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Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake. Kick is Alive. It is Sunday Night,

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Speaker 1: April third, all ready to year of oor Lower twenty

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Speaker 1: little disappointed. Well, we're gonna talk a little bit about

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Speaker 1: that InMotion night and how it ties into college football.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna talk a lot about Well Texas sand

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Speaker 1: and recruiting, because I don't know if you've heard this

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Speaker 1: on another five star, some mind blowing stats literally needed

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Speaker 1: to use the hands there to talk about tonight with them.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna build a super program on the show this

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Speaker 1: evening using really whatever we want to steal from any

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Speaker 1: the first time easily on this show this year, but

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Speaker 1: who could be in a little trouble this year? Which

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Speaker 1: coaches need it? In twenty twenty two the most we're

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Speaker 1: jam packed tonight. We're high at top what we could

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Speaker 1: only describe as a blooming and booming downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: It's busy as it always is, but actually starting to

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Speaker 1: see some colors on the trees. Got to the mid

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Speaker 1: sixties today. It's really nice. Dare I say a little

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Speaker 1: with us. We are right smack gab in the middle

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Speaker 1: of Final four National Championship game. Whatever you're worried about,

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Speaker 1: whatever you're dealing with, just cast it aside for about

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes and let's just sit back and talk

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Speaker 1: about what all we love to talk about tonight. Bangkok, Thailand.

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Speaker 1: They are tuned in Jesse and Colin in Bangkok as

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Speaker 1: well as Elizabeth Colorado. Here's a tough one. We have

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Speaker 1: never had a Bahrainian viewer reach out until now, Munima

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Speaker 1: best I can do in Bahrain. Thank you for watching.

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Speaker 1: Texar Canada. Texas is tuned in and Ewen, Alabama is

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Speaker 1: watching tonight. True Story of the nineteen seventy four tornado

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Speaker 1: outbreak Gowan is the most fascinating tornado that I have

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Speaker 1: ever done research on, along with the Gerald tornado of

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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties. And if you live there, you know

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Speaker 1: good andwell what I'm talking about. So let's dive in tonight.

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Speaker 1: We did mail bag for about the past two weeks.

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Speaker 1: We've become fascinated with the concept of mailbag shows around

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Speaker 1: here and you keep delivering and so tonight we're doing

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Speaker 1: it at least one more time. We'll just see if

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make a healthy amount of current matters in tonight,

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Speaker 1: and you decided it not I. So let's dive in

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Speaker 1: the first question tonight has to do with twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: It has to do with something that I don't always

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Dirty Bird leads us off. He asks, well,

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Speaker 1: we just completed arguably the craziest college football coaching carousel

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Speaker 1: ever that we did. I agree with that. Give me

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Speaker 1: year for any reason. Well, I didn't have to do

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Speaker 1: it because he listed five of them. So he listed Auburn,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, Arizona State, Iowa, and Florida State. What I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do instead of just haphazardly throwing out ideas

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Speaker 1: likely I think it is that these jobs come open.

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Speaker 1: Start with Auburn. There was a lot of debate amongst

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Speaker 1: Jesse and Colin and I today about what percentage chance

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Speaker 1: maybe Brian Harson just wins more than you think he would.

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Speaker 1: the question. Question from Miami Florida Shout out Miami. Create

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Speaker 1: a lot of division on this answer, there's really not.

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Speaker 1: There are admittedly a lot of programs in college football

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Speaker 1: that the sport is tilted in favor of your traditional

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Speaker 1: blue bloods. If you will, the best name for competitive

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Speaker 1: balance in college football is not for a random Cinderella

431
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Speaker 1: to make a run amongst a few other giant blue

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Speaker 1: bloods dominating the sport like we just saw a Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: The best thing for competitive balance college football is for

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Speaker 1: the programs with the advantage to take advantage. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about Texas, I'm talking about USC, I'm talking about Miami,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about FSU. Because here's what happens. If you

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Speaker 1: have a world in college football where instead of three

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Speaker 1: or four legitimate Tier one teams, you have ten to

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Speaker 1: fifteen Tier one or Tier two teams, i e. Your

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Speaker 1: blue blood crowd, and they're all performing at a pretty

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Speaker 1: high level. Chances are there is no monster amongst them.

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Speaker 1: Because the talent has been distributed up. The level of

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Speaker 1: play is too high across too wide a body of

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Speaker 1: teams for any one to two or three programs to

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Speaker 1: put a death grip on the sport. Now, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what that does. What it does is number one,

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Speaker 1: it just provides you more competitive balance. Number two, it

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Speaker 1: provides you more competitive games. But number three, since you

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Speaker 1: probably don't have any true generationally elite teams like twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen LSU or twenty twenty Bama. If you don't have those,

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Speaker 1: then you have what happened this past year, and you

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Speaker 1: have an environment that is right for upsets. And when

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Speaker 1: you have an environment that's right for upsets any given season,

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Speaker 1: you have much more a favorable environment for a Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: this past year. Everyone wanted to make the argument, yes,

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati made it in, but everything had to fall perfect.

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Speaker 1: I got news for you. Everything will always have to

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Speaker 1: fall perfect for a G five team to make it in.

