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Speaker 1: been a busy time. It's been a very very very

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Speaker 1: We're high the top a lively wow do I mean

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Speaker 1: lively downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Thursday, March nineteenth, the

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Speaker 1: year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. And you know

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Speaker 1: what FanDuel did in the midst of all this Jesse.

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Speaker 1: They dropped odds to win conferences on us. And you

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Speaker 1: got SEC, you got big Tent, you got acc BEG twelve,

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Speaker 1: I'm just get to talk to you guys about this

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Speaker 1: have thoughts on this as well. FanDuel does not ask

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Speaker 1: me how I think the odds should be listed. I

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Speaker 1: of an observational report on our road trip down to

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about the Georgia Mood Tracker. It is the

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Speaker 1: middle of college football season. As far as I'm concerned,

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Speaker 1: they're watching us in Columbus, Ohio, Fresno, California, Birmingham, Alabama, Roanoke, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I know a lot of you

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Speaker 1: But next week is for next week. This is for now.

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Speaker 1: FanDuel has released the odds to win conferences, and I'm

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Speaker 1: is that a better team than they were last year?

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Speaker 1: Who knows? And then Florida, like Missouri, auburns South Carolina.

430
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: I couldn't go higher than a two. Too many questions,

431
00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 1: too many questions. So two is not zero, but two

432
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: is pretty low. They're watching us in Macon, Georgia, San Angelo,

433
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 1: Texas is Seattle, Yeah, Seattle, Washington. Tune then, appreciate you

434
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: guys so much. Let's roll on. We're pingponging a round.

435
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,439
Speaker 1: It's that kind of show. There's no breaking news tonight,

436
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: at least that I know of, and my phone fell off,

437
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna get any breaking news if it

438
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: does happen. Do you think there'll be any new contenders

439
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: in the ACC or the Big Twelve this year? I

440
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: mean legit contenders to win these leagues, because it wasn't

441
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 1: too long ago when we looked at the Big Twelve

442
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,199
Speaker 1: that it could be anyone's ball game, and now just

443
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,439
Speaker 1: a couple of years later, if you look at the

444
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: FanDuel odds to win the league, it's Texas Tech at

445
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 1: minus one p fifteen to win the league, and the

446
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: next closest is Utah at plus seven hundred, and then

447
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 1: Brigham Young at plus seven fifty, and then if you

448
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: really want your mind blown, you go down to Houston.

449
00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 1: That's next in line. That's plus eighteen hundred plus eighteen hundred.

450
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: That is the odds for the fourth best team in

451
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: the Big twelve, you'd have to go down to number

452
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: eight in the odds to win the SEC to get

453
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 1: to plus eighteen hundred. Just to give you an idea

454
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: of how much the identities of those two conferences have

455
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: flipped over the past couple of years. The ACC sort

456
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: of similar. Miami is minus one thirty five to win

457
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 1: the ACC. SMU's next at plus seven hundred. Louisville's next

458
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: at plus eleven hundred. So I'm just sitting here asking myself.

459
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 1: Clearly Miami's the favorite. Clearly Texas Tech is the favorite

460
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 1: in those respective conferences. Can I make a case for

461
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 1: anyone else? Could I really work my nerves up to

462
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 1: put money behind anyone else? Now, I will tell you

463
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: what many of you are yelling at your phone or

464
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: your or your tablet or your laptop of your TV

465
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: right now, and that is Miami is that overwhelming a

466
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: favorite when they've never even played for the ACC title,

467
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,919
Speaker 1: at least in recent memory. Maybe I don't know how

468
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: long it's been. Yeah, that's what I'm telling you. Miami

469
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: played for a national title last year, didn't play for

470
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: a conference title in the ACC. By the way, think

471
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: about the specific prop bet and the odds that we

472
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: would have had with FanDuel last year if they let

473
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Speaker 1: us cook that up. An ACC team is not gonna

474
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: play for the conference title but will play for the

475
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: national title. You say that in the Big Ten or

476
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Speaker 1: the SEC. That's one thing, because Texas could just mess

477
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: around early and lose, but get their act together. Ohio

478
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: State had just done it in the Big Ten the

479
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: year before. But to think an ACC team was gonna

480
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: be good enough to make a run to a national title,

481
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Speaker 1: but they weren't gonna be good enough to make it

482
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Speaker 1: to their own conference title game, that would have blown minds.

483
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, Miami is that big of odds on favorite,

484
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: as is Texas Tech. Texas Tech's twenty twenty five? Is

485
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: that gonna be the new norm? Is that what we're

486
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: really saying. You lose David Bailey and Lee Hunter, Romelo

487
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: Heights gone, Rodriguez is gone, We're just gonna seamlessly backfill

488
00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 1: like that every year. Yeah, that's that's what Fanduels says saying,

489
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: Or if they're not saying that, they're saying that you

490
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: could make a whole lot of money if you can

491
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Speaker 1: prove otherwise that's kind of what they're saying. So in

492
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 1: the ACC I'm thinking about who it would be if

493
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: it's not Miami, And I know SMU is number two

494
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: in the odds, but I actually thought maybe Louisville was

495
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: the team that made the most sense to be the

496
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: shark fin offshore. That sort of catches us off guard,

497
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: And it's cause they got Lincoln kind Holts in the

498
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: transfer portal, and I'm thinking about the unknown. I'm thinking

499
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: about what we call upside of unknown, So the upside

500
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: of what could be from a guy that reportedly pushed

501
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: Julian Say into the limit in the quarterback battle of

502
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 1: Ohio State last year, if I'm getting him to transfer

503
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: to Louisville under a bona fide quarterback whisperer in the

504
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: head coach they're in Jeff Brohm, and also Jeff Brahm's

505
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: a guy in Louisville is a program that has proven

506
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: we know how to work the portal. We really get

507
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 1: how this new age of college football works. They've got

508
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: an excellent track record there. They're hungry. They haven't really

509
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: accomplished anything of note at that level, so there's certainly

510
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: no complacency or anything like that there's no Miami or

511
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech or Clemson on their schedule, and those are

512
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: three of the top four teams in the odds. For

513
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: the top five at least, maybe it's Louisville, Maybe it

514
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: would be them in the Big twelve. You just go

515
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: to the state of Utah in the Big twelve. To me,

516
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: if you're telling me Texas Tech is not going to

517
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: win it come December, I'm telling you you're probably wrong.

