1 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: All right, welcome in lakeg Is Live. 2 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, September third, the year of more 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: Lord twenty twenty. We have a jam packed show. So 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: mad at myself right now. Here's a little behind the scenes, 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: a little inside baseball. When it comes to YouTube, if 6 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: you run a channel, and I am tasked with running 7 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: our twenty four to seven sports YouTube channel, and you 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 2: post more than three videos within a twenty four hour period, 9 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: YouTube says, mmm, that's too many videos. We're not sending 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: out notifications to your subscribers for twenty four hours. Well 11 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: guess what I did over the past twenty four hours. 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: I posted one too many videos. So if you look 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: at this traffic on the live version and it looks 14 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: like a little bit down compared to normal, it's because 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 2: it is. Most of you are probably watching the replay 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: later tonight or tomorrow because you didn't get notified, because well, 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 2: I screwed up. 18 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: So thank you. Anyway, we've got a huge show tonight. 19 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: Aside from this huge numbers this week, you guys have 20 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 2: come from all over the place. I have had conservatively 21 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: dozens to more like one hundreds or hundreds of emails 22 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: about finding the show for the first time listening to 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: the podcast for the first time, loving that we just 24 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 2: we do this crazy thing around here. We just talk 25 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: about college football. It's crazy, and then we leave whatever 26 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 2: we believe outside of football. 27 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: Sort of outside the door. And it works. 28 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: Believe it or not, it works. So we got a 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: jam Pack show tonight. There is smoke out of the 30 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 2: Big Ten rumblings. Could we have something happening this weekend. 31 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: We'll discuss momentarily. The SEC East seems like it at 32 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: the very least has had the reset button hit on it, 33 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: if not turned completely upside down with the opt out 34 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 2: of Jamie Newman at Georgia. We've got intel from several 35 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 2: fall camps the very latest. We try and design this 36 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: show to where after you come here and you watch 37 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: it or you listen to it, you were totally caught 38 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: up with everything you need to know in the world 39 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 2: of college football. And Nick Saban's putting on a free clinic. 40 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: I hope you guys have your notepads out, because man, 41 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: he's doing a heck of a job in Tuscaloosa. Not 42 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 2: that that's not already known, but in particular in twenty twenty, 43 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 2: even though we haven't played a football game. Yet a 44 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 2: lot going on there, and a lot going on in general. 45 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: So thank you so much. Subscribe if you having already 46 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: give us five star reviews on the podcast, and let's 47 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 2: get to work here. 48 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: Smoke out of the Big Ten. Is something brewing in 49 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 1: the Big Ten? 50 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: A lot of noise going on really over the last month, 51 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 2: but in particular over the last twenty four to forty 52 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 2: eight hours since you and I last spoke. A lot 53 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: going on in the Big Ten. Now, let me tell you. 54 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 2: Let me just kind of cut through all the noise 55 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: and ask this question. It's the entire premise for everything 56 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 2: we're talking about here. It's all I care about. Can 57 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: you find a way to play football by mid October? 58 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: That's all I care about. I don't care about a 59 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving start. I don't care about a January start. To 60 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: be honest, I don't think the latter would even happen. 61 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 2: I care about, and most Big Ten fans care about 62 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: starting a football season with everybody on board, or with 63 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 2: seventy five percent of them on board by early to 64 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: mid October. Can we do it? Can you get it done? 65 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: So with that as the backdrop, let's get into it. 66 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 2: It is very obvious things are still contentious up there. 67 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: It is very obvious there are two very distinct camps 68 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 2: we should play and we can safely play versus the 69 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: We're not going to change it for whatever reason crowd. 70 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 2: Dave Biddle last night on buttnuts dot Com, that is 71 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: our twenty four to seven sports Ohio state site, posted 72 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: that tentatively and he was hearing this. As of last night, 73 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: presidents and chancellors in the Big ten had and I 74 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: want to stress this word, tentatively agreed on a revote 75 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: to take place at some point in the very very 76 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: near future end of this week, which we're pretty close 77 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: to weekend early next week. 78 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: No one's hadn't. 79 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: Really, when something's tentative, you can't have many details nailed down. 80 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: Now. 81 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: The same reputable people that I've kind of learned to 82 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: follow in the Big Ten have cautiously suggested yes, along 83 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: with Dave Biddle. 84 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: Sort of here in the same things. 85 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: I know a lot of you have heard Dan Patrick 86 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 2: say similar things, but just as much as you've heard that, 87 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: you also have, For instance, CBS Sports Dennis Dodd today 88 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: on Twitter. No immediate plan for presidents to meet, per 89 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 2: multiple sources, one source going as far as to say 90 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: to Dennis Dodd, October twelfth ain't happening. October twelfth an 91 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: important date because a lot of people suggest that October 92 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 2: tenth or twelfth tenth, I think is a Saturday, is 93 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 2: the latest you could start a Big ten season up 94 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 2: there and still kind of work your way into the 95 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 2: stream that everyone else is swimming in, and that stream leading. 96 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: To a college football playoff. 97 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: So that's why I'm asking, as the backdrop again, can 98 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 2: we get something started by early to mid October. 99 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: That's what's most important. 100 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 2: It is to me personally, mind boggling that we're still 101 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: having this debate. 102 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: That's to me personally should be noted. 