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Speaker 1: first up today on the podcast review. Will the SEC,

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Speaker 1: and he hadn't started, which I think is a credit

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Speaker 1: to that coaching staff, it's a credit to Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a credit to Dan Enos who went

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Speaker 1: on to Miami, and he's been ridiculed since then, but

434
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: they had him not only ready to come in, but

435
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,239
Speaker 1: he had improved as a passer without starting games. And

436
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Speaker 1: he comes in and Georgia really doesn't have an answer

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Speaker 1: for him, especially the mixture of what he could do

438
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Speaker 1: with his arms and then extending plays on third down,

439
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: broken plays and his legs. Eventually won the game for Alabama,

440
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Speaker 1: and when he ran that go ahead touchdown him it

441
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: was right there in my face. It was the end

442
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: zone I was standing in. And after that game, when

443
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: it ends to see the emotion from people who are

444
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: normally pretty void of emotion, was in and of itself

445
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: a pretty emotional experience. And to know what Jalen Hurts

446
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,719
Speaker 1: had been through, to know what he persevered, and then also,

447
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: and here's what you didn't see on TV. I went

448
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: back and watched the replay. Saban. Nick Saban was pretty

449
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: emotional in his postgame interview. I think he shed a

450
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Speaker 1: tier or two in his postgame on field interview. I

451
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Speaker 1: saw him come up the tunnel. I saw him right

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Speaker 1: outside their locker room. You have never ever seen Nick

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Speaker 1: Saban or a number of their other personnel and players

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Speaker 1: in the emotional state in a good way that they

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Speaker 1: were in once they were out of the view of

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Speaker 1: spectators and out of the view of fans. That's one

457
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Speaker 1: of the most special moments and one of the best

458
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Speaker 1: games and experiences I've ever had being able to do

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Speaker 1: this in a professional capacity. Moving on, Jeremiah seventy eight

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Speaker 1: to three podcast review. Oh boy, it's hypothetical time. Here

461
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: we go. Tennessee beats Florida, Florida beats Georgia. Georgia beats Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Who's winning the East? Well, Jeremiah, I gotta say Florida

463
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Speaker 1: for the simple reason that if that little round robin

464
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Speaker 1: wacka mole scenario plays out, we know two things three things.

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Speaker 1: I guess Georgia would still have to play Alabama, Tennessee

466
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Speaker 1: would still have to play Alabama, and Florida would not

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Speaker 1: still have to play Alabama. Florida has LSU, they have

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Speaker 1: him at home. It's a question as to what LSU

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Speaker 1: will be this year. I think Florida has reason to

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Speaker 1: feel confident in that game. I mean, they played him

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Speaker 1: tough last year on the road, so I would have

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Speaker 1: to side with the Gators there. This user announced themselves

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Speaker 1: in the podcast section as Ugh, Ugh, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I enter every game, says Ugh, with anxiety, thinking will

475
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Speaker 1: dominate an overmatched opponent, But then I worry will we

476
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Speaker 1: just crumble? Do you think all fans feel this way?

477
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Speaker 1: This is a great question. I don't know. Well, I

478
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Speaker 1: do know. I don't think all of them feel that way.

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Speaker 1: Judging by my comments section, some of you, who as

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00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: four point or four touchdown forget four point Some of you,

481
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: as four touchdown underdogs, feel totally confident you're winning on Saturday,

482
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Speaker 1: and the only reason you don't is because everything from

483
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Speaker 1: officiating to the changing of the tides was tilted against

484
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: you and you got screwed. However, I do know a

485
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Speaker 1: lot of people, no matter who it is, and no

486
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Speaker 1: matter who the opponent is, who feel this way. Now,

487
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Speaker 1: to me, you can be that way, and that's just

488
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Speaker 1: being guarded, but you don't want to drift into the

489
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Speaker 1: realm of being the reverse psychology fan, reverse psychology fan.

490
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Speaker 1: I got a buddy whose uncle is probably the worst

491
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Speaker 1: in the world at this My buddy's uncle is a

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Speaker 1: diehard Alabama fan. Western Carolina can be rolling into town

493
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Speaker 1: and Alabama can be favored by fifty sixty points, and

494
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Speaker 1: this cat will figure out a way to say, you

495
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Speaker 1: know what, this is football, and any given Saturday, anything

496
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Speaker 1: can happen. And this is the kind of game where

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Speaker 1: you turn it over a couple of times in the

498
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Speaker 1: first quarter and all of a sudden it's a ballgame.

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Speaker 1: And then those players are playing their super Bowl in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and you get upset and it's the

501
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: most embarrassing loss of your career. No, it's just not. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it would be embarrassing. There is no scenario out of

503
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Speaker 1: a million simulations where Western Carolina, on the best day

504
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Speaker 1: in that program's history, beats a Nick Saban led Alabama

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Speaker 1: Crimson Tide post two thousand and seven a million out

506
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Speaker 1: of a million. You can be minus eight turnovers a

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Speaker 1: million out of a million, Alabama's taking that game. So

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Speaker 1: don't be reverse psychology, but don't be hubrious out every

509
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: orifice of your body fan either. Just find a happy medium.

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Speaker 1: Passion is a good thing. Paranoia, I think can also

511
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Speaker 1: be a good thing. But oh, at least if you

512
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Speaker 1: have the paranoia, just bottle it up a little bit better. Jay.

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Speaker 1: In the podcast review section, which SEC head coach would

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Speaker 1: you rather a take on a road trip? B make

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Speaker 1: godparent of your kid, and c interview if your job

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Speaker 1: depended on it. So easy, Jay, ed Orgeron is the

517
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Speaker 1: answer to all three of these questions. I get the

518
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: distinct impression ed Orzeran probably knows every restaurant owner in America.

519
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: He probably knows every shortcut in America. He doesn't strike

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Speaker 1: me as a GPS type where Edworzeran grew up. The

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00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: GPS really doesn't know a whole lot about that portion

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Speaker 1: of Louisiana anyway, So guys like ed Orgeron know every

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Speaker 1: back road in America. I also think he knows every

524
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Speaker 1: lesson life can teach that a book can't teach. So

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Speaker 1: he would be great as a godparent. And I would

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Speaker 1: imagine ed Orzron can conduct an interview by himself. He

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Speaker 1: really doesn't even need you to be there. He's one

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Speaker 1: of the best storytellers. If you talk to high school

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Speaker 1: coaches and anytime they've been around Ozron in an off

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Speaker 1: the record setting, he has the best stories in the world.

