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Speaker 1: A man walcome in Lake Kicks Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, July twenty eighth, year of our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. There are new rooms being added on

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Speaker 2: to both houses, but no one knows who's moving in yet.

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Speaker 2: Is at college football fun this time of year. We're jampacked.

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Speaker 2: We are high at top an eventful downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Everything that could be in town tonight and this weekend

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Speaker 2: is in town tonight. And this weekend the Big Ten

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Speaker 2: and the SEC they're not exactly in town, but they

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Speaker 2: are on the tip of everyone's tongue. I just want

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Speaker 2: to ask, and we will talk about it together in

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Speaker 2: a second. Who's on the same page. We heard some

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Speaker 2: things that they have in common. We heard some things

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Speaker 2: past couple of weeks. So we're going to discuss that

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Speaker 2: basically as the rest of the sport going to survive.

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Speaker 2: That's all you really want to know. I will share

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Speaker 2: my biggest sleeper teams. I will share my toughest schedules.

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Speaker 2: Tonight Predictions Hits Chapter twenty seven this evening also Big

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Speaker 2: Ten Media Days.

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Speaker 1: Got some thoughts on that event, and I need to

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Speaker 1: have a.

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Speaker 2: Direct dare I even say, frank conversation with our LSU brethren,

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Speaker 2: and I want the rest of you to participate because

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Speaker 2: we love our LSU brethren, or at least we respect

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Speaker 2: and appreciate our LSU brethren. I can speak for every

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Speaker 2: one of you when I say that Hayesville, North Carolina

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Speaker 2: tuned in, Prescott, Arizona tuned in. We have two honeymooners

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Speaker 2: in the Dominican Republic tuned in, both lovers of the

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Speaker 2: brand and of the show, So no big deal there.

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Speaker 2: And Sunset, Louisiana is tuned in. Hey, I got a

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Speaker 2: question for you. It's rhetorical and we're just going to

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Speaker 2: enter the show. What makes college football great? And if

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Speaker 2: you can't answer that question to our liking, do you

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Speaker 2: have any business making decisions about the future of the sport?

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Speaker 1: Just something to think on. Let's dive into the show.

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Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, if you're watching live right now,

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Speaker 2: the Late kickstore is open. I have not told anyone.

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Speaker 2: It is not public knowledge. The only folks who know

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Speaker 2: that right now are the folks watching the live show.

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Speaker 2: The reward there you go for watching the live show.

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Speaker 2: Let's dive in tonight SEC versus Big Ten, it's must

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Speaker 2: see on the hardwood. Sometimes it is often a really

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Speaker 2: really good matchup in bowl games. But lately it's been

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Speaker 2: about conference realignment, and it's been about conference expansion and

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Speaker 2: who's going to do what, Who's going to grab up who,

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Speaker 2: And we've been talking about that a lot. Everyone has

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Speaker 2: it's interesting times though. Some people will call them exciting,

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Speaker 2: some people will call them nerve wracking, some people will

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Speaker 2: call them troubling. I call them everything and then some.

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Speaker 2: But lately, what have we had. We've had media days

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Speaker 2: and everyone's been focused on what Greg Sankey's gonna say

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Speaker 2: and the SEC has been and continues to be, is

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Speaker 2: that those two brands, and that's what we need to

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Speaker 2: call them now, not conferences, but brands.

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Speaker 1: It's the buzzword these days.

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Speaker 2: As you'll soon find out, those two brands are going

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Speaker 2: of college football. If I'm a Utah fan, if I'm

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Speaker 2: the same world as they do. That is a valid concern.

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Speaker 2: I share your concerns. Peate State has nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 2: We are one of the haves, as Nick Saban would say.

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Speaker 2: Yet I still share your concerns. So we rewind to

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Speaker 2: He said, quote, there's no urgency. There's no sense of

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Speaker 2: Here's how that translated. I don't have any interest in

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Speaker 2: But he pulled the classic hey balls in their court.

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Speaker 2: the next thing that you would have hoped for is

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Speaker 2: to fast forward to this week, and you would have hoped,

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Speaker 1: It is right.

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Speaker 2: We want to hear him say, hey, the sec stand

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Speaker 2: True enough, we have rated the sport. Whatever's left over, though,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be left over, and all's well. That

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Speaker 2: Where does expansion go? I don't know. There are two

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Speaker 2: I'm one of those individuals that when change occurs, I

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Speaker 2: I don't think you can close the door on future

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Speaker 2: expansion from a strategy standpoint. This is not the old

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Speaker 2: Sears and Roebuck. Yes, kids, Sears and Roebuck, the giant

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Speaker 1: That's straight, that's blunt. That's where this deal is going.

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Speaker 2: We have about three or four more years of perpetual

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Speaker 2: to take a shower. Nothing about that sounds like college athletics. Now,

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Speaker 2: to his credit, Kevin Warren is telling you, hey, this

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Speaker 1: And that's true.

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Speaker 2: Of what I said earlier this week remains, this is

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Speaker 2: Have you guys noticed like I have, that a lot

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Speaker 1: You can accept it or leave it. That's one thing.

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Speaker 2: But you know, if I am telling you my truck's

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Speaker 2: that's an entirely different thing, because I control whether the.

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Speaker 1: Truck runs you over unless it's a Stephen King movie.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of how I feel about this.

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Speaker 2: I got a lot of people from the conference executive

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Speaker 2: this is the way college athletics are going. I know

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Speaker 2: get where it's going. I don't like it, and you

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Speaker 2: I can speak personally all night, and believe me, I

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Speaker 2: You know how, sometimes on Late Kick I use the

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Speaker 2: phrase bumper sticker logic. Bumper sticker logic, of course, being something.

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Speaker 2: But there is no scenario on planet Earth from this

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Speaker 2: asked producer Jesse, most recently made famous for modeling one

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Speaker 2: if I were a mole inside the Big Ten office,

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Speaker 2: and I had executive control, and I actively wanted to

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Speaker 2: sabotage the conference from this point moving forward, what kind

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Speaker 2: of decisions would I make that could turn the Big

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Speaker 2: Ten into Sears and Roebuck. This is a conference on

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Speaker 2: the precipice of signing a multi billion dollar media rights deal.

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Speaker 2: They have just acquired two of the most valuable properties

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Speaker 2: in all of college athletics period in the world, well

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Speaker 2: in the world of college athletics. What risk are we

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Speaker 2: running here? You see Sears and Roebuck. There's an entire

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Speaker 2: dissertation that could be done on the rise and fall

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Speaker 2: of Sears Roebuck. But the bottom line is, multiple new

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Speaker 1: Who else is out there to gobble up the business.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about two major players, and for the foreseeable future,

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Speaker 2: they lose to Oklahoma, if they start out three and

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Speaker 2: oh and then lose that game, they're three and one.

437
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Speaker 1: Here's what comes after the Oklahoma game.

438
00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:37,920
Speaker 2: Indiana at Rutgers at Purdue Illinois. So there are many

439
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,680
Speaker 2: many paths here where they're already to five or six

440
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,439
Speaker 2: wins before they even get to November. And I believe

441
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,640
Speaker 2: they should be there before they get to November.

442
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Speaker 1: Now.

