stage of broadcasts broadcast
Speaker 1: media m HM, where most of the tricks have been tried,
Speaker 1: you know, not a whole lot out there. There's always
Speaker 1: room for innovation to some extent, it just seems like
Speaker 1: wherever the creative energy goes, it's not always aligned with
Speaker 1: where you and I think it should go. Right case
Speaker 1: in point, the score belt as you've called it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the screen. CBS is doing the
Speaker 1: thing with the four K cameras now that weird like
Speaker 1: super zoomed in view. They've got the camera on the
Speaker 1: field and they're going to follow guy's face as he
Speaker 1: walks into the locker room. They do that thing now
Speaker 1: a lot, and I don't know why, but they just
Speaker 1: find ways to do it. And I think that furthers
Speaker 1: the point of the weird animated explainer. It's just a
Speaker 1: thing that they do because they can, and not really
Speaker 1: because anybody wants it. Again, somebody is spending all week
Speaker 1: working on Like, here's the TCU team, but all their
Speaker 1: heads are frogs. They all have frog eyes. Get it?
Speaker 1: Because they're the what why? Why? I love it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So is that my first pick or my second pick?
Speaker 1: That was your first pick? What's your next pick? I'm
Speaker 1: going to go with failed hurdles. I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you why to me a failed hurdle, because you're literally
Speaker 1: laying your nuts on the line. Sure, of course, when
Speaker 1: you go to hurdle somebody and it doesn't work and
Speaker 1: you take a helmet to the crotch, I laugh, I
Speaker 1: do laugh. I gotta be real with you, ty, I
Speaker 1: appreciate the effort, but I've seen enough failed hurdles. Now,
Speaker 1: real hurdles obviously superior to a failed hurdle or a
Speaker 1: succeeded a successful hurdle. I'm going to go with that
Speaker 1: failed hurdle. I love it so much because all of
Speaker 1: the sudden it's a wrestling move gone wrong or on
Speaker 1: extremely right, and I love it every time. I love
Speaker 1: a failed hurdle, A failed hurdle, Dan, Yeah, a failed hurdle,
Speaker 1: I would think you would go for a successful hurdle.
Speaker 1: You would think you would think. I mean, these are cool,
Speaker 1: those are fun to watch, I know, but there's something
Speaker 1: about somebody overestimating their vertical, overestimating the reaction time of
Speaker 1: the defender, and you get planted, right, you get absolutely
Speaker 1: planted when you fail to hurdle somebody, well, you know.
Speaker 1: Best case scenario is Saquon Barkley, and I think Saquon
Speaker 1: sure almost popularized the move. Yeah, Reggie Bush did it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Saquon did it most recently and most frequently.
Speaker 1: So that's the best case scenario. The worst case scenario
Speaker 1: is what happened in like the Replacements, where the guy
Speaker 1: got his knee blown off and he could never play again.
Speaker 1: So there is there is definitely an art to trying it,
Speaker 1: having the gumption to try it, and then not stick
Speaker 1: the landing. I think Monty Ball messed it up against
Speaker 1: Oregon and the Rose Bowl the twenty eleven season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he had a failed hurdle and I love it.
Speaker 1: Failed hurdle, failed hurdle. It's interesting selection, Dan, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. I'm just going with what I like. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think that's the right play. Go with things like.
Speaker 1: We have some more specific things for players and coaches
Speaker 1: though as well. Speaking of things we like, my pick
Speaker 1: mm hmm, I'm gonna go with shoehorned references to Ted Lasso. Dan, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: explain you have not watched Ted Lasso, have you? I haven't. No. Well,
Speaker 1: something happens when any sports related programming, sports related, you know,
Speaker 1: fictional entity goes mainstream in the world, and that naturally
Speaker 1: means that broadcasters, that naturally means that ESPN, Fox, anybody
Speaker 1: calling a game with time to fill has to figure
Speaker 1: out some way to use that cultural thing, maybe to
Speaker 1: relate to the audience, you know, right, Ted Lasso is
Speaker 1: about soccer. Jason sadaikas Ted Lasso is a soccer coach,
Speaker 1: but he comes over to coach soccer after coaching college football.
Speaker 1: I believe it Wichita State, yep, somewhere else, Rits. So
Speaker 1: there's a college football tie in the show has obviously
Speaker 1: blown up and got a ton of Emmy nominations, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure some wins here and there. It seems like
Speaker 1: it's gotten to the point now where most people are
Speaker 1: at least aware of ted Lasso as a thing, whereas
Speaker 1: a year ago, I don't know if it was quite
Speaker 1: as prominent as it's become now that we're in season two.
