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Speaker 1: And once again we're back. I'm Josh Paate. This is

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Speaker 1: the Late Kick Extra podcast for Thursday morning, September twenty

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Speaker 1: fourth only time, hopefully we ever say this in the

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Speaker 1: So we have a lot to get to this morning,

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Speaker 1: no time to waste, and I wanted to start it

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Speaker 1: off kind of with a question that should be on

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Speaker 1: everyone's mind right now. Bama Stanley eighty nine leading us

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Speaker 1: off this Thursday morning, and Bama Stanley simply asks, Hey,

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Speaker 1: where's the big upset this weekend? And you know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a big upset pick this weekend, but

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, I've got a little uneasy feeling.

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Speaker 1: The closer that we get to Saturday, I got a

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Speaker 1: little uneasy feeling, which is the opposite of a peaceful,

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Speaker 1: the kind of Saturday where crazy things happen. And that's

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Speaker 1: in a normal year, guys. So think about where we

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Speaker 1: are right now. We're in a situation where some conferences

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Speaker 1: haven't played yet. In an atypical year, you have really

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Speaker 1: no confidence as to what to expect. And so what

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Speaker 1: I did is I pulled up the board here and

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to kind of scroll and let's talk

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Speaker 1: about some of these out loud. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: do any game breakdowns here. If you want those, we

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Speaker 1: have been doing them on the twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: Sports YouTube channel. I'll do some more of them tonight,

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Speaker 1: so check out like kick Live. Got some additions to

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Speaker 1: the Ram and Noodle Express our five best bets of

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Speaker 1: the week that's coming tonight. But as for now, let's

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Speaker 1: look at this. You know, I'm high on Florida this week.

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Speaker 1: Florida is our best bet Florida minus fourteen. We got

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Speaker 1: it at twelve and a half. Actually, Florida mine is

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Speaker 1: twelve and a half. It's sitting at fourteen right now.

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Speaker 1: Is our best bet of the week. But you know

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking hypothetically here, where could the big upset be? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that'd be pretty big. What if Lane Kiffin

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Speaker 1: That line currently sitting at seven and a half. I

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Speaker 1: So Kentucky winning that game wouldn't be a surprise to

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Speaker 1: But if I turned it on in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: either way. Elsewhere, Texas feel pretty good about them this week,

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Speaker 1: one at sixteen and a half. LSU, that's a top

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Speaker 1: the LSU squad that lost. I don't know, like, what's

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Speaker 1: Everyone's fear in the back of their mind about Mike Leeches.

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Speaker 1: Good defensive back play and the ability to press at

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Speaker 1: that's like throwing the crow bar and the bicycle spokes.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but you get it. Here's the one

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Speaker 1: think the biggest upset could come that's off of everyone's

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Speaker 1: this week Army over Cincinnati is not an upset I'm picking.

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Speaker 1: Let me be perfectly clear. If you were to say,

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Speaker 1: Guess where it's going to be. My guess would be

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Speaker 1: no way. Having said that, there is a way that

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Speaker 1: and it's seventeen to six Georgia and they tack on

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Speaker 1: and you go, that's it. That's all. When you can't score,

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Speaker 1: there's really not much incentive in opening week, especially for

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Speaker 1: think that may be the way Georgia and Kirby Smart

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Speaker 1: is Florida State and Miami. Miami is an eleven and

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Speaker 1: But bigger upsets happen every week than this. Outright upsets

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Speaker 1: so Florida State. I'll be honest with you that one

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Speaker 1: false impression in people's minds about the potency of Miami's offense.

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Speaker 1: That is one of the more misleading final scores relative

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Speaker 1: don't like the upside of Miami's offense. What I do

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Speaker 1: mean is there were a lot of points scored in

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Speaker 1: they will but I don't necessarily think it's time for

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Speaker 1: the style that Miami plays with. Not yet. Maybe that's coming,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think it's fully there yet. Elsewhere I'm looking,

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Speaker 1: two examples that I know of. These are just ones

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Speaker 1: i've experienced. The first and I've told this story before.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell a quick version of it. Back in twenty seventeen,

429
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Speaker 1: Auburn goes to LSU. I was at the game. I

430
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,680
Speaker 1: was on the field as LSU is down twenty to nothing.

