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Speaker 1: just returns to neutral. That's That's not that that conference

429
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,479
Speaker 1: still laps you in recruiting every year. That conference come

430
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: NFL draft time laps you every year. Now, that's not

431
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: the end all be all, and that's not definitive evidence

432
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 1: that an Alabama belongs in over a Florida State. But

433
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Speaker 1: if you think it doesn't matter or it shouldn't matter,

434
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Speaker 1: I just disagree with you. I'm not gonna call you

435
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Speaker 1: dumb or stupid or crazy. I just disagree with you.

436
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Speaker 1: If I'm looking at a fifty to fifty proposition, something's

437
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: got to break a tie. And I think there are

438
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,880
Speaker 1: a lot more short sighted things to use than that.

439
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 1: And the last thing that I wanted to talk to

440
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 1: you about is, let's just say it went the other direction.

441
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Speaker 1: So you're some of you are upset about Florida State

442
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Speaker 1: being left out. I'm right there with you, even as

443
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: I think the proper decision was made. I get it

444
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 1: like there's no right path here and so it sucks

445
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: for Florida State and it's very raw. I'll speak more

446
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Speaker 1: about this in the come days, because I got some

447
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: strong thoughts about how you know what. Nevermind forget about

448
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,479
Speaker 1: the coming days. I'm gonna tell you right now, this

449
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: is about to be a good thing for Florida State

450
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: long term. It is not fun today. And I'm not

451
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Speaker 1: trying to cheer you up or turn that frown upside

452
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,360
Speaker 1: down or anything like that, but you mark my words,

453
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: it is going to be a good thing long term

454
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Speaker 1: for Florida State. That they got left out of the

455
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Speaker 1: playoff today. This is going to be a bastardized quote.

456
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: It's going to be miscontextualized, and someone's gonna call it

457
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: stupid and not have a clue what I'm trying to say.

458
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Speaker 1: Lock in for about twenty seconds thirty seconds here. I

459
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: am telling you they got left out today and it's

460
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Speaker 1: not fun for anyone. They would have gone to the playoff,

461
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Speaker 1: and it is my opinion they would have gotten humbled

462
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Speaker 1: on the field. But they're not going to the playoff.

463
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Speaker 1: You think that's a bad thing, Just like UCF folks

464
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, they thought it was the end of

465
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Speaker 1: the world. They didn't make the playoff. Not making the

466
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen college football Plaoffs is the best thing to

467
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Speaker 1: ever happen to UCF athletics. Now. FSU is not trying

468
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Speaker 1: to establish itself as an entity in college sports. They've

469
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: long since done that. But I am asking you what

470
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Speaker 1: happened if you go to the playoff. Florida State wasn't

471
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Speaker 1: gonna win the national title, So what you were gonna

472
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: have was a net result of what you have right now.

473
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have an ACC championship, an undefeated regular season,

474
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Speaker 1: and then you had had a loss on your resume

475
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you would have been able to say

476
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Speaker 1: you went to the playoffs. Here's what's a lot more

477
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 1: important for you. You're gonna be able until the end

478
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 1: of the time to say you got screwed this year

479
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: like Auburn and four. No one can ever take your

480
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: assumptions away or your speculation away because we didn't see

481
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Speaker 1: it on the field. You can go around for all

482
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Speaker 1: I care and tell folks you would have beaten everyone

483
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Speaker 1: in the playoff. No one beat you in the regular season.

484
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Speaker 1: Feel free. But here's what else you're gonna do. You're

485
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: gonna be able to package a ton of equity up

486
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Speaker 1: from this. You're gonna be able to convince your organization

487
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 1: from now in the foreseeable future that the entire world

488
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: is out to get you. It does wonders to bake

489
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Speaker 1: in a bunker mentality into the culture of a program.

490
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Speaker 1: When you can sell kids on that, and you can

491
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Speaker 1: sell staffers on that nutrition and strengthen conditioning and recruiting

492
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Speaker 1: and personnel, you sell all those folks on the eye

493
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: idea that hey, even our best one year wasn't good enough.

494
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Speaker 1: So you know what in the future we're gonna do.

495
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: In the future, We're going to salt the earth entirely.

496
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Speaker 1: We are going to lay waste to whoever lines up

497
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Speaker 1: against us, and we're gonna leave no doubt because if

498
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Speaker 1: we leave it in the hands of a committee of people,

499
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: you've seen what's gonna happen. Mike Norvel doesn't even have

500
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Speaker 1: to pretend he didn't have to do like Kirby did

501
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: last year and convince his kids. Someone convinced Georgia thought

502
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: George was gonna go seven to five. People actually did

503
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Speaker 1: screw Florida State this year. And the other thing, and

504
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Speaker 1: this is what I'm focused on with Florida State is

505
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: while today sucks because you got left out of the playoff.

506
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Speaker 1: Do you realize the most important question in Tallahassee, Florida

507
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: has been definitively answered, and that is do you have

508
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: the right head coach? You don't have to ask that anymore.

509
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Speaker 1: Mike Norvell is the man. Mike Norvell's a stud. Mike

510
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Speaker 1: Norvel is going to have Florida State here for a

511
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Speaker 1: long time, not going anywhere. They're ranked in the top

512
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Speaker 1: five and recruiting right now. I don't think there's any

513
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: program that's put on a better portal clinic than Mike

514
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: Norvel and his staff. It's obvious, even when they lose

515
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,239
Speaker 1: their quarterback, it's still going to be like crawling over

516
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: broken glass to beat them. A Mike Norvel program moving

517
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: forward is something we don't have to doubt anymore. You

518
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: don't have to wonder, you'll have to speculate. The guy's

519
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: a stud. He's the real deal, and for a long

520
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Speaker 1: time you didn't have the ability to say that at

521
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Speaker 1: Florida State. So no, it's not fun to get left out.

522
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Speaker 1: I'm not telling you anything otherwise, it's going to be raw.

523
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Speaker 1: You peel that band aid off, and it's gonna hurt

524
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Speaker 1: for a little while. Mark my words. Florida State will

525
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: benefit from this down the road a lot more than

526
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Speaker 1: they would have benefited had they actually made the playoff.

527
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Speaker 1: And I know that's unpopular to say today, but I

528
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Speaker 1: think it's reality. One more thing that I want to

529
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Speaker 1: draw your attention to, and that is what happens when

530
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Speaker 1: you include Alabama in the playoff. So what I was

531
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Speaker 1: going to ask you a second ago, before I sidetracked

532
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Speaker 1: my own self irresponsibly, was pretend for a second they

533
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: put FSU in today. So you got Michigan, you got Washington,

534
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: you got Texas, and you got FSU. How would you

535
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: have felt about that playoff? I'm not talking to Florida

536
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: State fans. I'm talking about agnostic fans, just innocent bystanders.

