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Speaker 1: I thank him so much. We've been at Big ten

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Speaker 1: Media Days for two days. Believe it or not. Feels

429
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Speaker 1: like a little bit longer for various reasons, but we've

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Speaker 1: been here. They're tearing down the stage behind us as

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Speaker 1: we speak. You know, Michigan was in here today and

432
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Speaker 1: if you're watching the replay of the show, I'm talking

433
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Speaker 1: to you on Thursday, and if you're watching it live,

434
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Michigan was here today and Jim Harbaugh

435
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:24,879
Speaker 1: came in here fresh off the news he's probably going

436
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 1: to be suspended the first four games of the year.

437
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,800
Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say about the NCAA stuff, because it's

438
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 1: already old news. A lot of you came at me

439
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: and said, how in the world is he being suspended

440
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 1: four games for the equivalent of buying a kidd A hamburger.

441
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Speaker 1: I am with you. We can go on a torch

442
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 1: and pitchfork quest against the nc DOUBLEA tomorrow and I

443
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 1: would lock arms with you. Just don't be disingenuous about this.

444
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 1: He got in trouble because he lied to him, not

445
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Speaker 1: because of the offense. The offense would have garnered him

446
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:56,120
Speaker 1: a zero game suspension. It was the lying. Now. He

447
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: probably viewed it as a matter of principle, and also

448
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 1: probably didn't want to run the risk of the NCAA

449
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 1: dropping an atomic bomb on his program for the equivalent

450
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Speaker 1: of flicking someone on the ear, which they've been known

451
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Speaker 1: to do in the past, so I'm not even saying

452
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Speaker 1: I blame him. They're not going to lose a game

453
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Speaker 1: because of it. They play glorified high school teams to

454
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Speaker 1: start the season, they'll be fine. What I wondered for

455
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 1: about ten seconds was, Hm, is there a chance? Is

456
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Speaker 1: there even a little bit of a chance that this

457
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Speaker 1: may fracture a locker room? It won't because they're all

458
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Speaker 1: grown men. They've been there forever. He's been building this

459
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Speaker 1: year's version of Michigan, and some of those kids have

460
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Speaker 1: been playing high level football for now three years in

461
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Speaker 1: a row. If anything, and I can't prove this, I

462
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 1: can't quantify this, but if anything, I think there may

463
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Speaker 1: be a time in November where we're watching Michigan, you know,

464
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Speaker 1: hopefully hit their stride. I think we'll be saying, wow,

465
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Speaker 1: you remember that off the field stuff with Harbor. I

466
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Speaker 1: remember that NCAA suspension. It feels like it kind of

467
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 1: galvanized them. That's what happens to a veteran team. They're

468
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Speaker 1: very careful to call it a player led team. The

469
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: best ones I'm around always are, and so I don't

470
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Speaker 1: doubt that. I'll tell you what stands out to me. Now,

471
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Speaker 1: imagine saying this to yourself, oh, thirty six months ago,

472
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Speaker 1: Imagine saying, Michigan came to Big Ten media days and

473
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Speaker 1: it almost seemed like Ohio State was an afterthought. The

474
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship almost felt like an afterthought. It's the

475
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Speaker 1: college football playoff in the national Championship, because those are

476
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Speaker 1: the only two hurdles that they have not cleared. I'm

477
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Speaker 1: not telling they're overlooking Ohio State. I'm not saying anything

478
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Speaker 1: like that. I'm saying us being around those players and

479
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: kind of getting a vibe from that program, they don't

480
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Speaker 1: take it for granted, but they feel like they've got

481
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Speaker 1: a choke hold on that rivalry right now. They feel

482
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Speaker 1: like they got Ohio State's number right now, and so

483
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: they're looking and saying, hey, we got bigger fish to fry,

484
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Speaker 1: and look, They're free to feel that way. They have

485
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Speaker 1: every reason to feel that way. Now, what about Ohio State.

486
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Speaker 1: We had Ryan Day yesterday, sat down with him. That

487
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Speaker 1: is on the YouTube channel if you want to watch it.

488
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: Really good conversation with him. Talk to him before that

489
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Speaker 1: as well. He is brutally honest about the job he has,

490
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: about the fact that You can't go forty five and

491
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Speaker 1: six and just expect all your problems to disappear. If

492
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 1: some of those half dozen losses are well, two of

493
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Speaker 1: them to Michigan and then losing college football playoff games,

494
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: is it an unfair standard. Well, if he says no,

495
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: I would say, no, it's a little it's a little warped.

