1
00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,759
Speaker 1: What a week? What a week. Someday I'll tell the

2
00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,239
Speaker 1: story of this week in its entirety. It'll be it'll

3
00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,080
Speaker 1: be a solid thirty or forty five minute discussion. I'm

4
00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,120
Speaker 1: gonna tell some parts of it later in the show

5
00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:28,760
Speaker 1: at the very end, some parts that a lot of

6
00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,360
Speaker 1: you have been asking about. But it's not college football related,

7
00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,920
Speaker 1: so I'll save it for the end. But wow, so

8
00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,120
Speaker 1: much going on, so much going on. We're jam packed.

9
00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,519
Speaker 1: We're high top a very sleepy and saturated downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

10
00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,120
Speaker 1: Nobody got any sleep last night. Three tornado warnings two

11
00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,640
Speaker 1: pm or two am, three am, six am. I believe

12
00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,040
Speaker 1: some of us are on the road yesterday, so little sleep.

13
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,559
Speaker 1: But a jam packed show, nonetheless, brought to you by

14
00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,640
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors on this Thursday, April third, the

15
00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,120
Speaker 1: Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. Let's see, we

16
00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,160
Speaker 1: got a hearty discussion on the show tonight about hoopst

17
00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,759
Speaker 1: can win it all? I don't mean make the playoff.

18
00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,880
Speaker 1: You know that conversation's changed, hasn't it. That conversation used

19
00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,600
Speaker 1: to be if you're a playoff contender, you're a title contender.

20
00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,479
Speaker 1: Because only four teams make the playoffs. Well, now twelve

21
00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,880
Speaker 1: of them for the time being make the playoffs. So

22
00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,160
Speaker 1: just because you're a playoff contender doesn't mean you're a

23
00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,399
Speaker 1: title contender. So one of you tried to cut right

24
00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,800
Speaker 1: through all the bs and you just asked, yeah, forget

25
00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,360
Speaker 1: about playoffs, who can win it all? Well, here on

26
00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,800
Speaker 1: this April third, irresponsibly, I'm gonna try and tell you

27
00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,160
Speaker 1: there were meetings today, you know, high level corporate mushtache

28
00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,400
Speaker 1: type meetings for the future of the playoff, and I'll

29
00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,880
Speaker 1: let you know if we got any changes on that horizon. Also,

30
00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,520
Speaker 1: the Truth series has been blown up. We've told the

31
00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,360
Speaker 1: truth as we see it on several coaches. We're going

32
00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,640
Speaker 1: to do another guy tonight. You may have heard of him.

33
00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,280
Speaker 1: His name's James Franklin. So just go ahead and get

34
00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,440
Speaker 1: the wheels spinning for your own personal self, whether you're

35
00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,800
Speaker 1: listening and we appreciate it, or whether you're watching, we

36
00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,760
Speaker 1: also appreciate it. What is the truth? If someone walked

37
00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:02,680
Speaker 1: up to you and said, what's the truth about this

38
00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,680
Speaker 1: James Franklin guy as head coach at Penn State, what's

39
00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,240
Speaker 1: the truth about him? What would you say to that person. Well,

40
00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:10,760
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'd say a little bit later tonight.

41
00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:16,440
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Toledo, Ohio, Katie, Texas, Mesa, Arizona.

42
00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,120
Speaker 1: As some of you may be aware, we have been

43
00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,480
Speaker 1: up to a lot this week. We didn't have a show.

44
00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,800
Speaker 1: Evil basketball got in the way, so we hadn't had

45
00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,480
Speaker 1: a show this week. Yet here we are. We'll do

46
00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,080
Speaker 1: another one Sunday. We're back to normal rotation now. But man,

47
00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,000
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean we have him inactive. If you've been

48
00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,920
Speaker 1: following on the socials at Josh Pate CFB, you've probably

49
00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,120
Speaker 1: seen a lot of it. I don't have time to

50
00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,920
Speaker 1: discuss all of it tonight. Let's be real, though, we

51
00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,200
Speaker 1: have no time constraints, so towards the end of the show,

52
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,640
Speaker 1: I will discuss it, but not in the beginning, because

53
00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,760
Speaker 1: in the beginning we have to discuss what many would

54
00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,080
Speaker 1: consider more pressing matters. Preston Popino Beach, Florida, hit me in.

55
00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,120
Speaker 1: He said, I know a lot of people think that

56
00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,520
Speaker 1: with playoff expansion, it means more teams can win at all.

57
00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,000
Speaker 1: But I think think that's the new lie in college football.

58
00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,120
Speaker 1: Preston's words not mine, but I agree with him, he continues,

59
00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,240
Speaker 1: So give it to me straight. Who can realistically and

60
00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,760
Speaker 1: actually win it all in twenty twenty five. You're asking

61
00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,560
Speaker 1: for a spoiler, Preston. I appreciate it because you could

62
00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,240
Speaker 1: be busy this fall. We all got things going on

63
00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,040
Speaker 1: in our personal lives, and you may be able to

64
00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,640
Speaker 1: see around the corner, and you may be able to

65
00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,280
Speaker 1: know I'm not gonna have a lot of free time

66
00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,359
Speaker 1: this fall. Maybe you're getting drugged to several fall weddings.

67
00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,720
Speaker 1: Don't even know what the plural of fall weddings are.

68
00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,359
Speaker 1: I hope to never have to learn it. But here

69
00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,560
Speaker 1: we are. So just put a good old fashioned S

70
00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,040
Speaker 1: on the end. But you may be thinking, I don't

71
00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,040
Speaker 1: have time to watch it in real time. Just let

72
00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,160
Speaker 1: me know who can win it all? Who do I

73
00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,640
Speaker 1: need to pay attention to? Well, Preston to answer that

74
00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,280
Speaker 1: question in classical spring form, I have to ask you

75
00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,440
Speaker 1: a question. If you don't know the answer, that's fine.

76
00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,240
Speaker 1: But anyone out there who knows the answer, I need

77
00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,880
Speaker 1: you to tell me this. Let me lean forward a

78
00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,680
Speaker 1: little bit, let me let me do the thinking man pose.

79
00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,200
Speaker 1: Are we going to have a normal college football year.

80
00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,240
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? What is normal in

81
00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,680
Speaker 1: this unpredictable sport of ours or this chaotic sport? What's normal? Well,

82
00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,640
Speaker 1: I think you'd agree with me, even in the more

83
00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,680
Speaker 1: chaotic years. Two thousand and seven. Notwithstanding, even in the

84
00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,440
Speaker 1: more chaotic years, usually we've had one or two teams,

85
00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,880
Speaker 1: usually of the elite recruiting programs, one or two of

86
00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,599
Speaker 1: them at least sort of scale their production and scale

87
00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,800
Speaker 1: their level of play, where even if they started off

88
00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,120
Speaker 1: kind of sketchy, they end up rounding into form your Alabama's,

89
00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,560
Speaker 1: your Ohio States, your Georgia's, whatever, Clemson, they end up

90
00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,400
Speaker 1: rounding into form. Ohio State did this this past year.

91
00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,000
Speaker 1: So by the end of the road, to beid Ohio

92
00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,040
Speaker 1: State would have taken a pretty substantial effort from a

93
00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,240
Speaker 1: pretty talented organization or program as we call them at

94
00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,760
Speaker 1: the college level. Point being, that's a normal year. A

95
00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,479
Speaker 1: normal year leads to one of about seven or eight

96
00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,000
Speaker 1: programs playing at a level that very few teams could

97
00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,280
Speaker 1: beat even on their best day. So if that is

98
00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,719
Speaker 1: what this year consists of, we got a whole nother discussion.

99
00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,440
Speaker 1: But as you well know, Preston, and as anyone who

100
00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,360
Speaker 1: watches or listens to this show knows. We've been pointing

101
00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,080
Speaker 1: this out for about a month and a half now.

102
00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,000
Speaker 1: There are certain telltale signs that we may have extreme

103
00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,320
Speaker 1: chaos and unpredictability down the road in the twenty twenty

104
00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,800
Speaker 1: five season. I have in my hands an important piece

105
00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:27,919
Speaker 1: of paper so much show that I will pop it

106
00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,200
Speaker 1: on camera for you. Immunity, Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, and

107
00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,960
Speaker 1: Georgia mainstays right, perennial favorites to win this or to

108
00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,039
Speaker 1: be involved in that. Great recruiting programs, great head coaches

109
00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,599
Speaker 1: at these places. Yes, all right, we're pointing out things

110
00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,120
Speaker 1: we already know. Well, here's what else we know. Those

111
00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,640
Speaker 1: are at FanDuel as we speak, the top four teams

112
00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,120
Speaker 1: in the odds to win the national championship this year

113
00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:57,880
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, Georgia. Okay, not breaking news, right, Well,

114
00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,320
Speaker 1: if we're considering those the favorites, Preston, here's why I

115
00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,480
Speaker 1: think we may be headed down a road of chaos

116
00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,240
Speaker 1: and unpredictability. None of those teams returns the starting quarterback.

117
00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,719
Speaker 1: That's the first thing. The second thing is, none of

118
00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:16,440
Speaker 1: those four teams returns over fifty percent production Does that

119
00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,719
Speaker 1: mean that they'll suck, of course not. Does that mean

120
00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,040
Speaker 1: that they'll all flame out and go eight and four,

121
00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,159
Speaker 1: nine and three, No, it doesn't. In fact, for all

122
00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,000
Speaker 1: I know, Dante Moore could just kill it at Oregon

123
00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,840
Speaker 1: or can could end up having the best version of

124
00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,599
Speaker 1: themselves Dan Landings had so far, that could happen. Most

125
00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,320
Speaker 1: years it does happen. But Preston, I want you to

126
00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,200
Speaker 1: play a little game with me tonight on the show.

