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Speaker 1: keep trying until they get it right. Like Auburn will

429
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: not rest until they're a contender, Oklahoma will not rest

430
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 1: until they're a contender. And you can say that on

431
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: the second and third tier of these other conferences, there's

432
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Speaker 1: no reason for me to believe you'll ever actually be one.

433
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 1: There is a lot of depth South Carolina A and

434
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 1: m Ole Miss Tennessee. LSU is just too many historically

435
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: high level pros that were or weren't at a high

436
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: level this year that I trust will be. So you

437
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: can theorize all you want to that this new format

438
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: has brought this conference back to earth. Bringing it back

439
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: to Earth may only pull it even with you. Any

440
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 1: given year could still be number one. Quick Trip, well

441
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: number one in my book. Quick Trip has fueled the

442
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: whole New Saturday tour all year, and I got to

443
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: tell you something. You may think gas You may think

444
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: trail mix I do. You may think cole Brew on tap.

445
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: Two things. Firstly, they sent me a thera gun the

446
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: other day. I forgot to tell them that it arrived

447
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: in the mail. Quick Trip continues to surprise me. I

448
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: mean the thera gun. Like Canal first told me about

449
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 1: these things. It's where you press the buttons. You just

450
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: massage out all the muscle cramps. I happen to have

451
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 1: one with the beautiful QT sticker on it. There it

452
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: is right there. Somehow it makes it feel just a

453
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: little bit better. I don't know the science, but even

454
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: if you're not interested in muscle therapy brought to you

455
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: by Quick Trip Gasoline, you absolutely should be. And Matt

456
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: Miller hit us up in the spirit of a mail

457
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: bag episode. Our buddy Matt Miller hit us up and said,

458
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 1: favorite roller food item from Quick Trip. Now this is where, candidly,

459
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 1: I hope they're not watching tonight. I have sent I

460
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: have meal prepped when I'm on the road to such

461
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: an extent that I am shamefully admitting to you tonight

462
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: I have not partaken in roller food at Quick Trip.

463
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: I'm not proud of it. It doesn't make me happy.

464
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: I know I have work to do. I'm not a

465
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Speaker 1: perfect person. Sometimes I care too much, Sometimes I overly give,

466
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes I plan too thoroughly, and this is one of

467
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: those cases. So my vow to you, Matt. I will

468
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 1: have you an answer soon, but I do not have

469
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Speaker 1: you an answer right now, and I can't side unseen.

470
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: So so I see that stuff. It all looks good

471
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 1: to me, but I'm always you know, the tupperwares out

472
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: in the car, I got the grilled chicken. I'm not

473
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: supposed to eat for another hour and a half, which

474
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Speaker 1: is a miserable way to live, by the way I would,

475
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: I would much prefer, and I would much suggest you

476
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: guys live in accordance with Matt. Everyone should be able

477
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: to answer the question what's your favorite roller food? At

478
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: Quick Trip? And yet, hypocritically here I am not able

479
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 1: to answer it. I'm ashamed. I will do better, but

480
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: we appreciate quick Trip nonetheless. All right, let's move on.

481
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Speaker 1: Got a lot of a lot of mail bag type

482
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Speaker 1: content to get to. Oh yeah, all right, let's let's

483
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: dive in here. So you may or may not have noticed,

484
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:51,719
Speaker 1: there were some moves made over the weekend. I'm recovering

485
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: from an ailment. Jed from Palm Coast, Florida. What were

486
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Miami getting Carson Beck and the Minnesota

487
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I had several, Jed. I'm glad you asked. Actually,

488
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: I wondered if we were going to put this in

489
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Speaker 1: the show tonight. Carson Beck is Miami's quarterback. Now, I

490
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: always know when the season's over for you. A lot

491
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: of you go on vacation and you just so happened

492
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: to have checked out at a time where a big

493
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: transfer portal headline came down. So some of you may

494
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: be hopping fresh off for carnival cruise ship right now

495
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: listening to the show, saying he cannot have just said

496
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Speaker 1: what I think he just said. Yes I did. Carson Beck,

497
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: formerly of Georgia fame, is now a Miami Hurricane. Presumably

498
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: he will be their starting quarterback this upcoming year. I

499
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Speaker 1: say presumably, because oh, you never want to give a

500
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: job to anyone, do you, Yeah, in this case you do.

501
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: But also he can't throw right now. He just had surgery.

502
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Speaker 1: So I got some thoughts here. Number One, we've seen

503
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Speaker 1: him at his best we've seen him at his relative worst.

504
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: Carson Beck would do great to just start throwing to

505
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: receivers will catch the ball for him. Okay, that's the

506
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: first thing. I think there are a lot of flaws

507
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: with Carson Beck. But let's understand now when you get

508
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: to the rarefied air that he was being spoken in,

509
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: potential first round NFL draft pick, potential Heisman favorite, I'm

510
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: talking about it the first of the season. There's nowhere

511
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: to go but down. So every mistake you make people criticize.

512
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: I criticized him. I didn't think he played that well

513
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: at all this year. But I will say I don't

514
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: think he had a ton of help either. Offensive line

515
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: situation was not great there this year. He got beat

516
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: to death. But also George's receivers were like historically bad

517
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: dropping the football this year. And you never know how

518
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: the season would have looked differently if nothing else changed

519
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: other than them catching the ball. That's the first thing.

520
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: The second thing is now that the season's over, we

521
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: can talk about this a little more openly. I don't

522
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: think the transition from Todd Monk and to Mike Bobo

523
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: went swimming league at all in Athens, And that's speaking

524
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: strictly about Beck, I'm not speaking about Mike Bobo as

525
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: a coordinator. I'm saying, for whatever reason, the transition probably

526
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: wasn't as smooth as they would have hoped it would

527
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Speaker 1: have been. I think it's noteworthy that there were really

528
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: not many tears shed, not a whole lot of gnashing

529
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Speaker 1: of teeth and athens when their multiple year starter at

530
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: quarterback chose to leave. You know, no one really freaked out.

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Speaker 1: There should be a pretty good indication that it was

532
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Speaker 1: one of those best for both parties to move on

533
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: type situations, and that means nothing for Miami. It could

534
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: be great news for Miami. But also my real thought

535
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: because a lot of the people criticized how Miami spent here,

536
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: and I would suggest you get the final number before

537
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: you just go with what you see on Twitter. But

538
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: what else were they gonna do? I was I need

539
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: to keep my mouth shut. What else were they gonna do? Like,

540
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: I think it was overtly obvious for any of you

541
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Speaker 1: who watched that Bowl game. For any of you is

542
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: all due respect to Miami's quarterback room, it was very

543
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: obvious the answer for twenty twenty five was not on campus.

