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Speaker 1: that it will be a little more towards winning at

427
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 1: least another one than not, But I can't know for sure.

428
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, how is history going to talk about him

429
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 1: in twenty fifty. Is Lincoln Riley the guy who showed

430
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 1: up out of nowhere at Oklahoma, flashed on the national scene,

431
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: rewrote the offensive record books, had Heisman quarterbacks and first

432
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: round draft picks. Then he went to USC, but they

433
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 1: could never play defense. Defense kept him from winning a

434
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,439
Speaker 1: national championship. It was like the Phoenix Suns scenario from

435
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 1: back in the day when I used to pay attention

436
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 1: to the NBA. Man they could put up like one

437
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: thirty a night, couldn't play defense, therefore didn't really do

438
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: much in the NBA postseason. Is that what Lincoln Riley

439
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: and USC will be? I don't know. I don't know

440
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: because we're still we're still in Natasha Bettingfield mode. The

441
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 1: rest is still unwritten. Maybe the best is still unwritten.

442
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 1: And then you've got guys like Ryan Day. Are we

443
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 1: going to talk about how well it's history. He gonna

444
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: talk about him as being fool's goal who rode the

445
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer Way for a little while, but eventually he

446
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: couldn't top Michigan and Jim Harbough overtook him and he

447
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: was out of a job. Or is it going to

448
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: be Hey, he's kind of like Kirby Smart was. He

449
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: got close a few times early, didn't do it, but

450
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 1: then when he finally broke through, Wow, he really broke through.

451
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: We got all these coaches that we could talk about

452
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: like that, and that's not even to mention some of

453
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: the newer ones on the scene. How is history going

454
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: to remember Mario Christaball at Miami. There's no way to

455
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: know that right now, Brent Vinnables in Oklahoma, Steve Sarkisian

456
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: at Texas, there's no way to know that right now.

457
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: And if you think you do, I would encourage you

458
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: go back and look at some of the coaches that

459
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: you've long since developed an opinion about. Go look at Dabo.

460
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,239
Speaker 1: Dabo didn't win a title in his second or third

461
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 1: year at Clems, and it took a little while. There

462
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: was a year in the Orange Bowl where West Virginia

463
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: hung like seventy on them, so it was never horrific,

464
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: but it looked for a little while like Dabo wasn't

465
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: going to be able to overtake Jimbo, Fisher and FSU.

466
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 1: That's what it looked like for a little while. Now

467
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: imagine how crazy that sounds now with the benefit of hindsight.

468
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: Speaking of Jimbo Hou's history, gonna remember him at A

469
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: and M Now we may not have to wait until

470
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Speaker 1: twenty fifty. This could be a twenty twenty four conversation,

471
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: depending on how this year goes with him. That's always

472
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: a fun question, you know. I used to I mentioned

473
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: Stone Colt, Steve Boston earlier. I used to love watching

474
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: pro wrestling. One of my least favorite parts of the

475
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: entire genre, if you will, is not the performance art itself.

476
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: I don't like the subculture of the internet creating of

477
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 1: this entire world where every fan thinks that they're inside,

478
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: every fan's in on it, every fan uses terminology like

479
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: you would only hear once upon a time spoken backstage

480
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: at a wrestling event by people inside the business. And

481
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: I hate, hate, hate the culture in wrestling fandom where

482
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 1: everyone wants to know what's gonna happen. Makes no sense

483
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: to me, makes no more sense than seeking out spoilers

484
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: for the next episode of Barry or Succession, two great

485
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: shows going on right now, and so I hate that

486
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: I don't try and do that with college football, Make

487
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: no mistake. Yeah, yeah, I have prediction fun just like

488
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: the rest of you. But I'm totally fine sitting here

489
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: not knowing what the future holes. I'm completely fine not

490
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: putting together a list of the top ten coaches that

491
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: I think will be in twenty twenty seven. I'll just

492
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: let it come to me. I'm fine with that. Let

493
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: us move on here. We had a question I don't

494
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: think I've ever had asked to me before. DJ hit

495
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: us up from Salt Lake City, Utah. He said, when

496
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: you watch game film, do you watch the whole game,

497
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: sections of the game, or highlights. I guess it's all

498
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: of the above. Obviously, we're on the road during the season,

499
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: so anytime we're on the road, I pray fingers crossed

500
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: for a noon kickoff so that the rest of you

501
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 1: can be mad, but I can be happy because I

502
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: get to fly back to Nashville and I can be

503
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: home that night, which makes watching every other game that

504
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,239
Speaker 1: happen really easy. But to the time I'm flying back