443
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Speaker 2: The reason I mentioned November is because it is a

444
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 2: tough close. They've got Minnesota at Michigan, Wisconsin at Iowa

445
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 2: to close the season. But you could already be out

446
00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,640
Speaker 2: of the woods. You could already be in the six

447
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,639
Speaker 2: or seven win club and not have to worry so

448
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,360
Speaker 2: much about whether we can pull upsets in November. Now,

449
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,199
Speaker 2: they may be flying so high that they can be

450
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 2: competitive in November two. But if they are already badly

451
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: banged up record wise before they even get out of October,

452
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Speaker 2: then this is a possibility. I just don't think they're

453
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 2: going to be badly enough banged up by the time

454
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Speaker 2: they get out of October. And I think he's going

455
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Speaker 2: to be allowed to finish the end of the season

456
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Speaker 2: if he gets to November. So I'm saying this is

457
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Speaker 2: an eight. I think Scott Frost. You know my feelings

458
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Speaker 2: on Nebraska this year. I think they're going to be

459
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Speaker 2: a seven win team, so I think he'll be okay point.

460
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Speaker 2: But I definitely think even if he doesn't make it,

461
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Speaker 2: I do think he makes it to the end of

462
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 2: the season before something happens and we're talking regular season there.

463
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Speaker 1: Next up.

464
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Speaker 2: This one's kind of interesting because I did not know

465
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Speaker 2: that this had happened so frequently. Cam said, Alabama's going

466
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 2: to win the West and the second place team will

467
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 2: be three or more games behind them in the division standings.

468
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 2: SEC West is cannibalism from Gulf Shor's Alabama. How many

469
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 2: times do you think this has happened under Saban that

470
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 2: Alabama won the West and they finished three or more

471
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Speaker 2: games ahead of whoever the next closest team was. Keep

472
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Speaker 2: in mind, they only play eight conference games, so that

473
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 2: means you got to be eight to no and then

474
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 2: second place is five and three or worse. Believe it

475
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: or not, it's happened four times, most recently in twenty

476
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Speaker 2: eighteen twenty sixteen, nine and eight. Saban second and third

477
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 2: years there they did this and every time they were

478
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Speaker 2: eight to no and the next closest team was five

479
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Speaker 2: and three. So presumably, let's just say this happens this year.

480
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 2: You have to have Bama go eight no. So they

481
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 2: have to just run the table in conference. I would

482
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Speaker 2: think A and M, you know, just using Vegas numbers,

483
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Speaker 2: A and M would be the next team in line.

484
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 2: Bama's preseason over under win total is eleven. A and

485
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Speaker 2: M's preseason over under win totals.

486
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Speaker 1: Eight and a half.

487
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 2: So that's a two and a half game gap. Now

488
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Speaker 2: that's taking into account the entire schedule, not just conference games.

489
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: So who knows A and M.

490
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 2: You know, they play Miami, they could lose their Bama

491
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 2: could lose to Texas and it wouldn't impact this. But

492
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Speaker 2: this isn't so crazy. I made it a seven and

493
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 2: a half. It's not so crazy because think about it.

494
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 2: If Bama's undefeated, then by default they've already handed everyone

495
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Speaker 2: a loss. And also there is that very real cannibalistic

496
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Speaker 2: scenario that was mentioned here where you've got one elite

497
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 2: team and just a bunch of good teams and good

498
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 2: teams beat good teams.

499
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Speaker 1: That's what happens.

500
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,199
Speaker 2: That is the nature of college football cannibalism. And so

501
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 2: I made this one a seven and a half. It's

502
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Speaker 2: not crazy.

503
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Speaker 1: It's unlikely, but it's not crazy.

504
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Speaker 2: Next up this one, I made an eight on the

505
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Speaker 2: boldness scale, And this one is Clemson and Oklahoma both

506
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 2: miss out on the conference championship game again, making it

507
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 2: they miss out on making the conference championship game.

508
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Speaker 1: I made this an eight.

509
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: Clemson is a minus one to ninety favorite to just

510
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 2: make the conference title game. They're reminus one twenty to

511
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: win the whole conference, and they're they're the fourth favorite

512
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 2: to win the national championship now in the Big Twelve.

513
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 2: Obviously they don't have the divisional play. Oklahoma is plus

514
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 2: two to twenty to win the Big Twelve. So the

515
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 2: Big Twelve, this is not hard to see at all.

516
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 2: The Big Twelve is totally wide open. I think it

517
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 2: is the most competitively balanced or maybe most unpredictable conference

518
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 2: in all of college football this year. Like I'm gonna

519
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 2: make a case later where I may convince myself Baylor

520
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 2: wins the conference. I was texting back and forth with

521
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 2: Tray Scott last night, and I was I was talking

522
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 2: myself into it yesterday on the Late Kick Extra podcast.

523
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 2: I was talking myself into it and we still got

524
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 2: like a month. I'm going to end up talking myself

525
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 2: into that probably, So the Big twelve is wide open.

526
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 2: It's not hard to envision Oklahoma not playing for the

527
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Speaker 2: conference title. There are many paths in which the Sooners

528
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 2: don't play for it, even though they're the favorite to

529
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Speaker 2: get there or one of the favorites.

530
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: But in the acc.

531
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Speaker 2: For Clemson not to play for it again, you're talking

532
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 2: to a pretty big story, one of the bigger stories

533
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 2: in college football this year. And that's me not even

534
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,959
Speaker 2: knowing what happens in the rest of the country. If

535
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 2: Daboswenny and Clemson aren't playing for the conference title again,

536
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 2: think about that. That obviously means everybody's biggest fears about

537
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 2: losing Venables and losing Tony Elliott they have manifest themselves.

538
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 2: It means quarterback has not been figured out for a

539
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 2: second consecutive year. It means that you get further and

540
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 2: further down that rabbit hole of talking about whether the

541
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 2: game is passing dabosweny By. You know this whole song

542
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 2: and dance of if the worst were to happen, I

543
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 2: just think Clemson's gonna be there, so I don't think

544
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 2: that we're going to be having those conversations.

545
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: As a result. I made this an eight.

546
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: Maybe one of them, but I definitely think at least

547
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: one of them is going to play for a conference title.

548
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 2: The last one here, let's go back to the Big

549
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 2: Twelve for a second. Oklahoma State finally wins the Big Twelve.

550
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,239
Speaker 2: They won it in twenty eleven, I think, and they

551
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 2: haven't won it since then. So the Cowboys win in

552
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve.

553
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: I think, in.

554
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Speaker 2: Terms of odds the number three right now and Baylor's

555
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: number four, and they're both behind.

556
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: Ou in Texas.

557
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 2: They have got a surprisingly poor schedule dynamic this year.

558
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: They don't have a single buy in conference play, meaning

559
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: they play three out of conference games to start the year.

560
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 2: They play Central Michigan, Arizona State, and Arkansas Pine Bluff

561
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 2: and that's where their buy comes in. And then starting

562
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 2: in October October first, that's when they go to Baylor.

563
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 2: It's their first Big Twelve game. They play an entire

564
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 2: conference schedule back to back to back to back to back.

