1 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: What exactly is this. We didn't have a live show 2 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: last night. Why is there a podcast in your feed 3 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: this morning? Well, I have to be straight with you. 4 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: I got a little angry over Christmas break because I 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: got podcasts that I listened to regularly, as do you. 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: Thankfully this is one of them. Anyway, So I'm scrolling 7 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: through my feed as I'm traveling through Mississippi and Georgia 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: and Alabama eventually Tennessee, and all my regulars are on 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: Christmas vacation and they're doing best of episodes, and they're 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: doing year end episodes and special guest interview episodes, and 11 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: all I want is the normal show. So I complained, 12 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: and then I realized, wait a second, I've done the 13 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: same thing with my show. So I am sitting here 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: high atop Los Angeles, California. I'm recording after midnight. It is, 15 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: I guess early Tuesday morning. I'm just gonna do a 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: random mail bag episode. It's not necessarily in the format. 17 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: We didn't necessarily script it or schedule it. In fact, 18 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: producer Jesse doesn't even know this is gonna get dropped 19 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: in his lap to edit in the morning. But that's 20 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: the way it is. So I am going to take 21 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: like thirty or forty questions. I'm gonna do him way 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: quicker than I normally do immunity, and let's just see 23 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: where it goes. How about it. Okay, let's get started, 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: and this is going to be really loose. I'm just 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: gonna scroll through these questions. Travis. First up, how can 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: I make the college football season slow down? I feel 27 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: like it was Week one, just a couple of weeks ago, Travis. 28 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: I disagree with you, and I've always felt that way. 29 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 1: I've always been the guy who gets to November slash 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 1: December and says, it feels like the season just started. Now, 31 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: this is where I got to reach out to you guys, 32 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: because I may be in the minority here. It may 33 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: be that you feel like the season is flown by. 34 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: It could be because I travel every week. It does 35 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: feel a little bit longer, but I don't think so. 36 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: Because I've been traveling every week for a while, we 37 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: haven't taken an off week in a season, and forever 38 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: it feels like so. I think maybe my perspective is 39 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: changing because of how long the playoff is. Like right now, 40 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: it's December thirty. First playoff feels like it's been going 41 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: on half a month, because basically, if you count the 42 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: week leading up to the first round, it has been 43 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: and you've still got twenty days until the national championship game. 44 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: So I think mentally, I've gotten myself to where I 45 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: have understood. Now this thing's a five month ordeal, and 46 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But at the same time, it 47 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: no longer feels like it flies by to me. So Travis, 48 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: I guess, think like me. If you want to know 49 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: how to make the season slow down, think like me, 50 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: because I don't feel that way anymore. Not that that's 51 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: a bad thing, I just don't feel that way anymore. Terrence, 52 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: Next up, did Nick Saban ruin the metric of a 53 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 1: good coach in today's college football? Yeah, that's a really 54 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: good way to ask that question. Yeah, I feel like 55 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: he did. I feel like we went through a pre 56 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: Saban period where what several coaches did that was considered 57 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: great is no longer considered great, is no longer considered 58 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: legendary because now everyone gets measured based on what Nick 59 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: Saban did, and everyone thinks that if their program is 60 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: roughly comparable resource wise to Alabama under Saban, then they 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: should be capable of doing what Saban did at Alabama, 62 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: and it's ridiculous. What he did was very very warped. Historically, 63 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: nothing before it has looked like that. Nothing after it 64 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: will end up looking like that. There's the whole one 65 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: to ten scale. One being dumpster fire, ten being the 66 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: best your program's ever been. Saban at Alabama was like 67 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: a fourteen and a half for an extended run, like 68 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: a decade and a half. It'd be great. You know, 69 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: it's okay to dream it would be great if your 70 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: program could do that, But it is very, very very 71 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: unrealistic to think that way. Next up, I'm scrolling here, 72 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: Michael said, you criticized USC a lot these past two weeks. 73 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Does their bowl win change your perspective on them heading 74 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty five season. No, the bowl game 75 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: does nothing from me. I really couldn't care less about 76 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: bowl results. Wait for it. Wait for it as it 77 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: relates to the following season and the trajectory of the program. 