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Speaker 1: Do you see Ross Dellinger? Shame on him, fear mongering

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Speaker 1: Ross Dellinger earlier today over on on three dot com

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Speaker 1: the leader of that defense. But behind him Smith Jaden

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Speaker 1: Jones like, there's a lot of unproven commodities there. What

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Speaker 1: do we get out of that? Is this a situation

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Speaker 1: where Missouri needs forty every week to win? In other words,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I don't know. Again, it's

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Speaker 1: spring football. And by the way, at Florida before we

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Speaker 1: move on, just at Florida, the quarterback situation, I know

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Speaker 1: then Aaron Filo followed him. I think it's just widely

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Speaker 1: assumed he's going to be the starter, and I just

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Speaker 1: want to say, maybe he will be, maybe even the

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Speaker 1: odds on favorite right now. But Tremmelle Jones is going

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Speaker 1: to have a lot to say about that quarterback battle.

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Speaker 1: So the Alabama quarterback battles is getting all the headlines

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Speaker 1: in the SEC, understandably so, but that Florida quarterback battles

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Speaker 1: at least one to watch, another thing to watch. As

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Speaker 1: the seasons changed, it's been crazy in the Northeast. There

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Speaker 1: Let's move on. I talked about this in the intro,

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Speaker 1: and I want to hit this. This actually is the

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Speaker 1: second time I've talked about this in the span of

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. That's how good a question it was.

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Speaker 1: Preston from Greater Columbus, Ohio. He said, what is a

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Speaker 1: fair but semi realistic way to allow fans to have

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Speaker 1: their interests directly represented in major college football? Decisions phenomenal question.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. I've got some suggestions, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. But I'll say this, there

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Speaker 1: is a mentality in college sports, especially college football, doubly

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Speaker 1: especially that exists right now. There's a mentality that is

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Speaker 1: so out of whack with reality, and it is that

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Speaker 1: of ignoring the consumer base because the consumer base is

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Speaker 1: taken for granted, because a lot of people have their

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Speaker 1: hands on the decision making lever in this sport that

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Speaker 1: came along well after college football was popularized. They came

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Speaker 1: along well after it exploded, well after it had become

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Speaker 1: the number two sport in this country, behind the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and only behind the NFL. These people aren't responsible for

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Speaker 1: building it. These people are merely responsible for guiding it.

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Speaker 1: You don't even need to grow it, just guide it

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Speaker 1: as is. If it grows, that's just a nice little

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Speaker 1: cherry on top. But we've had a good thing for

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Speaker 1: quite a while. A lot of us have loved this

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Speaker 1: sport for a long time. And yet the very people

486
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Speaker 1: who have loved the sport for a long time look

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Speaker 1: around and ask questions, like our boy from Greater Columbus, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: just did it's like, does anyone even listening to us?

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Speaker 1: Does anyone even care what we think? So let me

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Speaker 1: give you a little microcosm of this. Earlier today, I

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Speaker 1: was going back and forth about something kind of unrelated

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Speaker 1: to this, but I got a response. I got to

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Speaker 1: reply on Twitter that perfectly encapsulates the mood that I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. So earlier today I was talking about what

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Speaker 1: was it, something came up. I can't even remember what

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Speaker 1: it was. It was like access to spring practice or

497
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Speaker 1: depth charge, That's what it was. Bill Connolly was complaining

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Speaker 1: because there are several universities that still haven't posted their rosters,

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Speaker 1: which is so archaic, by the way, but that's how

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Speaker 1: college football exists. So Bill Connelly's trying to do the

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Speaker 1: S and P plus for this year. We're all sitting

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Speaker 1: here waiting on it. Everyone's waiting on it. Just please

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Speaker 1: put your rosters on your website. Side note, So I

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Speaker 1: retweeted it. I said something like college football is number

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Speaker 1: two sport in the country, and it's run with like

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Speaker 1: the operational transparency of a CIA black site. They treat

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Speaker 1: it like you're not supposed to know anything about what's

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Speaker 1: going on. It's none of your business. Who's on this roster. Well,

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Speaker 1: I said that, and a guy responded. David responded, and

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Speaker 1: he said, schools owe nothing to media and fans. Who

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Speaker 1: cares about rosters in March spoken like a circus elephant.

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Speaker 1: It's been cut free. It doesn't even know it can

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Speaker 1: run away. David, you don't need to carry water for

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Speaker 1: these people. And let me tell you something. The schools

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Speaker 1: do owe media and fans, especially the latter part of

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Speaker 1: that equation. They owe you everything. They don't owe you

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Speaker 1: that when it comes to the lit courses that they

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Speaker 1: offer at said university, but when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: football program that generates millions per year, or believe, they

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Speaker 1: owe you everything. You know why because you are the

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Speaker 1: millions that they generate, So I replied. I responded, and

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, David. Without distribution, media and consumption fans,

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Speaker 1: college athletics would really take off. College athletics would be

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Speaker 1: dead without fans and media. And media is a distant

525
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Speaker 1: second in that equation because neither of them exist if

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Speaker 1: the fan interest and engagement and support is not there.

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Speaker 1: They don't build one hundred thousand seat cathedrals to seed alumni.