103 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 2: Central Arkansas and UAB are set to play I think tonight, 104 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 2: maybe kicking off even as we speak, zero positives this week. 105 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 2: Central four or Central Arkansas had a game last week week. 106 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 2: Seems like about twenty four hours ago they had a game, 107 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 2: zero positives. They're finding a way to do it, so 108 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: that could be anecdotal. I think it's noteworthy. That's why 109 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: I'm presented here. I am willing to forget everything, all 110 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 2: the criticism that you could have about backtracking and waffling, 111 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: forget all that you get this thing off the ground 112 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 2: in early to mid October. I'm willing to forget everything, 113 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 2: eraser to the chalkboard, and. 114 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: Let's just go with the season. Now. 115 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 2: As for what I think about all this, I think 116 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: something's happening. 117 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: I think that's pretty obvious to me. 118 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 2: There is too much smoke from people who are very 119 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 2: dialed in in the Big Ten to believe that. 120 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: Nothing's going on behind the scenes. 121 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: Now all the while, what has been going on and 122 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 2: what has served is I think the impetus behind a 123 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: lot of this is the lawsuit in Nebraska. People who 124 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: are dialed in on this know to pay attention. We 125 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 2: suggested to you as soon as that thing was filed. 126 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 2: The feedback we were getting from folks in the Big 127 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 2: Ten was pay attention to this lawsuit in Nebraska. Now, 128 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 2: if you haven't been paying attention, the most recent development 129 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 2: there was, the Big Ten was told you got ten 130 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: days to provide in discovery. What they're asking for, and 131 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: most notably what they're having to provide is they're having 132 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 2: to provide an account of what actually happened, what transpired, 133 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: How did you arrive at the decision you did, who voted, how? 134 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: And you don't have to really reveal who. But you 135 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: have to provide this documentation. All this stuff's supposed to 136 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: be recorded. So you got a sworn affidavit here that 137 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 2: says there was a vote taken. Yet you got multiple 138 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: ads up there that have gone into the media and said, 139 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: or we don't think a vote did happen. 140 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: We don't know if a vote happened, So provide that. 141 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: We want some clarity. 142 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 2: And I don't think it's any coincidence that as that 143 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: comes down, you sort of get this reinvigorated notion from 144 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 2: behind the scenes that maybe we're considering a revote in 145 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 2: the Big Ten. So a few things could be true here, 146 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 2: no way to know. I think it is about as 147 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 2: luid and as solid right now as trying to nail 148 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 2: jello to the wall. I think one of these things 149 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: could be in play. The first thing is, for whatever reason, 150 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 2: the Big Ten and the powers that be there, the 151 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 2: presidents and chancellors, they could be terrified at what that 152 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 2: discovery process could reveal. 153 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: I don't know why that would be. 154 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: I don't have to know for them to be terrified, 155 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: though it should be noted one of the conditions of 156 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 2: this lawsuit, if you reinstate this season, we're dropping it translation. 157 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: What we normally would have revealed in Discovery doesn't get revealed. 158 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: So whatever that would be is whatever that would be. 159 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: But it could be that somebody up. 160 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 2: There, or many people up there, are worried enough about 161 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: what would come out in Discovery that they're willing to 162 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 2: overturn their decision to start the season. That's one possibility. 163 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: Another possibility is they could have decided exactly as they 164 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 2: had suggested to postpone the season, they just didn't do 165 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: it with proper protocol, And so this is to close 166 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 2: all the loopholes and just make sure the proper protocols 167 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: are followed. And it may be that they are at 168 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 2: the same conclusion. I can't say that that is a 169 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 2: definite impossibility, so therefore, by default it is a possibility. 170 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 2: Maybe this entire thing is to decide to start in 171 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 2: late November or January. 172 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: Hope not, but maybe that's the case. 173 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 2: But all the while, I think people with some common 174 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: sense about themselves are rightfully asking if this is true. 175 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: And you've got varying opinions out there as to whether 176 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: this is even happening. But if this is true, if 177 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 2: the Bucknuts report and Dave Biddle's report is true, and 178 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 2: there is a revote that is getting set to take 179 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 2: place in the Big Ten about restarting the season. Would 180 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 2: they really allow that to be publicized only to arrive 181 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 2: at the same conclusion that they did the first time. 182 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: That's tough. It would be very tough to swallow. Now. 183 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: With that in mind, I think the biggest surprise of 184 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 2: the day was not that a bunch of blue check 185 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 2: marks in the college football media sphere were fooled by 186 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: a report that a five year old should have seen 187 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 2: through that thirty five percent of Penn State foot all 188 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 2: players that had tested positive for COVID also showed signs 189 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: of myocarditis. Yes, that's right, folks, that was circulating this morning, 190 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 2: and people with college degrees and fully functioning brains actually 191 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 2: allowed themselves to be fooled into believing what has since 192 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: been a debunked report by the person who released it himself, 193 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 2: a doctor at Penn State. 194 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: But it really didn't matter. 