Speaker 1: Do you love the show? It's a great show. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: to feel good show. But there's just a lot of
Speaker 1: goofiness in the show that I feel like is almost
Speaker 1: too easy to resist. Do you are you worried that
Speaker 1: it could happen early? But because it's on app it's
Speaker 1: on Apple, right, it's a competitor of Disney plus, competitor
Speaker 1: of Fox. I don't know if people want to be
Speaker 1: promoting it. I don't know if they're going to get
Speaker 1: orders from up high. I mean, this is a Disney
Speaker 1: sport now, I know so, and I thought about that.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you there are there like a hook line?
Speaker 1: Is there like something from ted Lasso in the way
Speaker 1: that you know, if you quote something from Anchorman or
Speaker 1: Dumb and Dumber, any sort of like these canon comedic
Speaker 1: movies or whatever, even if they have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with football, Like if somebody says that's going to leave
Speaker 1: a mark, you know, it's okay, that's like Tommy Boy
Speaker 1: or something. Is there that line from ted Lasso or
Speaker 1: a selection of lines that are immediately already in like
Speaker 1: TV canon. They used a line a lot in season one.
Speaker 1: It's the hope that kills you. And Okay, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about time and again here on the show, college
Speaker 1: football is a sport that barters in hope. That's really
Speaker 1: of course too, so I could envision something like that
Speaker 1: being used. And he just had so many goofy comparisons,
Speaker 1: so many strange analogies that there is a ted Lasso
Speaker 1: tie in here. Part of what I see happening is
Speaker 1: Apple coming in with a huge ad buy Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: setting up one of those weird like extended commercials featuring
Speaker 1: Ted Lasso as a college football coach, Like they're going
Speaker 1: to find some way to force him into the college
Speaker 1: football consciousness here vernacular. Yeah, as we get into twenty
Speaker 1: one here, okay, And I don't know how, and part
Speaker 1: of that, part of that frightens me because it's a
Speaker 1: good show and I don't want to see them do
Speaker 1: something dumb. I know they're going to. Is it? Is
Speaker 1: it a crazy well watched show. It's like, does everybody
Speaker 1: understand ted Lasso references? It's it's gotten to the point
Speaker 1: where I believe it is Apple's biggest The morning show
Speaker 1: is very popular, but ted Lasso has sort of been
Speaker 1: an unexpected breakout hit. Okay, and they're in season two.
Speaker 1: They're gonna at least do a season three. And it's
Speaker 1: a cheerful, it's an upbeat, it's a fun show. If
Speaker 1: people haven't watched it, I'm certain most people will like it.
Speaker 1: I got my wife into it, and she's not into
Speaker 1: sports content, so there will be forced ted Lassa references
Speaker 1: this year. I mean you are also certain of like
Speaker 1: a ton of Fortnite references that I don't know if
Speaker 1: that happened. It happened occasionally, But I am always a
Speaker 1: sucker for the pop culture thing that an answers want
Speaker 1: to use as a common denominator. And I think this
Speaker 1: could be it. I feel like this could be it.
Speaker 1: Is it my turn? I believe it's my turn again?
Speaker 1: Oh this is pick number two. You're right, I can
Speaker 1: tell from the tone of your voice. You're not a
Speaker 1: fan of any of my picks so far. I just
Speaker 1: haven't watched Ted Lasso. All right, Well, no one's perfect.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's fine. My next pick, yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: to go with wise cracks about sixty year players. Dan, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a good pick. This one.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna make some money on. I expect
Speaker 1: a lot of Van Wilder jokes. Mm hmmm, a lot
Speaker 1: of commentary about you know, this guy would normally be
Speaker 1: working at corporation, a enterprise B. Call him a doctor,
Speaker 1: call a lawyer. Yeah, it's almost sound with medical school.
Speaker 1: But due to odd restrictions and due to expanded eligibility
Speaker 1: rules from the NCAA, perhaps in year zero, I don't know,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to phrase it as, Yeah, he has
Speaker 1: to come back for a sixth year. In some cases,
Speaker 1: might have guys coming back for a seventh year, Dan,
Speaker 1: who knows that's true? Feels like the Eric King's been
Speaker 1: around since the late nineties. Mm hmm. But alas we've
Speaker 1: got a number of sixth year players. I think Oregon
Speaker 1: might be starting a sixth year senior at tackle, boosting
Speaker 1: that returning production in a big way mm hmm. It's
Speaker 1: part of the reason why we have so many teams
Speaker 1: with so much back going to the twenty one season,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's almost too easy to resist
Speaker 1: or too hard to resist, too easy to make jokes
Speaker 1: about the six year guys. Well, you also have announcers
Speaker 1: joking about themselves. I was a sixth year senior, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't because of eligibility. Things stretched. It just struggled
Speaker 1: with math. You'll get those. You will give me wise
Speaker 1: cracks for six years, right, fair enough? You're up. So technically,
Speaker 1: technically these are your last two picks. But we can
Speaker 1: keep going because we have a huge list here. But
Speaker 1: just I just think we can talk about the list
Speaker 1: in general, just things that make us laugh. You're up.