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Speaker 1: I promise they don't, And they don't sign multi billion

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Speaker 1: dollar media rights deals just because those networks, out of

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Speaker 1: the kindness of their hearts, want to air those games.

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Speaker 1: They do those things because you exist. Everybody listening to

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Speaker 1: and watching this show exists. I exist. The dudes in

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Speaker 1: the control room exist. There's a microphone in front of me,

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Speaker 1: and we get to make a living talking about this

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Speaker 1: sport because interest exists. But does anyone to listen to you?

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Speaker 1: That was the question. And you remember that little roundtable

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Speaker 1: they had last Friday. You remember they had a lot

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Speaker 1: of administrative types up in Washington, DC. You got some

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Speaker 1: senators up there, you got the president up there, you

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Speaker 1: got Nick Sabe, and you got Urban Meyer. You've got

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Speaker 1: you got some high level boosters up there. You notice

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Speaker 1: what was absent? Players were absent. There were no players

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Speaker 1: up there. A lot of people pointed that out rightfully.

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Speaker 1: So no player representation. This is a farce. Who's gonna

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Speaker 1: speak up for the players? Well, you know, to take

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Speaker 1: that a step further, who speaks up for fans? Who

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Speaker 1: who's responsible for listening to fan feedback? You know what

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Speaker 1: they would say, You know what someone would say right now,

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Speaker 1: they'd look at you, dead serious, not a smile to

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Speaker 1: be found. They would look at you and they'd say, Josh,

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Speaker 1: we we do listen to the fans. And I'd say, really,

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Speaker 1: The first thing I would do is say, uh, why

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Speaker 1: why don't you echo their sentiment on a number of matters.

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Speaker 1: And they would stumble all over themselves because these people

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Speaker 1: don't live the life you live. They'll roll in the

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Speaker 1: same circles as you do to begin with. So they

557
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Speaker 1: certainly don't share your worldview on this sport. But I

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Speaker 1: don't even expect them to share the worldview. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: I would like them to listen every now and then.

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Speaker 1: I would like them to shut up for a second

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Speaker 1: and maybe care what the dude sitting in section two

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Speaker 1: thirty eight feels about this or that. But you know

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Speaker 1: what they would say instead. It could be a network executive,

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Speaker 1: it could be an athletic director. We could be talking

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Speaker 1: about any of a number of sweater vest types. Here.

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Speaker 1: Here's what they'd say. That's say, we do we promise

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Speaker 1: we listen to the fans. You know how we listen

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Speaker 1: to the fans. TV ratings, that's how we listen to

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Speaker 1: the fans. Yeah, we look at the numbers and we

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Speaker 1: see eleven million people watched Ohio state versus Nebraska. We

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Speaker 1: are listening to the fans. Obviously, If that many people

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Speaker 1: are watching, that mean we're doing a good job. And

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Speaker 1: to that, I ask you, how crowded is a prison

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575
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Speaker 1: always tell me when it comes to lack of options,

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Speaker 1: prison lunch rooms are sold out every single day doesn't

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Speaker 1: Just means it's the only one. And likewise, for anyone

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Speaker 1: who grew up on college football, you're not tapping out

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Speaker 1: of college football just because of some poor decision making.

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Speaker 1: But that also doesn't mean that you should have your

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Speaker 1: viewership taken for granted. So I would love as much

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Speaker 1: as people talk about players needing to be represented, as

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Speaker 1: much as we need player representation, man, a little good

585
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Speaker 1: old fashioned fan representation every now and then wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world. Maybe we need to

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Speaker 1: put a together a committee, Maybe we need joint hearings

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Speaker 1: on that. If I can find some free time, I

589
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Speaker 1: will even be happy to volunteer my services. They're watching

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Speaker 1: us in Summerville, Alabama, Midland, Texas, Marietta, Ohio is tuned

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Speaker 1: in appreciate you guys so much. I had a guy

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Speaker 1: hit me up earlier today from Middland, Texas, and he

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Speaker 1: you know, we conducted a certain high profile interview on

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Speaker 1: know anything about your show. I found out about your

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Speaker 1: show through said interview and he said, I hated it. However,

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Speaker 1: I've watched your content since then. I love everything else

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Speaker 1: about the show. Maybe that was our plan all along.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Dusty from Harrisburg, PA, producer Jesse Country as they

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Speaker 1: call it up there, He said, what are your early

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Speaker 1: Heisman thoughts? The value is probably now for some of

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Speaker 1: these guys, right well, yes, there is always value. Not

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Speaker 1: to give you an idea, FanDuel already has this up.

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Speaker 1: You can already go bet on this right now. I

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Speaker 1: know because I did earlier today. I'll even tell you

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Speaker 1: who I bet on in just a second. But first

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Speaker 1: what you should know is twelve of the top thirteen

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Speaker 1: guys in the Heisman odds arequarterbacks. Stands to reason right,

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Speaker 1: eight of the last ten winners or quarterbacks, and outside

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Speaker 1: of Travis Hunter, we had a pure wide receiver win

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Speaker 1: the thing in twenty twenty. That was Devonte Smith. We

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, mark Ingram in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: Outside of Alabama, non quarterbacks and Travis Hunter, who is

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Speaker 1: a two way player, nobody has won this thing outside

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Speaker 1: of the quarterback position in several years. So it's probably

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Speaker 1: going to be a quarterback, but then again probably is

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Speaker 1: not definitely. Therefore, if we're looking at value, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to find you some value down the board. Now. Bradley's

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Speaker 1: fashioned slider on the screen here. If you're listening on podcasts, though,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. It is my duty to inform you CJ. Carr,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Notre Dame, is the current odds favorite to win

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Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy. Do you think CJ. Car is going

625
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Speaker 1: to win the Heisman? Yes or no? It's not a tweet.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know why I said it that way.

