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Speaker 1: And welcome inn Lake Kick is live.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, February eleventh, now the year of

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Speaker 2: Our Lord, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Jam packed.

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Speaker 2: As you can see, we are nice and worn, which

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Speaker 2: is much unlike Archpadre is outside right now here in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: But we are back in studio. We are alive as

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Speaker 1: live b B Tonight.

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Speaker 2: We've got a jam packed show and we've got some

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Speaker 2: different angles to maybe go at. Then. Oh, I don't

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Speaker 2: know what you're seeing on the national scene today. I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty confident we're talking about some different things here tonight.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about, for my money, is something

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Speaker 2: I've never broached as a topic on the show before,

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Speaker 2: and that is video games. But not necessarily a gaming segment.

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Speaker 2: It has just as much to do with you if

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Speaker 2: you couldn't care less about video games, as it does

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Speaker 2: the game or fanatics out there. I know because I

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Speaker 2: don't ever play video games and it matters to me.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you exactly why, and I somehow I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna work in probably a second Rookie of the Year

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Speaker 2: reference in as many weeks from a movie standpoint. Also,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about Georgia's position for twenty twenty one. All

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Speaker 2: this stemmed from a question on the podcast the other

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Speaker 2: day about whether Georgia was positioned on a national level

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Speaker 2: the same way Florida was positioned this.

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Speaker 1: Year in the SEC East.

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Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that, and also the mood Tracker

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Speaker 2: segment is back. We've been doing these pretty much since

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Speaker 2: the new year, easily since the National Championship game, and

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Speaker 2: we'll continue.

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Speaker 1: To roll through all that. So I appreciate you being

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Speaker 1: with us tonight.

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Speaker 2: I also want to just give you a quick thank you,

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Speaker 2: as I often try and do every week or so

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Speaker 2: on the show. You know, we try and be as

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Speaker 2: direct with you and relatable with you as possible. I

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Speaker 2: talk to you guys through DMS and through emails all

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Speaker 2: the time, and so you own the show. I tell

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Speaker 2: you that all the time. I'm not messing around. We

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Speaker 2: don't stack the show for us. We stack the show

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Speaker 2: for you. And I also want to thank you because

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Speaker 2: people pay attention, you know, the interactivity that we have together.

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Speaker 2: It gets noticed, and so I just want to, you know,

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Speaker 2: reassure you. You know, some things happen behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: that maybe you don't see, but a lot of what

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Speaker 2: you have put in motion helps us behind the scenes too.

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Speaker 2: Ultimately here and down the road, bring you more of

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Speaker 2: what you want, to get you away from maybe some

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Speaker 2: of the other stuff out there.

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Speaker 1: That you don't so much want.

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Speaker 2: So I've read you loud and clear, and we are

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Speaker 2: working on bring you more of that. So let's get

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Speaker 2: into the show tonight, because we've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: different angles to go through.

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Speaker 1: Even in February. That O word, that off season not

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Speaker 2: We don't believe in off seasons around here. Where is

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Speaker 2: Georgia in twenty twenty one. I put a pull up

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Speaker 2: on Twitter earlier today, which sometimes I do heading into

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Speaker 2: So here's what I put out there. You can vote

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Speaker 2: in real time in your mind, whether you're driving around,

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Speaker 2: listening to the podcast, or watching us on YouTube. I

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Speaker 2: Georgia yet. That's a fact. And then I followed it

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: You could attribute that to a myriad of different reasons,

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Speaker 1: Now, that's not a bad thing.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's really fun sometimes to juxtapose the

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Speaker 2: about a program. So Georgia football, right now, I get

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Speaker 2: a question in the inbox. We were about to record

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Speaker 2: by the way, and someone asked, Hey, Georgia in twenty

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Speaker 1: And they did it.

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Speaker 2: So now the question from the submitter the other day was, Okay,

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Speaker 2: And it's a fair question. But then here was the

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Speaker 2: And listen, I gotta be honest with you. Initially I

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Speaker 1: Thought it was. Because, to be honest with you, I

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Speaker 1: Now, we're never situation for Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Because of the answer to this question, and there are

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Speaker 2: What does it take twenty twenty one and beyond, let's

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Speaker 1: I guess what does it take.