Speaker 1: Duce Vaughan is short. Deuce Vaughan is short. This is
Speaker 1: a Tom Hammond special, isn't it. No, It's literally every
Speaker 1: announcer is going to say that duce Van is five
Speaker 1: to five because he is Kansas State's most obvious weapon.
Speaker 1: Now if he gets hurt week three or get suspended
Speaker 1: for accepting a sponsorship from a shady pill company or something,
Speaker 1: duce Von being short, you know, the Mighty mouse or
Speaker 1: whatever is absolutely just going to be an immediate talking
Speaker 1: point for every broadcaster that broadcast Kansastate games. This is
Speaker 1: this is my chunk of change. Pick right now. Duz
Speaker 1: Van is short because he is. That's just the reality
Speaker 1: of the situation. And he's an incredible football player, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be mentioned every week. DU's van is short.
Speaker 1: Do some allusion to duce Vaughan's height, all right, doesn't
Speaker 1: that feel like it's going to do well? It's it's
Speaker 1: very much got a brock Osweller a six foot seven
Speaker 1: feel to it. Mm hmm. So yeah, it's it's very
Speaker 1: much announcer thing if a guy is too tall or
Speaker 1: too short, that it's notable to bring that up. And
Speaker 1: who was the team? Was it? Asu that's got two
Speaker 1: guys that are six seven on the offense? Really it
Speaker 1: was one team that we talked about Osweiler. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was one team that we talked about recently where it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, we're gonna hear about this again, aren't
Speaker 1: we Yeah? Does it in Minnesota? Is like their right tackle?
Speaker 1: It's from Australia. Daniel he was like four hundred pounds
Speaker 1: when he came in. That's the thing people enjoy measurements measurables. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take another measurable pick, but this
Speaker 1: is my second pick is in athletes explaining in video
Speaker 1: how to pronounce their last names and then optional the
Speaker 1: announcer opting to just shorten them to a preferred nickname
Speaker 1: a lah. I think we're gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: guys calling acc games that called dj U Yung Dju
Speaker 1: Dju big big Sinco, Big Sinco. I think that'll be
Speaker 1: less common. But in the way that we had to
Speaker 1: have Tua explain how to pronounce his name, in the
Speaker 1: way that I think it was star Lotulela for Utah
Speaker 1: all those years ago, I think, and we're most certainly
Speaker 1: going to have Dju Uyang l Lay explain how to
Speaker 1: pronounce his last name in a video as if it's
Speaker 1: his responsibility, over and over when the media guides are
Speaker 1: readily available online and you can watch clips. But for
Speaker 1: I guess the common fan watching the game curious to
Speaker 1: know how to pronounce a player's name when it appears
Speaker 1: in the lower chiron, I guess the player has to
Speaker 1: explain it themselves. So I'm taking that because I think,
Speaker 1: especially with one of the sports headline players in DJU
Speaker 1: being around. I think that's going to be a thing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it. It's okay. I think the announcer, the announcers
Speaker 1: are going to really try. And I remember speaking to
Speaker 1: our friend Yogi Roth who during the off season he
Speaker 1: studies rosters and calls sids. He does like the all
Speaker 1: of the research and homework. And I remember I think
Speaker 1: it was now a former USC linebacker. He corrected me
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh, it's not a ota something
Speaker 1: like that. So that is that is a thing. I
Speaker 1: think it's the thing I enjoy. Final pick, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with stealth references to the point spread. Dan good pick,
Speaker 1: very good pick. This is a thing that Musburger used
Speaker 1: to do. Musburger always used to refer to our friends
Speaker 1: in the desert, and I think Fouler has started doing
Speaker 1: it a little bit as well, our friends in the desert.