537
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: How would you have felt? Because I'm telling you, I

538
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: think it would have been an incomplete playoff. I would

539
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: have thought it to be a little invalidated if you

540
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: didn't have Georgia or Alabama in there. Even if you

541
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: don't admit that publicly, there is a part of you

542
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: that understands, yeah, Texas won it, or Washington won it,

543
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: or whoever won it, but they didn't have to go

544
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: through the best of the SEC to do it. That's

545
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: the way my mind operates. Now, you may not believe that,

546
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: but it's true. One hundred percent of people inside football

547
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: buildings and programs understand where the best reside and to

548
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: go through and legitimately win a championship. They understand you're

549
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: probably gonna need to go through Bama or Georgia, and

550
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: if either of those programs are taken out of your path,

551
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: someone on that committee has done you a huge favor. Now,

552
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: I've always suggested that on this show, and I've gotten ridicule. Luckily,

553
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: someone was at the University of Michigan today rolling when

554
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: Rhys Davis and the crew they're at ESPN was revealing

555
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: the top four. So they revealed number one, number two,

556
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: number three, Then they revealed who number six was, And

557
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: so Michigan already knows they're locked into the one seed,

558
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: and Michigan knows this next team, whoever we hear named,

559
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: that's who we're going to play in the first round. Now,

560
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: I am suggesting to you that they really hoped they

561
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Speaker 1: were going to draw Florida State because they'd be a

562
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: double digit favored against Florida State and Michigan would probably

563
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: beat Florida State. But if you don't believe me, you

564
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: don't want to take my word for it. I want

565
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Speaker 1: a director Colin in there to cueue up a piece

566
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Speaker 1: of video, and I want you to listen to the

567
00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: reaction when Michigan found out they were playing Alabama. That's reality.

568
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: That's how folks feel, whether they want to admit it

569
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: or not. Whether you want to act tough on Twitter

570
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: or on your local message board. Folks know you face

571
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: FSU in this playoff, and you're gonna probably be able

572
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: to flex, and you're certainly gonna feel sky high confident

573
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,239
Speaker 1: about your chances. You draw that script day, or if

574
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Georgia had won last night, or if they put Georgia in,

575
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: you draw that block. G you got your work cut

576
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: out for you. Okay. So that's why I would have

577
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: felt it was an illegitimate playoff had the sec not

578
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: been represented. I'm looking forward to it, though. Let's roll

579
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: on fairly lengthy segment there. I would say, but I

580
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: had a lot to say. I think all of you

581
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: have had a lot to say. I would have liked

582
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: to do me a small favor and subscribe to the

583
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: channel if you haven't already, because this show is free

584
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: and the way we keep it free is subscribing to

585
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: the channel. In the podcast Alabama Georgia twenty seven to

586
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Speaker 1: twenty four, last night, we were on the field for

587
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Speaker 1: this one instant classic in Atlanta, a top three college

588
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: football environment that I've been in, just big game programs

589
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: going at it. Man, I told you there was a

590
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Speaker 1: feeling in the South, and there always is when these

591
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Speaker 1: two meet that it is a national championship game. And

592
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Speaker 1: by that I mean the winner thinks they're going to

593
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Speaker 1: go on to win the national title. Both teams feel

594
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Speaker 1: that way, by the way, like I can tell you

595
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: Georgia left Mercedes ben Stadium last night the exact same

596
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: way that Bama looked at Georgia last year when they

597
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: didn't get to play them. They are thinking they're gonna

598
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: go win the title because we didn't stop them, Like

599
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: we didn't get in the way and do something about it.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna go win the title. Whether that happens remains

601
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Speaker 1: to be seen. Unbelievable atmosphere. I think I met like

602
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: half of our audience last night in Atlanta, So I

603
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: got to tell you something I would love to take credit.

604
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: And yes I did pick Bama to win the game.

605
00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: But I said something really dumb, really stupid. So earlier

606
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: this year, I didn't have producer Jesse pulled the video

607
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: because this is already bad enough. Earlier this year, round

608
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Speaker 1: Week three, I came on the air and I said,

609
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Speaker 1: I'm not backing off my championship prediction. I'm still picking

610
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: Bama to win the SEC this year, but I'm telling

611
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: you their coaching staff's not good enough. Like their coaching

612
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: staff is so down and I's so wrong. It's just

613
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: I said, it was so stupid to say, because this

614
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: is one of the best coaching jobs. Not only Saban's done,

615
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: but his staff has worked their tail off, like Eric Wolford.

616
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: That offensive line, what they've been now versus what they were.

617
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: Look at t Rob's secondary. You got kool aid goes

618
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: down in an SEC championship game last night. They got

619
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Speaker 1: Trey amos ull transfer just ready to come in. They

620
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: throw right at him with Bowers pass breakup, had another

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Speaker 1: big pass breakup on the sideline. Think about how the

622
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Speaker 1: hiring of Tommy Reese as OC and Kevin Steele as

623
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: DC were received, and then look at the those two

624
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: units right now and look at how much they've improved.

625
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: Kevin Steele has got Alabama's defense with some of the

626
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: same players who underwhelmed last year playing outside their minds.

627
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: They loot seventy eight rushing yards to Georgia yesterday with

628
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: a banged up defensive front. If they're being honest, Freddie,

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Speaker 1: roach that defensive line, like those guys have coached their

630
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: tails off. And you had someone like me dumb enough

631
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Speaker 1: to say at the beginning of the year, I just

632
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: don't know if the quality of the coaching staff is there.

633
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: Well I was wrong, dead wrong, because it is there,

634
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Speaker 1: and Nick Saban's getting a lot of credit, and he

635
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: should get a lot of credit. But man, if you've

636
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: listened to Saban talk and he did it again last night,

637
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: he's deflected a lot of that, and he's made special

638
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: shore to dole out praise publicly to his staff because

639
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: he knows they had the course correct on the fly,

640
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: like they had the course correct midseason this year. Last night,

641
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Speaker 1: I think the most glaring thing to me was Georgia

642
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Speaker 1: could not run the ball in Alabama because Georgia was

643
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Speaker 1: the second most physical team on the field. I think

644
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Speaker 1: a lot of you hear that and you say it's

645
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Speaker 1: pretty impressive to do that. No, it's out of this world.