78 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: I don't care. Missouri just played Iowa earlier today. As 79 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: I was leaving Nashville, Missouri was leaving right alongside me. 80 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: Missouri won that game by three. If they lost the game, 81 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: by three. I feel the exact same way, and I 82 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,799 Speaker 1: feel the same way about Iowa's program as I would 83 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: if Iowa would have won the game. So I've been 84 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: critical I guess of USC, your word, not mine, because 85 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: I don't like the energy around the program. I don't 86 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: like their ability to retain talent. Now they've since I've 87 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: said that backfilled with some pieces from the portal. Maybe 88 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: that eases your concerns. My concerns are not eased. I 89 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: do not think they are going to have the caliber 90 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: of pla there to do what they want to do. 91 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: Remember who we're talking about. We're talking about USC football, 92 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: So USC football, when they're right, they are doing what 93 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: in the new conference. They're competing for the Big Ten championship, 94 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: they're competing for a national championship. They're in that thing perennially. 95 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: They are what Oregon is right now. They are what 96 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: Ohio State is right now. They are what Georgia, what 97 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: Texas is right now. USC's not close to that yet. 98 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: They're not close to that. It is not fractions of 99 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: inches here or there. There is a sizeable gap that 100 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: has to be made up. I felt that way before 101 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: their bowl game. All due respect, I still feel that 102 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: way after their bowl game. Now, of course it is 103 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, about to be twenty twenty five, So 104 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: you can't talk this way without a group on the 105 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: internet thinking you hate them, You think I hate usc ALL. 106 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: You want to. I badly want usc to be elite, 107 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: badly want it. You have no idea how bad I 108 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: want it. But I don't want it bad enough to 109 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: lie about. Where the program is right now? Got work 110 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:07,679 Speaker 1: to do next up? Uh, it's just Jay. So Jay 111 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: asks me, what is my favorite neutral venue? Well, I'm 112 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: going to be in one of them tomorrow, and that's 113 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. But I honestly think the Cotton Bowl 114 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: may be my favorite neutral venue, or maybe my favorite 115 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: neutral site. Game happens in the Cotton Bowl. I'm having 116 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: to think about this. I'm not gonna stop the recording. 117 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have you experience what it's like to 118 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: hang around me every day. Cotton Bowl's a really old building. 119 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: I've been to both. I think about the same amount. 120 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: I may have been to the Rose Bowl one or 121 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: two more times. Rose Bowl is pageantry, tradition, it's the sunset. 122 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: It's a place I never thought i'd go in a 123 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: million years. Growing up in the rural South, you watch 124 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: that game on TV. Even when I'm a kid. This 125 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: is not that long ago, relatively speaking, but we would 126 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: watch that Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day, Pasadena, 127 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: southern California. For a kid that grows up in the 128 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: South that has never traveled like west of the Chattahoochee 129 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: River until he's an adult, you know how far away Pasadena, 130 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: California seems. It really was no different for me growing 131 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: up in the two thousands as it was for someone 132 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: growing up in the sixties in the South watching like 133 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: Beverly Hillbillies on TV and thinking, oh wow, they're all 134 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: the way out in California. So you know, to be 135 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: able years later to get to go here frequently, to 136 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: stand on the field and see the Rose Bowl like 137 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: we'll be able to do again tomorrow, that's a big deal. 138 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: But pound for pound, I think my favorite environment, and 139 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: maybe this is my answer, is that TEXASOU game at 140 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. I love the Cotton Bowls one hundred 141 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: and thirty eight years old, give or take a decade. 142 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: I love the single tunnel aspect, kind of like Michigan 143 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: Stadium in that sense. I just love how old some 144 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: of these places are. I love that they keep the 145 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: game there. The rest of college football just lurches towards 146 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: change that they mistakenly call progress and taking games and 147 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: putting them in these sterile neutral site NFL venues, Texas. 148 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: OU is still at the Cotton Bowl. The thing I 149 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: told you this story. The first time I went to 150 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: that game was three years ago. I want to say 151 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: it was the game where Caleb Williams came off the 152 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: bench for Spencer Rattler and OU ended up coming from 153 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: behind and winning. Anyway, here was really my first taste 154 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: of what that place is like. I was standing on 155 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: the field, I am watching the game. You know someone's 156 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: standing beside you, you know, but if you're standing like 157 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: half a body in front of them, you know there's 158 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: someone next to you, but you don't know who it is. 159 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: And to be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to 160 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: who was standing next to me. So there's play going on, 161 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: and then in between plays, I kind of glance over 162 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: and I see that it's Mark Cuban standing next to me. 163 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: So that's a billionaire for those unfamiliar, and he was 164 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: down there because there are really no sweep at the 165 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl any other venue if it were over at 166 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: AT and T Stadium, Mark Cuban's not standing down there. 167 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: But Mark Cuban's options in the Cotton Bowl were bleacher 168 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: or pull some strings and go stand on the field. 