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Speaker 1: Mad Welcome to Lake Kick is Live. It is Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: June twenty sixth, Dear of Our Lord, twenty two. Recruiting

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Speaker 1: classes without stars or like a ship without a sale.

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Speaker 1: Some of you are about to find that out the

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Speaker 1: hard way. We will discuss tonight. We are jam packed

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Speaker 1: high top a festive if not a hopping downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Tonight.

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Speaker 1: Recruiting wars breaking out in the state of Florida as

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Speaker 1: we expected them to. Some moves even in the last

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Speaker 1: few hours, and what do they mean moving forward? Because

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Speaker 1: some programs are moving a little bit more hastily than others.

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Speaker 1: I've got five programs at a crossroads in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: to varying degrees.

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Speaker 2: We're going to touch on that tonight.

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Speaker 1: Bold Predictions has reached chapter twenty. Some of you are

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Speaker 1: not even twenty years old, and Bold Predictions is twenty tonight,

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Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that. We've also got some more

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Speaker 1: what I think are reasonable projections record wise for teams,

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Speaker 1: and one of you has chosen to speak for many

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Speaker 1: of you in lashing out at me, of all people,

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Speaker 1: innocent little on me, and it's really just misdirecting your

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Speaker 1: hatred towards Texas and Steve Sarkisian and maybe even Arch Manning.

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Speaker 1: We have got such a jam packed show tonight. If

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Speaker 1: you wonder why we don't use that nasty old word

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Speaker 1: off season around here, this show tonight is why. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the over under is. Producer Jesse didn't

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Speaker 1: even see if it to come into work today. He's

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Speaker 1: on vacation. But whatever that is, take the over tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're probably going over. They're watching us in a Lincoln, Nebraska, Carrollton,

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Speaker 1: Georgia home of the Trojans, Mumbai, India. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the team is there, but I appreciate Pete State

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Speaker 1: being represented. Programming note, as we start the show tonight,

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Speaker 1: we are going to do the Thursday Show live. And

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Speaker 1: you may think to yourself, big deal, you always do

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Speaker 1: the Thursday Show live. That's true, but not from Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: We are flying to LA in the morning for a

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Speaker 1: lead eleven. We're gonna have a lot of coverage there

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Speaker 1: all week. I'll take this opportunity to strongly encourage you

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Speaker 1: to go find the new twenty four seven Sports YouTube

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Speaker 1: channel and subscribe to it. There's gonna be a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of good stuff on there, and we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: I say all that to say, on Thursday, we'll be

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Speaker 1: live from La So cross your fingers that goes well.

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Speaker 1: And also, it's not gonna be this late in the evening.

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Speaker 1: and I can guarantee it won't be much later than

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Speaker 1: that because yours truly has a six thirty flight to

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Speaker 1: catch out of there, and I am not missing it,

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Speaker 1: So earlier in the day on Thursday, stay tuned, follow

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter, Instagram at late Kick Josh, I'll let

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Speaker 1: you know there. Okay, that's enough of that. Let's dive

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Speaker 1: into the show tonight. I'm gonna get to a whole

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Speaker 1: programs at Crossroads this year. Twenty twenty two is following

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of everything in twenty twenty one. Well,

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Speaker 1: M gonna get to Clemson later because I got Clemson

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Speaker 1: Programs at Crossroads this year in twenty twenty two. I

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Speaker 1: want to start with Auburn. This is pretty self explanatory.

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Speaker 1: But those of you who've been a little bit tuned out,

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Speaker 1: You may think, second years staff, how are you already

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Speaker 1: at a crossroads? Well, this is where it's really important.

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Speaker 1: If you're a hardcore fan, you already kind of get it.

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Speaker 1: When I talk about Auburn, you've always heard me say,

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Speaker 1: They said, Bama's Bama at this point. But if Georgia

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Speaker 1: The same thing here. The reason the programs at a

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Speaker 1: tough every year. It's Auburn. It's not so much even

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Speaker 1: people's uncertainty lies in Auburn. That doesn't mean there's not

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Speaker 1: That's why the programs at the crossroads on field product

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Speaker 1: Knowing how to win is a skill. It's not necessarily quantifiable.

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Speaker 1: because once you figure out how to win those games,

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Speaker 2: Left to right. There goes the eraser.

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Speaker 1: We have to start again from scratch in twenty twenty three. No,

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Speaker 1: that's an acquired skill. You don't have to throw it

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Speaker 1: The Clemson Tigers are in a different boat than Yeah,

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Speaker 1: different context hot seat and crossroads. They don't always have

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Speaker 1: in full view. Quarterback situation last year not being what

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Speaker 1: Without spitting all over the place, and you can see

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Speaker 1: how they planned it. But when that started happening earlier

435
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Speaker 1: this week, when those crystal balls started shifting away from Florida,

436
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,880
Speaker 1: a lot of panics set in. And I don't think

437
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,399
Speaker 1: it was unwarranted. Sometimes people freak out for no reason,

438
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,840
Speaker 1: and maybe it's a little bit too much freak out

439
00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 1: right now, Maybe it's a ten, But there's should be

440
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 1: a fair amount of concern in Florida right now. So

441
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 1: Florida was on the wrong end of a lot of

442
00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 1: these crystal ball moves. I think they're going to be validated.

443
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,440
Speaker 1: One of them was today. The Florida fans were not surprised,

444
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 1: for instance, when Jayden Reshot had committed to Miami. I

445
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,400
Speaker 1: know nationally it was a big deal. Florida already knew

446
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 1: it was coming. I think Miami knew it was coming.

447
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 1: So it stands to reason a lot of the concerns

448
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,439
Speaker 1: this week were kind of founded. It's not just rumor

449
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,000
Speaker 1: and baseless speculation. There was a lot of foundation to it.

450
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 1: How people, ever, doubted Miami was going to get their

451
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 1: act together and recruiting is beyond me. You can doubt

452
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 1: anything else you want to doubt about that staff, you

453
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 1: be my guest. The last thing on this planet you

454
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,719
Speaker 1: need to doubt is that Miami is going to recruit

455
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,199
Speaker 1: at a very high level. That was the dumbest thing

456
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 1: in the world. Like I posted one screenshot today, I

457
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 1: could just as easily have posted one hundred of them.

458
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 1: When Mario, Cristpaul and Miami didn't immediately start locking up

459
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Speaker 1: a top five class in this cycle and take a

460
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Speaker 1: bunch of verbal commitments in March. Some of you the

461
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: casuals amongst us if you will. They also have access

462
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 1: to the Internet. Some of you started inundating my inbox saying,

463
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,199
Speaker 1: are you ready to eat some crow on Miami? Are

464
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,959
Speaker 1: you ready to fess up that you were wrong and

465
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: you over hyped him? Well? No, those people were strangely

466
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,400
Speaker 1: silent today, and I imagine I won't hear much from

467
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: them moving forward. Mario Christobaul is a psychopath when it

468
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,959
Speaker 1: comes to recruiting. They will never not be good at it.

469
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,879
Speaker 1: I don't know what in the world you've been watching

470
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: or what fantasy world you've been living in to think

471
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Speaker 1: that one of the best recruiters in the country already

472
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,479
Speaker 1: was going to go from the Pacific Northwest to his

473
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 1: home that happens to be in South Florida, where the

474
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 1: dude played, and not recruit. Well, if you don't think

475
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,879
Speaker 1: he's going to develop the talent, whatever, if you think

476
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 1: they're going to underachieve on the field, whatever, totally different debate.