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Speaker 2: Agree, no matter what you think about Kirby Smart, the

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Speaker 2: to go ahead and knock that pin down. We've already

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Speaker 2: He will be their starter this year. Your opinion of

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Speaker 2: him is your opinion of him. We've got plenty of

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Speaker 1: That's another five star guy. So not only do you

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Speaker 2: But you've got that box checked. What else do you need? Well,

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Speaker 2: to have at least B plus. And listen, I'm asking you,

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Speaker 2: So I'm asking you where do they fall short to

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Speaker 2: Maybe they're learning how hard it is to get there.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 2: I remember, you know, when Auburn got there in twenty

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Speaker 1: No, you won't. They never did.

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Speaker 2: Now Georgia got there in twenty seventeen, Smart second year.

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Speaker 2: And listen, I'm sure there is a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: Well they haven't so far.

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Speaker 2: But man, he's he's going into his seventh year, right

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Speaker 2: now let me hit you with something. I want you

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Speaker 2: to think about this. The best coaches in America right now,

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Speaker 2: Saban is in his own galaxy.

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Speaker 1: So who else are we talking about.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about Ryan Day, We're talking about Dabo Swinny,

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Speaker 2: Kirby Smart, the guy if you're watching on YouTube, that

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Speaker 2: you see on your screen right now, Kirby Smart just

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Speaker 2: This is a guy who has racked up multiple titles. Now,

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Speaker 2: I think I've visited this topic, or at least broached

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Speaker 2: Let's just in no particular order, like there's no corresponding

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Speaker 1: You know you can see it. You can see it

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Speaker 2: I think Manny Diaz made a very tactical sound decision

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Speaker 1: Boom, boom, boom.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't been that.

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Speaker 2: It's been the more realistic kind of brick by brick

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Speaker 2: they had arrived. It was a top ten matchup. They

439
00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,800
Speaker 2: found out twice emphatically, Nope, we're not quite where we

440
00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,960
Speaker 2: thought we were. It's the same growing pains Miami's going through.

441
00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,840
Speaker 2: They they never hit the reset button, Nick Clemson. They

442
00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:14,960
Speaker 2: just kept right on, kept right on, kept right on.

443
00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,120
Speaker 2: And because the ACC was otherwise still manageable. Even back then,

444
00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,119
Speaker 2: even in their what you would consider down years, they

445
00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,920
Speaker 2: were still winning nine, ten eleven games, but they'd always

446
00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,480
Speaker 2: have a two or a three in the lost column,

447
00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:27,960
Speaker 2: including postseason play.

448
00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:29,160
Speaker 1: They just kept going.

449
00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,840
Speaker 2: So credit Clemson. Use it as a blueprint you want

450
00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,560
Speaker 2: to beat them. Their success has no doubt left clues.

451
00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,399
Speaker 2: And so I mean, they didn't invent the formula for

452
00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,920
Speaker 2: success anymore than McDonald's invented the hamburger, but they sure

453
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,880
Speaker 2: have perfected their own process there.

454
00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,280
Speaker 1: You just got to do the same thing.

455
00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,159
Speaker 2: Now, let me circle back around to why I maybe

456
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,119
Speaker 2: even more optimistic, certainly than a lot of outsiders and

457
00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,639
Speaker 2: maybe even some insiders when it comes to Miami. Talked

458
00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,480
Speaker 2: about this last week, I think Colin maybe two weeks ago.

459
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,919
Speaker 2: I talked about what the future holds. Sometimes you're in

460
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,920
Speaker 2: the wrong place, you know. You could talk about Nebraska

461
00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,280
Speaker 2: and maybe how college football and the shifting dynamics has

462
00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:09,560
Speaker 2: left that program behind. Well, I could talk inversely about

463
00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,680
Speaker 2: Miami right now, and I could every bit paint the

464
00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,720
Speaker 2: picture for you that college football is coming to them.

465
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,800
Speaker 2: They don't have to do anything. They can sit where

466
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 2: they are in South Florida. They can be an attractive

467
00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:24,679
Speaker 2: program and wait for two different axes to converge, and

468
00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 2: it'll converge right over places like Coral Gables. It'll converge

469
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,959
Speaker 2: I think over places like Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and

470
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,679
Speaker 2: that is name, image and likeness eventually converging with the

471
00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,639
Speaker 2: transfer portal. It is very easy when I paint the

472
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 2: picture of nil, it is very easy to envision Miami

473
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,080
Speaker 2: recruiting kicking it up a notch when you can do

474
00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,600
Speaker 2: things that you can't do right now. I don't even think, like,

475
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,919
Speaker 2: I'll leave that to your imagination. It's all legal in

476
00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 2: that context. It's all legal when we eventually cross that bridge.