431
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 1: Thought Auburn was just gonna run away with it. Went

432
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Speaker 1: to the halftime press room early, ate my halftime meal early,

433
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 1: and then LSU started closing the gap a little bit,

434
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: so I figure, oh my, this game's not over. Turns

435
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Speaker 1: out we're not leaving early after all, are we, which

436
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: I never would anyway, but go back out in the

437
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: field to proceed to watch LSU storm all the way

438
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,679
Speaker 1: back and win the game. Very uncomfortable postgame situation in

439
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Speaker 1: the Auburn press room there in the bowels of Tiger Stadium,

440
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,639
Speaker 1: in a little broom closet that they also have double

441
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Speaker 1: as a press room. Not complaining. So I'm in there.

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Speaker 1: The Auburn contingency is in there. I think Brandon Marcelo

443
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Speaker 1: would have been in there at the time. Yeah, Marsla

444
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,200
Speaker 1: was covering Auburn at the time, so he probably was

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Speaker 1: in there. I don't know if he was participating in

446
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Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. I don't think he was.

447
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: But a lot of the Auburn folks, I mean, people

448
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Speaker 1: who covered the team, they were very vocal in their

449
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 1: criticism of Malsan, which is fine, that's part of the job.

450
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 1: But you know they were tossing around openly the idea

451
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Speaker 1: that this is it. He's going to be canned. I mean,

452
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Speaker 1: this is the last straw. He's going to be fired.

453
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Speaker 1: Who's next, Who's going to replace him? And you may

454
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Speaker 1: not find that to be all that shocking or all

455
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Speaker 1: that surprising. Well, here's where the wife comes in. Christy

456
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: Malson was in the room. She was leaned up against

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Speaker 1: the wall. She could hear all that. I don't know

458
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Speaker 1: if you know this. I don't know how privy the

459
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: cameras make you aware to this, but wives of head

460
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: coaches are in most every postgame press conference. Christy Maleson's

461
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: been in every one I've ever seen, every Auburn game

462
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Speaker 1: I've ever been to, She's in the postgamer Terry Saban,

463
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban's wife been at every game I've ever been to.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban's mom, believe it or not, is at most

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Speaker 1: every game that I've been to for Alabama. And they

466
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Speaker 1: are in the postgame press room a lot of times

467
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Speaker 1: on the road, you have reporters who volunteer to get

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Speaker 1: up and give their seats to Nick Saban and his

469
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Speaker 1: wife and his mom, and there's gracious as can be.

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Speaker 1: They hate to take your seat. They said, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you do your job, you sit there, And so there's

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Speaker 1: this little fight over who's going to get to sit down,

473
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Speaker 1: and she always wins, believe it or not. So anyway,

474
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: back to the Auburn situation. Christy Maleson's there and she's

475
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Speaker 1: listening to all this, and I am certain that a

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Speaker 1: confrontation is about to break out. I got my cell phone,

477
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to record it, and it never does. She

478
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: just sits there. She can hear it. She didn't even

479
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Speaker 1: look over there. So that day passes, Auburn goes back

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Speaker 1: out on the road. The next week, they beat Arkansas.

481
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Speaker 1: They kind of get things balanced out, you know the story.

482
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Speaker 1: They go on to beat number one Georgia. They go

483
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Speaker 1: on to beat number one Alabama three weeks span. There

484
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Speaker 1: they beat two number one teams in the country, and

485
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: then they win the SEC West. They go to Atlanta.

486
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Speaker 1: Malson during that week of the SEC title game, he

487
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Speaker 1: and his representation leverage Auburn into getting a new deal,

488
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Speaker 1: which obviously set them up for life. And Christi Malson,

489
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Speaker 1: I remember so vividly. She put out something on like Facebook,

490
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Speaker 1: I think it was, and you just kind of a

491
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: little smiley face, and I just understood the full context.

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Speaker 1: And so I remember, man like, it's a very first

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Speaker 1: world problem. You think, oh, those coaches wives. Yeah, okay,

494
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Speaker 1: men may maybe it can be a tough week here

495
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: or there if you lose a game. But you guys

496
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: make so much money. Money doesn't absolve you of those issues.

497
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: Money just gives you access to a job which gives

498
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Speaker 1: you a new set of problems. I mean, you think

499
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Speaker 1: about them. They don't have any control. The at least

500
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Speaker 1: the coach has control. The coach affects what happens on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: The wife has no effect on it. She just kind

502
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Speaker 1: of has to sit there and wait for whatever happens

503
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Speaker 1: to happen. And is the next week going to be

504
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Speaker 1: happy or miserable? Are my kids going to go to

505
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Speaker 1: school and me have to worry about them hearing things

506
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: about their dad or not. That's a different world. Most

507
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: of us don't live in that world. It don't matter

508
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: if you make ten billion dollars a year. Those are concerns,

509
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: and so that's kind of a different lifestyle. It's a

510
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Speaker 1: somewhat a nomadic lifestyle, depending on how many jobs you have.