544
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: So they had to go get someone. Now, in your mind,

545
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: sometimes you make up a market that's not there. The

546
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: market is who is available. That's the market. So it

547
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: just so happened that Carson Beck was the best available.

548
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: Like they could have, trust me, they could have made

549
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: a run for Mendoza out of cal They didn't. That's

550
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: their decision. They didn't. This was their guy, And there

551
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: is a probably a thought there that we're the kind

552
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: of place where whatever held him back at his previous

553
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: stop last year won't be such an issue with us

554
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: this year. They got good reason to think that. Look

555
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: what they just did with cam Ward Now defense didn't

556
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: help him one iota, as Memo would say. But what

557
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: worries me the most about him is he's got no spring.

558
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean he will not

559
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: pretend diticipate in spring practice. As it stands right now,

560
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: he's walking around with a brace on his throwing arm.

561
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: He just has surgery. So that concerns me a whole

562
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: lot more than all the other stuff on the periphery. Like, dude,

563
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: Shannon Dawson knows what he's doing. Miami offensively knew what

564
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: they were doing this year. Dude, they got a JUCO

565
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: left tackle looks crazy you go watch him in practice,

566
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Speaker 1: so I don't doubt the supporting cast that they'll put

567
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: around him. They got to backfill a receiver. I think

568
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Speaker 1: they'll be okay there. It's will he be ready and

569
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: when they clear him medically in the summer, that's one thing,

570
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: But then you don't just start throwing the ball all

571
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Speaker 1: day and all night once they clear. You got to

572
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: work your way back up. Is the arm strength there,

573
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: we think it will be. We don't know that. What's

574
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: the chemistry, what's the synergy? Like, they got a tough

575
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: schedule this upcoming year, so there's no time to ease

576
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: into it. They play Notre Dame out of the gate.

577
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys realize that they play

578
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. They got USF, which is one of the

579
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: best G five teams. They got Florida at home, Louisville,

580
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: n C State, they play QS, they go to Florida State,

581
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: they go to SMU and two Virginia Tech. Now that's

582
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: not in order, but this is much different look at

583
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: schedule than they had last year. So that's my thoughts

584
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: on Carson back. Now, the defensive coordinator move interesting, very interesting.

585
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't think as many people saw this headline. So

586
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: one of the things I've been following for a while,

587
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean one of the things I got too quick there.

588
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: One of the things I've been following for the past

589
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: week was what was Mario going to do defensive coordinator?

590
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: They fired Guidry. I thought it was a move that

591
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,239
Speaker 1: had to happen. Where was he gonna go? And in

592
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: the end they go get Corey Hetherman out of Minnesota.

593
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: Now there's one thing to pay attention to when you're

594
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: hiring a defensive coordinator in an overall program like this,

595
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: because I grade him fairly highly. He came from a

596
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: place where they were top twelve in all categories defensively

597
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: this past year. It is not apples to apples. The

598
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: chief concern that you have here is he is only

599
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: called plays on teams that were slower tempo wise. Miami

600
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,239
Speaker 1: is not a slow tempo team. Miami runs a very

601
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: very up tempo offense. It works for them, but what

602
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: it does is it puts a lot more strain on

603
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator. Jeff Levy dealt with this this past year.

604
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: They call as many plays per minute as any team

605
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: in the country, and he hired a guy who had

606
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: never called plays I think at all, much less called

607
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: plays on a team like that. So you gotta be

608
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: ready because it's a different challenge, it's a different animal.

609
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: You're gonna play x number more plays, x number more

610
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: snaps per game. It's just a whole new world when

611
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: you are a defensive coordinator on a team that runs

612
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: at the kind of tempo that Miami is going to

613
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: under standing Dawson, So that's the thing I'd be paying

614
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: attention to more so than is he intense enough, do

615
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: his schemes work enough? Personnel, of course I care about,

616
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: and much place else to go but up for them.

617
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: But they're ceiling. I think will ultimately be determined by that.

618
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: But it's really funny when you think about Miami, you

619
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: think about the perception versus the reality right now, to

620
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: say it to yourself, if you're listening to the show,

621
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: where do you think about Miami right now? If you're

622
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: not a Miami fan, what do you think about Miami

623
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: right now? Most of you think they're the man, they're cooked, No,

624
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: that they miss their window, washed, overrated? What are they rated?

625
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: They've gone from let's see five and seven to seven

626
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: and five to ten and two. That's their regular season

627
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: records since Mario has been there. So I'll be the

628
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: first one to tell you they dropped the ball fantastically

629
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: this past year. Like this past year, there's no excuse

630
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: for them not to be a playoff team. But remember,

631
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: there are wrungs, there are tiers on the grading ladder

632
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: in this thing. It's not your ten or trash. Okay,

633
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: it's not that you're great or you suck it. It's

634
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: your great or you're really good, and you're pretty good,

635
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: and you're kind of good in your average and you're

636
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: below average. Miami was really good this year. There was

637
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: an argument at the end of the year for them

638
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: to be included in the playoff. I didn't make it,

639
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: but at the very least they were included in the

640
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: playoff conversation at the end of the year. That's not trash.

641
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: It's under achievement relative to the squad they had and

642
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: the schedule they had, but it's not trash. So also,

643
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: let's just remember here the history of the program. This

644
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: is not the University of Georgia, it's not the University

645
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: of Alabama, it's not Ohio State. They do not have

646
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: a sustained, multi decade recent history track record of winning.

647
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: If Kaylin de Boor walks on campus at Alabama and

648
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: he goes three years without having Alabama in the playoffs,

649
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: he will be a failure. He will be a failure

650
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: because he was served on a silver platter, a situation

651
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: plenty workable enough, a roster, and a program build plenty

652
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: strong enough to where it should not take more than

653
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: a couple of years. Mario did not necessarily inherit that.

654
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: So I just find it. I just find it interesting

655
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: because Miami's very polarizing as a program, so hardly anyone

656
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: possesses the ability or willingness to just take off the

657
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: glasses and observe them in an unbiased manner. I think

658
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: if you do that, you look at him and you say, man,

659
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: how did you miss the playoff this year? But also,

660
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: you guys have improved. Program's on a lot better standing

661
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: now than it was when he got there. That's called progress.