477
00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,000
Speaker 2: But also the transfer portal, Like I think some people

478
00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,080
Speaker 2: around that program get it. I you don't think maybe

479
00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:05,040
Speaker 2: the country understands how set up for success programs?

480
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 1: Well, there aren't many of them.

481
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 2: But Miami in particular, a Power five program in South Florida,

482
00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,280
Speaker 2: which is going to be a default fallback option for

483
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,360
Speaker 2: untold amounts of talent annually that left South Florida one

484
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,080
Speaker 2: or two years ago and just want to go home.

485
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,880
Speaker 2: Maybe things aren't working out, maybe they're homesick, maybe they

486
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 2: don't like the dynamic. Maybe the coaching staff that recruited

487
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 2: them got fired at you know, Tennessee or Texas A

488
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 2: and but wherever they are and they just want to

489
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:31,119
Speaker 2: go home.

490
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Speaker 1: How nice is it to be the Power five.

491
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 2: Program in the backyard of any South Florida kid who's

492
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 2: looking to come home.

493
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Speaker 1: What do you think they're going to do?

494
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:41,399
Speaker 2: Where do you think they're going to want to go

495
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,240
Speaker 2: over to try out things at Florida International?

496
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Speaker 1: Like no knock on.

497
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 2: The panthers over there. Miami is where they're going to

498
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,520
Speaker 2: want to go. What does Miami have to do? They

499
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 2: don't have to do anything but sit there and be themselves.

500
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,679
Speaker 2: And it's you were probably involved in their recruitment to

501
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,880
Speaker 2: begin with, and so on top of the moves Mani

502
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 2: Deals is already making from a staff perspective and from

503
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 2: a recruiting person, back to what Florida's doing right now,

504
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,360
Speaker 2: what Oklahoma's doing right now, capitalizing on the portal that's

505
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 2: gonna be Miami. It's gonna end up being Miami. Like

506
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,199
Speaker 2: that move when Derrick King transferred and everyone was, you know,

507
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 2: over the moon excited. That will end up being the

508
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 2: norm at Miami. And let me tell you something, I

509
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 2: don't care if it's by a way of classical recruiting

510
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 2: or by way of portal recruiting. When they finally hit

511
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 2: a grand slam instead of just a home run at

512
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 2: the quarterback position, then we'll start talking about them in

513
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 2: that Clemson conversation because they're not there right now. The

514
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 2: roster's not there right now. Quarterback position. God blessed Derrick King.

515
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: Hope he has a speedy recovery. But even with him healthy,

516
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 2: we saw those two teams match up on the fields

517
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 2: and no contest this past year. That doesn't mean they

518
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 2: can't get there. Remember big difference between Kent and We'll

519
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,199
Speaker 2: never get there. They just haven't gotten there yet. So

520
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 2: I've got I got a lot of excitement. I think

521
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 2: that's one of the if you gave me four or

522
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 2: five programs to put on a list for you to

523
00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 2: watch over the next five years and to you know,

524
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 2: buy stock in over the next five years, that's another one.

525
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 2: You know, George is already George is already established. We

526
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,239
Speaker 2: talked about them a little while ago. I think there

527
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 2: are far more doubters out there from Miami. But that's

528
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 2: program that you know, it bears close watching, and if

529
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 2: it's listen, I think it's going to be many daz

530
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 2: But even if it's not him, if things were to

531
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 2: go worst case scenario two years from now, they're hitting

532
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 2: the dump button on Manny Diaz. Everything I just said

533
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: still valid. It's set up perfectly for someone to come in.

534
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 2: And you know, if you put the right person behind

535
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 2: the wheel of a Ferrari, they can do some really

536
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 2: incredible things in that vehicle. So Miami, they're the Ferrari

537
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 2: who's going to do the incredible thing in that vehicle.

538
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 2: You're looking at Manny Diaz on your screen right now.

539
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's him. Let's move on. As I told you

540
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 2: the other day, so some of the some of the

541
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 2: programs out there that have had coaching turnover, LSU comes

542
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 2: to mind. We're about to talk about Auburn in a second.

543
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 2: I told you, yes, I was getting your requests. I

544
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 2: wanted to wait. I wanted to pump the brakes a

545
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 2: little bit because I wanted to make sure everything was set.

546
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of assistant coaches, even after head

547
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 2: coaches has been hired, we've had them, you know, coming

548
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 2: in going.

549
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: It's been really weird this year.