511
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I remember that. And then also, since I

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Speaker 1: mentioned her, Terry Sabin at Alabama runs the foundation up there. Essentially,

513
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Speaker 1: she probably I don't know how many hours she works

514
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Speaker 1: a week, probably works the equivalent of a full time

515
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Speaker 1: job just running the Knick Kids Foundation there. They do

516
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Speaker 1: so much good work, some of it's publicized, some of

517
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 1: it's not. I can't tell you how many stories I've

518
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: heard over the years from people personally getting help from

519
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: Nick Saban and you say, I didn't read about that,

520
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: and he didn't want your reading about it. But then

521
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: they also do foundation work, and they do a lot

522
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Speaker 1: of great work in Tuscaloose, and that's not the only

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Speaker 1: place they do it. I just happen to know Terry

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00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: Saban is intimately involved with the day to day of

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00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: that operation. But I think you guys would really love

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Speaker 1: if you could be there, you know, one of those

527
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Speaker 1: pregame or postgame settings and you see Saban on the

528
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Speaker 1: sideline like you see him as a tyrant, and you

529
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Speaker 1: see the clips from press conferences. Man, you ought to

530
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: see him with his mom. You ought to see him

531
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Speaker 1: with his wife there before or after the game. Different

532
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,719
Speaker 1: side to say the least of the Nick Saban that

533
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: you see on TV and you think you know from

534
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Speaker 1: seeing him on TV. There's a good question there though.

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00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: But to wrap up, I kind of left out the

536
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Speaker 1: most important part recruiting. That's where the wife comes in

537
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: to play the most recruiting as much as an offensive

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00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: coordinator or maybe you know the engineering department dean. If

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00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: you've got a kid who's going to go to school

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00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: for engineering, and they give the tour of the campus

541
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Speaker 1: and the gamed experience and the head coach as much

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00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: as you think that may hook a kid. There are

543
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: several examples of a recruit ultimately going to a school

544
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: because the wife of the head coach developed a relationship

545
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: with the mother of the recruit, and that landed the

546
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: comfortability factor that was necessary in order for the mom

547
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: to sign off on her kid going off to that

548
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: university that is where the wife shines in a way

549
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: that very few people ever are familiar with. You will

550
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: never know how involved and how important the wife of

551
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: your head coach is in the recruiting effort for your program.

552
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: So it's a good, good question there. Next up is

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00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: Husker for Life. Oh I didn't see this question the

554
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: first time. Well good, you know what God works in

555
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: mysterious ways. It's a great thing that that first twenty

556
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: five minutes ended up having to be thrown away because

557
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: Husker for Life asks what is the best concert you

558
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: ever went to? As I've said before, Fleetwood Mac is

559
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: the greatest band in the history of the Earth, and

560
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: that's not debatable. That's just a fact. We all know that.

561
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: But I was born long after most of their hits

562
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: were released, and I did not grow up in an

563
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: era where Fleetwood Mac was touring, so I couldn't go

564
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Speaker 1: see them. So I just heard them. I never got

565
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: to see them. Same with the Eagles. I grew up

566
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: listening to classic rock which had been recorded and released

567
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: long before I was born. But I still loved it,

568
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: still do love it. And there was a time that

569
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Speaker 1: came around it was the Uh, it was not that

570
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: long ago. It was within the last seven years they

571
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: both toured, and so I went in the span of

572
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Speaker 1: a couple of months. In one summer, I was able

573
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Speaker 1: to go see Fleetwood Mac in Atlanta at Phillips Arena

574
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Speaker 1: as it was called them, and I went to see

575
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Speaker 1: the Eagles in Lexington up at rapp aerna sellouts, needless

576
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: to say, both times, not the bands, the arenas, and so,

577
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, the one concern I had. I got a

578
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: very high standard for live music. That's why I don't

579
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: go watch much live music, because it doesn't sound great live.

580
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: And so I, you know, I'm thinking Fleetwood Mac, Okay,

581
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 1: this is forty years after they've recorded these, and I

582
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: was just concerned that maybe the live quality is going

583
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: to disappoint me. Man, within twenty seconds of their opener,

584
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: which was the Chain, by the way, perfect concert opener.

