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Speaker 1: And welcome to Lake ag Is Live. It is Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: December fifteenth, here of our Lord in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: As mem I used to always say, if you don't

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Speaker 1: have something nice to say, make sure it's trashing a

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Speaker 1: wouldn't want names attributed to baseless slander this time of year,

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Speaker 1: would we. What am I talking about? We'll get into

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Speaker 1: Hyatape surprisingly tranquil and clear downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It just

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Speaker 1: forgot to rain today. I'm sure it'll be back. Shane

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Speaker 1: Biemer's been hot. It's been a little spicy up there

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Speaker 1: in Columbia, South Carolina. Why is that some of you

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Speaker 1: have been busy with other things. I will fill you

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Speaker 1: we can all just judge together, shall we. Jalen Carter

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Speaker 1: just being anonymously trashed. It's that time of year, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's the time of year where guys who we've watched

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Speaker 1: draft mock community, and all of a sudden they make

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Speaker 1: up some things and they don't put their name next

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Speaker 1: we do make claims, but we do put our name

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Speaker 1: next to them. And when you don't traffic in such behavior,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get called out. And we got to do

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Speaker 1: it tonight, Portal Intel, I've got three or four more

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Speaker 1: the world of the Transfer Portal. Something's happening right now.

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Speaker 1: You won't have to wait too long for it. I've

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Speaker 1: just I want you to be ahead of the curve,

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Speaker 1: kind of like we were about Miami, and we will

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Speaker 1: talk about Miami recruiting another just a huge splash earlier today.

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Speaker 1: You probably saw it if you were on the twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven Sports YouTube channel. If you're not highly

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Speaker 1: advised you subscribe or else you're gonna have to wait

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Speaker 1: three hours and find out for me and who wants

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Speaker 1: to do that? Also got bold predictions tonight. We are

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Speaker 1: so jam packed for a Thursday night in mid December.

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Speaker 1: Why would you go anywhere else? I don't know they're

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Speaker 1: watching us in Clarksville, Tennessee, Clovis, New Mexico, the rare

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Speaker 1: easily South Carolina is tuned in. As I straightened up

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Speaker 1: my law of Mike here. I also want to let

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Speaker 1: you know that we don't take breaks, so we're not

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Speaker 1: going to do a show like on Christmas Day. We're

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Speaker 1: not sadists. But I have some interesting programming coming up

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Speaker 1: for you. Are just around the corner, just around the

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Speaker 1: river bend, as Pocahontas would say. And it's gonna involve

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Speaker 1: playoffs coming up. But also I've got some long form content,

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Speaker 1: some interviews, not interviews, really some conversations with some people.

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Speaker 1: If you were around when we hit one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand subscribers, I put the challenge out to you.

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Speaker 1: You guys suggested some names. Well, hey, we went and

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Speaker 1: locked them down plural, yes them, so we have more

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Speaker 1: end of the college football which, contrary to popular belief,

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Speaker 1: has not happened yet. We're still in the season. Let's

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Speaker 1: dive in to tonight's show, shall we. Where was I

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Speaker 1: gonna start? We got a lot of topics on the

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Speaker 1: the most locked in feelings about. So here we go, Colin,

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Speaker 1: here's your endpoint. I know a lot of you have

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Speaker 1: what's been going on in Columbia, South Carolina. But this

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Speaker 1: happens to be my life, So I've got all the

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Speaker 1: I care about South Carolina's offensive coordinator search? Well, the

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Speaker 1: This is earlier this week, and I told you twenty

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Speaker 2: People that are in the profession know about Dala Loggins.

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Speaker 2: So I read your article this morning, Jane, and that's great.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure in your research you did more than just say, well,

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard of that guy before.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, he had a run as a coordinator in

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Speaker 2: So surely everybody that wants to critique every higher that

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Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, just a little random straw pole that I'm

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Speaker 1: What do you think I thought about that? Knowing mean

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Speaker 1: I listened to that, and at very first I said,

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Speaker 1: good for Shane Beemer. Now go get them. If they

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Speaker 1: And look, Shane Beemer's not the only one that gets

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Speaker 1: It's like a reset button's hit every day. Shane Beemer's

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Speaker 1: You've got to do what frankly, I don't like doing

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Speaker 1: with the playoff, and that is admitting where we are

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Speaker 1: right now, and where we are right now and moving

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Speaker 1: forward is really all you can worry about. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

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Speaker 1: So I really I've got a newfound confidence of where

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Speaker 1: we're headed. Ironically, it has zero to do though with

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Speaker 1: the announcement that was made today. By the way, for

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Speaker 1: the more jaded crowd out there, I'm not speaking to

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Speaker 1: insult you, because all you have concerns about is college football,

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Speaker 1: which is the same thing we have concerns about, same

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Speaker 1: thing I have concerns about. So if you just have

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Speaker 1: greater concern than me, if you happen to be a

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Speaker 1: little less confident in the future of the sport and

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Speaker 1: the meet, that's okay. Obviously we both hope that you're wrong.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay on this. But for anyone

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Speaker 1: out there who talks about how there's really no positive

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Speaker 1: for NIL, I wouldn't go that far. I know most

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Speaker 1: people have gotten off that bandwagon, but there's still some

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Speaker 1: holdouts out there. Let me ask you, if you think

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Speaker 1: there's no positive to NIL, have you noticed a precious

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Speaker 1: lack of something lately? Look to the left, looked at

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Speaker 1: the right. What did you used to see when you

450
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Speaker 1: woke up Virtually every morning in college football, somebody got

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Speaker 1: arrested somewhere, group of players in trouble somewhere, someone's run

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Speaker 1: a foul of the law somewhere. Have you guys noticed

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Speaker 1: how the number of players in big trouble in college

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Speaker 1: football has fallen off a cliff all of a sudden.