662
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: They've made progress every year. At least that's how Mema

663
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: taught me. Progress works. Next up, we continue to roll.

664
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: Oh no, are we at the part of the show, Colin?

665
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: Is this the food poisoning question? Oh, this is terrible.

666
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: But I told you ask the questions and I will

667
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: answer them. Mark hit me up, he said, is there

668
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: a bigger low point in the history of this show

669
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: than the food poisoning incident in the days following Jacksonville PS.

670
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: I know you didn't intend for your telling of the

671
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: story to be as funny as it was, but it was. No,

672
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't, Mark, that's propaganda, that's misremembering history. This is

673
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: a disastrous story. This is the low point in the

674
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: history of this show. And I've worn a clown those

675
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: multiple times on air, but this was a different level.

676
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: So last year we were in Jacksonville for Florida versus

677
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: Georgia and I got food poisoning. So we never identified

678
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: the culprit. We narrowed it down to one of two things.

679
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: Either it was Chili's the night before because I flew

680
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: into Jacksonville and I door dashed Chili's. Assume me it's

681
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: one of the finer establishments in Jacksonville, they told me.

682
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: So I ate that, no problem. I go to bed,

683
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: I wake up, we go to the stadium, and then

684
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: I eat it halftime with Ryan Leaf, no less name dropping.

685
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: I mentioned that cause Leaf may very well have been

686
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: the guy who poisoned me. I can't rule it them out,

687
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: is all I'm saying. And so it was either Chilli's

688
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: or the halftime snacks there in Jacksonville. But one way

689
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,760
Speaker 1: or the other, I got food poisoning like you wouldn't believe,

690
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: but it happened. And what stands out among a few

691
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: things is how quickly it's set in. If you've ever

692
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: gotten food poisoning, you know what I'm talking about. So

693
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: the game ends, I'm okay, the game ends, I do

694
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: some postgame stuff. I go to press conferences Georgia one,

695
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 1: because of course they did, and we did some postgame

696
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: stuff for CBS because we had an activation there that day,

697
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: which is where a client pays and CBS comes in

698
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: and builds this big set, like the game day set,

699
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: and then you got a big desk there. Emily Proud

700
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: was there, we had a bunch of staff there. So

701
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: we get done with all that. They're they're doing the

702
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: load out, which is just when they load up the equipment,

703
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: and I'm waiting for an uber ride or something like that,

704
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: and then I realized something's wrong, something's very very wrong.

705
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: So I disappear down the way down a tunnel. Fortunately

706
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: no fans still in the stadium, and I had to

707
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 1: pull the old reversal, the old upheaval threw up in

708
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: the bathroom once. I had to go back in there

709
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 1: five minutes later twice. This is when I know it's

710
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: deteriorating rapidly. And then I hear from Gelby cars here.

711
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: Now we're five or ten minutes away, hotels five or

712
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: ten minutes away. So I think I'm timing my intervals

713
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: up and I think if I just puked, I can

714
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: make it to the hotel. That was a theory. As

715
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 1: it turns out that was not founded in totally sound logic.

716
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: Because we got about four minutes from the hotel. They

717
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: gave me the front seat and I told Gelby pulled

718
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 1: the e brak. We got to stop. Gelby was driving,

719
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: Proud was in the back seat. Coach Quinn was in

720
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: the back seat. None of these people have ever witnessed

721
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: me throw up, and I have to jump out of

722
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: the car and on a Jacksonville sidewalk, boom, there's number three.

723
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: And the worst part of it all was a Georgia

724
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: fan walks By, does not break stride and just gives

725
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: me a token go dogs. He didn't bark, so we

726
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: do have that going for us. But he gives me

727
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: a go dogs, So I get back in the car.

728
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: No one wants to admit how heinous what they just

729
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: witnessed is because when I throw up is very violent

730
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: a scream. It wreaks havoc on the vocal cords. More

731
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: on that in a second. I get to the hotel,

732
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: we are three pukes down. Another fourteen occur throughout the

733
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: rest of the night. Now, after the first few, if

734
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: you know anything about food poisoning, nothing's coming up, nothing whatsoever.

735
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: It's it's just, you know, basically the lining of your

736
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: stomach at that point, and it is tough, but you

737
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: cannot keep anything down. You can't even show on an

738
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: ice cube without it coming up. And Proud and Coach

739
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: Quinn went and got me some gatorade, and they got

740
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: me some ginger ale, and it just all ended up

741
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: in the sink, not because I poured it there. I

742
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 1: think I've been pretty clear, and so I'm badly dehydrated

743
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: laying on the ground and then the full body muscle

744
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: cramp start. Now, this was the second worst part of

745
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: food poisoning, because what you end up having is a

746
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: pain that for just a second makes you say, this

747
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: could be it, This really could be it. There's no

748
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: sign that this is gonna stop. Everything is tied up

749
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: in a cramp, your abdomen, like your underarm, your legs.

750
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: It's terrible. So you have to crawl to the shower,

751
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: turn on the hot water as hot as it'll go,

752
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: and you let the hot water run all over you

753
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: as you're laying in the shower till it loosens your

754
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: muscles up. That's the only recourse you have. So I

755
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: finally see the sun rise the next morning and it

756
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: has stopped. It has stopped, but I'm terrified to drink anything.

757
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: But that's not the worst part. The worst part is

758
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: when you realize, because of the violent nature that I

759
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: throw up him, which just basically is me yelling at

760
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: the top of my lungs. It's on God, it's not

761
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: on me. I was created this way. I have ripped

762
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: my vocal cords. I can't talk. I cannot talk. I

763
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: have no interest in talking, but I can't talk. Not

764
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: only am I uncertain enough about my status to miss

765
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: my flight, but it wouldn't have mattered if I made

766
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: my flight because I can't talk, so I stay in

767
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: Jacksonville an extra day. We miss the Sunday night show entirely,

768
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 1: first time ever, only time ever. I fly back Monday,

769
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: and I still can't talk. Nothing is coming out. We

770
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: have to cancel the Tuesday show as well. The only

771
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: two shows we've ever canceled Colin, we got here in

772
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: We started the show in March of twenty twenty. We've

773
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: canceled two shows and that was the reason ripped vocal

774
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: cords from Foodisoning. And then Thursday I could string sentences

775
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: together enough where we did like an abbreviated show. I

776
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: don't even know where we went the next week, but yeah,

777
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a low point in the

778
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: history of the show. Yes, that was the low point

779
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: in the history of the show. It was terrible. It

780
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: was terrible. I don't have many enemies, but I would

781
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: not wish it on any of them. Next up, please

782
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: let's move on to happier times. But if you stuck

783
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: with us through that week, I love you. Sting Kingston, Ohio,

784
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 1: formerly of the Police, now of Twitter trolling, said, will

785
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: you admit that you were wrong about the twelve team playoff? Well,

786
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: I should have responded to get further clarification on this.