565
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 2: They do not have an off week, so that is

566
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 2: less than desirable. Their road games include at TCU, at

567
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 2: Kansas State, at Oklahoma, at Baylor. The defense got gutted,

568
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 2: including losing their defensive coordinator, and I just I know

569
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 2: what the odds say, but I was higher on them

570
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: last year than I am this year. Spencer Sanders is

571
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: back at quarterback and he's going to get a lot

572
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 2: of hyphen rightfully, so right he will win games for

573
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 2: them this year. Winning the conference though, is something that

574
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: I think we may look back on last year and say,

575
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 2: didn't know it at the time, But that's as close

576
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 2: as they were going to get, you know, with this

577
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 2: current crop of players. So I'm going to call this

578
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: an eight on the boldness scale. Oklahoma State solid team.

579
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: I just not quite feeling them as much this year

580
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: as I was, especially down the stretch last year. All right,

581
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 2: let's roll on here, you know, Jesse Colin pat ourselves

582
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 2: on the back for an SEC Homer dominated show. We

583
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 2: sure are talking a lot of non SEC stuff tonight.

584
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: I have to say it because no one else will.

585
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: Thank you. Also, I see what you just did, Jesse,

586
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, big ten media days.

587
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk for a couple of minutes on

588
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: this Did you guys hear Ohio State this week? Did

589
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 2: you hear Ryan Day? Did you hear this team talking?

590
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like, if you're a Buckeye fan, I

591
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: can understand. I can I can imagine how mad you

592
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: were at the end of last year. But I can

593
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 2: promise you it does not equate to how these dudes feel.

594
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking talking about in the days or

595
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: weeks afterward. They walked into Big Ten media days and

596
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 2: it felt like the Michigan game wrapped up about forty

597
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 2: five minutes ago. And that's normally like Xbox mentality. Normally,

598
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 2: it is really hard to bottle that kind of thing

599
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 2: up and take it with you that long, but they have.

600
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 2: Now Does that mean anything on the football field this fall. No,

601
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: not necessarily, but it also very well could. It's definitely

602
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 2: how you want your team to feel. Ryan Day said, Look,

603
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: I mean, he gave a quote. He said, eleven and

604
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 2: two in a Rose Bowl.

605
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: That's not quite good enough.

606
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 2: In Ohio State said, we got three preseason goals and

607
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: they are beat Michigan. He said, the team up north,

608
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: they are to win the Big Ten and they are

609
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 2: to win the National Championship, and as far as I'm concerned,

610
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 2: we went oh for three last year and they did.

611
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: You know.

612
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 2: I was at the Ohio State Michigan state game last year,

613
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: which is funny because that was a total splattering. That

614
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: was as thorough a dominant performance as you will have

615
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 2: seen up there last year. And then I was at

616
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: the Ohio State Michigan and we remember what happened there.

617
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: They brought Jim Knowles in. We just talked about him

618
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: with Oklahoma State. Jim Noles was the former Cowboy defensive

619
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: coordinator and they hired him and he is now the

620
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator at Ohio State. And it's important to note,

621
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: you know Ryan Day when he brought him in there.

622
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 2: I was listening to our buddy Zach Smith talk about

623
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 2: this earlier today. He said, Hey, they brought him in.

624
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 2: They didn't say here's your staff. They brought Jim Knowles

625
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: in and said go get your staff. And so he's

626
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 2: pretty much he being Ryan Day, He's pretty much said,

627
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: here's what the expectation is going to be. I want

628
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 2: you to have a top ten defense, and you call

629
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: the shots. I brought you in because I think you're

630
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 2: the best. You go get your staff, you choose where

631
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 2: you need to be on game day, you call the shots.

632
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: But here's what I expect in return. And this is

633
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 2: kind of what he echoed yesterday at Big ten Media Day.

634
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: He said, we got to have a Big ten or

635
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 2: we got to have a top ten defense.

636
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: That's what we have to have now.

637
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 2: Realistically, I think if they were the nineteenth or twenty

638
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 2: second best defense in the country this year, they would

639
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: be well on their way to playing for another national championship.

640
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: That should be the standard. Why shouldn't that be the

641
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: standard up there? It's Ohio State. It's not Ohio. All

642
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 2: due respect to the Bobcats. I'm sure Athens is a

643
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 2: great place this time of year, but we're talking about

644
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: we're talking about a group of folks who think the

645
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 2: Big Ten championship is their preseason birthright.

646
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: Vegas agrees, and yet they are not carrying.

647
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 2: That thing around Michigan is right now. I can only

648
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: imagine how much that eats at them. So luckily they

649
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: got a crew back again this year. That's an interesting

650
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: team to watch, very interesting, and they don't start soft.

651
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: They got Notre Dame in there. Week one.

652
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: Next up, I could not help but be reminded how

653
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: consequential this Penn State Perdue game is going to be.

654
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Speaker 1: In Week one. It's a Thursday night game.

655
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 2: So we got the backyard brawl, we got West Virginia

656
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: and pitt we got Penn State and Purdue. And I

657
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: think if you're like, let's say you're a Mississippi State

658
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: fan and you only really care about Mississippi State, it

659
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 2: may be a little harder for me to sell you

660
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 2: on those games. But most of you aren't just fans

661
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: of your team. This is not Major League Baseball. Most

662
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 2: of you, especially if you're watching this show, you got

663
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 2: your team, but you also love the sport, and if

664
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: you fit that category, it's not hard for me to

665
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 2: sell you on this.

666
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: But if you need me to, if you need the fifteen.

667
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 2: Or twenty second pay per view version, I want you

668
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: to understand, in this rivalry, well if you want to

669
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 2: call it that, I mean, in this Jesse rivalry or

670
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: no rivalry.

671
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: Just match up, right, yeah, matchup? Matchup?

672
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, in this matchup Purdue at one insince o

673
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: four I think, and it's been nine straight that Penn

674
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: State's won, but plus side purduees coming off the first

675
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 2: nine win season they've had since three. We had to

676
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: look up who the quarterback was back then. Anyway, that's

677
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 2: not the pay per view sell. Here's the pay per

678
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: view cell purdues over under win totally suspicious. Right now,

679
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 2: it's floating seven to eight depending on where you look.

680
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: But yet they won nine games last year and virtually

681
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: the entire team will, at least on the surface cause

682
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 2: Aidan O'Connell's back to the quarterback. A lot of the

683
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 2: team looks like it returns, and a lot of people

684
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 2: think they have a smart money bet taking the win

685
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 2: total over for Purdue. And if they win in week one,

686
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: I don't know how you lose because the rest of

687
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: their schedule is so workable. And also, if Purdue were

688
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: to win this game, do you understand what it feels

689
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: like around Happy Valley? Do you understand what it feels

690
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: like around Penn State? Because they will have already dropped

691
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: a conference game. They'll be zero to one. Oh and

692
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: by the way, they will have a trip to Auburn

693
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 2: in week three, and so you're looking at the real

694
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 2: possibility of starting one in two. And I don't need

695
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: to tell anyone how that would go over at Penn State.

696
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: So I know a lot of folks are looking at that,

697
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 2: and if that game we're in week five, you'd be

698
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: tempted to kind of look over it. Well, it's not

699
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: that thing's sitting right there in week one, and for

700
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: a lot of this other stuff on Penn State schedule

701
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 2: to matter, Man, they really need that win. I wasn't

702
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: supposed to go in this order, but you know what,

703
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it anyway.

704
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: Here we go the.