Speaker 1: I actually could have specifically called out our friends in
Speaker 1: the desert, but I'm just going to go stealth references
Speaker 1: to the point spread. This can take on many different forms,
Speaker 1: as you know, right, it can be a straight up
Speaker 1: it doesn't even have to be sell. It can be
Speaker 1: a straight up reference that yeah, I know they were
Speaker 1: favored by seven points here. It could be there are
Speaker 1: a particular group of people who are very interested in
Speaker 1: what happens on this possession as it relates to the
Speaker 1: over under or the point spread as a whole, so
Speaker 1: many different ways that you can just sort of hint
Speaker 1: at the fact that there is a large quantity of
Speaker 1: money dependent on what happens next. And I feel like
Speaker 1: it happens more than people realize every broadcast, every broadcaster
Speaker 1: is where what the point spread is. They're always where
Speaker 1: what it is they have to be. It's important contextual information.
Speaker 1: How they choose to use that information is always interesting
Speaker 1: to me. Before, of course, back in the day of Musburger,
Speaker 1: when he was still around the game, it wasn't quite
Speaker 1: as mainstream as it's become. Because now in most places,
Speaker 1: if you want to place a bet, you can place
Speaker 1: a bet. Even ESPN now right they're talking about point
Speaker 1: spreads openly. They have a wagering show I believe on
Speaker 1: maybe ESPN Plus or something. Yeah, and the Bears always
Speaker 1: on talking about it like they're always talking about the
Speaker 1: point spread. And I think it's important context I really do.
Speaker 1: But as it relates to the actual broadcast. It's still
Speaker 1: a thing that announcers feel the need to just casually mention,
Speaker 1: subtly mention, ensuring that you know, if you know, you
Speaker 1: know so stealth references to the point spread is my
Speaker 1: sixth and final pick. You'll hear broadcasters, by the way,
Speaker 1: say something like that field goal doesn't seem like it
Speaker 1: would make a difference, but to some it does exactly.
Speaker 1: There are some of those references at the end of
Speaker 1: the games that whether or not somebody's hitting it over,
Speaker 1: whether or not somebody is backdoor covering, there is that
Speaker 1: element for sure. I'm going to make a proposal that
Speaker 1: will each get one more pick. Okay, I had a
Speaker 1: number of items that I pulled over from and I
Speaker 1: haven't selected any of them yet. We did start an
Speaker 1: idea bank at least I did. I have one that's
Speaker 1: not on here that I'm gonna use my final pick on.
Speaker 1: All right, so let me go first. I want to
Speaker 1: use this one because this I jotted this down last
Speaker 1: year and I was really excited about it. I would
Speaker 1: like to select a play that is quote drawn up
Speaker 1: in the dirt. It's a backyard play, right there, Just
Speaker 1: a backyard play, just drawn up in the dirt play
Speaker 1: breaks down. It's a close cousin of having a little
Speaker 1: bit of Baker Mayfield, didn't you sure? Busted? Play goes
Speaker 1: for something you often hear play drawn up in the dirt.
Speaker 1: That was going to be either my first or second
Speaker 1: round selection last year. I was all in on play
Speaker 1: drawn up in the dirt, and then we didn't do
Speaker 1: the show. So I need to pay homage to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two year zero. What have you by going with
Speaker 1: play drawn up in the dirt? So that is my
Speaker 1: seventh selection, Dan, my, this is my seventh. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: my seventh selection is the SEC network really focuses on
Speaker 1: the SEC portion of college football when discussing an issue. No,
Speaker 1: not that at all. I am gonna go with hold On,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Gus Johnson latches onto a fact
Speaker 1: or nickname throughout a broadcast, so in the way that
Speaker 1: he always claims that he is my partner Joel Klatt,
Speaker 1: and then he goes the all American girl Jenny Taft.
Speaker 1: He also will latch on during a fun fact about
Speaker 1: a player, so like it's the old javelin thrower from
Speaker 1: Toledo with the catch. This is a this is a
Speaker 1: Musburger thing too. It's a Musburger thing absolutely, but being
Speaker 1: and it's different from a fun fact that only interests
Speaker 1: to Hammond because that sort of comes and goes right
Speaker 1: that it's a GPA or his mom was the Librarian
Speaker 1: of the Year or something. Just it's in the ether
Speaker 1: kind of immediately. Yeah, Gus Johnson is a bulldog with
Speaker 1: his background information where it's it's another tackle from the
Speaker 1: terminator as they used to call him in Hanah Lulu. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's that's so much a Musburger thing too, Musburger influence
Speaker 1: even on this latch years later. Yeah, he you'll remember.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you're talking about the spread creeping in.