787
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be admitting

788
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I was wrong about. But I have seen this flavor

789
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: of question a lot. So I'm asking any of you

790
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: out there. I think maybe a slight majority of you

791
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: disagreed with me on how I feel about the playoff,

792
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: which is fine. But I'm trying to ask what is

793
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: it that I was allegedly wrong about here? Because I

794
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: never said no one would watch. Quite the opposite. I

795
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: said a lot of people would watch, which they have.

796
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: I never said it wouldn't be entertaining. Quite the opposite.

797
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: I said the playoff itself will be wildly entertaining. I'm

798
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: mentioning this because I was against playoff expansion. If you're

799
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: new to the show, for many different reasons, I was

800
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: against playoff expansion. And so we're here and we have it,

801
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: and I've been to a Playoff game every round. It's

802
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: been entertaining. People have problems with the format. I do

803
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: as well. That was easy to see coming, I thought,

804
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to figure out what was I wrong about.

805
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: So the best I could tell, the most familiar theme

806
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: throughout the past, I don't know, a few days after

807
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: this last round has been I've had several people come

808
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: at me and say, oh, you were wrong about the

809
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: playoff because you know you didn't want it expanded. You

810
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: said the four team playoff was just fine. I said,

811
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: what evidence are you coming at me with? And they said, well,

812
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: two teams that would not have even been in the

813
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: four team playoff are playing for the national championship. And me,

814
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: being me, I just sit there with a blank stare

815
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:12,959
Speaker 1: like they're not done with their point. But it turns

816
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: out they're done. That's the point they're trying to make.

817
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: And I'm like, did you think this whole time I

818
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: believed that there were never any teams outside the top

819
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: four that could have won the national championship? Is that

820
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: what you thought? I'm asking some of you because we've

821
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: never really gone down this road for people like me

822
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: who did not want college football playoff expansion, For people

823
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: like me who really believed that the regular season would

824
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: provide the correct four teams and the committee would get

825
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: the right four teams most of the time, and I'd

826
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: be fine with it. Did you think I meant that

827
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: the committee would never exclude any team that would have

828
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: been capable of winning at all. Oh, I certainly never

829
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: meant that. As recently as this past year Georgia got

830
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: left out. I would have picked Georgia to win the

831
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: whole thing if they were in the the four team playoff,

832
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: but they weren't, and I was okay with them not

833
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: being in. It is not about the best, slash, most

834
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: talented or capable team, whichever adjective you want to use here.

835
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: It's always been about the most deserving team for me,

836
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: as long as this is a great big caveat as

837
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: long as we are defining deserving the right way. Because

838
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: I'm not part of the U are what your record says,

839
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: you are crowd, so that is not how we define

840
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: most deserving. But largely I thought the committee had gotten

841
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: it right. There were a few argument points, but I

842
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: thought largely they had gotten it right. Guys. I was

843
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: never sitting here thinking to myself, Uh, everybody who's been

844
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: put in the four team format, those are the only

845
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 1: teams that could have won it. There's several years Bama

846
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: got left out, they could have won it. Georgia last

847
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: year could have won it. That's not the point. The

848
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: point was always do they deserve a shot? To win it,

849
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: and based on regular season results in years like last

850
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: year even up to it, including a conference championship result.

851
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: I was okay with a very capable team being left

852
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: out like Georgia in the past. I was very fine

853
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: with a capable team in twenty twenty two like Alabama

854
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: being left out. Nick Saban sitting there at the end

855
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: of the day saying, but would be favored against everyone, Well,

856
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. That's me. I'm the one who puts

857
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 1: out a power rating every week, and I'm telling you

858
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: I don't care who you'd be favored against. You lost games,

859
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: so your resume doesn't stack up. You don't have one

860
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: of the four best resumes. It's not that you wouldn't

861
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: be capable. Oh Alabama would have put up a much

862
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: better fight than TCU did, but they didn't deserve to

863
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: be there. So Ohio State Notre Dame making it to

864
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: the title game proves nothing, at least in my mind,

865
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: about how flawed my argument has been. I've always said,

866
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: you're only giving a third shot to a team like

867
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: Ohio State. This is kind of bleeding into the other point.

868
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: The other point has been that there is a small

869
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: but very vocal crowd that believes I'm against teams getting

870
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: a shot, that I'm against teams being given an opportunity,

871
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: And it's always a boisey, you know, it's always a

872
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: little guy that I'm allegedly wanting to slam the door

873
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: in the face up. It's not that I'm a realist.

874
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: I know they're never gonna win a title. But you know,

875
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: that's a dirty phrase. We can't even tell the truth

876
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: on that front. But what I have said is you're

877
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: gonna have a lower tiered seed make a run to

878
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: win a title. It won't always be the top four.

879
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: It won't always be the top four. The difference is

880
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: when a seven or an eight seed or whatever makes

881
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: a run, it's gonna be Ohio State, it's gonna be LSU,

882
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Tennessee, it's gonna be something like that.

883
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: So if that's what you want to do, then we

884
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: just look at the sport differently. That's okay. I've just

885
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: never been a fan of viewing college football as a

886
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: postseason sport. I've wanted to view it as a regular

887
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: season sport. Case in point, Ohio State loses to Oregon,

888
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: that's okay. In any year, BCS four team playoff. If

889
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: they didn't lose again, they probably would have been in.

890
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: They definitely would have been in a fourteen playoff if

891
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: they didn't lose again, but they went and lost to Michigan.

892
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 1: In my mind, that right there is caused to keep

893
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: you out of a tournament that is trying to determine

894
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: the national champion unless the field gets bigger, And if

895
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: the field gets bigger like it did, then you do

896
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: deserve to be in. But what we've done in the

897
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 1: aggregate is we have greatly devalued the results of those

898
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: regular season games. Now many of you are okay with that.

