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Speaker 2: For me, I'm a man, I'm forty.

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Speaker 1: I've heard so many players say, well I want to

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Speaker 1: Edith Steak, is that woo woom? And then and tie.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Soliverbo boys and girls. My name

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Speaker 2: is Ty Hildebrandt, joining me over there, live and live

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Speaker 2: in color on this beautiful Sunday morning in Chicagoland. The one,

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Speaker 2: the only, the incomparable. Dan Ruberstein, sir, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: Only live for a select Patreon tier though correct, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm live to you, but on demand for everybody else, So.

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Speaker 2: Premium verballers have access to the live stream. This being

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Speaker 2: week zero, it is kind of our pilot episode for

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Speaker 2: doing the live thing on a Sunday morning, So we'll

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Speaker 2: see how it goes. As you often like to say,

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Speaker 2: the most improvement typically takes place between the first game

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Speaker 2: in the second game. Yeah, So, in our little world here,

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Speaker 2: this is our test run of the live stream. How

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Speaker 1: I'm good? I'm going to say, but between weeks one

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Speaker 1: and two, I'm gonna give ourselves a grace period. So

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Speaker 1: we have until week two to get our acts together

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Speaker 1: technologically and physically. I'm good. I watched football yesterday, which

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Speaker 1: was very exciting to do, and I haven't done it

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Speaker 1: in quite some time, live football, or in my case,

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Speaker 1: some kind of later on football. I did watch some

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Speaker 1: of the UCLA game live, but I was out and

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Speaker 1: about and being a dad for you know. I looked

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Speaker 1: at Nebraska Illinois and I said, you know what, I

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Speaker 1: can catch up what that one? I can I can

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Speaker 1: watch that one in its entirety later. And I think

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Speaker 1: that was the pro move on my part. So I

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Speaker 1: am happy to I'm on the swing and I'm backing up.

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Speaker 1: I think the potential energy is pretty big here. I'm excited, Tye.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Dan. Before we go any further, we have breaking no boo. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: about the limited slate of Week five or Week zero

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Speaker 2: action the five games of Week zero. Momentarily, this was

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Speaker 2: kind of our tune up session, Dan, How did it feel.

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Speaker 2: Was it great to have the fans back?

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Speaker 1: It was for me got a failed hurdle from DTR

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Speaker 1: we did. We got all sorts of references that we

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Speaker 1: was great to have everything, just even just the announcers.

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Speaker 1: The UCLA Ruins. Yeah, I loved it all right, So

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Speaker 2: the just general takeaway from Week zero. It's been a

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Speaker 1: Unless you are a Robert at the ALIONI board.

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Speaker 2: There's a machine, a machine of Illinois football coverage. What

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the same thing it is every year,

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Speaker 2: And speaking of sloppy, this is from our friend Ari Wasserman.

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Speaker 2: I saw this in reference to the Nebraska Illinois game.

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Speaker 2: the way, Dan, that was the first two points of

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Speaker 2: Nebraska trying to overcome a twenty one point deficit. Now,

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Speaker 2: or the eventual outcome. That's a nice little Applebee's sampler,

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Speaker 1: Guess, I mean it's a little bit of like, well,

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Speaker 1: this is good enough. Yeah, it was fine. It was

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Speaker 1: It was not a great TV watch, That's all I

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Speaker 1: Can we keep chains moving? And on defense it's like, okay,

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Speaker 2: No, and I like we were talking about it in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're trying, they're trying. It just didn't

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Speaker 2: You see LA forty four of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors ten.

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Speaker 1: A little bit worried about dtr literally really he missed it.

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Speaker 2: Ucla again wins forty four to ten. We will talk

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Speaker 2: Fresno won forty five nil. I don't think this comes

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Speaker 2: game or see any highlights?