518
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: But if they don't win it, I know Utah's their

519
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: new staff there, well, new head coach, not necessarily new,

520
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: just promoting upward. But I think Brigham Young would be

521
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: the one that won it. They're at plus seven fifty odds.

522
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: But I think about Kilane Sitaki, who had an offer

523
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: to leave and chose to stay, and what that can

524
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: do to the moral fiber and the I don't know,

525
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: just the energy level of a program. And then also

526
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: bear Batmeyer rather back and knowing that you had two

527
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 1: shots at Texas Tech last year and it ended up

528
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: not being competitive either time, and just sitting on that

529
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: for months and months and months. That can do something

530
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: to a program, That can do something to your competitive

531
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: spirit and your competitive character. Who knows. Maybe they get

532
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: another shot next year and it ends up the exact same.

533
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: Nothing stays the same in the sport. You either get

534
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: better or you get worse every day. You're not just

535
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 1: staying the same coach speak. But maybe Brigham Young is

536
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: that Team Houston. If not them, I'm skipping over Utah.

537
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: I'm not skipping over Utah. I acknowledged them, But outside

538
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: of them, I would think BYU Houston. I know it's

539
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: not rocket science because they're next in the odds. What

540
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: about Baylor. Baylor's down there a little ways. Baylor's at

541
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: plus twenty two hundred. What if DJ Lagway somehow becomes

542
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: the player that certain people thought that he would be

543
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: a year ago. What if DJ Lagway ends up being

544
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the twelve this year? What if

545
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: going to play for Dave Aranda in Waco, Texas was

546
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: what DJ Lagway needed all along? Also, Oklahoma State, is

547
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: it plus thirty five hundred? Look if you if you've

548
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: got an extra ten dollars that you could bear to

549
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: part with, I don't know that it would be the

550
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: stupidest thing in the world to just roll the dice.

551
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: Ten dollars worth of dice at least on Oklahoma State.

552
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: Maybe Eric Morris bringing a critical chunk of his roster

553
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: up I thirty five to still Water. Maybe that's the

554
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: secret ingredient. Maybe it just all comes together there. I

555
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: don't know. Let's move on. We were talking so much

556
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: about teams here we could talk about players for a

557
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: little while. And the other day I was doing a

558
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: mail bag and someone asked this right here, Walter from Hughesville, Maryland,

559
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: who are some players that should level up in twenty

560
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: twenty six and become big time impact players in the sport.

561
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: So Bryce Underwood is where I've got to start here.

562
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Bryce Underwood's one of the most important players

563
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten and college football because he determines

564
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: whether there's going to be another player at the head

565
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: table player in team. He will determine whether Michigan's at

566
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: that head table or not. And came in last year

567
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: sort of was what it was in year one, there

568
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: were one hundred and seventh in pass yards per game,

569
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: and against Oklahoma he was nine of twenty four. Against

570
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: Ohio State, he was eight of eighteen. Now against Texas

571
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: in the bowl game. That was a crazy bowl game,

572
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: by the way, he was twenty three or forty two

573
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: for one ninety nine, but he had three picks. So

574
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of leveling up to do here, and

575
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: he's just got to do it. You got a new

576
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: head coach, new offensive coordinator in Jason Beck, you got

577
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: to do it. And they play Oklahoma and Iowa in

578
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: their first four weeks of the season. He's got Andrew

579
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 1: Marsh to throw the ball to, but Jamie French comes in,

580
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: JJ Buchannan comes in out of the portal, so they

581
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: tried to get him some help. But Bryce Underwood's got

582
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: a level up this year. Charlie Becker I speak about

583
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: with the different tone. Charlie Becker was a superstar for

584
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: Indiana second half of the season last year. They trusted

585
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: that kid implicitly. He was their go to guy in

586
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: many cases after not really showing up a whole lot

587
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: in the first half of the year. First five games

588
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: for Indiana, he had seven catches in the Penn State

589
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: game alone, he had seven catches for one eighteen and

590
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: then you saw what he did in their big games

591
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: the back half of the season. But now Cooper and

592
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: Surat are gone and they brought in Nick Marsh and

593
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: Nick marsh is gonna get a lot of headline like

594
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: people are going to ask, oh, who's gonna fill the void?

595
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: So to speak at Indiana and people are gonna point

596
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: out Nick Marsh as they should. Charlie Becker's the guy there.

597
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: But that's just it. He's got to be the guy.

598
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: He was a guy last year. And I don't say

599
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: that disrespectfully, but I mean, if you look at his numbers,

600
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: he was a guy. He was third on that production chart.

601
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: But he has number one potential, absolutely does, got no doubt.

602
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Terrifies me if I'm a defensive coordinator, so I would

603
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: look for Charlie Becker to level up at least statistically.

604
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: If he just maintains the level of play he did

605
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, he'll level up statistically.