477
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to have that one with you too.

478
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: But they're going to recruit. So that's a constant. Get

479
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: used to that. That's not going to change At Florida.

480
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot that is right now that needs to change.

481
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: So we'll call those variables. For instance, here's what happened,

482
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: and here's what is happening, and here's what you need

483
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: to know, because your program may very well be in

484
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 1: the same boat.

485
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,680
Speaker 2: The nil era is brand new.

486
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 1: I know, we talk about it every day and you

487
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: get to feeling like you've been around it for so long.

488
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: This thing's still brand new, and a lot of folks

489
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 1: are adjusting to it at different speeds. And to be blunt,

490
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 1: Florida has not adjusted to it. Notice I didn't say

491
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: Billy Napier. I said Florida has not adjusted to it

492
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,679
Speaker 1: as quickly as some of their counterparts have. And the

493
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 1: fan base knows it, and the fan base is aggravated

494
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: about it. And I would be too if I were them,

495
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of investment that is asked of them,

496
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of investment in this new staff,

497
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: and they, in terms of a coaching search, went about

498
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,959
Speaker 1: it very directly, very deliberately, very quickly, and they got

499
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: Billy Napier in there. And now what they want to

500
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: see is they want to see immediate results. Sometimes the

501
00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: microwave mentality is not something that's smart to expect but

502
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: they're looking around and they understand the staff of Miami's

503
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: not going to slow down. Florida State eventually is going

504
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: to get their act together, and there's been some positive

505
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: momentum on the recruiting trail for the Seminoles too. But

506
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: at Florida, you know, they look around and they say,

507
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: why in the worse should we take a back seat

508
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: to anyone and why should we be more careful than

509
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: anyone else? And that's really the crux of the issue

510
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 1: with not just Florida, but several other fan bases in

511
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 1: America right now, because there is one school of thought

512
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: that says, well, you know, the NCAA, they put out

513
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: a statement, and that statement said don't do this, don't

514
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 1: do this, don't do that. And then there's this other

515
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: camp that says, yeah, that's kind of like the substitute

516
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: teacher writing the rules on the grease board and then saying,

517
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: I got to go to the parking lot behave door slams.

518
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: What would you do? How would you drive on the

519
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: interstate tonight going home if you were one hundred percent

520
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: certain there were no cops ahead of you, Some of

521
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: you he would still do sixty five And I admire

522
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: those of you who would. I wouldn't pedals on the

523
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: ground for me, and a lot of folks around college

524
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: football are realizing this at different speeds that yeah, there

525
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: are some guidelines out there, and I stress the word guidelines.

526
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 2: Because nobody really knows what the rules are right now.

527
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: And there are other ways, by the way that folks

528
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: are going about the Nile era that aren't illegal necessarily.

529
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of money flowing right now, some

530
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: of it in legal ways, some of it not in

531
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: legal ways. But the whole point is that's in the weeds.

532
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: That's minutia. I want to back it out to thirty

533
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: thousand feet. I'm saying whatever can be done, Florida is

534
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 1: not doing enough of it.

535
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Speaker 2: And I keep saying Florida.

536
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Speaker 1: And I haven't said Billy Napier because here's what I

537
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: believe talking to some folks.

538
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: First off, I.

539
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: Fully believe in Billy Napier. Okay, so please don't misunderstand me.

540
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: I love Billy Napier, fully believe in him. That's a

541
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: guy that's very deliberate in his own right. He trusts

542
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: his evaluation process. They trust their developmental process. But here's

543
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: the deal. This is major college football. He knows it.

544
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 2: You know what. Everyone knows it.

545
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: You can evaluate all you want to, you can develop

546
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: all you want to. It is a talent acquisition business,

547
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: and if you're not putting your coaching staff in the

548
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: best position to go out and acquire talent, then you

549
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: can either do one of two things. You can either

550
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: recalibrate your expectation level and lower it and say, good,

551
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: solid seven win season, that's what we want, Billy, or

552
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: you can give him the resources he needs to go

553
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: out and compete. And right now, he's never going to

554
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: come out publicly and say it. I don't think he's

555
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: operating on a level playing field with some of the

556
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: other staff you're asking them to compete against. I don't

557
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 1: think he's operating on a level playing field as Georgia.

558
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he's operating on a level playing field

559
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: as Miami. And that's got to change or else you

560
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: better get comfortable finishing second and third and watching a

561
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,479
Speaker 1: lot of these recruiting battles turn at the last minute.

562
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: You know how frustrating that is.

563
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: Now, if you're a fan, you know how frustrating it is.

564
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: Imagine being that guy right there. Imagine having your face

565
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: attached to all this and imagine knowing we handle this

566
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: recruitment about as well as we could have. Now, that's

567
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: part of it. I'm not absolving this staff because what

568
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: I think is happening here as well is this staff

569
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: is trying to drink water from a fire hose. It's

570
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: a new it's a new situation for everyone. Okay, Billy

571
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: Napier and his staff just got here from Louisiana Lafayette.

572
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: They probably feel like they've aged ten years. They haven't

573
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: even coached a game yet. We haven't even gotten to

574
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: the fall yet of his first season, and I'm fielding

575
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: text messages from some of my Florida buddies saying, is

576
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: this really our guy? You haven't seen him coach a game.

577
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: Utah is still two months away from coming to town.

578
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: You haven't seen anything yet. Some people are going to

579
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: adjust quicker than others. You know, we play double headers

580
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: in softball sometimes and we'll go out there and for

581
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the bounces just don't go our way. You'll

582
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: all of a sudden find yourself down sixteen to four

583
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: against a team you know you're every bit as good as,

584
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: if not better than, What do you do you want

585
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: to fight and you want to come back and win

586
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: the game. But let's be reasonable, we're probably just gonna

587
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: have to chalk this one up.

588
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 2: We're probably gonna have to take it on the chin.

589
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do is we're gonna make sure we

590
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: got our mind right the next time we play them,

591
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: whether it's later tonight or whether it's next week, because

592
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: we have no doubt we can compete against them. It's

593
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: just we didn't put ourselves in the best position in

594
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: this particular game. I think Florida's gonna have to take

595
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: one on the chin. In the twenty twenty three recruiting cycle,

596
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: what are they do moving forward? And what position is

597
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: the staff put in moving forward? Because one certainty, Miami's

598
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: not slowing down. They will not slow down, Georgia not

599
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: slowing down, all these schools you've got to compete against

600
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: in the SEC not slowing down. Will Florida speed up?

601
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: That's the question. I can't answer it. Only Florida can

602
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: answer it. They're watching us in Matthews, North Carolina, tonight,

603
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: Poland Ohio, Bella Vista, Arkansas, watching us. Thank you so much,

604
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: and thank you guys for being tuned in I say,

605
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: I'm looking over at the live chat. I know there's

606
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of doubt. Segment's over.

607
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 2: I'm moving on here.

608
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: But just I know there's gonna be a lot of

609
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: doubt about Billy Napier. Who in their right mind doubts

610
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: a coach before he's coached a game. And he's not

611
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: brand new, he is not a first time head coach.

612
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: He's already proven. Like Billy Napier was forty and twelve

613
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: I think at Louisiana. And you may say that's not

614
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: the SEC. He was competing against teams with equal resources,

615
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: and he was that much better than everyone else. It's

616
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: not guess work as to whether he knows football or not.