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Speaker 1: My question is in what world is it more likely

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Speaker 1: where you only have a few blue blood programs but

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Speaker 1: they're just totally and utterly laying waste to the sport,

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Speaker 1: or a world where all or most to all of

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Speaker 1: the blue blood programs that have built in advantages are

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of the advantage and therefore sort of leveling

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Speaker 1: out Tier One, and instead of having two or three

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Speaker 1: elite teams and then a gap, you have maybe one

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Speaker 1: elite team, but chances are are more likely you have

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Speaker 1: a bunch of really good to bordering on great teams

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Speaker 1: that beat each other up, and any given year you

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Speaker 1: could have a veteran senior laden team like a Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: that actually has a legit shot not just to knock

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Speaker 1: on the door of the playoff, but to actually do something,

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Speaker 1: i e. Win a game in the playoff, which wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to happen this past year. It's always going to

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Speaker 1: be unlikely. Understand that, but also I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: it does. What just happened to Cincinnati, not just because

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Speaker 1: of this past year, but what's happened to Central Florida,

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Speaker 1: What's happened to Cincinnati. What's happened is what's supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: What's supposed to happen to the best G five programs.

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Speaker 1: The model that I love to see is they consistently invest,

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Speaker 1: they consistently perform at a high level, and because of that,

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Speaker 1: they don't remain G five programs. They get snatched up

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Speaker 1: by a Power five conference. In this case, the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve has snatched up UCF has snatched up Cincinnati. Hats

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Speaker 1: off to them. Congratulations to him. So, Matthew, I would

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Speaker 1: argue that the best thing for college football is not

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Speaker 1: for blue bloods to stumble. I think you want as

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Speaker 1: many of them with their act together as possible, because

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Speaker 1: it ultimately stabilizes the environment in such a way that

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Speaker 1: you never have runaway trains, or very rarely do you

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Speaker 1: have runaway trains. Let's move on here. Now. This one

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Speaker 1: kind of sounds like something that got asked a little

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Speaker 1: while ago. I'm going to go a different direction with it, though.

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Speaker 1: Taylor asks which coach has the most to prove to

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Speaker 1: the school and the boosters and the fans in the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two season. He wrote twenty three. But I'm

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Speaker 1: saying twenty twenty two season. Now, this may sound like

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Speaker 1: who's on the hot seat. I didn't take it that way.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm going to start this off with James

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Speaker 1: Franklin at Penn State. James Franklin is on no sort

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Speaker 1: of hot seat whatsoever. James Franklin, We're a big fan

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Speaker 1: of him, but yet that's why we are suggesting he

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Speaker 1: has a lot to prove in twenty twenty two. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he had disagree with this. I think if

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Speaker 1: you were sitting here, he kind of echoed the centement. Actually,

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Speaker 1: so James Franklin. What he has to prove is the

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Speaker 1: ability to maintain to maintain consistency once they get into

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Speaker 1: the season. You know, this past year, for example, they

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Speaker 1: started off well, they had injury at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: I understand that there are very few teams out there

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Speaker 1: built to withstand that. But what upset a lot of

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Speaker 1: Penn State fans is not only did they lose to Iowa,

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Speaker 1: then they also lose to Illinois. And a Penn State

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Speaker 1: fan would rightly tell you injured quarterback are not especially

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Speaker 1: if we got a backup that's been on campus multiple years.

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Speaker 1: Even if Will Levis left us our former backup and

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Speaker 1: went to Kentucky. Yes, it put us in a bad way,

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Speaker 1: but there is no world injury or not where we

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Speaker 1: should be losing to Illinois at home. I think that

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Speaker 1: was off a bye no less, So there's no world

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Speaker 1: where that needs to be happening. And that happened in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a string of losses. So what they

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Speaker 1: need to prove after they ran off a string of

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Speaker 1: eleven wins in twenty nineteen. They had eleven wins in

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Speaker 1: seventeen and sixteen. After that, then you dip down to

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Speaker 1: four and five and the COVID year and seven and

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Speaker 1: six this past year. They need to get back up

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Speaker 1: there into knocking on that ten win per year range.

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Speaker 1: But they need to be consistent. There does need to

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Speaker 1: be a dep So James Franklin, I'll put him on

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Speaker 1: that list. Mike Norvel, Florida State head coach, is on

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Speaker 1: this list. And to me, again, this is not a

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Speaker 1: hot seat list, so don't misunderstand me. What Mike Norvel

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Speaker 1: needs to show is simply growth. And the reason I

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Speaker 1: make it so generic is because it deals with the

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Speaker 1: entire spectrum of the program. I'm not focused on any

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Speaker 1: one part. In other words, eight wins the old Snowman.

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Speaker 1: Like we said earlier in the show, they just need

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Speaker 1: to improve everywhere, incrementally, improve everywhere. Make sure that when

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Speaker 1: you're watching them in September and then November. In November,

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Speaker 1: you're saying this team looks better than they did in September,

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Speaker 1: and just overall this year, this program is showing signs

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Speaker 1: of growth. Growth is the key word for Florida State

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Speaker 1: because that's what they're preaching, their preaching process and their

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Speaker 1: preaching growth. Year two was a crapshoot. Year three, I

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Speaker 1: should see it. I should see growth down there. I

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Speaker 1: think I will. So I think I'm I'm going to

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Speaker 1: affirm a lot of this come fall. But Jimbo Fisher

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Speaker 1: is another coach that I'm going to look at that

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Speaker 1: certainly is the furthest thing from being on a hot seat.