169 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: There really are no luxury suites lining the stadium, so 170 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: it's just great because that's our kind of environment. It 171 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: is not what the rest of the sport is slowly 172 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: gravitated towards. So I love that. I love the Rose Bowl. Now, 173 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: the one complain I know that I'm going to get 174 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: is some of you guys feel those places are old 175 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: and outdated and they're uncomfortable and they're cramped. I will 176 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: yield to you on the fact that I don't have 177 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: to experience that I know in the Rose Bowl. Especially 178 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: the feedback I get every year is whether it's complaints 179 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: about parking or concessions or how cramped the seating is. 180 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: I have been a ticket holding patron in the Rose Bowl, 181 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: by the way, just so you know, but not recently. 182 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: I was much smaller bodied when I came to the 183 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: Rose Bowl for the first time, so I get it. 184 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: But man, the question was for me, and the question 185 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: was my favorite neutral site venue can I tie. I'm 186 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: gonna tie. Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl tie. Congrats to both 187 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: of you. Let's go with AJ. Next, he said, who 188 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: was the pineapple on pizza of college football in twenty 189 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: twenty four? It's interesting as in who was the most 190 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: polarizing or the team that stood out for being unconventional 191 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: or unique for the season From Jacksonburg, Ohio. AJ, That 192 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,559 Speaker 1: answer for me is pretty easy. That's Arizona State. Arizona State, 193 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: I know, has been talked a lot about now because 194 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: they're in the playoff. They got talked a lot about 195 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: in the latter portion of the season because they were 196 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: making a run to what ended up being a Big 197 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: twelve championship. But you just got to understand, as I know, 198 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: anytime we do as show, we have new listeners and viewers, 199 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: and any given season you have a huge chunk of 200 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: new fans to college football who are just now feeling 201 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: out the sport. So it's important to explain the context here. 202 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: Arizona State has always been a sleeping giant program, but 203 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: they've never been great in your lifetime, especially if you're 204 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,199 Speaker 1: in college or you're thirty or thirty five years old, 205 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: they really haven't been great. There have been little flashes 206 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: here and there, but they really haven't been great and 207 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: people have wondered why, just like they have with Texas 208 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: A and M. But regardless of what the why is, 209 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: they have not been great and they should, Okay, So 210 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: they try and try and try multiple regime changes. They 211 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: bring HERM Edwards in and HERM. Edwards proceeds to get 212 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: the program in a whole lot of trouble, and not 213 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: too long ago, I mean just a couple of years ago, 214 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: they have to fire the entire staff there. There's an 215 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: investigation going on. NCAA sanctions look like they're hovering over 216 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: the program. And so Kenny Dillingham was the offensive coordinator 217 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: up at Oregon, and he was doing really good work 218 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: up there. But Kenny's from Tempe. He grew up there, 219 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: and so they knew that this is what it felt 220 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: like on the outside. They knew that they needed someone 221 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: to ride through the dark days, and they weren't going 222 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: to be able to go get a premier name, and 223 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: so they went and got Kenny because it was basically like, well, 224 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: we can go get Kenny. I mean, he'll appreciate the 225 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: job at any time, so we'll go get him. He'll 226 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: ride through the dark days for us. And you know, 227 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: whether they thought this or not, it felt this way. 228 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: And then on the other side, then yeah, maybe we'll 229 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: go hire a more high caliber, proven head coach. So 230 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: they offered the job to Kenny. He takes the job, 231 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: and they come in last year, and last year was 232 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: what it was, and this year they are literally in 233 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: the playoff. They were supposed to have driven off a cliff. 234 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: That's what was happening. They were speeding towards a cliff. 235 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 1: They ejected herm and they tossed Kenny in the driver's seat, 236 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: and Kenny just got his hands on the wheel and 237 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: jerked that thing back away from the cliff. And now 238 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: it's on the road, and now they're picking up speed 239 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: and everyone's like, oh, congrats, that's a nice story out there. No, 240 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: it's a pretty unprecedented story out there. Just to understand, 241 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: to give you full context now of what we're looking at, 242 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: Arizona State is supposed to be in the dumpster right now, 243 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: in the dumpster, and instead they are, whether you like 244 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: the format or not, they're sitting here enjoying a first 245 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 1: round by and they are playing Texas in Atlanta. Winner 246 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: is in the semi finals. So that's to me the 247 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: pineapple on pizza of college football this year. Next up, 248 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: why have you been downplaying Notre dames success so much 249 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: this season? So as we all know this is ridiculous, 250 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: But just so we know, I have pulled up the 251 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: JP pole. I have it on my screen right here 252 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: for those unfamiliar. That's my own personal power ratings, not rankings, 253 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: power ratings, Notre Dame being downplayed, that's the allegation. I 254 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: currently have Notre Dame power rated number three. Pause for effect. 