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Speaker 1: He is a great storyteller. He is a guy who

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Speaker 1: naturally enthralls people and captivates attention because of the uniqueness

533
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: of his deliverance and the uniqueness of his voice. You

534
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: can't just sit there and have him kind of on

535
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Speaker 1: autopilot as you would ambient noise in the background. If

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Speaker 1: he's talking, you're listening. So I would say ed Orzron

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Speaker 1: for all three there j Lo eleven. That's Loee by

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Speaker 1: the way, Lowe podcast review section. What keeps Tennessee from

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Speaker 1: upsetting at least one of the Big Four this year?

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Speaker 1: The Big Four, by the way, if you are not

541
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Speaker 1: keeping up with the volunteer schedule, is at Oklahoma, they

542
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: play Georgia at Georgia. I think they play Florida at home,

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00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 1: they play Alabama at home, not in that order. What

544
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Speaker 1: would keep them from winning one of these? Would it? Well,

545
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Speaker 1: it would probably be having the second best quarterback situation

546
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Speaker 1: in all four of those games, if that's the way

547
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Speaker 1: it pans out, and not being plus in the turnover battle.

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's what would keep them from winning at

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Speaker 1: least one. I do think they will win at least

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Speaker 1: one of those four games. Ran Hub fourteen in the

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Speaker 1: podcast review. Do you think LSU isn't fully capitalizing on

552
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Speaker 1: their championship by recruiting with Bama and Clemson and Ohio State?

553
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Speaker 1: And do you think they'll just return to their normal

554
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Speaker 1: ways record wise, What are their normal ways? Some people

555
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: seem to have revisionist history that LSU is this seven

556
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Speaker 1: or eight win per year caliber program and then they

557
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: just went fit teen to zero, but now they're going

558
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: to sink back to seven or eight win caliber. Well

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Speaker 1: that's not where they were. To me to begin with,

560
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Speaker 1: LSU is about a nine and a half to ten

561
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Speaker 1: win caliber program per year. When I say caliber, I

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Speaker 1: mean the level they're operating at. You could go eight

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Speaker 1: and four and be a nine win caliber program. You

564
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: can go ten and two and be a nine win

565
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Speaker 1: caliber program. A lot of this is depending on what

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Speaker 1: conference you're in, how heavily tilted was your schedule towards

567
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Speaker 1: top twenty five any given year. But the caliber that

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00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: your program is operating at for LSU before they won

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Speaker 1: the championship was north of nine wins nine and a

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Speaker 1: quarter to nine and a half, maybe even nine and

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Speaker 1: three quarter wins per year. So if they sink back

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Speaker 1: to that, that's nothing to knock. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: necessarily going back there, though, because going back there would

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Speaker 1: mean going totally back to what they were or weren't

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Speaker 1: Offensively and I don't think that's going to happen again.

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Speaker 1: They don't have to match last year's numbers to still

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Speaker 1: be really good offensively. Now, as for recruiting, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I would write this class off yet. They're

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Speaker 1: sitting at thirteenth right now in the twenty four to

580
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: seven Sports team rankings. It's June, and they're in it

581
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Speaker 1: for several kids. And the bottom line is, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if LSU finishes sixth this year, what's terrible about that?

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Speaker 1: And keep this in mind too, I would put LSU

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Speaker 1: sort of in the same classification. I would put the

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Speaker 1: other big boys in that. As the transfer portal continues

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00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: to evolve and continues to change the fabric of the game,

587
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: LSU in any given year is going to be involved

588
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: every off season with a number of big time potential transfers.

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00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: They just got Jabril Cox, for example, a big time

590
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: linebacker they think will be big time out of North

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Speaker 1: Dakota State. How many of you this time last year

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Speaker 1: when you were talking about the future of LSU even

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Speaker 1: knew the name Jabril Cox, much less had him factored

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Speaker 1: into LSU's future plans. My point being that could happen

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. That could happen at left and

596
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Speaker 1: right tackle, that can happen at your third corner. Like

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00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: that stuff can happen. It can happen for Bama, it

598
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: can happen for Georgia, and it can happen for LSU.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that just cause they're not top

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Speaker 1: ten right now, which by the way, neither is Alabama,

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Speaker 1: and we expect them to finish top three, top four.

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Speaker 1: So let's just let this play out again. It's June.

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Speaker 1: Let's let this play out. JC Melton twenty one heard

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Speaker 1: you talking about national or name, image and likeness the

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Speaker 1: other day, and I agreed with you. I think my

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Speaker 1: Tennessee program will be able to take full advantage. What

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Certainly, Tennessee is a program that is

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Speaker 1: built to take advantage of this. I think two dozen

609
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: other programs could easily describe themselves the same way. Really,

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Speaker 1: I think the number is higher than two dozen. I

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00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: think you may not expect that. I know what two

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Speaker 1: doesn't is. I know what two doesn't is. That's a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's a big chunk of the sport that's getting up

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Speaker 1: there in the anywhere from twenty to thirty range. I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: are the programs that are built to take full advantage

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Speaker 1: of name, image and likeness. But you got to harness

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Speaker 1: it the right way. If you are not the tier

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Speaker 1: one right now, if you're not in that tier, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't take advantage of this. You have

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Speaker 1: to have a really well formulated game plan. You got

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Speaker 1: to carve a niche for yourself. You've got to have

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Speaker 1: something that when this happens, when we're five years into it,

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Speaker 1: people are looking at Tennessee and saying, you know, Tennessee

624
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Speaker 1: does this, and Tennessee does that, and it's not Tennessee

625
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: is one of fifteen programs who do this and that. Now,

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00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of overlap if you

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Speaker 1: look at the ven diagrams collectively of the approaches that

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Speaker 1: programs are going to take. Certainly there's going to be

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Speaker 1: a lot of overlap. But what area do you do good?

