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Speaker 1: In case you haven't looked around, it's happening, Calvin said.

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Speaker 1: move on. We've got so much to get to. We

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Speaker 1: need to go because this is not supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a three hour show tonight. Diving back into the mail bag,

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Speaker 1: when I saw this today, I knew a million people

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Speaker 1: were going to ask about it. Murphy Franklin from Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: He said, I saw ESPN dropped their FPI rankings, and

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Speaker 1: I disagree with a bunch of it. But what do

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Speaker 1: you think stands out the most?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, well, if it isn't our old friend, the FPI, Yeah,

479
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Speaker 2: so ESPN, it is a fact they dropped their FPI.

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Speaker 1: What is FPI. I think it stands for Football Power Index.

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Speaker 1: It's their version of power ratings basically, so this is

482
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Speaker 1: meant to be predictive in nature. It is loosely and

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Speaker 1: I do mean loosely what we try and do with

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Speaker 1: the JP pole during the season. But I don't put

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Speaker 1: out a JP pole in June because it's June. And

486
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Speaker 1: ESPN said, forget about that, man, we need the content.

487
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Speaker 1: We're only ESPN after all, So they put out the FPI.

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Speaker 1: We are showing it to you on the screen right now. However,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcast, you will be not so

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Speaker 1: shocked to hear that eleven of the top eighteen teams

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Speaker 1: are from a conference. Do you want to guess what

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Speaker 1: the conference is? It ain't the Big Twelve, it's not

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Speaker 1: the Sun Belt. It is the Southeastern Conference with eleven

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Speaker 1: of the top eighteen teams in the country. So I

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Speaker 1: saw a million of you hit me up with this,

496
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Speaker 1: and they said, how can you do this? How can

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Speaker 1: you sign an exclusive deal as a network with the

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Speaker 1: SEC and then pass this off as anything else other

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Speaker 1: than pure propaganda. All right, I'm not going to try

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Speaker 1: and talk you off of this. However, I do want

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Speaker 1: to ask you have you done your own comparative preseason rankings?

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Speaker 1: By that, I mean have you really looked at every team?

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Speaker 1: Have you measured them using equally calibrated criteria and judged

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Speaker 1: them blindly ignored the conference sticker and just judged them

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Speaker 1: based on whatever merit you think you can find in

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Speaker 1: a team in June. And have you made your own

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Speaker 1: top twenty five? The answer, of course is no. And

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Speaker 1: if you have, I got a lot of respect for you, man,

509
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people who do this for a

510
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Speaker 1: living have barely even done that. So I was looking

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Speaker 1: at it and I was saying, hey, man, people are

512
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Speaker 1: going to be mad at the FPI for having all

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Speaker 1: these SEC teams up there. Now you know that I

514
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Speaker 1: did a Top twenty a little while ago, but it

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Speaker 1: wasn't power ratings. Jppole hasn't come out yet. I just

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Speaker 1: did this for fun and it was anything. But I

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Speaker 1: do not encourage you guys to put out post Spring

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Speaker 1: top twenty rankings. If you're looking to have fun, if

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Speaker 1: you're looking to torture yourself for a week, if you're

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Speaker 1: looking to have to go Brandon Walker mode and block

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Speaker 1: a bunch of people, then yes, by all means put

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Speaker 1: out top twenty. But I did it. I did it

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Speaker 1: a glutton for punishment. I did it, and I had

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Speaker 1: nine of my top eighteen from the SEC, so half

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Speaker 1: of my top eighteen were SEC. ESPN had eleven of

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Speaker 1: their or eleven of their top eighteen. But I went

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Speaker 1: over to FanDuel because here's what I want to know. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if it's too heavy with the SEC, and you may

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Speaker 1: be right, where's the correction? Give me the specific corrections.

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Speaker 1: Don't just shout in the abstract death to the SEC

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Speaker 1: is too SEC heavy, Eah, SEC bias, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Where's the correction? So I went over to FanDuel. And

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Speaker 1: not that this is the end all be all either,

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Speaker 1: but I mean FanDuel actually has to make a living

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Speaker 1: on this stuff. You know, they put it out there

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Speaker 1: in a betting market so that you can wager on

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Speaker 1: such things. And I went and looked at their odds

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Speaker 1: to win the national title. They've got eleven of their

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Speaker 1: top nineteen from the SAC. Bill Connelly many things he's

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Speaker 1: been labeled SEC home or not one of them. Ten

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Speaker 1: of his top seventeen in his preseason s and P

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Speaker 1: plus are from the SEC. So basically, here's what we

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Speaker 1: probably have here. Any kind of predictive model is going

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Speaker 1: to disproportionately wait talent acquisition. The SEC teams by and

545
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Speaker 1: large get most of the good talent. It doesn't always

546
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Speaker 1: pan out, it doesn't guarantee anything, but we're predictive. It's June,

547
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Speaker 1: so any top twenty of legitimacy is going to be

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Speaker 1: loaded with SEC teams. That's the way it should look,

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Speaker 1: if you're doing it right, that's the way it should look.

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Speaker 1: So I want you to show me. If you disagree

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Speaker 1: with that, that's fine. I want you to show me

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Speaker 1: a credible that's an important word. Don't just gloss over that.

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Speaker 1: A credible predictive rankings or ratings system that doesn't look

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Speaker 1: roughly like that, Like, what corrections are you making now?

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Speaker 1: I did look at my rankings versus the FPI, and

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Speaker 1: I disagree with them a lot. Don't think I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to prop up the FPI. I mean, I've taken as

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Speaker 1: many shots at the FPI as anyone has over the year.

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Speaker 1: It's not so much the shot at the FPI. I

560
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Speaker 1: just because the network that releases it happens to be

561
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Speaker 1: a major network, they can also bake it into their

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Speaker 1: commentary and it just sometimes it's laughable. But anyway, the

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Speaker 1: biggest difference is I had my personal disagreements here. They

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Speaker 1: got Tennessee number ten and I've look at that another

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Speaker 1: alleged friend. Who is this one? You know, if you

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Speaker 1: want to zoom in on the camera, you can, But

567
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Speaker 1: no friend of mine would be calling me right now.

568
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Speaker 1: So an acquaintance of mine was calling me anyway. They

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Speaker 1: got Tennessee number ten. I got them not ranked in

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Speaker 1: my top twenty. I don't know what FPI is see,

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Speaker 1: and maybe I'm off on Tennessee. I've been talking about

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Speaker 1: them a little bit later on. I know we're talking

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Speaker 1: predictive here, but you lose Nico and you do it

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Speaker 1: in the fashion it went down, and you can talk

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Speaker 1: all you want to about how raw raw that is

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Speaker 1: for the program. I got a lot of uncertainty about

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Speaker 1: Tennessee being at number ten right now. Georgia, I'm off

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Speaker 1: on them too. They got Georgia at number two and

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Speaker 1: I had Georgia down at number eleven. Now I did

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Speaker 1: tell you, if I'm doing JP Pole, which I eventually

581
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Speaker 1: will do, which is predictive and it's more power ratings based,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to have Georgia at eleven. I'll probably

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Speaker 1: have them top five. So yeah, there's a difference here,

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Speaker 1: but it's a very understandable difference. Arizona State. They're down

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Speaker 1: at twenty four in FPI. I've got them at thirteen.