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Speaker 1: Now why is that? Why would it be that all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, the percent of our sport that's in

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Speaker 1: trouble with the law just precipitously dropped. Could it be

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Speaker 1: that there may have been a benefit of NIL? And

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Speaker 1: that is the simple fact that realizing you have real

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Speaker 1: life skin in the game makes you live your life

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Speaker 1: a little bit more careful, makes you grow up a

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Speaker 1: little bit faster. Now, you may not like the byproduct,

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Speaker 1: you may not like what sped up that maturation process,

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Speaker 1: but I would argue speeding up the maturation process never

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Speaker 1: a bad thing. So that's one of several benefits we've

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Speaker 1: had from NIL. I am going to do my very

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Speaker 1: best to spell this out for you in the coming

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Speaker 1: weeks and months. I just wanted to give you a

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Speaker 1: little primer tonight. You can read the articles about the

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Speaker 1: new NCAA president. You can listen to a bunch of

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Speaker 1: these people who serve as mouthpieces for said four letter

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Speaker 1: organization sort of parent the same talking points and that

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Speaker 1: is finally federal help on the way. Or you can

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Speaker 1: sit over here with us, laugh at it and look

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Speaker 1: for real solutions. There's plenty of I'm over here with us.

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Speaker 1: Next up, I have to take a sip from the

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Speaker 1: chalice because that segond went about three minutes, four minutes

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Speaker 1: longer than I thought it would. Okay, we continue, would

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Speaker 1: you say, Colin? Oh? Okay, Colin wants you to do

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Speaker 1: something I do too, So we're on the same page here.

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Speaker 1: We have a nice audience gathered. We only have three

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three likes on this video. Colin and

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Speaker 1: I both agree, and I would imagine Jesse too, although

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Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for him. That's unacceptable, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get mad. I'm just going to kindly

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Speaker 1: ask you to click that little thumbs up button if

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Speaker 1: you're watching here live or if you're watching the replay later.

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Speaker 1: Thank you in advance. The transfer portal continues to be

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Speaker 1: the main topic of conversation around college football water coolers

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Speaker 1: these days, but there's something happening behind the scenes. So

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Speaker 1: tonight I'm going to give you three more names to

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Speaker 1: look out for. But first I want to tell you

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Speaker 1: what the talk is when the when the window first

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Speaker 1: opened up, we saw a lot of names go in.

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Speaker 1: We had a big show here in the studio and

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Speaker 1: there was over a thousand names that went in nearly immediately,

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Speaker 1: like on that first day. Now the flow has slowed

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Speaker 1: to a trickle. It will probably slow to more of

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Speaker 1: a drip as Christmas gets closer. But I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about what's happening and what's being said

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Here's the belief, a pretty consensus belief

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Speaker 1: right now, and that is there is a second wave

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Speaker 1: coming of transfer portal entries, and that's going to be

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Speaker 1: probably after bowl games and definitely after the playoff. Here

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Speaker 1: is your point of reference in the past. I was

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Speaker 1: looking at this today. I had forgotten Georgia had nine

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Speaker 1: kids go into transfer portal last year. None of them

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Speaker 1: though as far as I can remember, we're in the

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Speaker 1: portal this time last year. Now that reason is obvious.

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Speaker 1: Georgia was not playing in the tax Layer Bowl, all

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Speaker 1: due respect, they were playing eventually going to play for

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Speaker 1: a national championship. They were in the College for Ball playoffs,

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Speaker 1: So those players weren't opting out. Well, let's think about

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Speaker 1: what we have here for a second. We've got a

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Speaker 1: landscape in the portal right now where a bunch of

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Speaker 1: backup players and a few front line players have gone in,

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Speaker 1: and we already are starting to cover them. We're going

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Speaker 1: to cover more than a second. But the best teams

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Speaker 1: still have very very meaningful games coming up, not just

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Speaker 1: the playoff. Like some of these big time Bowl games

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Speaker 1: that were just showing you the chart for, they're still

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Speaker 1: coming up. Anybody who's going to transfer from those programs

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Speaker 1: has not made their intention known yet, but here is

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Speaker 1: the talk behind the scenes. Kirby Smart knows in all

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Speaker 1: likelihood who he's losing to the portal from Georgia Sunny

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Speaker 1: Dikes knows if he's going to lose someone at TCU.

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Speaker 1: Harbaugh knows if he's going to be losing guys who

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Speaker 1: are contributing starting players right now off of his team

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Speaker 1: at Michigan and Ryan Day. It's what they're doing right now.

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Speaker 1: As soon as they get off the road recruiting, they

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Speaker 1: will do their own due diligence. They'll know long before

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Speaker 1: we do. So. Number one, pay attention to how those

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Speaker 1: programs sign on signing day, and number two, you start

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Speaker 1: to pay attention to how they start proactively trying to

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Speaker 1: backfill their absences, their open head spots on their scholarship

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Speaker 1: list with kids. And then when the season ends and

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Speaker 1: the big boys start losing their players, that's when that

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Speaker 1: second wave is going to happen, because that's what a

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Speaker 1: lot of programs out there waiting on. They're waiting to

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Speaker 1: see who leaves Georgia, They're waiting to see who leaves

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. Those there's such an abundance of talent there

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Speaker 1: and their twos could easily start for most of you.