646
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: To be able to take a Kirby smart team and

647
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: to be able to make them the second most physical

648
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: team on the field is one of the hardest things

649
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: to do in college football. Nobody does it. You may

650
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: mess around and you could upset Georgia by having them

651
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: be minus three turnovers, or you go fourteen score on

652
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: special teams, or you smoking mirror your way to a victory,

653
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna out physical then. And I'm not

654
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: telling you it was done in a landslide last night,

655
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: because that's impossible. Bama was the more physical team and

656
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: that surprised me. It really surprised me. And it is

657
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: yet another testament to that coaching staff that Georgia hangs

658
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: seventy eight rushing yards. And listen, Georgia did a great job.

659
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: I fought against Alabama running the ball. I mean Bama

660
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: had under three yards per carry. Bama was three of

661
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: thirteen on third downs. Those stat categories don't light the

662
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: world on fire. Fact, if I tell you that Friday,

663
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Speaker 1: you may think those are padlock stats that indicated Georgia

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Speaker 1: victory is coming. And then if I tell you Jalen

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Speaker 1: Milroe is going to be held without a pass of

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Speaker 1: more than thirty yards in a game for the first

667
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Speaker 1: time this year, then you really think George has got

668
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: this thing unless catastrophe strikes and Bama still found a

669
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: way to win. And they found a way to win

670
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,439
Speaker 1: because they shut down the ground game and Georgia didn't

671
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: have difference makers at receiver, and if they did, it

672
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: would be Lad McConkie and Brock Bowers, both of whom

673
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: played at less than one hundred percent last night. In fact,

674
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Speaker 1: I would argue far less than a hundred percent in

675
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Speaker 1: the case of mconkee Warrior's effort for either of those

676
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: guys to be on the field last night. By the way,

677
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: like Kirby was dead serious with you last week when

678
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: he talked about the health status of those guys. But

679
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Speaker 1: the first thing that I wanted to go back to

680
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: there is Jalen Milroe is just an incredible story man.

681
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe comes into this season, has a really nightmarish

682
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: game against Texas. We were there when that game had

683
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: in week two, Week three, he's benched. I told you

684
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: at the time that I thought there were portions of

685
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: Alabama's team that gave far less than one hundred percent

686
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: effort that afternoon, largely in protest of him being benched.

687
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: And I think I'm right about that. And if you

688
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: go back and you look at the effort that those

689
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: guys gave against USF and then you fast forward to now,

690
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: those look like total different human beings, and they're not.

691
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: They're the same humans. But it is a different team.

692
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: When they say that about Bama, now they're right. It

693
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: is a different team. Players will tell you who the

694
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback is, and they were telling you even after

695
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: that Texas game. He's the guy who gives us the

696
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: best chance to win. Locker room largely knows which guy

697
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: gives them the best chance to win. You can play

698
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: favorites in spring. You can have your boy that you

699
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: like to hang out with more in summer, but come

700
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Speaker 1: fall camp and especially come the season, your friend a

701
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Speaker 1: quarterback is the one that gives you the best chance

702
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: to be a winner, because no one wants their buddy

703
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: leading him to a six and sixth season. And Jaylen

704
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: Milroe has been the guy. And those players knew it

705
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: that was going to give Alabama the best chance to win,

706
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: and they laid some of them laid down against USF

707
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: and then they got him back, and they've surged largely.

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00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: Ever since, they have surged and now it's a totally

709
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: different looking team. Milroe is the most important player in

710
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: this game last night, I think, and he didn't light

711
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: the world on fire. He didn't have a single pass

712
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: more than thirty yards first time all year. But you know,

713
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: things like that shovel pass on third down to I

714
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: think Isaiah Bond that kept that drive alive. Just it is,

715
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: it's unquantifiable how much value there was on that play,

716
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: Just like on the last drive when they need to

717
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: melt clock and he rips off forty fifty yard run

718
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: and falls down in bounds. You can't know. I just

719
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: know that it was one of the deciding moments in

720
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,959
Speaker 1: the game. He got sacked what was it, Jesse four times?

721
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: I think last night. Didn't give the ball away through

722
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: a couple that could have been picked, but they weren't.

723
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: And that's another one of the hidden, unquantifiable moments. Several

724
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: moments from these games back through two or three balls

725
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: should have been picked. Mill rode through a couple of

726
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: balls should have been picked. If either team has dbs

727
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: with good hands last night, either one of them could

728
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: have won double digit victories. Either one of them could have,

729
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: because that's how small the margins are when teams like

730
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: this play are like these play. Speaking of the secondary

731
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: and speaking to t Rob who's the dB coach there

732
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: and is doing an unincredible job this year. By the way,

733
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: like the single most noticeable facet of Alabama's defense that's

734
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: just on a different level this year, is their secondary

735
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: contests everything. You may complete passes on them, but there

736
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: are very rarely guys running wide open. They play as

737
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: physical as I've seen in Alabama secondary play in a while,

738
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 1: and they got quality depth, and you saw a future

739
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: first round draft pick at corner go down last night.

740
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: Kool A goes down concussed and Trey Amos comes in

741
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: off the bench, and I know he's the guy they

742
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: consider to be a starter, but he is not a

743
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: guy at all who's been thrust into that kind of position.

744
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: And Mike Bobo and that Georgia off defensive staff, they're

745
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: down in the red zone. They go right at him

746
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: first play and he breaks up a past of boers

747
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: and played phenomenally. You otherwise never would have even known

748
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: he was in the game, which is one of the

749
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: biggest compliments that you can give to a defensive back.

750
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: But I was just selfishly, you know, I'm looking at him.

751
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: I'm kind of happy for him because I remember when

752
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: we were talking about transfer portal last year, and you know,

753
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: we're doing our rankings and we're talking about Travis Hunter

754
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: goes here, We're talking about Fentrell, Cyprus. Those were some

755
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: of the top rated corners, good players. We didn't talk

756
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: about Trey Amus a whole lot. He was a kid

757
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: from the from the Sun Belt and he comes up

758
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: to Alabama and look, they thought he was going to

759
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: be a good depth provider. Was about the extent of

760
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: the coverage you got on him. In there. You are

761
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: SEC Championship game and he's thrust into action and is

762
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: one of the players of the game. It was a

763
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: it was an incredible night for Alabama, for that program.

764
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: I know it's validation. I'm down there a few weeks ago.