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Speaker 1: What area could you say specialized in? What things could

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Speaker 1: you offer players that are fairly unique, if not totally

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00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: unique to Tennessee. Now that's an open ended question only

633
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Speaker 1: because I don't know the answer. You pay a lot

634
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: of guys a lot of money to figure that answer out.

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Speaker 1: Cody in the podcast review. Let me pause, Cody, this

636
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: is a good question coming up. You notice how many

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Speaker 1: SEC questions have been asked here. Now this sometimes leads

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00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: to accusations of SEC HOMERSM but I haven't asked the

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Speaker 1: single one of these questions. You drive the bus here?

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Speaker 1: I sure. As sure as I press send on this

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Speaker 1: and tany edits this podcast and puts it up, we

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Speaker 1: will hear from people that I host to SEC heavy

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Speaker 1: send in questions that are about Nebraska, that are about Washington.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk Montana. I don't care. I go wherever you

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Speaker 1: want to go. So if I open that email inbox

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Speaker 1: or my Twitter DMS and I see a bunch of

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Speaker 1: SEC in Big ten, I am going to assume. I

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Speaker 1: have to assume that's what you guys want to talk about.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just off bring that up, Cody. In the

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Speaker 1: podcast review. With Alabama bringing in Bryce Young, an insane

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Speaker 1: linebacker haul and already having a great young defensive line,

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Speaker 1: is Saban setting up for another run? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: he's on a run right now, Cody. I don't think

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Speaker 1: any run has ended. I have very high expectations for

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Speaker 1: them the next three to four years. Yes, I do,

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young, if you're unaware, was the number one player

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Speaker 1: in America per the twenty four to seven Sports Player

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Speaker 1: rankings this past cycle. And he is a quarterback and

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Speaker 1: he's really good. And so they also brought in and

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Speaker 1: this excited me as much as as much as Bryce

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Speaker 1: Young did. They brought in a bunch of guys who

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00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: are just built to be terrors off the edge, be

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Speaker 1: able to have the best quarterbacks in the world, and

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Speaker 1: be able to attack the quarterback. I mean, that's a

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Speaker 1: very simple formula to win consistently. And they brought in

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Speaker 1: guys like Will Anderson, who else, du Moy Kennedy, Chris Braswell.

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Speaker 1: Drew Sanders is a guy who I'm really excited about

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Speaker 1: for them. They brought in a lot of those types

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Speaker 1: and they're on track to kill it again this recruiting cycle.

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Speaker 1: So I just I can't guarantee they're gonna win one

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Speaker 1: more national championship. They could win the next three for all,

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Speaker 1: I though, I just laugh, man, when people talk about

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Speaker 1: Alabama and how the best is behind them, and how

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Speaker 1: they're just sure that Alabama's they're not there anymore. You know,

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Speaker 1: they maybe they'll pop one, but I think they faded

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Speaker 1: a little bit like, what are you talking about. The

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Speaker 1: only way you can rationalize that kind of statement is

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Speaker 1: if you also admit, subconsciously you hold this team to

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Speaker 1: a higher standard than you do any other program. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's true. I think it's true of a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who have been in the media industry

682
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Speaker 1: for twenty years, thirty years. I'll watch them constantly and

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Speaker 1: the criticisms and who cares. I mean, I'm not no

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Speaker 1: one feels sorry for Alabama, but some of the criticisms

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Speaker 1: I've seen people levy at Alabama. You are criticizing things

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Speaker 1: that you would praise other programs for. I mean that

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Speaker 1: they lost two games last year, and the talk is, ooh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man like Alabama. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: they are what they once were. I mean, this program

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Speaker 1: is not necessarily a powerhouse program anymore. What if Miami

691
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Speaker 1: went ten to two last year, What if Southern cal

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Speaker 1: had the kind of season that Alabama had last year?

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Speaker 1: How would they talk differently about those programs? So it's

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Speaker 1: all relative to the standard that you hold that team

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Speaker 1: to in your mind. And a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: admit this, but subconsciously you hold different programs to different standards.

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Speaker 1: If you hold Alabama to just the same garden variety

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Speaker 1: standard across the board as you do every other program,

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Speaker 1: this is still one of the two or three best

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Speaker 1: programs in America. And they are on track with the

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Speaker 1: way they're still recruiting, with the upgrades they just made

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Speaker 1: in strength and conditioning, they are on track to be

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Speaker 1: one of, if not the best, in America again this year.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we're about to talk about. We're

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Speaker 1: going to take a quick break, and when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we have got a podcast review question, and this is

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Speaker 1: the question, give me hope we'll have a season this year.

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Speaker 1: That's not even a question. It's just a plea, a

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Speaker 1: cry for help, and we are going to answer it

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Speaker 1: right after this. Stay with us, all right. So, as

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Speaker 1: I said, Bam a man can podcast review section, he says,

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Speaker 1: just give me hope we'll have a season. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can put emojis in the podcast review questions.

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Speaker 1: If you could, there would be tears in this emoji's eyes.

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Speaker 1: Bam A man can. I think it's gonna happen. I

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Speaker 1: think we're going to have a football season. You notice

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Speaker 1: there have been ebbs and flows to the national narrative

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Speaker 1: on coronavirus, and right now it seems like we're in, eh,

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Speaker 1: maybe one of the troughs, let's say, instead of one

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Speaker 1: of the peaks. And right now, whereas two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago, everyone was excited, now everyone's got a

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Speaker 1: lot of trepidation. Just give it some time, you'll see

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Speaker 1: it come around again. I think we're on pace for

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Speaker 1: it to come around at the right time. I think

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Speaker 1: we'll get a season in. I fully believe that. Just

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Speaker 1: be patient. Time is on our side. Money's Huddle on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about the future of the pac twelve

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Speaker 1: behind Oregon? I sure can. It's all up to USC.