617
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: It's not guesswork.

618
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: He just is. But it's a talent acquisition business. And

619
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: the higher on the ladder you get, the more glaring

620
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: the disparity is between the haves and the have nots.

621
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: In the Sun Belt, no one's landing five star players.

622
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: But in the SEC, or just at Florida, because you

623
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: play more than just SEC opponents, if you're not landing

624
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: them and they are who, that makes a big difference,

625
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: a much bigger difference than anyone could imagine until they're there.

626
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: All right, now let's move on Bold Predictions, and I'm

627
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: proud to announce this. The Bold Predictions has reached version twenty.

628
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: Bold Predictions out of your mouths and you claim you'd

629
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: put your money behind this. Here we go version twenty,

630
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: and we're going to start in Atlanta, Georgia. This is

631
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: week one and this is the prediction and it's gonna

632
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: be tough to stomach for some of you. Oregon Beach,

633
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: Georgia in Atlanta, bo Nicks is in the top three

634
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: for the Heisman at the end of September, which means nothing. Aha,

635
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: Troy Michigan. I think that's where fictitious band Stillwater was

636
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: from in almost famous. So this is clearly a nine

637
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: because Oregon is a seventeen point dog against Georgia. And

638
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: then as for the second part, I mean, my first

639
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: part is what it is. The second part the whole

640
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: top three in the Heisman in September.

641
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: I remember Kenny Hill.

642
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: I will never talk about the Heisman in September again. No, no, no,

643
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: google it. Children, you don't want to go back and

644
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: relive the very brief but very pronounced Kenny Hill Heisman

645
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: run twenty thirteen or fourteen, somewhere like that.

646
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: So Bo Nicks.

647
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: You know what, while we're talking about bo Knicks, it

648
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: still somewhat disappoints me that that quarterback battle wasn't more

649
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Speaker 1: of a battle in the spring. I mean, he went

650
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: up there from Auburn and seemingly just kind of took

651
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: the job. And I'm sitting over here thinking, ty Thompson's

652
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: got to make his move, right, Well, it doesn't seem

653
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: like it happened in spring, and if anything, bow Knicks

654
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: should have been the one behind the curve, and instead

655
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: bo Knicks just kind of came in and said, I'll

656
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: take that.

657
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: Thank you, Hi.

658
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: If you want to compete, you can compete. You know.

659
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if ty Thompson watches the show, but

660
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: I really hope eventually he can make a move up there.

661
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: So this is a nine on the boldness scale. Next up,

662
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: there was a split opinion amongst the staff today and

663
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: it was on this topic, only two conferences will make

664
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: the playoff this year.

665
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: That is Trent's bold prediction.

666
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: I put this at an eight and a half, and

667
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: some of our guys said, I think it's a little

668
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: more reasonable than that. Well, I think the Notre Dame

669
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: factor is something that has to be acknowledged here, because

670
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is an independent of course. So if Notre

671
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: Dame's ever in the playoff, well you only got three

672
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: spots left, and if one of those conferences gets two

673
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: teams in, then voila, there you go, prediction fulfilled. So

674
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: if Notre Dame sneaks into the playoff this year, that

675
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: messes this up. But I'm going to assume for argument's sake,

676
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's not in the playoff, And so if they're not,

677
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: what are we looking at here? Clearly, with two conferences,

678
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: we're either looking at two conferences land two of them

679
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: a piece in or we get into that true nomad's

680
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: land of one conference getting three teams in, which brings

681
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: me to my next point. Do you think that could

682
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: ever happen? Because I've always thought it won't be allowed

683
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: to happen, but sure, if we were really going by

684
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: the true criteria of the playoff, it could happen. I mean,

685
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: what if what you know? Hm, I'm trying to without

686
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: the schedules in my head. So let's just hypothetically say

687
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: we've got an undefeated Georgia Bama matchup, or we've got

688
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: an undefeated Ohio State Michigan match up at the end

689
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: of the regular season, and we got another one loss somewhere,

690
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: one loss team somewhere. These conferences can work themselves out

691
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: where that can happen. What if Ole Miss had one

692
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: loss and it was to Alabama, and Bama and Georgia

693
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,479
Speaker 1: face off undefeated in Atlanta and Bama squeaks by him

694
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty seven. Well, Bbama's in the playoff. I

695
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: would bet my bottom dollar George is in the playoff.

696
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: Is Ole Miss out of the playoff with their only

697
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: loss being too undefeated SEC Champ one seed Alabama?

698
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: Is it unlikely? Sure?

699
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: It is? Is it impossible? No? But having said that,

700
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: only two teams are only two conferences making the playoff,

701
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: I'm putting that in an eight and a half and

702
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: we'll just see how that unfolds. Speaking of a team

703
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: that we just discussed in depth a few minutes ago,

704
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: what about.

705
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: Miami winning the ACC this year?

706
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: Sean says he would bet quite a bit on it,

707
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: and I don't think there would be any shortage of

708
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: takers out there. So, Sean, if you can't even to

709
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 1: hook you up with someone I can. There's part of

710
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: me that actually thinks this wouldn't be a good thing

711
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: for Miami, which sounds stupid, but I almost think it's

712
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: good for a team to taste some success in year

713
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: one of a new staff but ultimately fall short, because

714
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: it does not run the risk of fooling you into

715
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: thinking you've arrived before you've arrived. Now, having said that,

716
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: the ACC, especially if Clemson doesn't resurrect themselves, could be

717
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: wide open this year, and so Miami. They've got the

718
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: second longest odds to win the Coastal right now, behind Pitt.

719
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: They play Pitt.

720
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: I think it's the last week of the regular season. Yeah,

721
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: Miami's last two games are at Clemson and home against Pitt.

722
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 2: How much will those games matter?

723
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: I would love for someone to be able to tell

724
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: me that I've got this at a seven and a half.

725
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: I got Miami winning the ACC as a seven and

726
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: a half on the boldness scale. Now, if you told

727
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: me they're going to play for the ACC title, it

728
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't even be a seven and a half. They're over

729
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: unders eight and a half win at Caesars right now.

730
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: Dj Uyanglalay and Cad Klubnick are the two quarterbacks obviously

731
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: at Clemson. But Tyler van Dijk, I continue to tell you,

732
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: and I ask as many people behind the scenes as

733
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: I can. I've got my opinion of him. I think

734
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: he could explode this year, but when I ask other folks,

735
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: it's so diametrically opposed. You got one dude who will

736
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: tell you that's one of the most overrated players that's

737
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: getting buzzed this year. Then you got other folks who

738
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: will tell you that's a first round talent. And when

739
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: I say folks, I mean informed people, people whose profession

740
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: it is to judge such things, or as you might

741
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: know them, scouts. So that's a seven and a half

742
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 1: on Miami. We really really want to see those last

743
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: two weeks mean something, though. Next up director Colin has

744
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: a vested interest in this one, but he did not

745
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: make the prediction Jr. Did Tennessee starts the season four

746
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,959
Speaker 1: and oh yes, upset in week two and four?

747
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 2: Well, those would not be upsets. So I guess I.

748
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: Need to remind you one of these points spreads is

749
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: already Tennessee goes to pitt in week two. Tennessee's favored

750
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: by four on the road at Pitt in Week two.