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Speaker 1: But I also think in the nature of the question

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Speaker 1: that was asked, he does have stuff to prove. He

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Speaker 1: does have a lot of validating to give those boosters

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Speaker 1: in that fan base out there. They just went eight

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Speaker 1: and four this past year. They lost their quarterback too.

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Speaker 1: They beat Alabama though, and so you know they were

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Speaker 1: coming off a year where they had gone to the

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Speaker 1: Orange Bowl. In that twenty twenty season, I think it

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Speaker 1: was they went eight to one or nine and one

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Speaker 1: counting the Bowl win. That was the year I was referencing.

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Speaker 1: Double digit wins is where they should be. I think

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Speaker 1: those win totals that got put out the other day

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Speaker 1: had A and M at nine. They ought to be

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Speaker 1: a double digit win per year team from this point forward.

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Speaker 1: That's what they ought to be. That ought to be

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Speaker 1: their floor, and they are only about three or four

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Speaker 1: programs that can talk like that. Bama's been there, George

568
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Speaker 1: is there now, Ohio State's been their, Clemson's been there.

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Speaker 1: That's where A and M needs to be. You recruit

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Speaker 1: like they're recruiting. That's where you need to be. You

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Speaker 1: need to be at such a level where the starting

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Speaker 1: point is ten wins because you're gonna outclass everyone roster

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Speaker 1: wise you face every week unless you face an Alabama,

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Speaker 1: and you'll be competitive with even the Alabamas of the world.

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Speaker 1: Certainly if if you're recruiting like they are, you may

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Speaker 1: even dare I say, take the field before too much

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Speaker 1: longer and have a slight advantage over them. What kind

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Speaker 1: of world would that be? Not there yet? What kind

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Speaker 1: of world would that be? Though? So double digit wins,

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Speaker 1: that's where they need to be. We'll see, we'll see

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Speaker 1: what they perform like this year. And lastly, Jeff Collins

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Speaker 1: at Georgia Tech has a lot to show the fan

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Speaker 1: base there. They were I felt like and they felt

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Speaker 1: like they were very close in a lot of areas

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Speaker 1: this past year. But that word doesn't mean a whole

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Speaker 1: lot in that industry. It doesn't mean a whole lot,

587
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Speaker 1: and in this sport, it really doesn't mean a whole lot.

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Speaker 1: It's just competitive at the highest levels. That's the way

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Speaker 1: it is. And so three wins. It's been kind of

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Speaker 1: a three win thing. I think all three seasons so

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Speaker 1: far three wins there. The final two games. Look, if

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Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, the final two games of this

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Speaker 1: past season, they lost fifty five ZIP and forty five ZIP.

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Speaker 1: They got out score one hundred to nothing in their

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Speaker 1: past two games. A lot of the coaching staff got overturned,

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Speaker 1: not the head coaching position, but a lot of the

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Speaker 1: remainder of the staff got overturned. They brought in some

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Speaker 1: new faces, some you'd recognize, others you wouldn't. A turnaround

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Speaker 1: is the word they need there, and unfortunately we're talking

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Speaker 1: about it in year four, but a turnaround is what

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Speaker 1: they need there. James Franklin, Mike Norvel, jimbo Fisher, and

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Speaker 1: Jeff Collins are the four names that I'm focused on there.

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Speaker 1: But there was another turnaround that I got really excited about.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm going to read it to you, so

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Speaker 1: listen to this headline. Academy Sports and Outdoors reports record

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter and fiscal twenty twenty one results, or as

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Speaker 1: I like to say, physical twenty twenty one results. Did

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Speaker 1: you hear that headline? Did you notice two things that

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Speaker 1: sort of happened simultaneous? Thing? Number one Academy partners with

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Speaker 1: Late Kick. Thing number two Academy Sports and Outdoors reports

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Speaker 1: record fourth quarter in fiscal twenty twenty one results. Guys,

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Speaker 1: I can't help but feel partially to totally responsible, and

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Speaker 1: you should share that sentiment. Did we single handedly just

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Speaker 1: overturn the entire sporting goods industry? I can't say no,

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Speaker 1: can't definitively say yes, but I can't say no. It's

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Speaker 1: been an interesting week for the academy. Will Smith had

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Speaker 1: to quit the Academy, but we're not quitting any academy.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the bond between Late Kick and Academy Sports

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Speaker 1: and Outdoors has never been stronger. As I said on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: this train stops for no one. And so now that

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Speaker 1: we come out of quarter four and we're into the

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Speaker 1: new year and everything's blooming as I told you Nashville

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Speaker 1: booming and blooming your neighborhood probably similar. Is time to

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Speaker 1: buy a spring gear. And there's no question where you

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Speaker 1: need to go at this point, it's not just a partnership.