505
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: to Nashville on Sunday morning because we have a Sunday

506
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: night show. In that case, it is impossible to have

507
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: watched every game wire to wire. It's impossible to have

508
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: even watched the strictly condensed games, all snap cutups. So

509
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: sometimes what I'll have people do is some of you

510
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: have actually helped me on this before. I assign games

511
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: to certain people, and it is their job to cut

512
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: up the significant portions of the games. Email me a file,

513
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: and I'll watch hopefully like four or five of the

514
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: most important games on my flight home, and I may

515
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: have seen some other ones the night before, And of

516
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: course I was at whatever I think was the most

517
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: important game that week. So I guess the answer is

518
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: all of the above. But I certainly do not ever

519
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: talk about a game I have not at least put

520
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: eyeballs on, because that is a recipe to look foolish.

521
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 1: It's hard enough to sound like you know what you're

522
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: talking about when you are talking about a game you watched,

523
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: it's just quick saying. And if you're talking about a

524
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: game that you haven't watched, and you may think that

525
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 1: sounds like common sense, But you would be surprised at

526
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: how many people out there talk about games they did

527
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: not watch. They may have watched Sports Center or college

528
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: football final, they may have seen the highlights. Highlights are

529
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: on a game. So that's my answer to that. Next up,

530
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: trash can Hokies close. Dear friend of the program from

531
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: Northern Virginia asks with how the transfer portal has evolved?

532
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: What is the time frame a new head coach has

533
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: to succeed? Ten years ago, it felt like a coach

534
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: was given five years to get his guys. Is that

535
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: number closer to three years now? I gotta be real

536
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: with you. I do not ever remember a time ten

537
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: years ago where it felt like you had five years

538
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: to get your program in order. Ten years ago was

539
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen? Okay, think about the coaches that were hired

540
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 1: in or around that point in major college football. I

541
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: don't remember. Fan base is saying welcome aboard c youn

542
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: five years. Your five year check in is five years away.

543
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: Better make sure you've got us on the right track.

544
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: It may not have been quite like it is today,

545
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: but there was never that much rope and that much

546
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: freedom and leashed that was given to any new head

547
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: coach at any kind of reputable program. I do think, though,

548
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: if you listen to the way the question was worded,

549
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: they were in a totally different era. Now mentioned Lincoln

550
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: Riley earlier, and Lincoln Riley has had a big effect

551
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: on this because Lincoln Riley was the guy the first

552
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: major move in the transfer portal era that showed what

553
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: you can do in the transfer portal era, and he

554
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: showed that you can come into a program that has

555
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: prestige but is down like USC, and you can just

556
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: go get a ton of guys. And you also have

557
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: that NCAA rule which I think a lot of people

558
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: don't realize exists, and that is there is not a

559
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: twenty five person limit. If you're a new coaching staff,

560
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: you can go get more than twenty five and that

561
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: is a golden ticket to be able to flip a roster.

562
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: Deon's doing it right now. Lincoln Riley did do it,

563
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: and I think in the future, if you're higher, Let's

564
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: just say there was a job opening at Tennessee. Let's

565
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: say there was a job opening at Oklahoma right now,

566
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: and there was last year. But just pretend with me

567
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: for a second. No one is looking around saying, hey,

568
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: you got even three years. They want results immediately. I

569
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the best thing for the sport.

570
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the best thing to have

571
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: as a new norm, But I think it's reality. I

572
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: think a lot of these guys know it too. That's

573
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: also why when you look at the way contracts are structured,

574
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: that's why there are so so much buyout. I guess

575
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying to say is I guess

576
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: the buyout's so big, And everyone wonders, why are that?

577
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: Why are those buyouts so big? Well, that's why, because

578
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: it's really hard to get a coach to agree to

579
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: come to your program if you and understand the landscape,

580
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: if you don't build a safety net under him, you

581
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: build the safety net in the form of a giant buyout.

582
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: Then guys are willing to take that on a little

583
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: bit more. But when you see these coaches fired and

584
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: you want to get mad, I can't believe they they're

585
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: giving him this much money not to coach. Well, that

586
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: wasn't the plan. That was just something that was necessary

587
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: to be worked in the contract because of how crazy

588
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: the expectation level was going to be. For the job

589
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: that he took, so I think that's probably not going anywhere.