434
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Speaker 1: I just watched some highlights. Ronnie Rivers, who I think

435
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: he set the Fresno record for career touchdowns, is in

436
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: his fifth year of playing. That's one of those super

437
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 1: senior elements. You're like, yes, he's really good, he's really impressive,

438
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: but also, how are we considering this a record? And

439
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 1: he's playing in his fifth year, not a fifth year player,

440
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: a fifth year on field player. So Fresno has Oregon

441
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: next week, so it's going to get significantly more difficult

442
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: in Eugene. But Ja Kyner was at one point a

443
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: Pac twelve quarterback and played pack twelve games for Washington,

444
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 1: so I think he's pretty good. I think it's going

445
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: to be a comfortable Oregon win next week. We'll get

446
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 1: into that more. But if you're going to go to

447
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: atsin and play what we believe to be a top

448
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 1: fifteen ish team to get that week zero the reps

449
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: that they were able to get in and I like

450
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: Kaylin de Borr all the same. But yeah, nice one.

451
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 1: Taking care of business hundred twenty. I don't know if

452
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 1: you've ever been in central California during the summer.

453
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: I was at a wedding about eight years ago, and

454
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: I forget what the name of the town was, but

455
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 2: we were obviously doing our thing and I talked to

456
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 2: you about.

457
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: It Inland, California.

458
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: It was an outdoor wedding. I don't think it was

459
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 2: Central California. It was southern California, Oka or more southern California. Yeah,

460
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,360
Speaker 2: outdoor wedding at the top of a hill, beautiful views,

461
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 2: hummingbirds flying around. I mean it was. It was wonderful.

462
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 2: It was hot as hell, man, I sweated right through

463
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 2: that suit. I've never been in one hundred and twenty

464
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 2: degree heat. I have no idea what that must.

465
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: Really Yeah, man, it's you know, California. They'll talk about

466
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 1: the dry heats and whatever, but once you get above

467
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: one hundred and five dry wet, it sort of all

468
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: goes out the window, especially if you're in a parking

469
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: lot or something that really absorbs the heat something you know,

470
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: a tennis court or some sort of asphalt situation.

471
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Speaker 2: It's a lot.

472
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've spent a lot of time in Palm Springs,

473
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: Vegas and Arizona during the summer. It's uh, it beats

474
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: down on you. So I'm glad I didn't see anybody.

475
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: Did anybody like suffer heat stroke or anything serious. I

476
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: didn't see stories like that, not that I saw. So, Yeah,

477
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: that's a win and it's gonna be a long year

478
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: for Yukon. But yeah, Fresno, I want to.

479
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 2: Know San Jose State forty five, Southern Utah fourteen. A

480
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: ton of offense in this game. Five hundred and forty

481
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 2: three yards for San Jose State. Nick Starkle, He's in

482
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 2: like year eight, isn't he He is?

483
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might he's twenty five something like that.

484
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 2: Three hundred and ninety four yards, four touchdowns. Also a

485
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 2: nice game for Tyler Nevin's on the ground. Eleven penalties

486
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 2: though for the Spartans, and that is something they will

487
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: need to clean up asap because they travel to USC

488
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: next weekend and they close out the month in Kalamazoo

489
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 2: against yours against mine the Broncos of Western Michigan.

490
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't have anything to add here other than

491
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 1: San Jose State as USC next week, and that is

492
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: actually I think our pal Yogi Roth is on the call.

493
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: That should be an interesting game because San Jose State

494
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: has just like Fresno State, Oregon. San Jose State has

495
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: the week under their belts and they won the Mountain West,

496
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: and they have an older quarterback. I think. I don't

497
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: think it's a full snake in the toilet game for

498
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: the Trojans, but it could be a snake in the

499
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: toilet half.

500
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 2: Snake in the toilet half. Yeah.

501
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: Okay. Anytime you think I've retired one of the dumber

502
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: things that I've said, I'll bring it back, don't you worry?