899
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of it, but that doesn't

900
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: make you bad, me good, or vice versa. It just

901
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: means that we view the sport through a different lens,

902
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: which is okay. But the question to me was do

903
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: you think you were wrong about the playoff? No, I

904
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: feel how I feel. I felt how I felt. Nothing's

905
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: really changed. But I also said, if you will remember

906
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: this at the preseason, I said, you're not gonna learn

907
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: anything about the expanded playoff for a few years. The

908
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: reason is because it takes a few examples, it takes

909
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: a few rides, through this before we recondition ourselves. I

910
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: think where the rubber meets the road on that argument

911
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: is right now. I got several buddies who were fans

912
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: of playoff expansion, and they've hit me up throughout the season,

913
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: and they keep saying, how can you deny that we're

914
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: having a great college football season. I said, I can't

915
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: deny it. It's a great season. We've had many great

916
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: seasons before. I'm not sure how you're attributing playoff expansion

917
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: to how great this season is. And they said, well,

918
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: but there are so many more games with meaning attached

919
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: to them. Now. I'm not even gonna go on my

920
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: soapbox about how we've bastardized the phrase meaningful game to

921
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: coincide with having a playoff implication sticker on it. But

922
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: I believe it or not, kids, once upon a time

923
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: you didn't need the playoff implications to have a meaningful game.

924
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: But I'm not even going down that road. I'll save

925
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: my breath for another show for that argument. But I've

926
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: had many tell me, man, look at how many more

927
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: meaningful games we've had this year. Well, that's true, that's true.

928
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: There was a tension on some games this year down

929
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: the stretch that was magnified or amplified rather because postseason

930
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: access was on the line. The reason I have said

931
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: you haven't immediately learned anything about that is because you

932
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: haven't reconditioned your mind to understand what the expanded playoff

933
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: era is. So case in point, if you watched SMU

934
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: down the stretch, you were watching their games knowing, boy,

935
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: there's playoff implications on this, and there were. I was

936
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: drawn in as well there were. But then you watched

937
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: SMU go and get blown out in the first round.

938
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: You watched Boise play a very imperfect Penn State and

939
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,240
Speaker 1: still get largely handled when they finally had their shot

940
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: in the playoff. This is not a knock on those teams.

941
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: My point I'm trying to make is Okay, So now

942
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: you got version one of the playoff and you learned

943
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: that those lower tiered teams, no matter what they're seed,

944
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,399
Speaker 1: didn't stand much of a shot as it turned out

945
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,879
Speaker 1: in the playoff first or second round. You will now

946
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: apply that to next year. You'll slightly start to recalibrate

947
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: your thinking about how the playoff works. Okay, So let's

948
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: say we get duplicate results next year. Because so far

949
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: favorites I think of won like every game or just

950
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: about every game. So let's say it plays out again

951
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: next year. It may not, but if it does, then

952
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: you further calibrate your expectation. And by year three, if

953
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: if this year's example becomes a trend or becomes a norm,

954
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: what you start to tell yourself is, all right, I

955
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: got this three loss team here, Clemson for example, or

956
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: someone like that this past year. I mean, they faltered

957
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: multiple times. This year, they are technically playing a game that,

958
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: if they win, could secure them the eleven seed. But

959
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: do I really view this game through a lens of

960
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: maximum importance just because there's a playoff implication sticker on it?

961
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: When I know good and well, what's gonna happen to

962
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: this team when they make it? How will your mentality

963
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 1: have changed? You can answer that for yourself. I'm just saying,

964
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: if we start to get case study after case study

965
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: of blowout, then in the early rounds at least, then

966
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: I think maybe you may view those meaningful games that

967
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: expansion in the playoff has brought us a little bit differently.

968
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: And my contention has always been, once you go down

969
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: that slippery slope, there's no coming back. And what you've

970
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: done is you have taken some of the meaning away

971
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: from the games featuring teams capable of winning it. I e.

972
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: Ohio State, they can lose multiple games and still be in.

973
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: Georgia could lose multiple games this year and still be in.

974
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: You've removed some of the importance from those games to

975
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: arbitrarily place new importance on games featuring teams that won't

976
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 1: be capable of winning the whole thing. Zero times out

977
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: of ten, was Boise or SMU gonna win the whole

978
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: thing this year? But because they got a shot quote unquote,

979
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 1: at least in the first version of the playoff, we

980
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: were all enamored. I'm merely suggesting it may not always

981
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: be that way, you know, Like, for example, if it's

982
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: twenty degrees outside and you walk outside for five seconds,

983
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. You walk right back inside,

984
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: You're good. You don't even have to have a shirt on.

985
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: If you walk out there for an hour, feels a

986
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: little bit different. And so all that is is your

987
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: body becoming conditioned to how cold it is outside. It

988
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: didn't have time if you stood out there for five seconds.

989
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: We have not become reconditioned to what expansion in the

990
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: playoff really is, because we're not even through version one

991
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: point zero of it. That's all I'm saying. All right,

992
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: let's move on. Good question, good question. I didn't understand it,

993
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: but it was thoughtful, thought provoking. Oh we haven't talked

994
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: about this a lot, have we? Jonathan from Austin, Texas.

995
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: Serious question, is Texas back? It's an interesting time to

996
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: ask this question. Texas just eliminated from the college football Playoff.

997
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: They didn't win the national title. They're not going to

998
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: play for a national title. They didn't win the SEC title.

999
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: They led at halftime of the game. A backup quarterback

1000
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: came from behind and beat them. So they didn't win

1001
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: a conference, they didn't win the playoff. They won a

1002
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: playoff game. What do we make of Texas right now? Well,

1003
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell you onequivocally. I think they're back. So I

1004
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: guess I didn't need to see them wear the crown

1005
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: on their head to say they're back. But when I

1006
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: say Texas is back, understand all I mean is they're

1007
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: a perennial contender. Now, that's what I expect them to

1008
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 1: be now and moving forward under Sark as long as

1009
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: he's there. So to me, Texas is back now. If

1010
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: you need to see them win a national title, they're

1011
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: not back. If you need to see them win a

1012
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: conference title, they're not back. So I don't know what

1013
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,240
Speaker 1: you necessarily meant by that. I don't know what everyone

1014
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: else means by that, but I think Texas is going

1015
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: to be a player every year. I would I feel

1016
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 1: the exact same way as if they had beaten Georgia.