590
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: But at the same time, let's just see, now we've

591
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: seen Lincoln Riley do it at USC. The Deon Sanders

592
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: situation at Colorado is so beyond the scope right now,

593
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna use that's an outlier. That is

594
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: a Malcolm Gladwell outlier, and we're gonna use the Lincoln

595
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: Riley situation as the more like the baseline for what

596
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: maybe within the boundary of expectation. If you hire a

597
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: new coach, it's gonna be hard to do it like

598
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: he's done, but yet you could theoretically do that. The

599
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: part I don't like, but it is what it is,

600
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: and I've got to live with it. I don't like

601
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: the aspect where a coach moves programs and then a

602
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: bunch of the players come with him, because that's tough.

603
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: I know there's nothing I can do about it, and

604
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: I know, yes, the players should have the freedom to

605
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: do it. I'm not even arguing that there should be

606
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: a rule against it. I'm just telling you I personally

607
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: am not a fan of when a coach goes from

608
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: one place to the other and then they gut their

609
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: own roster and they all tag along. Again, it's legal.

610
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: There's no punitive measure that should be taken against you

611
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: if you do it. I'm giving you my personal preference.

612
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: My personal preference is to not see that happen. But Josh,

613
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: why should the coach be able to leave and the

614
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: players shouldn't. Did you hear what I said? I said

615
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: they should be able to I just said I don't

616
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: like it. I don't like baby carrots either. You should

617
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: feel free to serve them, just not a big fan

618
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: of them. Oh. Next up Athens Alabama checking in. How strong,

619
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: asks Greg, is the desire from national media to see

620
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: Bama take on it nose dive this year? National media?

621
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: Greg said, not fans. So you all listening right now.

622
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: If you're a Bama fan, you hate this. If you're not, yeah,

623
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: you pull forward to nose dive and you should. That's fine.

624
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: But the national media pulling against Alabama, certainly, I would

625
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: not deny that there are some individual members of the

626
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: national college football media apparatus that would pull against Alabama

627
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. I'm not denying that. But by and large,

628
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: the national media pulls for Alabama. By and large, the

629
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: national media strokes Alabama. You have to be crazy to

630
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: suggest otherwise, or either you have just willfully ignored the

631
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: rule in light of the exception. The exception is yeah, okay,

632
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: you can find me some anecdotal examples out there. Also,

633
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: if someone says something negative in an observe, observatory kind

634
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: of way about your program, that's not pulling for you

635
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: to fail. I said earlier in this very podcast, I

636
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: thought Bama show an incredible vulnerability by having to take

637
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: a quarterback post spring. That's not me rooting for you

638
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: to fail. That's just me stating what I think is

639
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: an obvious fact. So a lot of that's misconstrued. Sometimes

640
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: when Gary Danielson's doing the CBS Game of the Week

641
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: and he speaks mildly critical of a player not running

642
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: a route the right way, he doesn't hate your team.

643
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: He is doing his job and he is explaining what

644
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: is happening to an entire world. It's not Eli Gold,

645
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: it's not Chris Stewart, it's not the Alabama radio broadcast.

646
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: Welcome back, by the way, Eli Gold, Cancer Free rang

647
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: that bell the other day. Great news. So that's also

648
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: part of this equation that leads to every fan base

649
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: thinking that the national media hates their team. I am

650
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: telling you confidently, the national media greatly benefits from Alabama

651
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: being goodat We do too, so even inside our walls here,

652
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: it's really good for business when Alabama's good. It's good

653
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: for business when Alabama wins. They're not the only program

654
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: like that. There are a few others out there. There

655
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: are some that have been down for a long time

656
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: that I wish would return to prominence for that very reason.

657
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: But there is not a great swath of the national

658
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: media pulling against Alabama, or if they are, they're doing

659
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: it to their own financial detriment because Bama makes some money,

660
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: so it's not smart. And sometimes if you don't like them, Now,

661
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 1: if you're not a fan of them personally, that's one thing. Okay.

662
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: You can have your your personal feelings. You can be

663
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: sitting in the press box and Bama scores a late

664
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: touchdown to go up and you can say, oh man,

665
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: But if your work doesn't reflect that, it doesn't really matter.

666
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: So you can be pulling against something, But if it's

667
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: in your financial best interest to do that thing anyway,

668
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 1: you best believe most of these folks are gonna do that.