503
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 2: All right. The other game here that we had was

504
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 2: UTEP thirty New Mexico State three. Nice game for Jacob

505
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 2: Cowan for the miners, one fight through the air, receiving

506
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 2: and a touchdown. I don't have a whole lot to

507
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 2: add here. The only thing that I'll call back to

508
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: is we did a show on Friday our WSV news

509
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 2: radio broadcast in which I believe we called out that

510
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: there was some crazy percentage of money. I'd have to

511
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: go back and look. Eighty four percent of the money

512
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 2: was on UTEP here to cover this point spread. So

513
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: perhaps we'll pay a little bit closer attention to that

514
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 2: at some point here the next time I see a

515
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 2: stat that lopsided but UTEP clearly delivered for those folks.

516
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, New Mexico State might just be one of those

517
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: teams that goes to and ten against the spread or

518
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: something like that this year as well, just because replacing

519
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: so much, not being within a conference, not out of choice,

520
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: it's just going to be it's gonna be tough sledding there.

521
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: So there you have it. Those are the five main

522
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 2: games in FBS college football in Week zero. I thought

523
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 2: maybe we could take some time here towards the end

524
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 2: of the show just talk about some of the games

525
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 2: coming up. Some of the games are going to preview.

526
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question before we do that? Though?

527
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: What went wrong at Nebraska? Like just this is that

528
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: we we're not going to have much time during the season.

529
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: We'll have news shows and stuff like that, but just

530
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: for converceation and we can you're going to run through

531
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: all the games, and we're going to talk about how

532
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: excited we are for all these matchups. But when you

533
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: look back now that there is with a certain degree

534
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: of confidence, you're like, it's not gonna happen this year

535
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: for Nebraska, right Like nine and three is not gonna happen.

536
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: We already knew that they had a brutal schedule, But

537
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: if you had to pinpoint any one thing on why

538
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: they're not a bowl team in our eyes right now,

539
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: is there is there something like what did Scott Frost

540
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: not do that somebody else in a similar position could

541
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: get a team to seven and five, eight and four? Like?

542
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: What is that? Just from Afar to you?

543
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 2: From Afar? It's the dumb stuff. Like I said, I

544
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: think Nebraska fans have been ripping their hair out for

545
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: the last couple of seasons. And it extends beyond Scott Frost.

546
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: It's not just a Scott Frost thing. But getting to

547
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 2: any level of consistency has really been an issue. They

548
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 2: have not been able to be a consistent team. It'd

549
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 2: been very lumpy, and they always find ways to do

550
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 2: something that will undermine the larger effort. Case in point

551
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 2: was yesterday with penalties the rough in the passer penalty

552
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 2: was a dumb call. There was a good call, it

553
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 2: was a dumb penalty putting themselves in those types of situations.

554
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 2: There was a taunting call along the way, like just

555
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: these little things that over the course of time add up.

556
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: Adrian Martinez. Look, he's talented, He's a dual threat kid.

557
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: He can do a lot. He did a lot in

558
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: this game against Illinois, but there is an upper limit

559
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 2: to that. He definitely has some bad habits that he

560
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: has yet to fully vanquish from his arsenal, and so

561
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: some of that stuff starts to come out when you

562
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: put I think more pressure on him to make a play.

563
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: That bit of it, to me, has been really curious

564
00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 2: under the Scott Frost regime because he came from Oregon

565
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 2: to UCF and then to Nebraska fashioned as a bit

566
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: of an offensive wizard guru. I don't feel like we're

567
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 2: any closer to establishing a real identity for Nebraska outside

568
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: of whatever Adrian Martinez can do for us. That's how

569
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 2: our offense is going to be, Right, have they really

570
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 2: not been able to find anybody better than Adrian Martinez.

571
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 2: He's a great athlete, right as a quarterback. I'm not

572
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 2: so sure. So it's like, I don't know if it's

573
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 2: they haven't found their guy. I don't know if it's

574
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 2: that whatever they're trying to do with Adrian Martinez, if

575
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 2: it's just not taking like whatever it is, it just

576
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 2: feels very disjointed on offense and just jointed across the

577
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: board when it comes to some of the little stuff.

578
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 2: So a bunch of little paper.