751
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: I guess oddsmakers think losing a first round quarterback will

752
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: impact Pitt after all, and an offensive coordinator for those

753
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 1: keeping tracked. Also, I think Tennessee's going to be favored

754
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: against Florida in Week four. That's in Kneeland, so maybe

755
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: they'll be favored to be four and oh. I'm still

756
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: calling this a six and a half on the boldness scale.

757
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: I selfishly am rooting for them to be three and oh,

758
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: with all apologies due to Pitt. I'm rooting for them

759
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: to be three and oh because I'd love to be

760
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: able to go to my first Tennessee Florida game. Somehow,

761
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: I've never been able to go to the game, even

762
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: though I've lived in the SEC my whole life. I'm

763
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: looking at this right now, and I think some people

764
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: are going to overlook that game at Pitt because you

765
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: just assume Will were favored and they're replacing a first

766
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: round draft pick a quarterback will be good.

767
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 2: Right, Well, that'll be a classic.

768
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 1: Situation early in the year where more games are lost

769
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: than one and Pitt for all the replacements they got

770
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: to make up there, they got their entire offensive lineback,

771
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: they got most of their defensive front back. That's a

772
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: classic bait trap and wait for him to walk into it.

773
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: That situation where Pitt will play a style of football

774
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,439
Speaker 1: that just waits for you to give them the game.

775
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: And it sounds so simple not to do that, and

776
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: yet teams do it every year. So not to short

777
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: sell Pitt's ability to actually score and actually go get

778
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: a game, That's how I think they'll handle that game.

779
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 1: If Tennessee wins that one Kneeland Week four Florida in town,

780
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: who knows what Florida's record is, that's going to be

781
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: the place to be. I'm calling this a six and

782
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: a half. Winning either one of those games very doable.

783
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll be favored winning both of them. Tough,

784
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: not impossible by any stretch. Last bold prediction for tonight,

785
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: got to be careful with the way we phrase this.

786
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: When Casey said Bryce Young will take a big step

787
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: backwards in statistics without two jet planes on the outside,

788
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: John Metzi and Jamison Williams being the receivers that he's

789
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: referring to, big step back, I'm just going to pretend

790
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: like he didn't say big okay, because I want to

791
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: be realistic with this, So let's just pretake case he

792
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: said Bryce Young is going to take a step back

793
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: his stats are not going to be as good as

794
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:16,959
Speaker 1: last year.

795
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: That's not bold to me.

796
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: That's like a four or a five because he won

797
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: the Heisman last year. I don't care how many years

798
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: you play. It's really hard to duplicate that kind of

799
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: offensive success. And let's also remember, especially in the latter

800
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: part of the season last year, once the running back

801
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: started to drop like flies, Bryce Young had to shoulder

802
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: a disproportionate amount.

803
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 2: Of the load.

804
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: Look at these stats, nearly forty nine hundred passing yards,

805
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: forty seven touchdowns, seven picks. He was right around a

806
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: sixty seven completion percentage. Guy, I don't think he's going

807
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: to pass for that many yards this year. I don't

808
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,479
Speaker 1: think he's going to account for that many touchdowns this year.

809
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: And I think he's going to be the best quarterback

810
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: in the country, or right there with CJ.

811
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 2: Stroud as being one of them.

812
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: What makes the difference, Well, a guy like Jamiir Gibbs

813
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: in the backfield makes a difference. A guy like Jace

814
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: McClellan being healthy again makes a difference.

815
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 2: Do you know how nauseating.

816
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: It probably was for Nick Saban to go into the

817
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: SEC Championship game last year knowing they had no run game,

818
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: or going to the Auburn game knowing they really had

819
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: not much of a run game. I don't think they.

820
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 2: Ever want to remember that again.

821
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: It's not that they won't fully utilize the weapon that

822
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: is Bryce Young, but man, if they got a legitimate

823
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: stable of tailbacks, they're gonna use them. They always have

824
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: under Nick Saban. That's not revolutionary. It's not like we're

825
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: shifting from Mike Leach's way of doing things. And having

826
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: said that, I just don't know if the yardage is

827
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: gonna be there for Bryce Young, because I don't think

828
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: the pass to run ratio is going to look anything

829
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: like it did last year.

830
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna call that a fire.

831
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, coming off a Heisman season, We've seen

832
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: it before Tebow his Heisman year was seven. He had

833
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: a good year the next year, Johnny Manziel. Some people

834
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: would say he had a better year the following year

835
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: than he did in twenty twelve. But you had a

836
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: guy named Jamis Winston in twenty thirteen. Jamis was not

837
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,439
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. What he was in twenty thirteen. It's

838
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: just hard to do. It's hard to play at that

839
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: level and then do it again when everyone expects it

840
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: of you. So I don't think that's bold. I think

841
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: Bryce Shaw could be the best quarterback in the country

842
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: and not match his productivity from last year. Uh yeah,

843
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 1: let's do this now. Let's do the transfer portal additions.

844
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: I think we've talked a lot about Caleb Williams, you know,

845
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: I think we've talked a lot about Quinn Viewers. These

846
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: are big names and they'll be talked about plenty more.

847
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: We're not done with them. But the transfer portal is

848
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: such an integral part of the sport now. It's the

849
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: most popular thing when we talk about it on this show.

850
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: Those segments, they just do incredible numbers. What I wanted

851
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: to do tonight was draw your attention to some names

852
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: that are going to be factors on teams that could

853
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: play for something very important down the stretch this year.

854
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: And I don't think you've heard a lot about them.

855
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: And the first name I wanted to bring up to

856
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: you tonight is JT.

857
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: Daniels. JT Daniels.

858
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: Everyone knows about j T Daniels. Everyone knows his story

859
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: in our circles. It didn't work out at USC, he

860
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: transfers to Georgia. He started last year, people kind of

861
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: forget that called someone other than JT. Ended up taking

862
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: the last nap in the National title game. But JT.

863
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: Daniels gets hurt last year. He has never reinserted as

864
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: the starter at Georgia. Well, he's out of there and

865
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: he transferred to West Virginia. This story, to me is

866
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: just totally fascinating to watch, no matter where he went,

867
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: but it's especially fascinating because of where he went. I

868
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: don't know how much you know about West Virginia right now.

869
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: Neil Brown, who I knew from my time down at Troy,

870
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: well his time at Troy, my time in Columbus, so

871
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: I kind of watched him down there. He's at West

872
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: Virginia now. It's probably a much more sneaky good roster

873
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: than people realize. There's a lot to replace in the secondary,

874
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: but offensive line I think will be a strength for

875
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: them this year. That receiving core could be a strength

876
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: for them this year. If JT. Daniels performs at a

877
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: top three or top four level in the conference, that

878
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: could be good enough for West Virginia to surprise a

879
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: lot of people. I think we're to the point in

880
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: his career where you can throw away the recruiting hype.

881
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people stay married to hype,

882
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,479
Speaker 1: attached with recruiting too long when your eyeballs have told

883
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: you it's okay to just think he's a pretty good player.

884
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: If JT. Daniels plays pretty good for West Virginia this year,

885
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: if he's the third best quarterback in the Big twelve,

886
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: that'll be good enough for them to do things that

887
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: they haven't done so far under that staff.

888
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 2: That's one.