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Speaker 1: It's not a poll. I guess you could put one

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Speaker 1: in the live chat. Yeah, okay, go ahead. I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we have no idea how that'll go. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I like it now, I do think I

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Speaker 1: like CJ. Carr. I think I like Notre Dame. I

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Speaker 1: may even pick him to win the national title. I

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Speaker 1: think CJ. Carr is going to be a wonderful player

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Speaker 1: this year. Here's the problem. If you're telling me he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the favorite, then I've got to believe that

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Speaker 1: he's gonna put up big enough numbers. Therefore, I've got

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Speaker 1: to believe they're going to be in games that require

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Speaker 1: them to call the kind of offensive game that sees

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Speaker 1: him put up big numbers. And I gotta be real

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00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: with you. I think Notre Dame's gonna splatter like eight

641
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: of their twelve opponents, and I just don't know that

642
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna put up big enough numbers. I don't see that,

643
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: and so I do not think CJ. Carr is my

644
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: pick here. I think out of the top ten, honestly,

645
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 1: Darien Menz is probably the best value that I see

646
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: because he's he's fourth out of all the returning quarterbacks

647
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: in the country this hy year in terms of passing

648
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: yards from a season ago, and he did that at Duke.

649
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: So he's gonna have better players around him, He's going

650
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: to be in a better system. They upgraded system and

651
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: skill well. Darien Mensa upgrades his surroundings. But also, if

652
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: you think about what Miami's losing defensively, maybe Miami needs

653
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: to score a little bit more this year, and not

654
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: quite cam Ward, please score fifty and then we'll hope

655
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: to only give up forty nine. Not gonna be like

656
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: that at all. Miami is going to be a national

657
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: title contender. We trust Corey Heatherman implicitly to put a

658
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: good defense on the field. Maybe it's not a great

659
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: defense though, and so maybe unlike CJ. Carr up in

660
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 1: South Bend, maybe they do need to keep the pedal

661
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: down all four quarters a vast majority of the season

662
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: at Miami. So I think Darien Men's is gonna have

663
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: a great year. And I look, they don't call me

664
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: FanDuel doesn't call me for consultation. But if they did,

665
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: I'd say bump him up a little bit now in

666
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: the eleven through twenty range, because we are talking about

667
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: value here. Heisman breakdown in March. What has become of

668
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: this show? Eleven two twenty range. Look at number eleven.

669
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: That's Brendan Sorosby plus two thousand odds. Let me sell

670
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: you on this idea for just a second. He's playing

671
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: for Texas Tech. In case some of you wandered away

672
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: and somehow you've come back to a college football show

673
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: in March, Welcome back. Brendan's Soresby no longer at Cincinnati,

674
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: He's at Texas Tech. Plus two thousand odds, eleventh in

675
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: the overall FanDuel heismanods. They're going to be favored in

676
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: all twelve games. So what we've learned in years past

677
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: is you kind of got to be nine and three

678
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: or better. Colorado had Travis Hunter win the thing. They

679
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: had nine wins. It's been a long time since any

680
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: player on any team worse than that won this thing

681
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. So I need a team that's going

682
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 1: to be good. I know Texas Tech's gonna be good.

683
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: I think their defense takes a little step back this year.

684
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: Still gonna be good, but maybe not great. They did

685
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: lose a lot of impact guys and they bring in

686
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: a quarterback in Brendan Soresby with dual thread ability, so

687
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in a lot of high profile games.

688
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna be favored and every single every single one

689
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: of them probably, and I think he's gonna put up

690
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: big numbers. So that's worth the roll of the dice there. Now,

691
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: I went with Johnttier last year, So really what I

692
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: could do is I could just call fan Duel and say, hey,

693
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: the ticket I had last year, I know it doesn't

694
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: transfer over. Just give me the same one again. Because

695
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: John Mattier is sixteenth in the odds right now at

696
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: plus thirty five hundred. And firstly, I already had one

697
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: finger up. He's gonna be healthy. I already read the spoiler.

698
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be healthy all year This year, we're

699
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: not doing the thumb thing again. We're done with that.

700
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: And it is his second year I say second year

701
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: in the system. It's really like his third year in

702
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: the system, but it's his second year at Oklahoma. He

703
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: so he knows his way around now, Jesse. He knows

704
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: his way around campus. You know, he knows all his

705
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: professors and professorras. So he's good. Now, he knows his restaurants,

706
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: he knows where to go. We're not to go. He

707
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: can't win Heisman in year one. It's it's too tough.

708
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: You can't win the Heisman in year one, but he

709
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: can in year two. And he's got several prime time games.

710
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's going to be in the spotlight. So who knows.