705
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 2: Big Ten West, speaking of Purdue, and they're standing over there. Wisconsin,

706
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 2: according to the media, the overwhelming favorite to win that division.

707
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: And I look at the Big Ten West, I don't

708
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: see an overwhelming favorite to do anything.

709
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: And so I just find it peculiar.

710
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: I mean, if you made me tabulate, you know, my preseason,

711
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: I guess i'd say Wisconsin's slight, but I would follow

712
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: it up with slight.

713
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: I would say just that word.

714
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 2: They got a new offensive coordinator there in Bobby Ingram,

715
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 2: and with good reason, because they ranked one twenty nationally

716
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: in passing offense last year. And there were a lot

717
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: of folks, and you're looking at one of them right

718
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 2: here on this screen, who are very hopeful that that

719
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: number would be much higher. I have no idea how

720
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 2: anyone's an overwhelming favorite. There are five teams you could

721
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: sell me on to win this division this year, and

722
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 2: Wisconsin's one of them. Iowa was one, Nebraska, Minnesota. Perdue

723
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: just mentioned them, especially if they win versus Penn State

724
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 2: in Week one. Some other things that caught my ear.

725
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: Yesterday we had Pat Fitzgerald from Northwestern, We had Mel Tucker.

726
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: These were among the several coaches who were asked about

727
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: the future of the sport.

728
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: Where do you think it's going?

729
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 2: And they kind of echoed the sentiment I heard down

730
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 2: at SEC media Days a lot last week, and that was,

731
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: we don't like that. We don't know a bunch of stuff.

732
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: We don't know how big our conference is going to be.

733
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: We don't know what the rules are going to be.

734
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: We don't there's so much we don't know, and we

735
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 2: just wish we had better guidance on it.

736
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: That is a familiar theme.

737
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, that is one of the top things

738
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: being talked about behind the scenes. There's a very sizable

739
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: event happening in Nashville next week where a lot of

740
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: folks from the more football operations, recruiting operations behind the

741
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 2: scenes areas of college football will be in town. I'll

742
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: be over there for that. It is the number one

743
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 2: topic on everyone's mind, and that is mapping out the

744
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: future of college football. More on that later as much

745
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: as I can tell you, But in the meantime, you

746
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 2: got a lot of coaches out there, coaches who have

747
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: been around the block who kind of have to throw

748
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: their hands up and say, I'm just gonna worry about

749
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 2: what I can control over here, and usually that's a

750
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 2: lot more than what it feels like I can control

751
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 2: right now. Also, the Michigan court situation, I know some

752
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: people want a definitive starter written in stone.

753
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: That's not the way it's going to be there. It

754
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: wasn't last year, it's not gonna be this year.

755
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 2: But kay McNamara, you kind of get that he is

756
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: the starter there. Jim Harbaugh keeps pointing out, I start

757
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 2: guys based on how the drives they're on the field

758
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 2: for end, which is kind of common sense. Right Well,

759
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 2: McNamara's drives end in points over fifty percent of the time,

760
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: or at least they did last year. And the other

761
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: thing to keep in mind, this is where it kind

762
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: of gets interesting. They start with Colorado State, Yukon, Hawaii,

763
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: and Maryland. It's one of the softest opening months of

764
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 2: any major team out there, which means they can afford

765
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 2: to do whatever they want to a quarterback, and that

766
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 2: means they're going to probably rotate to help the amount.

767
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: Here's what I always think about, what if. I wouldn't

768
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 1: say this is a risk, It's just what if. What if,

769
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you got a couple of.

770
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 2: Games there where Mcnameric just doesn't have it, just doesn't

771
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: have his a game, doesn't have the game. You know

772
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: he's capable of playing, and you've seen him play before

773
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 2: in McCarthy just lights it up. And you've told guys, hey,

774
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: whoever plays best in these first few games, Now, that's

775
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 2: how I'm going to determine the rest of the season.

776
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 2: And then the guy you think is second best ends

777
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 2: up out shining the guy that you really trust more.

778
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: What do you do? I've seen this happen a couple

779
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: of times. What do you do? But then again, the

780
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: counter to that is, well, what better metric would you

781
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: have than on field competition? The fact of the.

782
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 2: Matter is, if one guy's getting it done on the

783
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 2: field on a Saturday in the fall. That's what it's

784
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: all about, right, These are not tune up games. They

785
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 2: kind of are, but they all count. So keep an

786
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 2: eye on that Michigan quarterback rotation. I guess I would

787
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 2: call it. Okay, we need to have a conversation here

788
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 2: for just a second, and I am reminding you guys

789
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 2: of some things in the live chat that don't matter

790
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 2: as much if you're listening to the podcast version, although

791
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: I appreciate both immensely. What are your expectations for LSU

792
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 2: this year? What are your expectations If you're in Lincoln, Nebraska,

793
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: If you're in Tempe, Arizona, you know who Brian Kelly is.

794
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: You know LSU, You've got a on them.

795
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: But definitely if you're in New Iberia, you know, if

796
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 2: you're in Alexandria, if you're down there in New Orleans

797
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 2: or Baton Rouge, what do you expect wins and losses?

798
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 2: What do you expect for LSU this year? I did

799
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: not expect to be doing a segment on LSU tonight,

800
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 2: full disclosure. It was not in our mid term and

801
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: short term plans. But then the eye Josh rings the

802
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 2: other day and I'm outdoors getting some good old Vitamin

803
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: D and a close, dear friend of the program and

804
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 2: a very hardcore LSU fan is on the other end

805
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 2: of the line, and I hear some distress in his voice,

806
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 2: and he's saying, you know what I wanted this year.

807
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 2: I wanted sort of a consequence free year. I don't

808
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 2: have high expectations. I wanted to just enjoy LSU football

809
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: and Saturdays for what they are. And I wanted to

810
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 2: get back to expectations next year because I know we

811
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 2: got a lot to turn over, and we got a

812
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 2: culture we got to reinvent. We got to go from

813
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: doing it the way to doing it the Brian Kelly way.

814
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: And I'm on board with that.

815
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 2: I just know it's not an overnight, snap your fingers

816
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: magic sort of fix. I said, do you need me

817
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 2: for any of this? Like you're asking me a question,

818
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Said, well, here's my fear. My

819
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 2: fear is that the expectation level, the hype bubble, if

820
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: you will, it's inflating a little bit too much. And

821
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know, I see us going

822
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: eight and four and I call that a great year,

823
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 2: and I'm worried that there may be a little bit

824
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 2: too big a chunk of our fan base that's going

825
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 2: to turn eight and four into a disappointment, and I

826
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 2: don't want that.

827
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: Can you talk about it on the show?

828
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: And I said, hey, look, who would I be if

829
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: not a person who anyone could pull a string from

830
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 2: and get a segment put in late kig.

831
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this, shall we.

832
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: I go over to my people over on go twenty

833
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 2: four to seven dot com today, because anytime I say

834
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to my LSU folks, was my

835
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: LSU folks.

836
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: And I said, what about this?

837
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: I just put it on the message board and I

838
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 2: just let it breathe, and I think it's like half

839
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 2: a dozen pages into the thread. Now, I said, you

840
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 2: give me either your expectations wins and losses, or you

841
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 2: just let me know what in terms of e and

842
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 2: intangibles would be success this year. And I was pleasantly surprised.