195 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: Common sense didn't matter because there's an agenda being pushed 196 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 2: really on both sides here, and so that wasn't the 197 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 2: big surprise because the folks who are being dunked on 198 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 2: this afternoon for falling for that get dunked on every 199 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 2: day for a variety of things. What surprised me today 200 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: was the governor of Michigan doing a hard onein eighty 201 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 2: on her opinion as to whether high school and college 202 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 2: football should be played in her state up there, and high 203 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: school football is about to go off now, September seventeenth, 204 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 2: I want to say, is the date that they're going 205 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 2: to get started with high school football in Michigan. It 206 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 2: has been rumored that Michigan and the political scenes behind 207 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 2: football in Michigan were one of the main roadblocks in 208 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: this entire process. If that's true, I have to believe 209 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 2: only good news could come from the governor's reversal today 210 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 2: when it comes to high school football in the state 211 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 2: of Michigan. The other thing to watch late this afternoon 212 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 2: from the West coast is the PAC twelve, Larry Scott 213 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 2: and company out there coming forward and saying we think 214 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 2: we have a breakthrough. We think we really have made 215 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: strides in testing here. Don't know how readily we'll be 216 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 2: able to clear the final hurdles necessary for us to 217 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 2: take the field. But here's all that I and some 218 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 2: of you heard when that news. 219 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: Came out today. You heard really good news. 220 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 2: Okay, that's good news on the surface, but behind the scenes, 221 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: what it could mean and what it could tempt a 222 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 2: lot of people, And I hope this doesn't happen, but 223 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 2: what it could tempt some people into Big ten to 224 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 2: do is Okay, well, let's find common ground here, happy medium. 225 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 2: We're not going to wait till the spring, but we're 226 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 2: also not going to start October tenth. Let's try and 227 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: marry up with the Pac twelve and let's go for 228 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 2: our Thanksgiving start and kind of we'll just play our 229 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 2: seasons in a parallel fashion, and we'll have a good 230 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 2: old fashioned February Rose Bowl, which I don't think a 231 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 2: whole lot of people would be crazy about. So let's hope. 232 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 2: Let's hope. I'm not necessarily saying it's even against hope. 233 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 2: Let's just hope that what is rumored to be taking 234 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 2: place this weekend is something that actually takes place this weekend, 235 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 2: because I think it is pastime for common sense to 236 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 2: prevail in the Big ten. 237 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. 238 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 2: We had a big breaking news day yesterday, and my goodness, 239 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 2: did you guys watch that video that Jamie Newman video 240 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 2: Colin yesterday, I text him. I said, hey, Jamie Newman 241 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: opted out, and yeah, I guess he thought I was joking. 242 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I would have thought I was joking if 243 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 2: I didn't look at it in front of me. But 244 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 2: I said, man, let's get a video up. I mean, 245 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: we don't have an episode of Late Kick Live on 246 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: Mondays or what was yesterday Wednesday, but let's get a 247 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 2: let's get a video up. 248 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: So we did, and I think it took off like 249 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: a rocket. 250 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 2: So Jamie Newman opts out at Georgia. That was the 251 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 2: big news yesterday. We're not going to waste a whole 252 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 2: lot of time reacting to necessarily Jane me Newman here. 253 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 2: I will just quickly my rapid reaction. I was surprised 254 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,599 Speaker 2: by it, very surprised in the moment. Now, if you 255 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 2: zoom out a little bit, it's not the craziest thing 256 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 2: in the world to see a guy who has NFL aspirations. 257 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 2: And there are wild swings in how people mop draft him. 258 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 2: Some people would say he's a fringe first rounder. Some 259 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 2: people would say he's like day two, day three guys, 260 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 2: so a professional scout. 261 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: I am not. 262 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: He plans on playing Sunday Football, and so you got 263 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 2: a school of thought out there that said he got 264 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: himself in that competition with JT. Daniels, saw that he 265 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 2: was not going to be the slam dunk starter there 266 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: and understood the risk reward of following through and the 267 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: risk being potentially being overtaken, which totally plummets your draft stock. 268 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: And so whether that was the train of thought or not, 269 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: that's one of the conclusions people jump to. The other 270 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 2: is the statement that Jamie Newman made, which was I'm 271 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: concerned about COVID nineteen, so I'm opting out. I don't 272 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: have any information to the contrary, So I'm not going 273 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: to be the one who sits there and disputes that. 274 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. Is the point. We already know 275 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: Jamie Newman's not playing for. 276 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 2: Georgia, So let's talk about the guys who are playing 277 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 2: for Georgia, and let's talk about what it means for them, 278 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 2: and also what it means for the SEC East. 279 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: I'd be mad. 280 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 2: I'm just be honest with you here. You got every 281 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 2: right to opt out. I have no problem with that. 282 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 2: But just as you have a right to opt out, 283 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 2: I got a right to be grade a pissed off 284 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: if I'm in that locker room, or if I'm a 285 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 2: coach and you just took half of a camp's worth 286 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 2: of first team reps at the quarterback position when we're 287 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 2: trying to install a new offense with a new offensive coordinator, 288 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 2: and then you decide to walk out the door. I 289 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 2: got every right to be mad at that if I'm 290 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 2: in that locker room, So I'd be mad at it, 291 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 2: and I think a lot of folks at Georgia am 292 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 2: mad about it. 293 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: But you can't worry about it now. 294 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sitting here telling you, sitting behind a microphone, 295 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 2: it's time to move on. I hope you've already moved 296 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 2: on if you're a player or a coach at Georgia. 297 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 2: So what does it mean for them? Well, what it 298 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 2: means first is just what I said. There's a lot 299 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 2: of complexity for obvious reasons this year for a normal 300 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 2: football team. If you return all all your coordinators and whatnot, 301 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: but you got a new quarterback regardless of it was 302 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 2: going to be, You got a new coordinator and you 303 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 2: have no spring, and that creates the obvious struggles and 304 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 2: obstacles in your way that we've been talking about for 305 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 2: quite a while. 