579
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: Cuts, Yeah, I think that's those are symptoms of probably

580
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: something more broad and all encompassing. Like I went back

581
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: and looked at who's Scott Frost brought in on his

582
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: first staff, and it was basically a staff with nobody

583
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: with a Big ten or planes footprint in terms of recruiting,

584
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: in terms of the understanding of a conference that if

585
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: you look at who has succeeded in the Big ten West,

586
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: especially over a long period of time, there's an element

587
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: of continuity, there's an understanding of the high school terrain

588
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: and here's here are the coaches that have all these relationships,

589
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: whether it's at Iowa or Wisconsin or Northwestern that like

590
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: they're recruiting to a specific identity. And there's an element

591
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: to me that just from Afar as watching Scott Frost say,

592
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: here are my guys. We're going to recruit like we're

593
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: going to go eleven and one and we're going to

594
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: recruit speed, and we're going to be the organ of

595
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: the Big ten and like or the UCF of the

596
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: Big ten, and identity wise, it doesn't seem to fit

597
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: with how they're able to recruit and maintain a culture.

598
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: And I just think it was such a backwards way

599
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: of thinking about things. And then with the number of

600
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: guys who have transferred out and Scott Frost tying his

601
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: fortunes to both Adria Martinez and briefly Luke McCaffrey, like

602
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: the evaluation and development at NOBRA at certain positions, especially

603
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: on offense. And you mentioned that they're shooting yourself in

604
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: the foot thing. I don't know if it's coaching thing.

605
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a top down coaching thing.

606
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an insistent thing. But there

607
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: is just like this element of like just Scott Frost

608
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: botched this entire operation. He just botched what it actually

609
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: because I don't look at Nebraska. I know people like

610
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: to dunk on the program as like it's not the

611
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: mid nineties anymore? Okay, but how do we turn Nebraska

612
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: into an eight and four Big Ten team? That's the thing, Like,

613
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: how do we turn how do we turn this team

614
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: that was down and had all this all these roster

615
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: issues into an eight and four team? And I think

616
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: Scott Frost tried to I don't know what is it

617
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: a whistle? What was in Super Mario three that advances

618
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: you the levels? You know what I'm talking about. I

619
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: know it always felt like Scott Frost. I'm using the

620
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: past tense because that's what it feels like, the right

621
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: tens to use. It always felt like Scott Frost was

622
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: in search of that whistle instead of just going level

623
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: to level to level.

624
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: And I don't know what it is, but it's definitely

625
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 2: not working.

626
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: I don't think, by the way, I don't think Repulam

627
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: is searching for the whistle. He just wants to win,

628
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: you know, Level one, World one, one, World two, Level one,

629
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: World three. He's just going for He's getting used to

630
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: the raccoon to what's the oh, what's thek sanuki suit?

631
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: Like that's now I'm picturing Brett Bilama in a physical

632
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: tanuki suit. I refuse to do otherwise. So that's what

633
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: I think, that's the difference, right, I think there's there

634
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: was nothing specifically incremental about Scott Frost's approach it in Lincoln.

635
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. My guess is that we're not

636
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 2: going to see it for all that much longer because

637
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: if the news about using analysts incorrectly improperly, was any

638
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: indication the fact that that came out in the manner

639
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: that it did right before the season, As you said

640
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 2: on a show, the call came from inside the house. Yeah,

641
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 2: and there is clearly pressure. I think he knows it.

642
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: This is not a great way to start the season.

643
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: Unless things turn around in a hurry, they're going to

644
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 2: be looking for a coach. We could talk throughout the

645
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: course of the season about who that next coach might be,

646
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: but it does not seem like things are on the

647
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: street and air for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

648
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Speaker 1: You know who didn't hire Scott Frost, Trev Alberts. The

649
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Speaker 1: new ads much did not hire Scott Frost.

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Speaker 2: That's true. So look next week there are a ton

651
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Speaker 2: of games, yes that we are going to discuss. Our

652
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Speaker 2: Wednesday preview show is going to be a straight up banger.