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Speaker 1: So watch that. Grayson McCall is the first player I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about tonight because that's the

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Speaker 1: number one quarterback in the portal right now. You've seen

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Speaker 1: him play at Coastal Carolina, or at least if you're

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Speaker 1: a diehard fan of the sport. You have twenty four

548
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Speaker 1: to two touchdown to I int ratio this year. But

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Speaker 1: it gets a lot better than that. You think about

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Speaker 1: his three years as a starter, really incredible numbers. Here.

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Speaker 1: Here are his TD to interception ratio numbers over the

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Speaker 1: past three years, twenty six to three, twenty seven to three,

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Speaker 1: twenty four to two. I had Stats and Info run

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Speaker 1: the numbers. That is a seventy eight to eight touchdown

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Speaker 1: to interception ratio over his three year career as a starter,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, three consecutive years Sun Belt Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year. That's never happened before. And now six three,

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Speaker 1: two fifteen, he's on the open market and there are rumors.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think it's a room. I just

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Speaker 1: straight up just think he's going to visit Auburn this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. I don't know if there

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Speaker 1: are any other suitors out there, but keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on that, because if Hugh Freeze were to link up

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Speaker 1: with Grace and McCall, Auburn just got several games better

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Speaker 1: before they ever do anything else. Just him at quarterback,

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Speaker 1: combined with the guy who's going to be calling the

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Speaker 1: shots and calling the plays down there makes them better.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if anyone else throws their hat in the ring.

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Speaker 1: JQ Hardaway, we were going to talk about them already

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Speaker 1: today he decided to go ahead and commit to Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know. Luke Fickle got him

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Speaker 1: out of Central Phoenix City, Go Red Devils, and oh

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Speaker 1: look at that. I just saw footage from Garrett Harrison Stadium, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: do you know how many nights I've been at Auburn

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Speaker 1: High School here and Garrett Harrison Stadium? Oh, way too

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Speaker 1: many to count. And this is not the best of

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Speaker 1: a quality show that we're doing right now, but I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to relift memories there for a second. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: So JQ Hardaway plays down there at Central. He goes

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Speaker 1: to Cincinnati playing for Luke Fickle. He didn't play a

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Speaker 1: lot this year, and then Fickle heads off to Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: So he enters his name into the transfer portal. He's

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Speaker 1: six three, two hundred. I think we listed him as

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Speaker 1: a safety. He played as a corner this year. It

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Speaker 1: is a big, big body to be a corner. Quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what Kentucky's plans with him are. It

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Speaker 1: would surprise me if he started at corner at six three,

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Speaker 1: two hundred. Who knows. We'll see. But he did commit

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Speaker 1: to Kentucky today. He was the number nine player in

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Speaker 1: the portal, was the number two corner in the portal.

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Speaker 1: So good pickup for Mark Stoups and company. What about L. J. Johnson,

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Speaker 1: We haven't spoken about him yet. That's the big running back.

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Speaker 1: It was at Texas, A and M. He's in the

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Speaker 1: portal now. I was listening to Chris Hummer talk earlier today.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty dialed in out there, especially with this particular player.

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Speaker 1: He said, watch Oklahoma. You know they need to fill

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Speaker 1: the void left by players like Eric Gray. So watch them,

598
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Speaker 1: watch SMU and watch Ucla. Now, remember Chip Kelly and UCLA.

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Speaker 1: They made that move to get Zach Sharboney. He was

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Speaker 1: an integral part of that UCLA offense this year. There

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Speaker 1: is there is a lot of a lot of smoke

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Speaker 1: around that program, just just in a good way. Pay

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Speaker 1: attention to UCLA. I'm not telling you they lead for l. J. Johnson,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know that to be true. I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying pay attention to them in general. They have a very,

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Speaker 1: very keen understanding of how they have to go about

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Speaker 1: things out there. Number fourteen, player number one running back

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Speaker 1: in the portal, l J. Johnson. This thing's gonna heat

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Speaker 1: up so much after Christmas and after some of these

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Speaker 1: bowls start becoming complete, You're gonna see more players go in.

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Speaker 1: And then when we get into early January, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: crescendo with a lot of players who intend to leave

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Speaker 1: the playoff teams. Leaving the playoff teams after the playoff

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Speaker 1: is over, paper pop. I don't really know why that

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Speaker 1: wasn't too emphatic, But we have to talk about a serious,

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Speaker 1: serious matter here, and I have to take a sip

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Speaker 1: from the challice first. We you and I, because we're

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Speaker 1: responsible adults. We need to talk about how we handle information.

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Speaker 1: What's the right way and the wrong way to disseminate information? Man,

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Speaker 1: I hate this Mic Colin. It's not your fault on

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Speaker 1: the MIC's fault, it's my shirt's fault. Okay, let's just

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Speaker 1: dive in. I think a lot of you have probably

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Speaker 1: heard about these rumors and whispers around Georgia's Jalen Carter.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Carter most recently made famous for picking Jaden Daniels

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Speaker 1: up like a small child in the SEC Championship Game.