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Speaker 1: But again that's cause Arizona State's not loaded up with

587
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Speaker 1: four and five star players. But you know what, they

588
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: are loaded up with a lot of guys returning from

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Speaker 1: what was a very, very very good team. And I

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Speaker 1: still think the program's trajectory is solidly trending up. And

591
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,959
Speaker 1: Kenny also kept his entire coaching staff together. So there

592
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Speaker 1: are a few truths in an uncertain world. There are

593
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Speaker 1: not going to be twenty teams better than Arizona State

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Speaker 1: when we start this season, unless there's just massive injury

595
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: out there, which you can't predict. Illinois Brett Brett, as

596
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Speaker 1: someone call him FPI, has you not ranked? I has

597
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Speaker 1: you number fifteen, mister Eli, And I hater himself here,

598
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Speaker 1: so Fournelli's probably got his number. Someone alert. Brett had

599
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Speaker 1: no problem quote tweeting us a couple of months ago

600
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Speaker 1: to bash us. Just remember who had you ranked in

601
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Speaker 1: June and who didn't even know you were alive? And

602
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: then Clemson, Clemson not even in the top ten in

603
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Speaker 1: the FPI, and your boy here I Clemson. I have

604
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Speaker 1: hitched my wagon to Clemson. I hope Dabo's legs are

605
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Speaker 1: still strong enough to pull because I have hitched our

606
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Speaker 1: entire wagon to Clemson. I had him number one. I

607
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Speaker 1: had him number one, and my what was that may

608
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Speaker 1: at the time, Jesse, Yeah, my May, my post spring rankings,

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Speaker 1: not even power ratings, rankings. Let's just say ESPN's FPI

610
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Speaker 1: is right. It's a dangerous exercise, but let's say they're right. Okay, Bradley,

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Speaker 1: do me a favor. Just throw ESPN's rankings back up

612
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Speaker 1: for a second, or ratings, whatever we're supposed to call them.

613
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Speaker 1: Even I confuse myself on this. If this is right,

614
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Speaker 1: like if they saw into the future and they have

615
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Speaker 1: perfectly predicted the balance of power in college football this year, Well,

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Speaker 1: that means Georgia is going to host number one and

617
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Speaker 1: number three at home Texas and Alabama. There is no

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve team in their top twenty. Miami is ranked

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Speaker 1: ahead of Clemson, by the way, so they don't play

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Speaker 1: each other in the regular season. I would assume that

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Speaker 1: means the FPI would expect Miami to play Clemson in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to remind you I have this

623
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Speaker 1: in the top of my head because I've like memorized

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Speaker 1: some of these schedules. Miami would be such, they would

625
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Speaker 1: be so disadvantaged schedule wise. There. I think it's they

626
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Speaker 1: either play seven or eight consecutive games to end the

627
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Speaker 1: regular season. Their last two regular season games are all

628
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Speaker 1: on the road, back to back in cold weather cities

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Speaker 1: I think is Blacksburg and Pittsburgh. Then they'd have to

630
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Speaker 1: go to Charlotte. So Miami would have to play three

631
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Speaker 1: consecutive road games and when the third win at the

632
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Speaker 1: very least if they want to win the ACC anyway,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, I don't know if anyone's paying attention, Bradley,

634
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Speaker 1: go back to the top ten for a second. You know,

635
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Everyone's talking about how workable Notre Dame schedule is. Yeah,

636
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Speaker 1: if FPI is right, Notre Dame is playing a couple

637
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Speaker 1: of top ten teams here in Miami and Clemson. They're

638
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Speaker 1: going to number nine to start the season. They're bringing

639
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: number eight into South Bend. And oh, by the way, now, Bradley,

640
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: you can go back to thirteen through twenty five. By

641
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: the way, let's not just overlook the fact right about there,

642
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: right there, you see that that's USC usc goes to

643
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: South Bend as well, so not quite as as Soft

644
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: and Bakery cupcakesh of a schedule for Notre Dame as

645
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: originally thought, that's if FPI knows what it's doing, and

646
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: sometimes that's a stretch. Oh, let's move along and the

647
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: interest of ranking things. Oh, by the way, some people

648
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: have pointed out that the whale breaches have returned to

649
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: the show. A whale breach for those of you unfamiliar,

650
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: is this sound right here? Look, I don't know what

651
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: to tell you. I'm not going as far as to

652
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: apologize for having allergies, but I have allergies, and it

653
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: is the South, and it is May. It's tough out

654
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: here for me. So I got a couple of options.

655
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: I can either chop up a clariton and snort it

656
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: before the show begins. I don't even know if it's

657
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: legal in Davidson County. Or I can whale breach on

658
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: the show every now and then. So you know, it's

659
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: a good old fashioned You just gotta let it ride immunity.

660
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: You's gotta let it ride immunity again. You guys want

661
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: me to rank what Bradley put it up here? Jamie

662
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: from Decatur looking for trouble. He said, who are the

663
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the SEC for this upcoming season? In

664
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: Power ratings Land. So here's what I had the staff do.

665
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going through this in some like grand Casey

666
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: Caseum countdown fashion. I just gave him my top ten.

667
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: I said, put it together on a graphic, and there's

668
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: not really science behind this. But I have changed my

669
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: opinion on Lenora's sellers. I've debated with coaches enough since

670
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: I put my previous version of quarterback rankings out that

671
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: I have changed my mind at least somewhat. So here's

672
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: the deal. I'm way way high on DJ lagway this year.

673
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: So when I'm ranking quarterbacks in a league, I'm going

674
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: to tell you what I'm looking at. I'm not looking

675
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: at past production, per se, because if I was, you're

676
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,479
Speaker 1: not even allowed to rank arch Manning because he hasn't

677
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: really been a starter. So I'm ranking these quarterbacks in

678
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: the SEC based on the caliber of football I expect

679
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: them to be playing to start the twenty twenty five season.

680
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: Is that fair? All right? So I'm not going to

681
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: be able to back all this up statistically, and nor

682
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: do I have the time to I got Lagway as

683
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: the number one quarterback in the SEC entering twenty twenty five.

684
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: That's the caliber I expect him to be playing at.

685
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: And I better be right because if now he wasn't

686
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: starting for them against Miami last year, but if they

687
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: start off again like they did last year, it could

688
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: be cooked this year. I got arch number two though,

689
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: so I've got no basis to back this sub statistically,

690
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: but I'm putting arch Manning at number two because I

691
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a monster. Ah maybe strong.

692
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: I just think he's going to be really good. I

693
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: think about the raw tools he has. He didn't have

694
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: to come in and start immediately. He's been able to

695
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: learn and develop and progress under one of, if not

696
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: the best in the country in Steve Sarkisian, and he's

697
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: going to be surrounded by really good players. I see

698
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: a lot more possibility of him thriving this year than

699
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: him busting. I've got Lenora Sellers up at three, so

700
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: full disclosure. Recently, like a month ago, we ranked the

701
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: returning quarterbacks and I had nuss Meyer ahead of Sellers,

702
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: and boy, I heard from some coaches, so I trust

703
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: them over me, believe it or not. And good for me,

704
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: by the way, for deferring to people who actually coached

705
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: the game for a living. But I had some dcs

706
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: hit me up and say, yeah, no, the South Carolina kid,

707
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: you need to bump him up. So I got Lenora

708
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: Seller's number three, Garrett nus Meyer number four. Garrett nus

709
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: Meyer has the opportunity to etch his name into the

710
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: history books at LSU this year. It's all there. The

711
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: team's going to be good enough. Surrounding or supporting cast

712
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: is going to be good enough. He needs to clean

713
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: up the turnovers from last year. There's a lot of

714
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: continuity and consistency and carry over there. For all the

715
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: portal talk, there's a lot that is there that was

716
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: there last year as well. Now here's where it gets

717
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: a little I don't know, saucy. People who don't know

718
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: the show well enough will call this a hot take.

719
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: It's not. I just believe what I'm about to say.

720
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: I'm putting John Mattier in the top five. I'm that

721
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: high on him. If I'm right, Oklahoma is going to

722
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: be a contender in the SEC. I believe in the

723
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: OC quarterback approach. Bring both of them in, not just

724
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: one of them. Especially when they're both qualified and our

725
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: Buckle and Matier are. I also think it greatly helps

726
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: that John Matier is not being brought into Norman, Oklahoma

727
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: and then being looked at by everyone down on their

728
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 1: knees with their hands clasped praying, please save us, John,

729
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: save us. You don't need to save anyone. You need

730
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: to go in there and play solid football and execute

731
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: make good decisions because you know what you got around you.

732
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: You got a top ten roster around you, you got

733
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: a really good defense, you don't have to score forty

734
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 1: two a game to win, and you got guys calling

735
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: plays for you that you're very familiar with. I think

736
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: he's going to be really good this year. That's why

737
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: I got Oklahoma top ten in the preseason number six.