496
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: It's a little myopic. But that's okay. That's how I

497
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: feel about the sport. I'm a little warped on it.

498
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm a little myopic. The fact is Ohio State

499
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Speaker 1: has better resources and an advantage over ninety eight percent

500
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Speaker 1: of the sport. There should be disproportionately high expectations there.

501
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: The head coach there does not run from it. He

502
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Speaker 1: embraces it. And when I say he shrugs it off,

503
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Speaker 1: I don't mean he's nonchalant about it. I mean he

504
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: shrugs it off as if to say, that's my job. Man.

505
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Speaker 1: Those are the exact words he said to me before

506
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Speaker 1: we started recording yesterday. So again that interviews on the

507
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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. But the other part of that is I

508
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: assume Kyle McCord will be their starting quarterback. I think

509
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Speaker 1: what's interesting is watching the rest of that team sort

510
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: of rise to whatever level they're gonna rise to. Because

511
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Speaker 1: as much as people are talking about that quarterback position,

512
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Speaker 1: talking to Ohio State folks, they're excited about their defense.

513
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Speaker 1: They've been building towards this for a couple of years

514
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: and Jim Knowles has come in and now he's not

515
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: a rookie there, like, it's not his first go around,

516
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 1: so it's gonna have his thumb print on it. Whatever

517
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 1: their defense is, it'll have his thumb print on it.

518
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: Ultra excited to see whoever that quarterback is, ultra excited

519
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: to see that. They felt unlike any team I spoke

520
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: to except Alabama. Alabama and Ohio State, for obvious reasons,

521
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: have felt different being around the teams at the media

522
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: days than any other team in the country. And it's

523
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Speaker 1: because they have insanely high standards. It's because they lost

524
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Speaker 1: to their biggest rivals last year. I absolutely well Alabama

525
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to play against Georgia, but Georgia

526
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Speaker 1: has won two titles in a row. Ohio State has

527
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: played and lost two years in road to Michigan. They

528
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Speaker 1: feel they feel like they took about a five minute

529
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Speaker 1: break from military training to come to media days and

530
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: look at you in the eye and not smile and

531
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Speaker 1: then go right back to business and no break camp.

532
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 1: In a couple of weeks. We got to talk to

533
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Nebraska today, And I've spoken about this with

534
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Speaker 1: you guys a few times. I think it bears repeating,

535
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: Like if you're not a Big Ten fan, but you're

536
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: a college football fan and you just wish there were

537
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: more good games on. Part of your problem is the

538
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: second and third tier of the Big Ten has not

539
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: been as watchable as it should be for a conference

540
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: as good as the Big Ten is. You get past

541
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, you get past Michigan, you get past Penn State,

542
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Speaker 1: and it's a crapshoot how good a Purdue versus Wisconsin's

543
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: going to be any given year. And there's really no

544
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: excuse for that. I felt that way for a few years.

545
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks around the Big Ten

546
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 1: do now. And if I were to talk to you

547
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Speaker 1: this time last year and I said Nebraska's going to

548
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: come open, Wisconsin's going to come open, you would have

549
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: been probably really surprised at Wisconsin. But then if I

550
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: were to have told you Nebraska's going to get Matt

551
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: Ruhle and Wisconsin's going to get Luke Fickle. To me,

552
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: that's the biggest upset because folks thought Fick was gonna

553
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: either wait for Ohio State or like take an NFL job.

554
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: He goes to Wisconsin and I talked to him today

555
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: and he laid out the exact reasons why that video

556
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: is going to be on the YouTube channel later. They

557
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: really leveled up, and this is good news for college

558
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: football fans. It's good news for Big Ten fans because

559
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: you get more quality games. Like imagine if the SEC

560
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: were Bama, Georgia sometimes LSU, and then everyone else was trash.

561
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: Now some people sarcastically say it is. It's really not, though,

562
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: because like South Carolina OL, Miss Auburn most years, Texas

563
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: A and m UP until last year, those are really

564
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: good programs and if they don't win, it's not for

565
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: a lack of trying, Whereas some places in the Big

566
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: Ten it's kind of had that good enough is enough

567
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: sort of field. Wisconsin was one of those places, Nebraska

568
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: had been one of those places. It's not those places anymore,

569
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Speaker 1: and talking to their people on and off the record today,

570
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: they kind of echoed that cinema so It's nice to

571
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Speaker 1: know I was actually onto something there. Minnesota was here today.

572
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. So when I I

573
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Speaker 1: told you guys earlier in the week, I thought some

574
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: big news was coming this week, I was talking about

575
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: Colorado being on the move, and I knew that there

576
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: was a report coming out about Minnesota. Those were the

577
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: two things, and Colorado news was exactly what it was.