1017
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 1: I feel the exact same way as if they wouldn't

1018
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: have turned the ball over, scored against Ohio State and

1019
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 1: kicked a field goal and won in overtime, and they

1020
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: were playing next Monday night in Atlanta. I feel the

1021
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: same way, probably a little more bolstered in the latter

1022
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: scenario as opposed to what really happened. But I had

1023
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: something that stood out to me after the Cotton Bowl

1024
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: when they lost to Ohio State. So I've watched them

1025
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: all year, and I thought there was a gear that

1026
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,439
Speaker 1: was missing offensively. Now I knew quin Ewers was hurt,

1027
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: and that's why I never outright went after him. I

1028
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: was never overly critical of him. What I instead did

1029
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: was I wondered aloud how much more they may use

1030
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: arch Manning because I knew about the injury situation with yours. Okay,

1031
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: so now that the season's over, it doesn't matter that

1032
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: we talk about that. So when the season ended the

1033
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 1: other day, for Steve Sarkeesian, he got asked about pretty

1034
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: much the situation with Quinn Ewers. I think he got

1035
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: asked something like, what have you learned from Quinn Ewers?

1036
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: What have you thought about him? I've got so much

1037
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: respect for this answer, and I also want you to

1038
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: listen very closely because there's a lot in this minute

1039
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: to minute and a half club, and it perfectly explains

1040
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: why a guy like Steve Sarkusian was so loyal to

1041
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: the end with Quinn. Youwers roll at Colin.

1042
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 2: I'm super proud of Quinn and he's taught me a lot,

1043
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 2: probably unknowingly to him, because what he went through every

1044
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 2: year dealing with injury, what he goes through where I

1045
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 2: don't know if he'd ever live up to the standards

1046
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 2: of what everybody thinks he's supposed to be. But at

1047
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 2: the end of the day, all he did was show

1048
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: up every day and work and be a great leader

1049
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 2: and be a great teammate. And that's that's a real

1050
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 2: credit to him, because human nature in this day and

1051
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 2: age is to look at Twitter, to look at Instagram,

1052
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 2: to to look at social media and articles written in

1053
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 2: fan boards and whatever else, and you can ride that

1054
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 2: emotional rollercoaster of whatever you think public opinion could be,

1055
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 2: and that could be the opinion of one or a

1056
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 2: hundred or whatever. But that this guy never did that.

1057
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 2: You know, all he did was come to work every day.

1058
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 2: All he did was bre a great teammate. All he

1059
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 2: did was work on his craft, get himself as healthy

1060
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 2: as he could when he was injured, and then show

1061
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 2: up and when it was time to show up. And

1062
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 2: maybe outside of the first two games, I don't think

1063
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Speaker 2: he played a game this year one hundred percent healthy.

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00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 2: And he fought through everything, never complained about at one time.

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00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 2: And I think that's why he has so much respect

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Speaker 2: from his teammates.

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Speaker 1: So sometimes when you're watching sports, football, whatever, you end

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00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: up looking at players as assets because you don't know them,

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00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: you don't have a connection with them. You may buy

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00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: their jersey, maybe they took a picture with you in

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00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: a hotel lobby, you're signing autograph. That's as close as

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00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: you get to them. That is a different story for

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00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: a head coach. Now, this is a really challenging thing

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00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: when you're a head coach because your duty is to

1075
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: be loyal to the team the organization put them in

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00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: the best position to win. But it's hard because when

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00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: you got your guy at your quarterback there who you

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00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: do trust because I believe Sark trusted him more than

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Speaker 1: anyone else, or he would have made a change. But

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00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: even if you start to get close, even if you

1081
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: get in that staff meeting and the question comes up,

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00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: do we make a change. I'm not suggesting it did.

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00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: I'm saying if it does come up, those factors that

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00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: he just listed there, he's aware of and you're not

1085
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: aware of. Team's aware of him, coaching staff's aware of them,

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: You're not aware of them. So they're going to be

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00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: right back there. They're going to be in the mix.

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00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: It'll be arch Manning's team. Now, he will never hurt

1089
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: for attracting quarterback talent to play for him. You listen

1090
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: to those players talk about how much they benefited from

1091
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: playing for Steve Sarkesiuan and it really goes back to

1092
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: something that he hammers a lot. They got a lot

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00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: of Nio money to spend. They're not bashful about that,

1094
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: but they understand at Texas how to do that game.

1095
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: And they also understand even if we had billions of

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00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: dollars to spend, if we don't make kids commit to Texas,

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00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: then we will not win. You've got to sell your

1098
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: program above and beyond how big a bag you can

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00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: give a kid. You've got to sell the program. They've

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Speaker 1: got to commit to the program. And a program is people.

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00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: But a program is principles and values, and it's stuff

1102
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: that you addhre to. It's stuff that you believe in.

1103
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: It's on your walls, but you live it as well.

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00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: And they've done that. They've very successfully done that at Texas.

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00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: I got a lot of respect for him. I think

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00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: they'll be there every year. I hope that wasn't loud Colin, Okay,

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00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: let's move it along. I will take another sip from

1108
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: this very very quickly dwindling cup of water. But hey,

1109
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: it's not food poisoning, so I'm happy. I'm fine. We

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00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: had a question. This one comes in from Perkins, Oklahoma.

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00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,959
Speaker 1: What's the best advice you can give a twenty something

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00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: just trying to make it happen? Well, I just scroll

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01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: down a few things. Okay, The first one, you got

1114
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: to know who you are. I could not answer this

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01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: question at age twenty I would struggle to answer it

1116
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 1: at age twenty five. Think about how simple this question is.

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01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: Who are you? I'm not talking about the information on

1118
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: your driver's license. I'm not talking about your height or

1119
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 1: your weight, or your skin color or your eye color.

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Speaker 1: Those are characteristics. I'm talking about the stuff inside you.

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Speaker 1: Who are you? What are your talents? What are your passions?