606
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: Marcel Reid's got to be this guy. Marcel Reid at

607
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: Texas A and M in the highest of high moments

608
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: last year was electric. And when he levels up, it

609
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: doesn't need to mean that his best has to be

610
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: any better. I just need to see far less of

611
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: his worst. He needs to level up his floor. That's

612
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: what he needs to do. Because he had two interceptions

613
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: in four of his final six games, and when you

614
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: talk about the other aspects of this team, when you

615
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: talk about offensive line maybe not being as good, him

616
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: needing to shoulder a little bit more of the load

617
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: while also cutting down on erratic play. That will determine

618
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: whether Texas A and m is a playoff caliber team

619
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: this year. And he's got a strong receiver corps, but

620
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: no touchdowns in eight sacks against Texas and Miami. That's

621
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: a problem. They will not get where they want to

622
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: go if that's the case again this year. There's another

623
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: guy that is not unknown, Damon Wilson out of Missouri.

624
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,239
Speaker 1: Damon Wilson transferred to Miami, and this is not a

625
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: no name guy. He had nine sacks last year, so

626
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: he's a premier edge rusher. But see, that's my question.

627
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: They're losing Bain and they're losing Masador, and you're bringing

628
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: in an impact guy kind of in the spirit that

629
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: they've done before. You're bringing in an impact guy in

630
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: Damon Wilson. But the thing about Bane and Masador, they

631
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: had twenty two sacks, They had over one hundred tackles

632
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: as well. Combined. They were forces. They were surefire three

633
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: down guys. I wonder if Damon Wilson is a premier

634
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: pass rusher or he is a premier football player. How

635
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: does he look against the run? How does he look

636
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: when they try and make him earn the right to

637
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: rush the passer on first and second down? Don't know.

638
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: I don't think Mario and them take him if they

639
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: don't think he has it in him. But that's kind

640
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: of the part of his game that he has to

641
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: level up. And you know, above and beyond just that,

642
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: you think about the reputation that you have to live

643
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: up to when you're walking in the door down there now,

644
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: and the identity of physicality that place has that forces

645
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: you to level up your game. He's got to do that.

646
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: And I look at Ohio State too. I was gonna

647
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: say bo Jackson, but he was over on a thousand

648
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: yard rusher last year. I think he'll be an integral piece,

649
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: but he's not a level up guys. He's doing a

650
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: good job. I think Brandon Ennis needs to level up.

651
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: Brandon Ennis. The good news is he's fully capable of

652
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: leveling up. He is the next and a long string

653
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: of legit five star talent they've had at receiver. But

654
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: sometimes you got to wait your turn. At Ohio State. Well,

655
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: this is the moment. Twenty twenty six is the year

656
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: that if he is what many people, including me think

657
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: he is, that production will ramp up, It'll scale up

658
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: across from Jeremiah Smith. A perfect runway for him, perfect situation.

659
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: It's not a first year quarterback there anymore. He had

660
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: two hundred and seven one receiving yards last year. There's

661
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: no reason he can't triple that minimum this year. And

662
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: if they're gonna be ultimately what they need to be

663
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: in that room, it'll be because of him. If Jeremiah

664
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: Smith ultimately becomes the well he already is. He's not

665
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: becoming anything. But if this year he continues an upward trajectory,

666
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,959
Speaker 1: it'll be because guys like Brandon Ennis did their job.

667
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes into a senior year. That's okay when

668
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: you're as loaded as they are. Let's move it along.

669
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: Man.

670
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: I hate to First off, the phone fell. Secondly, I

671
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: didn't bring my water in here. No one's helping me. Unbelievable, unbelievable.

672
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: It's ironic that the next question, no, no, I'm good.

673
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: I want to complain. I don't really want you to

674
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: do anything about it. If you do something about it.

675
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: I can't complain anymore. How ironic that Kenny asked the

676
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: question that he asked here, Kenny from Lake Worth, Florida,

677
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: really picking up what I'm putting down. He said, a

678
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: lot of people assume, because you talk about college football

679
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: for a living, your job is easy. What's the hardest

680
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: part of your job that a fan doesn't realize? Thank you, Kenny,

681
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: Thank you well. First off, Kenny, a lot of bad

682
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: stuff happens, and then no one lifts a finger to

683
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: do anything. Here. I am partially dehydrated, I'm uninformed. My

684
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: phone's on the ground, my water's on the ground. Nobody's

685
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: doing anything. Yeah mom, Yeah mom, no one's coming to

686
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: help me. But more realistically, or I guess more seriously,

687
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: not that that wasn't serious, but more seriously, Kenny, as

688
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: you know, if you've watched the show for a long time,

689
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: I've had real jobs in my life, so I don't

690
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: think of any of this as hard. But I guess,

691
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: relatively speaking, if you were gonna say something's hard, I

692
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: guess the schedule and responsibility is hard. Because we removed

693
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: ourselves from the corporate media world, so there's no safety net.

694
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: There is no, if we don't get it done, someone

695
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: else will pick up the slack. It's all on us

696
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: to do everything. It's on us to do production. It's

697
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: on us to make sure equipment's working. It's on us

698
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: to make sure the studio is running properly. Graphics, packages, elements,

699
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: sales like all of that. We just had meetings about

700
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: this today. We've got to do it all. But we

701
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: do it because we do it that way, because we

702
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: want to do it that way. So that's not hard. Well,

703
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: it's preferable. I guess it's hard, but it's preferable. Hard

704
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: is the preference. Jesse. That's what I'm trying to say,

705
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: all caps immunity and then the other part. Now I

706
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: will say this all right, So the one lesson maybe

707
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: that people can take away. Think about what you love

708
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: to do for a living. For instance, I love to

709
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: do this for a living, so this is all I've

710
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: ever wanted to do, so I'm sort of in a

711
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: sweet spot professionally. There is this thing that happens sometimes

712
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: where you think you love something. In an ideal world,

713
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: you do what you love for a living, but then

714
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: you get a job doing that thing for a living

715
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: and find out the hard way. No, I didn't love it.