653
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty excited about it. I've already got the dock

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Speaker 2: in front of me now, and it's just a huge

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Speaker 2: It's like the Dead Sea Scrolls of just game upon

656
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Speaker 2: game upon game upon game. The six big headliners that

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Speaker 2: I have pulled out as of now are Penn State

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Speaker 2: at Wisconsin on Saturday. All these are on Saturday, Penn

659
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Speaker 2: State at Wisconsin, Alabama Neutral Cider in Atlanta against Miami

660
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Speaker 2: Georgia versus Clemson the Duke's Mayo Classic, part of the

661
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Speaker 2: Duke's Mayo Classic doubleheader weekend. As we've discussed before, We've

662
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Speaker 2: got LSU at UCLA, which should be very interesting, and

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Speaker 2: then on Sunday night we've got Notre Name at Florida State.

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Speaker 2: On Monday night, we've got Louisville at Louisville All Miss

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Speaker 2: also in Atlanta. And that's not all. I mean, there's

666
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Speaker 2: just a litany of games all throughout the weekend. Boise

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Speaker 2: and UCF on Thursday night on ESPN, Yeah, should be

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Ohio State, Yeah, Ohio State Minnesota

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Speaker 2: at eight pm on Fox on Thursday should be a

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Speaker 2: good game as well. You know, who knows what we're

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Speaker 2: going to get. First game on the road, out of C. J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud.

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Speaker 2: A ton of talent there, for sure, but we'll be interesting.

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Speaker 2: We've got UNC Virginia Tech on the road at Virginia

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Speaker 2: Tech on Friday, then some other games just that. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've been hinting throughout the course of our own previews

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Speaker 2: here about Stanford at k State.

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Speaker 1: If and let's let's use the I think it was

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Speaker 1: Andy Stables and Ari Wasserman made the banana bet, the

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Speaker 1: Will Levis banana bet. Now you saw the video Will

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Speaker 1: Levis how he eats a banana with the rind.

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Speaker 2: With the I did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. If Braxton Burmeister lights up North Carolina in a

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Speaker 1: winning effort, will you do the banana? I'll challenge, I will, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll do it. Okay, Yeah, Temple Rutgers tie. You skipped

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Speaker 1: right over. There's a game in my backyard, Michigan State

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Speaker 1: Northwestern Friday night forever going day, taking my family solid Toddler.

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Speaker 1: It's five now, I think it's an eight pm local kick,

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Speaker 1: but it's uh, it's five minutes down the road. I

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Speaker 1: don't I think I could probably get in, so I

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Speaker 1: don't know. If any Northwestern people want to give me

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Speaker 1: a ticket, maybe I'll consider it.

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Speaker 2: So that probably like six bucks to get into that game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the North Carolina Virginia Tech game is over.

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing thirty four dollars is the get in price

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Speaker 1: of Michigan State Northwestern. That's a totally interesting game. We

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Speaker 1: get to see like a true off season Michigan State,

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Speaker 1: who I don't believe is still they've not named a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Between Peyton Thorn and Anthony Russo and Northwestern Hunter Johnson,

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Speaker 1: what could go wrong? So yeah, here, you're right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's all day Saturday. It's all sorts of good times.

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Speaker 1: I did see you see Hudson card was named the

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Speaker 1: starter at Texas.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 1: That'll be interesting. I don't know if there were any

706
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Speaker 1: other huge starting quarterback announcements. I haven't seen anything with

707
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Speaker 1: Michigan State, but Anthony Brown at Oregon was named ahead

708
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Speaker 1: of the Fresno game. They're like four Fresno, Anthony Brown

709
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: was named the starter. So now at least there's a

710
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Speaker 1: peace of mind there for Oregon fans who are hoping

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Speaker 1: for something different. I guess they're just like, Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: who the starter is. So yeah, I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: do the preview on Tuesday tie because that's in earnest

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Speaker 1: the first time, like help damn tie? Like that is

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Speaker 1: that's the feeling, that's the true start of the season.

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Speaker 2: We were just getting tuned up, yeah, and ready for

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Speaker 2: the week one action in doing our week gerald preview

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Speaker 2: last week?