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Speaker 1: It is all up to USC and to a certain

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Speaker 1: degree UCLA, but really it's up to USC. I also

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Speaker 1: wonder what does a guy like Sam Hubert do at

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Speaker 1: quarterback at Washington. They just brought in a five star

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Speaker 1: quarterback and Jimmy Lake takes over up there, and you think, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be all about defense. Well maybe so,

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Speaker 1: but they just got a really big name at quarterback,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see herm Edwards long term. He brought in

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Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis. What does Arizona State look like? Could Arizona

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Speaker 1: State become another legitimate bona fide year in, year out

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Speaker 1: contending program there, which would defy a lot of expectations.

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Speaker 1: By the way, and can the conference keep good coaches?

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Speaker 1: Can they keep good personnel? Can they keep recruits on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast? That's how you determine the future of

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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve Ryan in the YouTube section and comment section,

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Speaker 1: who do you think the next G five coach is

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Speaker 1: to get a blue blood job? Most likely Luke Fickel,

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Speaker 1: I know, but I was wondering if you thought others

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Speaker 1: were on the rise. Well, certainly Luke Fickle at Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: was the name that I would have gone for. Brian

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Speaker 1: Harson at Boise State is one that I think is

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Speaker 1: going to get a strong look in the very very

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Speaker 1: near future. I know some people are high or on

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Speaker 1: Leopold from Buffalo Harson. If I had to circle one,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go Harson, Maglow, Mayna Zach. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess I pronounced it right. YouTube comment section. With

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Speaker 1: schools getting better coaching and starting to recruit better, will

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Speaker 1: we see the ACC rise to be one of the

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Speaker 1: premier conferences in college football. Well, let me pause there

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Speaker 1: and let me back up. I don't necessarily assume that

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Speaker 1: the conference is getting better from a coaching perspective. I

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Speaker 1: mean Mac Brown has upgraded North Carolina. Yes, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you that. I think Scott Saderfield's probably the most overlooked

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Speaker 1: Power five coach in America right now. At by the way,

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Speaker 1: do you guys know where he is? How many of

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Speaker 1: you know who Scott Saderfield is and where he is

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Speaker 1: a head coach? I think a lot of you just

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Speaker 1: shrugged your shoulders. That's at Louisville, by the way. So Miami,

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Speaker 1: I mean, as Manny Diaz, are you getting your money's

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Speaker 1: worth there? Mike Norvell has been in the room for

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Speaker 1: two seconds at Florida State, so we don't know there.

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Speaker 1: That's another question mark. Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech. Still a

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Speaker 1: lot of question marks around that program. NC State. I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: where the where is this mass upgrade in the coaching

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Speaker 1: department in the ACC. I don't see that yet. I

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Speaker 1: don't see that, and therefore I think it's a long

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Speaker 1: road outside of Clemson, South Carolina. It is a long

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Speaker 1: road to even getting back in the conversation of vying

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Speaker 1: for being called a premier conference. Josh and the YouTube

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Speaker 1: comment section. I don't know if you've talked about this

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Speaker 1: in the past, but what do you think about independence?

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Speaker 1: Do you think they're good for the sport? Having some

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Speaker 1: teams not tied down to one specific conference nuance has

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00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: never bothered me, Josh, It's never bothered me one bit.

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Speaker 1: Everyone cries for Notre Dame join a conference, and it's

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Speaker 1: not that I don't get the points they're making, it's

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessary. Now. By that same token,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you this. We had a question a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago what could make Notre Dame join

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Speaker 1: a conference, and I said them getting left out of

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Speaker 1: the playoff, with the tie breaking bit of criteria being

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Speaker 1: they didn't have a conference championship. If that ever happens,

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Speaker 1: that's what would force Notre Dame to join a conference.

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Speaker 1: In all likelihood, it's not going to be any amount

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Speaker 1: of criticism. It'll be not being in a conference directly

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Speaker 1: impacted their bottom line and their ability to compete for

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Speaker 1: a championship. So, as I'm telling you, I don't mind

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame being an independent if they're sitting there twelve

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Speaker 1: and oh and someone else is twelve and oh, like

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Speaker 1: Let's say let's say Florida and Alabama this year. Just

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Speaker 1: for argument's sake, let's say both of those programs went

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Speaker 1: undefeated regular season, and Alabama beat Florida thirty four to

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Speaker 1: twenty seven in Atlanta, and Alabama goes onto the playoff,

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Speaker 1: and so does Florida. Florida goes as a twelve to

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Speaker 1: one non conference champ over a twelve to zer undefeated

804
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, and the committee tells you, we thought Florida's

805
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: resume was better and the only reason Florida had a

806
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Speaker 1: loss is because they were rewarded with a spot in

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Speaker 1: a conference championship game that their conference gives to them

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Speaker 1: that Notre Dame didn't have to go play in. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to punish a team because they won the

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Speaker 1: right to play an extra game. We're not going to

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Speaker 1: do that now. If that were to happen, Hey, I

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00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: think Notre Dame has a lot of soul searching to do,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't mind that. I would support that. I

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Speaker 1: would support Florida being in. That could happen in the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten too. I would support Wisconsin, for example, being

816
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Speaker 1: in now Wisconsin and Notre Dame couldn't both be undefeated

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Speaker 1: this year because they play each other. But in principle,

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Speaker 1: you get my point. But I don't mind the independence.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind that at all. I think it adds

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Speaker 1: a flavor and a uniqueness and another layer to college

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Speaker 1: football and a nuanced setting that you don't have. I

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Speaker 1: don't think everyone has to be symmetrical. Not everything has

823
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Speaker 1: to be perfectly proportioned. Murder Giraffe asks Pac twelve, ACC,

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Speaker 1: Big Ten, Big twelve SEC. Every conference produces a thirteen

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Speaker 1: and oh conference champ. Who gets in the playoff this year?

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Speaker 1: Murder Giraffe, I have no earthly idea. It is safe

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Speaker 1: to say the SEC would be in, it is safe

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Speaker 1: to say the Big Ten would be in. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: assume the ACC undefeated is Clemson, and if that's the case,

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Speaker 1: they're in. But when it comes to let's just say

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Speaker 1: Oregon or Oklahoma, I think it's Oklahoma. I think it

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Speaker 1: is However, I guess this is well, it's maybe possible

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Speaker 1: if Oregon goes undefeated this year. We do realize that

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Speaker 1: means they've beaten Ohio State too, right, They've beaten Washington,

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Speaker 1: They've beaten USC, They've won a Pac twelve championship game.