255 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: I have Notre Name above Texas, I have Notre Dame 256 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: above Georgia, Penn State, Arizona State, a whole bunch of 257 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: other teams. I have Notre Name number three in the country. 258 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what more I need to say. Down 259 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: playing Notre Dame here's really I guess what that boils 260 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: down to number one, selective hearing. Really I could stop there, 261 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: But number two, it's okay to be skeptical in a 262 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: healthy manner, Like if I look at Notre Dame and 263 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: I see the lack of overall strength of schedule on 264 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: the back half of the season, for him, it's okay 265 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: that they won it's good that they won, but it's 266 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: also okay for me to look and say, hey, I'll 267 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: do credit to you. I still have some questions. That's okay. 268 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: I got them about Texas too, Guys, I got them 269 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: about Georgia. I got them, honestly, about every team in 270 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: this playoff. So I'm either down on every team in 271 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: the country or you're selectively hearing how I talk about 272 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: Notre Dame Differently. I am arguing to you I'm higher 273 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: on Notre Dame than the average person is because I'm 274 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: looking at my own personal numbers and I have them 275 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: number three in the country. Having said that, I did 276 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: pick Georgia to beat them in the quarterfinals, so who knows. 277 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: Maybe you're right after all, Brennan said. Thoughts on moving 278 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: the start of the season up two to three weeks 279 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: it would solve some transfer portal issues, No, Brennan, respectfully, No, no, 280 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: I'm not altering the season that has looked like it 281 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: has for a long time and has started where it 282 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: starts for a long time, which is Labor Day weekend. Also, 283 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: the jacked up transfer portal can be worked out. You 284 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: brought in a problem, so fix the problem. You don't 285 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: alter the entire structure of the season that has worked 286 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: for a long time, by the way, to fix this 287 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: recent problem that got tossed in the mix. No, you 288 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: just removed the problem, or you change the problem. But 289 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: there are some things that work about college football, and 290 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: there's some things that don't work about college football. What 291 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: I'm not a proponent of is altering the things that 292 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: work to maybe more finally tune the things that don't work. 293 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: How about we just remove the things that don't work 294 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: and fix them by removing it. I don't mean getting 295 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: the transfer portal out of college football. You can't do that. 296 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: But what I do mean is get a little more creative, smarter, wiser, 297 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: more tactical in the way you do that. No, I'm 298 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: not from moving the season up. Just think about what 299 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: we're talking about there. We are talking about college football 300 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: being played August eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth. No, that's no, that's 301 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: not what I'm on board with. Aaron with a good 302 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: question here. Do you miss getting a hard copy of 303 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: a ticket to a game as much as I do? Yes, yes, Aaron, 304 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: And I'll give you a first world problem that I 305 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: have to deal with when I go to Michigan I 306 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: am a big fan not only of getting a hard 307 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: ticket when I go to a game. I am a 308 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: big fan of getting a hard credential, a physical credential 309 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 1: when I go to a game. Now, that's not a 310 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: problem most places, but at Michigan, if you're going to 311 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: be on the field for a game, they give you 312 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: a little vest. They do not give you a physical credential, 313 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: And so there is no evidence, you know, like physically, 314 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: if you want to keep these things that you covered 315 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: a game at Michigan. I've been there the last two 316 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: times Ohio State went in there. I have nothing to 317 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: show for it except photographs, which are nice. And this 318 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: is not a complaint. It's a mild complaint. It's a 319 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: very very first world complaint. But yeah, Aaron, I want 320 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: the hard tickets. We don't have to digitize everything, do 321 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: We We digitize parking. So we've gone green enough on tickets. 322 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: I don't think we need to go I even think 323 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: we need go a step backwards. That is not a 324 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: step forward. Next up, I already did that one. If 325 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: you were elected college football commissioner, who would be your 326 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: assistant Cole Kuberick or Danny Kanell. Well, that narrows the 327 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: field down way too much, way too much. Who would 328 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: be my assistant? I think I would love to see 329 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,479 Speaker 1: this play out in an alternate universe. We have entered, 330 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: by the way, an era where people are asking me 331 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,199 Speaker 1: if I'm serious when I say I want to be 332 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: elected college football commissioner, and I grin and I wink, 333 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: and I say, oh no, I kind of shrug at him. 334 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: You know, some of the craziest things that have ever 335 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: happened started out as crazy, and then they became less crazy, 336 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: and then you stopped smiling when you said it, and 337 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: then you got dead serious, and then all of a 338 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: sudden happened. So maybe that's how I become college football commissioner. 