765
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: I go work out in their weight room and David

766
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: Blue's in there. He's a strengthen conditioning coach, and I

767
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: talked to him probably for an hour, just about philosophy,

768
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: how you constantly have to be on the cutting edge,

769
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: how you tweak this and you tweak that, and he

770
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: was just candid about some things. He felt like they

771
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: had fallen short in years past, and here's what we

772
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: do to address it. Imagine being him standing on that

773
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: field and watching your team physically lean forward on Georgia.

774
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: No one else does that, and so it's just folks

775
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: are always working. George is a monster, like George is

776
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: an incredible program. To me, I'll shift gears here for

777
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: a second. I'll talk about Kirby. I got a ton

778
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 1: of time to talk about Kirby. George is a monster.

779
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: They're not going anywhere. I mean, they'll be here a

780
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: decade from now in all likelihood. To me, the most

781
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: impressive part of this was, Yeah, Georgia ended up coming

782
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: up short in the SEC championship game, but they were

783
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: there undefeated again with a massive target on their back.

784
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: You got two straight years of winning titles and you

785
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: have consequences of success that people don't think exist. The

786
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: casual would tell you the more you win, the easier

787
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: it gets. In reality, it's the total opposite, and one

788
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: of the biggest things you fight is complacency. Most of

789
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: the time. The most impressive part of this year for

790
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: Georgia is I didn't. I didn't sense a whiff of that.

791
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: Now you're not guarantee. It's not your birthright to win

792
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: just because you prepare, and sorry about that. You got

793
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: talented players, but that's not the reason they lost, And

794
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: so I think Kirby and Georgia deserve a ton of

795
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 1: credit for that. I'm gonna take a sip right quick,

796
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: Colin and the eyes got watery too that emergency meo,

797
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: and we got coffee just in case. So an incredible

798
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: SEC Championship game. Blessed to have been there. I don't

799
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: really want to do the coach in comparison thing, like

800
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: Kirby's one of the best in the game, Saban's the

801
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: best that I've ever seen do it. Savens is the

802
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: best that anyone's ever seen do it. But a lot

803
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: of you doubted that the guy at Alabama still has

804
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: his fastball. I don't think that fell on deaf ears

805
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: in that organization this last week. I'm just gonna leave

806
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: it to that Academy Sports and Outdoors man. They had

807
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 1: a presence next to Georgia and Alabama. The Academy Sports

808
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: and Outdoors presence was the most massive brand at SEC

809
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: Championship Saturday. Those folks are everywhere, even like up on

810
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: the big ribbon board, and they certainly make our show

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00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,040
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Speaker 1: do for our show. All right, I don't know what happened, man,

824
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: It felt like my voice was going in the my

825
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: eyes started watering. It's unprofessional, but we move on. We

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Speaker 1: got like eleven what what eleven thousand people watching live

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834
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Speaker 1: I got a tweet, I guess, and that's like the

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Speaker 1: modern day email that I wanted to show you and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to respond to it. I think it's time,

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Speaker 1: speaking of ripping band aids off, I think it's time

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Speaker 1: for me. My voice is okay. I'm just delaying by

839
00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: taking this sip of coffee. But here we go. I hope,

840
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: hope you guys are watching. In the Pacific Northwest. Isaiah

841
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: from Denver, Colorado, He asks, are we finally ready? Not we?

842
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: He didn't say we. Are you finally ready to admit

843
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: you've been wrong about Washington all along? Yep? I'm ready, Isaiah.

844
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: I was wrong about Washington. I think we were wrong

845
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: all along about Washington. I've seen him in person twice

846
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: this year, both times against Oregon. I thought Oregon was

847
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: going to beat him. Both times one time. It was

848
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: a pretty evenly played game. Dare I say I may

849
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: have even leaned Oregon a little bit, but there was

850
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: no doubt. And I flew out to Vegas and watched

851
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: this game from field level Friday night, no doubt. In fact,

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00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, myself included, were surprised

853
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: at how thoroughly Washington outplayed Oregon the other night. There

854
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: is a scratch on our lens. Every year. I have

855
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: the model sitting right here to my immediate right, and

856
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: we you know, we do ratings on every team, and

857
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: I could generate you a hypothetical point spread right now

858
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: if Washington were to play in Nebraska, I could tell

859
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: you exactly what our model would think. And I can

860
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: tailor it to situationals, and I can tailor it to

861
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: weather and the time of day and venue. And the

862
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: model's very good. Man. We have profited seven years in

863
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: a row using this thing to bet, so it's very good.

864
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: It is very razor sharp, dialed in on this sport.

865
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: But it is not without flaw. And every year it

866
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: seems like there's one scratch on the lens, there's one

867
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: fly in the ointment. This year it was Washington and

868
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: it's a credit testament to Kaylin Debora. Dude's the real deal.

869
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: And one of the surest signs that you can tell

870
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 1: your guys the real deal is if someone like us

871
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: happens to be using a model that has been time

872
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: tested and calibrated, using what is normal in the sport

873
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: as it's baseline, and you're plugged into it and the

874
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: expectations it has for you you keep surpassed. That means

875
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: there's a little something extra under the hood that the

876
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: naked eye doesn't see. And that's what they have at

877
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: Washington right now. It's just an unbelievable job they're doing

878
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: up there. And that Oregon game. Look, here's what surprised me.

879
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: I never thought they were gonna outrush Oregon. They outrushed them.

880
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: Oregon had a massive third down edge. On paper, it

881
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,720
Speaker 1: looked like they had a massive third down edge. Washington

882
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 1: held them to three of ten. Washington was ten of fifteen.

883
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 1: Washington responded to a twenty one oh run Oregon had

884
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: at a certain point in the game, like, these are

885
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,479
Speaker 1: things I didn't think were gonna happen, and yet it did.

886
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: And my interaction with the Washington fans has been so

887
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: interesting this year. Now, some some have just been mean,

888
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: but that's okay, because I kind of get it, and

889
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: I may feel the same if I were you guys.

890
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: But others, especially Friday night, I probably had one or

891
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: two dozen interactions with Washington fans where the fan trashed

892
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: the model, but then made sure to specify, Hey, I'm

893
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: just trashing the model. I like you, Okay, You're fine,

894
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about the model. And that, kids, is

895
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: why you have to have a model, and even if

896
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: you don't, you have to pretend you do, because then

897
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: the model can take all the blame and you're left

898
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: to gobble up the credit. And Memaile taught me that

899
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Okay, be in the credit business,

900
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: not the blame business. Find an apparatus, or if you

901
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: need several, find apparati that can absorb the blame. Now,

902
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: I didn't make the model up. It is real over here,

903
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: and next to management, it's one of the best shields

904
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: I have around this place. Washington's going to the playoff,

905
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: and Washington is going to fly all the way down

906
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: to New Orleans, Louisiana. I would imagine not many kids

907
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: on that roster have spent New Year's Eve and New

908
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: Year's Day in the French Quarter. But they're going to

909
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: business trip, of course, but they are going to play Texas,

910
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's right in their wheelhouse again.