716
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: I only liked it. And doing what you merely like

717
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: for a living is a sure fireway to make you

718
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: hate the thing you like, because there is a lot

719
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: of work that comes along with doing anything professionally at

720
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: a high level, just the way it is. But if

721
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: you love it, that's okay. It doesn't make you love

722
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: it any less. But if I only liked college football

723
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: and then I got a job doing it for a living,

724
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: I would grow to despise college football because of a

725
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: lot of the extra things that come along with it.

726
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: But since I love it, I'm immune from that. But

727
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: the other thing, if there is, it's all relative. But

728
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: if there is one other difficult thing. When we're in

729
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: the fall, it's a seven day a week job. It's

730
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: just a ton of hours. No complaints, certainly no complaints.

731
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: I would much rather spend fourteen hours a day doing

732
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: this than nine hours a day doing what I used

733
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: to do for a living. However, on a random Tuesday

734
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: in November, when we're like eleven weeks in doing that,

735
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: there is a time in August where I tell the

736
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: staff your next off day will be the week of Thanksgiving,

737
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: So you are going to work seven days a week

738
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: through Thanksgiving week, then it'll be that way again through Christmas.

739
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: So you just kind of understand that's part of the job.

740
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: So you'll get into like early November and you've gone

741
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: seven days a week working I don't know, eighty to

742
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty hours or something like that, again

743
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: doing what you love. The part about it that sucks

744
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: sometimes is your day starts at five point thirty six

745
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: at the latest, and you're working, working all day. You

746
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: take a little bit of time to go get a

747
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: workout in, then you come back and you're working. You're

748
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 1: in the office. By that point, you're working, you're putting

749
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: together a show, and you're fourteen hours into your day

750
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: once the show happens, where theoretically you're supposed to be

751
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: at your best and I know a lot of you

752
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: when you do your job the way you do it,

753
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: you front load your day so you can be your

754
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: sharpest at like a ten am meeting or an eleven

755
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: am conference call, and that's just not the way it

756
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: happens because of the way we do the show. When

757
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: we do the show, so you get fourteen hours into

758
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: your workday and then you have to do your show,

759
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: and you have to be at your best. I guess

760
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: if I were going to say that's the hardest part

761
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: of the job, that's it. The travel. Yeah, that's never

762
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: all that fun. But there's no hard part of this.

763
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: Relatively speaking, there's no hard part of this. And if

764
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: anyone thinks there is, let me take you down to Columbus,

765
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: Georgia for a summer and let me just throw you

766
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: in the back of that fabric warehouse, especially during market times,

767
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: which are its own animal, and then check back in

768
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: after summer's over and see how hard this is. It's

769
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 1: not hard. Let's move along. Just got off the road

770
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: from the first two stops of the Paate State Speaker Series.

771
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: We sat down with Brent Key at Georgia Tech. We

772
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: tried to make that happen for two years. We finally

773
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: worked it out. I said, you're going to be first

774
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: on the tour this year, and he's like, all right,

775
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: all right, I'll do it. So we went down there,

776
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: and then twenty four hours later we were sitting down

777
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: in Auburn with Alex Golish, new head coach there at Auburn.

778
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: And I always like to come back and give as

779
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: much as I can a little bit of a peek

780
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: behind the curtain. First things first, Okay, it was eighty

781
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: degrees last week in Atlanta. Earlier this week it was

782
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 1: eighty degrees, and then we get down there and it

783
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: is thirty seven degrees. They practice in the morning. I

784
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: went down there, I watched practice before we did the

785
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: sit down with Brent, and I asked Mike Flann down there.

786
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: I said, Mike, is he going full psycho mode? Is

787
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: he going to do an outdoor practice or is he

788
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: going to have an indoor And it was like, hey, look,

789
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: there may be some outdoor periods, but it's largely going

790
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: to be indoor. And you may say, man, that sounds

791
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: kind of soft a thousand percent it is. I'm not

792
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: on that team. I don't need to be hardened. But

793
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: I didn't want to wear three or four layers either,

794
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,479
Speaker 1: So I went over there. I was wearing one long

795
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: sleeve layer and that's it's mainly just to walk to

796
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: the facility because I'm going to be indoors. Well, here's

797
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: the bad news. Yeah, there was a lot of the

798
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,959
Speaker 1: practice that was indoors, but all the garage doors were open.

799
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: So it was in the thirties and the endoor. Brent

800
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: keys in short sleeves. He's cut from a different cloth

801
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: than me. I don't know what else to tell you.

802
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: We played different positions in college, and so that was that.

803
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: And I don't want, I do want people to feel

804
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: sorry for me, but I just want it to be noted. Okay,

805
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: if the nose was a little red during the sit down,

806
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: it's only because I was still fawn out. But the

807
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: first thing that stood out watching Georgia Tech practice is

808
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: they are way way bigger defensively, specifically up front. They're

809
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: way bigger than they were last year. So I know

810
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: Brent's probably talked about that a lot, and we made

811
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: a concerted effort to do this. He talked about it

812
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: when he did the sit down with us, But they

813
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: are bigger for Nando Mendoza's brother is one guy in

814
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: the quarterback competition down there. If you were to put

815
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: odds out on it, he'd probably, I guess, be the

816
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: favorite to win it. You can see the tools or

817
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: the you can see it. It's spring ball, So there's

818
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: a lot that is still in the process of working

819
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: itself out, decision making, reads, functioning in the offense, Like

820
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: if fans were to watch a spring practice, you would

821
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 1: freak out and think you're going twelve and zero during

822
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: one series, and then you think three and nine. We

823
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: are screwed the very next series. That's what spring practice

824
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: looks like. That's oftentimes why they don't want media watching.