339 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: But I will say this, and I'm not kidding when 340 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: I say this, I believe there are people in our 341 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: space right now that would do a better job running 342 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 1: college football than the people who run college football right now. 343 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: And I think the big Wool over the Eyes movement 344 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: has been to convince you that, oh man, it takes 345 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: immense brain power and life long acquire knowledge and wisdom 346 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 1: to do this. No it doesn't, No, it doesn't. It 347 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: takes being smart, It takes understanding the room. It takes 348 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: understanding all the factors in play, having a healthy grasp 349 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: of the legal landscape. But most of all, it takes 350 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: loving college football, and it takes putting fans and players 351 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: at the forefront, which is one of my core beefs. 352 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,239 Speaker 1: It's one of my core issues with the people who 353 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: quote unquote run this sport right now. Every time there's 354 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: a major decision handed down, two words. I always fail 355 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: to hear players fans in any order. I don't care. 356 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: You never hear that. You notice that conferences get realigned, 357 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: You notice that when the playoff gets expanded, a new 358 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: media rights deal is signed, this and that, up and down, 359 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: left and right. You never hear players or fans. And 360 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: it's a ridiculously easy pr miss. By the way, even 361 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: if you don't mean it, you need to mention players 362 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: and fans all the time. Just hello, if anyone's paying 363 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: attention in Grapevine, Texas or wherever you guys are tonight. 364 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: But secondly, if you possess those characteristics, I think I 365 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: possess those. I think Clatt possesses them. You mentioned Cole, 366 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: I think Cole possesses them. I don't care. Kanel is 367 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: on another planet. But you know what, I will vouch 368 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: for him. He does possess those things. So I've got 369 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: some people that I would list. That's not an exhaustive list. 370 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: And if we have to rule by committee, so be it. 371 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 1: I don't really care. But I guarantee you if you 372 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: put the sport in our hands, the sport would improve 373 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: the next day. Here's the problem. Not everyone's pockets would 374 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: be as deep. I don't think I'm supposed to say 375 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: that one out loud. Yeah, there's not necessarily correlation with 376 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 1: you becoming richer and college football becoming better. And who 377 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: am I talking to when I say you? Well, if 378 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 1: you're driving around Des Moines, Iowa. If you're driving around Albuquerque, 379 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: New Mexico, or Fort Worth, Texas or Sarasota, Florida, chances 380 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: are I'm not talking to you. Chances are the folks 381 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: I'm talking to don't even know this show exists because 382 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: they really don't love consuming college football media. They don't 383 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: really love consuming college athletics. They love enriching themselves off 384 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: of it. Those kinds of people are free to exist, 385 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: they just don't need to exist with their hands on 386 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:59,719 Speaker 1: the wheel of college football. Next up, I didn't really 387 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: answer that question, by the way, but it gave me 388 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 1: an excuse to just go off on these people for 389 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: a minute or two. I'm gonna have to be around 390 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: them for the next few weeks, so it's just an 391 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: early head start on something I'll be feeling for about 392 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: the next month or so. Let's see which one? What 393 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: brand of white teas do you wear? I can't tell you, Dax, 394 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: because the company has not paid for me to tell you. 395 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: I wear a white T shirt every show I have 396 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: since I've gotten here, and out of all of the 397 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: home runs we've hit with Quick Trip and Academy and 398 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: I mean we've hit a home run with Zvia somehow, 399 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: some way, I have not had an apparel company reach 400 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: out to me for the most obvious slam dunk sponsorship 401 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: opportunity ever. And it boggles the mind, it really does. 402 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: But as long as that is standard procedure for them, 403 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: then I will be wearing anonymous white teas next up. 404 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 1: Is it harder? This is from Thomas? Is it harder 405 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: to win a championship in the NIL era compared to 406 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: the BCS era? If so, what does it say about 407 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: Kirby Smart if he secures one during the peak of 408 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: this transformative period in college football. No, Thomas, I don't 409 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: think it's any harder to win the championship. I think 410 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: you've got the exact same odds of winning the championship 411 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 1: now as you would have in the previous generation because 412 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,199 Speaker 1: everyone's playing in the same format. So if we had 413 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: the BCS era or the four team era or the 414 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: twelve team era, as long as everyone's playing by the 415 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: same rules in the same format, you've got the same 416 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 1: odds of winning it that you always had. Here's the rub. 417 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: It is infinitely harder to string them together. It's infinitely harder, 418 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier, to do what Nick Saban did. 419 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. I mean, I'd be shocked. I'd 420 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: be shocked if Nick Saban came back and did that. 421 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: So I think maybe past the surface, what could be 422 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: tough you mentioned Kirby smart there. What could be tough 423 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: for a guy like Kirby is to run his program 424 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: the way he has grown up in the coaching industry, 425 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: learning how to run a program intoday's age, because in 426 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: today's age, the exit door is always open. In today's age, 427 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: you get punished for recruiting and developing by everyone rating 428 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: the second string on your roster and overpaying them, and 429 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: it strips away your two's and so you go from 430 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: a one to a three as soon as you have 431 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: an injury, and that right there is an unforeseen consequence. 