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Speaker 1: You know, a man of a lesser character would have

627
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Speaker 1: body slammed Jaden Daniels to the ground. But Jalen Carter's

628
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Speaker 1: just not that kind of guy, is he? Or maybe

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Speaker 1: he is. See I'm not an anonymous person, so I

630
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Speaker 1: have to speak responsibly of Jalen Carter. Not everyone fits

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Speaker 1: that description. You keep your name anonymous. You can just

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Speaker 1: trash this, dude. Where's the evidence. We don't really have

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Speaker 1: any evidence. It doesn't matter. We're anonymous. What am I

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Speaker 1: talking about. Well, I'm going to show you a quote

635
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Speaker 1: in just a second. But let me tell you how

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Speaker 1: these things normally occur. I don't watch TV. When I

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Speaker 1: tell you I don't watch TV, I mean I do

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Speaker 1: not have a television in my apartment. I don't have one, period.

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Speaker 1: The only TV I ever see is when the monitors

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00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: are on in the office here. That's it. So I

641
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: intentionally do not ingest any television. I live a very

642
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: minimalist lifestyle. The best shows are out there. They're not

643
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: in here. Although I do watch Yellowstone, and it really

644
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you watch that or not, because nothing

645
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: happens in the episodes these days anyway. But here's what

646
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: normally happens. When something gets said on one of these

647
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: studio shows on another network or sometimes even our network,

648
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't find out about it until you DM me

649
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: or you text me about it, and not everyone has

650
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: my number, so mostly it's dms. And that's exactly what

651
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: happened when Todd McShay went on whichever show it does,

652
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: they have about the NFL draft, and he started speaking

653
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: about Jalen Carter. Do we have the quote Jesse wants

654
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: you to listen to this. Just picture Tod mcshay's voice

655
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: with Carter. There are some character issues. Does he get

656
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: along with everybody? What's he like to deal with in

657
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: the locker room? Those sorts of issues? Huh. I know

658
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: it's early in the process, but I'm forewarning everybody out there,

659
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: Carter is going to be a hot button name when

660
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: we talk about some of the intangible aspects of it. Gasp,

661
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: that will be brought into the discussion. I sorry, I

662
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: didn't know the quote was Ever we continue with the quote.

663
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: It's not about his talent, his size, or his explosive

664
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: takeoff or finishing as a pass rusher. It's about the

665
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: character and do we want to bring that guy into

666
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 1: the building. That's enough. Did you notice the first part

667
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: of this quote? Does he get along with everybody? Who

668
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: in the world is draftable by that standard? Do you

669
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: get along with it? I don't get along with everybody here.

670
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: I get to work here. Fortunately, I don't get along

671
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: with everybody here. Here's the problem. I got a big

672
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: issue with how this stuff for lack of a more

673
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: appropriate term, is handled. Happens every draft season, and you

674
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: might be fooled into thinking because someone's on TV, they

675
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: know more about these folks than you do. Actually it's

676
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: the opposite. The mock draft community does not learn about

677
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: these guys nearly as early as you do. Now here's

678
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: what I am not going to do, so from this

679
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: this point forward, in this segment, this is sort of

680
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: a general point of view. I'm not going to direct

681
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: it at Todd McShay. I don't doubt he heard something

682
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: about Jalen Carter. I don't doubt that. I have far

683
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: greater doubts that it's legitimate. But I don't doubt he

684
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: heard anything. I just got a problem with how the

685
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: whole thing's handled. I got a really big problem with

686
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: how this anonymous intel is handled, especially when it comes

687
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: to NFL Draft season and with college kids. I understand

688
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: how anonymous sourcing works. I understand how it's sometimes very

689
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: necessary to do quality journalism. This is not quality journalism.

690
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: This is the NFL Draft and it's rumors about a

691
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: college kid which give him no recourse. I guarantee you

692
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: if I set Jalen Carter here right now, and you

693
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: were to say, well, we have to keep it anonymous

694
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: to protect the integrity of the player. He would say, no, no,

695
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: go ahead and share exactly what you have, give me

696
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: every single detail, and you'd probably curl up in the

697
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: fetal position in a corner somewhere, which you should. I

698
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: don't think there's to this at all. That's what I

699
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: woke up thinking this morning. Then I did some digging today.

700
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: Now I'm really sure there's nothing to it at all.

701
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: What I think you probably have is you've got a

702
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: gross misunderstanding of what character concerns actually are. Your character

703
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: concern is an nfl GM's green check mark, you see,

704
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: because when normal folks talk about character, they're talking about

705
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: it in the normal world. Football is not the normal world, guys.

706
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: Locker rooms are not the normal world, and the field

707
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: of play is not a normal world. It takes different

708
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: people to play this game. That's why most of you can't,

709
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: and it's why you pay big money to go watch

710
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: the ones who can, or you watch on TV and

711
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: you marvel at the guys who can. You don't have

712
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: a normal mentality to play this game. So everyone talks

713
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: about character, and when you see a guy that doesn't

714
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: carry himself exactly like the nine to five accountant does

715
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: at your local firm. Uh oh mmm, maybe a little

716
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: rough around the edge is that he better be. He

717
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: better be or he's gonna put his life in danger

718
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: on that football field if you play the level that

719
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter plays at. At least here's the other part

720
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: of this. No one ever talks about competitive character like

721
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about character, this and character that you're trafficking

722
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: in anonymous sourcing intel that you probably can't verify. What

723
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: about competitive character? Why don't they talk about it because

724
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: they don't understand it. Most of them have no clue

725
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: what competitive character is because most of them have not

726
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: been in the arena. And when you've been in the arena,

727
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: you look at that word character a totally different way.