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Speaker 1: It's more of a movement. And I know because I

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Speaker 1: look at our numbers. A lot of you are new

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Speaker 1: every week, and so you don't get the tie between

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Speaker 1: that logo Lake Kick an Academy. Yep. But as you're

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Speaker 1: around here more and more, you're gonna understand this is

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Speaker 1: not just some aver read it's not just some commercial.

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Speaker 1: This is not just some random brand that dropped a

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Speaker 1: bag of cash in our lap and said here, read

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Speaker 1: this every show. This is our partner. These are the

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Speaker 1: folks who make the show free. These are the folks

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Speaker 1: who we have chosen to partner with. And I use

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Speaker 1: that word intentionally because there are a lot of brands

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Speaker 1: that reach out wanting to advertise on the show that

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Speaker 1: we end up not doing business with. Yes, we leave

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Speaker 1: money on the table, how noble of us, right, But

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643
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644
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645
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646
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Speaker 1: that's the bond we have. And so I was over

647
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Speaker 1: the moon excited, and I couldn't wait to share it

648
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Speaker 1: with all of you. How about that record fourth quarter

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650
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Speaker 1: look at us. Imagine what we're capable of in twenty

651
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653
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654
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655
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Speaker 1: it at this point. All right, let's move on. Let's

656
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Speaker 1: dive it right back into the mailbag. My nose starts

657
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: to itch around this time of the show every week.

658
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: It's a personal problem. I'll work through it, big Cam.

659
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Speaker 1: Next up, what's the most disappointed you've ever been with

660
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: college football? It could be on the field or off

661
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Speaker 1: the field. From Bosier City, Luisi and Nah, Well, I've

662
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: got something for you now. I didn't want to take

663
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Speaker 1: such a somber turn so quickly in the show, but

664
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Speaker 1: I've got something for you. I guess. Let me be

665
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: careful with this. I guess what's disappointed me the most

666
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: in college football is the amount of our people who

667
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: were willing to marginalize what is uniquely ours the regular season,

668
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: in a chase for something that is ununiquely everyone's I

669
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: e a great, big, expanded playoff, and I know that

670
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: some of you have done that, and you've since regretted it.

671
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: I know others of your steadfast in that belief that

672
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: you don't have to sacrifice one to get the other,

673
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: which you're wrong about. But when you realize it, it'll

674
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: be too late. You cannot cannot and I repeat again,

675
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: cannot expand one thing and keep the sanctity and value

676
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: of the other thing. And know you're not going to

677
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: come back at me and say, but if we expand this,

678
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: they'll mean more of that. And that's not the way

679
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: it works. It's not the way you devalue the best

680
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: of that. It's not an equal trade off there. You

681
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: devalue the very best of that regular season to add

682
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: some really good to the regular season. You devalue the

683
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: great to get a little bit more really good featuring

684
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 1: teams and aren't going to stand a chance in the plaoff anyway.

685
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: But I'm not here to relitigate that. What I am

686
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: here to ask, humbly, is I wonder how many people

687
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Speaker 1: that in two thousand and eight or nine or ten

688
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: were complaining that we want an expanded playoff or a

689
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: play period. I wonder how many of you out there

690
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: that at one time in your life were expansionists, if

691
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: given the chance now, would go back to the pre

692
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 1: playoff era and realize I didn't know it at the time,

693
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: but it wasn't so bad two thousand and seven, two

694
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: thousand and six, it wasn't so bad. It wasn't perfect.

695
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: I never said it was perfect back then. It wasn't perfect,

696
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: but given what the alternative was going to be, and

697
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: keep in mind what has happened in the playoff era,

698
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 1: it disappoints me because of the collateral damage the sport

699
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: has suffered. We didn't just get a fourteen playoff. If

700
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: it was just that, it would have been fine. So

701
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: oftentimes it happens in life that a lot of folks

702
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: lobby for something and they can just see that thing,

703
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: and they can never see the ripple effect that it's

704
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: going to cause. They just see that thing and they

705
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: get laser focused on that thing. And I may have

706
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: been victim of this too in the past. I've just

707
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: long since seen the air of my ways. But a

708
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: lot of people got raise or focused on wanting a playoff,

709
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: and they never knew. Really, in fairness, we couldn't have

710
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: possibly foreseen this, or at least I never heard anyone

711
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: talking about it back then, of what a playoff would do,

712
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: and a playoff, well, let's think about what it's done.

713
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: It's led to a phrase that used to never exist,

714
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: which is meaningless bowl game. It's led to a concept

715
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: which used to never exist, which is players opting out

716
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: not just of pre Christmas Bowl games, but of New

717
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: Year's six Bowl games. That's like your BCS level games

718
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: of generations past. It's led to a lot of people

719
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Speaker 1: arguing that all but a few regular season games are meaningless,

720
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: that this stuff never happened back then, or if it

721
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: did happen, it was being vocalized by such a fringe

722
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: minority that we all laughed at them like we should

723
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: have done. It's not the worst thing in the world

724
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: for people laugh in your face sometimes if you're saying

725
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: stupid stuff, and people back then, just like the ones

726
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: now who call those games meaningless. You may not be

727
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: stupid person, but good and smart people say stupid things

728
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: all the time. Stupid people don't ever say smart things.