432 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: It's an unintended consequence I guess maybe, or maybe not, 433 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,199 Speaker 1: of just what we do now in college football with 434 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: and I own the portal. Everyone's got thoughts on it. 435 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: But whatever your thoughts are, it is what it is. 436 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: So I think maybe the answer is not is it 437 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: harder to win a title? No, it's the same as 438 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: it's always been, But it's harder to win three or 439 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 1: four of them, and it's harder to do it a 440 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,479 Speaker 1: certain way, maybe the Kirby smart way. Maybe that gets harder. 441 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: So maybe that's what we're talking about there. Uh, do 442 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: you consider yourself a part of the college football media? Yeah? 443 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: But all lowercase, no upper case there. Varnell said, why 444 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: is Oregon number one and extremely disrespected? Who's disrespecting Oregon? 445 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: Have I missed this as someone disrespecting Oregon? Or are 446 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: we considering someone picking them to lose a football game 447 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: disrespect because they are a two and a half point 448 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: dog in the Rose Bowl. Now I picked them to win, 449 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: but wouldn't be the biggest shock in the world if 450 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: Ohio State won the game. I think Oregon's gotten a 451 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: minse respect. I don't know where that comes from. Disrespect 452 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: and commitment, I think are two words that just need 453 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 1: to be banished from the college football vernacular because no 454 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: one really knows what they're saying when they say these words. 455 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: No one. I've got a whole rant that I've gone 456 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: on forever about the term commitment in recruiting and why 457 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: we never should have used the word commitment to describe 458 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: what a high school player is doing when he says 459 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: he's going to play for Auburn. That's not commitment. Signing 460 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: a piece of paper that's commitment up until that point. 461 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: It's just it's kind of like dating. You can end tomorrow. 462 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: You're not bound to anything or anyone. So I don't 463 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: know how I got there talking about Oregon, but organ 464 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: is number one. There should be number one. They're not disrespected. 465 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: They're just not They may have gotten a bad draw 466 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: so you can get mad at the committee, which we've 467 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,959 Speaker 1: already talked about. I don't think they're disrespected. 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I'm not sure how to pronounce this name, 484 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: myrus Maybe anyway, question is question is not in front 485 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: of me anymore because I just deleted it. Uh there, 486 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: it is all right? How come you support the complaints 487 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: of fans that say the playoff has shifted focus away 488 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: from the Bulls. You say how good Bowl traditions are, 489 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: but then on Sunday show, instead of actually talking about 490 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: the bowls that happened, you talked about playoff games that 491 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: you had already broken down. Okay, I'll explain this to you. 492 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: I had not broken down those playoff games. I had 493 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: given a couple of thoughts on each one of them 494 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: because I thought it made sense to double dip content wise, 495 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: because we had a very weird schedule coming up, so 496 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: I feel remember we had the first round games and 497 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 1: then we came back. We did one show on that Sunday, 498 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: and then we went away for Christmas break, so we 499 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: were not going to have another show until Sunday, the 500 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: twenty ninth. The games started two days later, so we're 501 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: coming back. We've got to do full wall to wall breakdowns, 502 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: the actual prediction videos that we do, and we've got 503 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: forty eight hours to do them. That really was why 504 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: I did the Sunday show at noon, because I wanted 505 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: as much shelf life on those videos as we could get, 506 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: and as it stood, we were only going to get 507 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: about thirty six hours to forty eight hours shelf life 508 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 1: on them, so we did not have the same runway 509 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: we normally would. But I'll tell you another reason is 510 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: we've done the Bowl reactions before, we don't get traffic 511 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: on them. I've explained this before, but I'll explain it 512 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: again because we got like a million people watching and 513 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: listening to this that well mainly listening to this that 514 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: weren't around the last time I explained this. Within reason, 515 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: I will put stuff in the show even if I 516 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: know it's not going to do huge numbers. But I 517 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: am not going