585
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: If you're unfamiliar with that song, go listen to the Chain.

586
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: Within twenty seconds, unbelievable. Couldn't believe it. I could not

587
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: believe the quality that was executed live from a band

588
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: with everybody at least in their sixties, some in their seventies.

589
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: The energy incredible, absolutely incredible two and a half hours

590
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: of stuff that probably if you go down to your

591
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,479
Speaker 1: high interval intensity training class today, you probably won't achieve

592
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: the amount of cardio that they're sitting there achieving on

593
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: stage two and a half hours every night. So that

594
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: was amazing. That was my favorite. Closely behind that, and

595
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Speaker 1: only because I had seen them before one time. Closely

596
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: behind is the Eagles. It was the last tour they

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Speaker 1: took before Glenn Frye passed away, and that was up

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Speaker 1: in Lexington, and that was another incredible experience. And then

599
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: there's this other one. It's not one experience, but I

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00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: did want to throw this in here. There is a

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Speaker 1: guy by the name of Luke Brian. A lot of

602
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: people are familiar with Luke Brian. He's a big country artist.

603
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: I'm not too big a fan, to be honest with you,

604
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: of most of the stuff he puts out these days.

605
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: But there was a time where Luke Brian was not

606
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Speaker 1: known by anyone nationally, and we down in Georgia caught

607
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: wind of this guy from Leesburg. Leesburg is like a

608
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: peanut farm town that's a little bit south of Columbus,

609
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: about a forty five minutes an hour south of Columbus,

610
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Speaker 1: and that's what it is. They it's just agriculture. They

611
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: grow peanuts down there. So there's this kid out of

612
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Speaker 1: Leesburg who is touring Georgia, Millageville, Albany, Macon, America's Athens,

613
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: the Georgia Theater in Athens for the Georgia concert scene.

614
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Roman Colisseum. You're just trying

615
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: to work your way to the Georgia Theater. If you

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: can make it to the Georgia Theater, like you've made

617
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: it in Georgia. And so I can't tell you how

618
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: many times we trekked across the state of Georgia watching

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Speaker 1: Luke Brian. Luke Bryan for all the subpar material. In

620
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: my mind, now, I'm old school when it comes to country,

621
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: so the old school country is real country for me.

622
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: I don't like the new stuff pretty much at all.

623
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Speaker 1: So I'm not to be fan of Luke Brian's current

624
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,479
Speaker 1: catalog of material. But what if I told you that

625
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: there was this entire catalog of material Luke Brian once

626
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: had when he was independent and kind of first touring

627
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: that existed out there. Because it's out there, and boy,

628
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: we used to drive all over the state of Georgia

629
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Speaker 1: to listen to it. You know what, I encourage you.

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Speaker 1: So look up on YouTube a song called Smalltown Favorite Son,

631
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: just as an example, and that's the kind of song

632
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,239
Speaker 1: that I listened to. And I say, how in the

633
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: world is this not on the radio? But the other

634
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: stuff is? I digress. Those are some of my favorite

635
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: certain memories. Good question there. Gabriel is next up. I

636
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: was interested to hear what you had to say about

637
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: Florida and Miami if they played. Since this is Gabriel's words,

638
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: since they're too scared to schedule Miami year to year basis,

639
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Speaker 1: I guess I have to settle for the hypothetical. What

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Speaker 1: do you think your number would be if Florida played Miami?

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Speaker 1: What about that Miami FSU game Saturday? What do you

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Speaker 1: think there? Also, what if Miami played Notre Dame. What

643
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Speaker 1: do you think that number would be? It's important for

644
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Speaker 1: Gabriel to note this. He said, what would your number be?

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Speaker 1: So when I give you these numbers, this is not

646
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Speaker 1: what I'm telling you the actual pointspread would be. This

647
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Speaker 1: is what my feel on the game would be. I

648
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: would have Florida minus twelve over Miami right now, this

649
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: is neutral field. I like Florida or I like Miami

650
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Speaker 1: rather to beat Florida State this weekend. That's the second question.