578
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: This Minnesota deal was not what I thought it would

579
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: be the way that it was kind of being framed

580
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I thought it was going to be

581
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: Northwestern part two, the Minnesota version, and it wasn't. And

582
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: I sat down with PJ. Fleck today and I gave

583
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Speaker 1: him a chance to address it any which way he

584
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: wanted to, and he answered it exactly how I would

585
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 1: answer it. And I'll tell you if you're unfamiliar. Front

586
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: Off of Sports had the story, and to paraphrase and

587
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: summarize the story, it was disgruntled former players who were

588
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: alleging a toxic culture in the Minnesota football program. I

589
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: sat like five feet from where I am right now

590
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: with Brady Quinn earlier today and he put it really well.

591
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: He said, football is an inside out sport. Sometimes everybody

592
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: wants to know the insides, but those who have only

593
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: been outside and never been inside are really taken aback

594
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: sometimes when they see what the inside is like. Translation,

595
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: if you've never been in a locker room, if you've

596
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: never been part of athletic competition, doesn't make you a

597
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: bad person or anything like that, but it does kind

598
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: of come as a shock to the census sometimes when

599
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: you find out how sports actually work. And that's when

600
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: nothing wrong is going on. By the way, if you

601
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: were to attend a college football practice, if you were

602
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: to go to a summer conditioning session, it's a shock

603
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: to the census. It really is. We get to see

604
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: some practices sometimes, and that's after they close it to

605
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: the media. It is a It is a blessing for

606
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: some of those guys to get to Saturday. It is

607
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: easier on them Saturdays than it is sometimes during the week.

608
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: Well here's the point. What was alleged against Minnesota made

609
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: me go, where's the rest of this? Because I read

610
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Speaker 1: it and I expected more and there there really wasn't

611
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: anything there. So I talked to PJ. Fleck about it today.

612
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: He said, hey, look, this is something that has been

613
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: peddled behind the scenes for a little while. Almost what

614
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: he was saying is we knew that allegation was there,

615
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: it's just that they finally found someone to run with it.

616
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: He said, Look, we've got seven different mechanisms in our

617
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: program that people could anonymously report issues to if they

618
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: had them. He said, we never heard anything from any

619
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: of the people who were sourced in this report. So

620
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Speaker 1: that's what you do. By the way, if you get

621
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Speaker 1: accused of something and you're telling me it's false, get

622
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: in front of folks as quickly as you can look

623
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Speaker 1: him in the eye, which PJ. Fleck did with me

624
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: and everyone else here today, and tell us it's false.

625
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: And if you do, and I believe you, I'll go

626
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: on one of the biggest college football shows in the

627
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: world like we are right now and agree with you.

628
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: I agree with PJ. Fleck. I thought they handled themselves

629
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: very well. I also thought it did them a big

630
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: pr favor that that story came out and then the

631
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: whole Colorado thing blew up. So my sense, and you

632
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: can tell me if I'm wrong, because I've kind of

633
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: been barricaded here in Indianapolis, my sense is that that

634
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: was in the headlines for about six hours and now

635
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: everyone's forgotten about it, which, in lieu of further details

636
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: coming out, is exactly how I'd advise you to treat you.

637
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Lewis from Rutgers was my favorite player to talk

638
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: to here. Dane and he are the only people who

639
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: commented on the blueness of my eyes the entire week,

640
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: and I appreciated it from him because he did it

641
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Speaker 1: on a camera. So I asked him, what do you

642
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: want to do maybe after football, and he said, I

643
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: may love to get into media. I think he's got

644
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: a future in it if he wants to. Penn State.

645
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: I talked to James Franklin. We've had him on the

646
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: show twice now, including yesterday, in the past few months.

647
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot to say about him that

648
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: I haven't already said. I think that is a team

649
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: that feels as ready to get to fall camp and

650
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: finally prove what everyone is saying about him as any

651
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: team I've been around. And so not a whole lot

652
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 1: of talking left to do with Penn State. It's not

653
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: that I am not acknowledging them. I just don't have

654
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: a lot to say. I'll tell you one more guy,

655
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about never met Kirk

656
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: Ferrance before, never been to an Iowa game at home.

657
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: I've been to Iowa Iowa State, but that was an

658
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: ames and so I don't have I don't have immense

659
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: familiarity with the Iowa program now, certainly as a longtime

660
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,959
Speaker 1: fan of this game, I've watched Kirk Ferrance my whole life,

661
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: like he's been the head coach at Iowa, pretty much

662
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: my whole coherent life watching college football, and so it

663
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: was an honor to get to meet him. At the

664
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: same time, I think there are valid criticisms of his program.