to consistently weave themes into this show 518 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: that you repeatedly show me you don't really want in 519 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: the show. If I had my way, I would put 520 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: a lot of Bowl reactions in the show. But it 521 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: is not a show for me. It's a show for you. 522 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: If I stacked the show for me, I just talked 523 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,239 Speaker 1: about train hopping and storm chasing in college football, and 524 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: I'd probably lean a little more towards the other two. 525 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: This is your show, So I listened to you loud 526 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: and clear. I listened to you, and when we did 527 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: the Bowl reactions in the past, you guys didn't care 528 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: all that much and I think it's because Bowl season 529 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: has been redefined. It's not like I'm blaming you. You 530 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: like what you like. You're interested in what you're interested in. 531 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: The other thing I would have struggled with if I 532 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: did Bowl reactions is how do you talk about the games? 533 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,479 Speaker 1: My own personal takeaways from these games are not like 534 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: they would have been. I don't think it's the same 535 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: cap on a season that it used to be. I 536 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: look at these games more as a first version of 537 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: spring practice. Maybe I'm a lot more interested in watching 538 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: which players that will be around next year are getting 539 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: some of their first opportunities. Now that's because of the 540 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: opt out culture. To be very clear, I didn't change 541 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: that Bowl season changed, and then I reacted to that. 542 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: Yet again, it's something I don't like. Yet again, it's 543 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: something that I wish was more along the lines than 544 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: it used to be, but it is not. And so 545 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: we can we can look into the rearview mirror, or 546 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: we can make the show reflect the here and now. 547 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: And I may want to do the former, but we 548 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: have to do the latter. So I didn't do a 549 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: lot of Bowl reaction because the audience patterns have overwhelmingly 550 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: told me you don't really want that. If you disagree 551 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: with that, I am all ears. You let me know 552 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: if you disagree with that, and who knows, maybe we'll 553 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: change it up. But as for now, that's the reason 554 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: why I did not do more non Playoff Bowl reaction. Next, 555 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: this is from Doug. How long will it take Kaylin 556 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: de Bor to get Bama back to a championship level? 557 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: One more year? Maybe maybe two, depending on what they 558 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: are at quarterback next year. I got no clue what 559 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: they'll be at quarterback next year. My guess is Jalen 560 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: Milroe moves on. My guess is ty Simpson gets a shot. 561 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: That's my guess. I do not know, though, So one year, 562 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: one year at the soonest two years at the latest. 563 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: De Bor is a stud man, they will be a 564 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: winner there, and so it could be as early as 565 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I would lean more towards twenty twenty six, 566 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: with an outside shot that they get hot in twenty 567 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: twenty five. That's not predicting they're going to win a title. 568 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: The question was just championship level. I'd say two years max, 569 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: and they are at that level again. Next up, what 570 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: is your favorite campus you've ever visited. This is Notre 571 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: Dame by a fairly wide margin. Believe it or not, 572 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: it's Notre Dame. Notre Dame is unlike any other place 573 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: in college football. It's unlike any other campus in college football. 574 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: The stadium, for me, at least, is unlike any other 575 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 1: venue in college football. Now. I think that's cause I'm 576 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: very romantic about our sport, very romantic. So are a lot 577 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: of you out there that may mock the movie Rudy. 578 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: I think Rudy's great. I don't care how many plot 579 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: holes there are relative to what history actually shows happened. 580 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: I really don't care about that because for a broad 581 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: strokes purpose, for the purpose of college football storytelling, I 582 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: think they knocked it out of the park with that movie. 583 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: I think when you go up there, if you did 584 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: not grow up there, if you grew up in the South, 585 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: if you only saw Notre Dame on TV, if you 586 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: only learned about Newt Rottenney and Era Parsigian through your 587 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: dad's really really old VHS tapes that were stacked up 588 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: in the corner, and then you get to go up there, 589 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: like I have a few times now to cover games. 590 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: It's like just being dropped in a different world. It's amazing. 591 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: And the two times I've been up there, they've both 592 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: been incredible weather days. That Ohio State game in South 593 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: Bend last year was as good as it gets. The 594 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: finish was incredible, the weather was incredible, everything was incredible. 