889
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: Here's a name that unless you're just diving hardcore into

890
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: your preview magazines or you're a Penn State fan, you

891
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: don't know a lot about. And that's Mitchell Tensley. And

892
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: this is a very important name. If you're looking up

893
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: at the Big Ten right now and you're wondering, oh,

894
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: who's going to compete against Ohio State? Well, if I

895
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: mentioned Penn State, your first reaction is they can't score

896
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: with Ohio State, can they? Well they can if they

897
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: play him at home, which they do, and Mitchell Tinsley

898
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: hands out and Shawn Clifford's healthy, you know, so there

899
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: are a lot of IFFs and that set. But who

900
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: did everyone focus on last year with Penn State? It

901
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: was Jahad Dodson, big time receiver. He's off to the NFL.

902
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: Parker Washington is still there, and I'm high on Parker

903
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: Washington but I'm not high on Parker Washington just carrying

904
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: the team by himself. I am, however, very high on

905
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: Parker Washington and Mitchell Tinsley as a duo there because

906
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: I know what I have in the backfield, if not

907
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: immediately eventually with Nick Singleton, a lot of young talent

908
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: coming into Penn State and a lot of transfer talent.

909
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: Tensley comes to state college by way of Western Kentucky.

910
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: What did he do last year? You may ask. Eighty

911
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: seven catches, fourteen hundred yards, fourteen touchdowns, plenty good enough. Now,

912
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky ran a video game offense last year, but

913
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: it still stands to reason this is going to be

914
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: a very good player and if he falls into that place,

915
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: that little puzzle piece that they hope he is, that

916
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: fits up. There is a very similar bill to Jahad Dodson.

917
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: I'm not going to compare the players, but everything else

918
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: works when you get those receivers, those one two's there.

919
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: And if Singleton does pan out as early as I

920
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: think you will at running back, all of a sudden,

921
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: Penn State that points per game. You know that yards

922
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: per carry average and backfield yards per attempt in the

923
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: quarterback department, All of a sudden they just tick up

924
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: a little bit, and all of a sudden they're a

925
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: little bit more a factor than you thought they'd be.

926
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: Mitchell Tinsley, big time player there to watch. Now here's

927
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: a big time player that all of a sudden people

928
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: aren't watching anymore, Spencer Rattler. How quickly people forget this

929
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: time last year? I could not walk down a grocery

930
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 1: store aisle and look at a college football preview magazine

931
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: without that dude's face on the cover. Why Because OU

932
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: is a preseason number one and Spencer Ratler was a

933
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: preseason Heisman favorite.

934
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 2: Neither of those happened.

935
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: Boiler alert if you've Dvard twenty twenty one, which you

936
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: haven't watched it yet, And so from Oklahoma, Spencer Ratler

937
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: goes to South Carolina. This is so important for South Carolina,

938
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: not just for twenty twenty two. What if he's right,

939
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that all of you have followed the

940
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: data around South Carolina. But Spencer Rattler, especially when he

941
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: initially got there, he was not shy about sharing some

942
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: thoughts about the comparison old program versus new program, Oklahoma

943
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: versus South Carolina, and he talked about how it just

944
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: feels so much more natural at South Carolina, feels like

945
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: it's a better fit.

946
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 2: I am paraphrasing here.

947
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: He said something like, I've learned more since I've been

948
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: here than my entire time in Oklahoma. I think a

949
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: lot of people chalk that up to sour grapes.

950
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: Maybe it was.

951
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: Let me give an alternate possibility. What if he was right,

952
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: or what if both are true? What if he has

953
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: rubbed the wrong way by the way things went down

954
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, but he's also telling the truth about the

955
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 1: comparative analysis of the two programs.

956
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: Well, that means.

957
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: If he is telling the truth and he delivers, he

958
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: upholds his end of the bargain. Maybe South Carolina has

959
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: a better season this year than you expect, which will

960
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: be two years in a row that they've done that

961
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: under Shane Beamer. Now, if they win eight games this year,

962
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: it's obviously big because they overcame your expectation level again.

963
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: But think about what a successful twenty twenty two we'll

964
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: do for South Carolina moving forward, because all of a sudden,

965
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: what you get to do is you as a staff

966
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: and apparently, judging by this weekend, they don't need a

967
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: whole lot of help in recruiting. But you get to

968
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: take that example out on the recruiting trail, not just

969
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: in high school, but also you get to become.

970
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 2: A quarterback portal player.

971
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: You get to be a program that's viable because you've

972
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: got a case study, you've got to proven data point.

973
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: You go and you talk to whoever it is that's

974
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: on the move in the portal and you say, come

975
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: to South Carolina. And when opposing staffs tell you don't

976
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: go there, you can't win there, just point to Spencer.

977
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: Rattler's so big for them moving forward. You know they're

978
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: trying to get a foothold. They're trying to find their

979
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 1: recruiting niche, just like Michigan State has in East Lanting.

980
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: That is going to go a long way to determining

981
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: whether they can do that. I got another quarterback to

982
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: throw at you. We're going to a program that I

983
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: don't think we've talked about in quite a while. Jaden

984
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: DeLaura at Arizona now, not Washington State now, Jaden Delora.

985
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: I think if you pay attention to the award season

986
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: last year, you know that he was the PAC twelve

987
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: Freshman of the Year at Washington State. Then everything fell

988
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: apart at Washington State and he's at Arizona now. Arizona

989
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: was very bad last year. Arizona may not be much

990
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: to write home about this year, but there are a

991
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: lot of folks whispering in our industry and the coaching

992
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: industry about Arizona. Jedfish is the head coach there, and

993
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: last year they played four quarterbacks. It takes some of

994
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: your programs a decade to play that many guys. They

995
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: had to play four quarterbacks last year. The hope there

996
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: is that that is rectified in a big way by

997
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: bringing Jade DeLaura in, but also an actual talent that

998
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: you can leverage at the quarterback position. Not very finesse either.

999
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: There's a lot of physicality the Jaden Delora's game. But

1000
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: also they brought in a kid named Jacob Cowing. He's

1001
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: a wide receiver transfer from UTEP and I think the

1002
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: over under win total for Arizona's like ten two and

1003
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: a half or something like that. So we're not talking

1004
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: about a team that's expected to contend for Bowl eligibility.

1005
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: But last year twenty eight hundred yards twenty three to

1006
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: six touchdown to interception ratio. If he performs anywhere remotely

1007
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: on par with that level, they're going to win many

1008
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: more games than people expect. And I can guarantee you

1009
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, when someone throws out

1010
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: the that is the best blank win team in America,

1011
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: that's the best four win team or five win team

1012
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: in America, that Arizona team may very well be the

1013
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: one they're talking about. So keep an eye on him.

1014
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: And lastly, at Kentucky, this whole sec East race, it's

1015
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of Georgia and and everyone wants to know

1016
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: is anyone going to compete with them, who could upset them?

1017
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 2: Well, Pavion Robinson.

1018
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: Is a very, very important player to watch because this

1019
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 1: time last year everyone was excited about Wandell Robinson coming

1020
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: in from Perdue, I believe to Kentucky, and they had

1021
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: good reason to be because he really showed out. And

1022
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: now he's off to the next level and all people

1023
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: can ask this time of years, Well, yeah, I mean

1024
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: Will Levis, the quarterbacks getting a lot of hype, But

1025
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: who's gonna throw to you? A receiver? What was his name? Snap?

1026
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: Snap Snap?