729
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: But smart people sometimes do say stupid things. And some

730
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: of you out there, if you're smart enough to watch

731
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: the show, I got a lot of respect for you.

732
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: But if you're calling these bowl games meaningless just cause

733
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: someone else convinced you, if there's not playoff ramifications on

734
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: the line, it's meaningless. No think for yourself. Do that.

735
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: You know how to do that. Think for yourself. But

736
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: that's what disappointed me, And what has disappointed me is

737
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 1: watching how many of our folks are meaning college football.

738
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: We are not just part of the sporting fabric. If

739
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: this makes sense to you, you could talk to NBA fans,

740
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball fans, NFL fans. They all have a

741
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: version of the same thing. The balls just shape different.

742
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: College football is its own world, and there used to

743
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: be borders on this world, and the door swings both ways.

744
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: We'll be happy to let you in as long as

745
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: you understand there's a protocol and there's a difference in

746
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: this world then the world you came from, the professional

747
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: world over there. And if you want to leave our

748
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: world for the professional world, broadcasters do it, fans do it.

749
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: You can go ahead. The only thing we didn't want

750
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: you to do is load up your little satchel or

751
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: your wheelbarrel, whatever you brought with you from that outside world,

752
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: and bring that mess inside this world. That's all we asked.

753
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: And yet it was too much for some people, and

754
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: they had to bring in this idea that, well, the

755
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: way they're doing it out there, what if we did

756
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: that in here, or here's my counterpoint, what if you

757
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: realized the way we do it in here doesn't exist

758
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: anywhere else, which by default makes what we have unique.

759
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: And what if I suggested that they have what you

760
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: want literally in every other league out there, so there

761
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: is a plentiful supply of you having versions of what

762
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: you want in the professional ranks. We also have the

763
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament in basketball. If an expanded postseason field is

764
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: what you desire so much, this one little thing over here,

765
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: why this little community over here, is what we have

766
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: to Sully. It wouldn't have happened unless people inside our

767
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: community allowed it, and unfortunately too many of us did.

768
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: So we can't do anything about the past. But the

769
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: question was what has disappointed me? That has disappointed me?

770
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: I hate that we couldn't have a happier ending, But

771
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: I guess one thing that I do take is I

772
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: do take from it. I get inundated with so many

773
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: of you anytime this comes up. That tell me, you know,

774
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: I used to be an expansionist because I was too.

775
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: I wanted the playoff too. I wanted not the expanded

776
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: At the time, I just wanted the playoff, so I

777
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 1: didn't fight it. I was on board. I'm certainly willing

778
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: to admit that. So I was like the rest of you.

779
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: But a lot of you will come and say I

780
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: didn't want to stop it. Four. I wanted the expanded playoff,

781
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: I wanted the eight. I wanted the NFL model or

782
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: the MLB model. But I have since realized you've made

783
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: a lot of points on this show I had never

784
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: thought about before. Sometimes we do it and we're wrong.

785
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: I happen to think we're right in this case. But

786
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess there's a little sliver of sunshine

787
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,280
Speaker 1: there at the very end of a dark and cloudy segment.

788
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: Let's move on after I tell you a very important

789
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: thing here. They're watching us in Saint Augustine, Florida, Coralville, Iowa,

790
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 1: and Newport News, Virginia. Tonight. Thank you, wherever you're watching,

791
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: Thank you how about this if you're watching graphically, I

792
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: had the good mind today to go over to Instagram

793
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: and start taking questions on there as well. I think this, Jesse,

794
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 1: I think this is a first Okay, congratulations Court Bradley.

795
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: Court Bradley asks, well, he just said something actually, so Colin,

796
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: here's your better endpoint. Court just says, no question Mark,

797
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: the Aggies have piled on the talent with a record

798
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,919
Speaker 1: class and a defensive line haul. We need to talk

799
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: about this more. Well, you know what, if you want

800
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: to talk about it, we'll talk about it. Do you

801
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: guys have any idea what Texas A and M has done?

802
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: I know you know they had the number one class,

803
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: and I know everyone and their mother has their opinion

804
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: of how they acquired that class. You better not tell

805
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: Jim about it. But do you really have an idea?

806
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: So just how good this class is? Fortunately I have

807
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: a piece of paper with some supporting evidence in my

808
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: hand right now. We do padlock stats during the season.

809
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: For those of you who are new, if you're around

810
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: this fall, a padlock stat's that one stat that if

811
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: you knew that and nothing else Friday before the game,

812
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: you would have been certain of the outcome. Well, I

813
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever done a padlock recruiting stat,

814
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: but I'm going to right now. What if I told

815
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: you I want you to pause. I need you to

816
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: put down what you're doing and listen to this insanity.

817
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: What if I told you Texas A and M just

818
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: signed more five star kids in this class than the

819
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: entire Big Ten Conference by two. What if I also

820
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: told you Texas A and M just signed more five

821
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: star kids in this class than the entirees well, actually

822
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: not the entire sec. Yeah, I'm just gonna cut it

823
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: because I want the sound bite. This is so weak

824
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: right now, if you're watching live. What if I also

825
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: told you so Texas A and M signed twice as

826
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: many five stars in this class as the entire ACC.