127
00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,520
Speaker 1: I want you to just pretend along with me that

128
00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,240
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. Oregon's just really good this year. Ohio

129
00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,240
Speaker 1: State's just really good, Georgia pretty good, really good, Texas

130
00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,920
Speaker 1: pretty good, really good, somewhere in that realm B plus

131
00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,240
Speaker 1: a minus, but there is no elite team. Let's say

132
00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,559
Speaker 1: that's the case when we get to November, wild college

133
00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,640
Speaker 1: football World, that would be right now. I don't know

134
00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,280
Speaker 1: this is going to happen, but in the interest of

135
00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,800
Speaker 1: the fact that it's April, let's just pretend, Preston, if

136
00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,880
Speaker 1: we have that situation. We got a wide open landscape.

137
00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:13,400
Speaker 1: And as I said a couple of weeks ago, and

138
00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,800
Speaker 1: I'll reiterate this, if we have that wide open landscape,

139
00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,080
Speaker 1: you have to condition yourself to get ready to maybe

140
00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,960
Speaker 1: see some things you said would never happen. Some teams,

141
00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,640
Speaker 1: some coaches competing to win the whole thing that you

142
00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,760
Speaker 1: never thought would compete to win the whole thing. So

143
00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,400
Speaker 1: in the SEC, here's the thing about the SEC. If

144
00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,000
Speaker 1: we have an elite team somewhere, whether it's an SEC

145
00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,120
Speaker 1: team or not, we're talking about winning the national title.

146
00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,800
Speaker 1: If there's an elite team that forms out there, could

147
00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,000
Speaker 1: be Oregon, could be Georgia. The pool in the SEC

148
00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,760
Speaker 1: of teams that I think could win the whole thing

149
00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,480
Speaker 1: is much smaller. But if we don't have an elite

150
00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,760
Speaker 1: team and it just takes being pretty good and clicking

151
00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,920
Speaker 1: at the right time with a deep and talented roster,

152
00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,160
Speaker 1: then the SEC, I kid you not as like eight deep,

153
00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,400
Speaker 1: nine deep of teams that if you told me they're

154
00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,120
Speaker 1: gonna win at all in a muddy season, I wouldn't

155
00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,360
Speaker 1: be shocked by LSU. Certainly wouldn't be shocked about them

156
00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,920
Speaker 1: winning it either way, because I think I think they've

157
00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,520
Speaker 1: got high end potential as a team this year. No

158
00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,960
Speaker 1: matter what BAMA year, two hundred de boor could do

159
00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,440
Speaker 1: it either way. But think about Tennessee, Tennessee. I look

160
00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,320
Speaker 1: at them right now, I think offensive line, what are

161
00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,920
Speaker 1: they doing? Offensively? What are they doing? And so maybe

162
00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,680
Speaker 1: if we have an elite team, if you guarantee me

163
00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State is gonna replenish themselves or Oregon's gonna be

164
00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,560
Speaker 1: a ninety five to one hundred percent of what they

165
00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,360
Speaker 1: were last year, I don't think Tennessee's got much of

166
00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,679
Speaker 1: a shot. But if we don't live in that world,

167
00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee's got a shot. Texas A and M's got a shot.

168
00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,480
Speaker 1: Colin New's showing you b roll of Texas A and M. There,

169
00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,080
Speaker 1: how many people most people out there, how many of

170
00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,160
Speaker 1: you have said A and M's never gonna win the

171
00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,760
Speaker 1: national title. Many of you think that it's okay to

172
00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,680
Speaker 1: think that. And in a normal year, this Texas A

173
00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,160
Speaker 1: and M team won't win a national championship, they won't

174
00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,040
Speaker 1: compete for a national championship. I don't think. But if

175
00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,160
Speaker 1: we don't have a normal year, if we have an

176
00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,960
Speaker 1: atypical year, if someone who is a B or B

177
00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,040
Speaker 1: plus out there that just gets hot at the right

178
00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,520
Speaker 1: time is going to win the national title, could be them,

179
00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,360
Speaker 1: of course, it could be Georgia of course it could

180
00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,840
Speaker 1: be Texas. I'd say it could be Old Miss. I

181
00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:20,480
Speaker 1: would have paid money to simulate an alternate world where

182
00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,600
Speaker 1: Ole Miss made it in the playoffs this past year.

183
00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,079
Speaker 1: I didn't think they deserved to make it in. Let

184
00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,960
Speaker 1: me be very clear. I didn't think they deserved to

185
00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,400
Speaker 1: make it in, and so they didn't make it in.

186
00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,080
Speaker 1: But if they had made it in, I thought they

187
00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,679
Speaker 1: could have done some damage South Carolina, like Florida Oklahoma,

188
00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,839
Speaker 1: if they make it through those schedules in a very

189
00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,240
Speaker 1: very muddy season, that could happen. Ironically, though, in the

190
00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,880
Speaker 1: Big Ten, I still see three of them. Ohio State

191
00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,240
Speaker 1: and Oregon in any world can win the national championship.

192
00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,520
Speaker 1: Penn State this year, especially if there's not an elite team,

193
00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,200
Speaker 1: can win the national championship. I'm going to talk about

194
00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,880
Speaker 1: them a little bit later on in a radically different context.

195
00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,280
Speaker 1: But Penn State I still struggle in my mind, where

196
00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,240
Speaker 1: if you go scenario A, scenario B, and scenario A

197
00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,400
Speaker 1: is what we just talked about, there is an elite

198
00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,800
Speaker 1: team somewhere out there. I struggle to view Penn State

199
00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,360
Speaker 1: as being that apex predator of a team any given year,

200
00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,040
Speaker 1: just because they've never been that. I have not seen

201
00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,120
Speaker 1: them be. That doesn't mean they can't, but I struggle

202
00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,040
Speaker 1: to see that. Okay, so let's table that for a second.

203
00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,760
Speaker 1: We're talking with our hands a lot tonight. Let's say

204
00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:32,000
Speaker 1: scenario B does come to fruition, and we just we've

205
00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,400
Speaker 1: got an environment come late November and December into the

206
00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,160
Speaker 1: playoff where it's pretty obvious we don't have an elite

207
00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,600
Speaker 1: team out there, like, where's the Goliath that you've got

208
00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,880
Speaker 1: a slay? He's not there. That kind of environment could

209
00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,560
Speaker 1: lead to blue and white confetti raining down. Where are

210
00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,200
Speaker 1: we going to Miami? I think Miami's the side of

211
00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,720
Speaker 1: the national title next year? I think check me on that.

212
00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,719
Speaker 1: But yeah, imagine standing there in hard Rock Stadium and

213
00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,800
Speaker 1: James Franklin's hoisting up a national championship trophy and you're

214
00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,520
Speaker 1: sitting there like you're rubbing your and you're checking your

215
00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,480
Speaker 1: alarm clock? Am I dreaming? What's happening here? I swore

216
00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,680
Speaker 1: to myself this was impossible? How did this come to pass? Well,

217
00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,760
Speaker 1: Scenario B is how it came to pass Michigan. Can

218
00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,320
Speaker 1: they do it? In either world? Can they do it?

219
00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,679
Speaker 1: This year? I struggle with that I struggle with seeing

220
00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,760
Speaker 1: Nebraska do it. In either world, we're not talking about

221
00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,439
Speaker 1: making the playoff. This is again where we've got to

222
00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,000
Speaker 1: be specific. Preston asked, who can win it all. I

223
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,520
Speaker 1: don't know that Nebraska or Iowa or Wisconsin, even in

224
00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,880
Speaker 1: a down year by college football standards, could rise to

225
00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,360
Speaker 1: that level. They could make the playoff. Illinois, they could

226
00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,439
Speaker 1: make the playoff rising to the level of winning a title.

227
00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Notre Dame, absolutely, Clemson, absolutely, Miami.

228
00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,840
Speaker 1: The talent rosters there where if we have again a

229
00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,760
Speaker 1: down year or who knows, man, maybe Carson Beck goes

230
00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,679
Speaker 1: down there and shuts everyone up and just surges and

231
00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,760
Speaker 1: just comes out the gate on fire, and their defensive

232
00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:02,880
Speaker 1: coordinator change yields really really immediately positive results. Maybe I

233
00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,240
Speaker 1: think the more likely scenario of Miami wins a national

234
00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:10,040
Speaker 1: title is there wasn't an elite team so Big twelve.

235
00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,600
Speaker 1: That's the most fun thing. That's the most fun aspect

236
00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,880
Speaker 1: of this whole conversation is the Big twelve gets boxed

237
00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,200
Speaker 1: out the minute you tell me there's gonna be an

238
00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,880
Speaker 1: A to an A plus caliber team out there, because

239
00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:22,240
Speaker 1: none of them are gonna be able to touch that.

240
00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,520
Speaker 1: But if there's not one, Texas Tech could make some noise.

241
00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,360
Speaker 1: Arizona State could make some noise. Kansas State, like just

242
00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,600
Speaker 1: randomly could make some noise. Not that Kansas State is random.

243
00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,439
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you wouldn't typically involve them in that conversation.