738
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: You hardly know anything about him nationally, but I think

739
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: that will come to an end very soon. I'm really

740
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: high on Austin Simmons. I still don't think I'm as

741
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: high on him as people in Oxford are, but I

742
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: think Austin Simmons is going to be really good, and

743
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: kind of like I said with Arch, I love the

744
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: system that he has been sitting there developing in the

745
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: minds that he's been learning from so I got Austin

746
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: Simmons there. I think he'll be having a really good

747
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: year this year. He'll be an impact player. I also

748
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: love how hungry that Ole Miss team should be, that

749
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: program should because they fell short last year. Now number

750
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: seven is well, it's bold. I believe Jackson Arnold will

751
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: bounce back this year. I'm not alone here again. I

752
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: spend this time of year just talking to coaches as

753
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: much as possible. Several coordinators around the SEC have been

754
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: very specific in saying, hey, they always call him that

755
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: kid from that kid from South Carolina, that kid from Oklahoma,

756
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: like they don't know their names. But I've had more

757
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: than one of them translation two of them tell me, hey,

758
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: we got to play Auburn this year. That kid from

759
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is going to be good. They'll get him corrected.

760
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: They got a really good wide receiver Cord to surround

761
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: him with. There are a lot of people up to

762
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: an including people in Norman, Oklahoma, who believe the combination

763
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: of quarterback and then all offensive system slash coaching staff

764
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: last year was just terrible and so it was doomed

765
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: from the beginning. That doesn't mean that you just throw

766
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: out the baby, throw out the bath water, and in

767
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: this case, the baby kind of got thrown over to

768
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: Lee County, Alabama. That's okay, whoms to monks hasn't seen

769
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: that appen before. I mean, I read the Ledger in

770
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: Quirre or did growing up. That's this happened a lot.

771
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: But you land at Auburn and you land in a

772
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: situation where they've recruited well, and they've put good talent

773
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: on the roster. They got really good wide receivers, and

774
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: they've also got a guy and a staff, an offensive

775
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: staff who probably a lot better suited to utilize your

776
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: skill than the previous in Oklahoma. So I think Jackson

777
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: Arnold will have a good year this year. I think

778
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: Taylor Green at Arkansas belongs on this list at number eight. Now,

779
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 1: unlike some of these other guys, I'm not as ready

780
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: to tout his supporting cast along the lines that I'm

781
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: ready to tout like Arch Manning's supporting cast or whatnot.

782
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: Go a little bit quicker here. I got Marcel Reid

783
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: at Texas A and m at number nine. Now, Marcel,

784
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, as much as this is talking about quarterback,

785
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: you can't help but look at the old line in

786
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: front of him. You can't help but look at the

787
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: three headed monster at tailback. He'll have not that that

788
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: goes towards his stack column. But what it does is

789
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: it takes emphasis, it takes focus off him. And they're

790
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: also good enough, plenty good enough at pass catchers. So

791
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: I like more so there. I like Diego Pavia at

792
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: number ten, thirty seven years old, but he's still playing

793
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: at Vanderbilt, and he may be playing at Vanderbilt next

794
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: year and year after that and year after that. Who

795
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: knows what kind of lawsuit that you can file. But

796
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: in the meantime he's back. So yeah, I'm very fluid

797
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: on the North Sellers. I will admit that if you

798
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: go look at my previous videos, there is inconsistency there.

799
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: It's not hypocrisy. It's spring. That's what it's called. Memo

800
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: always told me Joshuait it's okay to have opinions about

801
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: college football in the spring, but don't write them in

802
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: pen Write them in pencil and be ready to erase.

803
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: She was right, and Mema didn't even use pens. Do

804
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: I to ever tell you? I think I told the

805
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: story Memo had an axe at accident when she was

806
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: young and her brother chopped her her middle three fingers off,

807
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: and so she didn't switch her dominant hand. She just

808
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: wrote the remainder of her life with her thumb and

809
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: her pinky in pencil. So I know I learned a

810
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: lot from Memo about writing beyond just the instrument you

811
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: used to write. But yes, Memah told me it's okay. Memo,

812
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: I think would also fluctuate a lot on Lenora Sellers,

813
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: knowing the way she used to judge the quarterback position.

814
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: Now you'll notice I don't have Ty Simpson in here.

815
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: You'll notice I don't have gun or Stockton in here.

816
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: And yet everyone including me, thinks that Georgia and Alabama

817
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: will compete for the SEC championship this year. Yes I do.

818
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: This is not an error. Neither of those guys possess overwhelming,

819
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: indisputable physical attributes, and because of that, I am not

820
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: blindly ready to just call them top ten. Now. It

821
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: could be by week four either one of them is

822
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: in the top five. Either one of them could be,

823
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: But they don't get benefit of the doubt because they're

824
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: not freaks of nature. DJ Lagway is I've seen him

825
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: play arch Manning and I think has a much higher

826
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: ceiling physically than those two, and that's why I'm willing

827
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: to blindly buy into him more. But that's inexact. That

828
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: is very inexact. They're watching us in Ali No, maybe

829
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: Alexander City too, but I know they're watching us in Alabaster, Alabama.

830
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Sunrise, Florida, a home of Armageddon

831
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: ninety nine. They're watching us in Saint Paul, Minnesota. We

832
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys so much. And as we pop the

833
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: top on this zero sugar cream soda Zevia, one ep,

834
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: big second step. As we do that, and we appreciate them,

835
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:49,959
Speaker 1: a somber question comes to us, and it is from

836
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: Nole's Pride down in Tallahassee. He said, what are your

837
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: honest thoughts after being able to see inside Florida State?

838
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: Our media isn't allowed, so I was a bit shocked

839
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: when you got access. So he's referring to a month

840
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: or a month and a half ago when Mike Norvell

841
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: let us come down there for the day and we

842
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: sat down with him for a lengthy one on one

843
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: for the Speaker series, and yeah, there have been some

844
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: changes down there. So there are media policies a lot

845
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: different than it was last year. Last year it was

846
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: like open as open as any program in America, and

847
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: this year it's been pretty closed off, but they did

848
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: let us in there. Look, you know the trade off there.

849
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: The trade off is when they give you that kind

850
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: of access, it's because they trust you. So you got

851
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: to be responsible with how you talk about it. So

852
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 1: I'll speak in somewhat of a generic tone here. But look,

853
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: it's also it's spring, so there aren't specifics you can

854
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: drill down on yet. Here's what I'll say about my

855
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: impression of Florida State. My impression is there is no

856
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: comparable data point in history to go to. In other words,

857
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: there's nowhere where you go and say, hey, find me

858
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: those other teams that won eleven fewer games in one

859
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: season than they had the previous season. Let's see how

860
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: they did. It's never happened at the power level. We

861
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: have told you a couple of times over the last month.

862
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: The only other time that's happened, like in any level

863
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: of football, G five, power, whatever, was when Ellis Johnson

864
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: came into Southern miss and basically he grabbed the stick

865
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,479
Speaker 1: and then pushed it and they just took a nose

866
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: dive into the Mississippi countryside. That's the only other time

867
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: it's happened. And then it happened at Florida State last year.

868
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: So you walk in and you don't know what to expect.

869
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: And I'll say this about Mike norvel Man. You'll never

870
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 1: hear me say a bad thing about the character of

871
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: Mike norvel I've got immense respect for him, just immense

872
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: amounts of respect for him. But here's the thing about

873
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: being nice and being a principled guy and being really

874
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: fun to be around. That's not the deciding factor as

875
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: to whether you succeed, whether you retain your job. And

876
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: this is nothing he doesn't know, but this is kind

877
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: of the impression that I walked away with. I walked

878
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: away saying, I think that my beliefs fully in the

879
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: changes he's made. He brought in two new coordinators, Tony

880
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: White from Nebraska. That's a huge get. It's a huge get,

881
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: and they feel that way. The Gus malzon Hire was

882
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: a little more head scratching to me, not because Gus

883
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: hasn't proven himself, just because it came out of left

884
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: field more so than anything. But you're relying on a

885
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: transfer quarterback again this year, you are not being able.