Speaker 1: That's Musburger. It's another Musburger thing. Yeah, but Musburger used
Speaker 1: to do. I remember darren Sproles was the little tank,
Speaker 1: remember a little tank for k State of course, and
Speaker 1: he would talk about the little tank, little tank, this
Speaker 1: little tank. That major apple White was just the major. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's sort of a fetch thing, right, they're
Speaker 1: always like us. Johnson will make fetch happen over the
Speaker 1: course of a Texas Tech TC who came or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit low hanging fruit because he does
Speaker 1: a week. Of course he does that. Being said, it's
Speaker 1: fun when you hear it. Yeah, Gus flipping through his
Speaker 1: research and thinking himself, ha haha, I'm gonna use this
Speaker 1: all right. So here's what we got. Let me drop
Speaker 1: this down. Gush, john Okay, my team is weird. COVID
Speaker 1: training great to have the fans back years zero shoehorn,
Speaker 1: ted lasso references, wise cracks about sixty year players, stealth
Speaker 1: references to the point spread, and plays drawn up in
Speaker 1: the dirt. Yeah, you have nil weirdness. Coaches caught on
Speaker 1: camera doing something in the booth. Buggers, yeah, strange animated explainers,
Speaker 1: failed hurdles, Yeah, of course, Deuce Vaughan being just generally short.
Speaker 1: We all know athletes in a video teaching others how
Speaker 1: to pronounce their own names yep, obviously, which is something
Speaker 1: to Johnson latching on it stowed to me. I went out,
Speaker 1: I found a to a video where they went around,
Speaker 1: I think it was al dot Com went around and
Speaker 1: they did, hey, how do you think you say this
Speaker 1: guy's name? They gave him a cell phone and nobody.
Speaker 1: Of course nobody got it. We didn't get it. No, Tagovlo, Yeah,
Speaker 1: tag of Violoa, tag of viola. There are much easier
Speaker 1: names that we've messed up. To be clear, we called
Speaker 1: Johnny Football Johnny Manziel for a solid eight months. I
Speaker 1: said Globe Tomatoes once, yeah, you did, you did. And
Speaker 1: finally Gus Johnson latching onto a factor nickname. Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: oh my god loves it. We have a huge list
Speaker 1: here of others go through that we did not get to.
Speaker 1: Let me read. Let me read through some of the
Speaker 1: ones that I jotted down. I actually made a top
Speaker 1: twenty for myself. Yeah that I was into some of
Speaker 1: the ones that I did not get. That on a
Speaker 1: draft board, my own draft board, Yeah, yeah, I had
Speaker 1: vaccine controversies ranked pretty highly on here. It's a great pick.
Speaker 1: It's a good pick. I kind of I didn't want
Speaker 1: to get into that here. If you were to pick
Speaker 1: that and you wanted to have a quote with it,
Speaker 1: it would be it's sort of a personal situation, and
Speaker 1: that would have done really well for you. It's sort
Speaker 1: of a personal decision. I'm still doing research that would
Speaker 1: have been for you. Yeah. I just I want everyone
Speaker 1: to know that that was high on my draft board,
Speaker 1: and I am listening for it. A character concerns with
Speaker 1: that pick, Yeah, I I didn't really want to go
Speaker 1: there with it. Okay, well, just I just want everyone
Speaker 1: to know that was high and I am listening for
Speaker 1: that type of content. But sure, a last vaccine controversies,
Speaker 1: I jotted down the yips. I couldn't remember if we
Speaker 1: ever drafted the yips before in a fantasy things. It's
Speaker 1: just nothing I enjoy celebrating. I don't enjoy celebrating it.
Speaker 1: But the yips are having a little bit of a
Speaker 1: renaissance now because of what happened with the Olympics with
Speaker 1: Simone Bio. Sure. Yeah, twists, twisties, twist determine gymnastics. Yeah, which,
Speaker 1: in fairness to her, the twisties are like, if you
Speaker 1: have the twisties, you can be paralyzed. It's crazy serious,
Speaker 1: let's be real. So it's a form of the yips,
Speaker 1: and I feel like the yips are having a bit
Speaker 1: of a comeback because of that. I don't celebrate them,
Speaker 1: but it is funny. One somebody says it, so I
Speaker 1: had the yips. It's a funny term. The yips, very
Speaker 1: like a skittish dog. Yeah, okay, Next, I have Jack
Speaker 1: Cone puns, which may only apply according to you. He
Speaker 1: might be supplanted midyear. Yeah. Yeah, and this may only
Speaker 1: be me who does the Jack Cones puns. So I
Speaker 1: didn't do it. I had player losing an NIL endorsement,
Speaker 1: which totally on the table I think is covered by
Speaker 1: your nil weirdness, though also might be covered by weird
Speaker 1: vaccine opinions potentially. So yeah, I have a quote unquote
Speaker 1: chess match between coaches. Mm hmm, a player who blocks
Speaker 1: out the noise or silences the critics. Sure, I have
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush getting Reggie Bush getting salty about nil, which
Speaker 1: has already happened. I don't know if that Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you knew. Did he produce a documentary? I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he did, not about nil, but about looking back
Speaker 1: on what he went through in the punishment that is
Speaker 1: now considered to be not as serious intent twenty one correct.