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Speaker 1: That'd be tough to keep them out. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the answer. I know what three of the

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Speaker 1: answers are. I don't know what the fourth answer is.

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Speaker 1: Josh YouTube comments section I grew up in West Virginia.

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Speaker 1: I'll always be Mountaineers first and foremost. What will it

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Speaker 1: take to get West Virginia back to the CUSP at

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00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: least like the old Rich Rod days. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: recruit here, I feel. But as you've stated before, Clemson

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Speaker 1: has done it. Yeah, Clemson's done it now. Let's make

845
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 1: no mistake. Clemson's in a much more advantageous position geographically

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Speaker 1: to recruit. To me, West Virginia hung themselves out to

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Speaker 1: dry the moment they joined the Big Twelve. Think about recruiting,

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Speaker 1: Think about what it is. A lot of recruiting has

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Speaker 1: to do with your conference footprint. Nebraska fans hate this

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00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: right now. Nebraska fans don't feel like they can recruit

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00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: Texas anymore because they're not in the Big Twelve. And

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00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: there has to be some validity to this or people

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00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it. I'm not talking about fans necessarily, I'm

854
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: talking about people inside the industry. They talk about this

855
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: all the time. So if that's true, imagine what playing

856
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: in a conference with Georgia Tech and Florida State and

857
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: Miami North Carolina Clemson. Imagine what that would do to

858
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: West Virginia's ability to recruit the South. You remember when

859
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: they were under Rich Rod and they had that guy

860
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,240
Speaker 1: by the name of Pat White at West Virginia. Anyone

861
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: remember where he was from. I think he was from Daphney, Alabama.

862
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: I know he was from Alabama. I think it was Daphne.

863
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: Either way, He's shining at West Virginia and people in

864
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: Alabama kept on asking Bama and Auburn fans kept asking,

865
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: how did we not get this guy? But the point

866
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: is they were drawn some talent from down here. At

867
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 1: least anecdotally they were at the quarterback position. But I

868
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: think that would be a big key. Neil Brown is

869
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: the head coach there. He comes from Troy, like he

870
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: knows the South. But I just don't know how well

871
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to get down here. And

872
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to recruit the South. You

873
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: just got to. There is no way around that. You

874
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: got to be able to do it. David YouTube comment

875
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: section how much pressure is Clay Helton under to beat

876
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: Alabama in Week one? Not a lot, David. I think

877
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: that's viewed as a cherry on top. He's under a

878
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: lot of pressure to compete with Alabama, He's not under

879
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: pressure to beat them. If you polled Southern cal fans

880
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 1: out of one hundred random setnd ample sized USC fans,

881
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: how many of them expect Clay Helton to beat Alabama

882
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: in Week one and make them put money on it,

883
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: money line one way or the other? Yes or no?

884
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: Will you beat Alabama? How many of them expect to

885
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: beat Alabama? I would imagine by a ninety percent plus

886
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: clip They expect to fall in week one. They want

887
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: to be competitive. You can't get blown out forty nine

888
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: to thirteen. Jacob YouTube comment section. I'm an LSU fan.

889
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: Do you think LSU could win another national championship this year? Jacob?

890
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: It would be tough, brother, They could, but it would

891
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: be tough now if they did, what would have been

892
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: more unlikely last year's run or this year's follow up?

893
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: Think about that last year was the most improbable probably

894
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: season you've ever seen in college football, well at the

895
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: highest level. I mean that was really hard to do. Obviously,

896
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: no one's really ever done what they did last year

897
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: before from a number of different metrics standpoints. But if

898
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: they were to follow it up this year with another one, goodness,

899
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: you're talking about legend status established over a twenty four

900
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: month period, essentially for ed Orjaran Clark YouTube comment section.

901
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: I found your podcast on Sunday to be enlightening but

902
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: a little condescending on Florida with Dan Mullen. To be fair.

903
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: As a Gator fan, I definitely have high expectations for

904
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: the program, but I find it a complete overreaction to

905
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: immediately think on other coaches if this season doesn't end well.

906
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: I heard this from a number of people, so I

907
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: went back and rewatched the segment. I did because I

908
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: thought I must have said fire Dan Mullen if they

909
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: don't win this year, I must have said it. I

910
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: didn't say it. I didn't even suggest it. Here's what

911
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: I suggested, nearly verbatim. I said, expectations from a number

912
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: from a significant portion of the Florida fan base this

913
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: year is to win the SEC East, which is accurate.

914
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: And secondly, the attitude is going to be if they

915
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: don't win it this year, if we couldn't do it

916
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, When are we going to do it?

917
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: Everything seems to have aligned this year. You got a

918
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: perceived quarterback edge over Georgia, You've got a scheduling edge

919
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: over Georgia. You've got a coaching staff that is a

920
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: lot more firm on a foundation right now than Georgia.

921
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: There's turnover there. You have a lot of uncertainty in Athens,

922
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: and you have a lot of certainty at Florida. And

923
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: if not now, then when is the sentiment? And what

924
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: I said is as much excitement as there is around

925
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: Florida right now. If they don't get it done, that's

926
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: what Florida fans will start to say. They'll start to say,

927
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: if not now, then when I don't think that's unfair.

928
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: I hear this from a lot of Florida fans, not

929
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: all of them, but I hear this from a lot

930
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: of Florida fans. I don't get it. Like anytime you

931
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: get an honest assessment of the program right now for Florida,

932
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: what does an honest assessment of Florida football sound like

933
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: right now? It's got to be mainly good. It's got

934
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: to be not a lot of great. That's what Florida

935
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: is right now, there's a lot of good with the program.