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01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: What are your principles? What are your values? What do

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01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: you love? What do you hate? What are you? Who

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01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: are you? As an individual? Who are you? The reason

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Speaker 1: it's so important to be able to answer that is

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01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: because how can you know what to pursue if you

1127
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: don't even know who you are? How can you know

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Speaker 1: which career is best for you if you don't even

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01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 1: know where your talent overlaps with your passion because you

1130
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: haven't identified them. I speak from experience on that. It

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01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: took me a while. So that's the first thing. And

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01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: then the second thing is understanding how to grasp and

1133
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: incorporate process oriented thinking over result oriented thinking. Everything around you. Society,

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01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: motivational videos you see on Instagram, by and large, are

1135
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: going to tell you you need to be all about

1136
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: goal setting and you need to be focused on the prize.

1137
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: Eyes on the prize is one of the dumbest phrases

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01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: that exists in modern American society because it's not the

1139
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: formula for success, that's the formula for stagnation. Define the prize.

1140
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: You know, you want to know what you want to

1141
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: go get, but you got to understand the boring way

1142
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: to think is the right way to think. The process

1143
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 1: oriented approach is to define your goal and then forget

1144
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: about the goal, define the process that it will take

1145
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: to achieve that goal. You know, you look at the mountaintop.

1146
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: I want to reach the summit of this mountain. Well,

1147
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: it'd be dumb to just stare at the mountaintop. You

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01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: plot your course, and then you look in front of you,

1149
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: and you go one step, another step, another step, and

1150
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: you get so zoned in you're not even focused on

1151
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: the mountaintop and you don't realize, Wow, I made it

1152
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: six hundred more feet towards the summit today. That's great,

1153
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: that's wonderful. That is not fun, it's not flashy, it's

1154
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: not sexy. It's not good for the reels. It's not

1155
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: gonna get you a lot of clicks if you're trying

1156
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 1: to do the motivational speaking game. But that's actually the

1157
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: way you should go about it. And then once you

1158
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: do that, and that's all aligned with sort of a

1159
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: purpose driven vision because you know who you are, therefore

1160
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: you know where your talent overlaps with your passion, then

1161
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: you become really determined. You become really stubborn. That's not

1162
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: a bad thing. That's not a bad thing at all,

1163
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: because you'll find the world kind of makes room for

1164
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: determined people who know where they're going, because most people

1165
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: don't know where they're going. Most people are really confused,

1166
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: they're unsure of themselves, their lay lack confidence, they are

1167
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: very insecure. And so when someone who is not that,

1168
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: and who is very determined and who has a razor

1169
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: sharp focus and vision for where they want to go,

1170
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: walks in the room, they get out of the way.

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01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: I know, I've seen it. So in many ways, you

1172
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 1: know where we've taken. This show was hard, but in

1173
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: other ways it wasn't. It's almost like the sea parted

1174
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: because you're nothing more than really intentional about who you

1175
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 1: are and where you want to be? What else did

1176
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 1: we write down? Tell you another one's really important. This

1177
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: is a good quote. It's anonymous as far as I'm concerned,

1178
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: because I can't remember who I heard it from. But

1179
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: broken crayons can Still Color is a wonderful quote to remember.

1180
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 1: Broken crayons can still color applies to the windshield and

1181
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: the rear view mirror. You're looking at yourself and pretty

1182
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 1: much everyone who's going to be listening to this. Pretty

1183
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: much everyone who's going to be watching this could list

1184
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: several flaws with yourself. Maybe your life's a wreck right now.

1185
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: You are the least equipped you could possibly be to

1186
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: be impactful and make something happen. Just do it anyway.

1187
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: No one's ever in a perfect position. Everyone's got crap

1188
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: they're dealing with, some more so than others. There could

1189
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: be a disadvantage you're dealing with through no fault of

1190
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: your own. You can still do things, you can still

1191
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: achieve at a very high level. You still have purpose

1192
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: and usefulness to yourself and to others. And then think

1193
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: about this as well. Maybe you're in a powerful position.

1194
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you're in a position where you can hire, Maybe

1195
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: you're in a position where you can give opportunity. Don't

1196
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: wait for perfect candidates to come along. You got broken

1197
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: people all over the place who just like you, when

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01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: you may have been in their situation, are perfectly capable

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01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: of doing really really good things, really meaningful, worthwhile things.

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01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you're the opportunity they're looking forward to become unbroken.

1201
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 1: Maybe you can play a small role there. It's really, really,

1202
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: really a blessing when you can participate in them. Another

1203
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 1: one I wrote down this is just advice for anyone

1204
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: twenties or otherwise. Don't do comparison. Comparison is the thief

1205
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: of joy. Comparison is a waste of time. There is

1206
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: no duplicate version of you. There is no two point

1207
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: zero version of you out there. What I mean by

1208
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: that is you are one of one. You are uniquely

1209
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: equipped the likes of which no one else in the

1210
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: history of creation has ever been equipped. You are perfectly

1211
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: cut out to be a version of you that no

1212
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: one else could top. But most people look for clues.

1213
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 1: Success leaves clues. That's okay, But most people look to

1214
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: duplicate what someone else is doing. This is where you've

1215
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: gone wrong. This is where you are fighting a losing battle,

1216
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: because if you're trying to emulate someone, first off, they've

1217
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: already done the thing, so there's no benefit better than

1218
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 1: being first somewhere. So at the very least you're going

1219
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: to be second to the party. But secondly, if they're

1220
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 1: doing themselves, you'll never be better than them because you're not

1221
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: as equipped as them to be what they are. And thirdly,

1222
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: it may not even be what you're called to do anyway.

1223
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: Be the best version of you and identify who that is.

1224
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: Again going back to five minutes ago, this is why

1225
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: I understand who you are is so important. And then fourthly,

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01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: another good quote here, nobody motivates the tiger. The concept

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01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: of motivation for most I have found is very flawed.

1228
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: I had to totally change the way I thought about

1229
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: this because most people, myself included at one time, relied

1230
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: on external factors to motivate, and that is a long

1231
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: term failed proposition. And I'm talking about anything from relying

1232
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 1: on doubt to relying on disrespect as your fuel. It's

1233
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: just it's penny wise, pound foolish. You will find that

1234
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: the only thing you can ever fully rely on being

1235
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: there is you. What if no one doubts you one day,

1236
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 1: Where's your motivation going to come from? What if no

1237
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: one's disrespecting you anymore, where's your motivation going to come from?

1238
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: What if you don't have headphones when you arrive at

1239
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 1: the gym this afternoon? Where there's your motivation going to

1240
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: come from? Point being, no external factor is capable of

1241
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: pulling anything out of you that wasn't already in you.