244
00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,760
Speaker 1: So as you see, as you hear it is April

245
00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,080
Speaker 1: true enough, we may have an elite team, but what

246
00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,040
Speaker 1: do we know. We know every coach out there is

247
00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,800
Speaker 1: complaining about how their depth doesn't stack up the way

248
00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,920
Speaker 1: it used to, which is a product of the current

249
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,079
Speaker 1: environment we're in. I don't know how long that's gonna last.

250
00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,000
Speaker 1: Probably is here to stay to a certain extent, but

251
00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,560
Speaker 1: we're still busy finding out. It's only two thousand twenty five.

252
00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:02,920
Speaker 1: Everyone tells you time flies, Well, I'm telling you it's

253
00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,400
Speaker 1: moving slow. It's only twenty twenty five. So we really

254
00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,400
Speaker 1: haven't fully figured out what the new normal is gonna be.

255
00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,360
Speaker 1: We know what the new current reality is, we don't

256
00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,839
Speaker 1: know if it's a blip on the radar screen or

257
00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,080
Speaker 1: if this is here to stay. You know, So Preston,

258
00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,800
Speaker 1: in the interest of trying to have some fun with

259
00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,800
Speaker 1: the lead segment on the show, maybe no elite team.

260
00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,520
Speaker 1: If there's no elite team, I just named you a

261
00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,520
Speaker 1: bunch that could win the whole thing. We will obviously

262
00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,840
Speaker 1: whittle that down as the season goes on. Who knows,

263
00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,679
Speaker 1: maybe even as spring goes on, as fall camps go on,

264
00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,920
Speaker 1: a coach may speak erroneously at media Days, and we

265
00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,360
Speaker 1: may knock a couple of them out there. It's just

266
00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,320
Speaker 1: an inside joke around here. The biggest takeaways from media Days,

267
00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,040
Speaker 1: winners and losers at media Days, it's a segment that

268
00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,520
Speaker 1: we will never do. I've sworn we will never do it.

269
00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,560
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the logic is behind it.

270
00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,960
Speaker 1: Rabbit hole, rabbit hole, rabbit hole. That's an alert for me.

271
00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,480
Speaker 1: It's an internal mechanism for me to get back on track.

272
00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,559
Speaker 1: So yeah, I will tell you who wins every year. Though,

273
00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,360
Speaker 1: you if you go to Academy Sports and Outdoors Now,

274
00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,200
Speaker 1: as me and Ma taught me growing up, there are

275
00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:16,480
Speaker 1: winners that sometimes don't go to Academy, but all losers

276
00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,280
Speaker 1: avoid Academy. So you're putting yourself in a really good

277
00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,040
Speaker 1: life position if you just go check out Academy. It's

278
00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,080
Speaker 1: legal for you to walk in there and not buy something.

279
00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,120
Speaker 1: It's unlikely, but it is legal for you to do that.

280
00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,920
Speaker 1: But I just ask you humbly. You ever go fishing,

281
00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,000
Speaker 1: You ever play anything outdoors. It could be biking, It

282
00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,960
Speaker 1: could be hiking, It could be baseball, it could be kayaking, golf.

283
00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,240
Speaker 1: I don't really care what it is. If you do it,

284
00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,800
Speaker 1: or you know anyone who does it, or the kiddo's

285
00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,280
Speaker 1: around the house do it, or your cousin does it,

286
00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,000
Speaker 1: and you just want to get rid of him for

287
00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,320
Speaker 1: a little while. Academy Sports and Outdoors. I'm not saying

288
00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,160
Speaker 1: turn him loose in the store. We don't need Academy parhs.

289
00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,640
Speaker 1: What we need is we need active children outdoors, and

290
00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,000
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors gear you up for it. And

291
00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,400
Speaker 1: you know what, it wasn't hurt for you to get

292
00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,440
Speaker 1: outside either. Vitamin D in moderation never hurt anyone. So

293
00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,280
Speaker 1: Academy dot com. If you can't get there in person,

294
00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,600
Speaker 1: but I highly recommend get there in person. Get there

295
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,640
Speaker 1: in person. They've got themselves figured out, which is more

296
00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,080
Speaker 1: than I can say for the next group of people

297
00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about. If you'll pardon me, I need

298
00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,400
Speaker 1: to pop the top on a cream soda zva for

299
00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:31,360
Speaker 1: this segment, because, as my memory serves me sufficiently at best,

300
00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,600
Speaker 1: I think the last time we talked about the playoff, Jesse,

301
00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,480
Speaker 1: I drank the zvia and I swore to you we

302
00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,360
Speaker 1: will not get resolution on this anytime soon, and then

303
00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,760
Speaker 1: come to find out we didn't get resolution on it

304
00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,960
Speaker 1: anytime soon. So here's to the double negative. We're gonna

305
00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,560
Speaker 1: take another zero sugar chug of cream soda Zevia. I'm

306
00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,600
Speaker 1: not sure they love being aligned with the College Football

307
00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,160
Speaker 1: Playoff Committee at the present moment. That's the way the

308
00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:02,400
Speaker 1: dominoes tumbled on tonight's show. Ugh, let me spare you

309
00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,120
Speaker 1: the time there were some meetings of questionable importance. I

310
00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,600
Speaker 1: think in Dallas today, that's as specific as I need

311
00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,520
Speaker 1: to get, because it really doesn't matter where the meetings are.

312
00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,760
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out whether they're going to change

313
00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,280
Speaker 1: the playoff this year or not. And right now, as

314
00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, we just went through a year first every

315
00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,200
Speaker 1: year twelve teams in the playoff, and we had this

316
00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,320
Speaker 1: really really weird structure where we had four teams get

317
00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,560
Speaker 1: first round bys, but the only teams that got first

318
00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,840
Speaker 1: round bys were teams that won their conference that was

319
00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,080
Speaker 1: a rule. Didn't make much sense to some people, me included,

320
00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,760
Speaker 1: but it was the rule. Everyone had to go by it,

321
00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,520
Speaker 1: and so Oregon ultimately ended up just getting screwed by

322
00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:45,400
Speaker 1: this whole mechanism that was the twenty twenty four slash

323
00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,640
Speaker 1: five College Football Playoffs. So the minute that thing was over, nay,

324
00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,880
Speaker 1: before it was even over, everyone from league commissioners to

325
00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,120
Speaker 1: my dad, to director Colin and producer Jesse and me

326
00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,280
Speaker 1: and everyone else. I'm pretty sure my sister had take

327
00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,560
Speaker 1: on this, said, why in the world don't you just

328
00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,280
Speaker 1: seed the thing one through twelve and you can make

329
00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,560
Speaker 1: sure all your conference champs are in there, whatever, But

330
00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,800
Speaker 1: why would you lock in some backwards rule where only

331
00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,840
Speaker 1: conference champs can get a first round by point was taken.

332
00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,560
Speaker 1: It will shock you to know there's a lot more

333
00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,080
Speaker 1: to this than just the the pures, the driven snow

334
00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,119
Speaker 1: integrity of the bracket. I know, I know, I know,

335
00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,520
Speaker 1: but it does turn out dollars and cents and leveraging

336
00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,399
Speaker 1: by people in suits worth more than your entire wardrobe.

337
00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,359
Speaker 1: Knock on them, not you. It turns out that is

338
00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,000
Speaker 1: in play here. So that brings us to today. So

339
00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,440
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of just boom boom, boom, back

340
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,960
Speaker 1: and forth. We need to change this. The SEC and

341
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,600
Speaker 1: the Big Ten of looking at it and saying, hey,

342
00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna scrap this whole thing in twenty twenty six anyway,

343
00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,600
Speaker 1: But in twenty twenty five, the last year of the contract,

344
00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,240
Speaker 1: we want it changed, and we don't want that auto

345
00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,879
Speaker 1: bid only to go or auto by only to go

346
00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,120
Speaker 1: to a conference champ and the other leagues you're looking

347
00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,439
Speaker 1: at it and saying, well, here's the problem. That's the

348
00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,600
Speaker 1: only way we're gonna get a first round by. The

349
00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,880
Speaker 1: Mountain West is looking and saying, well, getting a bye

350
00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,199
Speaker 1: was great for Boise State. Bois's never going to get

351
00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,040
Speaker 1: a first round by any other way. And the Big

352
00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 1: twelve is looking and saying, how are we supposed to

353
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,480
Speaker 1: get Arizona State at first round by if it's not

354
00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,640
Speaker 1: locked in for us, And then just an innocent bystanders

355
00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,600
Speaker 1: looking over there and saying, but we're not looking out

356
00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 1: for the best interest to Arizona State or Boise We're

357
00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:32,840
Speaker 1: supposed to be looking out for the best interests of

358
00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,000
Speaker 1: college football. And then the Big ten in the SEC

359
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,240
Speaker 1: say yeah, But then another bystander says, you hypocrites. You've

360
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,160
Speaker 1: completely drained all the competitive balance out of the sport.

361
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,480
Speaker 1: You're getting your way on everything. You're about to get

362
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,000
Speaker 1: your way even more on everything because you guys control

363
00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,359
Speaker 1: the levers of power completely. A year from now, can't

364
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,160
Speaker 1: you just let us have this one thing for one

365
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,560
Speaker 1: more year? As you can see, there's no resolution in sight.

366
00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,640
Speaker 1: So that brings us to today. They had meeting in Dallas.