936
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of great criticizing that. I don't

937
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: know what to tell you, like, I appreciate you listening,

938
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate you watching. This is not the home radio

939
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: broadcast of a Florida football game. I try and give

940
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: it to you as I see it. You think I

941
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: don't want Florida to win, it is very very good

942
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: for me when Florida wins. So even if I was

943
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: being selfish, I'd want Florida to win. Even if I

944
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: personally hated Florida, which I don't, I would suppress that

945
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: for the greater good of the product. So in no way,

946
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: either way am I a hater of Florida football. But

947
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 1: I am giving it to you as I see it,

948
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 1: and I think Florida still has some steps to take,

949
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: and I do absolutely believe if they don't win the

950
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: SEC East this year. Ironically, some of the same people

951
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: calling me a Gator hater right now will be echoing

952
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: the exact sentiment that I just told you. A lot

953
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: of you will be echoing mark my words, And hopefully

954
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: we don't find out, because hopefully you can get it done.

955
00:50:54,960 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: This year alistair YouTube comment sections another Florida question, what

956
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: do you know? Let me see if I can delicately

957
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: answer this one you mentioned recently, we've been out recruited

958
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: in state. True, say twenty twenty is mulliningeer. We walk

959
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: away smiling from the cocktail party. We beat Georgia, we

960
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: win the East, maybe win the conference. Does that become

961
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: a tipping point where we can mount a decent defense

962
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: of our home turf? Is that enough to buy some

963
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: sheep dogs to guard the yard? Translation? Will we recruit

964
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: Florida better? Yes? Yes, unequivocally I think the answer is yes.

965
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: You got to give kids a reason to stay home.

966
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: You have the advantage, you have been built in advantage.

967
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: This is not like Alabama is out recruiting Oklahoma for

968
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: kids in Florida. They're out recruiting Florida for kids in Florida.

969
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: The default setting of a kid who grows up in Orlando,

970
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: Florida is probably to stay home. A kid who grows

971
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: up in Tampa, probably from birth, did not sit in

972
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: their crib looking at little baby elephants circle above them

973
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: in one of those things that's meant to hypnotize kids

974
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: to sleep. Probably wasn't the case. You've got to overcome

975
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: in state advantages if you're Alabama to get kids out

976
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: of Florida to come play for you. That's what they're doing.

977
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: You just have to balance things. You don't have to

978
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: tip the scale in your favor even just balance things.

979
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: And yes, I think winning the SEC beating Georgia's showing

980
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: kids that Florida is a viable place to win a

981
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: conference in national championship. That may be all it takes

982
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: to win half a dozen recruitments next year. Anthony YouTube

983
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: comment section, Hey Josh, what would happen during the upcoming

984
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: season if a star player or significant players on contending

985
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: teams tested positive for COVID nineteen and they're quarantined. I'm

986
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: curious if a positive test for a star player like

987
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence would negate them from being able to play

988
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: during the season while in quarantine. Yes, Anthony, doesn't matter

989
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: if you're a star player, doesn't matter if you're a

990
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: third string on the last place team in the Sun Belt.

991
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: If you test positive, you're not playing quarantine. You're not playing.

992
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: That's that Owen on Twitter, What would you rather have

993
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: a young offensive line but a veteran experienced D line

994
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: or an experienced veteran O line, but a young D line.

995
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 1: I will take my chances with the offensive line being young.

996
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: Reason being, I don't know if I would have answered

997
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: it that way fifteen twenty years ago, but the reason being,

998
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: I think we've seen a lot of newer age offensive systems.

999
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: It's a lot more tempo. It's a lot more three

1000
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: step drop, or just talking about three step drop. You're

1001
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: taking shots from the gun to begin with, but it's

1002
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: a lot more quick release get the ball out. It's

1003
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,720
Speaker 1: a lot more speed to the parameter. You can mask,

1004
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: not totally, but you can mask a lot of offensive

1005
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: line inefficiencies. You can work around them a lot better

1006
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: than you would have in a traditional offense. So today,

1007
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,439
Speaker 1: if you're gonna give me some stud defensive lineman, I'm

1008
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: gonna take chances and think maybe I can work around

1009
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: that offensive line and experience. Jason on Twitter heard you

1010
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: talk more Lewis. What do you think he can bring

1011
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: to the Arizona State defense. I'm a Bengals fan. I

1012
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: believe he's one of the most underrated coaches in history.

1013
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: What he did here was nothing short of a miracle.

1014
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: We are a disastrous organization. Yeah, listen, Jason, I think

1015
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: that you're right on the money. I'm excited to watch this.

1016
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,439
Speaker 1: He certainly has a pro pedigree to sell. I think

1017
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: the perception that you have of him is the perception

1018
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: a lot of people have of him. And to be

1019
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: honest with you, I think he looked at what Herm

1020
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: Edwards has done and said, wait a second. You can

1021
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: go to the college level and you can get rewarded

1022
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: for your success instead of punished for it, and you

1023
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: can have an athletic department that's fully on board with you.

1024
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: You get to handpick your players, you probably don't have

1025
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: as much pressure consistently as you do in the pro game.

1026
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: And you get to be around young kids. And I

1027
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: get to go coach in Arizona or maybe all coach

1028
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: in the South. I think he wants to be a

1029
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 1: head coach at the college level. That's what I think,

1030
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's a crazy idea. That's what

1031
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: I'm watching for. Marvin Lewis Trevor on Twitter mineso Zoda

1032
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: is on a hot run, at least for them recruiting lately.

1033
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: Curious what do you think the peak for that program?

1034
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: Is under PJ. Fleck. What are your thoughts on PJ

1035
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: in general, Trevor, I think you probably saw their peak

1036
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: last year or very close to it. I think highly

1037
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: a PJ. Fleck. I think it's kind of like with

1038
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: Greg Ciano, you know, when he was when he was

1039
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: bringing Rutgers the first time he was there to Heights

1040
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: previously not seen all that. Chop wood, chop wood, chop wood.