825
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: A whole lot of that stuff goes in the wrong context.

826
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: The spring practice can either massively inflate or deflate expectations.

827
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: Here's what's funny. So Brent is a very hands on

828
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: guy by his nature. He wants his hands on everything,

829
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: and it's so funny to stand there and watch practice

830
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: with a guy who is a hands on guy who

831
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: has committed himself to remaining a little bit more hands

832
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: off during that day because you can never fully take

833
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: it out of them. And so there'll be I mean,

834
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: there'll be a guy lining up in the neutral zone

835
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: over here, and he's mid sentence with you at level

836
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: three on the decibel meter, and then it's level thirty

837
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: right in your ear because he's got a yell thirty

838
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: yards across the field while the music's blaring, and then

839
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: he's right back checked in. But that's always funny. But

840
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: here's the thing. When you watch them on the defensive line.

841
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they got a full rotation of future

842
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: first rounders. There are higher quality players on that defensive line.

843
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: But also when you walk into building, there are a

844
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: lot of new faces. And I think it would strike

845
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: someone who comes from the normal corporate world, because in

846
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: the normal corporate world, when you're starting to achieve at

847
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: a higher level, like Georgia Tech had a nine win

848
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: season last year, that's the best they've been in a decade,

849
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: you would think, oh, all right, let's make sure we

850
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: build a fence around everybody. Let's keep all these staffers.

851
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: And Brent was like, no, I kind of want to

852
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: flush the building. And there's so many new faces there.

853
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: So after seeing that, when we were walking around the building,

854
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: I asked him about it. And if you haven't watched

855
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: the whole down, here's a little small taste of what

856
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: he had to say. To a certain extent, when you

857
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: tasted a version of what you ultimately want to have

858
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: last year, the outside world would think you do everything

859
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: you can to keep everything about that together and then

860
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: just climb one more wrung the next year. But I mean,

861
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: you can correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks

862
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: like you went maybe a little bit different angle here,

863
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: of No, I want a lot of new faces in

864
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: the building. With new faces comes.

865
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 2: What continuity breeds complacency in every walk of life in

866
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 2: an organization. Think about the times in January. Oh, we've

867
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: already done it this way, We've already done this. We

868
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 2: don't need we don't need to do ABC. We can

869
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 2: start at D. What about that freshman. I thought we

870
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 2: did an absolute poor, poor job of developing freshmen last year.

871
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 2: From January through the season. We had players that played

872
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: for the first time in November that should have been

873
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 2: playing in September. All right, well, why is that? Will

874
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: you go back and look at it? Well, when you

875
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 2: have a lot of people together for one year, two years,

876
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 2: three years, just because they know it in that room

877
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that freshman that walks in the door knows it.

878
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: So that's the approach I took there.

879
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 2: That's one of the tweaks to the organization. That's one

880
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 2: of the things I learned through failure that we have

881
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 2: to be better at that we have to do better.

882
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 2: And we took all our stuff that we normally do

883
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 2: in June and we moved it up to January. With

884
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 2: the players we walked in the I pulled my notes

885
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 2: from the very first day of being the head coach.

886
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: I tweaked them, and we started out our first staff

887
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:30,720
Speaker 2: meeting with that. Right, we're rebuilding playbooks. Right, Everything started

888
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 2: from scratch. So now when you walk around the building,

889
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 2: it's not like you've been in somewhere for a while.

890
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 2: But there's that freshness and that newness that a new

891
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 2: staff always has, that energy of a new staff when

892
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 2: a brand new head coach comes in, everyone's all excited. Well,

893
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 2: we have that now again. But now I realize and

894
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: I see back my time at Alabama, how every January

895
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: February there was always this buzz of new life because

896
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 2: he started back at day Yeah.

897
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: I appreciate the comments, by the way, we got from

898
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: a lot of Georgia tech fans just talking about how

899
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: open he was. I mean, that's by design, that's kind

900
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: of how we want to format it. But he was

901
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: very cooperative with that. Yeah, he means every word he

902
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: says there. It was a really good sitting down. I

903
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: strongly encourage you guys to go watch that one and

904
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: the Alex Goldish episode, which we recorded the very next

905
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: Day's first time I've been on campus since he got hired,

906
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: he's been there a little over three and a half

907
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 1: months now. It was so crazy when coaches get hired. Obviously,

908
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: they get hired in November or December, and there are

909
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: a million different things going on, and by the time

910
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: you get to spring practice, you feel like they've been

911
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,919
Speaker 1: there for a while. He hasn't coached a game. He's

912
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: several months away from coaching a game. But there are

913
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: always so many stories because if you imagine taking a job,

914
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: what the Saturday or Sunday after the regular season concludes,

915
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: and then your National signing Day is ninety six hours later,

916
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: and then you've got the transfer hortal window coming open. Oh,

917
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: by the way, you're also having the highre at staff.

918
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: You're having to meet people, learn names, learn where you live,

919
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: how to get to work, a million different things. By

920
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: the time you get to spring practice, you got a

921
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 1: stack of stories that you can tell. So we probably

922
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: spent like thirty minutes talking about that before we even

923
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: went and sat down to talk on camera. And he

924
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: was really good. Man. I strongly believe this is one

925
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: of the best sit downs we've done over several years now.