843
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 2: We did get a healthy amount of eight and four. Now,

844
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 2: the over under in Vegas is seven, but most every

845
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: fan base is going to have expectations a little bit

846
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 2: higher than the Vegas over under win total because they

847
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 2: factor in things that you don't want to factor in,

848
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 2: the factor in possibility of injury, possibility of all kinds

849
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: of things going awry that you just you refuse to

850
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 2: acknowledge in the preseason. That's okay, that's normal. And eight

851
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,439
Speaker 2: and four was pretty normal in that thread. But there

852
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 2: were several nine and threes. There were plenty of ten

853
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 2: and twos, more than I could count on both hands.

854
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,959
Speaker 1: So they're out there.

855
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 2: And then we had we had some fringe plus ten wins,

856
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 2: and so I really want to talk for just a

857
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 2: second now. You know, I love you guys with our

858
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: LSU brethren that are in the then ten win range

859
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: and above. And maybe you nine winners need to pay

860
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 2: close attention, but you ten winners, really you need to

861
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: set down what you're doing.

862
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: And you need to turn the volume up.

863
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 2: Summer is a dangerous time of year lightning, flash floods, etc.

864
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 2: But also summer is a dangerous time of year because

865
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: we have a combination of several things that have bitten

866
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 2: many a college football fan.

867
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: Before you have the.

868
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: Usual off season amnesia, and that's just where we tend

869
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: to forget the lessons this sport teaches us every year

870
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 2: because we have preview magazine season where all those depth

871
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 2: charts look bright and shiny, and there is not a

872
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: red sharpie through any name. Everyone's healthy, everyone's good to go,

873
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 2: everyone's added seven to ten pounds of muscle.

874
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: And also we have media days, don't we, where all

875
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: we do is talk and magically teams feel like they

876
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: got better since spring and nothing's happened, No football has happened,

877
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: not a single pad has been put on, no popping

878
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: since spring.

879
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 2: Yet teams all of a sudden get better. Your expectation

880
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: goes maybe six wins to we could win nine. What

881
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 2: are you talking about? I just talked to you in April. Well,

882
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 2: that is summer for you. It's a dangerous time of

883
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 2: year around colle football. So my word of caution and

884
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 2: the word of caution from a friend of mine through me.

885
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: I'm just the middleman here. You know, you wouldn't get

886
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 2: mad at a guy for just delivering drugs from one

887
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 2: person to another, So don't get mad at me for this.

888
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 2: There are some things at LSU that are worth being

889
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 2: excited about. This could be the best wide receiver stable.

890
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 2: That was a very common refrain on the go twenty

891
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 2: four to seven message board today. I saw one of

892
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 2: you say, hey, when is the last time the best

893
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 2: wide receiver stable in this conference, struggled to make a

894
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 2: bowl game, struggle to win seven games.

895
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 1: I got you. I get what you're saying.

896
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 2: And there are three quarterbacks down there, and if any

897
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 2: one of them pans out, then Brian Kelly could do

898
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 2: some really good things. That defensive front is the envy

899
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 2: of a lot of college football. Ditto for the linebacker

900
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: corps secondary. Who knows who in the world knows If

901
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: a freshman left tackle works out, that offensive line could

902
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: greatly exceed expectations.

903
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: I know the talking points. I get it, I get it.

904
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: I get it.

905
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 2: Now let me counter those. We're playing ping pong here

906
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 2: for just a second. Do not estimate how hard it

907
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: is for a new staff to acclimate in the SEC.

908
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 2: It's the hardest conference to acclimate yourself into. And it's

909
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 2: not a head coach and a bunch of dudes who

910
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,479
Speaker 2: he just pooled from around the conference. You got quite

911
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 2: a few of them who have not coached down here before.

912
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: That's not long term detriment, but it is short term

913
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 2: learning curve.

914
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Keep that in mind.

915
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,720
Speaker 2: The second thing is this secondary is indeed a myth.

916
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: I know they went and got a lot of them

917
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: because they feel like they can play in the SEC.

918
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is they didn't want to have

919
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: to go get any of them. They had to do

920
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,359
Speaker 2: that out of necessity. You got some guys who can

921
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: throw the ball down here. It's actually a pretty deep

922
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 2: year in the league at the quarterback position, So just

923
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 2: keep that in mind. The third thing, for all the

924
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,919
Speaker 2: names at quarterback, there's a reason that there are three

925
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: names and we don't have a clear one, and then

926
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 2: saying things like boy, our second third string looks really

927
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 2: good too. The reason we don't have it figured out

928
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 2: is because there's not a sure fire number one there.

929
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 2: We've seen Miles Brennan play before. We're confident that he

930
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 2: can that he can adequately serve as the starting QB there.

931
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels different skill set entirely. I would say the

932
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 2: same thing. We're confident that he would not be a

933
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: train wreck or anything like that. Nus Meyer, his best

934
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 2: days are clearly ahead of him. I'm as high on

935
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: him as anyone outside of his parents, probably, But we

936
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: don't have a clear cut, bona fide sec started there.

937
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: We hope we do. That's what faul Camp will.

938
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,479
Speaker 2: Find out for us, but we don't know that yet,

939
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 2: So in your world, obviously, if you're an LSU fan,

940
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 2: you figure out a path where at least one of them,

941
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: if not more than one of them, works out for you.

942
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 1: There is an alternate.

943
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 2: Universe where we just have to deal with average quarterback

944
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: play this year. It has happened before also, and this

945
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 2: is the one I really want to focus on, which

946
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: I hope we don't have to talk about, but I

947
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: fear we probably will. You got a factor in the unseen.

948
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 2: There's a lot of intangible, a lot of unquantifiable. And

949
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: if you were listening to Brian Kelly, if you've listened

950
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 2: to him at all, he keeps using that word culture

951
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 2: and he keeps talking about overturning it.

952
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: We interviewed him.

953
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 2: I was talking to him one on one last week

954
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 2: and I said, you keep talking about overturning a culture.

955
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: No one ever does that comfortably. No one ever goes from.

956
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 2: Doing things the way Orizeron did them to doing things

957
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 2: the way you do them with no hiccups.

958
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: And he acknowledged, You're right.

959
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 2: It's comfortable now because we haven't played games yet, but

960
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 2: when we play games, it'll be real. Now here's the

961
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 2: way this usually goes for those of you who are

962
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 2: suffering from amnesia. Here's the way I expect the LSU

963
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 2: season to go. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I

964
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 2: think they'll start out pretty well. I would at the

965
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 2: moment pick them to beat Florida State. That's not official,

966
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: I just at the moment, for the sake of argument,

967
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 2: Let's say they beat them. They start out two oh

968
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 2: three and oho. There's the schedule right here, four and oh.

969
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: Let's say they start out four and oh and they're

970
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 2: going into Auburn, and then.

971
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: That tougher stretch starts from there on. You don't find

972
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: out at.

973
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 2: That point really where the warts are because everyone's happy

974
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 2: to buy in as long as you're winning. But there

975
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 2: are losses somewhere along the way on this schedule. I'm

976
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: not even going to pick out which ones they are.