367
00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,560
Speaker 1: I think Rittenberg was one of several out there, and

368
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,440
Speaker 1: you know what, you wait on all days, you went

369
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,159
Speaker 1: on them to have their meetings, and then you know,

370
00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,280
Speaker 1: about three o'clock in the afternoon, because God forbid these

371
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,280
Speaker 1: people work past five o'clock, they emerge and they head

372
00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,520
Speaker 1: off of their private jets to get back to you know,

373
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,160
Speaker 1: whichever gated community they're going to sleep in this night.

374
00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,239
Speaker 1: And Adam Rittenberg was presumably waiting outside of one of

375
00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,000
Speaker 1: those one of those rooms. He's one of us, Writtenberg,

376
00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,919
Speaker 1: not one of them, one of us. And here's what

377
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,800
Speaker 1: he tweeted out a little while ago. This is two

378
00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,320
Speaker 1: thirty eight in the afternoon. He said, CFP meeting in

379
00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,440
Speaker 1: Dallas has wrapped and as expected, no votes or decisions

380
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,080
Speaker 1: were made on seating in format for twenty twenty five

381
00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,600
Speaker 1: and beyond. Executive director Rich Clark called today quote an

382
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,920
Speaker 1: extension unquote of annual meetings later this month. They are

383
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 1: quote walking down the path of some decisions. There are

384
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 1: many contemptible aspects of the people who currently run college

385
00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,920
Speaker 1: football and lead in college football, but one of them

386
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,440
Speaker 1: that's at the very top of the ladder of contention

387
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,520
Speaker 1: with me is how blase they are about this time

388
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 1: of year. In an ideal world, this is the time

389
00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,440
Speaker 1: of year you get all the critical decisions made so

390
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 1: that it doesn't push right up against fall camp and

391
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 1: the start of the season. And they don't care. They

392
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 1: don't Half of them are in the mall deves and

393
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,920
Speaker 1: the other ones are on islands that we can't even

394
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 1: pronounce because we've never even heard of them. And they

395
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 1: all come back to campus about the time the students do,

396
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,000
Speaker 1: and they got terrible, terrible, uneven tans, and that's you know,

397
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,440
Speaker 1: they tighten up the sweater vest and they say, all right,

398
00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,640
Speaker 1: what did we not get to Yet not the way

399
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 1: it should be, But yet it feels like that's the

400
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,480
Speaker 1: way this is playing out. Who knows, maybe they'll make

401
00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,320
Speaker 1: a decision down the road, Dellinger said, I think he

402
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,520
Speaker 1: expects resolution to come in the not too distant future

403
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 1: fingers crossed. But here's the question, is this thing really

404
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: going to change for this year? I kind of hope

405
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 1: it does. Honestly, I don't have a strong stance either way.

406
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,919
Speaker 1: It makes no sense to me what the current format is,

407
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: but I do get why it is the way it is.

408
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,880
Speaker 1: But if you're an alien, you know, we haven't welcomed

409
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 1: to the alien on the show lately. But if we

410
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,719
Speaker 1: brought our friend, the alien who we bring in on

411
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 1: matters such as these from time to time, if we

412
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: brought him in and we tried to explain the concept

413
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: of the playoff to him, first thing he'd ask is

414
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 1: why do you need Why do you need any kind

415
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,159
Speaker 1: of prerequisite on the auto bidch Shouldn't it just be

416
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 1: the best teams? Aren't you just looking for the best teams? Well, alien,

417
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 1: go back to your own planet. It's a lot more

418
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 1: complicated than that down here. But if I'm the Big Twelve,

419
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 1: if I'm the acc if I'm the Mountain West, if

420
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: I'm Notre Dame who just gets their own entire seat

421
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 1: at the table, that's the equivalent to a conference. I'm

422
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,360
Speaker 1: not knocking Notre Dame. It's great positioning in the world.

423
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 1: If you can get it, it's just no one else

424
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: can get it. But if I'm any of them, I'm

425
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,880
Speaker 1: sitting here thinking to myself, this may be the last

426
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,200
Speaker 1: shot I have at leverage. Ever, what do I want

427
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: out of this? This is the great unknown to me.

428
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 1: In fairness, it's cause I have an aund enough about it.

429
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: But this is what I wonder allowed. There's no hidden

430
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,959
Speaker 1: pretext to what I'm about to say. I really don't know.

431
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 1: I wonder what they want because the game being played here,

432
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: for those unfamiliar, is the twenty twenty five seasons, the

433
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 1: last year of this current contract, the current twelve team model.

434
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: Then they're gonna tear the thing down, probably to the studs.

435
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna rebuild it from scratch. It'll probably go to

436
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: fourteen teams. But here's what you need to know. The

437
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,959
Speaker 1: SEC and the Big Ten pretty much run it from

438
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six moving forward, so they don't need unanimous

439
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 1: consent on decisions like they have to get right now.

440
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 1: They just kind of get to do whatever they want to.

441
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: And you may say, well, that seems unfair and you're right,

442
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 1: but that's the world we live in. So I agree

443
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 1: with you, point being if you said it's unfair and

444
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: it sucks, I wish we could go back to but

445
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: we can't. So I wonder in the interim, are they

446
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: looking around and saying, all right, we'll give you what

447
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: you want for twenty twenty five, but we want concessions

448
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six and beyond. And of course they're

449
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: doing that. The better question is what are they asking for?

450
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: Do they just want more money? Fair? You know, it

451
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: matters to everyone. What do they want? That's the first

452
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: thing I wanted. The second thing is from a fans perspective.

453
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: Dirty word. That's the real left word in the world

454
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: of college football leadership. Fan. Can you imagine doing what's

455
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: in the best interest of the fans? Can you imagine

456
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: even acknowledging they exist players? Can you imagine fans and

457
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: players mattering in this whole thing? Gross? You mean the

458
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 1: people that sit out on the bleachers, h Use the

459
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: sport would be so great if it wasn't for the

460
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: fans and the players. I think it was Irving Azof

461
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: who said that about the Eagles one day. You know,

462
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: the music industry would be so great if it wasn't

463
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: for the artist. It's a great documentary. You ought to

464
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 1: go watch it sometime anyway. As for the fans, by

465
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: my unscientific calculation, a super majority of you feel the

466
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: same way I do about this, and that is have

467
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: your twelve team playoff and have the seeds and put

468
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: your conference champs in. That's okay, but don't have this

469
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: completely warped conference champs only prerequisite for the first four

470
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 1: seeds and therefore the first round buys. Most people feel

471
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 1: that way, not all people feel that way, And we

472
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 1: went on this sort of tangent a month ago, so

473
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it again. It's still on

474
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: the channel. The video is if you want to go

475
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: find it. I laid out what someone who disagrees with

476
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: that feels and why they feel it. And you can

477
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: put yourself in the position of an NC State fan

478
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: for a second, or put yourself in the position of

479
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 1: a big twelve fan. Period you have watched a lot

480
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: of the world of college football crumble around you, and

481
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: unlike a Penn State fan or an Auburn fan, you

482
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: don't happen to have the right sticker on your helmet.

483
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: So you haven't been the beneficiary of this, and you're

484
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,360
Speaker 1: not getting more money than you used to because of this.

485
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: In fact, you're getting less access less oxygen. Your conferences

486
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: have been completely redrawn, and so now you know you're

487
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: in the same league as Stanford. Even though you see

488
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: one ocean out your window, they see the other ocean

489
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: out their window. And you think, well, if everything's changed,

490
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: I don't really care what's best for the sport. The

491
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: sport's not serving me, so why should we constantly bend

492
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: the need to the greater good of the sport. We're

493
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: not really serving the sport. We're serving the SEC in

494
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. And if you think about it like that,

495
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: that's understandable. That's why I'm sitting here telling you, even

496
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: though from a simple principled format standpoint, I think it

497
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: makes sense not to have the auto bids and the

498
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 1: autobids only go to conference jemps, I get it, man.

499
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: I'd probably feel the same way if I was if

500
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,719
Speaker 1: I was the fan of a specific team, if I

501
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: was a Virginia Tech fan, I couldn't care less what

502
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: the SEC of the Big Ten want. They're gonna choke

503
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: us out anyway. When have they ever shown the desire

504
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: to voluntarily come to the table. When have they ever

505
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: shown a benelevent hand being extended in our direction lately?

506
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: If they have, I hadn't seen, and so I don't

507
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: really care. Maybe twenty twenty five is my last shot

508
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: to enjoy them starving over there, just a little bit,

509
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: just starving a little bit. Let's move merrily along. Oh,

510
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: I couldn't even read what this word was in front

511
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: of me. Volcanic. Okay, that's what it is. Volcanic. It

512
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: does mean something in college football. John hit us, that's

513
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: terrible column. We'll start that one over. John from Charlotte,

514
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: North Carolina. He hit us. He said, Hey, I've been

515
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: loving the game breakdowns, But do you think this is

516
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: the year where we have some Volcanic Saturdays? And if so,

517
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: which weeks are you looking at? John? We always always

518
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: have the Volcanic Saturday, except for was it last year

519
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: or two years ago? It was weird we didn't have one.

520
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: But we do have Volcanic Saturdays most years now. I

521
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: was talking to producer Jesse earlier. He always gives me

522
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: his best metaphors for the show. Sometimes I steal him

523
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: and use them, at which point their mind. Other times

524
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: I say that wasn't good enough, and I dismiss it.

525
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: And Jesse had one that wasn't great today, And I

526
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: fully believe in calling out his flaws and not acknowledging

527
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: his strengths. So one of his flawed metaphors today was,

528
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: you know volcanos. The thing about him is they never

529
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: give any sign they're about to erupt. And that's the

530
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: way a volcanic Saturday is. You know, it just comes

531
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Well, that is the way a wild

532
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: Saturday is. But I mean, we've all seen the documentary

533
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: that is Dante's Peak. Not a movie, kids, it's a

534
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: documentary as far as I'm concerned. And there were signs.