306 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: JT. 307 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 2: Daniels transfers in, and Colin remember it as sure as 308 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 2: we sat here two months ago when he transferred in, 309 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 2: and we did a whole segment on our inbox being 310 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 2: full of Georgia fans saying this is a bad move. 311 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 2: We already got a quarterback. This will only upset the 312 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: quarterback room. How do you feel now? And if you 313 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 2: come to me and you say, well, maybe Newman opted 314 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 2: out because we took Daniels, points still remains. If that's 315 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: all it took to run a guy off, you didn't 316 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: have the right guy to begin with. And if Daniels 317 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: was unrelated to the reasons why Newman left, then our 318 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 2: point remains too. 319 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: So I think we went on that one. 320 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: Now you have a former five star guy, five star potential. 321 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 2: He has not cleared medically to take contact right now. 322 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: Everybody in Athens believes he will be cleared by week 323 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: one at Arkansas. 324 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: So what do we have? We got JT. 325 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 2: Daniels there, who I would suggest is the front runner, 326 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 2: obviously the leader in the clubhouse here to be the 327 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 2: starting quarterback for Georgia when the season finally arrives. Dwan 328 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: Mathis is a guy everyone at Georgia loves. This is 329 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: a guy who has overcome a whole lot. I don't 330 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 2: have time to chronicle his journey. If you don't know 331 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: about it, google Dewan Mathis after the show goes off 332 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 2: the air. I think that he is giving a spirited 333 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: competition up there right now and will be given a 334 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 2: chance to win this job, and I think a lot 335 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 2: of people are rooting for him for obvious reasons. However, 336 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 2: behind him, Stetson Bennett is probably I think he's the 337 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 2: only other guy up there besides JT. Daniels who has 338 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 2: taken snaps. He's probably not the option you go with. 339 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 2: And Carson Beck just got in town like fifteen minutes ago, 340 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 2: so he's probably not a guy who's going to be 341 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: ready this year. My biggest concern about this is Number One, 342 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: Georgia was going to be able to do a lot. 343 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: Georgia was going to be able to present a lot 344 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 2: of challenges because Georgia had two started caliber quarterbacks really 345 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: kind of in the way that Alabama had with Tua 346 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 2: and Jay Hurts. I'm not saying in terms of talent 347 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 2: they're totally comparable, but in terms of dynamic, it was comparable. 348 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: So now you take away that element, you take away 349 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 2: a ton of first team reps that were, let's call 350 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 2: it like it is wasted on Jamie Newman. And now 351 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: you're trying to get a guy who is rehabbing himself 352 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 2: from injury last year into a new offense on a 353 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 2: truncated timetable against a schedule that's front loaded. The meat 354 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: of Georgia's schedule is not in November. The meat of 355 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 2: their schedule is Week two against Auburn, Week three against Tennessee, 356 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: Week four against Alabama, Week five against Kentucky. 357 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: They got Florida a couple of weeks later. That's it. 358 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 2: I mean, that's not it literally, but that is really 359 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 2: in terms of games that are losable for Georgia that 360 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: they have any business struggling in. Let me say it 361 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: like that, that's it. You don't have a month and 362 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 2: a half to get up to cruising altitude offensively, is 363 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 2: my point. 364 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: And let me tell you when JT. 365 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: Daniels transferred to Georgia, I had someone very respected in 366 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 2: the let's just call it the football industry, shall we, 367 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 2: Someone very respected reached out to me and said, let 368 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 2: me tell you what the biggest concern is internally about 369 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 2: j T. 370 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: Daniels. 371 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: He is a guy with elite tools, but he is 372 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: not a guy who is near his ceiling in terms 373 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 2: of potential yet, and a lot of people don't believe 374 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: Georgia is the place to get him there. That's not 375 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 2: my feedback, that's the feedback that I got from someone. 376 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: So I understand the sentiment there because Georgia has not 377 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 2: exactly under Kirby Smart to this point, and you're really 378 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 2: looking at Jake from I mean that's what you're looking at. 379 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 2: Jake fromm was a guy who in twenty seventeen was 380 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 2: pressed into action, and right or wrong, people look at 381 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 2: that situation and say he didn't get really a whole 382 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 2: lot better from twenty seventeen. 383 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: Okay, I mean that's one case study. 384 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 2: So I mean, if we're going to extrapolate that out 385 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 2: and that's how every quarterback under Kirby Smart, even with 386 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 2: a new offensive coordinator, is going to be, then Okay, 387 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 2: I'm kind of in the remains to be seen category 388 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: on that. But this hurts Georgia. I don't think there's 389 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 2: any question about that. And by default, anything that hurts 390 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 2: Georgie helps Florida. Anything that hurts Georgia helps Tennessee. That 391 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 2: front loaded schedule is such that probably one of the 392 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 2: crazier things that could happen in the SEC East this 393 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 2: year would be Tennessee beating Georgia in week three or yeah, 394 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: I think it's week three. 395 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: How crazy is it? 396 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 2: So you got Auburn in there week two, and that's 397 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 2: a game where always competitive, always a knockdown, drag out 398 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: knife fight. And then between the times you play Auburn 399 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 2: and the times you play Alabama, that's when Tennessee rolls 400 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 2: into town and Tennessee it will be one of the 401 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 2: most physical teams in America this year. I fully believe 402 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 2: that they got to be to maximize their potential, and 403 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 2: so I really think about that, and I really think 404 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: about what Jeremy Pruitt's able to do defensively, and they 405 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 2: got adequate personnel this year, and I just I try 406 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: and envision. This is where I'm having trouble with Georgia. 407 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 2: They are asking us at twenty four to seven, I mean, 408 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 2: it is past the deadline to turn in our SEC 409 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 2: Championship game picks, and I still don't know what I'm 410 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 2: doing in the East still don't, and I probably need 411 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 2: to arrive at a conclusion pretty quickly. 412 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: But that's how torn I am on that. 413 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 2: And the reason I'm torn is because I'm trying to 414 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 2: envision what that offense looks like with Georgia, and it's tough. 415 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: It's really tough. 