728
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: You see, if I'm lining up next to Jalen Carter

729
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: and he mouths off to someone in warm ups, I

730
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: don't care. You may put a great big X on

731
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 1: his forehead. I can promise you nothing about him doing

732
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: that is going to deter his ability to dominate at

733
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: the next level. You may look at him skipping out

734
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: on class and you may say, uh oh, red flag. Well,

735
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: it's a red flag if you're trying to get a

736
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: law degree. This dude's trying to get a degree in football.

737
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: Not that I'm making excuses for missing class. I'm just

738
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: telling you, when you do your due diligence on Jaalen Carter,

739
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: this is the about the extent of the wrongdoing and

740
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: the character issues you're gonna find from him. Here's the

741
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: other issue that I have a lot and you got

742
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: to be very careful with this one. A lot of

743
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: people want to apply fifty year old standards to twenty

744
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: year old people, Like, if you're fifty years old, you

745
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: have a lifetime of lessons that you've learned, and you've

746
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: got a lifetime hopefully of wisdom that you've acquired and accumulated.

747
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: They don't, so they don't make the same decisions all

748
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: the time that you do. That doesn't mean it's a

749
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: character concern. It means the last thing on this planet

750
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: you would want is the book opened up on you

751
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: at twenty years old and you're not living under that

752
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: white hot microscope spotlight. So my point here is I

753
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: don't think there's an ounce of legitimate concern around Jalen Carter.

754
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: I think it's bs when people quote that kind of

755
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: stuff anonymously. If you've got specifics, you don't have to

756
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: out your source, but man up and either say what

757
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: you know or just don't traffic in it. The draft's

758
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: not tomorrow. Christmas isn't even tomorrow. The drafts like five

759
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: months away. So at the very least, if I'm about

760
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: to go and put a kid's future earnings potential on

761
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: the line, because I've got a massive platform with which

762
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: to say anything I want, the last thing, I'm about

763
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: to just say he's got character concerns. That's all I

764
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: can say. Though, if that's all you can say, don't

765
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: say it at all. At least that's my take. And

766
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: that is our NFL Draft show for the night. Pathetic.

767
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: Next up, they're watching us in Warrenton, Virginia tonight. I

768
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: hope they're still watching us. They're watching us in Baton, Rouge, Louisiana,

769
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: and Wilson, North Carolina. These are our players, man. I

770
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: don't watch the NFL a lot, so like the college levels,

771
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: that's where I interact with these guys most of the time,

772
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: and it's not their world, it's our world. And so

773
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: I get a little defensive when that crew starts baselessly

774
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: and namelessly attacking kids in our world. They're kids to me. Yes,

775
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: the conveniently, Jalen Carter is just a child right now.

776
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: We have to protect him. Bold predictions. Bold predictions have

777
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: have gone the way of you over the last couple

778
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: of shows, and it's not going to change tonight because

779
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: a couple of you nailed some big ones again. So Colin,

780
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 1: here's your endpoint. To remind you, well, here's your endpoint.

781
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: Bold predictions revisited. We got to grade these things. We

782
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: can't just let you predict things in August and then

783
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: not revisit it. And it's good news for some of

784
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: you because you really really were on the money a

785
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: lot more than I thought you were. Let's start with

786
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: the first. How about Dustin saying USC's offense will finish

787
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: the season thirty spots higher in terms of points per

788
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: game than Oklahoma's. Survey says nailed it. USC actually finished

789
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: thirty three spots higher. This was very prophetic, by the way,

790
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: on the part of Dustin. He said they're going to

791
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: finish thirty spots higher. USC thirty three spots high in

792
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: terms of point per game. Now, I don't believe in

793
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: the caveat system. But if I did believe in it,

794
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: I would say, now, Dustin, Dylan Gabriel did get hurt

795
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: for Oklahoma. Now, Dustin, things sure did change after that.

796
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: I mean, for example, I know it may be hard

797
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: to believe, but it hurt Oklahoma to lose forty nine

798
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: to nothing into Texas. That really dampened their points per

799
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: game statistic output, and they struggled several games thereafter. So Dustin,

800
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: you win, no caveats, you win. That's how I have

801
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,919
Speaker 1: to wrap that up. Next up, this one got sad

802
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: in a hurry. Scott Frost kickoff with Kenneth said, Scott

803
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: Frost will not make it to season's end. He didn't

804
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: even make it till September's end, I don't think, as

805
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: it turns out, in fact, he was really done before

806
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: Week one. Nebraska played a week zero game in Ireland,

807
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: no less, and they lost to Northwestern. How bad is that?

808
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,919
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't want to just glance over

809
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: that or gloss over that Nebraska lost to Northwestern to

810
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: start the season. Northwestern proceeded to go one in eleven.

811
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: Their only win was against Nebraska. That is horrific. They

812
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: lost a Southern Illinois and Miami of Ohio. They just

813
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: boom boom, rattled off, oh and eleven. That's all right, though.

814
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: We got some somewhere somewhere there's a family and it's

815
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: one of those house divided things, and it's Northwestern and

816
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: Nebraska and somewhere mark my words. A Northwestern fan said,

817
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: I don't care if we go one and eleven, as

818
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: long as that one win is against Nebraska. You got it, buddy,

819
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: Happy Christmas and Evans that you got it. You got it.

820
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: I saw a three and oh start headed into the

821
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: Oklahoma game. I thought this was a bad prediction. I

822
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: thought Scott Frost was gonna make it. I thought the

823
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: opening portion of their schedule was workable enough, and I

824
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna be three to zero against Oklahoma.