926
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: We were gonna go about thirty minutes. We ended up

927
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: going forty five minutes. But I always wonder about these

928
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: coaches that sort of level up a coach that was

929
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,479
Speaker 1: at the G five level who takes the Auburn job.

930
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: I always wonder about the orbit of these big programs

931
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: and how it affects coaches. So, like I've talked to

932
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: I've talked Alex several times about this, about the orbit

933
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: of Auburn, and Auburn's got some perception about it. Some

934
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: of it's true, some of it's false. Like I think

935
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: people run down Auburn a little bit because they've just

936
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: heard stuff, but they don't personally know. Like they'll always, oh,

937
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: you know this and that happens at Auburn. Well, how

938
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: do you know? You read it on a message board,

939
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: your cousin said that, so you just repeated it. Or

940
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: do you have actual, functional, working knowledge of what's happened

941
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: at Auburn behind the scenes. I'm not saying that nothing

942
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 1: negative has ever happened. I'm saying, do you personally have

943
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: the ability to vouch for it? Well, the perception is

944
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: when you go take one of these jobs, all the

945
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: big time donors they call you up or they walk

946
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: into your office and they shake hands, they meet you,

947
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: and then they say, now here's how much money I

948
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: give per year. Now here's what I expect in return

949
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: for that. And I'm always interested because some of that

950
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 1: does happen. I'm always interested about whether a coach has

951
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: the gravitas, for lack of a better term, because the

952
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: kiddos are listening, after all, to walk in a door

953
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: and to be able to say I want your support,

954
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: I need your support. However, we are running my plan.

955
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: We're running my process here. And if that's a pro

956
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: problem for you, all due respect, you and your check

957
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: can hit that door right there. And despite the fact

958
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: that Alex Golish has never had a job of this

959
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: caliber before, my suspicion, my strong instinct is he does

960
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: possess that ability. And in time, if one possesses that

961
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: ability and one is a good enough football coach, then

962
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: one will win at Auburn. I think Alex Golish will

963
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: win at Auburn. So you need to be careful. And

964
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: one thing that I always have to tell myself in

965
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: spring is you need to be careful because you go

966
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: on these campuses CAMPI plural of campus, and you can

967
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: fall in love really quick I've been victim of this

968
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: in the past, so hey, I think the world of

969
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: both of those guys. I gotta be careful, got to

970
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: be careful. We are the etcha sketch board. We swipe

971
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: left or swipe right, however you work in etches sketch

972
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: and it's a clean slate. We start building our opinion

973
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: of teams. They had had one spring practice at the

974
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: time that we were at Auburn the other day. I

975
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: mean not even Golish was prepared to really talk at

976
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: Great Link about his team because he doesn't know what

977
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: kind of team he has yet. And so it doesn't

978
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: matter if I think the world of someone. I love

979
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: the staff they put together. I love this in that Okay,

980
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: take that for what it is and nothing more. All Right.

981
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: That is one jingle block in a huge tower of

982
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: many blocks that it's going to take to build a

983
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: ten and two team if you're going to be that good.

984
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: But it was really fun. We'll be on the road

985
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: again next week and I'll always I'll give you what

986
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: I can as much as I can, and then some

987
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: of it I just I lock it and I put

988
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: it in my pocket until December, and then we break

989
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: out stories once the season's over, let's move along telling

990
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: a lot of truth on the show lately. The Truth

991
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 1: Teller series continues tonight, one of our most popular segments

992
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,720
Speaker 1: every spring, because we just point our finger at someone

993
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: or something or a program or a topic and we

994
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: just try and tell the truth about it. And guess

995
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: where the spinner landed to night. The spinner landed on

996
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: Mario Christaball. Not even Miami, just Mario. Let's tell the

997
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: truth about Mario Christaball. After coming in several years ago,

998
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: after losing to the likes of Middle Tennessee State and

999
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: Duke at Home, and after going to the transfer portal,

1000
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 1: and then he eventually brings in cam Ward and things

1001
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 1: get better, but oh, critical mistakes and decision making cost

1002
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: him games and they throw away potential because then defensively

1003
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: they're terrible last year. After all that, then they finally

1004
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: get it right on both sides of the ball this

1005
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: past year. A couple of hiccups during the regular season,

1006
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: but then they get it right. They make the playoff,

1007
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: they win one game, they win two games, they go

1008
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: all the way to the National Championship. What's the truth

1009
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: about Mario Christaball. Well, to me, the truth is the

1010
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: same today as it was when he took the job.

1011
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,959
Speaker 1: It's just that the resume has changed. The Wikipedia page

1012
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: looks different today. And I went back and I watched

1013
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: our shows from the day he was hired, the weeks

1014
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: and months following his hiring, and I was pretty adamant

1015
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: about the same stuff that I'm adamant about now. He

1016
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: is the perfect choice to lead Miami football. It was

1017
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: never gonna happen overnight. I mean, it was a pretty

1018
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: bleak situation that they inherited down there, and I thought

1019
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: in many cases to do what he was gonna want

1020
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: to do, they were gonna have to put the car

1021
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: in reverse before they were even able to go forward.

1022
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: But he is the poster child for the cannot versus

1023
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: half not crowd, because Mario has had no shortage of

1024
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: detractors and he's had no shortage of haters, and by proxy,

1025
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: we've been in the same boat. Because I've been pretty statfasted.

1026
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: I thought he'd win at Miami over time, And when

1027
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: he went five and seven the first year, who they

1028
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: were out in force. And then when he went seven

1029
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: and six the second year, they were out in force.