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Speaker 1: How were the broadcast by the way, anything stand out

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Speaker 1: to you? Fox pregame or in game broadcast. ESPN mentioned

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Speaker 1: Beth Mwens on the UCLA call. I think was Joe

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Speaker 1: Davis doing Nebraska in Illinois? Anything? No game Day? No

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Speaker 1: Maria Taylor on game day anymore? Lee Corso back. A

724
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Speaker 1: lot of emotion there. I just watched a few minutes

725
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Speaker 1: of it. But anything jump out to you about the

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Speaker 1: TV aspect of Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I believe there may have been some reference by David

728
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Speaker 2: Pollock too. It all starting up front. Hell yeah, oh,

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Speaker 2: I believe there may have been reference to that. I

730
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Speaker 2: was watching specifically for fantasy things. So we had the

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Speaker 2: failed hurdle by dtr We had just all day glad

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Speaker 2: to have the fans back that type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: So you know, always a nice little easter egg to

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Speaker 2: see that stuff incorporated into a college football Saturday. No,

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Speaker 2: I you know, I was a little bit perturbed because

737
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Speaker 2: I thought the first game was going to kick off

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Speaker 2: at one eastern. But then I tuned into Fox and

739
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 2: it was like, okay, we got to do the pregame

740
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Speaker 2: thing now where we got to talk to we gotta

741
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Speaker 2: talk to Reggie Bush, we gotta talk to Matt Winer,

742
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 2: we got to get everybody's take on Nebraska Illino. It's like,

743
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: just we know how this is gonna go. Guys, just

744
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 2: hick the ball. So yeah. But other than that, now,

745
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 2: it's just it's good to have a season back. It's

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Speaker 2: good to kind of get things started and get her

747
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Speaker 2: feet wet here with doing live broadcasts on Sunday morning

748
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Speaker 2: and talking about actual game gameplay. It's great.

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Speaker 1: I did see. I was watching Game Day again. It

750
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, seven minutes worth, and it

751
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: was fine. It was Game Day that I'm used to.

752
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: But there was a woman, a reporter or something on

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Speaker 1: the Game Day set who was doing a piece that

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Speaker 1: probably Maria Taylor Aaron Andrews would have done before them,

755
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: and it was such an amazing local news intro to

756
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: her segments that I just my jaw dropped. It was

757
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: something like, hey, guys, did you know that there was

758
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: a change shortage in twenty twenty. That's right, there were

759
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: there were shortage of coins. Well in college football, there

760
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: was no shortage of change in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

762
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Speaker 1: I was just like, look at you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was my take away from Kakay all right,

764
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Speaker 2: and it was.

765
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Speaker 1: Just like weird year. I was like, yeah, weird year,

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Speaker 1: I would say, So that's all. That was what was wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I like, I love a good especially now that we're

768
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Speaker 1: doing the WSV Show on Fridays, I'm always paying attention

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Speaker 1: to like a good solid newsy segue.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well look, speaking of the Friday show, we

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Speaker 2: would encourage everybody to subscribe, slash follow, yeah, the podcast

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Speaker 2: feed if you haven't already, if you like the show,

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Speaker 2: if you want to support the show, maybe the Patreon

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Speaker 2: things for you. Maybe it isn't, but one easy way

775
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Speaker 2: does help as we build into the season. Now when

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Speaker 2: we know a lot of college football fans are going

782
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Speaker 2: to be out there looking for fun content as it

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Speaker 2: relates to the new season. You can also go on

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Speaker 2: out to our website Verbal dot com and sign up

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Speaker 2: for the newsletter. You can do it there. You can

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Speaker 2: also go to newsletter dot Solid Verbal dot com. And

787
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Speaker 2: what we've been doing is we've been sending out messages

788
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Speaker 2: every Friday. This week, we're actually going to start up

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Speaker 2: with the premium newsletter that is available to our Patreon subscribers.

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Speaker 2: You said you're writing a column this week.