825
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: And even if they lost to Oklahoma, I thought they'd

826
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: be okay. Because when you say this schedule out loud, Northwestern,

827
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: North Dakota, Georgia, Southern Oklahoma, Indiana, Rutgers, Purdue Illinois, Minnesota,

828
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: it just it sounds like, at least there's a there's

829
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: a five and four or a or a six and

830
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: three open to the season. No, there was not at

831
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: all and one little more trinket, one little more nuggetive

832
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: information courtesy of Late Kickstats and Info, or, as you

833
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: might know him, producer Jesse. Northwestern score thirty one against Nebraska.

834
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: Northwestern scored thirty five points in their final five games

835
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: of the season. Gross, God, bless you, Matt Rule, Good

836
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: luck to you. Next up, Alabama, preseason favorite to win

837
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: the national championship and all that and everything in between. Well,

838
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: Big Cam said Alabama was going to win the West

839
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: and the second place team was going to be three

840
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: or more games behind them in the standings from Gulf

841
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: Shores Alabama. Obviously, Bama didn't even win the West. So

842
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: you may think, oh Cam was off, Well, yes he was.

843
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: But here's the funny thing. The rest of the SEC

844
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: West pretty much did what he needed it to do.

845
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: It's just that Alabama didn't because the rest of the

846
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: I mean, LSU went to Atlanta with two conference losses

847
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: and lost a third, obviously in the conference title game.

848
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: So if I were to just shift the ending of

849
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: LSU Alabama, Alabama probably wins the West. They win it

850
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: by a couple of games, and who knows what happens

851
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: if I shift the ending of the Tennessee game. My

852
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: point is Cam was both way off and not all

853
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: that far off. That translates to cam blew his prediction.

854
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: I called that a seven and a half on the

855
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: boldness scale for the record. Next up, this one was

856
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: an eight on the boldness scale for me. I think

857
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious why Alex said Clemsend and Oklahoma will

858
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: miss out on the conference championship games again because famously

859
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: the year before we had Clemson not even playing for

860
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: the ACC, ou not even playing for the Big Twelve.

861
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: We had we had, we had Ohio State, as they

862
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: did again this year, not play for the Big Ten

863
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: championship game. So Clemson and OU not playing for the

864
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: conference title. See, that was that was the problem for

865
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: me because I looked at it and I said, I

866
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: could see Oklahoma not making it. There's a there's a

867
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: competitive balance in the Big Twelve the ACC does not have.

868
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: There is a ton of turnover in that Oklahoma program

869
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: that Clemson, at least to that degree, did not have.

870
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: And I was right. Clemson was minus one ninety to

871
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: make the conference title game at the beginning of the

872
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: year and they made it, and they didn't even have

873
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: the best of years that. That just shows you how

874
00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 1: how unlikely I guess this prediction was the Clemson making.

875
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: It was always gonna be the issue, so Clemson made it.

876
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: This one went down the drain. Next up, this one

877
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: looked like it was on the way to cashing. And

878
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: I don't know what in the world happened. Or maybe

879
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 1: I have some theories as to what happened. I'm not

880
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: ready to float them yet. How about this one? Oklahoma

881
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: State finally wins the Big Twelve under Mike Gundy. This

882
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: was such a tale of two halves this year. Listen

883
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: to these point totals. So at one point Oklahoma State

884
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: was first in the Big Twelve their first seven games,

885
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: here are their point totals fifty eight, thirty four, sixty three,

886
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: fifty six, forty one, forty and forty one. Then something

887
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: happened there in still Water, and their final five games

888
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: they scored zero, sixteen, twenty, thirteen, and nineteen. I witnessed

889
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: when it all went wrong, Cause need I remind you

890
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: what I thought was going to be one of the

891
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: most competitive games on the Every Given Saturday Tour this

892
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: year turned out to be the biggest blowout that we

893
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: will ever see hopefully in person. And that was Oklahoma

894
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: State at Kansas State. Forty eight to nothing was the

895
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: final score. That was tough to watch. That was a

896
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: Sarah McLachlan special to end all Sarah McLachlan specials. They

897
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: started five to zero, they lost to TCU, they beat Texas,

898
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 1: so there's six and one there, and then they lost

899
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: at Kansas State at Kansas at Oklahoma West Virginia. It

900
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: was just abysmal. So they did not end up even

901
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: playing for the conference championship game. They didn't win it,

902
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: but boy, for all the world, I thought I picked him.

903
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: I picked them to beat Kansas State and thought that

904
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:51,959
Speaker 1: that was going to be sort of the point where

905
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: they solidified themselves as one of the participants in the

906
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: Big Twelve championship game. And instead it started a disastrous

907
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: slide to utter irrelevance. And now they've had a lot

908
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: of kids leave, including the starting quarterback Spencer Sanders. I

909
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: don't really know what to make of what is about

910
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: to happen with Oklahoma State football, so we'll just have

911
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: to wait and see. There we have a Twitter question

912
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,760
Speaker 1: that falls right in line with something that happened today,

913
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: so we'll go ahead and tee it up. I think

914
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: a lot of you were paying attention earlier and you

915
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,240
Speaker 1: probably saw uh oh, Miami made a big move today,

916
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: didn't they. Well, here's the thing. I'll just read the question,

917
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: then I'll get into it. Zaying from Fort Lauderdale said

918
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: thoughts on Miami's recruiting momentum. Yeah, it's momentum. But Zaying,

919
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: it would be irresponsible of me to start the story

920
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: on December fifteenth. Why start the story present day when

921
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: I can start the story on let's say, Sunday, March

922
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: twenty seventh. Yeah, I got good news and bad news

923
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: for you. The good news is I don't really hold grudges.