1027
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 2: Wandell Robinson?

1028
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: He's gone. Well that's half of it. No one ever

1029
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: wants to follow up with the other half. Who did they?

1030
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: Are they just gonna have nobody? Are they gonna play

1031
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: ten on offense? No, they went and found somebody, in fact,

1032
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: a couple of somebodies to replace him. Tavian Robinson is

1033
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: a guy who's coming in there, and I think when

1034
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: you pair him with Javon Baker, for example, that's in Alabama.

1035
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: I actually don't remember how that worked out with Baker,

1036
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: but I think if this works out, then all of

1037
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: a sudden, I know they're changing coordinators up there too,

1038
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: But if this works out all of a sudden, what

1039
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: does it mean for Will Levis? And don't forget Chris

1040
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: Rodriguez is a running back that gets overlooked because he's

1041
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: at Kentucky. He's on the precipice of setting a whole

1042
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: bunch of records up there. Guys like Benny Snell set

1043
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: before him. So Tavian Robinson they have hope because the

1044
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: new coordinator they have is from the same tree as

1045
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen, they have hope that he can roughly fill

1046
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: those shoes or in the aggregate when you combine some

1047
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: of the transfer portal guys and incoming freshmen, that they

1048
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: can fill the void left by Wandel Robinson. I mean,

1049
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,479
Speaker 1: there's no mystery the ability level of the guy throwing

1050
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: him the ball and Will Levis, if Will Levis is

1051
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: going to fulfill on this imments potential, that's part of it.

1052
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: It's a big part of it. So those are some

1053
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: names to keep an eye on. We're not done with that.

1054
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: We're going to I think, probably do a couple of

1055
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: more segments about that. The segment that you have enjoyed

1056
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: the most as of late, though, is reasonable Expectations. Reasonable

1057
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: Expectations Version five tonight, that is looking at some of

1058
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: these major programs. It's not prediction time quite yet, but

1059
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of these teams, what is it

1060
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: reasonable to expect? And I want to start with Old Miss.

1061
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: Last year, Old Miss surprised some people. We kept getting

1062
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: criticized because I had him much higher in the JP

1063
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: pole all year than the AP did well.

1064
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 2: We were right, they.

1065
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: Went to a New Year six game, So you may think, oh,

1066
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: he's probably a lot higher on ole Miss this year.

1067
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Uh maybe I am. Let me tell you what I

1068
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: think is reasonable. They're over under seven and a half.

1069
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: I think eight wins is reasonable to expect here. But

1070
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: I think also if they win eight games, a lot

1071
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: of folks would consider that a disappointment, and I just

1072
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a disappointment. There's a lot of moving

1073
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: parts here, of course, a ton of portal activity. But

1074
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about that. And if I think

1075
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: everyone knows Old Miss man they went out and got

1076
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: Jackson Dart at quarterback. Yeah, they got like one hundred

1077
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: more kids out of the portal too, and they did

1078
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: a really good job, a.

1079
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 2: Necessarily good job at that.

1080
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: But behind the scenes, you know what, a lot of

1081
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: people talk about a lot of people in the industry

1082
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: talk about what the perception is of ole Miss versus

1083
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: reality perception is Lane Kiff and mad scientists. Man look

1084
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: at him running things over there, so smoothie, and behind

1085
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: the scenes, people say, do you have any idea what

1086
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: that staff does over there? Do you have any idea,

1087
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: for instance, what losing Jeff Levy is going to mean.

1088
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm just echoing the sentiment I get

1089
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: from a lot of people inside the coaching world. A

1090
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: lot of people inside the coaching world think Old Miss

1091
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,479
Speaker 1: is going to crash spectacularly this year. I don't quite

1092
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: think it's going to be that bad. I'm just telling

1093
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: you there's some folks out there who do believe that,

1094
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: because they would tell you that went Lane as much

1095
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: as it was some of the other guys he had

1096
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: around him. Well, luckily, we're going to tee it up

1097
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: this fall and we're going to find out. I think

1098
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: eight and four is reasonable because I look at their

1099
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: out of conference and it's Troy Central, Arkansas, Georgia Tech,

1100
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: and Tulsa. That should be four and oh for Old Miss.

1101
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: And at that point, if we're trying to get to

1102
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: eight wins, what are we asking? We're asking can you

1103
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: split conference play? And I think it's going to fall

1104
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: right in line with how many games they're favored in

1105
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: being four and I think there'll be a dog in

1106
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: four games. And you can probably spot which ones I'm

1107
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: thinking about there. So you get Kentucky at home, you

1108
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: go to Vanderbilt, Auburn at home. You need to win

1109
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: those games. You go to A and M and lose,

1110
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: You lose against Bama at Arkansas. I can stomach that

1111
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: eight wins considering would be a very very good year

1112
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: for old Miss. Michigan State is the next team I

1113
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 1: want to talk about. They went eleven to two last year.

1114
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: A lot is going to be expected this year, and

1115
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: moving forward from mel Tucker, I'm going to buck some

1116
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: conventional wisdom here because I think conventional wisdom would expect

1117
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: them to come way back to the pack. I think

1118
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: the national perception of Michigan State is still that last

1119
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:15,720
Speaker 1: year was a lot of smoking mirrors. I don't share

1120
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: in that cinema. They're over under seven and a half wins.

1121
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm well north of that. I'm at nine and three.

1122
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: I think nine and three is reasonable to expect if

1123
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: you're a Spartans fan this year. Now you have to

1124
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: understand I'm saying nine and three as reasonable because I

1125
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: have bought into just the fundamental shift theory up there.

1126
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: Not quite plate tectonics, but the fundamental shift theory is

1127
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: it's not smoking mirrors. There's still work to be done,

1128
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: there's still roster progress that has to be made, but

1129
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: We've changed things here and we're not going back. So

1130
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: anyone expecting us to fall back to six and six,

1131
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: that's not happening. So with that, I say nine to

1132
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: three as reasonable. Kenneth Walker the third, I was just

1133
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: sitting at home the other night watching the Michigan game,

1134
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: and I think it was five touchdowns he had that day.

1135
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 2: We were there that day. Very impressive.

1136
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,240
Speaker 1: Should have been a Heisman finalist along with Will Anderson,

1137
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: one of the bigger travesties in that awards, not so

1138
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: illustrious history.

1139
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 2: He's gone.

1140
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: That's going to be one area of focus, and then

1141
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: the other area of focus is how in the world

1142
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: can you do any worse in the secondary than you

1143
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: did last year? They got ripped pieces last year, but

1144
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: I did not know. I knew they faced a lot

1145
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: of high profile passing attacks. I didn't know they faced

1146
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: five of the top thirteen in the country. So yeah,

1147
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: that'll put a dent in your pass defense. They will

1148
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: not remain that bad with mel Tucker being the head

1149
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: coach there. That will not happen. What I think will

1150
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: happen this year is there'll be games where you turn

1151
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: it on and you say boiler missing Kenneth Walker the third.

1152
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: That's natural. What I do think, though, is I think

1153
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: Michigan State football this year will be one of those

1154
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: some greater than the individual parts deals where they find

1155
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: a way to at least nine and three. I think

1156
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: nine to three is the reasonable expectation. Stay in the

1157
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: big ten. Let's go to Wisconsin. Wisconsin was nine and

1158
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: four last year. I say eight and four is reasonable

1159
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: this year now. Jim Leonard being defensive coordinator, there is

1160
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: the reason.