535
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: Pierce Brosnen told those folks it was coming. You didn't

536
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: want to listen. Got the folks boiling to death, and

537
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: the hot spring over here, you got the town's water

538
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: supply going to crap. Yeah, they saw it coming. But

539
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: you don't see volcanic Saturday coming every so often. And

540
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: it happens in college football. So I could go week

541
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: one on this. I'm gonna skip past week one, but

542
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: just know week one is going to be crazy because

543
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: hats off again. I want to. I want to give

544
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: a clap to a lot of these athletic directors out

545
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: there who scheduled big games and week one on camp

546
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: by plural of campus instead of for the most part,

547
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: neutral site games. LSU plays Clemson at Clemson. I'm working

548
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: on the pronunciation, by the way, Clemson. I'm working on it.

549
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: Not there yet, not claiming to be, but I'm working

550
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: on it. Auburn plays in Baylor. Let me ask you something.

551
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 1: How many of those kids know about Waco, Texas? And

552
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: for football related reasons, how many of those kids know

553
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: about Waco, Texas. I love watching folks go to unfamiliar places.

554
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: The Auburn helmet in McLean Stadium. For some reason, I

555
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: just envisioned that as an eleven am kickoff. I don't

556
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: know that I just envisioned it there. I went to

557
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: a Baylor game that kicked off at eleven am. They

558
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: had a hash brown bar in the press box. I'm

559
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: ready to call it one of the top five best

560
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: days of my life. So that's gonna be awesome. We

561
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: got Bama at Florida State. I was in dont Campbell

562
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: Stadium yesterday. Here's some inside information. I was in there yesterday,

563
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: less than a little over twenty four hours ago. I

564
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: saw the enhancements, I saw the construction taking place. I

565
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: realized in the moment, wait the first time that this place,

566
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: this new version of Dolt Campbell Stadium is gonna be

567
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: unveiled is Alabama. And yeah, Alabama goes in there week one.

568
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: Who'st amongst us knows what we'll get from either team,

569
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: but at least we'll get a very very modernized Dolt

570
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: Campbell Stadium. We got Texas at Ohio State in week one.

571
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: Of course, we got Notre Dame going to Miami in

572
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: week one. This is not even a week I'm talking about.

573
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, there's some big games. None of

574
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: these are conference games, though, so I prefer for the

575
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: Volcanic Saturdays to have a lot of conference flavor. So

576
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: let's start with week five. Week five, if you're listening

577
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: on podcasts, you're just gonna have to follow with me

578
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: here because I'm not gonna read every game. But for example,

579
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: we got LSU O miss and Alabama Georgia. Think about

580
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: those games last year. Ole mess goes to LSU. I

581
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: don't think they trailed a single second of the game,

582
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: and they lost. Georgia goes to Bama, they get down big,

583
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: they come all the way from behind, take the lead,

584
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: and then they lose. Both of those rematches happen on

585
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: the same day. It's in week five. You've also got

586
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: here's my sheet here. Oregon's at Penn State that day.

587
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: So that's another one I want you to think about

588
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: the Big ten championship picture. The winner of that game,

589
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: I am very confident will be in Indianapolis because they've

590
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: got wiggle room at that point. They don't really play

591
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: a ton of other rosters that can compare to theirs.

592
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: When the world's Oregon gonna have a tougher road date

593
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five than at Penn State. And remember

594
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: that's early ish in the season. It's week five. Penn

595
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: State's got it. I think a bye before that. I

596
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: think it's Oregon's fourth or fifth game in a row.

597
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what our friends at Fox are gonna

598
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: do with the kickoff time, but I'm just saying if

599
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: they bignon it, then that is an a nine am

600
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: body clock kickoff for Oregon. So what I'm telling Dan

601
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: Landing is why I even show up for that game?

602
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: You know, so Week five is a good one. What

603
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: about Week seven? Week seven, I'm ready to say is

604
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: my early candidate for best week of the year. We

605
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: have got South Carolina LSU. We were at that game

606
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: last year. Shane Biemer would not admit it on the show,

607
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: but he knows they got robbed in that game. He

608
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: knows it. Trust me, he knows it, but he answered

609
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: it diplomatically in our Pate State Speaker Series visit with him,

610
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: which you can find on the channel right now. The

611
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: Speaker series doing big numbers and we appreciate it. LSU

612
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: at this point though, will have already faced Clumson, Florida

613
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: and Ole Miss. So two of those are conference games

614
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: of course, so this is the third like high leverage

615
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: conference game that LSU's played already by this point, and

616
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: it's halfway through the season. Still got Bama to go,

617
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: so we couldn't find out. We will have already found

618
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: out a lot about LSU. This is Oklahoma Texas Day,

619
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: this is Florida at A and M just kind of

620
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: a it's a non traditional it's not a rivalry. It's

621
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: a big day mainly in the SEC. But think about

622
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: the ACC and the Big ten in week seven. Okay,

623
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: so you got Iowa at Wisconsin. We're trying to figure

624
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: out what the second layer of the Big Ten looks

625
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: like this year. That game goes a long way and

626
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 1: maybe someone emerging. I'm pointing the wrong way there. It

627
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: is right there, Indiana. A lot of you got mad,

628
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: slash aggravated, slash frustrated last year that not that Indiana

629
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: was winning, but you didn't think their schedule tested them enough. Well,

630
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: I got great news for you. If you feel that way,

631
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: can you won't feel that way this year. Look, they

632
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: go to Oregon, so there you go. If they go

633
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: undefeated or they go eleven to one this year, they

634
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: will have earned it. I would say they earned it

635
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: last year, but you know what I mean. NC State

636
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is not a conference game, but I would

637
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: say the same thing. You're trying to identify Michigan, USC's

638
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: this day, oh Ohio State, Illinois this day. If there

639
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: is a surefire dark horse in either the Big Ten

640
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: or the ACC, it probably comes from this grouping of teams.

641
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: I also think Clemson plays Boston College this day. So

642
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: like if BC or NC State are gonna emerge as

643
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: a dark dark course, it's probably because they pulled an

644
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: upset on this day. If USC is going to be

645
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: in the mix this year, it's probably because they won

646
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: games like you know, the one they have on this Saturday,

647
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: which is Michigan coming to the coliseum. Week eight, the

648
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: very next week is also a way up there. How

649
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: about a Friday night Louisville at Miami. Now that to

650
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: me brings back memories of last year when Virginia Tech

651
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: went in there on a Friday night and then you

652
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: had the Hail Mary that wasn't and then Miami holds

653
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: on for a win. That was a Friday night game too.

654
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: So Louisville goes in there, Miami home game on a

655
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: Friday night. This is third Saturday in October. So you

656
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: got Tennessee Bama. You got Ole mess at Georgia, Ole

657
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: Mess drug Georgia last year. Now do you get the

658
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: return trip to Athens? This is USC going to Notre

659
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: Dame on this Saturday. But I'll tell you what else

660
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: happens here. Ohio State at Wisconsin, Penn State at Iowa.

661
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: Those are two really big time contenders going on the

662
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: road in the Big ten smu is it Clemson ACC

663
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: Championship Game rematch on this day. Ironically, the one I'm

664
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: kind of low key most excited about is I think

665
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: the early candidate for Big twelve Game of the year,

666
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: and that's Texas Tech at Arizona State. All those games

667
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: happen in week eight. I don't know what our tour

668
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: is going to be named this fall, so I certainly

669
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: don't know where we're gonna be in week eight. But

670
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: oh wow, there's no shortage of quality games there to

671
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: choose from. And might I add Week twelve, This is great.

672
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: I got helmet grid schedules in front of me right now.

673
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: Road games late season road games for Oklahoma and Texas

674
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: same day OU goes to Bama, Texas goes to Georgia.

675
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: I think Florida at ol Miss has like sneaky SEC

676
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: championship game ramifications written all over it. Last year it

677
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: had playoff ramifications for one team it did last year.

678
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: Let's see Clemson's at Louisville on a Friday, So that's

679
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: a Friday game as well. So Louisville is one of

680
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: my favorite dark horses. Every year, they're in a weird spot.

681
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: This year two of their biggest games, probably their two

682
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: biggest games, are on Fridays. So got Miami on the road,

683
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: you got Clemson at home, and so for better or

684
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: for worse, you'll get a really good look at Louisville

685
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: this year. I'm trying to think West Virginia and Arizona

686
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: State's an interesting game that late in the year or two.

687
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: But those are some of the ones I came up with.

688
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: It's not an exhaustive list. But if we're gonna have

689
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 1: a true volcanic Saturday, I would imagine it comes from

690
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: one of those weeks. But see, that's the thing about

691
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: Volcanic Saturday. Unlike in nature, sometimes Volcanic Saturday really does

692
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: come out of nowhere. They're watching us in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Cardiff, Wales.

693
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 1: They're tuned in all the way over there, statesbro Georgia.

694
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: Not quite as far over there, but still same direction

695
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: they're tuned in. Appreciate at you guys wherever you are.

696
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: To make sure you subscribe to the channel. You don't

697
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: have to show still free no matter what, but it

698
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: really helps us if you subscribe to the channel. All right,

699
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: let's continue flipping through the rolodex of questions here. Kind

700
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: of got backlogged on questions because we haven't had a

701
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 1: show in a week, which is on us. Mostly partly

702
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: a schedule thing, but it's mainly on us. Someone had

703
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: a question. I think I'll be asked a lot between

704
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 1: now and week one when this team goes to Baylor.