416 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 2: And if anyone out there tells you they have a 417 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 2: definitive idea, you don't even know definitively who's starting a quarterback. 418 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 2: And if you thought so twenty four hours ago, then 419 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 2: you've had to hit the reset button. So for that reason, 420 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 2: I think it's more than fair to talk about hitting 421 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 2: the reset button here. And with every day that passes, 422 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 2: and with every day that I get more confident in, 423 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 2: for example, Florida's run game, and every day I get 424 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 2: more confident in Tennessee's offensive line. It just facets of 425 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 2: these teams. And then I look up there in Athens 426 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 2: and I say, well, a lot of my encouragement around 427 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 2: you was attached to Jamie Newman at quarterback, and he's 428 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 2: not there anymore. It doesn't push Georgia down the Planko 429 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 2: chart any but it certainly turns that into an anyone's 430 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 2: ballgame sort of deal. In the sec East again, so 431 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 2: we got predictions coming very soon in the East. So 432 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 2: I got to nail myself down one way or the other. 433 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 2: Now let's talk about Camp Intel. There's a whole lot 434 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 2: going on, a whole lot you need to know, and 435 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: let's get right to it. I love the competition going 436 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: on at Texas, not just one position. We have talked 437 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 2: about this, I think a few times now, Chip Brown 438 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,239 Speaker 2: and Taylor Estus, the folks over on Horns twenty four 439 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 2: to seven have done a really good job chronicling this. 440 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 2: You know, Brennan Eagles for example, just to pull some 441 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 2: names out of hats, Brennan Eagles is a guy who's 442 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 2: a returning starter at wide receiver out there. They had 443 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 2: a true freshman who, before he got hurt, had already 444 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 2: passed him by on the depth chart. Tarik Black is 445 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 2: a transfer I think from Michigan who is giving him 446 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 2: a very strong competition at that X receiver position. At 447 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 2: the running back position too. Keante Ingram. Now he admittedly 448 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 2: has been a little banged up. I mean he's thought 449 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 2: to be your starter. I would imagine if you're picking 450 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 2: up your preview magazines, he's listed as the starter. They 451 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 2: got two they think are just as good and have 452 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 2: performed just as good or better in camp B John 453 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 2: Robinson and we talked about Rashawn Johnson. I could not 454 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 2: be any more excited about Rashawn Johnson, and I think 455 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 2: people at Texas think that way and then some The 456 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 2: one area that I've kind of been watching and I 457 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: keep seeing it talked about is I think they feel 458 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: really good about the left side of that offensive line. 459 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: The right side. 460 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 2: That's something that is worth monitoring. I think they opening 461 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 2: as UTEP, don't necessarily know how much we're going to 462 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 2: learn in that game, but there are several layers of 463 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 2: this team. We talked about the competition at dB two. 464 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 2: When I start reading practice reports and I start getting 465 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 2: intel from insiders close to a team, and you're talking 466 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 2: about returning starters possibly being bumped down the depth chart, 467 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 2: virtually every team who has ever contended for a championship, 468 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 2: you hear that about him. That doesn't mean every team 469 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: that has that happening is going to contend for a championship. 470 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 2: But if you reverse engineer it, that's what practice is like. 471 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 2: In the preseason. You got guys who on a normal 472 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 2: team would probably be referred to as incumbent starters on 473 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 2: the championship caliber teams, those playoff contending teams. That's not 474 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 2: the way it works, because they recruit so well that 475 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 2: by default they're true freshmen in some cases are better 476 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 2: than their returning starters. The day the freshman stemp on campus, 477 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 2: that's happening. That's happening at Texas. That's a really, really 478 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 2: good sign. LSU's defensive line is another thing that I've 479 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 2: got my eye on very very closely, obviously because of 480 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 2: the attrition down there, most recently Tyler Shelvin opting out 481 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 2: of the season. They've had several guys along the defensive 482 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 2: front that are supposed to be there that aren't there. 483 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 2: And as a result, this is no mystery, but Edward's 484 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 2: ron kind of confirming this. They got true freshmen that 485 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,959 Speaker 2: they're going to have to count on on the defensive line. 486 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 2: That's not a place anyone wants to be in the 487 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 2: SEC and these true freshmen that they're going to be 488 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 2: counting on are about as talented as it gets, So 489 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: make no mistake about that. Gilroy and Roy, who kind 490 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 2: of sound like the same person, but they're not, those 491 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 2: are studs. Both of them were guys that could have 492 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: gone anywhere they wanted to. But here's the thing. They're 493 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 2: true freshmen, and so you just say that out loud. 494 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 2: Generically you want multiple true freshmen starting for you on 495 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 2: the defensive line. Will of course you don't, but the 496 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,719 Speaker 2: fact of the matter is LSU has to have that. 497 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 2: And so the reason why those guys have to pan out, 498 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 2: I mean, they have to be all now, I'm not 499 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 2: gonna say all SEC caliber, but they have to be 500 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 2: able to stand in there for what ten weeks this year, 501 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 2: and they have to be able to do it as 502 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 2: true freshmen, which most true freshmen aren't fully equipped to 503 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 2: do at this level, is because there is not much 504 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: behind them. That's the depth situation there right now. And 505 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 2: as a result, it's no mystery when you talk about 506 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 2: Auburn or A and M or Alabama, they'll run it 507 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 2: fifty times at you if that's what it takes. They 508 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: don't care the pounding that you got to take in 509 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 2: this league. You know about it. 510 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: You're LSU man. You pride yourself on doing it. 511 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,479 Speaker 2: And this is not even to venture into the murky 512 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,959 Speaker 2: area of what ifs, because you know what the what 513 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 2: ifs are. You think the worst case has already happened. 