924
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: The bad news is Producer Jesse does. And so Producer

925
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: Jesse took it upon himself to prepare a helpful SoundBite

926
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: from our show on March twenty seventh. And I made

927
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: a statement on that show, and it was at the

928
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: time thought to be very controversial. And some of you,

929
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to name names, that's not what we're

930
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: here to do, but some of you even took to

931
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: dragging me pretty thoroughly, torching me pretty thoroughly in the

932
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: comments and on Twitter. And I am nothing if not responsible,

933
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: so I had to keep the receipts roll at Colin.

934
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: Let's define where the bar has been set. I've set

935
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: it really high. I won't back away from that. I've

936
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: set the bar from Miami's first full recruiting cycle under

937
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: Mario Christopal really high, and the first full cycle meaning

938
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 1: this one that we're in right now. They still managed

939
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: to sign the best major class in the state of

940
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: Florida this past cycle, and they were on campus like

941
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: ten minutes, so they ended up doing that. I think

942
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: they were fifteenth, somewhere in the mid teens. Now what

943
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: are they gonna do with the first full cycle. My

944
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: expectation is they will flirt with a top five class

945
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: every cycle, and that's including breaking news. Miami has the

946
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: number three class in the country. How did that happen? Well,

947
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: here's what happened. Mario Christamau is a psychopathic recruiter. He

948
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: has no bowl game to prepare for him. He's got

949
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: full nil alignment, and the only thing he has to

950
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: do down there is recruit I went to South Florida

951
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: last week. It was eighty three degrees. I came back

952
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: with a mild sunburn. The rest of the country is miserable.

953
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: Do you know how relatively easy it is for a

954
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: guy who loves it anyway to recruit this time of

955
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: year when he doesn't have a bowl game to prepare

956
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: for and he's got playing time out the wazoo to offer.

957
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: So I thought that was common sense. It apparently wasn't,

958
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: And a lot of people said Miami's time for recruiting

959
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: in the top five is long since past. No wait,

960
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: it hasn't. Are you crazy? You're giving kids in South

961
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: Florida the chance to stay home. So anyway, here's what

962
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: happened today. Their second five star offensive tackle of the

963
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: cycle in Samson Oakinlola and he look. The guy had

964
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: a stack of pancakes on the table and devoured them

965
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: as he committed, which I don't even have problem with.

966
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the most first class way you

967
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 1: can commit to a program, or for that matter, anything

968
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: worthwhile in life, commit and then eat pancakes. Like, how

969
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: simple is it? I have zero questions about his character

970
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: just because he did that. So they've got him. They've

971
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: they've got some really good tackles now, so they've got

972
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: a couple of five star offensive tackles. They got a

973
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: couple of top one hundred defensive linemen. They're still in

974
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: it for some more kids. The class is currently ranked

975
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: number three, and it has been fun to watch, but

976
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: it's been polarizing to watch. So what do you think

977
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: about Miami recruiting? Now? I didn't ask whether you like him? Actually,

978
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: why not? Do you like Miami recruiting? And then I

979
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: hear collectively about ninety percent of the country yo noo,

980
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: And then I hear about ten percent from South Florida

981
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: yell out even louder. We don't care, and that both

982
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,959
Speaker 1: of those things are true. So here's what's happening right now.

983
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: There is no more polarizing recruiting brand in college football

984
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: currently than the Miami Hurricanes. They don't care. They shouldn't

985
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: care because the way they're going about things is totally allowed.

986
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: And so if you've got a problem with it, your

987
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: problem may very well be with your own program more

988
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: so than theirs. Or maybe you're a little upset about

989
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: the current structure and landscape of the sport. Whatever the

990
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: case is, what I'm just here to suggest to you

991
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: is you're not seeing them do anything you wouldn't also

992
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: do if you were in charge at Miami you're just

993
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: not and if you're not a Canes fan, you probably

994
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 1: hate them. There is no in between, and so that's

995
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: where the emotion is right now. I don't fit into

996
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: either camp. I just sit here at this desk and

997
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: I look across the landscape and I try and find

998
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: out who who was about to pop? Been pretty obvious

999
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: since the day they hired Christaball the program's gonna pop.

1000
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: But it's not obvious to everyone, and especially it was

1001
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: not obvious during this season. Remember five and seven, it

1002
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: just happened. Remember Middle Tennessee State, like remember them struggling

1003
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: to score Colin Do we have their schedule? We may

1004
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: not have prepared that. Miami had a horrendous season this year,

1005
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: and to his credit now Mario Chris Ball didn't really

1006
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: hide from it. In fact that he did some local

1007
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: media down there. We played one of the clips from

1008
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: one of the radio hits he did where he just

1009
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: flat out and said, no, it's not easy right now

1010
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,959
Speaker 1: at all. It's not fun. We're gonna fix it. There's

1011
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: not a doubt in my mind we're gonna fix it.

1012
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: I don't have a doubt in my mind he's gonna

1013
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:49,919
Speaker 1: fix it. I just am pretty surprised at how how

1014
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: thoroughly some people have underestimated what can be done today

1015
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: in college football by a program as desperate as Miami.