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Speaker 1: I am. Yeah. The premium newsletter is my interpretation of

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Speaker 1: how to be married and a parent during the college

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Speaker 1: I got some on Twitter last week and in the

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Speaker 1: Patreon discord. But if if you want to send suggestions

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Speaker 1: about how to be a married human or in a

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Speaker 1: that'd be helpful. Because I'm learning still life is continued education.

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Speaker 2: Dan is still learning. So yeah, So the newsletter is

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Speaker 2: starting to ramp up. As I said at the top

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Speaker 2: of the show, of course, the articles are ramping up.

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Speaker 2: As well. We've been doing that the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: But the premium newsletter is only for patrons, right, correct

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Speaker 1: the premium newsletter, Yeah, that's correcting. Sure, yep forballers dot com.

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Speaker 2: And hey, Dan, one more time playerunbeboard dot com. We

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Speaker 2: told you at the top of the show about the

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Speaker 2: special new game that we are conducting. Run the board again.

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Speaker 2: You can win week to week, you can get free

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Speaker 2: merch that's pretty cool. But if you win the season,

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Speaker 2: if you finish in the top five after we drop

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Speaker 2: your two lowest scores out, you will be elected to

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Speaker 2: the first ever Solid Verbal Board of Trustees that gives

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Speaker 2: you the special trophy to signify your membership, gives you

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Speaker 2: access to annual meetings, top secret communications about the show,

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Speaker 2: the right to vote on key matters.

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Speaker 1: Dan, Oh my god, I'm a little nervous about this. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: does that mean that a Board of trustee member can

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Speaker 1: call an emergency meeting?

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Speaker 2: At the point?

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Speaker 1: I think it might. I think it might.

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Speaker 2: I think it might.

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Speaker 1: I think like, if there is something that comes in huge,

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Speaker 1: if Tye gets hired by Big Noon Saturday and we

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Speaker 1: need to think about the future of the Solid Verbal,

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Speaker 1: I think We're going to have to have an emergency

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for sure, of course playrundboard dot com again

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Speaker 2: is the url you got to sign up for the

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Speaker 2: Patreon It's only available to a Patreon subscribers. Registration for

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Speaker 2: this game closes before kickoff on Saturday. You have till

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Speaker 2: Saturday before kickoff to get your name in the ring.

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Speaker 2: But very much looking forward to this. Our community is growing.

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Speaker 2: It's a great community of college football fans. We're going

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Speaker 2: to be accountable, maybe for the first time ever, which

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Speaker 2: feels a little awkward, but I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: About it, maybe for the first time ever. I'm already sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm very distracted thinking about the possibility is that an

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Speaker 1: emergency meeting would have to be called for, Like if

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Speaker 1: it came out that Brian Kelly and his wife invited

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Speaker 1: you and the solid wife Kate to Wahaka or to

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Speaker 1: Geneva for some sort of off season vacation, like, well,

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00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: can Ty be trusted to talk about Notre Dame football?

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00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:27,439
Speaker 1: Is he conflicted? Is he compromised? That's an emergency board

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Speaker 1: meeting a situation in which you and the Kellys are

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Speaker 1: vacation friends.

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Speaker 2: Alrighty, Dan, I think that is all we have for now.

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Speaker 2: Would encourage everyone to go on out to the website,

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Speaker 2: read what's going on, follow along on the show, tell

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Speaker 2: other friends about what we've got going on here on

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Speaker 2: the Solid Verbal, because we have a very big week

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Speaker 2: in front of us, do we not?

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Speaker 1: We do? Shout out Shuffler, shout out Sidelines, Penn State,

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Speaker 1: shout out these Dan Games, shout out Tyler forty eight

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Speaker 1: twenty five, shout out always Returning. And I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: you uncomfortable saying it, but shout out the womb Raider them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all just really dedicated patrons. I love them.

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Speaker 2: Daniel, you enjoy the rest of your Sunday. All right,

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Speaker 2: hey you too, my man for that guy over there,

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Speaker 2: my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, tie holding a brand.

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Speaker 2: We will talk to you all on Wednesday. Let's get

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Speaker 2: ready for a week one. In the meantime, stay safe,

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Speaker 2: stay solid, Peace,