711
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: Maybe there's some value there, but that's not what we're

712
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: here for. We're not here to pick someone in the

713
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: top twenty. What we're here to do is we're here

714
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: to take a dart or in this case, an eak pen,

715
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: and we're trying to throw it all the way across

716
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: the room and at least four points. No, we want

717
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: a bullseye here. It has come to my attention that

718
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: Austin Mack of Alabama is plus three thousand odds to

719
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: win the Heisman Trophy this upcoming year. The reason this

720
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: is noteworthy is because there are some of us who

721
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: believe Keelan Russell's going to win the starting quarterback job

722
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Where is Keelan Russell at FanDuel? You might ask,

723
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: he is at plus eight thousand odds to win the Heisman.

724
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: I bet at an hour ago. So I am putting

725
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: my money where my mouth is here. Keilan Russell, if

726
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: he remains healthy, will not remain plus eight thousand, because

727
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: I think there's a more than reasonable shot he wins

728
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: the job. So, if you're a dynamic dual threat starting

729
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: quarterback at a place like Alabama, you're automatically going to

730
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 1: vault yourself up into the top twenty, probably top fifteen,

731
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: and then if he has a good first quarter of

732
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: the season, he'll be top ten and at that point

733
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: he's basically won the trophy. So that's the math, that's

734
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: the calculus. That's how I'm trying to figure this thing. Also,

735
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: if you don't want to go the quarterback route, if

736
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: you are anti quarterback, Bo Jackson is your guy. He

737
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: was in the eighties if you were anti quarterback, and

738
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: he is in twenty twenty six if you're anti quarterback. Now,

739
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: he's not playing at all Burn, He's playing at Ohio State.

740
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Good tailback, coming back, had a good year last year,

741
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: could have a great year this year. In case you

742
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: missed it, they just hired Author Smith as offensive coordinator

743
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: because they've just built a death star of a coaching

744
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: staff up there. That's kind of what Ryan Day does now.

745
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: So you've got a run first guy, plus that offensive

746
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: line plus this town at tailback. I think Bo Jackson

747
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: at plus ten thousand odds is okay. And if you

748
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:09,479
Speaker 1: want to go receiver, Cam Coleman's plus ten thousand odds too. Jesse,

749
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: do you think that's going to stay at plus ten

750
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: thousand if we keep reading these practice reports. I'm not

751
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: saying he's vaulting into the top twenty. I think cam Coleman,

752
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: who is at this point less than an alien but

753
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: more than a man, I think he will vault up

754
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: the Heisman odds board too. So that's his thorough a

755
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,479
Speaker 1: Heisman breakdown as I have ever done at any point

756
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: in the season, much less March. So please don't ask me,

757
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: at least for another month. We move on. Hmmm. Pain

758
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: from Richland Hills, Texas, he said, you know what, I

759
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: gotta get the town right. I gotta hit the town right. No, no, no, no.

760
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: Pain from North Richland Hills, Texas said, what do you

761
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 1: remember about the Johnny Manzel era at Texas A and

762
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: M Well, everything, I remember everything. This was a very

763
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: formidable time in my college football upbringing. I had just

764
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: started talk radio. They had just put me on radio

765
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: for free. But they had just put me on radio

766
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: in Columbus this season right here, the twenty twelve season.

767
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: So the first time that I ever got to professionally

768
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: talk about anything, the first time someone put me on

769
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: a microphone where my company could be sued if I

770
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: said the wrong thing was when Johnny Manziel was making

771
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: his run. So you could argue that Johnny Manzel in

772
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: my careers have basically paralleled each other. It's what I'm

773
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: trying to say. Yeah, so that game where he beat

774
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: Alabama was the first time I realized how much money

775
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: there was to be made when someone beats Alabama because

776
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: that following Monday and Tuesday. I've never seen phone lines

777
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: light up like that. So here's what happened. Johnny Manziel

778
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: rewrote narratives on what was possible. I hate the word narrative.

779
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: I use it like five times per year, but it

780
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: really fits here. So there was you remember when were

781
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: talking about Urban Meyer the other night. From a coaching perspective,

782
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: and there was like this existence that the SEC had

783
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: for a long time, and there was like what would work,

784
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 1: what wouldn't work, and then something that they thought would

785
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: not work, a coach from Utah coming in and dominating.

786
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: That happened. So then it changed everything about what people

787
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: thought could and couldn't work at the coaching position. Well,

788
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel was that at the quarterback position. This is

789
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: mind you, just a few years is a couple of

790
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: years after the Cam Newton year at Auburn, So people

791
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: had already had their confidence rattled a little bit about

792
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 1: their worldviews down there down here, and then Johnny Manziel happens.

793
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: And the second thing I remember about it is he

794
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: didn't flash on the scene like it was a slow

795
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: build now an M. Folks like he was the talk

796
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: of the early part of the season down there, and

797
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: people like us who watch all of the games, like

798
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: we saw him against Louisiana Tech go off and you're

799
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, Dude, this kid at Texas A and

800
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: m's insane. Are you seeing what he's doing? But the

801
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: rest of the country, you know, that group of the

802
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: more casual crowd that watches two or three big games

803
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: per week, if that they're thinking about it like it's

804
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: a novelty act, because everybody's mind worked the same way

805
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: back then. If you're doing anything of note offensively. In

806
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: the SEC, all people did was they pulled up your

807
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: schedule and they said, do they play yep, they play Alabama.