550
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't done a South Carolina mood tracker

551
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 2: or I was very hesitan to do one for that

552
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 2: very reason. So at Auburn, now we got Harson in there,

553
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 2: like we got everybody. So now I feel comfortable. Let's

554
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 2: get to it. Auburn mood Tracker. Here we sit, early

555
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: February of twenty twenty one. I was time stamped, so

556
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 2: when I go back and watch these in the future,

557
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 2: I know exactly where I was.

558
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: This is a first. This is a brand new mood.

559
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: We're unveiling it. We're debuting it tonight.

560
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 2: I doubt we have any b roll for this kind

561
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: of mood, but it is a scratch off status. What

562
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,880
Speaker 2: in the world do you think I mean by that?

563
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 2: Let's be safe. Here we are live, so let's be safe.

564
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 2: Auburn understood the score. Let me back up, A lot

565
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,959
Speaker 2: of people at Auburn understood the score when they got

566
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 2: rid of Malson. I'm not going to rehash whether he

567
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 2: should have been fired or not.

568
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: It is what it is.

569
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 2: When Gus Malson was shown the door when he was

570
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 2: given his walking papers. Enough people at Auburn, including athletic

571
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 2: director Alan Green, they knew the score.

572
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: And here's what the score was.

573
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard the old adage, you'll invest ten

574
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 2: dollars the same way you'd invest ten million dollars.

575
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever told you that?

576
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 2: Because for the purposes of the next four or five

577
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 2: minutes of your life, I want you to wad that

578
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 2: advice up. I want you to throw it out the window,

579
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 2: because that was frowned upon by Auburn. Auburn said, if

580
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 2: we had ten million dollars, we could go get anyone

581
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 2: we want to. I mean, we could completely overhaul everything

582
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 2: and we could have a proven national championship winning coach

583
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 2: in place by next week. That wasn't the set of circumstances.

584
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 2: They knew it even before they fired Malzam, or if

585
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: they didn't, they should have. Here's what they knew. They

586
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 2: had ten bucks in their hand, again figuratively. And sometimes

587
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 2: when you got ten bucks in your hand, instead of

588
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 2: looking for a way to invest the ten bucks, you

589
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: just go to the seven eleven and you buy ten

590
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 2: scratch offs, and you know it's not wise, like financially,

591
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 2: that's nothing Dave Ramsey would instruct you to do in

592
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 2: a workshop.

593
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: However, you've heard stories before.

594
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 2: Every time you walk in that seven eleven, you look

595
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: behind the CA and they're all the examples on the

596
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 2: wall of people who have won seventy five hundred dollars

597
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 2: eleven thousand dollars, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars

598
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 2: at this little gas station.

599
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: Spending one or two dollars on a scratch off. It

600
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: could happen.

601
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 2: JP angels in the outfield, flap those arms, it could happen.

602
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 2: And so Auburn went into scratch off mentality because they

603
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 2: looked around and they said, you know what, no one's

604
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 2: heard of Brian Harson.

605
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: We hadn't heard.

606
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 2: We hadn't even heard the name Brian Harson in regards

607
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 2: to Auburn ten minutes before they made the announcement.

608
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: But they looked around.

609
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 2: Finally, when things that subsided in the right people had

610
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: control of the steering wheel, and they said, what are

611
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 2: we trying to do here? We got to compete against

612
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 2: Nick Saban every year Jimbo Fisher Kirby Smart at Georgia

613
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 2: lsu is a year fresh off of national championship. Here's

614
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 2: what we could do. We could either take a quote

615
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: unquote proven route, a conventional route and probably never surpassed

616
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 2: those guys, even if everything works out. You know, Kevin Steele,

617
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 2: Billy Napier, Mario Christabaul. I mean, those were guys who

618
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: have learned under Nick Saban, and those are guys who,

619
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 2: you know, if history is in the indication, probably weren't

620
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 2: going to be the guys to overtake him.

621
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: So auburn the powers that be there.

622
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: They look around and they know we got to slay

623
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 2: dragons plural, one of them being the best of all time,

624
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 2: but really several of them. And so we look around

625
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: and instead of investing this ten dollars, let's just go

626
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 2: try to scratch off mode. It could fail spectacularly, but really,

627
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 2: if it does, where would we be that we aren't already? Now,

628
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 2: this was not my opinion. I thought things were a

629
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: lot better than they were painted to be under maus On,

630
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 2: But you didn't think that. So that's all that matters.