977
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 2: I'm saying when they start to happen, when the bounce

978
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 2: of the ball doesn't go your way, when the turnover

979
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 2: battles minus two against you, and you lose as a

980
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 2: four point favorite one Saturday, then you get back in

981
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 2: that locker room, then you get back on the bus,

982
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 2: on the plane, you go home. Guys have Sunday to

983
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 2: text each other, and slowly but surely, the way that

984
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 2: they used to do things is the way some guys

985
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 2: will want to fall back. Those are the things some

986
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 2: guys will want to fall back on. It is almost

987
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 2: inevitable when you're trying to overturn a culture because there's

988
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 2: some residue that's left over. Doesn't matter when you win.

989
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 2: When you lose is when this stuff starts to bubble up.

990
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 2: And if you lose a few more games, then you

991
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 2: start to find out it turns out there are some

992
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: guys still here that really do not serve the long

993
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 2: term best interest of what we're trying to do as

994
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 2: a program. Those guys won't be there next year, But

995
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 2: the point is you inevitably still have some guys around

996
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 2: there that are are much more condition of doing things

997
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 2: the old way that probably aren't best cut out to

998
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 2: do things the new way. You can't overturn it completely overnight.

999
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly knows that. I think we'll find that out

1000
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 2: this year.

1001
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: Now.

1002
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: That means they're not going twelve and oh what we're

1003
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 2: talking about is can they still go nine to three

1004
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: with that?

1005
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. They may be able to.

1006
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is and this is where my personal

1007
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 2: focus is with them this year, since it's year one

1008
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: under that staff, is almost about twenty twenty three to

1009
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 2: me more than it is twenty twenty two.

1010
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: LSU.

1011
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 2: This year, I'm worried about filtration, and I'm worried about recruiting,

1012
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 2: and the bottom line is there could be some issues

1013
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. There could be I'm speaking generically. This

1014
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: is not inside information. I don't know anything about any

1015
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 2: guy down there that's giving them trouble right now. I

1016
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 2: am speaking from fifty thousand feet. If losses start to happen,

1017
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 2: if there's some bumps in the road, it's still not

1018
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 2: the worst thing in the world. It is a natural

1019
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 2: filtration process. You are finding out who the best long

1020
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 2: term solutions are in your locker room, and you're finding

1021
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 2: out the guys that you don't want to be in

1022
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 2: the fox hole with, and you're finding out things that

1023
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: may suck right now but are greatly going to assist

1024
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 2: you in twenty twenty three and beyond.

1025
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: That's the first part of it.

1026
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 2: That's why sometimes losses in year one aren't the worst

1027
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 2: thing in the world. That's what I'm saying. And also

1028
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 2: in the other compartment over there, every week recruiting every

1029
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 2: single week, you're putting a product on the field that

1030
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 2: you're using to try and win a game, but also

1031
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 2: trying to sell a vision to a new crop of

1032
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 2: talent because those guys, absolutely you do have your choice

1033
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: of So you're bringing in one hundred percent of guys

1034
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,479
Speaker 2: hopefully that want to do things your way.

1035
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: That's what this year is about for me.

1036
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 2: So what my buddy was talking about and what I

1037
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 2: kind of echo in a general sense, is there is

1038
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 2: a path where LS you go seven and five this

1039
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 2: year and it's successful. Not because you love going to

1040
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 2: the Liberty Bowl in late December, but if you go

1041
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 2: seven and five and in the process weeded out some

1042
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 2: parts of your program that didn't need to be there

1043
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 2: that maybe maybe wouldn't have weeded themselves out if you

1044
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 2: went nine and three, what sets you up better long term?

1045
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 2: I know no one wants to win seven games when

1046
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,479
Speaker 2: they can win nine games. I'm saying if it does

1047
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 2: come to a seven and five season, this is the

1048
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 2: kind of situation where there could still be a lot

1049
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 2: of positives in that seven and five. Now, if Georgia

1050
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 2: goes seven and five this year, I'm not having this

1051
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 2: conversation with them. But if LSU or Florida go seven

1052
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 2: to five this year, there is this path just like

1053
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 2: Nick Nick Saban won seven games his first year and

1054
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 2: had to win a bowl game to get to seven.

1055
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: They found out.

1056
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 2: Some things about that program, and there were a lot

1057
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 2: of faces that weren't around the next year. And I

1058
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 2: think we all remember what happened the next year and

1059
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 2: then the thirteen or fourteen years after that. So I

1060
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 2: took the call, I delivered the message, and I hope

1061
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 2: you heard every word. They're watching us in Seattle, Washington,

1062
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 2: Panama City told you they were tuned in down there.

1063
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 2: Smackover Arkansas, our friends and Smackover are tuned in and Jacksonville, Alabama.

1064
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: That's kind of how you weed out a lot of

1065
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: the folks in the South.

1066
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 2: When you're playing Jacksonville State, how many folks say, oh, it.

1067
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 1: Must be nice for those kids to play in Jacksonville, Florida.

1068
00:48:58,640 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

1069
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 2: Those game caps or not from Jacksonville, Florid. They're from Jacksonville, Alabama.

1070
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 2: How about some sleepers this year. We had a question

1071
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 2: about this earlier today, So let's take a look at

1072
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 2: the question. Football guy Andy hit us up and said

1073
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: which teams are the biggest sleepers this year? I got

1074
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 2: three of them for you, but really I got one

1075
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 2: and then a couple that are a little bit further

1076
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 2: down the line. And by sleeper, I mean I'm looking

1077
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 2: for teams that could finish a solid two or more

1078
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 2: wins above their preseason win total. Baylor is the first

1079
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 2: one and foremost for me. Baylor their preseason over under

1080
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 2: is eight wins. This is the team that won the

1081
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 2: Big twelve last year. To me, from this point moving forward,

1082
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 2: as long as David Ran as my coach there, I

1083
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: am going to expect a product that will always exceed

1084
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: the sum of the parts because I respect the development.

1085
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 2: I certainly I respect the way. I respect the philosophy

1086
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,720
Speaker 2: more so than anything about the program. But the player

1087
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 2: development very very good. They put their guys in the

1088
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: right position. You rarely watch a Baylor game and say

1089
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 2: those guys weren't prepared today. Non issue for them. Also,

1090
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 2: I believe the offense is in good hands. I think

1091
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: right now, if you have fear about this team, it's

1092
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 2: who do they have it wide receiver?

1093
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: Who do have it? Running back? They lost a lot

1094
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: of those guys to the NFL. That's true. So here

1095
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: is my approach with Baylor this year.

1096
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 2: Blake Shapin at quarterback is a new starter kind of

1097
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 2: even though he started games for him last year.

1098
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 1: But he's a new starter. But he's the guy they chose.

1099
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: They chose him.

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00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 2: He started the Big Twelve title game for him and

1101
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 2: won it. And they battled it out in spring and

1102
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 2: he beat out Bohannan and so Dave Randa in a

1103
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 2: move that exhibits I think more voluntary character, I guess

1104
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 2: I would call it than most other coaches have. He

1105
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 2: went to Gary Bohannon and said, this job is not

1106
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 2: yours right now. You got beat out in the spring,

1107
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 2: and he told him so early that it gave him

1108
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 2: time to transfer, and he did. Ninety nine percent of

1109
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: coaches out there would never do that. They would maintain

1110
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: the battle into fall so they could have adequate death.