1041
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: All of these are metaphors I believe in. By the way,

1042
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: it's the delivery that sometimes I question that stuff works

1043
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: as long as things are going well, but I think

1044
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 1: it falls on deaf ears as soon as things go

1045
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: sideways a little bit, and you got to ask yourself

1046
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: whether your approach makes sense philosophically or not. Does it

1047
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: connect with an eighteen year old kid. That's the key,

1048
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: And as long as what PJ. Fleck is doing connects

1049
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: with them, doesn't really matter what I think, because I

1050
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: think highly of him as a coach. But here's the

1051
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: problem at Minnesota. As soon as you succeed there, it's

1052
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: like walking outside. If I walk outside in my front

1053
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: yard this morning and I see a giant weed, what

1054
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: has my attention more than any There are billions of

1055
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: blades of grass in my yard. But if there's one

1056
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: weed out there that has my attention over all the

1057
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: other billions of blades of grass, and I'm going and

1058
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to run along more over it right now,

1059
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: if not kill it by the route. Well, that's what

1060
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: happens when Minnesota has success. Penn State comes and get

1061
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:28,280
Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator. You probably had a veteran team. Typically

1062
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: you will have had a veteran team, so you lose

1063
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: players like everyone comes and raids you behind the scenes

1064
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Speaker 1: for your internal support staffers and stuff, and it's just hard.

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00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: It's really hard to maintain that level of success. William

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, let's talk about much Champ. If South Carolina

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Speaker 1: is six and six, do you think he gets fired?

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00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: Will you asked about top candidates? But let me hit

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Speaker 1: that later. Let me ask answer the first part here.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to talk about that

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Speaker 1: even if they're six and six, only because I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't know how relevant the hot seat conversation is

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Speaker 1: going to be this year. Football revenues are down, which

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Speaker 1: we expect them to be. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: coaches who otherwise would be shown the door and may

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Speaker 1: be given a moratorium on this particular year, just treated

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Speaker 1: as a standalone year. Matthew on Twitter, Hey, Josh, I

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00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: just want to get your opinion. What would have to

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Speaker 1: happen in the world of the four team playoff for

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Speaker 1: a two loss team to get in. Well, they probably

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00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: need to be a two loss conference champ. One of

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00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: those losses probably needs to come either at the beginning

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00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,439
Speaker 1: of the year or it needs to come against top

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Speaker 1: flight competition. But I also think there is another possible scenario. Now,

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Speaker 1: this one would be really weird. Like Georgia plays Alabama

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00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: in the regular season this year. Let's say Georgia goes

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00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: to Tuscaloosa and loses by three points, and then they

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00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: win the rest of their games, and then they go

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00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: to Atlanta and they face Alabama and they lose by

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Speaker 1: three points. Again. They've lost twice to let's say the

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Speaker 1: number one seed a combined score of less than a touchdown.

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00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 1: That would be a two loss team. And I know

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00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: a lot of you would cry, well, they already got

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00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: their shot against Alabama twice. They don't deserve to be in.

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Speaker 1: That's not how the playoff works. You're trying to find

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Speaker 1: the four best You're not trying to find the four

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Speaker 1: best unless you've already faced someone else in the four

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Speaker 1: team field. That's not how that works. That's why Alabama

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Speaker 1: and LSU were the right two teams in twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: But I digress. What if that happened, that could be

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Speaker 1: a potential route you elsewhere. Maybe you just have a

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Speaker 1: season where we have just a mess. What if twenty

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00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: What if two thousand and seven were to recreate itself

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00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, we would have a two loss team

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Speaker 1: making the playoff. In all likelihood, we had a two

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Speaker 1: loss team win the national championship that year. Cody on Twitter,

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00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: do you think george is going to take a step

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00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: back this year? They've got a new offensive system, transfer

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00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: quarterback with identical passing stats to Jared Garantano, That's the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing I see holding Georgia back is potential inconsistent

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00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: quarterback play. Cody, Yeah, I mean, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: reasonable suggestion. I don't think it's an assumption quite yet.

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Speaker 1: I really look forward when they finally are able to

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Speaker 1: get organized practices going in Athens. I'm really curious to

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00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: hear about some of the early returns on Jamie Newman

1116
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: and some of the early returns on Todd Mounkin. I

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00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: couldn't care less about their defense. The defense is going

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00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: to be top notch. I want to know offensive line.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are questions really everywhere on that offense.

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Speaker 1: But like I've said with Georgia a million times, questions

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00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: are not weaknesses. Questions are just questions. If you've got

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00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 1: questions and no talented pieces to answer those questions with,

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Speaker 1: then you have a weakness that is not Georgia. Kyle,

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00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: on Twitter, you were talking name, image and likeness and

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Speaker 1: discussing how it could benefit smaller schools. I'm not well

1126
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: versed in this, but to me, I'm wondering if all

1127
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: that's really going to happen is the rich keep getting richer.

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Speaker 1: What if brands decide to recruit kids out of high

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Speaker 1: school and they want those kids they signed to go

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01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: to schools that attract a lot of eyeballs. If all

1131
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: the top talent kids with endorsements want eyeballs on them

1132
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: now more than ever, couldn't this be a dagger to

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Speaker 1: the hearts of schools like TCU or Stanford. Well, Kyle,

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01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm looking around right now. I don't see TCU and

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Speaker 1: Stanford in the college football playoff conversation to begin with.

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Speaker 1: So if that were to happen, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: we'd notice that much difference. Secondly, I talked about this.

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Speaker 1: You can go on the twenty four to seven Sports

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01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: YouTube channel and find my video on this. We did

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Speaker 1: it last week and I went in great detail on this,

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01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: more deeper, deeper shall I say than I could go

1142
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I don't think it's going to go

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01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: that route. The big boys are going to get fatter,

1144
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: That much is true. I think this is going to

1145
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 1: spread itself out and benefit a lot more programs than

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01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: just the select few. Here's the question I asked. So

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01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: I don't have the answer to the biggest fear needs

1148
01:00:56,560 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: to be this. Currently, you would think to yourself, Labama

1149
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: can only take twenty five kids a year, Texas can

1150
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: only take twenty five kids a year. Well, that's true

1151
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 1: if you're talking about scholarships. What if part of these deals.

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01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: What if part of these endorsement deals give kids so

1153
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: much upfront signing bonuses, shall we say that they agree

1154
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: to pay their own freight and not take up scholarship numbers?