808
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: That'll be where that ends. And so come November, Johnny

809
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: Manziel and Texas A and M go into Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

810
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: It was a game changing moment in the league. It

811
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: was a game changing moment for Texas, A and M.

812
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: I say it was a game changing moment for Alabama.

813
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 1: Just you look at those rosters. A couple of years later,

814
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: there weren't any more two hundred and fift pound linebackers

815
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: on Alabama's roster. They were all Rashaun Evans. They were

816
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: all like two hundred and fifteen, two twenty. It's because

817
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: they witnessed what it was like to try and chase

818
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: a guy like this around, and they wanted none of it.

819
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: And the league was really changing. And then everyone tried

820
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: to find their Johnny Manziel and they failed to varying degrees,

821
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: but still it kind of changed the entire worldview that

822
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people had in the SEC. But I

823
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: just remember then when that happened, it was an earthquake,

824
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 1: and that Bama team went on to win the national

825
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: title anyway, but no one even remembers that. When they

826
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: talk about that game, they talk about from that point

827
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: on Johnny Manzel being a rock star, And I don't

828
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: know how else to describe it. There have been a

829
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: few players. Tebow was one, Cam Newton was one. Johnny

830
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: Manziel was one I would say. In LSU's twenty nineteen year,

831
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow became this to a tongue of Iloa. Was

832
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,240
Speaker 1: this guys that had like legit rock star vibe about

833
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: them when they showed up places you just would have

834
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: had to have lived it. We should have gotten Lucci

835
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: on Skype. We should have just I should just call

836
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: him right now, put him on speaker. Hey, ten best

837
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: Manziel stories, Billy, First off, how many of them are

838
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: from the past five years? No, I want you to

839
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: tell me stories from twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. So anyway,

840
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: that year happens in twenty twelve. He didn't go to

841
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: the draft. He had a whole another year. Now in

842
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: a perfect fairytale world, in a world where this is animated,

843
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: and we are commissioning Disney to license this movie that

844
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: we're writing. Johnny Manziel's a model citizen. Johnny Manziel's got

845
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: his head on straight. Okay. Johnny Manziel is a very

846
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: very forward thinking old soul, and he handles all the

847
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: success with the measured approach that a full grown adult would.

848
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: This is not an animated movie. Johnny Manziel is all

849
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: over the place, Johnny Manziel was if you've ever just

850
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: watched a firework show, that was him personified. And there

851
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: were all sorts of off the field incidents. Remember the

852
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: whole autograph thing. He's like, nil, but ten years too early.

853
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: So I mean, Manziel's running a full autograph ring. You know,

854
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: he dared to make money off his name, image and likeness.

855
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: That's a no, no, can't have that ten years ago, twelve?

856
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: What is that like? Fifteen years ago? Now, can't have that.

857
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: Let's see, he missed the rice game, A and M

858
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: somehow still managed to handle food, but without Johnny Manziel.

859
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: And then he came back and they had another big

860
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: year in twenty thirteen. But I just remember how big

861
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: a deal it was covering Johnny Manziel from an off

862
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: field perspective, Like, I had never witnessed anything like that

863
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: because Tebou was a choir boy quite literally when he

864
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: was at Florida, so there was never any extracurricular stuff.

865
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: The Cam Newton year at Auburn, yeah, that was crazy.

866
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: I wasn't in sports media at all, so I watched

867
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: that as a fan, but you know, you never quote

868
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: unquote covered it. So Manziel that run he had. I

869
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: remember it selfishly because that was the first time I

870
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 1: was ever calling myself covering college football in some small way.

871
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: But I always ask about him, what would it have

872
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: been like if he were born ten years later? What

873
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: would it have been like instead of twenty twelve and

874
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen it was twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three.

875
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: You know, in a different world where things are legal,

876
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: where things are allowed, where things are encouraged. How much

877
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: money would he have made? For that matter, You could

878
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: throw Cam and Tebou in there as well, like how

879
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: much money would they have made if they came along

880
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: fifteen years later. But then the other part of it is,

881
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: and you have to have been in College Station Texas

882
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: prior to Manzel to respect this, he like fundamentally overhauled

883
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: College Station Texas. If you look at Texas A and M,

884
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: especially from a campus slash facility standpoint, pre Manzel and

885
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: post Manziel, I don't even know if you could put

886
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: a dollar figure on it, nine figures, ten figures. I

887
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: have no idea what kind of dollar figure you put

888
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: on it. But to look at the impact he had

889
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: on the mentality of the way they view themselves, Like

890
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: when Texas A and M looks in the mirror, what

891
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: they thought was possible, what they thought they should be,

892
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: how they should carry themselves. It changed, cause a one, dude,

893
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: it changed. That's what I remember. I guess I should

894
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: be doing that. Yeah, that's what I remember about Johnny Manziel. Crazy,

895
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: feel like he's lived five lifetimes. Just an amazing time.

896
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: Let's move on. We had a question about the staff.