1111
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 2: And David r Anna said, yeah, certainly I could have

1112
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 2: done that. I respect the kid too much. I mean,

1113
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,280
Speaker 2: he he's the reason we got to the Big Twelve

1114
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 2: title game last year. But he was our second best quarterback,

1115
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 2: so I told him and he transferred out. Blake Shapan's

1116
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 2: the guy. Point is, yeah, Shapan's a new starter kind

1117
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 2: of quote unquote, but.

1118
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: He is the guy they chose. And I also think

1119
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: you cannot overstate what Jeff Grimes did for them last

1120
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: year offensive coordinator, or even what Eric Matteos, their offensive

1121
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: line coach, meant for them last year. I trust the

1122
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: offensive product because I trust the offensive system out there

1123
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: right now. A lot of wide receivers whose names we

1124
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: don't know that I think will be adequate enough. Ditto

1125
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: at the running back position. But also what excites me

1126
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: most about them is they have their choice at quarterback

1127
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: and they could very well have the best O line

1128
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: and D line in the conference.

1129
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 2: When you can check those three boxes for me, and

1130
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 2: you got one of the best head coaches in the conference,

1131
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 2: you will always be a contender. And so they're sitting

1132
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 2: at eight wins over under Wintle in the preseason. I

1133
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 2: think that Gameto first. When they play Oklahoma State, that

1134
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 2: is a big one. I think that's Oklahoma State. I

1135
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 2: don't know that just can't be their conference opener, but

1136
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: that is a big early season game cause they get

1137
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 2: him in Waco. See later, everyone's eyes go to at

1138
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 2: Oklahoma and at Texas to make those games matter in

1139
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things. That Oklahoma State game and

1140
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 2: for that matter, the game at Iowa State the week before,

1141
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,439
Speaker 2: those are huge early season tests for Baylor. I got

1142
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 2: confidence in Baylor, so they are very underrated for me. Also,

1143
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 2: I talked about Auburn the other night. Auburn is a

1144
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 2: team that I think fits in this conversation. Here's the formula.

1145
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 2: They're over underwin total six. Okay, what is the path

1146
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 2: for Auburn to be an overachiever? How do they get

1147
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 2: to seven or eight wins? Well, the first thing they

1148
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 2: do is they have to harness up everything that I

1149
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 2: feel about the program right now. There are a lot

1150
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 2: of folks down there that have Brian Harson's back. They

1151
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 2: saw what happen in February. A lot of the players

1152
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 2: they talked to us about it. Last week, they took ownership.

1153
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 2: They met with the president of the university themselves, which

1154
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 2: I don't think was widely publicized because it rarely ever happens,

1155
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 2: but they did. Can you find a way organizationally to

1156
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 2: harness all that up? How do you harness emotion up

1157
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 2: long term? Kind of like Ohio State's trying to do

1158
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 2: right now and make it manifest itself on the field

1159
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 2: in the fall.

1160
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: It's tricky, but it's possible. That's the first thing. The

1161
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: second thing is they have to be what I call

1162
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: the SEC's Bob team this year.

1163
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about. There's always a team.

1164
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 2: Bob is an acronym stands for bouncing ball. I'm trying

1165
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 2: to make it work, kind of like fetch. I'm trying

1166
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 2: to make that be our version of fetch, and it

1167
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 2: hasn't happened yet, but I think it'll take off one day.

1168
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 2: They need to be the SEC's Bob team. They need

1169
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,919
Speaker 2: to be that team. Every conference has one every year

1170
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 2: where you keep watching them and you keep saying, how

1171
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,479
Speaker 2: do they keep winning games? The balls just bouncing their way.

1172
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 2: It feels like they're plus turnovers every week ball bounces

1173
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 2: their way. They probably keep getting out gained. Box or

1174
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 2: tells one story, scoreboard tells another story. Auburn has to

1175
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 2: be that team this year because they're not just they're

1176
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: not outmanning people, they're not going up and down the

1177
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 2: field on people. But they're physical enough and they're talented

1178
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 2: enough to win games, especially if you hand them games.

1179
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 2: And the third thing is they got to defend home field.

1180
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 2: Look at this schedule, Mercer, San Jose State, Penn State,

1181
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 2: Missouri and LSU.

1182
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 1: That's their first five and they're all at home.

1183
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 2: If they do nothing more then take care of business

1184
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 2: at Jordenhair Stadium, especially later in the year they got

1185
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: Arkansas in there, maybe they pull one against Texas A

1186
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 2: and M or even if they don't, if they've done

1187
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 2: no more than just take care of business at home,

1188
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 2: they could set themselves up to overachieve. I know that's

1189
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 2: easier said than done. Penn State and LSU Weeks three

1190
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 2: and five games they probably won't be favored in, but

1191
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 2: it'll be a very.

1192
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: Close point spread there.

1193
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 2: Home field Jorden Hair Stadium, been very outspoken about it lately,

1194
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 2: one of the best in the country. The other team

1195
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 2: I wanted to look at is all the way out

1196
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 2: on the West Coast to UCLA. That's the team that's

1197
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 2: in one of the sneakiest good positions to overachieve this

1198
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 2: year of any of them. Now, you're not going to

1199
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 2: sneak up on Vegas With UCLA. The over underwent to

1200
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 2: hold is already eight and a half. That's pretty high,

1201
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 2: especially when you consider what they have not done under

1202
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 2: Chip Kelly as of late. But the main reason I

1203
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 2: wanted to point them out is this is the opportune

1204
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 2: moment for them. They return good talent in DTR at quarterback,

1205
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 2: Charbonnat's back at running back. But also it's just overall

1206
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 2: it's the best collection of talent Chip Kelly's had so far.

1207
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 2: And think about the rest of the Pac twelve USC

1208
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 2: has churn. Everything's new there. Oregon has churned, everything's new there.

1209
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 2: They get Utah at home, which, as I've said before,

1210
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 2: isn't such an intimidating home stadium.

1211
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: It means you don't have to go to Salt Lake City.

1212
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: That's the important part to note there.

1213
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 2: So if not this year, then when they've got the

1214
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 2: fourth best odds to win the Pac twelve championship this year,

1215
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 2: do the CLA Bruins. They need a fast start and

1216
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,439
Speaker 2: they need this to be the year that Chip Kelly

1217
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 2: can point to and say, look that year, that twenty

1218
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 2: twenty two year we finally made it.

1219
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: We kind of stay on this theme. We had one

1220
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: more question I wanted to get to. I appreciate you

1221
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: guys being tuned in.

1222
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 2: Another quick reminder, I just put it in the chat

1223
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 2: late Kickstores open right now. I can't promise anything after

1224
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 2: this because I'm going to publicize it the moment we

1225
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 2: go off air of it. Right now, you guys are

1226
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 2: the only ones who know. Do me a quick favor

1227
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 2: if you're watching live. We have several of you in here.

1228
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 2: We've got about sixteen hundred watching live. We have three

1229
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty likes on this video, which I would

1230
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 2: call unacceptable. And if I don't say it, Jesse or

1231
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 2: Colin will so do me a favor thumbs up right there.

1232
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 2: Just click the like button and that's it.

1233
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: We move on.

1234
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 2: We had a question earlier today from Princess Marley Riley.