705
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: But it's a question about Hugh Freeze. All right now.

706
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: I want to speak responsibly here. I want to make

707
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: sure that we don't step over trip over words that

708
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: we've already put in the show, thoughts that we've already

709
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: put in the show. I've spoken on this before, I'm

710
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,240
Speaker 1: going to speak on it again. One of you asked

711
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: about whether it's a do or die season for Hugh

712
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: Freeze this year. Is it a do or die season

713
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five and what does he need to accomplish? Well,

714
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: I do think there's going to be a lot of

715
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: that energy around the Auburn program. It is what it

716
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: is man at three at plus years in and that's

717
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: the nature of the beast of taking that kind of job.

718
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: I don't think Hugh Freeze resists this at all. I

719
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: have spoken to him about this on this show and

720
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: off the show. He doesn't really fight this. He's coached

721
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: in this league for a long time. He gets it,

722
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: so you know it's not It's not that situation where

723
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: you kind of say it, but then you say, oh,

724
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: woe is he? Woe is nobody? Man, he gets it. However,

725
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mystery around this team. I think

726
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 1: eight and four or better is the kind of record

727
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: if you were a believer that there's a certain number

728
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: of games you have to win. I think eight wins

729
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 1: is always the magic number in this kind of situation.

730
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: So if he can go six and seven the first year,

731
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: five and seven the second year, if they go eight

732
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,959
Speaker 1: and four this year, not everyone's happy. I'm not saying

733
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: they are. I'm saying if you go eight and four,

734
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: I don't think you're firing anyone. After an eight and

735
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: four season, people may still call for your job. But

736
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: he would have shown enough forward progress. You probably mixed

737
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: a big win in there. You got a schedule this

738
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: year that's going to be deep enough to where you

739
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: have to have beaten some quality opponents to go eight

740
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: and four. Long story short, if you're asking me, what

741
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: does he have to do to keep his job? Eight

742
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: and four or better, he's fine. And let's no guarantee

743
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: if they go seven and six that he's gone. I'm

744
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: just saying eight and four. I think quiet's a lot

745
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: of that. But look at the team, which most people

746
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: haven't done because it's April, really really good wide receiver corps.

747
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: I think they believe that they compare with almost anyone

748
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: in the country, almost anyone in the country at wide receiver. Obviously,

749
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: really really big question around how much they turned the

750
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: ball over last year. How bad they were is what

751
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: we call a bob team, which is a bounce of

752
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: ball team, because when it goes the other way, you

753
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: tend to lose if you're playing a lot of tight,

754
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: one possession games, especially if you mix in being minus

755
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: in the turnover battle. They were bad there last year.

756
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: They were minus five turnovers against cal they were minus

757
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: three against Arkansas. They threw that pick sets against Oklahoma.

758
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: So then they go get Oklahoma's quarterback, who was also

759
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: fairly turnover prone last year. But I don't know that

760
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: anyone would say Jackson Arnold was put in the best

761
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: position to succeed last year. So I helped. The amount

762
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: of it is on him, But I don't know that

763
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks would have thrived to put it lightly in

764
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: the system that existed in Norman last year. That's why

765
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: the you know, the the architects of that specific system

766
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: are not there anymore. They may change his cause they

767
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: needed to, but Jackson Arnold's not going to be the

768
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: trigger man there anymore. He goes to Auburn, So if

769
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: they're not turnover prone, I still think the talent profile

770
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: for Jackson Arnold's good. Hugh Freeze is he's gotten a

771
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: lot out of quarterbacks before, especially when he's got a

772
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps like this, which will be slept on

773
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: an Auburn's wide receiver corps will be slept on right

774
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: up until kickoff. You know that final two week lead

775
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: up to kickoff when everyone starts really zeroing in on

776
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 1: specifics of teams, and your buddy will tell you, you know, man,

777
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: you know who's low key pretty sneaking Auburn wide receiver corps.

778
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: Well they're that way now. It's just not a lot

779
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: of people are talking about him. They got three offensive

780
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,959
Speaker 1: linemen returning with twenty plus starts, so it's a sneaky team.

781
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: You tell me that team can't give me eight wins, absolutely,

782
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: they can give me more than that. They got three

783
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: top twenty classes baked into that team. Two of them

784
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: are top ten classes. They've done good in the portal.

785
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: Like I just said, they went out and got Jackson Arnold.

786
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: I do think it's a do or die season in

787
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: a sense that you've got to see really really good

788
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: forward progress of the program. Because as much as I

789
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: can tell you I believe in Hugh Freeze, or I

790
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: believe in his approach, or I believe in their vision,

791
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: all that could be real. I could mean every word

792
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: of it. But you know, as well as I do,

793
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: how you get judged in this sport. He knows as

794
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: well as you do, as well as I do, how

795
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: you get judged in this sport. And it sounds like

796
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: this five and seven is not good enough. At Auburn,

797
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: Nora is six and six, Nora is seven and five

798
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: three years in or more. They're over underwent total is

799
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: seven and night half wins this year. So I guess

800
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you is he needs to go over

801
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: that number at the very least to avoid some really

802
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: really uncomfortable conversations slash situations. But here's the here's the

803
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: real tricky part. Bonus advice. If you go ahead and

804
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: win nine or ten games, then you're really set. See.

805
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: Not everyone gives you that kind of inside, but that's

806
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: what we do on this show. Tell you what else

807
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: we do. We drive a lot, as do many of you.

808
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: But it's okay because quick trip is there for us.

809
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's car fuel, unbeknownst to us, maybe sometimes jet fuel.

810
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 1: I can't validate that second part, I do know. I

811
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: introduced producer Jesse to the cold brew and tap yesterday.

812
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: We consumed a fair amount of it, and it quick

813
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: trip all the way. We appreciate him immensely appreciate them.

814
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: And if you've driven a lot and then you take

815
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: the quick trip theragon onto the lower back, that works

816
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: as well. But mainly what I'm trying to tell you

817
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: is you got to fuel up. You got to recharge

818
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: the old stomach battery as well. Quick trips the play

819
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: to go, always has been, always will be. And our

820
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: friends in Florida. I don't want to alarm you, but

821
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: you're about to be invited to the quick trip party.

822
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: I've said too much. Move along, Colin, let's get out

823
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: of there before we get sued. The truth is an

824
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: interesting thing because the truth is the truth, no matter

825
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: what we've been telling the truth about some coaches in

826
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: college football. And you know who's on the clock tonight,

827
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: James Franklin. You know what that means. That means we're

828
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: gonna get the O word. Of course, overrated James Franklin. Overrated, right,

829
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: James Franklin. I am told time and time again most

830
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: overrated coach in college football. Now, of course that's ridiculous,

831
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: but we're told that a lot. So I asked you

832
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 1: about thirty or forty minutes ago. I'm gonna ask you again,

833
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: what do you think the truth about James Franklin is?

834
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: Could be anything? I don't know. It could be his

835
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: height and his weight, could be what car drives. Obviously

836
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,879
Speaker 1: more specifically, I'm talking about football related matters. But if

837
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: someone asked you James Franklin, he's the coach of Penn State, right, Yeah,

838
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: what's the truth about him? What would you say? How

839
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: would you describe him? If it were up to you.

840
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about writing a Wikipedia biography. I'm saying,

841
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 1: in your own words and your own thoughts, how would

842
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: you describe him? My truth on this is the truth? Okay,

843
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: we're all about my truth around here, Well, we're all

844
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: about the truth. Sometimes sometimes your truth is that the

845
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: sky is purple, and that can be your truth all

846
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: you want to. It's not real, But in this case,

847
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: I think my truth is the truth on James Franklin.

848
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: And my truth about James Franklin is, as I've said

849
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: many times, he is the most properly rated head coach

850
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: in America. That's old hat. If you've been around, you've

851
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: heard me say that a lot, and you if you disagree,

852
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: you've probably come back at me with this stat He

853
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: is one to nineteen versus AP Top five teams. He's overrated,

854
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: at which point I would have asked you what is

855
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 1: he rated? Anyone who is familiar loosely familiar with this

856
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: show understands this concept. Anytime we get told someone's overrated,

857
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: some thing's overrated. It could be funnel cake, it could

858
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: be a head coach. If it's overrated, the first thing

859
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: we need to know is what is it rated? What

860
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: are they rated? Because before that we can't know. Overrated

861
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: is relative to what to what Everything else is rated

862
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: relative to what you were rating. So my point in

863
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: saying that when people throw the one in nineteen versus

864
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: AP Top five stat at me is I ask, okay,

865
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: so he's losing the top five teams, right yeah, and

866
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: he's not favored to win those games in most cases. Right, No,

867
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: he's a point spread underdog. Okay, So it sounds like

868
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: from a point spread perspective, he was properly rated because

869
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: he wasn't favored to win the games. And follow up question,

870
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: has he also been losing a lot of games he's

871
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: favored in? No, No, he's mainly just lost the ones

872
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: he's a dog in. Oh. Okay, So he's losing the

873
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: games that a Vegas odds maker says he's supposed to lose.

874
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: He's winning the games that a Vegas odds maker would

875
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: say he's supposed to win. Yeah. Yeah, what's your point?