897
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Eddie from fair Hope, Alabama. I'm going

898
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: to be doing some speaking down in fair Hope later

899
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: this summer, Eddie. It's a closed event. I shouldn't have

900
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: promoted it, but yeah, I'm gonna be down there, beautiful

901
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: part of the country. I wish you could join me anyway,

902
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: Eddie asked. We've heard about Jesse and Bradley, but now

903
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm hearing about Pres and Mitchell. I've never called Mitchell

904
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: by his full name. So you've heard about Pres and Mitch.

905
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: Can you give us the background on your staff, immunity

906
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: his word, not mine, and how they came to work

907
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: with you? Yeah, I can't. PRES's name is Pres, Mitch's

908
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: name is Mitch. They were at twenty four seven, they

909
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 1: were over at CBS when we were working over there,

910
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: and what we would do, so what producer Jesse and

911
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: I would do is we would put the show together

912
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: a vast majority of it ourselves. But then you know

913
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: what we kind of did is we, for lack of

914
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: a better term, commissioned some of the staff there that

915
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 1: we thought we may trust to touch our show, and

916
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: indirectly we were giving them job interviews, but we couldn't

917
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 1: call it that for legal reasons, and so we would

918
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: let people hate, Hey, do you want to help out

919
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: with the show. Some of them would say no, that's cool,

920
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: and then some of them would say yeah, okay, And

921
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: some of them were good and some of them were

922
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: not as good. But what we found was, so Bradley

923
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 1: was there, but we've already talked about Bradley, so no

924
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: one even asked about Bradley, and Jesse was there, but

925
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: of course no one asked about Jesse either, So you're

926
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: asking about President Mitch. I realized probably about six months

927
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: before we left that we were gonna leave, that we

928
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: were gonna do the show like this, We were gonna

929
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: go about it independently, and so kind of floated the opportunity.

930
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: You guys want to come with us. There are no guarantees.

931
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: I can tell you what you're gonna make. That's about it.

932
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: No guarantees, and they jumped at the opportunity, and they

933
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: have good instincts. That's why we even trusted them to

934
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 1: touch the product. They are available, meaning and this is

935
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: a very very popular buzzword out there. Availability means stepping

936
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: up when someone needs you to do something. That's basically

937
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: the long and short of that. It is the most

938
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: precious commodity, especially in our world, is the ability to

939
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: just be available. That doesn't take any talent, by the way,

940
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 1: but they're always that they're trustworthy, so we implicitly trust

941
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: them to touch every aspect of the show. They take

942
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: ownership in the brand. And look, when you come from

943
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: the corporate media world, you got a couple of different

944
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 1: kinds of people. Neither of them are bad, they're just different.

945
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: You've got some folks who really want to clock in,

946
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: clock out and be part of the machine and understand

947
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,720
Speaker 1: that if they didn't come to work for a week,

948
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: the machine wouldn't fail. There may be some papers that

949
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: stack up, but in the grand scheme of things, there's

950
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: not a lot of pressure on that job. It's good pay.

951
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: And there are those kinds of people. Those aren't the

952
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: kind of people you build a new business with. The

953
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: Other kinds of people are the ones who constantly feel

954
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: boxed in, And I am not speaking about their specific

955
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: situation that they were in. I'm speaking generically about this

956
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 1: entire industry. Those kinds of people, the people who are

957
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 1: like balling their fist up to want to create on

958
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: their own or be part of a creative process and

959
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 1: to take ownership. Those are the ones where you don't

960
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: have to hit the gas on them. You got to

961
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: constantly pump the brakes on them. Those are the kinds

962
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: that you take to start a new company. So we

963
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: took him with us, and they have flourished to show

964
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: has grown. They'll end up making a ton of money

965
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: because of it. We don't have a huge staff here

966
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: because we got the people on the staff that understand

967
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: how to get the job done. And it's not that

968
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: we would never add to the staff, will end up

969
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: needing to add to the staff, but it is not

970
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 1: an easy door to get into by the very design

971
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: of how we built the door. So that's President Mitch.

972
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: Give him around of applause. Not here, but you know, in

973
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: your own free time, give him around of applause. Let's move

974
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: on Jerry in Norman, Oklahoma. Who has the best wide

975
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:39,240
Speaker 1: receiver room in twenty twenty six? Well, Jerry, I wrote

976
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: down five teams. I am not going to go in

977
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: any particular order here because it's March, so I don't

978
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: have to. But I think Oregon's way up here. Decoryan

979
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: Moore having him back, Jeremiah McClellan having them both return.

980
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: Evan Stewart. We spent the latter portion of last year

981
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: thinking every week we were going to see him in

982
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: a practice report. We never did well. Maybe in twenty

983
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: twenty six we see him. But they added iverson Hooks

984
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: from UAB. That's nearly a one thousand yard receiving guy

985
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: last year, and there's several young guys on that team.

986
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: So I think Oregon absolutely has a top five wide

987
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: receiver room. I think Ohio State is up here every year,

988
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: and there's no reason they shouldn't be up here again. Yes,

989
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith is back, Yes, Brandon Ennis is back, but

990
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: Devin McEwan from UTSA comes in. Seven hundred and twenty

991
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,280
Speaker 1: six yard receiving guy last year plus you're just plugging

992
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: him into Ohio States offense. So I trust that they're

993
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,959
Speaker 1: going to be productive. Chris Henry immediate plug and play

994
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: impact guy. I think also legend Bay true freshman, been

995
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: the talk of camp up there. Ohio State's always going

996
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: to have like one or two freak shows that you

997
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: look at and you say, oh, I remember him from recruiting. WHOA,

998
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: he's good. So that's Ohio State. So they're in there.