886
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: This is what I keep going back to. You're not

887
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: able at Florida State to just say, yeah, we lost

888
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: last year, but our young crop of talent, they'll be

889
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: another year older. There are homegrown product like they're are hope, Well,

890
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: that's not really there because they haven't recruited all that well,

891
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: they haven't recruited at an elite level. They haven't recruited

892
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: at the level where you just blindly assume they'll be

893
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: right back in contention this year. If they are right

894
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: back in contention, and maybe they will be, it'll be

895
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: because unknowns from the portal, whether it be this year's

896
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 1: class or last year's class. Guys just now starting to contribute.

897
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: Those guys saved you, which could happen. But there's such

898
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: an unknown, there's such a high variance, a high volatility

899
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: even in relying on that. So you ask what my

900
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: impression was. My impression was, this is a building that's

901
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: working as hard as any building in the country. Got

902
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. This is a building and a

903
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: staff that still believes in itself, Got no doubt about that.

904
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: The players are bought in which I wouldn't have always

905
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 1: said last year, by the way, I thought that team

906
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: was dead last year. So there's a lot of energy

907
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: that you'd want to feel around the building. But look,

908
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 1: a lot of teams are going to miss a Bowl

909
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: game this year that have good energy around their building

910
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: right now. So that doesn't guarantee anything. Lack of that

911
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: energy does guarantee something. But they play Alabama week one,

912
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: they're a double digit dog at home. They could lose

913
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: forty four to ten, they could lose twenty seven to

914
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: twenty four. They could pull the upset and win outright.

915
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: My point is, you got a lot of conclusions that

916
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: are going to be drawn after week one. Now, if

917
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: you're coming off a great year, it doesn't really matter

918
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: what they're saying about you after week one, But you

919
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: have no equity, you have no benefit of doubt. You've

920
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: got no wiggle room. So if you get embarrassed in

921
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: week one and that doubt starts to creep back in,

922
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: you got to be a you got to be a

923
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: rock solid guard to prevent that. If you lose in

924
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: week one, that doubt starts creeping back in. It just

925
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: go back to the same old, same old, And you

926
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: remember how toxic the environment got around the program last

927
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: year and now toxic the conversation is. Norval told us

928
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: when we were down there, said, I'm myself, I can

929
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: block it out. It's a tougher deal for my family

930
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: and then players, it's impossible for them not to hear it.

931
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: My impression is I think they're trying all the right things.

932
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: I think they believe they made the right changes, but

933
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee that they're right about any of that.

934
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: That was my impression, Like that was my takeaway. I'm

935
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: I'm as as undecided or as unsure about Florida State

936
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: this year as any of the major programs. Let's move along. Oh,

937
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: I did want to tell you this as well. Our

938
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: friends at Quick Trip we you know, got married this

939
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: past weekend and I got to tell you the venue

940
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: we used, white House Hotel, done in Biloxi. Great venue,

941
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: great people. Understandably, if you're using their space then they

942
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: want you to use them for catering. So all the

943
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: food and drink is coming from White House, and they

944
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: did a great job. But before I found that out,

945
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,439
Speaker 1: Academy hit me up and said, hey, we basically want

946
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: to build an entire store down there on the hotel grounds.

947
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 1: We want to bring the roller grills, we want to

948
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: bring the cold brew on tap. We're just mobilizing an

949
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: entire quick trip, and so what we do. We were

950
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: a little ways down the road on conversation and doing that,

951
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: and then the White House Hotel said, yeah, okay, we can't.

952
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: We just can't have it. I mean, how many lawsuits

953
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: do you want us to open ourselves up to? Which

954
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: is fair, okay, because the last thing I want is

955
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: Bradley burning his hand on a roller grill and then

956
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 1: owning the White House Hotel two weeks later, And honestly,

957
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,240
Speaker 1: there's a fifty to fifture shut of that happening. So instead,

958
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: Quick Trip loaded us up all the groomsmen with some

959
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: of the greatest care package goodies you'll ever see, and

960
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: a very personal handwritten note from them to me, which

961
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: is going to stay between us for obvious reasons. But

962
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: everything that you could want in there had advil in there,

963
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: had copious amounts of five hour energy in there. So

964
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: we appreciate Quick Trip. They not only fuel the fall

965
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: Saturday tours, they don't even fuel the spring tours. They

966
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: fueled the wedding as well. We appreciate it. All right,

967
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: let's roll on. So we've got a lot to get to.

968
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: Bold Prediction season, of course continues Bold Prediction season on

969
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: this show is in your hands, not mine. What do

970
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: you guys believe? What are you willing to go public with?

971
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: First one up tonight? This would be a headline grabber

972
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: in ws andrew out of Gadston, Alabama. I've got to

973
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: imagine that stands for National Weather Service, which is in

974
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: Huntsville in that part of the country. But nevertheless, he

975
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: said Texas and OU will play for the SEC title. Well,

976
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a nine point twenty five boldness rating

977
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: on that. The SEC odds are already out at FanDuel.

978
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 1: Texas is the co favorite to win the league, Oklahoma's ninth.

979
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: Now that's partly because FanDuel believes Texas has a better

980
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: team than Oklahoma. It has a lot to do with

981
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: strength of schedule. We've got our own internal strength of

982
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: schedule metric here. We got OU playing the toughest schedule

983
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: in the SEC. We got Texas playing the thirteenth toughest

984
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: schedule in the SEC. No conspiracy theories there whatsoever. So

985
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: I think OU's got to win in Dallas to make

986
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: this happen. There's a strong likelihood they've got to win

987
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: in Dallas to make it happen. I'm gonna make that

988
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,959
Speaker 1: one a nine point two five. Next up, yet again,

989
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: another headline grabber. If this were to come to fruition,

990
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: as they say, John from Atlanta said, Miami makes the

991
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: Final four, Carson Beck is a Heisman finalist. These are

992
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: probably correlated. Obviously, for Miami to be a Final four team,

993
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: Carson Beck had to have had a great season. So

994
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this a nine point five. Miami has

995
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: yet to make the playoff, so for them to make

996
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: it and then go all the way to the Final

997
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 1: four means they have to make it and then win

998
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: games or maybe they won the ACC. If Carson Be's

999
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 1: a Heisman finalists, they probably did. They had the number

1000
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: three passing offense in the country last year, so we're

1001
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 1: not looking to upgrade. You just kind of have to

1002
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: have to count on Shannon Dawson to get the most

1003
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: out of Carson Beck and roughly stay in the ballpark

1004
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: of the production they had last year, but not have

1005
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 1: to match it because a lot of this depends on defense.

1006
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: A lot of this depends on the new coordinator higher

1007
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: out of Minnesota, Corey Heathman, and you gotta have that

1008
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: pan out to where Carson Beck doesn't enter every week knowing, yeah,

1009
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: we got to hang forty or we're done, because that

1010
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: was cam Ward's existence. Last year, Carson Beck for the

1011
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: record number ten Heisman nods, and a lot of that

1012
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: has to do with his injury, and all I can

1013
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: tell you is he's throwing already and they expect him

1014
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: to be full go by the start of the season.

1015
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: So outside of that, he'll be on a big stage

1016
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,959
Speaker 1: to start the year. They play Notre Dame Week one,

1017
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: that Sunday night game. I think so I'm gona put

1018
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: a nine point five on that. Tough, tough, but doable.

1019
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: Next up, Jeff from Knoxville. Memphis wins the most games

1020
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: of any team in Tennessee. It's a seven, Jeff, I

1021
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: don't think it's that bold. Memphis and Tennessee have over

1022
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: under win totals of eight and a half. Middle Tennessee

1023
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 1: and Vandy have win totals of four and a half.