827
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: That's a whole conference, a major Power five conference with

828
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 1: multiple schools in the state of Florida and a school

829
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: in the Carolinas, and a school parked right in the

830
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 1: middle of Atlanta, Georgia, and Texas A and M signed

831
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: twice as many five star kids in this class as

832
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: the entire conference. Those are padlocks stats in the world

833
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: of recruiting. Jesse also tells me, just for good measure.

834
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: They signed eighteen of the top one hundred kids in

835
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: the country, most recently lt Overton out of I think

836
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: Milton in Alpharetta, Georgia. They got him. That's another five

837
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 1: star defensive lineman. At this point, raise your hand. If

838
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: you're a five star defensive lineman and you didn't commit

839
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: to Texas A and M, I'd be easier at that point.

840
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: So then I had another question today. The class is insane.

841
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: That's my takeaway. I had another question today about A

842
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: and M, and it was from one of you asking

843
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: should we be worse worried about some of these kids

844
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: transferring because certainly they're not all going to get immediate

845
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 1: playing time. No, it's going to happen. Certainly gonna happen.

846
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: Happens with everyone. It's just going to be a new

847
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: concept around A and M because they hadn't recruited at

848
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: this level yet. Got news for you, no one has.

849
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: It's the highest rate of class of all time. What

850
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: if some of them new transfer They're going to let

851
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: let me spoil the ending for you spoiler alert. If

852
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: you don't want to know, turn the show off or

853
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: mute it for five seconds. Not every one of these

854
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: kids is going to start at A and M. What

855
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, if you shaved off thirty percent of

856
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: it's still one of the best classes of all time.

857
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: And that's the way this works. That's the reason you

858
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: recruit in the kind of numbers and with the kind

859
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: of tenacity that A and M and Jimbo Fisher did.

860
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: You know, sort of the short sighted view of it

861
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: would be, how many five star kids do you need?

862
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: And then Jimbo Fisher looks back at you, Lindsay Lohan

863
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: style and says, the limit does not exist. I don't

864
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: care if sliced bread tells you it does, or your

865
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: grandma tells you it does. Limit does not exist. You

866
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: never stop. You've got to be You've got to be

867
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: almost maniacal about it, because here's what he knows. He

868
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: knows who he's got to play every year. He knows

869
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: what injury has done to him and attrition has done

870
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: to him. But he also knows in these big time games,

871
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: in the games you've got to win to win a

872
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: national championship, it plays out to where one or two

873
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: big time players make one or two game changing plays

874
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you win a football game.

875
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: Thirty one to twenty seven instead of being on the

876
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: other end of it, And you never know when you

877
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: sign them on signing day, which of those big time

878
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: players you're gonna need two years from now. On the

879
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: third Saturday in November. Against filling the blank, you just

880
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: know you got to get as many of them as

881
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: possible to put yourself in the best possible position. So

882
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: you know that you know not everyone of them's gonna

883
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: pan out. But this worrying about some of them transferring,

884
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: let them transfer. At this point. It's a privilege to

885
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: be concerned about that. If you're Texas A and M.

886
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 1: It's a privilege to have those concerns that Bama has

887
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: and Georgia has. Welcome to the party, and don't leave.

888
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: They don't plan on going anywhere. You ought to get

889
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 1: your program. If you want to win a national championship

890
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M, you got to get your

891
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: program to a place where it's a relief for those

892
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: players to get to Saturday, because what they face on Saturday,

893
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: nine times out of ten is easier than what they're

894
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: facing in practice on Tuesday and Wednesday. When you've gotten there,

895
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: then you find out what they've known for a little

896
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: while in Tuscaloosa or Athens. Then you find out what

897
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: championship depth looks like. They're not there quite yet. But

898
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: these classes like the one they just brought in eighteen

899
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: of the top one hundred in the country, more five

900
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: star kids than the entire Big Ten, twice as many

901
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: five star kids as the entire ACC. That's how you

902
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 1: rapidly build championship depth. That's how you create these knife

903
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: fights in practice every day, in these battles for positions,

904
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: and if kids are turned off by that, that's called

905
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: a filtration process. Just like in recruiting, when it comes

906
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: time for kids to strap it up on the field

907
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: and earn a playing spot and earn playing time, that's

908
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: what you got to make them do. You got to

909
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: make them earn it. We had Jimbo on signing day famously,

910
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: and among the things that he said that you didn't

911
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: remember because of the sound bites, he said, We've preached

912
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: competition with every one of these kids. We've told everyone

913
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: went and guaranteed anyone playing time. Quite the opposite, We've

914
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: told them it's gonna be the battle of their life

915
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: to get on the field here. That's good, that's good.

916
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: You'll still have some attrition because kids don't get playing time,

917
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: but the ones who left were the ones who you

918
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: didn't need. It's just the way it works. You're gonna

919
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: lose some good players you didn't need them to win

920
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: a championship. The ones you need to win championships are

921
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: gonna lock down positions or they're gonna keep fighting their

922
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: tail off in practice every day. And you will have

923
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: built a championship culture with championship depth, and you'll see

924
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: it at practice every day. You'll start hearing stories out

925
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: of college station with high school coaches or boosters or

926
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: alumni former players. When they go to practice. You'll scroll

927
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 1: tech SAgs or you'll scroll gig them twenty four to seven.