651
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Speaker 1: The third question, I would have Notre Dame minus five

652
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Speaker 1: against Miami. That would be our numbers or our model.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would think. Next up is, Adam, do

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Speaker 1: you think a one loss Big Ten team not named

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Speaker 1: Ohio State has a legitimate shot at the playoff this year? Adam,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that a one loss Ohio State has

657
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Speaker 1: a great shot at the playoff. So there were kind

658
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Speaker 1: of two parts to this question, and now you can

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, But I believe the way

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Speaker 1: you phrased it, you're kind of assuming oh one loss

661
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Speaker 1: Ohio State they're probably still in. But any other one

662
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: loss Big Ten team, that's a different conversation. I don't

663
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Speaker 1: think it is. I know that right now we're viewing

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Speaker 1: Ohio State in this different league because they are, at

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Speaker 1: least I think they are, from the rest of the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten. But that entire premise is based on the

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Speaker 1: idea that we're gonna be okay with Ohio State making

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Speaker 1: it in the playoff as long as they're undefeated. That's

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Speaker 1: the override that we're willing to give even though they

670
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: play less games. As long as they're unblemished, then a

671
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Speaker 1: lot of people will be okay with them making the playoff.

672
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Speaker 1: But that all changes if they lose a game. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's any different than if you got

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Speaker 1: a one loss Wisconsin, one lost Ohio State. If you

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Speaker 1: put a loss in the mix, then I don't know

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Speaker 1: that it's likely any of them are making it. Ohio

677
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: State included. Aaron is next, Oh, this is suspicious, Aaron,

678
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: you know what. I actually, this is a good place

679
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: for us to break because how are you U? I

680
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 1: wouldn't tune out on this one. So Aaron is asking

681
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: about Eli Drinkwitz. He's the new head coach at Missouri.

682
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: They have the unenviable task of playing Alabama Saturday. Aaron

683
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: has some thoughts and Aaron has some not so subtle

684
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Speaker 1: suggestions on what may be happening here. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: it right after this. So Aaron says, Eli drink Witz again,

686
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Speaker 1: that's the new head coach at Missouri. He has said

687
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: that he may play a game without three quarterbacks. That

688
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: sounds crazy. He did acknowledge that they would have to

689
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: postpone a game if they're not able to field enough

690
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: scholarship players on the O line or D line, do

691
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: you think drink Wentz is just taking one for the SEC.

692
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,760
Speaker 1: I know the Big ten player restrictions are probably overly restricted,

693
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: but it looks like the SEC should tighten up its

694
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: rules just for safety competitive concerns. Well, they have Aeron.

695
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: I mean they've tightened it up. I know what you're

696
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: talking about here, Eli. Drinkwoodz has not been exactly forthcoming

697
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: with the media there, so let's just wait and see

698
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Speaker 1: what they put on the field Saturday. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're going out there with no quarterbacks, That's what I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you. And he was asked earlier this week how

701
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Speaker 1: close are you, how dangerously close are you to that

702
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: threshold at any specific position for not having enough players,

703
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: and his response was, we like to live dangerously. He said,

704
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: we got sixty nine scholarship players for Saturday's game. I

705
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: mean we're close. We're dangerous everywhere, and so they'll be okay,

706
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: And they're not going to be okay against Alabama. They're

707
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: going to get run out of the building. But what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is they'll have enough players, and I don't

709
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Speaker 1: think that the SEC would let them take the field

710
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: if they didn't have enough players. Now, as for the

711
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: restrictions and whatnot, I think something is going to be

712
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: done about contact tracing and the current protocol because right

713
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: now the current protocol is becoming more and more outdated

714
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Speaker 1: by the day. When you have access to daily testing

715
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Speaker 1: that major conferences do and will have access to the

716
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Speaker 1: contact tracing and mandatory sit out periods of X number days,

717
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: I think that's going to go by the wayside pretty quickly.

718
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Speaker 1: Matthew is next. Who are some forgotten star college quarterbacks

719
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: you wish people remembered more. I personally feel like one

720
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Speaker 1: of them has got to be Cult Brennan. Cult Brennan

721
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Speaker 1: of Hawaii fame. I think the reason Cult Brennan has

722
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Speaker 1: been largely forgotten by most people outside of Hawaii is

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Speaker 1: the lasting impression you got was of him being splattered

724
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Speaker 1: all over the Super Dome by Georgia. And that was

725
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: the time where everybody thought Hawaii was going to have

726
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: their big chance to have their you know, their Boise

727
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: State moment, and it was not. It was a mack

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Speaker 1: truck moment. And so I think if that game would

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Speaker 1: have gone differently, people would remember him differently, the Hawaii

730
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: quarterback I always remember as Timmy Chang, the Hawaii quarterback

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Speaker 1: that I have fond memories of. That's the one I

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Speaker 1: have fond memories of tim That may have been back

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Speaker 1: when Hawaii still wore the rainbow on the side of