1161
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 2: I start at eight and four.

1162
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: Eight and four is the baseline if you're as good

1163
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: defensively as they are, eight games is very reasonable. The

1164
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: reason I'm not going above eight and I'm staying right

1165
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: at the starting point because I don't have confidence in

1166
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: them offensively. I bought into the Graham Mertz hype once

1167
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: upon a time. The quarterback there, I got burned by it.

1168
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: He's still there, feels like he's been there forever now,

1169
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: and I I think they just are what they are offensively.

1170
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: I would love to be proven wrong there, and there

1171
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,840
Speaker 1: are a lot of games where just smash mouth football

1172
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: and good hardins defense is going to be enough for them.

1173
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: It's why I didn't say six and six. I said

1174
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: eight and four. But when you get down the road

1175
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: a little bit and you look at the fact that

1176
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: you've got to go to Ohio State and to Michigan State,

1177
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 1: and to Iowa, to Nebraska, and also when you can't

1178
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: score at will, A lot of these games, like you know,

1179
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: Purdue Minnesota, all those games are in play. You should win,

1180
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: you'd be favored. But I'm saying they're all in play.

1181
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: I think it's reasonable to start at eight and four.

1182
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: Then if the offense does start popping and ticks up

1183
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: in terms of productivity a little more this year, well,

1184
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: then a lot of stuff's in play. Because if you

1185
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: can play defense like they can and you can score,

1186
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: you can win the division. So they may win the

1187
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: division at eight and four for all I know. But

1188
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: eight and four is where I am with Wisconsin in

1189
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: terms of reasonable expectation. What about Baylor. Baylor last year

1190
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: had the second to worst odds to win the Big Twelve.

1191
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: Then they won the Big Twelve, And so what's the

1192
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 1: follow up here? They were twelve and two last year,

1193
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 1: what's the follow up? Am I gonna do it? Am

1194
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: I going to do it? Yes?

1195
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 2: I am.

1196
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: I think eight and four is the reasonable default setting

1197
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: they're over under is eight, So this sounds like it's

1198
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: a big fallback. You gotta remember who we're talking about here.

1199
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: This is a situation where my actual prediction for this

1200
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: team is going to be different than.

1201
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 2: What I think reasonable expectation is.

1202
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: It's not reasonable after one good year to totally overhaul

1203
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: what the history of this program has been when you're

1204
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: setting expectations. That's why it's eight even though they won

1205
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: twelve games or whatever it was last year. But my

1206
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: prediction will be well above eight games for them because

1207
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: I believe Dave Rand is the man. I mean, the

1208
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: guy had a returning starting quarterback and chose to name

1209
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 1: a new starter in spring knowing that was going to

1210
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: cost him his quarterback. You know what they do have

1211
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 1: back though, They've got their entire defensive front back. That's

1212
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: what they've got. And if you watched how Baylor evolved

1213
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: last year, they got Ka the transfer there from LSU.

1214
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:44,760
Speaker 1: When they got him and they plugged him in the middle,

1215
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: they run a three to four out there. When they

1216
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: plugged him in the middle, that was night and day.

1217
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,720
Speaker 1: Everything else worked around him. It will this year too.

1218
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: Classic situations, just like I said with Wisconsin, where you

1219
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: may turn on Baylor games this year and maybe you say,

1220
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: pretty easily tell they're the second most talented team on

1221
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: the field here in this game that they're winning thirty

1222
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: to twenty. But some greater than individual parts, you know.

1223
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: I think Dave a Randa, I think he is a star,

1224
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: but at the very least you could call him a

1225
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: rising star. I think they're going to find a way

1226
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 1: to be north of this. That's why I think eight

1227
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: and four is the reasonable default expectation. That's saying a

1228
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: lot for Baylor. This is not supposed to be a

1229
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: bowl program. So your preseason expectation level being at eight

1230
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: and four, that alone is a testament. This is not Alabama,

1231
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: it's Baylor. That alone is a testament to what that

1232
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: staff's done. The last one I wanted to hit here

1233
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: is one I took a fair amount of flight four

1234
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: last year.

1235
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 2: I wasn't alone. It's North Carolina.

1236
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: North Carolina with their recruiting, Why would I not expect

1237
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: eight and four or better? Remember the rules here. The

1238
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: rules are, what is it reasonable for the fan base

1239
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: to expect? There were six and seven last year. Eight

1240
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: and four is reasonable and if you can't do better

1241
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: than that then I need someone else running the ship.

1242
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: It's pretty much that simple. Over under a seven and

1243
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: a half. Reminder, anything less is last season, So anything

1244
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 1: under what my expectation level is here, you essentially just

1245
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: refer to what they were last year, and that's not

1246
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: good enough. Physically, they were second best way too often. Mentally,

1247
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: they were a week team last year. They were o

1248
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: and six on the road, and they played some bad

1249
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: teams on the road. They were zero to six on

1250
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: the road last year. This year, if I'm trying to

1251
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: make the case for eight and four, they avoid Clemson

1252
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: in the regular season, they get pit and NC State

1253
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: at home. And for all to talk about losing Sam Howell,

1254
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: what did it matter last year? And if you've got

1255
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: Chriswell and Drake May fighting for the job there, I mean,

1256
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: one of them's got to be at least a viable

1257
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: candidate for you to win some games. Josh Downs is

1258
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: still there at wide receiver. I think very quietly they've

1259
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: got the potential for an excellent defensive front. Gene Chiswick

1260
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: is the defensive coordinator here, by the way, for those

1261
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: that didn't follow the coaching market, yes, Gane Chiswick, a

1262
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: former Auburn and SEC network fame is now the defensive

1263
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: coordinator at North Carolina.

1264
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:04,959
Speaker 2: Eight and four.

1265
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: Let's get it done. Eight and four at North Carolina.

1266
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of things to respond to here,

1267
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: and yeah, thank you, Colin. I told Colin. If I

1268
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: didn't recap, remind me to recap. Here are the reasonable

1269
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: expectations eight and four for Ole Miss, nine and three

1270
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: for Michigan State, eight and four for Wisconsin, eight and

1271
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: four for Baylor. Just a bunch of eight and fours,

1272
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: eight and four for North Carolina. And there's your recap. Okay,

1273
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: the paper has popped, so you know that what's about

1274
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: to happen is pretty seriously, I like everyone else did.

1275
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: I talked about arch Manning this past week. I talked

1276
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: about Texas. I talked about Steve Sarkeesian, and I just

1277
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: gave my opinion as to what's happening out there, and

1278
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: then I checked my phone. It was not a pretty picture.

1279
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: So let's take a look at what was said. I

1280
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: just picked one. This could have been one hundred of

1281
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: you Ku for Life hit us up and said, Josh

1282
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: love the show. Just hope you're here to eat croll

1283
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: in these predicts when Sarcus fired in two years, this

1284
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: one was tame a lot of you went a little

1285
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: bit more aggressive in your wording than that.

1286
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 2: What are we talking about here, eat Crow? On what prediction?

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Speaker 2: What prediction did I make?