631
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 2: But they went and they bought to scratch Off, and

632
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 2: they went to Boise, Idaho, and they got Brian Harson.

633
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: Brian Harson has won games. Brian Harson is a proven

634
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 2: commodity as a head coach. He's not a hot shot coordinator.

635
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 2: But yet there are obviously several unknowns, even if you're

636
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 2: the most hardcore of Auburn supporters, about whether.

637
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 1: He'll fit there.

638
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 2: Like you know, obviously the typical questions, we don't need

639
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 2: to waste time asking. But there's a bit of kind

640
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: of a fragment in nature right now, even about the

641
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: Auburn fan base, because I've that's down really near where

642
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 2: I'm from. So again, my research method is just text

643
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: fifteen in my Auburn buddies, what do you think?

644
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: And wait for the eye Josh to respond. And there

645
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: is our show research.

646
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 2: And believe me, the extent of the research for this

647
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: topic because you just got to kind of feel it.

648
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: I talk to you guys all the time. You got

649
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: to kind of feel the mood. And the mood right

650
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: now is.

651
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 2: They hope they hit a grand slam, you know, instead

652
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: of trying to lay down a bunch, instead of trying

653
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 2: to you know, put it on the ground and leg

654
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 2: it out.

655
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: They went for the grand Slam. It has paid off before.

656
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: It has paid off in.

657
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: Very big fashion from coaches coming from that part of

658
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 2: the country before urban Meyer probably most famously coming in

659
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 2: from Utah, and everyone thinks the SEC is about to

660
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: teach that guy a thing or two about football. He

661
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: taught the SEC, I think or two about football. Dude,

662
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: revolutionize the conference. That is where the comparisons for now

663
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 2: on this show will end between urban Meyer and Brian Harson.

664
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: But they hope.

665
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 2: And here's where the fragmented nature of the fan base

666
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 2: is the most optimistic of Auburn fans, Like they're willing

667
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: to dive in headfirst whoever you put in front of them,

668
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 2: even if they didn't originally support the higher Once the

669
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 2: press conference has been had, and once the dust is

670
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 2: settled and he's our guy, we're all in for him.

671
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: Literally, that's what they'll put on the T shirt, all in.

672
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: And then you got this other group. Now everyone's going

673
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 2: to pull for him to succeed. But you got this

674
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: other group that, as far as I can tell, probably

675
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: is of equal or maybe a little bit bigger in size.

676
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 2: And they are hopeful, but they still have doubts. Because

677
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 2: here's how I would put it, and here's the best

678
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 2: way I can sum it up, And here's how they

679
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 2: think if the Georgia job had come open, so they

680
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 2: are not emotionally attached to it. If the Georgia job

681
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: had come open and Georgia had hired Brian Harson, a

682
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: lot of these Auburn fans would look and they'd make

683
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: fun of the hire because they would say, why did

684
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: you get that guy?

685
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: Like, couldn't you have done better? Well?

686
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: What about a guy winning kind of at Boise, Idaho

687
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 2: is going to translate to the University of Georgia. And

688
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: so they know they would say that if to do

689
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: was it? So now he's theirs and that's the only difference.

690
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: So they're hopeful and they hope the doubters are wrong,

691
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: but they in the back of their mind again when

692
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 2: they're amongst themselves, not publicly, when you're talking amongst yourselves,

693
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: you're wondering, is this guy going to haul in recruiting

694
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 2: classes the likes of which we have to have, not

695
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 2: just to compete against Alabama. I know that's the elephant

696
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: in the room, pun intended, but you got to beat

697
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: every year. You got to at least compete against every

698
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 2: year four of the top six or seven recruiting programs

699
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: in America. I maintain I say this all the time

700
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 2: that when combining expectation and challenge, this is the hardest

701
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: job in America because that is the only program in America.

702
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: When you're looking at the schedule, which we're showing you

703
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: right now, you got LSU not some years every year

704
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: Georgia ditto, A and M didto Alabama ditto. This is

705
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: a job where you could theoretically finish eighth in the

706
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 2: recruiting rankings and be fourth in your own division or

707
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 2: on your own schedule. When it comes to teams, you

708
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: have to play every year and sore, there's the doubt

709
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: amongst Auburn fans recruiting rankings aren't everything.

710
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: The most talented roster doesn't always win. Development is the

711
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: name of the game, but recruiting to get the talent

712
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: to develop, recruiting and culture.

713
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 2: Those are also a couple more names of the game.