1030
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: And what's crazy if you just look on paper is

1031
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: you would think they shut up in year three because

1032
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: they went ten and three. Actually they didn't because they

1033
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: had cam Ward and still lost too many games and

1034
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: they did not make the playoff, and so that year

1035
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: was viewed as a failure. And in this past year,

1036
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: finally they make the National Title Game. And so like

1037
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people, turn down the volume a little bit.

1038
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: But you know as well as I do that if

1039
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: you were telling me, or you were just telling anyone

1040
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: who would listen, Mario's not that guy, you may still

1041
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: have that doubt in your mind even after they went

1042
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: to the National title Game. And the problem that I've

1043
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: always had with it is I was never thinking he

1044
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: was gonna automatically do something in year one year two.

1045
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: You can say the same thing about Landing at Oregon.

1046
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 1: You could say the same thing about Sark at Texas.

1047
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: I'm not comparing the coaches, I'm comparing the situations. If

1048
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: I think Sark's gonna win a national title at Texas

1049
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,720
Speaker 1: or Dan Lanny's gonna do it at Oregon, I could

1050
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: mean that in year eight or year two, like I

1051
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: just think it's gonna happen. Well, if I thought Mario

1052
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: was gonna win at Miami. Obviously, it was because I

1053
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna put together the kind of talent

1054
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: roster that could do it, and I thought that talent

1055
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: roster was gonna buy into a certain way of playing football.

1056
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,280
Speaker 1: Both of those things have clearly happened. And then thirdly,

1057
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: and this is just kind of a bonus. I thought

1058
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: it would happen either way, but it's kind of a

1059
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: bonus that he's come along in this era where Miami

1060
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: can flex a pretty unique muscle down there to use

1061
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: the transfer portal to their advantage at the quarterback position specifically.

1062
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: So they're doing all those things. So they're winning now

1063
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: and they'll win in the future. But the thing I

1064
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: always noticed and I always kind of understood, anytime folks

1065
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 1: were hating on Mario Cristobal or they were hating on Miami,

1066
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: or if those are interchangeable in your mind, that's fine.

1067
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: A lot of the doubt or a lot of the

1068
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: hate thrown his way is just because he's a disruptor.

1069
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: He kind of walked in and he disrupted South Florida.

1070
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: There were a lot of programs out there that had

1071
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: gotten really used to going into South Florida and just

1072
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: taking the players, and then Mario comes in, and it's

1073
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: not that kids didn't leave South Florida, but it's a

1074
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: lot harder to get him to leave South Florida. But

1075
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: also it's two way street because now he can go

1076
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: take kids from you already on your roster who have

1077
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,439
Speaker 1: been there for a few years, and hey, all's fair

1078
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: turnabout's fair play. But that's disrupting the ecosystem of college football.

1079
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: The ecosystem of college football had gotten used to Miami

1080
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 1: sucking and Miami not really mattering, and it was happy

1081
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: with that. Alabama was happy with that, Florida State was

1082
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,919
Speaker 1: happy with that. Ohio State was happy with that. And

1083
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: that's not the case anymore. That's what disruption is. So

1084
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 1: Mario's a disruptor, but also Miami at its best historically

1085
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: has been a disruptor. And they are both those things again.

1086
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: So part of the doubt out there, part of the

1087
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: people picking him apart and them apart up until five

1088
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: minutes ago saying oh, he'll never do this or that,

1089
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: part of it was just hope. Now, I will grant

1090
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: you there are some people who legitimately think that Mario

1091
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: will never win, or he would never win at Miami

1092
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: or Miami would never be back. And they thought that

1093
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: just because they thought that whether they were right or wrong,

1094
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: it was just logic based to them, and they thought that.

1095
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: But there's this other group that never really new for sure.

1096
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: They were just hoping, and they were dressing their hope

1097
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: up as prediction. They were dressing their hope up as logic.

1098
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: Mario will never do this or that. There here's my reasoning.

1099
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: You are you're really just hoping you're right. It turns

1100
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 1: out you weren't, but you were hoping you were right.

1101
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: But he runs Miami the way other coaches would love

1102
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: to run their programs, but frankly, I think are afraid to.

1103
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: Now maybe in some cases they just don't possess the

1104
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: ability to. Certainly most places cannot acquire the kind of

1105
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: talent that they acquire at Miami, So that greatly cuts

1106
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: down on the potential programs that could ever do what

1107
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: Miami's doing. But then there's this other aspect of the

1108
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: level of physicality that is the bedrock of their program.

1109
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: I've watched it many times in practice down there. Their

1110
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: practices are more physical than their games are. If you

1111
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: can believe that. Specifically, on Tuesday, and Wednesday. If you're

1112
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: watching them in fall, it's brutality. And then you get

1113
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: through that and your reward is the game on Saturday.

1114
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: And everybody wants to do that. And most people are

1115
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: just afraid to practice that way because of injury concerns

1116
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: and because of the lack of depth that you have,

1117
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,840
Speaker 1: and you just don't think you can afford to practice

1118
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: that way. But they do, and they didn't pay a

1119
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: price for it last year. In fact, they reaped the

1120
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: reward from it last year. And I just think there's

1121
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: a lot of I don't know if envy is the

1122
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: right word. Maybe it is. I think there's a lot

1123
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: of professional envy that they have the resources they have

1124
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: and it affords them the ability to operate the way

1125
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: they do. And then outside the ecosystem of coaching, just

1126
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: in the general college football public sphere, I just think

1127
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people hate Miami. That's totally fine. Hate

1128
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: is welcome in the world of college football. That's why

1129
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: college football is different from real life. We don't want

1130
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: hate on the streets, but hate in this world is

1131
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: totally fine. If you hate my Miami, I'm not trying

1132
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,640
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1133
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,840
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00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,160
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1135
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,520
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1136
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: world format, but it's being duplicated.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, on this Thursday evening, the mood tracker is back.