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Speaker 1: In fact, if I recall just seventy two hours ago,

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Speaker 1: when we did that Sunday show or that Thursday show,

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm not making predictions. Those exact words came

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Speaker 1: out of my mouth. This is not a prediction. My

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Speaker 1: whole point was the top rated quarterback in the country

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Speaker 1: just committed to Texas. Yeah, yeah, everyone agreed. Okay, that

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Speaker 1: did happen. That's reality. These people in Austin, Texas were

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Speaker 1: excited about it. Yeah, wooh, yeah, we're excited. Who wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be if you're a Purdue fan, you're a Kansas fan,

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Speaker 1: who wouldn't be excited if you got a five star

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Speaker 1: quarterback rank number one over on the country to commit

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Speaker 1: to you and you were in a dogfight with Alabama

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Speaker 1: and Georgia for the kid. It's not a Texas product,

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Speaker 1: he's not from your state. You don't have proven results yet,

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Speaker 1: and he still chose you. Could you not be excited?

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Speaker 1: So I pointed that out and shame on me for

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Speaker 1: doing so. Again, the context is lost on some amongst us,

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter if I didn't say it. You

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Speaker 1: heard me saying Texas is back, Texa's is about to

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Speaker 1: win a title within two years. I never said it.

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Speaker 1: I never would say it. In fact, I made fun

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Speaker 1: of people who did say it the other night. So

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Speaker 1: I thought, Colin, I thought we handled ourselves pretty professionally.

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Speaker 1: It turns out we didn't in the minds of some. Now,

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Speaker 1: if I were to get KU for Live here, and

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Speaker 1: I know that we do a solo show, but if

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Speaker 1: I were to get another stool over here, Colin would

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Speaker 1: have to reconfigure the studio. But if I were to

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Speaker 1: get another stool over here and I were to play

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Speaker 1: the segment from the other night, he would be dumbfounded

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Speaker 1: or she would be dumbfounded. And I would say, now,

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Speaker 1: does it shock you that you came at me for things?

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Speaker 1: I didn't say, no, But a lot of folks said that.

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Speaker 1: So let's be real for a second here. What is

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Speaker 1: the situation. The situation is Steve Sarkisian is still unproven

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Speaker 1: as a head coach on the field. The situation is

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Speaker 1: Texas still has a ways to go on the field.

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Speaker 1: The situation is, this is one of the most high

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Speaker 1: profile programs in America and it hasn't mattered one iota

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Speaker 1: when it turns when it comes to production on the

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Speaker 1: field recently and not even so recently. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: that remains to be seen about this staff. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: point is, you don't turn things around and then start

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Speaker 1: recruiting well. That's not the way that whole thing works.

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Speaker 1: You start recruiting well and then things turn around. So

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Speaker 1: in the future, if there is to come a time

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Speaker 1: if I rub the magic eight ball and I look

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Speaker 1: at the year twenty twenty five and Texas is competing

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Speaker 1: for maybe the SEC title at that point, but if

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Speaker 1: they're competing for the playoff, it will be because of

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Speaker 1: what's happening right now. That doesn't mean what's happening now

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Speaker 1: is a guarantee it will happen. But if this stuff

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Speaker 1: wasn't happening right now, it would guarantee it's never going

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Speaker 1: to happen. I think that makes sense, So I would

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Speaker 1: be I would be jubilant right now if I were

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Speaker 1: a Texas fan, because I know what's going to follow

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Speaker 1: a big time commitment like that. They finished top five

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Speaker 1: last year. Even as I speak, they're on a recruiting role.

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Speaker 1: I think they're sitting top five or top six right

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Speaker 1: now for this upcoming cycle. Rankings don't mean everything in June,

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Speaker 1: I get it. But Texas is on a roll right now,

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Speaker 1: and that's to be expected after you get a commitment

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Speaker 1: like Arch Manning. So Texas is doing everything off the

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Speaker 1: field necessary to eventually be legitimate on the field. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: guarantee they're going to be legitimate on the field, but

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Speaker 1: they're doing everything necessary. And so here's the worst case.

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Speaker 1: The worst case is it doesn't happen and Steve Sarkeesian

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Speaker 1: and his staff don't end up being right. Even in

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Speaker 1: the worst case, he is leaving you a roster that

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Speaker 1: was far better than the one he found. Because even

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Speaker 1: though I know the old talking point was, well they

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Speaker 1: recruit top five every year, they hadn't quite been top

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Speaker 1: five every year. They were poorly developed. The NFL Draft

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Speaker 1: told you that. So let's see how the NFL Draft

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Speaker 1: starts treating Steve sarkesans Texas, and let's see what those

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Speaker 1: records start looking like on the field. Let's see what

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Speaker 1: these recruiting classes do. I've said my piece. I've spoken

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Speaker 1: my piece on Texas, the last thing I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for watching live. This will probably not

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Speaker 1: enough on the YouTube channel, so just watch the whole

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Speaker 1: show if you want stuff like this. Friend of the

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Speaker 1: program Marty Smith, earlier today on Twitter said, do you

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Speaker 1: all believe that one brand of water can taste different

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Speaker 1: than another brand of water? Water's water, he says, But

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Speaker 1: I wonder if packaging impacts how we taste it, because

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Speaker 1: this morning I think it happened to me. The answer

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Speaker 1: here is an unequivocal yes on all fronts. Yes, different

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Speaker 1: brands of water taste different. Yes, packaging impacts taste and quality.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Harris County, Georgia, and so where

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Speaker 1: I'm from, we are legally obligated to ride and die

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Speaker 1: with Callaway ble.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know if you see this in the store or

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Speaker 1: you're watching right now, it says, or at least you

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Speaker 1: think it, it says Calloway Blue on this label. That

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Speaker 1: is a common visitor's mistake. The locals know this is

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Speaker 1: Callowai Blue, like Blue de Chanel. Ironically, in Harris County

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Speaker 1: people pronounce Blue des Chanel Blue Day Channel, but they

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Speaker 1: get Callowei Blue right. Calloway Blue makes all other bottled

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Speaker 1: waters taste like they've been filtered through a jockstrap. They

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Speaker 1: are located in Hamilton, Georgia, which is the county seat

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Speaker 1: of Harris County, Georgia, and so Calloway Blue runs all

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Speaker 1: your other waters out of the building. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: have that said tonight because in the past I've said

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Speaker 1: I'm from Columbus just as a more broad geographical reference,

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Speaker 1: and some people in my home county have criticized me.

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Speaker 1: So I am a Harris County in and even a

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Speaker 1: Fortsnian within Harris County through and through. But Hamilton, George

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Speaker 1: is where I went to high school. That is the

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Speaker 1: home of Callawai Blue, not to be confused with Calloway Blue.

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Speaker 1: And that's the bottom line. Cool Stone Cole said, So

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Speaker 1: we're out of here. I've got to wake up early

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Speaker 1: and fly to LA in the morning, not Lower Alabama,

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Speaker 1: the real one. We'll be doing coverage from out there

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Speaker 1: all week. Remember on Thursday night, we'll be live from LA.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be an earlier start time to keep

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Speaker 1: it locked on the Twitter account during the week at

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Speaker 1: late kick.

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Speaker 2: Josh our numbers are they're going.

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Speaker 1: That way up, up up, and it's June offseason, So thank.

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Speaker 2: You for that.

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Speaker 1: For a producer, you know what, he's not here. He

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Speaker 1: gets no shout out for director Colin and our army

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Speaker 1: of production executives that made the show happen tonight. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Bate. We will see you Thursday. Until they take

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Speaker 1: care and God bless