714
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 2: It's not normally pluralized, but it was right now. But

715
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 2: they're looking around and they're saying, is this guy's this

716
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: Brian Harson guy? Is he going to recruit a high

717
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 2: enough level? And if he's not, if he's a guy

718
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: that floats in like the eight to twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, range.

719
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: Is he a guy and it is his staff, a

720
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: staff that we can come on to realistically out coach

721
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: and out scheme some of the best in America. Because

722
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 2: the thing about Alabama, the thing about A and M,

723
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 2: the thing about Georgia, these aren't places where you have

724
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: knuckle draggers on the sideline who just happened to come

725
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 2: upon this wealth of talent, but they have no clue

726
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: how to coach their way out of a wet paper bag. Now,

727
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: they're pretty good in all departments, So to match them,

728
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: you're either going to have to try and out scheme

729
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 2: one third of your schedule every year, or you're gonna

730
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: have to go talent for talent. Sometimes you just got

731
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 2: to have the better players. And so I think that's

732
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 2: where a lot of the doubt stems. But that's going

733
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 2: to be a two or three or four year answer.

734
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 2: The first year answer is going to be this, what

735
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 2: is Brian Harson and what is Mike Bobo?

736
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: What are those two going to be able to do

737
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: with Bo Nicks? Because Bo Nicks is like this great

738
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: unknown in college football.

739
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: His name has been trashed because he was in a

740
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 2: program very ill equipped to develop any kind of quarterback

741
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: so a lot of people have looked at his development

742
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 2: and his production therein and they've just thought bo Nix

743
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: is probably not a good quarterback. I don't buy that

744
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: because I listen. I was close to him, I followed

745
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: him in high school. I covered him in a lot

746
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: of cases in high school. But I've seen the guy play.

747
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 2: I know who his peers were coming out in his class,

748
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 2: and I thought he was very comparable to them.

749
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: At the high school level. He went to the.

750
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 2: Wrong program, point blank to develop him as a quarterback.

751
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 2: I know what the emotional attachment was. I know why

752
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: he's there, I know who his dad is. But now

753
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: hopefully he's got a duo head coach and more importantly,

754
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 2: an offense coordinator that understand how to properly develop the

755
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 2: position and understand how to develop him as a decision

756
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: maker and as a passer.

757
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: Ah Man, it's a big question mark.

758
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: But you know, if that question is answered in definitive terms,

759
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 2: in positive terms, you know, maybe there's maybe that's the

760
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 2: ray of sun that you need in year one that

761
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: lets you know better days are ahead. Because I can

762
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 2: guarantee there are a lot of high school coaches, there

763
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: are a lot of recruits out there who are watching

764
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 2: this every bit as anxiously as you are and as

765
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 2: I am, Because you don't know definitively who Brian Harson is.

766
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect.

767
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 2: Well, we're not the ones trying to decide if we're

768
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: going to spend some of the most important years of our.

769
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: Life playing for the man they are. And so.

770
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: That's another one of those programs. You know, it's a

771
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: familiar theme tonight, Miami. That's one to watch, Auburn, big

772
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 2: program to watch in twenty twenty one. All right, let's

773
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: move on here. I wanted to wrap up with a

774
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: pretty unique segment. This is not something that I don't

775
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 2: think we've ever talked about it, to be honest with you,

776
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: on this show, the EA Sports video game college football

777
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: is about as generic as I can put it. You

778
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 2: can see on the screen right here. It was a

779
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 2: tweet that came out last week. It garnered a lot

780
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: of at tension, trust me, in the college football world,

781
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: both for gamers and non gamers.

782
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: This is not a gaming segment.

783
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: For those of you already trying to hit the X button,

784
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 2: I want to assure you it's not a gaming segment.

785
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: I myself. I don't even play them.

786
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: The last video game I played and the last one

787
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 2: I bought, I kid you not was NCAA Football five.

788
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: I think that was FI, the one with Reggie Bush

789
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 2: on the cover. I hadn't even played.

790
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: One since then.

791
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: That was on an original PlayStation, by the way, or

792
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: maybe at PS two.

793
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: So it's been a while for your guy here.

794
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: However, this is so extremely important for college football. You know,

795
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: I get correspondence from a lot of you when we're

796
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 2: talking about college football, and a lot of people want

797
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: to look at the playoff structure, for example, A lot

798
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: of people want to look at the imbalance and equity

799
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 2: in the sport, and they always want to talk about

800
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 2: what's good or bad for.