928
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: You'll see these threads. I've seen it with other elite programs,

929
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: and you'll see these threads that are three or four

930
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: pages deep of someone who got to attend practice the

931
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: other day, and they're going to be wide eyed, and

932
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: they're going to talk about the ungodly amount of competition

933
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: and how physical the practices are and how intense it is,

934
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: and you're going to realize those kids are going to

935
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: realize it's harder to practice here than it is to

936
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: play games everybody not named Bama or Georgia or LS

937
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: or whoever that we play. It's easier to face them

938
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: than it is to face the dude across from me

939
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: on the practice field. That's one of the steps to

940
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: winning a championship at this level, and they're well on

941
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: the way at Texas, A and M. I hope that

942
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: that fit the criteria for the question. The question was

943
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: just talk about it, so I think we talked about

944
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: them a fair amount. This next one is one that

945
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: every one of you have had an answer to over

946
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: the course of your college football fandom. Gray's Collective asked,

947
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: who do you think was robbed of a Heisman trophy? Statesburo,

948
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: Georgia There. Well, I've got four of them, and one

949
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: of them is very recent. I'm not over it. I

950
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: hope he is, but I'm not over this, Like I

951
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: don't want to get emotional. But there's Will Anderson right

952
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: there on the screen. How am I supposed to sleep

953
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: at night knowing that there are Heisman voters walking amongst

954
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: us who didn't even have Will Anderson on their ballot.

955
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: When I'm college Football commissioner, one of my first acts

956
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: may just be to out any Heisman voter publicly that

957
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: did not have Will Anderson on their ballot. That's a

958
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 1: crime against college football and quite frankly, a crime against humanity.

959
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: That is a college football hate crime. That's exactly what

960
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: it looks like. Will Anderson was not even in New

961
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: York City last year. Screw job is what that was.

962
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: So he would have had my vote if not for

963
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: Bryce Young. I don't care if you've got five Heisman

964
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: finalists on your team, if they're among the five best

965
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: players of college football, sent him to New York. I

966
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: get emotional about it. Will Anderson number one and Dokin

967
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: Sue two thousand and nine. Just so you don't think

968
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: I'm playing Bama Homer here and Domkan Sue did not

969
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: win because mark Ingram did. Sue would have had my vote.

970
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: He was the biggest game wrecker this side of Will

971
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: Anderson I've ever seen defensively. Remember watching Texas try and

972
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: block him, didn't matter. They tried everything. There was no

973
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: page of the playbook, there was no blocking scheme that

974
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: big twelve champ National Championship participant in Texas didn't try.

975
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: There was just nothing that a college team was going

976
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: to do against indominicancesou he had fifty two solos eighty

977
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: five total tackles an absolute force. These are defensive tackle numbers,

978
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: by the way. It's not some edge rusher, although he

979
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: spent most of his time in the backfield. Number three

980
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: from the late nineties is Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning in

981
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: the South. If you were a kid like I was

982
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: at the time, aside from your ABC's and multiplication tables

983
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: and state capitals, you were taught that one of the

984
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: harsh realities in life, side from death and taxes, is

985
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: Peyton got robbed of the Heisman Trophy. We're not here

986
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: to bash Charles Woodson. That's not what we're here to do.

987
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: What we are here to do is tell you he

988
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: should have finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting that

989
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: year because Peyton Manning was the most outstanding player in

990
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: college football. That's my humble opinion there. I'm sure it'll

991
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: go over well in ann Arbor. And I'm looking at

992
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: the stats here, sixty percent completion percentage. Look, Peyton had

993
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: thirty eight hundred passing yards in nineteen ninety seven. There's

994
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: good numbers today, albeit put up by a few more

995
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: guys on average per year these days, but thirty six

996
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: touchdowns eleven picks had a just an incredible year. So

997
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: Peyton there at number three. Now for number four, there's

998
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: a lot of controversy. There was a lot of talk

999
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: amongst ourselves, Colin and I agree is refusing to put

1000
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: this guy on our thumbnail for the YouTube video. But

1001
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: the fact remains. OJ Simpson got robbed in nineteen sixty seven.

1002
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: Imagine that figuratively a crime against OJ. There is a

1003
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: guy by the name of Gary Bieben Beeban. Yeah, I

1004
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:02,439
Speaker 1: think that was the pronunciation point being that is the point.

1005
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: I can't even remember how to pronounce the guy's name.

1006
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: And he won the Heisman over OJ. Now, OJ the

1007
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: following year won the Heisman with I think like the

1008
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: most first place votes ever. But the previous year he

1009
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: lost out to the quarterback across town at UCLA. And

1010
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: not only did he finish number two, he had like

1011
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: a career game against UCLA that year. Did we dig

1012
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: up OJ Simpson footage? I guess we did, well. Look

1013
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: at that. Hats off to the production executives for that one.

1014
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: We're short staffed, so congratulations to them or hats off

1015
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: to them. So I went Will Anderson and Domican Sue

1016
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and OJ Simpson. I don't think you will

1017
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: ever hear that combination of names any other segment in

1018
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: the history or future of this program. There you go.