1235
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 2: Princess Marley Riley asks which team has the toughest schedule

1236
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: in the country this year. Never being one to narrow

1237
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 2: anything down, I got four. I wanted to run by

1238
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,439
Speaker 2: you right quick. Now I could do is just pick

1239
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 2: a bunch of SEC teams because all of those schedules

1240
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 2: are hard. I took two from the SEC, and I

1241
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 2: took one from the ACC, one from the Big ten.

1242
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 2: Arkansas has the toughest schedule in the country to me

1243
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 2: this year. Here's the very, very long and short of it.

1244
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 2: They play in the SEC West and they play Cincinnati

1245
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 2: and they go to Brigham Young. I don't really think

1246
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 2: I need to say much more, because you know what

1247
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 2: playing in the SEC West consists of. Oh and by

1248
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 2: the way, one of their cupcake games I use that

1249
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 2: term very loosely, is against Hugh Freeze and Liberty. The

1250
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 2: only true layup game here is Missouri State. And here's

1251
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 2: a fun little fact about that Missouri State game. Those

1252
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 2: of you in Arkansas already know this. For those of

1253
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: you outside of Fayette Bo paper pop time. Do you

1254
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 2: know who the head coach at Missouri State is right now?

1255
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 2: That would be one William Patrino or as you might

1256
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 2: know him, Bobby. Does he have a history with Arkansas?

1257
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 2: I struggle to remember that sometimes. Next up the Auburn Tigers.

1258
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: Just talked about the Tigers like five minutes ago. Here's

1259
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 2: the long and short of it for the Auburn schedule

1260
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 2: at Georgia and at Alabama. Does anyone else have to

1261
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 2: do that? I don't think so. And they got to

1262
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 2: do it every year now in the even number years,

1263
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 2: that's the years that Auburn has to go on the road.

1264
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: They gotta go to Athens and two.

1265
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 2: Tuscaloosa if that wasn't enough, you also have the SEC West.

1266
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 2: And if that wasn't enough, Auburn saw fit to schedule

1267
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 2: Penn State. So I know, someone inevitably will say, yeah,

1268
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 2: but they play Mercer. Yeah, I know, but they also

1269
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 2: play those other nine teams that I talked about. So

1270
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 2: consider this stretch. Here's a little exercise I like to

1271
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 2: do sometimes. I'm not even gonna pick out Georgia, not

1272
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 2: gonna pick Bama. Let's just ignore them for a second.

1273
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 2: I want you to look at that ten twenty nine

1274
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 2: through eleven twelve stretch. Auburn plays Arkansas at Mississippi State

1275
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 2: and Texas A and M. None of those teams are

1276
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 2: among the top two on their schedule. Arkansas at Mississippi

1277
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 2: State and Texas A and M. That little stretch there

1278
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 2: would be the hardest three games stretch for most every

1279
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 2: team in the ACC or the Big twelve.

1280
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: Or the Pac twelve.

1281
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 2: And that's just a garden variety, little three game sliver,

1282
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 2: little three games sample size. They're not even taking the

1283
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 2: two hardest teams they have to play. That's life if

1284
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 2: you're the Auburn head coach. Just like that, every single year, Hey,

1285
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech has a ridiculous schedule this year. Jeff Collins

1286
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 2: is a name that's on pretty much everyone's hot seat list.

1287
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,479
Speaker 1: Here's the good or bad news.

1288
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 2: I guess, depending on your perspective, you will not have

1289
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,959
Speaker 2: to wait to find out this will not be a

1290
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,439
Speaker 2: mystery team. Georgia Tech starts the season and they will

1291
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 2: have played by the time the sun sets on October first.

1292
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 2: They will have played Clemson, Ole Miss, at Central Florida,

1293
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 2: at pitt I don't think I need to tell you

1294
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 2: they won't be favored in any of those games. Also,

1295
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 2: they get Georgia on the road at the end of

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Speaker 2: the season for good measure. Oh and by the way,

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Speaker 2: they also go to Florida State. They go to Virginia Tech.

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Speaker 2: They got to play Miami. They go to North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I tried, I really did.

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Speaker 2: But I cannot find a viable path for Georgia Tech making.

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Speaker 1: Much noise this year. I can't, and you know me,

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01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: you know I want to. I can't. It's hard for me.

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Speaker 2: A last team that I wanted to point out here

1304
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Speaker 2: is in the Big Ten. Indiana got a really, really

1305
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 2: tough stretch this year. They go to Nebraska, they got Michigan.

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Speaker 2: They got Penn State at Ohio State at Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: They added a trip to Cincinnati for good measure. Here,

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Speaker 2: I did want to draw your attention right quick to

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Speaker 2: the last game on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: Do any of you care about it?

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01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 2: Maybe not, but I want you to think about the

1312
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 2: theme that I've woven throughout the show about the status

1313
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Speaker 2: of the Big Ten West.

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Speaker 1: Indiana hosts Purdue the last game of the year.

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Speaker 2: That is the I guess the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving,

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01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 2: that's the twenty sixth of November. I know it may

1317
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 2: not exactly sound off alarms in your head when you

1318
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 2: look at that game, you know that could be a

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Speaker 2: very consequential game that could be playing for a trip

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Speaker 2: to Indianapolis, for all we know, in the Big Ten

1321
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 2: championship game. So Indiana could have one of those seasons

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01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: where they're struggling to make a bowl game, but they

1323
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 2: may have that little super Bowl, that little carrot on

1324
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 2: the end of the string there. We may not be

1325
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Speaker 2: able to do anything consequential, but we can wreck someone

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Speaker 2: else's season. So let's work towards that. Just a little

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Speaker 2: something to keep in mind. I appreciate you guys being

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01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 2: tuned in. We could have moved some of these topics

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01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 2: to Sunday night. We went over an hour tonight, but

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Speaker 2: we don't really do that. We just empty the barrel

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01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 2: every show and then we take a few days and

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01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 2: hopefully it'll fill up again, and as you've seen, it always.

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Speaker 1: Does for us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for making this possible. We

1335
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 2: are at the beginning of August going to three nights

1336
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 2: a week. I don't think I've told you that yet.

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01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: We are going to three nights a week, Sunday night,

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Speaker 2: Tuesday night, Thursday night. Not next week, but the week

1339
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Speaker 2: after that. So when August starts, when everyone's in camp,

1340
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 2: that's when we'll be going to three nights.

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Speaker 1: It's a week.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting pretty close to being able to tell you

1343
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Speaker 2: where the every given Saturday tour is going week one.

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Speaker 2: We are looking very very much forward to that. Got

1345
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Speaker 2: a lot of excitement in store this year. And speaking

1346
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 2: of store, Lake Kickstore open right now here you go,

1347
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 2: here's the link one more time. I'm about to tweek

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01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 2: this out so the rest of the world, those who

1349
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 2: were irresponsible and not in the live show tonight, they

1350
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 2: will know. And at that point as you've seen, anything

1351
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 2: can happen. I've got some products that are not in

1352
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 2: there yet that when they are in there may end.

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Speaker 1: Up being your favorites. So just stay tuned. It's been

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Speaker 1: a huge success for us. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned for producer Jesse, for director Colin. I'm Josh Pate.

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Speaker 2: Have yourselves a great rest of your night in start

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Speaker 2: to your weekend. We'll see you back here at the

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Speaker 2: same time Sunday night. Until then, couple us