801
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: The health of college football.

802
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: This thing we're talking about right here, this football or

803
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 2: this college football game potentially re emerging on the gaming market.

804
00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: Oh that's big.

805
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell's big because I think it may be

806
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 2: common sense in one thread, but in another thread it's not.

807
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 2: So the quick timeline here, it's gone away since twenty fourteen.

808
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: I think twenty fourteen was the last version. Denard Robinson

809
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 2: was the last guy on the cover. You had the

810
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 2: whole Ed O'Bannon lawsuit. I think sort of that was

811
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 2: the popularized narrative as to why this went away. But

812
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: you also had a whole lot of licensing disruption out

813
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 2: there where EA Sports couldn't come to terms with various

814
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 2: conferences or programs. Can you imagine, by the way, think

815
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: about trying to produce this product, and how many it's

816
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: so decentralized. College football is so decentralized, So how many

817
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: different people, how many different checks you're having to get,

818
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 2: how many different signatures you're having to get? Oh what

819
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 2: a headache? God bless the people in charge of this.

820
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 2: But the hunger never went away. The game went away,

821
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 2: The market for the game never went away. So here

822
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: is what I would wonder if I were you, If

823
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: I were twenty eight, forty eight, or sixty eight, and

824
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there and I'm not really I'm not really

825
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 2: interested in video games. Why should you care about this? Well,

826
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 2: if you care about college football, here's why you should

827
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 2: care about it. So the young demographic, I'm not telling

828
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 2: you anything you probably don't already know. If you've even

829
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 2: taken an intro to marketing class, it is imperative. It

830
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 2: is the lifeblood of maintaining the overall traction of any

831
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: sports league out there, but really any brand in general.

832
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 2: You've got to have continuous brand rejuvenation. That's an untechnical

833
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 2: term that I use all the time. There's several really

834
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 2: fancy marketing terms out there that I won't waste your

835
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: time with. I want to take you back to the

836
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: early nineties, but I don't even want to talk about

837
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 2: college football Major League baseball in the early nineties. Nineteen

838
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: ninety four they went on stripe, and so there was

839
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: no ninety four season, there was no ninety four World Series.

840
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: The ninety five season started late. Atlanta Braids ended up

841
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 2: winning one and only World Series that had ever come

842
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 2: to Atlanta.

843
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: But that's a side note. So baseball goes away.

844
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: Much has been written and talked about what happened to

845
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 2: the sport in the early and mid nineties, and then

846
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 2: probably a whole lot more has been written about what

847
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: brought everyone back. If you're of any age, you know,

848
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 2: if you're over the age of like thirty, or you've

849
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: done your own research, then you've probably heard everyone credit

850
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety eight home run race as the seminal moment.

851
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: The central theme of what brought a lot of younger

852
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: fans and fans in general, but specifically the Summer of

853
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 2: Love as they called it at the time. It was Maguire,

854
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 2: it was Sosa, everyone felt good. I was home over

855
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 2: the past weekend. In the bottom of a box of

856
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: some of my stuff, I have the newspaper clippings from

857
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: the home run chase that year that I cut out

858
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: of the Columbus Ledger in choirir. So yeah, I was

859
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: captivated by it. But as much as that's credited, and

860
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 2: I promise this is going to tie you into the

861
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 2: EA Sports video game in a second, there is a

862
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 2: great underreported facet that kept young kids. And I know

863
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: because I was one at this time. There was something

864
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: that not only didn't drive us away, there was something

865
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 2: that kept us at the table even when baseball stopped,

866
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: and it was movies.

867
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: If you'll think back to the mid.

868
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: To late eighties through the to late nineties, there was

869
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 2: about a ten to fifteen year stretch there where all

870
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: of the greatest baseball movies were ever made and they

871
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: all came out. You're talking about everything from the G

872
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 2: to the R genre. You're talking about everything from Little

873
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Speaker 2: big League Rookie of the year.

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Speaker 1: Sandlot comes out during this time.

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Speaker 2: But you've also got Bull Durham, you got major League

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00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 2: All that stuff happened while we were kids, and so

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Speaker 2: the emotional attachment, you know, you go to where the

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00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 2: audience is so at the time, that was what sort

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00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: of provided the adhesive between my generation and baseball. What

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00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: romanticized baseball to us, contrary to popular opinion, was not

881
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 2: sitting around listening to folks tell stories about the Iron Horse,

882
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 2: about lou gerring about Babe Ruth All that's great.