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush wants his heisman back, and he wants I
Speaker 1: think his stats re instated. That neither of those will happen,
Speaker 1: I don't think. But I have the bear dunking on
Speaker 1: the rest of the Game day crew in like a
Speaker 1: playful way, you know, because you'll have oftentimes this guy
Speaker 1: and the bear who obviously knows his numbers and knows
Speaker 1: the facts and the stats and everything better than anybody.
Speaker 1: And then you have David Pollock with an extremely just
Speaker 1: emotional take that doesn't really it's not rooted in anything.
Speaker 1: And then the bear has to He's put in this
Speaker 1: situation where he has to playfully disagree and just sort
Speaker 1: of dunks in everybody with his his superior knowledge of
Speaker 1: the facts. Is it too late to select? David Pollock
Speaker 1: believes it all starts upfront at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: It's too late. Is it too late to select? David
Speaker 1: Pollack believes it starts upfront at the line of scrimmage. Damn,
Speaker 1: that'll be on the big board for twenty two. Like
Speaker 1: do you think? And I like David Pollock, he's been
Speaker 1: on the show. I happen to think he's good at
Speaker 1: what he does, very good. But do you think if
Speaker 1: he comes down with some sort of mysterious ailment and
Speaker 1: the doctors say to themselves, we need to induce a
Speaker 1: coma to reduce swelling. He'll be okay and everything will
Speaker 1: return to normal, but we need to put him in
Speaker 1: a coma, And then it's week eight of the college
Speaker 1: football season, and he wakes up and he's rushed to
Speaker 1: the set of Game Day and doesn't know anything that's
Speaker 1: happened during the season, hasn't watched anything, and doesn't even
Speaker 1: know what game they're talking about. And Reest hosses it
Speaker 1: to David and he insists that he can do the show,
Speaker 1: and he says, what do you think of Wisconsin Michigan? Like,
Speaker 1: who wins this game? David Pollock is gonna think for
Speaker 1: a second and say, you know what, I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: going Wisconsin. It just it all starts, starts up for
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, go with the Badgers here. I
Speaker 1: wish I could have taken it, but I alas, I
Speaker 1: am too late. I have a ref getting in the
Speaker 1: way of a play ref interference. I love those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a team that would have been in the
Speaker 1: top twelve hypothetically. Mm hmmm, I had. I should have
Speaker 1: a future playoff, future playoff. I have a workout, a
Speaker 1: video montage of a workout of an incredibly athletic player.
Speaker 1: So like we saw the Evan Neil thing, we've talked
Speaker 1: about it, or he jumps he does like the box
Speaker 1: jump and then sticks the landing with a split at
Speaker 1: the top. Just crazy. And then the last one on
Speaker 1: my list here is a broadcaster who thinks t Lea
Speaker 1: could even be better than Tua. Some say, okay Tongo
Speaker 1: by law? What else? What about? What about? I love
Speaker 1: Brett Bielama knows the Big Ten as if the Big
Speaker 1: Ten is an entity that remains the same every year.
Speaker 1: He's a Shirpa and only a select few know how
Speaker 1: to navigate that conference, right, Like Brett Bilima knows Farsi
Speaker 1: like it's just something that exists that you are fluent in.
Speaker 1: He knows, he knows the lay of the land, just
Speaker 1: sort of the way that Mike Loxley knows the DMV.