876
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: What's your point? You said he's overrated, not me. I'm

877
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: letting you make my argument for me. Sounds like he's

878
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 1: properly rated to me. So then when it goes back

879
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: to forget about point spreads for a second, Josh, he's

880
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: just one in nineteen against one in fifteen. My bad.

881
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: Not quite as bad as we thought. It was one

882
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: in fifteen against ap top five opponents. What do you

883
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: have to say about that? Well, I have to say this.

884
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: Has anyone out there told me James Franklin's a top

885
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: five coach. If you have, maybe we have a different conversation,

886
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: I'd argue he's not far from that. I'd argue he's

887
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: kind of on the prespae of that. But my point

888
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: here is I haven't heard anyone say that James Franklin

889
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: belongs above Kirby Smart. When Saban was around, I never

890
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: heard any an went James Franklin as being greater than

891
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: Nick Saban. I haven't heard anyone put him above Ryan Day.

892
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone put him against above Harball when

893
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: harpball was at Michigan in the latter years, I didn't

894
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: see that. If it happened, it was done sparingly. And

895
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: so my point there is, if you did that, then

896
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: I may tell you you had James Franklin a little

897
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: bit overrated. But no one does that. So the truth

898
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: about James Franklin is, so far during his tenure at

899
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: Penn State, I'm gonna tell you what he's done. He's

900
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: won a Big Ten title, he's won double digit games

901
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: and six of his nine seasons at Vandy before that, kids, Hello,

902
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: my college crowd, Once upon a time this happened. James

903
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: Franklin won eighteen games in his final two seasons at Vandy.

904
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: I believe it was his final two seasons. That's the

905
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: best anyone's ever done there. Before he did it. I

906
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: think the last guy who won nineteen games had several

907
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: friends that were on the Titanic. Literally, that's how long

908
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: it had been. James Franklin's got a great resume. It's

909
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: just it's this one notch below elite, one notch below elite, which,

910
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: of course, in our ten or trash society in Whence

911
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: we live, means he sucks right, he's overrated. He's none

912
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: of those things. The way I would classify James Franklin

913
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: is really good, and I would classify him as absolutely

914
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: properly rated, because anybody out there who watches this sport,

915
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: anyone who consumes all of college football, you'd probably put

916
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: James Franklin safely in the top ten, maybe like closer

917
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: to ten than one. Somewhere in that range, though, and

918
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: you'd be right about that. If you put him number

919
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: two and number three, you'd probably be a little bit

920
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: high on him. If you put him twelve or thirteen,

921
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 1: you'd be low. Because I can probablyish you there aren't

922
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: thirteen better out there right now or ten in my

923
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: opinion than James Franklin. But here's the fun part, because

924
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: I've said all of that before, Have we seen the

925
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: best of him? Have we seen the best of him?

926
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: Because you can start to believe once you watch these

927
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: Penn State seasons year after year and you see him

928
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: continue to win the same games they've always won and

929
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: lose this games they've always lost, you can tend to think,

930
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: all right, he has squeezed every drop he can out

931
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: of the sponge. We've seen all we're going to see

932
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: of James Franklin. Maybe, so you could be right there,

933
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: or it could be that he's onto something, as he

934
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: has been for a while when he's talking about this

935
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: alignment thing. See James Franklin's talked about alignment. All coaches do.

936
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: But he is, in a roundabout way expressed how he

937
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: hasn't always gotten the same answers to his questions at

938
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: Penn State that Ryan Day has gotten, or he hasn't

939
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: always gotten the same answer to his requests at Penn

940
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: State that Ryan Day's gotten or that Dan Landing gets

941
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: at Oregon, which you know is not the end of

942
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: the world, but it does mean, if you're going to

943
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: expect him to beat them on Saturday. Kind of what

944
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: he's saying is I need what they have money through Friday.

945
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 1: Penn State's not a poverty program, but no one's asking

946
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: him to beat Minnesota. All due respect, you assume that

947
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: they're superior to them and most of the Big Ten.

948
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: What you're asking is, what's it going to take to

949
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: trade blows with Ohio State regularly, Michigan regularly, Oregon regularly.

950
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: Well it's gonna take probably having the same resource that

951
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: they have, same resource pool that they have. That's an

952
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,439
Speaker 1: age old concept. Point being he sounded a lot more

953
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: satisfied on that front lately. Doesn't guarantee anything. But I

954
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: just think about the intellectual pretzel that a lot of

955
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: you would be twisted him if after all these years,

956
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: James Franklin finally won the whole thing. Maybe it happens

957
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: this year because I got an inbox over here full

958
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: of people who told me he'll never do it. He

959
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: can't contraction for cannot like it's impossible for James Franklin

960
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: to win a national championship. Well that's not true. You

961
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: can say it's unlikely. Maybe i'd agree with you. Certainly

962
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: not impossible, though, but I think there is something to

963
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: at least be observed. When he's spoken about this several

964
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: times recently, he's not just talking to hear himself talk.

965
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: He's spoken several times recently about how they've never had

966
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: better alignment there, president, athletic director, head coach, collective, They've

967
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: never had better alignment than they have now. Everybody at

968
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: Penn State off the record's been saying the same thing,

969
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: but he's not shied away from saying it on the record. Okay, Hey,

970
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: if it wasn't true, I promise you he wouldn't say

971
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: it because that puts unnecessary pressure on him. Because you

972
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: know what I think. If I'm Harry up in Harrisburg

973
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: and the head coach at Penn State's telling me, finally

974
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: I've got everything I've ever asked for. If I'm Harry

975
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: and Harrisburg, I'm saying, well, then give me what I've

976
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: asked for, give me a true national championship competitor on

977
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: the field. James Franklin would never just voluntarily welcome that

978
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: pressure on himself unless it wasn't real, or unless it

979
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: was real. I think it's real, So we'll see that's

980
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: the truth. The truth is James Franklin's really good. I know,

981
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: I know it's shocking, but that's the truth. FanDuel's got

982
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: the odds right now, now, the odds to what, well,

983
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: the odds for Penn State to win at all. Josh,

984
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Okay, well we just addressed that.

985
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: But if you're a believer, you can get pretty good

986
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: money down on Penn State right now to win at all.

987
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: You think they're just gonna win the Big Ten. You

988
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: could wager on that. You could wager on Auburn and

989
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: Florida in the Final four for all I care. It's

990
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: just if you're gonna do it. And I'm not saying

991
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: you have to certainly not be responsible if you do.

992
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: But if you do it, you can do it at

993
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: FanDuel right now, the exclusive odds provider of Pate State

994
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: slash this show, and we appreciate them. Anybody who was

995
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: tuned in last year you saw the kind of access,

996
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: the intel that we got from FanDuel, the validation of

997
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: the JP pole, the FanDuel had to do several times

998
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: along the way, and we appreciate them for that. I

999
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: assume that that concept will be back in earnest this fall.

1000
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: But you don't have to wait to this fall. You

1001
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: don't even have to wait to fall to back college football.

1002
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: You can go do it right now at FanDuel because

1003
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: that's the way this works. Now. Sign up for FanDuel

1004
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: at FanDuel dot com. Backslash CFB promotion must be twenty

1005
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: one plus and present in select states for Kansas in

1006
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: affiliation with Kansas Star Casino, or eighteen plus and present

1007
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. First online real money wager only ten

1008
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: dollars first deposit required. Bonus issued is non withdrawable bonus

1009
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: bet that expires seven days after receipt. Do you have

1010
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: a gambling problem? If so, call one eight hundred gambler

1011
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: or visitfanduel dot com backslash RG call one eight eight

1012
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven, or visit

1013
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 1: CCPG dot org backslash chat in Connecticut, or visit MD

1014
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: Gamblinghelp dot org in Maryland. Hope is here, visit gambling

1015
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: Heelplinema dot org or call eight hundred three two seven

1016
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: fifty fifty for twenty four seven support in Massachusetts or

1017
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: call one eight seven seven eight Hope, n Y. Or

1018
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: text h op e n Y in New York. All right,

1019
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: so we're way deep in the show. I told you

1020
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: idb respond constable about this. Let me put a smiley

1021
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: face in the chat. Sometimes I have to prove I'm live.