1024
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,240
Speaker 1: So allegedly, if you were to believe the odds board,

1025
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: this is really between Memphis and Tennessee Tennessee is possibly

1026
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: in a transition year this year, and conversely, Silverfield over

1027
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,240
Speaker 1: at Memphis has had double digit win seasons his last

1028
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: two years. The one downside there is that means they

1029
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: had a really good team and now they're one hundred

1030
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,919
Speaker 1: and fifteenth in returning production. But you know Tennessee, they're

1031
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: losing a lot too, So maybe it's two teams in

1032
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: transition years. But I could easily see Memphis win in nine,

1033
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: Tennessee win in eight, or they both win eight and

1034
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: seven respectively. So I'm gonna make it a seven. It's

1035
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:41,760
Speaker 1: not all that bold to me. Lastly, for tonight, let's

1036
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: go with Noah from Mischillwauka, Indiana. Two of the four

1037
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: semi finalists from last year returned to the semi finals

1038
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: this year, so that is Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas,

1039
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Two of those teams make it back. That's

1040
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: an eight point five for me on the boldness scale.

1041
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 1: That is three first year starters at quarterback. All of

1042
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: them are outside the top sixteen in returning production. So

1043
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: a lot of new players at very important positions have

1044
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 1: to come through, or at least for two of them

1045
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: they do. But it's an eight point five because look,

1046
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: there's not like slam dunk answers at quarterback for these

1047
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: other teams. It's not like Ohio State and Texas are

1048
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: returning a ton of production. It's not like, you know,

1049
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 1: Penn State is returning a ton of production. But you

1050
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: would have to see them do it again to believe it.

1051
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you feel that way. Georgia

1052
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: has got newness everywhere, so someone's gonna have to do it.

1053
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: Maybe it's them. I'd put an eight and a half

1054
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: on that one. Good good boldness, good good solid boldness there.

1055
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 1: I'd put an eight and a half on that one.

1056
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: Let's move it along a brisk pace here, because, as

1057
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: I told you, going out of town, going out of

1058
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 1: the country. So I've got to load you up. But

1059
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: we need we need content on the channel for the

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00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: next week. I forgot how this question was worded, but

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00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: I know what it's about. From elk Grove, California, German

1062
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 1: JP hit us Up said, Hey, if there's a third, actually, Bradley,

1063
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: I want to restate this so you can cut it

1064
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: and sounds halfway coherent. You can keep the question up, though,

1065
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: so German JP from elk Grove, California hit us and said,

1066
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: if there's a third straight non SEC national champ this year,

1067
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: do you think that does anything to chip away at

1068
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: the SEC's power over the whole sport? Love the show?

1069
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: So if the SEC goes a third year without having

1070
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 1: a national champ, does their power over the sport? Wayne?

1071
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: Not one bit? I don't think it, Wane's one bit.

1072
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: I actually don't think that's what this is predicated on.

1073
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: Or if you want to claim it's predicated on that

1074
00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: will okay by that very logic, then I would ask you,

1075
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: if it's that important to be winning national titles, then

1076
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: their power is forged in how many they already won

1077
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: over the past generation or two generations. Therefore, it takes

1078
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: more than a thirty six month drought period quotation marks

1079
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: for that to unravel. I also can't believe this is

1080
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: the discourse, but then again I can. We are. Look here,

1081
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: here's a little side opinion that I've just I've come

1082
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: to realize there are some things in college football we

1083
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: are past the point of reasonable discourse on, and the

1084
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: SEC is one of them. Some would argue this happened

1085
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: a long time ago, but I don't believe that because

1086
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: as recently as like a couple of years ago. Sure,

1087
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: if you lived in Gary, Indiana, you probably didn't grow

1088
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: up a huge fan of the Southeastern Conference. But I mean,

1089
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: we were having rational conversation. That's gone. Man, it's just

1090
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: not happening. So I've largely pushed my chair back from

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00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: the table on these sorts of conversations. But I've been

1092
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: looking lately. I'll give you a perfect example. So my

1093
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: answer to the question is, no, they're not gonna lose

1094
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: power if they don't win the national title. But beyond that,

1095
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: just the conversation around this conference right now, it was

1096
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: so perfectly crystallized the last two weeks. Not to rehash

1097
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: what we talked about to lead the show, but to

1098
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: rea some kind of circle back for thirty seconds. You

1099
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: know how everyone was yelling death to the SEC because

1100
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: they thought Greg Sanki was pushing for the AQ structure,

1101
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: and shame on the SEC for demanding having the audacity

1102
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: to demand that they get four guaranteed spots. You remember that,

1103
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: and then you remember Greg Sanki said, yeah, we actually

1104
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: don't want that, we want the five plus eleven model.

1105
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: And then the same people yelled Shame on the SEC

1106
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: for being so greedy, Shame on them for wanting a

1107
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: model where they could load up and get more than

1108
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: four teams in. It's like, what do you what exactly

1109
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,919
Speaker 1: are you looking for them to just say we're going

1110
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: basketball only, We're done with football. You guys can have it.

1111
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: We are retiring collectively as a conference from the sport.

1112
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: And then the schedule thing as well. If you think

1113
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: the SEC should be playing nine league games, okay, I

1114
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: happen to agree with you. I'd love for the SEC

1115
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: to be playing nine conference games, But the conversation around

1116
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: it is so intellectually dishonest you can't even have it

1117
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 1: in good faith. If you believe that they should play

1118
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: nine league games just because you think everybody should play

1119
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: the same amount of league games, that's okay, but please

1120
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: stop coming at me and saying, well, the SEC just

1121
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of cowards. They'd rather play cupcakes in November

1122
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: instead of a ninth league game. Yeah, but that's chapter three.

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01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: What's chapter one? In chapter two? Chapter one is even

1124
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: with eight the totality of their league schedules are tougher

1125
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: than a vast majority of nine game league schedules elsewhere

1126
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: and you can debate me on that if you want to.

1127
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw math at you. And then the

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01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: other part of that is, I don't know if you've

1129
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: realized this. I think college football nerds of the pair,

1130
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: both of whom were at the wedding last week, they

1131
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: do a great job of explaining this. We get so

1132
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: caught up on the semantics of FCS slash cupcake versus

1133
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: quality opponent. And the bottom line is, if you're Ohio

1134
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: State or your Georgia and one of you plays Mercer

1135
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: and one of them plays Kent State, there's no difference

1136
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: that either way you're naming the score, there's no difference.

1137
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: But yet one of you is gonna get credit for

1138
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: playing a G five team, the other one's gonna get

1139
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: crucified for playing a cupcake team. And this stuff just

1140
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And also you need to understand that if

1141
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: we're really basing all of our metrics on strength of schedule.

1142
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: But then at the end of the year, you've got

1143
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: the playoff committee talking abouts and I'm not I'm not

1144
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 1: even throwing around specific teams. I'm saying in a very

1145
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: generic sense or general sense, you've got a crowd that

1146
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: believes you are what your record says you are, and

1147
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: they're unwilling to budge on that, thinking why would the

1148
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: SEC ever move? But if you ran the SEC, why

1149
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: would you ever change that until you got guarantees that

1150
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: you weren't going to be punished for enhancing the already

1151
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: toughest average league schedule in the country. It's so blatantly obvious.

1152
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: There's you can have the opinion that you wish it

1153
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: was different, but there's so much intellectual dishonesty in it

1154
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: that you can't even have like a normal conversation. And

1155
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: if you do start to have a normal conversation with someone,

1156
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 1: it's not too long before someone wanders in off the

1157
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: street and hijackson or some call it Twitter. Let's move along.

1158
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: That's a happy subject here, not that, but this next

1159
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: thing is a happy subject. I told you we got

1160
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: a lot. We had a jam packed show tonight. This

1161
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: may be the most loaded show we do all year,

1162
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's June. Wow. So someone wants to know

1163
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: Carlos and Jacksonville. He said, everyone talks about overrated coaches.

1164
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: I want to know who you think are the most

1165
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 1: underrated head coaches in college football? Right now, Carlos, if

1166
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: you watch the show, you know Jeff brom is my guy.

1167
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: He's the most underrated head coach in major college football.