514 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: But see, we haven't even started the season yet. The 515 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 2: worst case for twenty twenty hasn't happened yet. Worst case 516 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 2: would be, you know, God forbid you wake up tomorrow 517 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 2: morning and you've had an injury to one of these 518 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 2: remaining defensive linemen, or you know, you're rolling into week 519 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 2: four and someone sprains their ankle Thursday at practice. 520 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: The depth situation is very perilous there. 521 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 2: They have immense potential in these kids, immense potential, but 522 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 2: they are true freshmen. These are not guys that they 523 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 2: wanted playing sixty to sixty five snaps in a game 524 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 2: as true freshmen, and they're gonna have to. 525 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: Now, let's shift it back. 526 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 2: I didn't break this down a whole lot when we 527 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 2: were talking about Georgia, but just quickly that Georgia offensive situation, 528 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 2: the quarterback situation, and in the offensive situation, because there 529 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 2: is uncertainty there right now, and because of that schedule 530 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 2: being so front loaded. 531 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: JT. 532 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 2: Daniels I will maintain that I think he's going to 533 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 2: win that job after a spirited competition with Dwan Mathis. 534 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 2: But wide open is the way that I saw Rusty 535 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 2: Menzel over at Dogs twenty four and referring to that 536 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 2: quarterback battle at Georgia, and I don't doubt that. I 537 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 2: just think that JT. Daniels is going to be the 538 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 2: guy who emerges on top. And I think most people 539 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: in Georgia circles believe that. But here's what I'm most 540 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 2: excited about with Georgia. When you start reading practice reports 541 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 2: and talking to some folks in Athens and they talk 542 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 2: about Zamir White. There hasn't been this much excitement around 543 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 2: Samir White since he committed. Zamir White's a guy who's 544 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 2: had a couple of knee injuries himself, and now he 545 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 2: was back last year and it's one of those classic 546 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 2: let's get two years removed from rehab and surgery and 547 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 2: let's see what we have. 548 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: Well, it looks like cautiously optimistic here. 549 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,199 Speaker 2: It looks like what we have in Zamir White is 550 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 2: what everyone. 551 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: Hoped and expected he'd be all along. 552 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 2: You hope that's the case, because I don't exactly get 553 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 2: the impression that the game plan in week one or 554 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 2: two or three will consist of Georgia trying to go 555 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 2: out and throw the ball fifty five or sixty times 556 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 2: so I don't think that there's any At the very least, 557 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 2: what yesterday probably did is it probably confirmed there is 558 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 2: no radical offensive shift coming to Georgia this year. They're 559 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: gonna lean on defense heavily and with good reason, probably 560 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 2: gonna have the best one in America if I had 561 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 2: to put my money on it, And they are going 562 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 2: to try and pound people into oblivion like they've always 563 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 2: tried to do. Zamir White being one hundred percent who 564 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,239 Speaker 2: is a physical specimen if you ever stand next to him, 565 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 2: by the way, that's a big part of that equation. 566 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 2: And then the other part of the equation is the 567 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 2: other thing that they're trying to figure out. They're offensively 568 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 2: aside from the wide receiver course, so I guess there 569 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 2: are a couple of other things, but that offensive line. 570 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 2: You got a new coach in there in Matt Luke. 571 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 2: Everyone loves him, great recruiter, but you got a lot 572 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: of new pieces there. And just like the quarterback position, 573 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: what are you doing? I mean, you're rolling into fall camp, 574 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: You're on a truncated timetable, and you got Arkansas a 575 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 2: couple of weeks away, and after that it gets real 576 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 2: in a hurry, gotta have that stuff figured out. 577 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: Gotta have it figured out. Now. 578 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 2: The last team that I wanted to talk about here 579 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 2: is Miami. Miami starts a little earlier than the SEC. 580 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: Does they play UAB week. I want you to pay 581 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 2: attention to this game. Miami is not some six touchdown 582 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 2: favorite in this game. UAB is favored by many people 583 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 2: to win their conference this year. Bill Clark has done 584 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 2: a great job resurrecting that program. Not figuratively, they didn't 585 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 2: exist four years ago. They were out of action totally. 586 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 2: I mean, Bill Clark was sitting at home on Saturdays 587 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 2: watching games. 588 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: So uab's back. 589 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 2: They have replenished that roster, and so Miami's favored by 590 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 2: sixteen and this game's at Miami. So how does Miami's 591 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 2: offensive line look this year? Because last year I remember 592 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 2: this time of year. Actually last year, everyone was saying 593 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: the same thing they're saying right now, and that sentence 594 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 2: is will go as far as this offensive line will 595 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 2: take as well. It turns out there were more questions 596 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 2: and than just the offensive line at Miami last year. However, 597 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 2: that was a big one, and I think it's fair 598 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 2: to say that the offensive line is still the biggest 599 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 2: question to me on this team going into this year. 600 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 2: They started two true freshmen on the offensive line last year. 601 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 2: I'll tell you one of the biggest differences when you 602 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 2: look at experience with them is this year, every starter, 603 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 2: preseason starter, projected starter on that offensive line will enter 604 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 2: this year having at least two years of experience in 605 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 2: college under the belt. Everyone will at least be in 606 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 2: their third year. So I certainly wouldn't say that's a 607 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: bad thing. You meant to be seen how much better 608 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 2: a thing that is. But they were horrible running the 609 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 2: ball last year. 610 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: Awful. Pretty much every offensive metric was awful last year. 611 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 2: And I'll tell you the other thing I was looking 612 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 2: at over on our Miami twenty four to seven side 613 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 2: inside the U dot Com. The guys over there were 614 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 2: talking about another thing that I think you've heard a 615 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 2: lot from down there, and that is how much better 616 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 2: equipped they are at the offensive tackle positions. Last year 617 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: they had guys at tackle that they didn't really in 618 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 2: an ideal world want at tackle, and through the transfer market, 619 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 2: now they are able to push guys around and put 620 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 2: tackles at tackle, guards at guards, center, at center. And 621 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 2: that's really good because you got some really good edge 622 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 2: rushers in the ACC, and you better be equipped to 623 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 2: handle them. And with all that, now we wait one 624 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 2: more week and change and we finally get to see 625 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 2: rhet lashly and dearic King, and we get to see 626 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 2: that running back stable that we hope will be completely transformed, 627 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: and we get to see finally how legit a threat 628 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 2: is Miami going to be in the ACC this year? 629 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: I saw I was over on the. 630 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 2: Board the other night with Miami and I told them, 631 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 2: and I'll tell you, we at twenty four seven Sports 632 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 2: where we're doing our season predictions and we're turning them 633 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 2: in and we're going to release those early next week, 634 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 2: so look forward to that. And we were doing order 635 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 2: of finish in the ACC and I was looking around 636 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 2: just for fun, and some people have Miami finish in 637 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 2: like seventh or eighth in the ACC. 638 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: I have no clue what people are smoking. I really don't. 639 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: And you don't have to pick them to be Clemson 640 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 2: by any stretch, But my goodness, I understand what the 641 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 2: questions are. You're telling me that you have six other 642 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 2: program if you're telling me half of that conference just 643 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 2: about you're more confident in the Miami. That's interesting to me. Hey, 644 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: predictions are predictions for a reason. But suffice to say, 645 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 2: I will not Miami finished in sixth or seventh in 646 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 2: the ACC. I wanted to wrap up with this. Nick 647 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 2: Saban has been putting on an absolute clinic at Alabama. Really, 648 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 2: you could argue for the better part of like a 649 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 2: decade and a half now, but in twenty twenty, he's 650 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 2: really been. 651 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: Putting on a clinic. 652 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what the best part to me about 653 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 2: our twenty four to seven sports YouTube channel is and 654 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 2: the Late Kick podcast feed. 655 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: It's free to subscribe. You don't have to pay anything. 656 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: I mean, the best things in life sometimes cost a 657 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 2: lot of money. Let's be real, but this is free 658 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 2: and that's why I love it so much, and that's 659 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 2: why you should love it so much and subscribe if 660 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: you haven't already. Five star reviews appreciated. But here's the thing, 661 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 2: what does that have to do with Nick Saban? He's 662 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 2: been putting on a clinic all off season and it's 663 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 2: also been free. If you have been paying attention as 664 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 2: a fan, as a coach, as an athlete, have you 665 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 2: been paying attention? You know those stereotypes about age and 666 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 2: you know, the older you get, the more setting your 667 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 2: ways you are and you stop learning and you're slow 668 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 2: to adjust. Well, Nick Saban regularly shatters those and he 669 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: has really to a critical degree in this offseason. Let's 670 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 2: talk about all the issues that college programs have faced, 671 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 2: and let's talk about how this dude has dealt with him. 672 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: The first thing was recruiting. What was it? It was May? 673 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 2: I wrote down the date May fourteenth. Nick Saban joined 674 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 2: us for about twenty twenty five minutes, had a great 675 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: talk with him, and I asked him about recruiting. At 676 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 2: the time, in the twenty four to seven Sports team rankings, 677 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 2: Alabama was ranked somewhere in the forties, and so I 678 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 2: asked it was obvious there were different approaches being taken 679 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 2: in recruiting. I asked him, Hey, how are you handling this? 680 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 2: No camps, you can't go out on the road. The 681 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 2: spring evaluation period has been shot. Everyone's in quarantine. How 682 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 2: are you going to handle this? And you know a 683 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 2: lot of the fans were freaking out, and he kind 684 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 2: of yawned and shrugged his shoulders. 685 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: We'll be all right, you know, It's pretty much what 686 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: he said. 687 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 2: We'll be fine. You know, we have confidence in the 688 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 2: way that we're doing things. Today is September third. Alabama 689 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 2: is neck and neck with Ohio State for the number 690 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: one recruiting class in the country, and it is what 691 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 2: September third, So I mean, they've got a ways to 692 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 2: go before even the early signing date if we still 693 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 2: stay on track for that. He has put on a 694 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 2: recruiting clinic the likes of which you've even rarely seen 695 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 2: if you're an Alabama fan. 696 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: What was issue number two? 697 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: And we're obviously not going in chronological order here because 698 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 2: a lot of people were I'm talking about five alarm 699 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 2: freaked out by losing the strength coach there, Scott Cochrane. 700 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 2: I mean, there were reputable people in the college football 701 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 2: world who said, it's obvious things are crumbling up there, man, 702 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 2: I mean, this is a sign that things are shifting 703 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 2: in the sec We fast forward a few months and 704 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 2: I talked to people at Alabama regularly. I don't know 705 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: that I have ever seen this collective level of excitement 706 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 2: about players period, much less personnel and staff as I've 707 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 2: seen about the new sports science and strength conditioning duo. 708 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 2: They hired in Matt Ray and David Blue out of Indiana. 709 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 2: I know when we've talked about that, a lot of 710 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,959 Speaker 2: you have been sarcastic. A lot of you have said, oh, really, 711 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be scared of guys that were at 712 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 2: IMG Academy a few years ago in Indiana. 713 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: I don't really care how you feel about it. 714 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 2: I'm just I would advise you to watch Alabama this 715 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 2: year and in the coming years and take a look 716 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 2: at how thin that injury list is so far this offseason. 