999
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: I think Texas is going to be in here. Now.

1000
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: We already talked about cam Coleman tonight, but you're gonna

1001
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: be talking about him a lot between now and fall.

1002
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 1: Ryan Wing goes there, probably the most overqualified wide receiver

1003
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 1: two in college football, and both of them very versatile,

1004
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: can do a lot of different things with them in

1005
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: this offense. But EMMITTT. Moseley's there, and then there's just

1006
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: this laundry list of underclassmen. Don't know which of them

1007
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: are going to end up being the impact guy, but

1008
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: they'll be a fourth guy out of that group that

1009
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: just end up. You know, you'll hear the first scrimmage

1010
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: of fall camp, second scrimmage of fall camp, same guy

1011
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: stands out both scrimmages and then lo and behold, he's

1012
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: on the field Week one. I expect that to happen.

1013
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: I just don't know who it's going to be. I

1014
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: think Miami's got to be in here as well. We

1015
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: debated this pretty heavily. I think Miami's got to be

1016
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: in there, firstly because Malachai Toni is back in his

1017
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: second year. And secondly, Cooper bar Kate came to Miami

1018
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: from Duke, and you may be thinking to yourself, Oh no, no, no, no,

1019
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: you got him mixed up with the quarterback. No no no.

1020
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,720
Speaker 1: Darien Mensa came there from Duke. Yeah, they both did.

1021
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: Lost in all this translation is Duke's leading receiver also

1022
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: transferred to Miami. I didn't see it get a lot

1023
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: of run. But Cooper Barcade is down there and Joshua

1024
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: Moore potential breakout guy. They've got some good depth from

1025
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: the portal. And you know who they got thrown the

1026
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: ball to him, So I didn't even mention not Jacob.

1027
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think Miami is going to be a

1028
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,760
Speaker 1: top five receiver room this year. I had a number

1029
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: of teams I could put in the fifth slot. I

1030
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: could put Indiana here, I could put Oklahoma, there, A

1031
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: and M. I would buy Clemson, I would buy I

1032
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:39,240
Speaker 1: could sell you on Notre Dame. But I put Florida

1033
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: in the fifth spot because I believe that it's the

1034
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 1: most underrated wide receiver room in the country. So Vernell

1035
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: Brown's there, Dallas Wilson in year two. Eric Singleton is

1036
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: really the key to all this to me, because if

1037
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: he ends up becoming what some people thought he could become,

1038
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: transferring from Georgia Tech to Auburn, if that just gets

1039
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 1: delayed a year, and I think it will. Of course,

1040
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: given health of all these guys, I think he's gonna

1041
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: explode this year. TJ. Abrams Stockton. There's a lot of

1042
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: blue chip depth here, so I think that if they

1043
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: do nothing else down there, John Somerrawl's got to put

1044
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 1: me a top five wide receiver room on the field

1045
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: this year. Making sure I didn't leave anybody out. Yeah,

1046
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean I could say Clemson could easily be in

1047
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: this group. They easily could. A and M could be

1048
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: their Indiana, Notre Dame, Oklahoma. So yeah, it was. It

1049
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: was really a hard fought contest to land the number

1050
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 1: five spot. Breaking news, It's not really breaking news. FanDuel

1051
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: has informed us. I guess this is kind of breaking news.

1052
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 1: I got this news like five minutes before the show.

1053
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: So FanDuel has informed us the conference tournaments are going on.

1054
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: That's not the breaking news. The breaking news is that

1055
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament happens shortly thereafter. That's also not the

1056
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: breaking news, come to think of it. The breaking news

1057
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: is that if you mosey on over to FanDuel right now,

1058
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Speaker 1: Let's end with this. Everybody seems to be in a

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00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: good mood tonight, got a big weekend coming up. But

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00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: what's the mood at USC? We've been doing the mood

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00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: Tracker in spring, what's the mood of the fanbase? And

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00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: tonight we decided to spend the needle It landed on

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Speaker 1: USC and we all know Lincoln Riley watches every show

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00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: and he's probably pretty curious. He's been bunkeerd in, he's

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00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: been getting ready for spring practice. He's probably wondering, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what do my fans think of me? You think Lincoln

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00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: Riley's wondering that I think he is. And so here

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00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: is the official mood right now. This is certified. This

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00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: is the official mood for USC fans entering twenty twenty six.

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00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: I call the mood payday mood, not the candy bar,

1098
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 1: not even the loose concept of you getting a physical

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00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: paycheck or a direct deposit every two weeks into your account.

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00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 1: Not that kind of payday, the kind of payday where

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you needed some fast cash. Maybe

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00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: you took out a loan, and maybe it's time to

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00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: repay that loan, and maybe maybe the bank or maybe

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00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: even you know, back in the day, maybe a dude

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00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: named Freddy, maybe a bookie from around the way, comes

1106
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: over and just kind of not so subtly let you know, hey,

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00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: you remember that money I loaned you. It's due back.