1168
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: And you may listen to that and say, Jeff brom Man,

1169
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: people know about him, Yeah, people know about him. How

1170
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: often do you hear his name thrown around? If I

1171
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: were to talk to you about the ACC right now,

1172
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: we'd have to talk a minute or two before Jeff

1173
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: Brom's name came up. You throw dabbo at me, you should.

1174
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,919
Speaker 1: Christ of Ball's name would be mentioned, okay, But Jeff

1175
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: Brom's right up there, and he didn't get mentioned nearly

1176
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: as much the guy. All he did was win at

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01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. He won it perdue, by the way. Check

1178
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: out what happened to those programs when he left. And

1179
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: now he's winning at Louisville and he's adapting. It's not

1180
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: recruiting top ten classes, never has, he may never do that,

1181
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: but he's a adapting And the thing I can count

1182
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: on Jeff Brown to do is put a collection of

1183
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: players together, form it into a team, and get the

1184
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: most out of it. And that scales, by the way,

1185
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 1: that skill, that scales. He's not out talenting people due.

1186
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 1: I remember watching them play Clemson this past year, and

1187
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: I remember how crazy it was to watch them go

1188
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,959
Speaker 1: into Death Valley. I believe it was a night game

1189
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: and just physically take it to Clemson, knowing full well

1190
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: they're outmanned, and knowing full well, that's the environment, that's

1191
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: the team that's supposed to make them wilt, and they

1192
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: just totally inverted the dynamics. So Jeff Brom, he's up there.

1193
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: For me, the entire state of Kansas should just be

1194
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: ecstatic about where they are right now, because I think

1195
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: Leopold at Kansas and I think Climen at Kansas State

1196
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: are both extremely underrating. I think both of them are

1197
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 1: top twenty head coaches. You know, we do our own

1198
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: intern coaching ratings. We do them for all positions, actually

1199
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: head coach, coordinators, position, whatnot. Lipol won at Buffalo, he

1200
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: comes to Kansas. They go from two to ten to

1201
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: six and seven to nine and four. And then remember

1202
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 1: last year they fell off, which is to be expected.

1203
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: Like if Nick Saban were at Kansas, he ought to

1204
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: have down years. It's Kansas. So they fall off last

1205
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: year and they started terribly and they had bad injury

1206
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: luck at the quarterback position. But did you notice how

1207
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: they got things righted? They ended up beating Iowa State,

1208
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: bringing Young and Colorado towards the end of the year.

1209
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: They were like one of the hottest teams in the

1210
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 1: country towards the end of the year. And then Klimbmen

1211
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: won a lot at North Dakota State. He's had eight

1212
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: plus wins every season aside from the COVID year at

1213
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: Kansas State, and they're right up there is the co

1214
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: favorites or maybe the outright favorites to win the conference

1215
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: again this year. It's the State of Kansas. Man, when

1216
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: if they had it better collectively, like Yin and Yang,

1217
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: they had it better than they have it right now.

1218
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: The two guys at the G five level that I've

1219
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: got circled and they're not going to be there for long.

1220
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: I close your ears at Tulane in South Florida. But man,

1221
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: John Sumrall and Alex Golish, those two guys I think

1222
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 1: could already have much higher profile jobs quote unquote if

1223
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 1: they wanted him. But I also think they understand the

1224
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: nature of the business and also understand the nature of

1225
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: the sport. And also they're in good places. So John

1226
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: Sumrall is only a fourth year head coach, but he's

1227
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 1: got two titles at Troy. He just went nine and

1228
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 1: five at Tulane. We went down there a couple of

1229
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: months ago, spent the afternoon with him. Just gets I

1230
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: don't know, you know when you're sitting with the real deal.

1231
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: He's the real deal. And Golish was at Tennessee now

1232
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: number one offense in the country a couple of years ago.

1233
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: He goes down to South Florida. He's had two seasons there.

1234
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: They've played Bama past two years, and I mean push

1235
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 1: Bama to the limit both years. And you may say, oh, Josh,

1236
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: Bama's not been vintage Bama. Man. We're talking about South Florida,

1237
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: not Southern California, South Florida. So Alex Golish. I remember

1238
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: talking to some people at Tennessee this past year. Tennessee

1239
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. They were a good team this past year.

1240
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 1: But I had somebody tell me, dude, we miss Alex Golish.

1241
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: Not that we've forgotten how to play football, but that

1242
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 1: dude was good. He was a very, very plus dynamic

1243
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: in this building. And that's why he's a head coach.

1244
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: It's not an accident, and then I got a name

1245
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: for you. In the interest of disclosing that we track

1246
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 1: everyone here, most of these guys I don't talk about

1247
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: I got a name. I want you to circle. We've

1248
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: never talked about him on the show, but internally we've

1249
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: been tossing this name around. You know who the head

1250
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: coach in New Mexico is? Anybody? Do people in New

1251
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: Mexico know who the head coach and New Mexico is? Well,

1252
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: Jason Eck is the head coach at New Mexico. I

1253
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 1: want you to do me a favor. Just pull out

1254
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: your pen red sharpie if you've got it, circle Jason Eck.

1255
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: He was at Idaho, he went seven to five, nine

1256
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 1: and four to ten and for at Idaho. Takes the

1257
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 1: job at New Mexico. It's his first year there. I'm

1258
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: not gonna throw stats at you, not gonna bother with that.

1259
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: I think this dude's good and I think his name

1260
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: is going to be a lot more on the radar

1261
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: over the next couple of years than it is right now.

1262
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: No one's talking about him right now. He's been in

1263
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 1: the game for a long time. He's not like twenty

1264
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: five years old. He's a little bit more seasoned. Notice

1265
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 1: I don't say old because age is not real. But

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Speaker 1: Jason Eck, I just want you to take the sharpie

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Speaker 1: circle his name. You don't have to watch New Mexico

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Speaker 1: this year. He'd appreciate it if you do. I've never

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Speaker 1: spoken to him. I don't know him, but I trust

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Speaker 1: our internals and our internals our guidance. Right here, the

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Speaker 1: old computer it likes Jason Eck. Let's move it along.

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Speaker 1: To take a sip of water right quick, because we've

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Speaker 1: been talking for an hour and eight minutes. All right,

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Speaker 1: but we can finish strong. Hear immunity Adrian from Kingwood, Texas.

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Speaker 1: He said, whoms amongst us wouldn't be curious about the

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Speaker 1: day to day grind. What does the typical behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes look like for you when prepping for and producing? Oh,

1278
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 1: the show? Okay, so this is about the show. Let's see. Well,

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Speaker 1: it depends on what time of year it is, but

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Speaker 1: it's pretty much the same. But during the season it's

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Speaker 1: actually easier because even though it's more like we're doing

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01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: more shows, it's also regimented. It's the same thing every week.

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01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 1: But this time of year it's a lot of travel too.

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01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 1: But we're a lot more flexible, and I go storm

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01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 1: chasing a lot in the spring, so we work our

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Speaker 1: schedule around that. And you guys are really gracious about that,

1287
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:54,640
Speaker 1: because you could complain about it if you wanted to.

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01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: We keep our staff very small, very small. I've always

1289
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: been intentional about that because the key is having the

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01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 1: right people on the staff. So nobody touches this show

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01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: who I don't trust to touch the show. So that

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01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: means we don't have a lot of people work on

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01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: the show, but the ones who do do the work

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01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: of two or three people. And I've worked in all

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01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:17,719
Speaker 1: kinds of worlds, so you know the kinds of people

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01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You could be working in construction or production,

1297
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 1: and you know that guy who you look at and

1298
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: say he's doing the work of two or three people.