1016
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: This doesn't even have to take a long time, and

1017
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,720
Speaker 1: they get to recruit this way, they get to leverage

1018
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: the portal, however hard they want to leverage it. I

1019
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: had people telling me weeks ago, not years ago, weeks ago,

1020
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,760
Speaker 1: this program's dead on arrival. You can't be this bad

1021
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: and rescue it. Remember that refrain, that talking point from

1022
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 1: this year. There's no excuse for them to be this bad. Well,

1023
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: I participated in that. There was no excuse for them

1024
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: to be that bad. But see, here's what I was

1025
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: able to do. I was able to kind of crack

1026
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: the fortune cookie. I was able to disconnect what's happening

1027
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: right now and what will happen there two years from now,

1028
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: because I think they'll be totally different products. I don't

1029
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: think there is a thing about them struggling mightily at

1030
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 1: home against inferior teams this year that I'll even remember

1031
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: two years from now. Well, I'll remember it, but I

1032
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: certainly won't be referencing it. It's not even gonna be

1033
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: the same team, not even remotely the same team. You're

1034
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: currently seeing that team put together right now, and it's

1035
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna be good. Guys, They're gonna be really good.

1036
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: You can still have doubts if you want to, about

1037
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: how they'll handle themselves in the heat of battle in

1038
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: close games on Saturdays in the fall. I get all that.

1039
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: I get where it comes from. I'm not even here

1040
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: to litigate that tonight. What I am here to do

1041
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: is remind you, first off, we were right. Got to

1042
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: say it. We were right. We will continue to be right.

1043
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: They're not slowing down. They're going to recruit like this,

1044
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,720
Speaker 1: that's just gonna happen. They are going to attract talent.

1045
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: It's I'm told every day it's a talent acquisition business. Well,

1046
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: they're in the business of acquiring talent right now. They're

1047
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: doing it a minute, extremely high level. That won't stop.

1048
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,879
Speaker 1: And they're going to be a winning program down the road.

1049
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: Don't know if it's one mile or ten miles, but

1050
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a winning program. So the question was,

1051
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: what do I think about the momentum. That's what I

1052
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,919
Speaker 1: think about the momentum. It's going exactly as I thought

1053
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: it would go. I didn't know they'd be that bad

1054
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: on the field this year, but I can promise you

1055
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:03,959
Speaker 1: I didn't think those results. Maybe that's it, Jesse. Jesse

1056
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: and I were talking about this earlier today, about how

1057
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: people were so convinced recruiting was just gonna tank because

1058
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: the season tanked. That's where the disconnect was. This is

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Speaker 1: the danger of doing a live show, because you just

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Speaker 1: get new ideas live and it sounds messy. Some I

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Speaker 1: want to know if this is true. Did some of

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Speaker 1: you think that Miami season was so bad recruits would

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Speaker 1: be turned off? Did you think that that's probably where

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Speaker 1: a lot of the surprise right now comes from, because

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Speaker 1: that was never gonna happen. They could have lost two

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Speaker 1: more games than they did. The kids they're getting now

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Speaker 1: looked at this season and just laughed at it like

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Speaker 1: you and I did. The difference is they said it

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Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen. When I'm there, I'll be the reason

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Speaker 1: this never happens again. And frankly, guys, when you've got

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Speaker 1: Mario Christopaul recruiting, that's not even a hard message to sell.

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Speaker 1: That's why they've been so confident. When you've listened to

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Speaker 1: him talk down there. He never had an ounce of

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Speaker 1: concern about what was going to happen in recruiting. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he knew that the poor results on the field were probably,

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Speaker 1: if anything, going to be ammunition for them in recruiting,

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Speaker 1: which it has been. So I'm impressed by it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not surprised by it. This is the way it was

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Speaker 1: always going to happen. I got to remind you guys,

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Speaker 1: like the video, because we're almost at a thousand hunger strike.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna eat till we get to a thousand.

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Speaker 1: We're like forty away. Look at oh stomach's growling, man,

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Speaker 1: I know. Oh oh, hold on, Jesse, hold on, I

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Speaker 1: gotta turn my IFB up for the breaking news. Okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead. Texas has landed five star Anthony Hill. They

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Speaker 1: have now jumped in the top five of the twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven Sports team rankings. Do I have that right?

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Speaker 1: Texas now has the most five stars in the country,

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Speaker 1: don't they? Texas now has the most five stars in

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Speaker 1: the country as of today. It was like a four

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Speaker 1: way tie. It was Bama, Texas, USC and Miami and

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Speaker 1: now sark As. Our buddy Trey Stanley Scott would say,

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Speaker 1: there's a sark in the water, his words, not mine.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. How about that some breaking recruiting

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Speaker 1: news to end the show, and we got to a

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Speaker 1: thousand likes. I can eat after all. That's good because

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Speaker 1: we ordered out today to Zeke's Thursday. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: so much. Make sure you are subscribing, not just to

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Speaker 1: our channel. We had like eight thousand, eighty five hundred

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Speaker 1: people tuned in to the commitment today of Samson oakin Loola.

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Speaker 1: You really need to be subscribed to that twenty four

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Speaker 1: big show going out next week and I still got

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Speaker 1: to build my travel. Just reminded me, so make sure

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Speaker 1: you're subscribed there because it kind of indirectly helps our

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Speaker 1: show out too. Do it for us. If you don't

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Speaker 1: do it for yourself, do it for us. So obviously

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Speaker 1: a lot going on, Make sure you're subscribing. Following on

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Speaker 1: the Socials at late kick Josh for director Colin for

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Speaker 1: producer Jesse, I'm Josh date take care having direct rest

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Speaker 1: of your evening. We'll be actors Sunday night, same time

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Speaker 1: until the Bliss