1108
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: I want it plus interest. And that's kind of the

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00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 1: vibe around USC fandom right now. USC fans were ecstatic

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00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: when Lincoln Riley got hired there four I guess five

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00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: years ago now, and he went eleven and three in

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00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: his first year, and you're thinking, oh, this is the floor. WHOA, well,

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00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't it. So far it's been the ceiling. But

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00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: they didn't bay on him. They didn't and they didn't

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01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: even bail on him after year two, eight and five. Okay,

1116
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: we regressed. We got to find our way in this

1117
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: post Caleb Williams World of Ours. We got to find

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01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: our way. And then it was seven and six and

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01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: that was uh o time and nine and four. Last

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01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: year mathematically was the beginning maybe of an upswing, a

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01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: little bit more of an upward trajectory, but it didn't

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01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: really include many high points. The season didn't include many

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01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: high points. And so people are looking around and I

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01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: don't blame him for feeling this way, and they said,

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01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: hold up, now, we were all bought in. We want

1126
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: to return on that emotional investment or just maybe our

1127
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: outright financial investment. If you're running USC, if you're a

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01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: season ticket holder, maybe it's time for you to collect,

1129
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: and for you to collect. Lincoln Riley's got to deliver. Now.

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01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: The bad news is they're sixteen and ten in conference

1131
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: play in Big Ten play since he's been there. The

1132
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: good news is, I think there's a solid path for

1133
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: it to get better this year. I fully expect the

1134
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: USC to be in the playoff conversation this year. So,

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01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: putting all my cards on the table, I'm kind of

1136
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: high on their possibility this year. And they don't start

1137
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: off with this Murderer's Roe September. But when Oregon comes

1138
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: in there to the Coliseum September twenty sixth, that's the

1139
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: first time you'll watch a USC game unless you're a

1140
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 1: Southern Calf fan. That's the first time you'll watch them

1141
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: this year, Okay, and then they go to Penn State

1142
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: in early October. I don't want to overlook Washington, Okay,

1143
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: So Washington comes in there as well Sandwich Spot, and

1144
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: then they go to Penn State on October tenth. That's

1145
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: probably the next time you'll see them. But they get

1146
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: Ohio State at home as well. They go to Indiana

1147
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: in November on my sister's birthday, no less. So it's

1148
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: not an easy schedule. But here's the thing. We're one, two, three, four,

1149
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: five years in now. This is the University of Southern California. Okay,

1150
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: this is not the kind of outfit that should need

1151
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: a navigable schedule. They shouldn't need nine layups and then

1152
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: kind of hope the coin flips go their way. USC

1153
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: should be a problem for other folks because they're on

1154
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: their schedule. That's how it should be. Half a decade

1155
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: in to the Lincoln Riley tenure, now there are a

1156
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: lot of context clues, not at context clues. There's a

1157
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 1: lot of context piece that needs to be put in here,

1158
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: Like two years ago when he kind of did the

1159
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: program reset. This is old hat. Now we've talked about

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Speaker 1: this a lot on the show. But like I said,

1161
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Speaker 1: if I'm a USC fan, I'm making my decision right there,

1162
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: and I'm either saying nope, I'm giving this dude no leeway.

1163
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: He screwed up. He should never have brought Alex Grinch

1164
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: with him. He should never have had that bad a

1165
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 1: defensive staff here, so he doesn't get to hit reset

1166
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: in year three. I either need to think that or

1167
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: I need to say, Okay, he made some imperfect moves.

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01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna grant him the leeway. I'm gonna give him

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Speaker 1: the equity. He's saying that he's going to reset this program,

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01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: He's going to redefine the identity of this program. I

1171
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: know that's not going to happen overnight. So if I'm

1172
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: going to grant him this, he's got to get a

1173
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: minimum two more years runway. If you're in the ladder camp,

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01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: this is the year where you got to get your result. Now,

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01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 1: if you were in the former camp, you've already just

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01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 1: boycotted and stopped watching. But if you're in the ladder camp,

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Speaker 1: which I think most reasonable people would have been, it

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01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: is totally fair for you to have high expectations this year.

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01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: It is totally fair for you to say, if USC

1180
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 1: does not make the playoff this year, this guy has

1181
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: failed as the head coach here. I don't think that's unfair.

1182
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: He's got a third year quarterback. They just landed the

1183
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: top recruiting class in the country, And while that's not

1184
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: immediately indicative of how this year should go on the field,

1185
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: it is a sign that the energy's changed there. Everything

1186
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: off the field is very buzzworthy. Everything off the field

1187
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: feels pretty good. Off the field doesn't matter if the

1188
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: on field results don't follow. So this is the year.

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01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,919
Speaker 1: It's time Lincoln Riley's gotten the pay day. It's time

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01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: for the fan base to get the payday. And that

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01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: is how we conclude the USC Mood Tracker. That's also

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Speaker 1: how we conclude the show tonight. Look, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff you could be doing in March. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking an hour or so to watch the show.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the show. Please make sure you are subscribed

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll be back here Sunday nights.

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Speaker 1: Until then for director Bradley, Producer Jesse. I'm Josh Bate.

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