717 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 2: I hope this desk is made of wood. I just 718 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 2: knocked on it. Going to be a big difference. Let 719 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 2: me just from everybody there to a man, going to 720 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 2: be a big difference. So whether that storm quite nicely 721 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 2: and it turns out it really wasn't a storm at all, 722 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 2: it was more an opportunity. What's issue number three been 723 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 2: COVID obviously, and again this is in no particular order. 724 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 2: COVID and player safety and all the freak out over 725 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 2: what was going to happen when you get kids back 726 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 2: on campus. And not only have they, and to the 727 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 2: conference's credit, a number of other teams in the conference 728 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 2: been at the forefront of this, but hey, Nick Saban's 729 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 2: also been at the forefront on messaging, and they've probably 730 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 2: handled it in about a spectacle acular fashion as a program, 731 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: as an organization, as anyone. 732 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: You haven't seen headlines, even as the. 733 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 2: General population at the University of Alabama's been in the 734 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 2: headlines for. 735 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: The wrong reasons. 736 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 2: Football program taking care of themselves basically bubbling themselves issue 737 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 2: number four, and it's cropped up big time in the 738 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:23,919 Speaker 2: SEC opt outs roster churn. Now again, this stuff could 739 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 2: change tomorrow. But I've listened to a number of his 740 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 2: players talk about this, and I've listened to him himself, 741 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 2: Nick Saban, talk about this. His players sounds just like 742 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 2: him when talking about this, His players have sounded just 743 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 2: like him. I don't know if people understand how big 744 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 2: a skill that is to be in your what is 745 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 2: the late sixties, early seventies, and to get eighteen and 746 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 2: nineteen year old kids to adopt your mentality. You know 747 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 2: how hard that is, eighteen nineteen year old kids who 748 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 2: are the best in the world at what they do, 749 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 2: by the way, to adopt your mentality. But yet they 750 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 2: sound like robots. They're all singing the same tune, And 751 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 2: so I don't get the sense that you have a 752 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 2: whole lot of opt outs coming from Alabama. And that's 753 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 2: as your neighbors down in Baton Rouge are dealing with. 754 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,280 Speaker 1: It, blow after blow after blow. 755 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 2: And I listened to Alabama's players and I don't think 756 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 2: it's coming and the other thing, and I really couldn't 757 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:15,839 Speaker 2: care less one way or the other. 758 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 1: Where you fall on this, I mean when I. 759 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 2: Say I couldn't care less, I mean I really, really 760 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 2: really couldn't care less. But the whole social unrest deal 761 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 2: that's happened over the past few weeks, if you were 762 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 2: to just hit mute on your TV and just watch 763 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 2: the images, I would imagine there are some PR firms 764 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 2: out there who are being paid millions to tens of 765 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 2: millions of dollars who would not be able to deliver 766 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 2: a more picture perfect result than what Alabama's ended up 767 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 2: getting out of all this? 768 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: Do you understand what that right there does? Again, let 769 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: me pause and reiterate, regardless of what you think one 770 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 1: way or the other. If I'm Nick Saban, my job's 771 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: really to listen. And so that's what he's done. And 772 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: I've listened to what he said. 773 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 2: I didn't really find anything all that controversial, to be 774 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,959 Speaker 2: honest with you, but my goodness, pr. 775 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: Firms free of charge. Have it charged a time watch 776 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: and learn. 777 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 2: And then, by the way, if you don't think that 778 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 2: that's a clinic being put on, just trust me when 779 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 2: we hear some things that are happening behind the scenes 780 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,280 Speaker 2: with other programs, that is a clinic. 781 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:23,799 Speaker 1: That's being put on. 782 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,879 Speaker 2: And that is why that team in Tuscaloosa is once 783 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 2: again going to be one of the very few favorites 784 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 2: to win the national championship this year. And with that, 785 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 2: we're just about out of time. A reminder, by the way, 786 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 2: we released our second of two Late Kick Extra podcasts 787 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 2: for this week earlier today. 788 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:43,439 Speaker 1: We're doing that two times a week. 789 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 2: Now we do Late Kick Live as you're watching right now, 790 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 2: three times a week. As I told you Tuesday night, 791 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 2: and I'm going to reiterate now. We are getting great 792 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 2: feedback from our management essentially because of you. You guys 793 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 2: have been subscribing the comments, the Twitter traffic, the five 794 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 2: star reviews, the comments here, everything has gone through the roof. 795 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 2: We had easily our best traffic day, what was it, 796 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 2: colin Monday. So we continue to set records and then 797 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 2: break those records and set records again and break those again, 798 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 2: and I say we because it's you doing it. Because 799 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 2: we could do this show in an echo chamber and 800 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,879 Speaker 2: it wouldn't matter one bit. 801 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,640 Speaker 1: So thank you so much. 802 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 2: We continue to tailor the show based on your wants 803 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 2: and your request keep them coming. You are also what 804 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 2: drives those Late Kick Extra podcasts, which are just Q 805 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 2: and A. So continue to send me questions. And I 806 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,760 Speaker 2: had one today that had nothing to do with football. 807 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 2: Someone asked me about the most chance encounters that I've 808 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,399 Speaker 2: had at games, and so I told a story things 809 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,719 Speaker 2: like the second question in today's podcast. I told a 810 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 2: story about how in a seven day span I got 811 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,319 Speaker 2: kicked off an elevator for the governor of Louisiana and 812 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 2: the President of. 813 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: The United States. Seven day spam got cut in line twice. 814 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 2: So I haven't had really good luck at press elevators, 815 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,919 Speaker 2: but we have been having good fortune with this show, 816 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 2: so I'll take that trade off. Thank you so much 817 00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 2: for director Colin, for Jordan, who's been doing a good 818 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 2: job in his own right. Brand new to the podcast 819 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 2: team along with Tony, I am Josh Paid. This has 820 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,920 Speaker 2: been Late Kick Live. Thank you so much for watching. 821 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your evening and God bless