1181
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: The mood tracker is not meant to talk about how

1182
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: I feel about anything. The mood tracker is meant to

1183
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: talk about how you feel, in this case, how Georgia

1184
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: fans feel about their team right now. I would categorize

1185
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: the Georgia fans' mentality, their mood towards their team right

1186
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: now as just processing, not necessarily processing as in, oh,

1187
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get something figured out. Processing in terms

1188
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: of that's your existence. You get process preached to you

1189
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: over and over again by the head coach of that program.

1190
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: There is a clearly defined process that Georgia football has

1191
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: come to be known by for a long time. It's worked.

1192
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: They're always in the mix. But as a fan, you

1193
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: look at the last couple of years and you were

1194
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: good enough to be in the playoff, not good enough

1195
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: to win the national title. But think about those last

1196
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: two years, because this is kind of where the perception

1197
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 1: gets away from us a little bit. And not even

1198
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: if you're a Georgia fan, just I'll put you on

1199
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: hold for a second. The perception about Georgia is, well,

1200
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: they're kind of down now, down relative to what the

1201
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: teams they put on the field that won a couple

1202
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: of national titles. Yeah, if you want to sell me

1203
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: that they're down a little bit relative to that. Okay,

1204
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: I'd also ask you look at the rest of the sport.

1205
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: No one has that kind of depth really anymore. But

1206
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: let's just focus on Georgia. Think about the last two years.

1207
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's been completely whitewashed from history.

1208
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: The fact that when they lost to Notre Dame in

1209
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: the playoff last year, their quarterback was out for the season,

1210
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: Carson Beck was out for the year, so they had

1211
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: to insert a new starter. That starter was Gunner Stockton,

1212
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: and he did all could. They didn't win. And then

1213
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: this last year they ran into Trinidad Chambliss in the playoff.

1214
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: These are not it's not a down program. It's a

1215
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: program that was good enough to win the league, a

1216
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: program that was good enough to make the playoff of

1217
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: the first round by and then that was it. You'd

1218
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 1: love to have been a little bit better, but that

1219
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: was it. But the point is, there's nothing broken with

1220
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: Georgia football. There's no major overhaul that has to happen

1221
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: with Georgia football. They got the best winning percentage in

1222
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: the sport the last five years. There's nothing major that

1223
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: has to be fixed at Gunner Stockton's back this year.

1224
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: Good roster, really good staff, continuity, and so you've got

1225
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you can depend on. If

1226
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: you're Kirby Smart, if you're a Georgia fan, you bring

1227
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: it all back, and you gear up, and you wind up,

1228
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: and you deal your fastball again and you hope it's

1229
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: good enough. That's kind of processing as a Georgia fan.

1230
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: The fundamental shift in the SEC also hasn't happened around Georgia.

1231
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: That's why I don't buy any of this. Well, they're down.

1232
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: They're down relative to greatness and relative to elite depth

1233
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't exist anymore anywhere, and Texas hasn't taken advantage

1234
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 1: of it. Alabama hasn't taken advantage of it. See, if

1235
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: Georgia were down and then Sark and Texas just took

1236
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: the league by the throat, that'd be a problem. But

1237
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: Georgia has still owned Texas even in this process of

1238
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: quote unquote being down. Bama. They beat Georgia last year

1239
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: in the regular season, but then Georgia got in back

1240
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: times ten in the SEC title game. So no one

1241
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: has risen up to take the throne or anything like that.

1242
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: George has not fallen distantly to fourth or fifth place

1243
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: or even second place. And lastly, this is more Kirby.

1244
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: Kirby was really quick to understand how much the landscape

1245
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: was changing, like he kind of got it. I remember

1246
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 1: two years ago we were down there and he was

1247
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: talking about how one of the hidden challenges of being

1248
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: at Georgia is what they had accomplished, and then trying

1249
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 1: to make sure people understood that kind of stuff's not

1250
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: gonna happen anymore. You can win a national title, yes,

1251
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna have rosters that look like that

1252
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: anymore at Georgia or anywhere else. And if he was

1253
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: a brand new head coach in the door or they

1254
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: had been losing, it'd be one thing. But they had

1255
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: gotten used to winning, and so it's one thing if

1256
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,439
Speaker 1: he can see it, but can the entire fan base

1257
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: see it? That was going to be a challenge. I

1258
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 1: understand it, and I think to some degree it still

1259
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: is a challenge. That the floor is not ten and

1260
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: two for you anymore. The floor in these places. No

1261
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: one wants to hear this, but like if George is

1262
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of some one possession games, you

1263
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: could go seven to five, You go eight and four

1264
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: and not be terrible, just because that's the way the

1265
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: landscape has changed. That's not just with Georgia. That's Texas,

1266
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: that's Bama, that's anyone in this conference. That's Texas, A

1267
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: and M Anybody's like that. Now he gets it, and

1268
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 1: he's going to have him in the best position they

1269
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: can possibly be in, because that's what being a high

1270
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: level head coach is, and that's what leading the high

1271
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: level program is. It's just processing. They've just for the

1272
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:11,959
Speaker 1: last couple of years, after making platinum albums, they've been

1273
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 1: reduced to merely producing a couple of gold albums. That's

1274
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: the net result of the fall off at Georgia. People

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