Speaker 1: I enjoy that. One Also subheading to that is Brett
Speaker 1: Bilama has a Hawkeye tattoo. Always enjoyable that he's coaching
Speaker 1: a non Iowa team with an Iowa tattoo. Correct, That's
Speaker 1: always good. I'm so ashamed that of all of the
Speaker 1: all the information I've gathered throughout my life, all of
Speaker 1: the experiences I've now had with two small children, I
Speaker 1: still know that Brett Bilama has an Iowa tattoo. That
Speaker 1: information has not been pushed out these past few years,
Speaker 1: not yet. Anyway, I have an impromptu lateral. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that. Usually that'll happen on an interception that there's
Speaker 1: a defensive player who's like, I know it to do,
Speaker 1: throw the ball in midair and hope for the best,
Speaker 1: which is why they play safety, Which is why they
Speaker 1: play safety. I have here. Oh, this is what it's
Speaker 1: all about. Yeah, right, I don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: because it applies to so many different things. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: just like a father and son sharing an ice cream
Speaker 1: in a like an Iowa State game or something. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a walk on getting a scholarship. Sometimes it's everybody
Speaker 1: jumping around between the third and fourth quarter. That's a
Speaker 1: nice catch all that happens often enough. This is what
Speaker 1: it's all about. Time you know what we missed? How
Speaker 1: do we miss this one? What I died on the
Speaker 1: phone when you told me this one? Which someone's mom's
Speaker 1: athletic history. Oh that's great. Oh is that good? Like
Speaker 1: a Javail McGee situation. Yeah, or Steph Curry's mom played volleyball.
Speaker 1: It happens a lot in basketball. But that's great, that's great.
Speaker 1: Actually the real star of the family. Yeah, man, how
Speaker 1: do we miss that one. Yeah, what else do we
Speaker 1: got here? Home team loses a color out game? Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: I also like the because sometimes they'll be blackout games.
Speaker 1: But I think Michigan's doing a maze out for the
Speaker 1: Washington game. A maze out. What else do you have here?
Speaker 1: We missed, We missed the broadcasters with hot takes on
Speaker 1: Texas and Oklahoma going to the SEC. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: it'll happen during a MAC game. It'll happen to irrelevant.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I like the way that college
Speaker 1: football is headed. You know, this could be the end
Speaker 1: of the sport as we know it. Yeah, that'll be
Speaker 1: a lot of writers. I saw that happening with the
Speaker 1: BYU scholarship situation. Speaking of writers, how about the sports
Speaker 1: writers who tweet out the picture from the booth with
Speaker 1: the phrase today's office, Today's office, Today's office. Come on, guys,
Speaker 1: today's office right here for Collins. I have, Oh man,
Speaker 1: you really like you have? Gaeale Force wins. Love Gael
Speaker 1: Force wins. It's the only weather element we haven't incorporated.
Speaker 1: I've got roommate revelation as a throwback to the Colt
Speaker 1: McCoy era of Texas football, Jordan Shipley, I've got the
Speaker 1: use of masks as a platform of both trash talking motivation.
Speaker 1: I think that's combining a couple of different ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. Okay, because some of these stadiums,
Speaker 1: some stadiums are going to require people to be masked up. Quote,
Speaker 1: is this the year a group of five team makes
Speaker 1: the playoff? No, but that question is going to be
Speaker 1: asked because it is every year. Is this the year?
Speaker 1: Is this the year? Look, Cincinnati is a top five
Speaker 1: or top ten team? Mm hmmm, pre ss, you see
Speaker 1: a path? Is this the year they're gonna ask? Let's
Speaker 1: go to let's go to Joey Galloway and get his
Speaker 1: thoughts on this, and he says, no, no, He'll he'll
Speaker 1: beat around the bush a little bit, but joe Galloway
Speaker 1: tells it straight. He'll be like, no, just not gonna happen. No,
Speaker 1: probably not. You've got a random arch Manning reference on here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I you know, it's probably something that will need
Speaker 1: to re tool next year. The problem is he doesn't
Speaker 1: have an older brother currently playing. Right, Let's see about here.
Speaker 1: Coaches whose wives are friends. Oh that's good. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: some sort of off field friendship, family friendship, or you
Speaker 1: know Nick Saban and Dabbos Sweeney have vacation together or
Speaker 1: run into each other on vacation. We got like that.
Speaker 1: We got an email from a guy, Brian who listens
Speaker 1: this is over a year ago, and I jotted it
Speaker 1: down because I really really like it's very specific, very specific,
Speaker 1: but you know it, it's a thing. I was real
Speaker 1: close to pulling the trigger on Gus Malzon. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to a fresh start, specifically a fresh start at UCF.
Speaker 1: I have a zero yard touchdown. I love zero yard touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So stripsack, somebody falls on the ball in the end
Speaker 1: zone touchdown, or a blocked punt in the end zone
Speaker 1: gets recovered, or a fumbled lateral in the end zone
Speaker 1: gets recovered by the other team. I love a good
Speaker 1: zero yard touchdown. I love limited effort to score six points.
Speaker 1: We're going to hear a lot this year about stadiums
Speaker 1: being at some percent capacity. Mm hmm. Maybe it's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, maybe it's only seventy five. We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: a lot about that. An emergency quarterback reference or a
Speaker 1: guy who play quarterbacks, a guy who played quarterback in
Speaker 1: high school. We just had it kind of with South
Speaker 1: Carolina was zeb Nolan the GA. We talked about it.