669
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: Thing anyway, It sometimes is in your best interest financially

670
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: to do things that you don't want to do. Oh,

671
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I was gonna toss the

672
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: ad read there, but I think too many of you

673
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: saw it coming, and I know good and well our

674
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: fine friends in the control room saw it coming. So

675
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw the ad read in there. Just kidding, Yes,

676
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: I am here. It is indecisiveness can sometimes lead to

677
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: the most unexpected of ad tosses. And we're back Caleb

678
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: from Johnson City, Tennessee. On a scale from calm, cool

679
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: and collected to abject panic. How worried should Florida fans

680
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 1: be about their quarterback situation? Already brought in Graham Mertz

681
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: from the portal. Forget about the Buttner rumblings. That's a

682
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: moot point. Now, how worried should Florida fans be? Can

683
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: I say something here in the interest of not being

684
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: labeled a Gator hater, which is one of the most

685
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: popular brands, put on my chest, I'm worried. I'm worried.

686
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: I don't think Florida is going to be great quarterback

687
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: this year. It is against my ethos to normally say

688
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: these sorts of things in the spring. Hope I can,

689
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: of course, hope I'm wrong about this, but man, not

690
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence has been instilled in me. Looking

691
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: at the Florida quarterback situation now, Billy Napier talked about

692
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: how they had evaluated all the quarterbacks out there who

693
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: were available, and they thought Graham Mertz was the best,

694
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: at least at the time they evaluated the crop of

695
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who were out there. When Butner went in the

696
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: portal from Notre Dame, I thought there may be some

697
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: Florida smoke and Alabama got in the way of that,

698
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: and I don't really know if they were going to

699
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: pursue him or not. But that's like I said, that's

700
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. He's going to Alabama. So it

701
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: looks like they're going to ride or die with Graham

702
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: Mertz and Jack Miller. And the standard at Florida has

703
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: to be restated here. The standard at Florida is to

704
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: compete for the SEC East. It is not to make

705
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: a bowl game. That's why I'm speaking. If you were

706
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: if you were Mississippi State this year and Graham Mertz

707
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: was your starting quarterback and your standard was let's make

708
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: sure we make a bowl game. That'd be different. State's

709
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: probably better at quarterback, by the way than Florida this

710
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 1: year with Will Rogers. So that's a poor example. My

711
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: point is, if your standard was lower, i'd speak differently.

712
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: My concern is directly in proportion to what your standard

713
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: and expectation level should be. Florida should not be stepping back.

714
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: Florida should not. Florida's not shackled within CAA chains or

715
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: anything like that. They are in a mess of their

716
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: own making. The Jaden Rishota situation went the way it went,

717
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: But look, I don't know if a shot it was

718
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: going to be ready to start for Florida this year.

719
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be ready to start

720
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 1: for Arizona this year. Arizona State my bad. So yeah,

721
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: I wish I could paint a rosier picture, But yeah,

722
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: it is concerning. And unlike at Alabama, where they've got

723
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: quarterback questions, but they've got a loaded roster elsewhere to

724
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: where you can look at other portions of that team

725
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: and say, well they can lean on this, they can

726
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 1: lean on that. Florida doesn't have a lot of that.

727
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: That's a big problem. And see, I'm a believer in

728
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: Billy Napier. But this is where things can get thrown

729
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: in the blender because if they have a bad year two,

730
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,959
Speaker 1: then you have trouble convincing kids to come play there,

731
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: you have trouble keeping your fan base bott in. There's

732
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: negative energy that works its way in. You don't get

733
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt because you've never done it at

734
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: the power five level. And so that's how you derail

735
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: a train before it can ever get up to speed

736
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: and show you what it's capable of. Oh, speaking of

737
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: speaking of texts that I had, I read you a

738
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 1: DM earlier. It was rotisserie chicken related. Oh, I got

739
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: something better for you guys. Now, Management did not share

740
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: this with me with the express intent for me to

741
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: share it publicly. But we are in the content creation business,

742
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: are we not? Are we not? Yes? We are. So

743
00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: Management hits me up earlier today and say, have I

744
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: told you about my flaky landscaping situation. Now you've got

745
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: to understand, in my world, landscaping is a couple of

746
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: rows of grass outside my apartment. In the management world,

747
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: in the gated community kingdom sort of world. Man, it

748
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: is expansive. There are massive lawns, you've got ornaments, you've

749
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: got fountains, you've got a little elephant shooting water out

750
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: of its trunk. That's the world Management lives in. So

751
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: when they've got a landscaping situation, it's akin to having

752
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: an emergency at a national park. There could be a lot

753
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: of acreage at risk. And so management hits me up

754
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 1: and asks me, did I tell you about my landscaping situation?

755
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: I said, no, go on. This dude sends me a

756
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: screenshot of a text message where he is talking to

757
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: his landscape guy, and the landscape guy has shown up

758
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: and unloaded a several bags of mulch. Who knows how

759
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 1: many doesn't it takes to mulch the entirety of Management's yard.