1022
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: But I did tell you I would talk about this,

1023
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: all right. So those of you who were following on

1024
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: social throughout the week, I told you, hey, I got

1025
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: something cooking up for Wednesday, and truthfully, I didn't know

1026
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: if we were going to pull it off. But here

1027
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: was the backstory. So I knew that I had to

1028
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: be in Tallahassee on Wednesday. I knew I had to

1029
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:32,439
Speaker 1: be in Gulfport, Mississippi on Tuesday for matters that I'll

1030
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: talk about at a later time. But I had to

1031
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: be in Gulfport throughout the night. Then I drove over

1032
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: to Tallahassee Tuesday night. I gotta be at Florida State

1033
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: eleven am Eastern time Wednesday morning for a sit down

1034
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: with Mike Norvel. That went great. By the way, it's

1035
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: as open as I've ever heard Mike Norvell and had

1036
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: him for a good forty five to fifty minutes. We

1037
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: will drop that video on the channel Monday. Then I

1038
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: knew there was going to be a tornado outbreak that afternoon,

1039
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: and I needed to get up to Cape Girardo or

1040
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: Jonesboro or Memphis or somewhere in there. And I didn't

1041
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 1: have any way to do it because there are obviously

1042
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: no direct flights from Tallahassee to Memphis because in some

1043
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: crazy little scheme to make a profit, the big airlines

1044
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: have figured there's not enough demand for that route. But

1045
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: I needed it. So what have we dreamed about on

1046
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: this show For a long time. We've dreamed about being

1047
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: able to go to two games in one day, but

1048
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: we need private aviation to do it. We've gotten close,

1049
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 1: had engine trouble once we got close, but we haven't

1050
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: pulled it off. Well. Yesterday, I needed to be in Tallahassee,

1051
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: Florida in the morning, and then I needed to be

1052
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: a Memphis couple hours later to Stormchase in the afternoon,

1053
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: and we pulled it off. Yesterday, we pulled it off

1054
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 1: thanks to airstar. They came to us, they said, you've

1055
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: got a need, we got a jet here. You go

1056
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: that serious. This happened yesterday. If you're following on social

1057
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: you saw this on Instagram. It was wonderful. If you

1058
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: want to know how it was, it was wonderful. It

1059
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: was great. I'm going to have a production assistant, Tyler

1060
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: Pat Pat production assistant Tyler. When he gets back, he'll

1061
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:07,959
Speaker 1: put together a real We shot a lot of video,

1062
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: so we'll have it for you eventually. But let me

1063
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: tell you because like fifty million of you asked, are

1064
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: you going to tell a story about what happened yesterday

1065
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: on the show. Yeah, I'm kind of telling it right now,

1066
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: but I do want to tell you in a general sense,

1067
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: here's what's whild I was thinking about this yesterday. When

1068
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: I was a kid, very little JP. When I was

1069
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: growing up, I loved Sports Center in the Weather Channel.

1070
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:33,919
Speaker 1: I loved watching both of them religiously at me Maw's house.

1071
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: I knew Scott Van Pelt, Stuart Scott, Dan Patrick, the

1072
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: guy that used to be Keith Olberman before he became

1073
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: whatever he is now. I watched them just as much

1074
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: as I watched Jim Cantre and Paul Coson, and I

1075
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: could go on and on and on Vivian Brown old

1076
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: school Weather Channel lineup. I knew all these people by heart,

1077
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: and so I also loved college football in the falls,

1078
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: and I always thought to myself, I love college football,

1079
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: I love the weather. Of course, you know, I'm thinking

1080
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: to myself, but I got to get a real job

1081
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: when I grow up. But in this alternate fantasy life

1082
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: that you can imagine for yourself, I thought, dude, but

1083
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: if you could cover college football that's the fall, then

1084
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: you could Stormchase in the spring. They don't really interfere

1085
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: with each other. You know. That would have been a

1086
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: dream scenario, which is ironic because it's exactly what I

1087
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: do for a living now, and it's great, it's wonderful.

1088
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: So piece of advice kids, don't just mistake your passion

1089
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: or mistake your hobby for something you'll always have to do.

1090
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:45,240
Speaker 1: On the side. If you just force life, I guess

1091
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: aggressively enough, someone out there will pay you to do

1092
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: what you love. May not happen immediately, but it could

1093
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: happen eventually. So I was thinking about that yesterday, and

1094
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: then I was thinking to myself, Huh, how crazy is this?

1095
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 1: Like how awesome is that to be able to sit

1096
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: down with a premier head coach in this sport early

1097
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: in the day, hop on a private jet, go up

1098
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: to Memphis. Chase tornadoes. We opted for the West Tennessee

1099
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: storm mode instead of the Arkansas storm mode, so we

1100
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: missed out on all that terrible stuff that happened in Arkansas,

1101
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 1: which is a good thing, which brings me to another

1102
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: point I wanted to make. I had to talk about

1103
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: this two weeks ago. I'm going to talk about this

1104
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: again every time that I'm storm chasing. I'm very selective

1105
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: with how public I make that because one of you

1106
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: came at me, slash to me a couple of weeks ago,

1107
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: and you said, I've lost friends, slash family members to

1108
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: violent storms slash tornadoes in the past, and it's kind

1109
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: of triggering when you talk about this stuff as gleefully

1110
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: as you do publicly. And I knew I had been

1111
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: taken out of context. But see, here's the thing. If

1112
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: someone's upset, it's one of our people, and I don't

1113
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: think it's a little nothing issue, and it's ridiculous. I am.

1114
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm happy to talk with you. So I talked to

1115
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: that guy. Well, I had another conversation with someone yesterday,

1116
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: same deal. He said, I just get rubbed the wrong

1117
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: way with how you talk about this stuff. How can

1118
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: you be so happy when you know that lives may

1119
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: be lost that day, or property may be even destroyed

1120
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: that day. Well, the answer is I'm not happy about that.

1121
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: The way I've always looked at it is I have

1122
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: a fascination with atmospheric science. If you had an option

1123
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: for it to exist, I'd hit the no button. No,

1124
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: don't make these terrible things happen because there's collateral damage

1125
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: that comes along with it. But I don't have that option.

1126
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: So the way I've always looked at it is if

1127
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, then there are several things that you

1128
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: can attach to it. You can attach a thrill seeking

1129
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: element to it, and I'm all about that, But also

1130
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: you can first responder. You can attach that search and rescue.

1131
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: You can attach that advanced warning and lead time and awareness.

1132
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: You can attach that. So I think there's a lot

1133
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: of good you can do. My point is I watched

1134
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: several communities yesterday get leveled. There's no built well, there

1135
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: is building that back, there's no rebuilding. Loss of life,

1136
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:06,919
Speaker 1: lives in someone's home they grew up in, you can't

1137
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: rebuild that. But here's the thing. Some of those communities,

1138
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: while they may have been damaged or destroyed, had forty

1139
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: and fifty minute lead time yesterday. That didn't exist a

1140
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: generation to go. Why didn't it because not enough research

1141
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: and field study had been done. But it gets done now.

1142
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: I am very, very thrilled that I get to play

1143
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: this little small part in that, because that's not my

1144
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: classical upbringing. Like I'm just over here on the sideline

1145
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: loving it from a distance as a kid. I mean,

1146
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: there are folks out there doing real work on that front.

1147
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: But to observe it, I hear other people have shots

1148
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: taken at them occasionally. You know, in the scientific community,

1149
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: why do you seem so happy or excited about this? Well,

1150
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: they're not excited about the human element, the collateral damage

1151
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: of it. They're excited that I view it as an

1152
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: act of God. You can call it an act of

1153
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: nature if you want to. They're one in the aim.

1154
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: To me, whatever you call a tornado happening in real

1155
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: time is the wildest thing you'll ever see in your life.

1156
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: In an ideal world, it's out in the middle of

1157
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: farmland in Nebraska, and no one's getting injured or hurt.

1158
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes that doesn't happen, though, But there's a lot of

1159
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: good you can do, is my point. Of Vie were

1160
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: responsible about it, and so we try and be. But yeah,

1161
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: that happened yesterday, and I didn't really you know, we

1162
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: didn't have a show on Tuesday, so I couldn't really

1163
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: tell you what was happening because I wasn't sure that

1164
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: it was going to happen. But we sure did. We

1165
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: got ourselves a private jet yesterday. Our friends at Airstar

1166
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: came through for us. Oh man, it was great to

1167
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: feel like management, even for just a couple of hours.

1168
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, we didn't take the jet to

1169
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: the country club. We didn't head up to our third

1170
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 1: home in the Hamptons for the weekend. We went into

1171
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: the heart of it. We were in Jackson, Tennessee yesterday.

1172
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: We were in West Memphis, Arkansas yesterday. That's where we were. So,

1173
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: you know, you had some folks of private jet and

1174
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: they just go play in a sandbox, and that's kind

1175
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: of how we roll, you know, jeans and T shirt

1176
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: on the private jet, that's how we roll. But we

1177
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: were on there. Nonetheless, who knows, maybe not for the

1178
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: last time. I got to get on the road. I've

1179
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: got to go meet with some important people tomorrow. Yeah,

1180
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: that's as specific as I can get. Like I told

1181
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: you at the start of the show, there's a lot

1182
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: going on right now. The show has to be focused

1183
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: on college football. I'm always focused on college football. There's

1184
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: a lot going on about the show right now. It's

1185
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: just fascinating. And I'll tell the whole story eventually, when

1186
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: the story is ready to be told. But we're in

1187
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: a great place all thanks to you. I mean, like

1188
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: totally thanks to you, so we all appreciate it. I

1189
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: promise you more than you can note. In the meantime, though,

1190
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: we're out of here, so appreciate you. Guys. Would be

1191
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: back Sunday night, normal time, Sunday night for direct colin

1192
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,439
Speaker 1: producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pate. Take here, have a great

1193
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: start to year a week and stay safe and God bless.

1194
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: Sign up for FanDuel at FanDuel dot com backslash CFB promotion.

1195
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: Must be twenty one plus and present in select states

1196
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino, or eighteen

1197
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 1: plus and present in Washington, DC. First online real money

1198
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: wager only ten dollars first deposit required. Bonus issued is

1199
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: non withdrawable bonus bet that expires seven days after receipt.

1200
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: Do you have a gambling problem? If so, call one

1201
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,919
Speaker 1: eight hundred gambler, or visitfanduel dot com backslash RG call

1202
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven,

1203
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: or visit CCPG dot org backslash chat in Connecticut, or

1204
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: visit MD Gamblinghelp dot org in Maryland. Hope is here,

1205
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: visit gambling Heelplinema dot org, or call eight hundred three

1206
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: two seven fifty fifty for twenty four seven support in Massachusetts.

1207
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: Or call one AA eight seven seven eight Hope in

1208
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: y or text h O P E N Y in

1209
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: New York