Speaker 1: This is a close cousin of the surprisingly left handed
Speaker 1: backup quarterback wide receiver mm hmm, which we've drafted in
Speaker 1: the past, the surprise left handed. Yeah. I love that.
Speaker 1: I have shirt friendly acronym as something I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Last year we had l e oh with Indiana love everyone.
Speaker 1: We had the I think Clemson has had a couple, right,
Speaker 1: they had like the b yog bring your own Guts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you remember that, we had the Roy Buss the
Speaker 1: rest of y'all. Yeah, So shirt friendly acronym somebody, it's
Speaker 1: gonna pop up somewhere now. Obviously Texas has gone all gas,
Speaker 1: no breaks. I don't know if they're gonna go AGNB
Speaker 1: with their shirts. I haven't seen that yet. But if
Speaker 1: really it's going to be Clemson, it's probably going to
Speaker 1: be Dabbo just sitting at home thinking, all right, what's
Speaker 1: this year's acronym. I look forward to it, That's what
Speaker 1: I do. Oh, I've got happy Poncho fans. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pouring rain. It is a month absolutely, but they're
Speaker 1: just happy to be there. Did they got a poncho
Speaker 1: for free. It was handed out at the gate by
Speaker 1: a local sub shop something like that. It's basically a
Speaker 1: piece of cellophane, and you also run into the situation
Speaker 1: where people can't put them on. Right. I'm so upset
Speaker 1: that I did not list and select. David Pollock explains
Speaker 1: where it all starts. I'm gonna I'm gonna jot it
Speaker 1: down here. That's that's just a fun wild card that
Speaker 1: everybody's on. Everybody's board. That's the center of the bingo card.
Speaker 1: David Pollack explains where it all starts. I could go
Speaker 1: with that. We could also go with controvers controversial vaccination
Speaker 1: opinions as the center span. Yeah, I mean that's that's
Speaker 1: that's a freebie. But we're staying we're staying out of
Speaker 1: the business. Yeah, all right. Look, this was not the
Speaker 1: format that we would have preferred to do this show. No,
Speaker 1: we wanted to do this show. I think the plan
Speaker 1: was to do this one in LA, wasn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were gonna do a show in LA. We're going
Speaker 1: to do it out West. We're going to do the
Speaker 1: show in LA. It didn't come together. For those who
Speaker 1: have asked us about live shows, it is something that
Speaker 1: we are working on. However, we are taking it day
Speaker 1: by day here because obviously you know, situations are changing
Speaker 1: as it relates to COVID. Hopefully it won't be as
Speaker 1: big a deal as we move a little bit deeper
Speaker 1: into the college football season. But stay tuned for more
Speaker 1: information on that if you are interested in coming out
Speaker 1: and seeing a show where we're going to try and
Speaker 1: get out there and do some live stuff because it
Speaker 1: is so much fun. But we will just have to
Speaker 1: wait and see. See. Can I give you another fantasy thing?
Speaker 1: I just thought of. Where were these like three hours ago?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Well, this is so specific, it's not
Speaker 1: an actually good fantasy thing because it's it happens so infrequently.
Speaker 1: But when a player is called for targeting and going
Speaker 1: through all of the emotions on the sideline pacing and
Speaker 1: coaches are saying, it's cool, man, it's cool, it's cool.
Speaker 1: We'll get him next time, and he's so upset that
Speaker 1: he's going to kicked out of the game. But then
Speaker 1: the targeting call is reversed and you have so much
Speaker 1: emotion with the flip. I love that. I love the
Speaker 1: down and then back. I like that, especially when nobody
Speaker 1: gets injured. But no, I like the reverse target reverse targeting. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, we have our picks. We will get them
Speaker 1: posted somewhere before long. A week from now, we will
Speaker 1: have games to talk about. It is August the twenty third,
Speaker 1: as many folks are listening to this week zero preview
Speaker 1: is what is up next? And yeah, a week from
Speaker 1: today we'll be doing reactions to the five games. We'll
Speaker 1: be getting prepared for the week one preview as we
Speaker 1: really dive into this thing over Labor Day weekend. So
Speaker 1: hell yes, fantasy things now in the books. I think
Speaker 1: that is kind of our annual rite of passage to
Speaker 1: move board with the twenty one season. True for that
Speaker 1: guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself,
Speaker 1: tie heild and grant. We'll talk to you all soon.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, stay solid, peace,