911
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: I was talking to producer Jesse. He says, Man, they

912
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: got to they gotta fly all the way down to

913
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Now they get to they get to fly

914
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: completely under the radar. That place will be slammed with

915
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: Texas folks. The media contingent will be like ninety to

916
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: ten Texas to Washington. Washington's a four and a half

917
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: point dog. Washington can throw the football and Texas at

918
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 1: times struggles to stop it. And it is already according

919
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: to some of the more sharp minded Texas folks amongst

920
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: us in the building, it is already a matchup that

921
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 1: has them concerned. But you know who's not going to

922
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: be concerned a majority of the country, because a majority

923
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: of the country will project Texas to win this and

924
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: it'll be Texas versus question Mark in the National title

925
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: game and we'll break the game down later, not tonight.

926
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: I think it's a game in Washington's wheelhouse. So I

927
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: know most of you guys want me to keep picking

928
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 1: against you, and maybe I will, but we'll see. We'll

929
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: see where things go there. They're watching us in Frostburg, Maryland, Ackworth, Georgia,

930
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: and Madisonville, Louisiana. Thank you so much for that. Speaking

931
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: of the opponent that Washington has drawn in the playoff,

932
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: I think my eyes are getting a little droopy. Let

933
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: me take a sip of coffee, which is room temperature

934
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: at this point. Texas. What are we about to do

935
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: with Texas? Jesse? Was this a Twitter question or did

936
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: we just want to talk about Texas? I can't even remember. Okay, yes,

937
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: just talk about him. I'm doing the whale breach sound

938
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: a little bit because my nose is stuffy. That's the

939
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: thing where I go and Bradley and Jesse said it

940
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: sounds like when a whale comes up for air. It

941
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: col Well, I'm sorry, it's a solo show. I don't

942
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: have anyone to fill Why goo blow my nose? So

943
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: instead you get Texas is a really interesting team to

944
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: watch right now, because the progression has been something that

945
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: everyone tried to not everyone. The Texas progress has been

946
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: something that there were deniers of. And the thing about

947
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: that is, if you were denying that Texas was a

948
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: legitimate contender in the preseason. Many of you have not

949
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: come around yet. So remember back in August, I guess

950
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: this is when we did our predictions. I wasn't alone,

951
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: but I picked Texas to go to the playoff. I

952
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,479
Speaker 1: picked them to win the Big Twelve. They have done

953
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: both things. And I'm listening to a lot of our

954
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: old shows and I noticed a familiar theme that had emerged.

955
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: And it's not totally gone away, but it's on life support.

956
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: And that theme was the cant versus the haven't crowd

957
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: had gotten their wording mixed up, and there were a

958
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: lot of people who should have been saying Sark hasn't

959
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: done this and Texas hasn't done that, but instead they

960
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: were saying, Sark can't make the playoff, Texas can't win

961
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: Big again, Texas can't be back. Well none of those

962
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: things were ever true. It's just Sark hadn't had a

963
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: successful run as a head coach. Sark hadtn't got in

964
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: Texas to the playoff yet. Well now he's in one

965
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: and they have So what are we gonna say can't happen? Now?

966
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: They can't win a championship? You know, Michigan, once upon

967
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: a time Harbaugh and Michigan couldn't get over the Ohio

968
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: State home. Then they did well. Michigan can't make the playoff, Well,

969
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: they did well. Then Michigan loses a couple of first

970
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: round playoff games. So now we build up to Michigan

971
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: versus Alabama. I'm sure i'll hear some people saying Michigan

972
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: can't win a playoff game. They haven't, that's all, man,

973
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: they haven't won a playoff game. There's another thing that

974
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: I heard and had just utter disdain for. Back in August.

975
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: I picked Texas to go to the playoff, and I

976
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,240
Speaker 1: sure enough, here they come, casuals out of the woodwork.

977
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: Y'all always do this, y'all. Y'all always build Texas up. Y'all. Yah,

978
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: who's y'all because we're talking about Texas. Don't think you're

979
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: hip to the nomenclature down there, y'all don't do anything.

980
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: I hadn't picked them to go to the playoff. I

981
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 1: don't always do this with them. The things I was

982
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: saying about Texas in August were being said out of

983
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: my mouth for the first time because I had never

984
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: thought Texas to be a legitimate contender like I did

985
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: this year until now. So it's not a monolith. Sports

986
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: media is not a monolith. Someone over there like Ross

987
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: Dellinger could say something and I disagree with it or

988
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: vice versa, and it's not like one size fits all here.

989
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: So I am both not surprised that Texas is in

990
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: the playoff, but I am both. I'm not surprised, but

991
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: I also I don't think that the doubters have a

992
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: proper appreciation for what's going on here. I think Texas

993
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: folks kind of get it because you're wired into your

994
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: program day to day. Why is Texas winning because of

995
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: culture and approach. That's what they've gotten down there. I

996
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: know people didn't think that would be the case because

997
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: I think there was this myth, and it always was

998
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 1: a myth that Texas has got too big a booster problem.

999
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: TeX's got too many cooks in the kitchen to ever

1000
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: have a sound culture. No, they just didn't hire the

1001
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: right guy. So Sarks the right guy. You know how,

1002
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: I know that because those aren't issues anymore that anybody's

1003
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 1: talking about now. That doesn't mean that it's not a

1004
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: unique and challenging job, just means the right guy's doing it. Hey,

1005
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: Bama was a very challenging job, and then some dude

1006
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 1: comes from the Dolphins and they're winning and no one

1007
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: talks about the struggle of coaching at Alabama. Bama's just

1008
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: as hard to coach at now as when Sabin got there.

1009
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: They are a unique set of circumstances that surround several programs.