595 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: So Notre Dame is my favorite campus. It's my favorite 596 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: road stadium to go to. I guess I don't have 597 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: a home stadium like that's my favorite place to go. 598 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: Notre Dame is my favorite place to go. That gets 599 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: me beat up in the South verbally at least, but 600 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: that is my favorite place to go. Jeff asked me 601 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: how long until conferences have their own playoffs. I'm not 602 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: sure what exactly you mean by that, Jeff. I think 603 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: we're not too far away from that. So there was 604 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: an article out by Brett McMurphy yesterday as you're listening, 605 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: and it was about how the conference commissioners and whatnot 606 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: their meeting. They're trying to get the format changed for 607 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five to where the top four seeds in 608 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: the playoff don't have to be only conference champs, which 609 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: is a move I think that has broad support amongst fans. 610 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: So that's not happening in a vacuum, because right now 611 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: there's no incentive for the commissioner of the ACC to 612 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: sign off on that, or the commissioner of the Big 613 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 1: Twelve to sign off on that in a vacuum, because 614 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: like the Big Twelve just benefited from that, the Mountain 615 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,919 Speaker 1: West just benefited from that. And if you need total 616 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: consensus to change the rule before twenty twenty six, why 617 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 1: would you sign off on that, Well, you'd sign off 618 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: on it now because you may or may not know 619 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,240 Speaker 1: that if you don't meet them in the middle now, 620 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 1: they're threatening some much bigger, more decisive action when they 621 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: have the legal right to in twenty twenty six. And 622 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: what I think that may entail, one way or the 623 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: other is carving out a new format where there is 624 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,360 Speaker 1: a certain allotment of seats at the table for a 625 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: conference like the Big Ten, a conference like the SEC. 626 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,720 Speaker 1: And what I think they want is they want, whether 627 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: it be three or four, they want guaranteed seats at 628 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,879 Speaker 1: the table auto bids. In other words, you know, I'm 629 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: not a fan of this, but I'm not telling you 630 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: what I want to happen. I'm telling you what I 631 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,280 Speaker 1: think may very well happen. And like if the SEC 632 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: or the Big Ten had four guaranteed spots, what I 633 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: think that would allow them to do is stop focusing 634 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 1: on the committee and you just focus on your conference 635 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: championship race. For example, if you know the SEC gets 636 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: four automatic spots every year, what I think you could 637 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,840 Speaker 1: do is you could just crown a conference champ, like 638 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: whoever finishes number one in the conference at the end 639 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: of the regular season. You kind of do like you 640 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: do in college basketball. They get crowned regular season conference 641 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 1: champ and they get your first seat at the playoff table, 642 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: and the number two team gets the second seat at 643 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,439 Speaker 1: the playoff table. They don't play in a conference championship game, 644 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: they're just automatically in the number three, four, five, and 645 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,760 Speaker 1: six teams I think would fight over those final two seats, 646 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: And on what used to be conference championship Saturday, I 647 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: think you'd put three versus six in one play in game. 648 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: You would put four versus five in another play in game, 649 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: and the winners of those games take your third seat 650 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: and fourth seat in the playoff. And what that did 651 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,919 Speaker 1: is it kept premium focus on your conference championship race, 652 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,600 Speaker 1: and it put maximum importance on winning conference games. Also 653 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: think about what else that could do at that point. 654 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 1: If you know in the SEC that you've got four 655 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,919 Speaker 1: guaranteed seats at the table and it's based on your 656 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: conference standings, you don't really mind adding a ninth conference 657 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: game right now. They don't want to do it because 658 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: they don't think there's much value in it and they 659 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,960 Speaker 1: think they could get punished for it, and they're probably 660 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: right about that. Well, that would remove that from the equations. 661 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,319 Speaker 1: I think that's the direction they're going to try and go. 662 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,000 Speaker 1: I really do. I know a bunch of fans and 663 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,359 Speaker 1: media are talking about how they need to just change 664 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,720 Speaker 1: it to where if it's twelve teams or fourteen teams, 665 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 1: they just seed it one through fourteen. Well, yeah, that 666 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: makes sense. I don't think that's where the conferences want 667 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: to go, because I think the Big two disproportionately want 668 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 1: some guarantees and they probably got enough weight to throw 669 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: around to where they get that. Okay, what did we do? 670 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: We went with like thirty seven thirty eight minutes. This 671 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 1: was nice. You gotta let me know if you want 672 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: more of this. It's very impromptu, very casual, not that 673 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: kind of casual, but very casual, very laid back, and 674 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: who knows, maybe I'll start doing more of these. We 675 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 1: used to do the lay Cack extra mailbag, which was 676 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 1: kind of like this. Maybe we'll get back in this rhythm, 677 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: but in the meantime, I gotta go to bed. Hope 678 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed this, Appreciate you. I will enjoy the 679 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,479 Speaker 1: semifinals along with you. I'll be at the Rose Bowl 680 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,160 Speaker 1: on Wednesday. I'll be back in Nashville for a full 681 00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: reaction show at our normal time Thursday night. Until then, 682 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 1: take care and God bless. 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