760
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: But he has to leave the must there and then

761
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: he's going to come back, right, So he's gonna come

762
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: back on like Tuesday. Tuesday comes and goes, No landscape guy, Wednesday,

763
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: no landscape guy, Thursday, no landscape back. Management sends a

764
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: very snarky text on Friday, where are you at? I

765
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna be here. I'm starting to get

766
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: a little aggravated, and all of a sudden, there's a

767
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: text that comes back and the text reads, he is

768
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: currently in jail for parole violation. That's all the info

769
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: I have. So I tell you that story to tell

770
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: you hate take comfort, folks. The one percent are suffering

771
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: out there too. Hate to see it. On a related note,

772
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: if any of you are free on Saturday, probably make

773
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: a healthy penny or two by just going in Mulching

774
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: Management's house. Let's get one more out of the way here.

775
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: Taylor hit us up from Dearborn Michigan. He said, are

776
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: you finally going to acknowledge Michigan recruiting? Yeah, here we go,

777
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: You're ready, three two one. Michigan's got the number one

778
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: class in the twenty twenty four recruiting cycle. Why do

779
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: people talk like I've been ignoring something that hasn't happened.

780
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: Michigan hasn't been recruiting like this. Therefore, I would not

781
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: have talked about them this way. I've never said they

782
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: suck either. I have said, point blank, I hope that

783
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: Michigan can parlay these couple of playoff runs into recruiting

784
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 1: at a higher level, because that's normally the way it works.

785
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: And they have and so in that order. I've watched

786
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: it happen and now I'm looking at the results on

787
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: my computer screen. Yeah, good for Michigan. Michigan Ohio State

788
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,359
Speaker 1: are one two, by the way in the twenty twenty

789
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: four recruiting rankings. Now we also understand another key point

790
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: that many of you have undoubtedly already yelled at your

791
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: phone or your radio or where TV, wherever you're listening,

792
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: and that is yes, friends, it is April. So we

793
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: have a long way to go even before the early

794
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: signing day. But Michigan is normally not a victim of

795
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: multiple commitments. In fact, no one really is. It's a myth.

796
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 1: Most of the kids that you get to commit early

797
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: do end up signing. It's it's just this comfort food

798
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: that people use when they lose out on a kid

799
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: to say, oh, it's a early he'll de commit. Actually,

800
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: statistically you probably won't. It's probably like eighty five or

801
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 1: ninety percent likely to commit and sign with the same

802
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: program he committed to. So Michigan sitting here with one

803
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: to five star, ten four stars, they've got a ninety

804
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: one point eighty seven overall average player rating. I think

805
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: that number may go higher. They've got fourteen overall commits,

806
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: and like I said, it's Michigan and Ohio State one too, Georgia, LSU,

807
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: Penn State three, four five. Now, also, you scroll down

808
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: this list a little bit further and you realize there

809
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: are some programs that haven't even started to make their

810
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: move yet. So like Notre Dame was number one in

811
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: the country this time last year. Around this time last year,

812
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: Notre Dame still had a good class, but they did

813
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: not finish top five. Michigan probably will end up finishing really,

814
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: really high. I don't know if it's going to be

815
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: number one, but man, they're well on their way. So yes, yes,

816
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: here you go, good old fashioned golf clap to Jim

817
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: Harbaugh and his staff doing exactly what they should be

818
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: doing with the success that they've had. That is the

819
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: natural law of the college football universe. That's the way

820
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: it's supposed to work. I appreciate you guys being tuned in. Sincerely,

821
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: I do make sure you tell five friends about our show.

822
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: We had one of you chime in the other day

823
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: and say, Wow, this show's really well produced. I can't

824
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: believe you've only got X amount of subscriptions, And I

825
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: thought to myself, you know what If I said that,

826
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: it make me sound like a jerk. But since one

827
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: of you said it, I'm gonna repeat it, so I

828
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: posted it on Instagram. Yeah, a lot of people here

829
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: work really hard to make this show look good. All

830
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: I have to do is talk, But a lot of

831
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: people work really hard to make this thing happen. Direct Collins,

832
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: junior producer and director Bradley, producer Jesse just behind the

833
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: wall here, pouring sweat, just laboring away to get this

834
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: put together. If you don't want to subscribe for me,

835
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: subscribe for them. I appreciate you doing it in the process.

836
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: For every name I just mentioned, I'm Josh Bade. Thanks

837
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: so much. We'll be back Sunday night with Late Kick Live.

838
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Speaker 1: Until then, take care in Goblins.