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Speaker 1: their helmets, which I always loved that logo. I loved it,

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00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: and then they had to switch it for I don't

736
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Speaker 1: know what reasons they switched it for, but I mean

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00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 1: it reminded me of Lucky Charms, which was my favorite

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Speaker 1: breakfast cereal. So I would wake up on Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: I would eat my Lucky Charms and then I look

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00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: in the bowl and there's the rainbow. And then I

741
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: look on TV and there's this team. We're in a

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00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: rainbow on the side of their helmet. And I don't

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Speaker 1: care if they're playing halfway to Japan. That's fine, I'll

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00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: watch them anyway. That's the magic of TV. But I'll

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00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: tell you another one more recently, in one that I

746
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: was a little bit closer to. Blake Sims at Alabama's

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00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: story is just incredible. Blake Sims played at Gainesville High

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00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: School in Georgia, same place to Shaun Watson, played. Those

749
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Speaker 1: were the quarterbacks. They were pumping out of there, and

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00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: they played Harris County High School, which is my alma mater,

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00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: and I was at the game. I didn't go at

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: the time, I was already graduated, but I was at

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Speaker 1: a game where they played Gainsville. They played Blake Sims,

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Speaker 1: and Blake Sims ran a rough shot all over Harris

755
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: County And so I know he had some offers and

756
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: he ends up committing to Alabama. But it was one

757
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: of those deals where all right, there's this kid at

758
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: Alabama and he they're gonna give him some reps at quarterback,

759
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: you know, just to make sure they have emergency depth there.

760
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: But he's gonna play wide receiver, defensive bag that's what

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00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: he'll end up at. And anytime you hear that at Alabama,

762
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: the translation is there is a zero percent chance this

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00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: kid's gonna play quarterback at Alabama. And also during that time,

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Speaker 1: there was a quarterback battle at Florida State going on

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Speaker 1: between a kid named Jameis Winston I think we all

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Speaker 1: remember him and a kid named Jacob Coker. It was

767
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: neck and neck. Jimbo Fisher, head coach down there at

768
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: the time, said this is neck and neck. I mean

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Speaker 1: this is one A and one B. And Jameis Winston

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00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: ends up winning the job. He goes on to win

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Speaker 1: the ACC when the Heisman, when the National Championship, and

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00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: Coker transferred to Alabama later, So all Alabama folks know

773
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Speaker 1: is Jameis Winston just did that. We've got a kid who,

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Speaker 1: according to Mbo Fisher, is every bit as good as

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Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, and he's coming here. We finally got our

776
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: premier quarterback. And so the spring game comes around and

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00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: Blake Simms looked awful in the A Day game, which

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00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: furthered the sentiment that, oh, Jacob Cocher, I mean, he's

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00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: going to be the guy. Off season workouts, you hear

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00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: these rumors about Jacob Coker. Fall camp comes. But the

781
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: thing about it was Nick Saban was not saying the

782
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 1: same things, and Nick Saban said, it's a quarterback competition.

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00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: And Blake Simms ends up winning the job outright. No

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00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: one was hurt, no one was injured. He just won

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00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: the job outright. And then Blake Simms won the SEC

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00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: West outright, including a come from behind when at LSU.

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00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: And then Blake Sims won the SEC championship, and that

788
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: story was one of the most incredible that I've been

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00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: around because Blake Simms was doubted at every turn. He

790
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: was an afterthought at every turn, including in my mind.

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00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: That's why I remember it so vividly. And Blake Simms

792
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: was never a guy who would go to Twitter and

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00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: talk about all these people doubting him. He was never

794
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: a guy with all kinds of locker room material, as

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00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: they call it, hanging in his locker. He was never

796
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: a dude who walked around with a giant chip on

797
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: his shoulder. As humble as can be, as nice as

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00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: could be, but as fierce a competitor as could be too.

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Speaker 1: And he was a guy that it's impossible not to

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00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: root for. Just a great story, a kid who was

801
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: doubted and who never had this vengeful attitude about it,

802
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: even though he had reason to. He just went about

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00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: his business. It was like Nick Saban was able to

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00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: open the top of his head and program Blake Sim's

805
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: the exact way you would want him programmed, and then

806
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: closed his head back up and Blake Sims just went

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00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: about his business. Man. It was really fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we got a really, really busy week coming

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Speaker 1: We've got a really busy weekend. SEC football is here.

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Speaker 1: because I got a busy Thursday ahead of me. I'll

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