1242
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 1: So the question is, if it's already in you, what

1243
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: do you need something external to pull it out of

1244
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: you for? Especially when that external factor is a variable

1245
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: that you don't control, so it may or may not

1246
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 1: always be there. So learn to motivate yourself, learn to

1247
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 1: be a self starter, learn to be self motivating. Those

1248
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: are a few things I wrote down. They're watching us

1249
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, Missouri, Augusta, Georgia, and Hidalgo, Texas. Thank

1250
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: you guys so much. We continue. This was a good

1251
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: question Dean hit Us from Bend, Oregon. He said, what

1252
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: do you see as a change going forward that will

1253
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: be important for coaches to adapt that will result in

1254
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: more success in the new playoff format? Very easy answer here.

1255
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: So I was up at Ohio State this spring, talked

1256
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: with Ryan day for a long time about this, talked

1257
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: with their staff for a long time about this, understanding

1258
01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: how to peak. In December, they changed everything, not wholesale,

1259
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: but they were so insanely focused on channeling every system,

1260
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: every department, every position room, every coach, every player to

1261
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: peaking at the right time, which is not a new concept.

1262
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,599
Speaker 1: But you got to understand, like they were sitting there thinking,

1263
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: we may have to play sixteen or seventeen games this

1264
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: year to get where we want to go. We can't

1265
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: use the old methodology. You got to throw it out

1266
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 1: at the very least, you've got to tailor it. That

1267
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: is mental, that's physical load management, which is an NBA term.

1268
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: It changes the way you practice, It changes the way

1269
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: you staff hours wise, It changes your strength and conditioning,

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01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 1: It changes your nutrition, it changes sleep patterns. You got

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Speaker 1: thank you. Question is what first ignited the passion for

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Speaker 1: college football to the point of knowing at that moment

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Speaker 1: discussing college football was what you wanted to do for

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Speaker 1: a living. Well, I grew up college football fan, so

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Speaker 1: I mean anyone would want to do that, I guess

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Speaker 1: I do. Remember this now, I'll reiterate this one more time.

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Speaker 1: I've told this story before. I think I was ignorant

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01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: growing up a little bit, and I was ignorant to

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01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 1: think that everyone who covered college football loved college football,

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01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: because I do. To me, that was a dream job.

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01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 1: To me, it is a dream job when you immerse yourself.

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Speaker 1: And if you grew up in the South where I

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Speaker 1: grew up, that's what you have. You got braves baseball,

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Speaker 1: you've got college football. That's it, and not necessarily in

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Speaker 1: that order either. So to cover it for a living

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Speaker 1: would be insane. That's a dream job. How by default,

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Speaker 1: by the very nature of how hard those jobs are

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Speaker 1: to get, how would anyone who doesn't love it seep

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Speaker 1: through the cracks? Well I was wrong. More on that

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Speaker 1: in a second, But also around the early to mid

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Speaker 1: twenty teens, when we first started to toy with the

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Speaker 1: idea of doing a show like this, I looked around.

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Speaker 1: I looked at college football and the way it was covered,

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Speaker 1: and it was clearly the number two most popular sport

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Speaker 1: in the country, and it was being given number four

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Speaker 1: treatment at best. If the NFL got more shined than

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01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,839
Speaker 1: college football, okay, that made sense. But major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: in the NBA getting more shined in college football never

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Speaker 1: made sense. And also what I noticed as just an observer,

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Speaker 1: just a fan, is a lot of the people who

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Speaker 1: were being put on national airwaves to talk about college

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Speaker 1: football were not college football types. They were pro sports

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Speaker 1: types who were just delving in college football, you know,

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Speaker 1: because whatever network they work at said hey, you need

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Speaker 1: to talk about college football, but they didn't love it.

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Speaker 1: So then you fast forward a few years and I

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Speaker 1: finally am in the local news game and I'm getting

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Speaker 1: credentialed to go to games, and the first time I

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Speaker 1: ever walked into press box, I remember it clear as day.

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Speaker 1: It was the Georgia Dome Rest in Peace, and I

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Speaker 1: remember walking through a press box thinking that it was

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Speaker 1: going to be like walking through a carnival or a circus,

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Speaker 1: and instead it was just folks checking in and doing

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Speaker 1: a job, which was disappointing, but also it really lit

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Speaker 1: a fire in me because I realized everyone doesn't love this.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's not like over the moon, excited to check in

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Speaker 1: for work. Many of them are. It's not a broad

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Speaker 1: What are you seriously telling me that this is just

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Speaker 1: a job for some of these folks, Like to me,

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Speaker 1: it's inexcusable for covering sports for a living to ever

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Speaker 1: be just a job, but it is. So I went

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Speaker 1: on to learn that. So I thought to myself, number one,

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Speaker 1: covering it. And so not only did I love college football,

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Speaker 1: I was then maybe getting an opportunity to do something

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Speaker 1: about it and cover it myself. So that's why we

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Speaker 1: made the show the way we did, and then we

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Speaker 1: did it locally. You know, I've told that story many times,

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Speaker 1: but I did the show out of a local TV

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Speaker 1: studio in between my local news job and kind of

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Speaker 1: butted heads with management a little bit, understandably so, because

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Speaker 1: I was doing independent content on their dime, so they

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Speaker 1: just allowed live streaming. And I say the rest is history.

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Speaker 1: But it was still another several years before we got

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Speaker 1: the call from CBS twenty four to seven. Come up here,

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Speaker 1: and Covid immediately sets in. I meet director Colin the

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Speaker 1: He can finish my sentences for me. He's done every

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Speaker 1: show since then, with very very very few exceptions, and

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Speaker 1: we've got the most consumed college football show in all

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Speaker 1: that difficult a concept it would just blow your mind.

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Speaker 1: How many people do this and don't really love it.

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Speaker 1: They kind of like it, but they'd much rather be

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Speaker 1: doing something else, politics or something like that. I have

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Speaker 1: no interest in doing that. I'm fascinated by politics. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to cover them. I'm fascinated by weather. I

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Speaker 1: did not pursue a degree in atmospheric science. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to do this for a living. So that's that's why

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Speaker 1: we're doing it. That's the answer. Okay, we've got a

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Speaker 1: ton more questions. We didn't even get through close to

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Speaker 1: do a podcast only version. We'll record it tomorrow. We'll

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