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01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: A pay them accordingly. Number two, Surround yourself with them

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01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: if you can find them. Takes a while to find

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01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: those kinds of people. But then take care of him,

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01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:36,600
Speaker 1: don't let him go. And so we've got that with

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01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: this show. Think you'd be shocked if you looked at

1304
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: our operation. The other thing is the day to day

1305
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: grind is not grind because we're doing fun stuff for

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01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 1: a living. So we're covering college football. I didn't come

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01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: out of college age twenty two doing media. There are

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01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: some of my peers, and they're fortunate. I guess you

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01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: could call it fortunate that they've only done this, like

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01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: they didn't never do manual labor or anything. Well. I

1311
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: did for several years, so I work jobs I hated

1312
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,640
Speaker 1: for quite a while, and later in my twenties and

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Speaker 1: early thirties, I finally got to do this. And so

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Speaker 1: relatively speaking, that's not a grind. I don't in the fall.

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Speaker 1: We're working. We're working the same amount of hours coaches do,

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01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: no lie, but it's different kind of work because you know,

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01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: we're not getting judgment wins and losses. We just got

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01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:28,639
Speaker 1: to do a good show. And if you immerse yourself

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01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 1: in college football already, you should be able to do

1320
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:34,760
Speaker 1: the show. And if you know the audience, and I do,

1321
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 1: because that's who I hang out with and that's who

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Speaker 1: I am, then it's very easy to talk to you guys,

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Speaker 1: even though you're not in the studio. We don't have

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01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: an audience in here. That part's very easy. And then

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Speaker 1: the third part is I communicate with I would safely,

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01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 1: say dozens of you per day, several dozens of you

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01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: per day, and a lot of you share your personal

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01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: lives with me, so I know what people are going

1329
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: through in the real world. You know what economics are

1330
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: like in the real world. I know how inconsistent and

1331
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,600
Speaker 1: how up in the air the job market can be.

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Speaker 1: Even in my world, I know how inconsistent and up

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Speaker 1: in the air the job market can be. And there's

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01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: so much volatility and uncertainty that this not grind. It's

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01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 1: long hours. It's like eighty ninety hours a week in

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Speaker 1: the fall. It's not grind. I'd much rather do that

1337
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,679
Speaker 1: than forty hours a week doing something I hate. And

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Speaker 1: then the other part is, man, oh man, know who

1339
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: the audience is. It's the most important part. It's what's

1340
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: made this whole thing possible. It's what I looked at

1341
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: ten years ago as just a glaring inefficiency. I mean,

1342
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 1: to really scale something, you need to find market inefficiency.

1343
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that. If you're on Wall Street, you know that,

1344
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: if you're building a small business, you know that. Well,

1345
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: we kind of did that in this world. Because college

1346
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: football has been the number two sport in this country

1347
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: for quite a while. To this day, it doesn't get

1348
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,600
Speaker 1: the amount of investment and attention that it should on

1349
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 1: major networks. But that's okay because you're not limited to

1350
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: just major networks anymore. You guys are either watching me

1351
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: on YouTube or Rumble or Twitter, or you're listening on podcasts.

1352
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: None of those are major networks. And so those mechanisms

1353
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: give us the ability. If you think what I just said,

1354
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 1: make your own show. So we did, and so we

1355
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: serve an underserved audience and happy to do it. So

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01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 1: that's the inner workings of the show. And then I

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01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: guess the fourth part is people would define show prep.

1358
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: It's like what time do you get to the building,

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01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: and do you have a production meeting? And do you

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01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: do this? And that. That's very informal the way we

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01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 1: do it. We grind it out once we're here. But

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01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 1: show prep doesn't stop. This is not something I hate doing.

1363
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 1: So like when I leave here, I don't leave here

1364
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,759
Speaker 1: saying oh good, I don't have to think about college

1365
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: football again until Sunday night or Tuesday night or Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: I just do it all day every day. So if

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01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 1: your show prep never stops, so come in the building

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01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:06,759
Speaker 1: at like two o'clock at three o'clock in the afternoon

1369
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: for a seven o'clock start time. But you've been working

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01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: all day. You've been working six am, seven am. When

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01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: you got up, you're on the phone with people. You

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01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: get done with the show, you're talking to people on

1373
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: the phone. You're constantly immersing yourself in it. And that's

1374
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 1: the blessing, by the way, in twenty twenty five of

1375
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: being in media, in sports, you don't have to cover everything.

1376
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 1: Like we could talk braves baseball here if we wanted to.

1377
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it because it's a college football show.

1378
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: I could talk about golf, or I could talk about

1379
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:41,000
Speaker 1: the NFL or NBA, but I don't have to do that.

1380
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:42,680
Speaker 1: I get to just talk about the one thing I'm

1381
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 1: most passionate about all year, and I get to do

1382
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: it because the market is there, always has been. We

1383
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: just get the ability to serve it. Now, let's move along.

1384
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 1: Got a couple of more things I wanted to get to.

1385
01:14:55,400 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: We are we got a big live audience. Tonight kind

1386
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: of goes back to what I was just saying, year round,

1387
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:07,560
Speaker 1: talk about this stuff responsibly, and we can do it

1388
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 1: year round. Willie from Cincinnati Ohio. What teams do you

1389
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: think will have the biggest difference in win total compared

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01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: to fan duels win total. So basically, Willy's asking me,

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Speaker 1: do you have any preseason leans on over underwin totals. Yes,

1392
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:24,599
Speaker 1: I do, and it's not all sunshine and rainbows here.

1393
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: I think Arkansas would go under five and a half, Willie,

1394
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: if I had to bet this right now, Arkansas, you

1395
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 1: see five and a half. You looked at ESPN's FPI

1396
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 1: had Arkansas ranked. You think, well, if they're the number

1397
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Speaker 1: twenty two team in the country, certainly they're gonna win

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01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: more than five and a half games. Well, I don't

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01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: have them number twenty two, and I don't expect them

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Speaker 1: as of now to win more than five and a

1401
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: half games. I've got them with the number three strength

1402
01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:54,560
Speaker 1: of schedule in the country. I my own metrics have

1403
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: him playing the third hardest schedule in the country. And look,

1404
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: here's how I think about Arkansas. A lot of un

1405
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 1: known on that team outside of Taylor Green. Where's the

1406
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: big upgrade? Just like position units, sides of the ball,

1407
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 1: where's the big upgrade? They play? This is kind of

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01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: in order. They play Ole Miss, Notre Dame, Tennessee A

1409
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: and M Auburn, LSU, Texas Missouri. They go to Memphis

1410
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 1: in out of conference play. Six wins is extremely hard

1411
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,680
Speaker 1: with that schedule, and if they don't get off to

1412
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 1: a really strong start, there's already uncertainty around Pittman and

1413
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: that coaching staff. I think I think Under would be

1414
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: the play if I had to make a move on

1415
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: Arkansas exact to opposite with Georgia Tech. Folks are missing

1416
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: the mark with Georgia Tech. I've already bet this, by

1417
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: the way, so you guys can have at it pound

1418
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: that over for all I can. Georgia Tech over seven

1419
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:51,600
Speaker 1: and a half is already a bet. I've put in

1420
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: multi year starter at quarterback Top twenty. Returning production and

1421
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,360
Speaker 1: returning production is not always the end all be all.

1422
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: They are returning a lot of guys from already a

1423
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: group I believe in, a team I believe in. Overall,

1424
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: identity is trending way up. You know what Brent Key is,

1425
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: and you see a bleeding through the identity and fingerprint

1426
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: of that team. They got Clemson at home in Week three.

1427
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: They got Georgia at home to end the season. Even

1428
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 1: if they lose both those games, I still think they'll

1429
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: go over seven and a half because I think they

1430
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: may be favored in every other game. I'm not so

1431
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 1: sure they're just gonna lose both of those games either,

1432
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 1: So I think they're an ACC title contender. I'm very

1433
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: high on Georgia Tech, so I think absolutely they go

1434
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:38,560
Speaker 1: over seven and a half. Wisconsin not high on them. Wisconsin.