1010
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: The right guy will make them almost invisible because he

1011
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 1: overcomes them. So Steve Sarkisian's at Alabama and sees Nick

1012
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: Saban do it that way probably had a big influence

1013
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,760
Speaker 1: on him. He goes to Texas. They've got the perfect

1014
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: blend to me of recruiting and portal approach. Their foundation

1015
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: will always be built out of high school football players,

1016
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: and then they will supplement with your occasional ad Mitchell's

1017
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: via the portal. They have got great quarterback depth, and

1018
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: that's imperative for an obvious reason. But let me hit

1019
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: you with another little thought. Quarterback depth is important now

1020
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 1: not just because ooh, our guy could go down for

1021
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: a series or we could lose our guy for the season,

1022
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 1: but also if you do lose your starter for the season.

1023
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: If quinn Ewers had gone down for the season, you

1024
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: know what you would have had around Texas, you would

1025
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: have had Texas not dropping in the rankings at all,

1026
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: because there's a ton of hype around Malik Murphy and

1027
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,240
Speaker 1: there's a ton of hype around Arch Manning. And whether

1028
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: the hype is legitimate or not, forget that. Playoff committee

1029
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: don't know the difference. Playoff committee would simply know this

1030
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: dude's really hyped. This guy was a former five star,

1031
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 1: number one overall player in the country. We're not gonna

1032
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: knock Texas calls. Unlike the Florida State situation. We believe

1033
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: in Texas's backup quarterback situation. That's why it's really important

1034
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: to have depth at the quarterback position. And let me

1035
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 1: give you guys a piece of advice, which is counterintuitive

1036
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,720
Speaker 1: to everything you've ever been taught about this game. Hype

1037
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: your backups and don't shoot down the hype when it

1038
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: starts to build on message boards. Now, there could be

1039
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: diminishing returns on that, and you could have got You

1040
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: could have a situation where backup gets a big head

1041
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: and his dad gets a big head if it's not

1042
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: already big enough, because his sun's a quarterback at the

1043
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: college level and they believe they're press clippings and they

1044
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: held they head elsewhere. Yes, that's a risk you already

1045
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: run anyway. It doesn't hurt you as much as it

1046
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: used to to have that hype, that subculture of hype,

1047
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: because the better the public thinks your backup is, the

1048
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: more likely they are to blindly assume that he's that good.

1049
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: If worst comes to worse and you have to use him,

1050
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: and if you can win your football games with your backup,

1051
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: what just happened to Florida State may not happen to you.

1052
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 1: So Texas got that figured out. But also Texas portals, well,

1053
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: they recruit exceptionally well, they've got great quarterback death and

1054
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: that'll never be an issue for them under stark and organizationally,

1055
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: they've got the right mentality. This is the biggest battle

1056
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: you fight in organizations and college athletics no different. You

1057
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: can think the right way all you want to. Can

1058
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: you put your mentality into an entire organization? Can you

1059
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: open up the minds of nineteen year old kids and

1060
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: plant a different way of thinking in there? Can you

1061
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: get adults who have otherwise not thought that way person

1062
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: to person and get them to think a different way

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Speaker 1: than they thought for thirty forty or fifty years. Can

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Speaker 1: you do that? En mass If you can, then you're

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Speaker 1: one of the very few who are capable of it.

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Speaker 1: And Steve Sarkishan has shown he can do it. So

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Speaker 1: why Texas is not going to fade away? There is

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Speaker 1: no flash in the pan risk here. Just like at

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Speaker 1: Florida State, Norvell's got it figured out. It's always going

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Speaker 1: to be tough to win. There's no guarantee he'll ever

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Speaker 1: win a title. There's no guarantee Sark will ever win

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Speaker 1: a title. But I feel very confident in saying that

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Speaker 1: Norvel and Florida State are going to be in the

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Speaker 1: mix for the foreseeable future. And I feel very confident

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Speaker 1: in saying Sark and Texas are going to be in

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Speaker 1: the mix in the foreseeable future. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: there are aspects of the sport that are steadily coming

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Speaker 1: to them, like the portal's only going to help teams

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Speaker 1: in Texas and Florida. Nil is only going to help

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Speaker 1: teams in Texas and Florida. And you add on to

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Speaker 1: the fact that you got a stud as a football

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Speaker 1: coach in Mike Norvel or Steve Sarkisian. I have thought

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Speaker 1: that there has been alignment and kind of a parallel synergy,

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Speaker 1: if you will, between these two programs. For a while,

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Speaker 1: Norvell's just a year ahead of sark So Norvell had

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Speaker 1: two very very struggle type years and people questioned him,

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Speaker 1: and then the third year it clicked and now you

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Speaker 1: see he's off to the races. And I thought Steve

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Speaker 1: Sarkisian year one at Texas was what it was. They

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Speaker 1: failed to make a Bowl game. Year two, they go

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Speaker 1: from five and seven to I think seven to five,

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Speaker 1: eight and four. But people still said, oh, that's not

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Speaker 1: good enough, just because we didn't meet what polsters said

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Speaker 1: we should do in the preseason, but lost on that

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Speaker 1: was the fact he improved. And I remember in the

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Speaker 1: may happen is Sart turns into the next Norvel. Because

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Speaker 1: of course people are done. Question to Mike Norvell, well,

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Speaker 1: you're done. Question is Steve Sarkisian now too? He was

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Speaker 1: just about twelve months behind Mike Norvel And so there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of parallel synergy between these two programs, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's several layers deep. It's it's a shame

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Speaker 1: on that hand, that they won't meet in the playoff

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Speaker 1: this year, but good for Steve Sarkisian. Uh, I got

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Speaker 1: to talk to you about SEC bias in just a second,

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Speaker 1: like that's that's how I'm choosing to wrap the show

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Speaker 1: tonight because a lot of you are talking about SEC bias.

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Speaker 1: So I did want to hit that we had a

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Speaker 1: I went and bet that on FanDuel one outright, went

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Speaker 1: like I am during an election night, because I am

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Speaker 1: fascinated by the odds market for the playoff. So as

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Speaker 1: late as ten minutes and five minutes before the playoff

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Speaker 1: show this morning, you could bet, and I'm watching FSU's

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone knew anything, but I made

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Speaker 1: We are ecstatic to have them on board. I think

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I'm talking about functionality. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: I want FanDuel integrated into this show in a way

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to broach a topic. It's not the

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Speaker 1: first time we've ever talked about it on Late Kick,

1168
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: but I do want to talk about it once more. Jesse, Colin,

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01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: show me the tweet if you will. It comes from

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Speaker 1: a Joshua no less. I'll actually forget the coffee. I'll

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Speaker 1: need to sit from the chalice for this. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you one more story. Leave the tweet up. It's fine, Colin. Actually, Colin,

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Speaker 1: do me a favor. Let me clip this later depending

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Speaker 1: on how ridiculous it is. So take the tweet down

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Speaker 1: for a second. We'll put it back up in a second.