1019
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: Three of the four will be on the YouTube thumb noil.

1020
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: Next question. This one's pretty easy. But I don't realize,

1021
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: or I didn't realize today until we looked at some numbers.

1022
00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: How emphatic this is so off West Florida. Cain asks,

1023
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: after the SEC West, which conference and then division do

1024
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,479
Speaker 1: you think has the biggest uphill battle in conference play?

1025
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: And that's from Leabell, Florida or Le Bay, Florida. If

1026
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: you don't want to pronounce the Elves, this is the

1027
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: Big Ten East. That's the answer, And that's pretty much

1028
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: everyone's answer. So the Big Ten East. But you know what,

1029
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: if you live down in Leabel, Florida, can you just

1030
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: rattle off the Big Ten East? No? They changed their

1031
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: division names all the time, so I don't blame you. Well,

1032
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: the Big Ten East is the one that has Ohio State,

1033
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: but it also has Michigan, but it also has Penn State,

1034
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: but it also has Michigan State. How pronounced is the

1035
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: gap between the Eastern division and the Western Division. Well

1036
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: producer Jesse, fictitious though he may be, in some of

1037
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: your minds, delivered me the following statistics. These are all true.

1038
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,320
Speaker 1: Think about recruiting, which is the lifeblood of this sport.

1039
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: This past cycle, the top five signing classes in the

1040
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: Big Ten all resided in the East. Seven of the

1041
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: top eight signing classes at the very top of the

1042
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: Big Ten, we're all in the Big Ten East. The

1043
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: final six in the Big Ten, we're all in the West.

1044
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: The Big Ten East has won the last nine conference championships.

1045
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: And if you remove Wisconsin, we're gonna do that whole

1046
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: thing where if you remove the best of something and

1047
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: then look at the rest. If you remove Wisconsin from

1048
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: the West, you've got to go back to four oh four.

1049
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: Guess what year I graduated high school. Yes, you gotta

1050
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: go all the way back there to find someone from

1051
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: that other division. Whether it's the leaders or the legends,

1052
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: or the lesser or the fewer or the poorer. That's

1053
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: a poverty division. There's no two ways to put it.

1054
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: Those are poverty statistics for the Big Ten West poverty division.

1055
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for it. There's some really good football

1056
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: programs over there, passionate fan bases, really invested, maybe just

1057
00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: not quite enough. Why do we have division four? This

1058
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: is a question from multiple conferences, But why do we

1059
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: have division formats? There are a lot of folks who

1060
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: beat this drum. There are a lot of folks beating

1061
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: this drum long before I got here. I just want

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Speaker 1: to want to grab a little stick and add on

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Speaker 1: to the drum beat. The concept of divisions is by

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Speaker 1: gone in nature. You know. I'm a traditionalist. I hardly

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Speaker 1: want anything changing. That's why I love the Penn State

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Speaker 1: uniform more than the Oregon uniform. However, I don't like

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Speaker 1: divisions because it leads to things like this again, I

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Speaker 1: want to read this. The top five signing classes in

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten we're all in one division. Seven of

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Speaker 1: the top eight. The bottom six signing classes were all

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Speaker 1: in another division. And one division's one to nine of

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Speaker 1: the last ten conference championships. And if you remove Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: it gets a whole lot bleaker, a whole lot faster.

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Speaker 1: So yes, it's not quite the SEC West, but the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten East. That's tough, and it would totally reshape

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten championship picture. If you did away with

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Speaker 1: the division format and you just took the two best.

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Speaker 1: But that's not the way it is. And so we

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Speaker 1: enter every season knowing that a maximum of one of Michigan,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan State are going to

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Speaker 1: be able to make the Big Ten championship game. That's

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Speaker 1: why I have never and will never lobby for a

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Speaker 1: playoff format in which you have to be a conference

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Speaker 1: champion to make the playoff. Never, because you know, if

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Speaker 1: we're trying to put the best two teams in a playoff,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. But if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: find me the best four teams, it is possible for

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Speaker 1: more than one of the four best teams in the

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Speaker 1: country to reside in the same division, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna penalize them just because of where their pinpoint on

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Speaker 1: a map happens to be. Really appreciate you guys being

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Speaker 1: tuned in. Here's the favor we continue to ask throughout spring.

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Speaker 1: Here's a fun fact. I want you to know what

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Speaker 1: you guys did the other night in our industry, especially

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Speaker 1: with the format we have for late kig Our viewership

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Speaker 1: almost totally comes from the first twenty four hours. Like

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Speaker 1: a lot of you were watching live, many more of

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Speaker 1: you watch the replay following morning to afternoon, and then

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Speaker 1: normally the viewership tapers off after that. More of you

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Speaker 1: watched the show after it had been up for twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours than watched the show during the first twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. From our last episode, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: we've ever seen that, and it wasn't even particularly close,

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Speaker 1: was the thing. So I don't know what had you

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Speaker 1: guys distracted on Thursday, but you came to the trough

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Speaker 1: bigtime on Saturday and Sunday, however you want to watch.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You may miss some breaking news using that methodology,

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Speaker 1: but thank you so. Director Collin says, thank you well,

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Speaker 1: he would if you existed, so so with producer Jesse.

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