1435
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: I would go under five and a half. I have

1436
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 1: not bet this right now. I have not bet it yet,

1437
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: but if I had to forced one way or the other,

1438
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:47,640
Speaker 1: I'd go under. I've got them with the number one

1439
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: strength of schedule in the Big Ten. In fact, it's

1440
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 1: the only Big Ten team, off the top of my

1441
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: head that we have with a top ten overall strength

1442
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: of schedule. So they've got Just look at the line

1443
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 1: up if you're listening on podcasts. Starting the first Saturday

1444
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: in October, they go to Michigan, Iowa, Ohio State at Oregon,

1445
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: Washington at Indiana, Illinois at Minnesota. I wouldn't pick them

1446
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 1: to win any of those games, and they go to

1447
01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: Alabama and out of conference play, So even if they

1448
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 1: don't slip up elsewhere and out of conference play, I

1449
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 1: don't know where they find six. I do not know

1450
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: where they find six wins. They're counting on Billy Edwards,

1451
01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: the transfer quarterback this year. I don't know what the

1452
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: identity of the team is at this point. I don't

1453
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: know that Wisconsin fans know that. So I'm going under

1454
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: five and a half. Oklahoma, They're total six and a

1455
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 1: half right now. I've got Oklahoma as a top ten

1456
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: team in the preseason. Certainly I'm going over six and

1457
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 1: a half. They're coming off a six and seven season.

1458
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: They've got an extremely tough strength to schedule. This is

1459
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: an odds maker actually saying they halfway respect Oklahoma. But

1460
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: if you're coming off a six and seven year and

1461
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 1: we think you're playing one of the five or six

1462
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: toughest schedules in the country, over under win total six

1463
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: and half very respectable, But I don't think the market's

1464
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 1: corrected enough on the OCQB edition there and understanding that

1465
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: outside of that disastrous dynamic last year, they were a

1466
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,840
Speaker 1: good team. It's just that if you're a good team

1467
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,600
Speaker 1: but your quarterback and offense coordinator combination sucks, you're not

1468
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 1: a good team. So Oklahoma they play Illinois State and

1469
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: then Michigan in Week two, and then Temple. They got

1470
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: Kent State. They should be four and oher and out

1471
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,639
Speaker 1: of conference play, I firmly believe they should win every

1472
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 1: one of their out of conference games. If they do that,

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Speaker 1: I need three wins in conference play and I think

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Speaker 1: already get Games of the Year up like Ohio State

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Speaker 1: Michigan can be bet on right now. I think Buckeye's

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Speaker 1: are tough for me. They're tough. I struggle. It's not

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Speaker 1: to your nose. All right. I promised at the very

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Speaker 1: end of the show that I would delve headlong into

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01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 1: my personal life because you know, one thing I've always

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01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 1: believed in is you and I being intimately involved in

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01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:21,840
Speaker 1: each other's personal lives. So one of our friends from

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01:22:21,880 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 1: Portland said, how was the wedding? Where are you guys

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01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,040
Speaker 1: going for the honeymoon? We're going to the Caribbean for

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01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: the honeymoon. That's as specific as I'd like to get.

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01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: Wedding was really good. Wedding was good Spring weddings. I

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01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:41,439
Speaker 1: cannot recommend them strongly enough. We had hooms assembled down

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Speaker 1: on the Mississippi Gulf coast, so we did it the

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Speaker 1: White House Hotel down in Biloxi. We had basically we

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Speaker 1: basically had wwe come in and build the elimination chamber

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01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:57,439
Speaker 1: on the front lawn, massive, massive tent. And when they

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01:22:57,479 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: told me tent, I think, oh, I can get one

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Speaker 1: at a cat And all due respect to Academy, they're

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01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 1: not selling this at Academy. This tent was nicer than

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Speaker 1: the first home that I lived in. And so we

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Speaker 1: had Chali of supremacy that we toasted there. You see

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01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,880
Speaker 1: Savannah State there the lovely Bride. I was just happy

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Speaker 1: to tag along. But we had a lot of folks

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01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:20,679
Speaker 1: down there, and we had a great reception. I'm told

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Speaker 1: every magnolia available in the state of Mississippi was in

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Speaker 1: the building for our reception. And it looked like it. Man,

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01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: it looked really good. Look. I got no skill in this,

1541
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: but the people who do put this together for a

1542
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:39,759
Speaker 1: living did a great job. Look at Gelby and miss

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01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: Gelby out on the road. Gelby in a tucks he's

1544
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:44,640
Speaker 1: normally setting up a live shot. A lot of you

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Speaker 1: who see us on the road in the fall, you

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01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,400
Speaker 1: see Gelby because he's another one of those people who

1547
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: does the job of three and so it's not Gelby

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01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: and a whole crew, it's Gelliby on the road and

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Speaker 1: Gelby also holding the Academy football. It's just a true

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Speaker 1: hashtag one of us. Moment there, look, I hesitated. I

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01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:07,240
Speaker 1: struggled with whether I should do this because I got

1552
01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: no bus under which I wouldn't throw management. But I

1553
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: never show management on the show. But there he is

1554
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 1: management along with mismanagement in attendance the very last two invitations.

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01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: Actually she got an invitation early on. He got one

1556
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: of the last remaining invitations. Truthfully, probably an alternate, but

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01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: really really happy to see Big Game Dan. Big Game

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Speaker 1: Dane an integral part of the early operation when we

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01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: first went out on the road. Big Game Dane the

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Speaker 1: first guy I ever worked with on the road at CBS.

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Speaker 1: Never saw a live shot he couldn't tackle, never saw

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Speaker 1: a CAMPI that he couldn't own, and we appreciated him

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Speaker 1: showing up. It was kind of like a reunion of sorts.

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Speaker 1: Kublick even made the trip. We had to post waste

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Speaker 1: up because even though we put Kublic in the groomsman party,

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Speaker 1: you know, we didn't really I guess specified that we

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Speaker 1: required socks, like you know, black socks to be worn

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Speaker 1: with the tuck. So I mean he went full war

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Speaker 1: eagle on the wardrobe there, and I honestly he should

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Speaker 1: have been the one embarrassed, but everyone else is embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: But you know what's crazy. That's Cam Gorby there, he's

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Speaker 1: the sid down at Miami. You got to be really

1573
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Speaker 1: careful because you think the main event here is me

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01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 1: and Gorby. Billy Lucci just lurking, ready, ready, on a

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Speaker 1: moment's notice to have you look over your shoulders. Where

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Speaker 1: did my girl go? Oh, she's with Luci at your wedding,

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01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:36,679
Speaker 1: at your wedding reception. No less, but on the best

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Speaker 1: of terms, we love Billy Lucy Nunio. The TexAgs crew

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01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: made it over there. It was a really fun time. Man. Look,

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Speaker 1: Gavin Snyder, you're if you're in the market for a

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Speaker 1: wedding planner. Unbelievable, Garrett Richardson, I have seen major motion

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Speaker 1: pictures that weren't as well constructed and put together and

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01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: is scenic and aesthetically pleased as the photography and video

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01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 1: he did. Unbelievable. It looked like it was produced by

1585
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Speaker 1: one of the major production houses out in La So

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Speaker 1: again I would say I've got no dog in the fight,

1587
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: but I do because these folks really came through for us,

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01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: and we only planned this thing over like two and

1589
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 1: a half months, so we knew we wanted a spring wedding,

1590
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: and they made it happen and it was. It was great.

1591
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: It was great. And now tomorrow, actually in about ten hours,

1592
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:31,040
Speaker 1: we'll be off on honeymoon for a week, and next

1593
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: show we do will be next Thursday. And if something

1594
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:38,600
Speaker 1: happens between now and then, I don't know what to

1595
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: tell you. Just hang tight. I'll be back eventually. I'm

1596
01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: told we're gonna play the season no matter what. But

1597
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of well wishes. I speak for everyone,

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01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: I speak for Savannah, I speak for myself. We sincerely

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01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Can't get to all of you, and my

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Speaker 1: penmanship sucks anyway, so the letters we do send out,

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01:26:57,120 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: she'll have to do. But look for me to you

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Speaker 1: there you go live. We appreciate it. I got to

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Speaker 1: get out of here because I got to back, So

1604
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys so much. For producer Bradley in

1605
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Speaker 1: the house tonight, and for director Bradley, producer Jesse, I'm

1606
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Speaker 1: Josh Bate, take care, extended vacation here. We'll see you

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