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01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: What if Ohio State can all of a sudden bring

1156
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: in forty scholarship caliber players in a cycle fifteen of

1157
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: whom walk on instead of just your twenty five. Now

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01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a dagger to the heart,

1159
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: think about that. Jansen on Twitter recently found the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I've been enjoying it. Thank you, Jansen. I have two questions. First,

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Speaker 1: as a student at Middle Tennessee, I've been paying close

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01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: attention to G five conferences like Conference US say, I'm curious,

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01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: what is the difference between the AAC, the American Athletic Conference,

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01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: and a conference like Sun Belt. How do these conferences,

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01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 1: who we perceive to be on the same playing field

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01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: have such large gaps? Janson, I don't perceive them to

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01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: be in the same playing field. That's kind of like saying,

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01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 1: you know, the SEC and the ACC are on the

1169
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: same playing field because they are both Power five. Well

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Speaker 1: that's where the similarities stop. The SEC is in another league. Well,

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01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: they're in another world, let's say, than the ACC right now,

1172
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: just as the AAC is in another world. Take the

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Speaker 1: top three, just shave off the top of the conferences.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about Central Florida and Memphis and Cincinnati. There

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01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: is legitimate football being played there like those are they

1176
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: have legitimate history at those programs, and you're talking about

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Speaker 1: Troy and ul Lafayette Arkansas State. These aren't even comparable,

1178
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: not even comparable, They're just better programs. Jansen on Twitter

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Speaker 1: The second question, and this will wrap us up here.

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Speaker 1: My second and last question. Have you watched any good

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01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 1: sports documentaries or movies during quarantine? What would you recommend? Well?

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Speaker 1: I watched The Last Dance, which was the Bulls documentary.

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01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 1: I watched that along with everyone else, watch the Lance

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01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: Armstrong documentary, and then felt like I needed to take

1185
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: a shower. But I'll tell you what else I watched.

1186
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm an old school wrestling guy. I don't watch the

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01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: product now. I think it's terrible, But back in the day,

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01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: I watched it a lot. I grew up on it,

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Speaker 1: and I watched on WWE Network. I snatched my buddy's

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Speaker 1: login information. And I watched The Undertaker five part Last

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01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: Ride docuseries that they just wrapped up, and I was

1192
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: so torn. The Undertaker is the greatest character in the

1193
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 1: history of professional wrestling. This is a guy who made

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01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: you suspend your disbelief and buy into the notion that

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Speaker 1: an actual dead person was wrestling, and it was I'm

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01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: not saying believable in a real life sense, but you

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01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: bought it. It's like, if you watch the movie Twister,

1198
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: the best storm chasing teams in the history of mankind

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01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,919
Speaker 1: will not see six tornadoes in a day. But yet

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01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt made you suspend your disbelief

1201
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: because the acting was good enough. And they Philip Seymour

1202
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: Hoffman shout out by the way, rest in peace, Rest

1203
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: in peace. Bill Paxton too, they made you buy it.

1204
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Speaker 1: So the Undertaker made you buy it because he was

1205
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: tailor made, custom built for that character. Here is what

1206
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,479
Speaker 1: I don't like my beef with pro wrestling. The reason

1207
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: I stopped watching pro wrestling is because they lifted their

1208
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 1: own curtain. They exposed their own business. You cannot expect

1209
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: me not to listen if you start telling me about

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01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: how wrestling is choreographed, how wrestling is a work to

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01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 1: use an industry term. And so this Undertaker documentary is

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01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I both love pro wrestling

1213
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: from back in the day and don't watch it anymore.

1214
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Speaker 1: I'm someone who doesn't want to know. I want you

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01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: to keep it a mystery, just like the world of magic.

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Speaker 1: The difference in pro wrestling and magic, big difference. They're

1217
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: both illusions, they are both met as entertainment. But here's

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Speaker 1: what people in the world of magic have been smart

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01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: enough to not do that. People in the pro wrestling

1220
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: world have not been smart enough to do. People who

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Speaker 1: work in the world of illusion and magic, like David Copperfield,

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01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: they don't do a show on Monday night and then

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01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning do a hit on SportsCenter and talk about

1224
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: how they did the show the previous night. I've seen

1225
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: David Copperfield in person. I've watched him make people disappear

1226
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: in front of me. I know these people didn't really disappear.

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01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: I know that's impossible, but yet I don't know how

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01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: he did it. I don't want to know how he

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01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: did it. That's part of the illusion. I'm willing to

1230
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: suspend my disbelief as long as you don't insult my

1231
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:34,439
Speaker 1: intelligence by telling me how you did it well. Pro

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Speaker 1: wrestling felt the need to expose itself, and pro wrestling

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01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: felt the need to lift the curtain, just like with

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Speaker 1: this Undertaker documentary. I am perfectly fine just seeing the

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Speaker 1: character and knowing nothing about Mark Callaway, the man that

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01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: makes the product better to me. But as soon as

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01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: you humanize these people I'm gonna watch, I'm taking it.

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01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: You don't need to offer it to me, and so

1239
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: you offered it to me, and I've seen you expose

1240
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 1: your business. Now. That's why the only thing I watch

1241
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: with pro wrestling is a documentary. I don't watch the

1242
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: modern day product. You can expose your product, and you

1243
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: can insult my intelligence in doing so, and then expect

1244
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: me to come back to the table and forget three

1245
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: days ago where I saw you on Good Morning America

1246
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: or Sports Center openly talking about how this is work,

1247
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 1: and then expect me to come right back to the

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01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: table and buy in fully emotionally to what you're doing.

1249
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: So Jansen, that's a long winded way of saying, I

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01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: watched the Undertaker documentary and I watched the Bulls Last

1251
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,919
Speaker 1: Dance docu series. Those were the two that so far

1252
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Speaker 1: I've watched. We really appreciate you listening. Listen. The five

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Speaker 1: star reviews help us out a lot. Please give us

1254
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 1: one of those if you can, and submit your written questions,

1255
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: whether it be in the podcast review section, YouTube comment section.

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01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: You can hit me on Twitter at Late Kick Josh

1257
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 1: follow me while you're there by the way, or you

1258
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: can email me anyway. We'll do this again, same time

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Speaker 1: next week Wednesday. You can catch Late Kick Live on

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Speaker 1: the twenty four to seven sports A YouTube channel every

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Speaker 1: Thursday night and Sunday night at eight eastern seventh Central

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Speaker 1: until next time. I'm Josh Pate. Thanks for listening. Guys,

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