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Speaker 1: I have a flaw and it is called leg cramps,

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Speaker 1: and when I get one, they are terrible. I get

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01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: the migraines of leg cramps. So some people out there

1179
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: have migraines. I've never had one. I don't pretend to

1180
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: know how bad A migrain is. I just know if

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01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: someone says I think I have a migraine, you don't

1182
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: have a migrain, because there's no doubting if you actually

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01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: have a migraine. So in muscular cramp terms, I get

1184
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: migraine cramps. They are the worst cramps ever. I have

1185
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 1: to collapse to the ground. None of this is made up, sadly,

1186
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: and it'll either be a quad or a hamstring. And

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Speaker 1: do not sit there and tell me, oh, I know

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Speaker 1: what a leg cramp feels like, I've had one before,

1189
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: not like these. You haven't. Just trust me on this.

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Speaker 1: And I have to crawl to the shower and I

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01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: have to run scalding hot water on my muscles to

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Speaker 1: get them to loosen or else I'm done. And even

1193
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: then my muscles have tightened to the point where there

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01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: is soreness and pain for days afterwards, like they're not

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01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: normal muscle cramps. Well, anyway, I'm on a flight the

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Speaker 1: other night, and I think you know where this is going.

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Speaker 1: I'm on a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta. It's

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Speaker 1: an overnight, so my plan is let me get a

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Speaker 1: couple hours sleep. I start to doze off. It's great,

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Speaker 1: they've got the lights turned down, you got the delta,

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Speaker 1: so it's blue mood lighting on the top, perfect conditions

1202
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Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. Nap, I turn I position. Boom,

1203
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: there it goes leg cramp and I have to jump

1204
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Speaker 1: up out of my seat as quickly as I can,

1205
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: which when it happens on a flight and it's two

1206
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, gets misconstrued as this dude's about

1207
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Speaker 1: to skyjack the plane. So I had to calm everyone

1208
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Speaker 1: down and make them at ease with the fact that no, no, no, nowhere,

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Speaker 1: it's just a muscle cramp. It does happen, And then

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Speaker 1: I had to do straight leg bends for about ten

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Speaker 1: minutes and I did not collapse to the floor. Luckily

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Speaker 1: I got myself upright in time. But that was part one.

1213
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Speaker 1: That was a nightmare. It took over an hour to

1214
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Speaker 1: get the cramp out. No rest was had on the flight.

1215
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Speaker 1: So then we get to Atlanta and I go straight

1216
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Speaker 1: from the airport to the hotel, just enough time to shower.

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Speaker 1: We go from the hotel to Mercedes Benz Stadium and

1218
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: we did pregame coverage for the SEC Championship game. So

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Speaker 1: I'm there with Uncle Dennis to my left, Emily Proud

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Speaker 1: to my right. I'm in the middle, and there's a

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Speaker 1: little table in front of us. We're sitting in director's chairs.

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Speaker 1: We got a minute before we're going to go on air. Boom,

1223
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: same leg, same muscle cramps again. I am done and

1224
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Speaker 1: I have to extend my leg. There is footage of this.

1225
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Speaker 1: We had to come on air and I have one

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Speaker 1: leg bent like a normal person, and I have my

1227
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Speaker 1: other leg totally straightened out like a psychopath or perhaps

1228
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: a pirate with a wooden leg. And I had to

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Speaker 1: talk like nothing was going on. And here was the problem.

1230
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Speaker 1: I have self diagnosed, just like I did with food

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01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: poisoning down in Jacksonville. I drank too much caffeine and

1232
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: not enough water, and I think that yours truly was

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Speaker 1: a little dehydrated. The reason I say that is because

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Speaker 1: as I was turning there, I almost picked my leg

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Speaker 1: up beneath the table, but then I thought better of it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just sitting with my legs just dangling off

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Speaker 1: the chair. Right now. I look like a kid in

1238
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Speaker 1: the park, not a care in the world, But in reality,

1239
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Speaker 1: I'm just scared to move. So we got one more

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Speaker 1: segment here and Bradley Beyond standby with some water, perhaps

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Speaker 1: a banana if it's organic. No, I'm not management. Bring

1242
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Speaker 1: me the chemical lace banana. It's fine SEC bias, Okay,

1243
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: all right, Colin, bring the tweetback. I saw it five

1244
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Bring the tweetback. Joshua love the name. He

1245
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: hit me up and he said, why give SEC team's

1246
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt when the conference was way down

1247
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: this year? From Copple, Texas? Well, how do you know

1248
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: the conference was down this year? Joshua? Now he can't speak,

1249
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna speak for him. He would probably say, well,

1250
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: I got the evidence, and I would say, what is

1251
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: your evidence? He would say, oh, they're out of conference.

1252
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Speaker 1: Head to head record was terrible, and I would say

1253
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 1: I don't care. What else do you have? And he

1254
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: would sit there in silence and he would say, well,

1255
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: that's all I need. That's the most important stat why

1256
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: Danny Canell told me so. And I would say, dude,

1257
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: you really want to use that logic? And even he

1258
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: would say, hey, you're right, that's terrible logic. Let me

1259
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 1: do something better. And he would really he would disagree

1260
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: with me, like we would be in an mpass I

1261
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: don't care about your conference's head to head out of

1262
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 1: conference record. Ever, when the SEC dominates in it, I

1263
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: don't care. Just like I don't care about your bowl

1264
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 1: record when the SEC dominates in it, I don't care.

1265
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: This is not a pro or anti SEC argument. It

1266
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: is basic logic. I don't care. Here's why I don't care,

1267
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: because there has never been in the history of college

1268
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: football a system where I take the number one team

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Speaker 1: in the SEC and the number one team in the ACC,

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Speaker 1: and number four versus number four, and number seven versus

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Speaker 1: number seven, and have an equally seeded tournament where one

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Speaker 1: conference faces another, and just down the board eight verses eight,

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Speaker 1: ten verses ten, twelve versus twelve would be wonderful, and

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Speaker 1: it would give me definitive conclusions and proof about one

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Speaker 1: conference's superiority over another. But that's not what we do.