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00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: The movies, the great string of movies that came out.

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Speaker 2: That's what connected me and an entire generation of young

885
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 2: people to the sport of baseball. They didn't get it.

886
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball didn't get it. They thought the on

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00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 2: field product was what brought us back. That's not what

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00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 2: brought us back. That's what brought me back. I can

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00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 2: guarantee you that, and I certainly can also guarantee you

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Speaker 2: I'm not alone. This video game is this modern day's

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00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 2: version for college football of what that stretch of cinema

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00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 2: was for Major League baseball. And I'm telling you it

893
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: hasn't been long enough yet to really cost you. But

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00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: if you went a few more years, and you slice

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00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 2: that product, that college football video game, which is the

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00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: lifeblood of your brand's rejuvenation effort with younger demographics year

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00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 2: over year. If you were to take that out and

898
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 2: remove it for a generation, you might as well slice

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00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 2: a gap of demo out of the facet and the

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00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 2: fabric of your sport, because they're gone.

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00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: Because this right here is the connectivity.

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00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: As much as me watching the Sandlot taught me more

903
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 2: about Babe Bruth than any nineteen twenty seven Yankees film

904
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 2: did this video game, whether you identify whether it or not,

905
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: this video game is the connective tissue between an entire

906
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 2: generation of mainly younger folks and your sport. So while

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00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 2: everyone I just want to give a little word of advice,

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00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 2: I know there's not one centralized decision maker here. But

909
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: while there are a lot of people out there talking

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00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: about whether a four team or an eight team playoff

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00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: is the key to the future health of college football,

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00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: or people are talking about whether G five teams are

913
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 2: included in the college football Playoff, whether that's central to

914
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 2: the health of the sport, you better figure out a

915
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 2: way to get this back on track. And it looks

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00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: for all the world, like the snowball has been kicked

917
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 2: down the hill. But you better figure out a way

918
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: to get this back on track, because I mean, we

919
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 2: look right here at how long it's been if you're

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00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: watching on YouTube, I mean twenty fourteen. Like I said,

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00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 2: it's been over half a decade now since you had

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Speaker 2: a new version of this game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very hopeful.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this may be at this point the only

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Speaker 2: thing that would ever bring me back to the table

926
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Speaker 2: to play video games. But even even if I never

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Speaker 2: pick up the stick, I don't really care about that.

928
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 2: I care that there are tens of millions of folks

929
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: out there who want to and from an overall health standpoint,

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00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: it's really important.

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Speaker 1: Trust me, it is vitally important.

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00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 2: And you can tell the decision makers know it because

933
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: you know those data and analytics reports, those reports that

934
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 2: show you, and you've paid a lot of money for him,

935
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 2: exactly who is and isn't watching. You start seeing these

936
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 2: these little dips, and you start seeing this, and you

937
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: start seeing that, and it's.

938
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Speaker 1: Is this COVID, No, it's not. Is this is their

939
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: program just irrelevant? No, that's not it. What's missing? What's missing?

940
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Speaker 2: And they're all looking right here and the reasons way

941
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: over here in the corner. It's something that doesn't exist

942
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: that's creating the dip. So get the game bag. By

943
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 2: almost any means necessary, get the game bag. Appreciate you

944
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 2: watching tonight. Make sure if you haven't already subscribed to

945
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: the twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel.

946
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Speaker 1: It also really helps us out. Probably more than a subscription.

947
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Speaker 2: It helps us out if you just simply like the

948
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Speaker 2: video thumbs up, you know, be a hitchhiker for two

949
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Speaker 2: seconds for us. Give us that thumbs up. We really

950
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 2: appreciate the support. Also, if you're looking to hop in

951
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 2: one of those sports media kind of curiosity YouTube channel

952
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 2: podcast Curiosity Zoom sessions with me, got a couple of

953
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 2: spots open for later next week. They fill up pretty fast,

954
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,720
Speaker 2: so Josh Pate seven zero six at gmail dot com

955
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: or on Twitter at late kick Josh dms are always open.

956
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: Please follow me there as well. Had fun tonight. We'll

957
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: be back here Sunday night, same time as always.

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Speaker 1: So for director Emeritus Colin who's in here.

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Speaker 2: We got a whole crew up in Stamford, Connecticut punching

960
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 2: the show. We appreciate everyone, and most importantly appreciate you

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Speaker 2: from watching. Have a great rest of your week. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you back Sunday night. Take care and God bless