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Speaker 1: We have just random matchups. And we have therefore a

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Speaker 1: situation where, for all I know, my top six could

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Speaker 1: play your bottom six and I'd go six and oh

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Speaker 1: and I could toubt if I wanted to be intellectually dishonest,

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Speaker 1: my superiority over you as a conference. Well, in reality,

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Speaker 1: it means nothing. It means nothing. It's just like, for example,

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Speaker 1: I watched at the end of the year, if I

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Speaker 1: wanted to be selective, I watched half of the ACC

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Speaker 1: Championship Louisville Go get beat by Kentucky middle of the

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Speaker 1: road SEC team. I watched your champion, Florida State struggle

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Speaker 1: mightily to beat Florida, a team that didn't even make

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Speaker 1: a bowl game. Now, Josh, Florida State was playing with

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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. Yes it was Florida, dude. So if

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be selective, I can make your conference

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Speaker 1: so on like utter trash by saying that I don't

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Speaker 1: because I don't care about it, never have cared about it.

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Speaker 1: It's not situational. I've never cared about it. The question, though,

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Speaker 1: was about why the SEC should get benefit of the

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Speaker 1: doubt cause they're better than you, Because they're a better conference,

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Speaker 1: That's why they should get benefit of the doubt. Like

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Speaker 1: who else is going to get benefit of the doubt?

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Speaker 1: This is not popular. A lot of you don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear this. But just because you're not popular, or

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Speaker 1: just because an argument is not popular, doesn't make it

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Speaker 1: any less true. There is a conference out there that's

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Speaker 1: been superior on the field for a long time. There

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Speaker 1: is a conference that's producing more NFL players, that recruits

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Speaker 1: at a higher level, that portals at a higher level,

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Speaker 1: like all the discernible metrics out there that are front,

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Speaker 1: forward facing indications of success. The SEC dominates him. Why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't I give them benefit of the doubt? But everyone

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Speaker 1: asks a lot of people ask me that question, why

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Speaker 1: should the SEC get benefit of the doubt? I asked, like,

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Speaker 1: why shouldn't they? So we saw today, we saw Bama

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Speaker 1: make it in and I'm assuming that's what brought this on.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people said, well, there's Bama benefiting

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Speaker 1: from SEC bias. And I don't know what you want

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Speaker 1: me to say, because if that is what happened, I

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Speaker 1: don't have a problem with it. So I was born

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Speaker 1: in Columbus, Georgia. I was born in Columbus. I grew

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Speaker 1: up in Harris County, which of course makes me blind

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Speaker 1: and an SEC homer, And so I can't possibly be

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Speaker 1: right on this, but I think I am. So I

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Speaker 1: will tout the ACC to no end when they deserve credit,

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Speaker 1: and at times this year they did deserve credit. But

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Speaker 1: if you think the evidence or if your argument for

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Speaker 1: Florida State being in over Alabama boiled down to the

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Speaker 1: ACC had a better head to head conference record against

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Speaker 1: the SEC, that is a garbage argument. Or if your

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Speaker 1: evidence that Alabama shouldn't have been in was because they

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Speaker 1: won the se but it was a down year and

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Speaker 1: your evidence that the SEC being down is that, like,

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Speaker 1: that's the best you can do. Just your argument's not

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Speaker 1: good enough and it's not my fault. I could argue,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm fairly certain that I would flunk out

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Speaker 1: of law school because it sounds boring, But I do

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Speaker 1: think I have the god given ability to be a

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Speaker 1: good lawyer, and I guarantee you I could. I could

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Speaker 1: make a very very good argument for Florida State being

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Speaker 1: in the playoff, uh, because I believe a lot of it. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I do kind of think they got jilted, although I

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Speaker 1: also believe Bama should have been in. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know what that really brings us to. But I don't like.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't always mean this isn't right. A lot of

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Speaker 1: things can happen that are sound, that are right, that

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Speaker 1: are just that you don't like. There's this thing that

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Speaker 1: happens mainly on the internet, but in some cases real

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Speaker 1: life too, where if someone says something that you disagree with,

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Speaker 1: it's clickbait or it's disingenuous, they're just trying to stir

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Speaker 1: up controversy. It could just be that they think what

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Speaker 1: they said and you disagree with it. That could be it.

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Speaker 1: There's another thing that happens where if you get an

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Speaker 1: outcome you don't like, and I call this the on

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Speaker 1: demanding of society. If you get an outcome you don't like,

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Speaker 1: it has to be rigged, the fix had to be in,

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Speaker 1: someone has to be out to get you. In reality,

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Speaker 1: in this case, I don't think it was any of

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Speaker 1: those things. I just think that a committee full of

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Speaker 1: people looked and said Bama belongs in over Florida state.

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Speaker 1: That's what I think happened. So sec bias. If it

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Speaker 1: was in the room, there's a reason for it to

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Speaker 1: be in the room, is all I'll say. And you

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Speaker 1: can't prove that that was what pulled Alabama over the

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Speaker 1: finish line. I gave you my theory. I thought that

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Speaker 1: the outcome you got today was it was kind of

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Speaker 1: skewed and made to look radical. Oh, number eight jumped

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Speaker 1: all the way to number four. Bama should never have

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Speaker 1: been number eight. Guys, they baked in their expectations. They

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Speaker 1: never thought they were gonna have this mess on their head.

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Speaker 1: They thought it was going to sort itself out, just

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Speaker 1: like I did. And I was wrong and they were wrong.

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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden they looks at uh oh,

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Speaker 1: Florida State didn't lose, did the uh oh? Washington won?

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Speaker 1: So we can't boot the PAC twelve out? And oh

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Speaker 1: Bama one, oh wow, that's where they were today. That's

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Speaker 1: the long and short of it. Bama probably should have

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Speaker 1: been five or six somewhere like that to wear them.

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Speaker 1: Bumping up to number four didn't look quite as quite

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Speaker 1: as crazy. Texas probably should have been a little bit

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Speaker 1: higher as well. But anyway, SEC bias is only going

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Speaker 1: to grow stronger. If by bias you mean blind benefit

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Speaker 1: of the doubt sometimes being given to a conference that's

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Speaker 1: just been utterly dominant in most of your lifetimes. If

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Speaker 1: you believe that's what bias is, Yeah, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be there. It's not going anywhere. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: have just assumed, well, if it's not going anywhere, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go join the SEC. Oh. Hey, by the way,

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Speaker 1: another theory, I think there's going to be a fair

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Speaker 1: healthy amount of Big ten bias at the table in

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Speaker 1: the near future. Something about having a ton of really

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Speaker 1: good teams in your conference tends to do that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, so probably not going anywhere. If you're an

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Speaker 1: anti sec or big ten bias kind of guy or girl,

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Speaker 1: probably not going to be the sport for you for

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Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. I do think this is the show

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