665
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: I've watched from afar, and you know, I've wondered what

666
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: is the balance of understanding where college football is going

667
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: versus honoring and respecting an institution and a legacy head

668
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: coach who's not going four and eight or anything like that.

669
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: It's just they don't have an offensive fastball, and it

670
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: cost them the opportunity to do more than what they

671
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: have done. And listening to him talk yesterday, number one,

672
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: it's one he's been around as long as he has.

673
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: Like some guys look through you, and some guys look

674
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: at you. Some guys are really grizzled in the way

675
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: they present themselves. Some guys you could never knock off

676
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: the balls of their feet. You would never get Kirk

677
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: parents on his heels. That mean he's right on everything,

678
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: but it's just there's a steadfastness, there's a belief in

679
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: what he's doing. It bleeds through so quickly when you're

680
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: talking to him face to face. He talked about the

681
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: specifics of how they have to upgrade offensively. He talked

682
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: about the not limitations, because that's not the word he used,

683
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: but there's a different kind of personnel they use there.

684
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna see much five wide from Iowa,

685
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: but doing it the Iowa way, there's a way to

686
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: bleed more than twenty three twenty four points per game

687
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: out of that offense. So it's been a really fun

688
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: week here. Big ten Media Day is the first one

689
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: I ever attended, and probably not my last. I'm told that,

690
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm told that this company who's Mike Flag I'm holding,

691
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: has signed a pretty significant deal with this conference, so

692
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: I don't doubt that we'll be here several years to come.

693
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Speaker 1: All right, I want to wrap the show up with

694
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Speaker 1: bold predictions. Bold Predictions A tradition unlike any other in

695
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: college football at least, rolls on for chapter twenty two tonight,

696
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: and the first one caught my eye. So I want

697
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: to lead with this one about the one of five

698
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: bold prediction number one, And for those of you unfamiliar,

699
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: these are just things you're predicting that you claim you'd

700
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: bet your money on. How about this one from Columbia

701
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Only one of the preseason top five teams

702
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: will make the college football Playoff. Now, I looked to

703
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: my left, I looked to my right. I don't see

704
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: an AP pole yet. I have not dropped a JP

705
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: pole yet. So all we can do is go on

706
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: the Caesar Sportsbook top five right now in terms of odds,

707
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: and that is Georgia, Bama, Ohio State, Michigan, and LSU.

708
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's what the other poles will look like.

709
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: So the prediction is only one of those five make

710
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: the playoff. This is a nine on the boldness scale

711
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,240
Speaker 1: for me, there is a way that this could happen.

712
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: Kind of about this, if you told me nothing more

713
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: than Bama, you can pick any of the SEC teams.

714
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: So let's say Georgia goes to Atlanta and they face

715
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: a beaten up Bama or a beaten up LSU, either

716
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: of them already have at least one loss. But the

717
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: you know, the one lost team makes it to Atlanta

718
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: and Georgia beats them, Georgia may very well be your

719
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: only SEC team. You could paint that scenario with LSU

720
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: and Alabama too, So let's just for the sake of argument,

721
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: say george is the one SEC team. Well, I just

722
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: took out three of the top five, Okay, so I

723
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: got one, and now I got to figure out how

724
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: neither Ohio State nor Michigan's gonna make the playoff. And

725
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: you could say, well, Josh, just sounds like Penn State

726
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: won the conference. Yeah, okay, But even if that were

727
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: to happen and I've got multiple playoff spots left, are

728
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: we looking at the situation where Penn State won the

729
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: Big Ten and there's enough distance between them and the

730
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: rest of the field that none of the rest of

731
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: the Big Ten qualifies for the playoff. That's what's tough

732
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: for me. That's why I'm calling this a nine. Also,

733
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: it could very well be that like three of them

734
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: or more make the playoff, So that one was tough

735
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: to see. Not impossible, but tough to see for me.

736
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: Next up, I don't know if I've told you, but

737
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: I've talked to some coaches today. We sat down with

738
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: Mike Locksley as well, from Maryland. So this comes from Savannah, Georgia.

739
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: I love the name of that town. By the way,

740
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: Maryland top twenty by the end of the year. Wow, Well,

741
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: I should let you know. Mike Losley has been the

742
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: head coach at Maryland multiple years, one of the most

743
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: fun guys in the sport to talk to, by the way,

744
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: and he has a story and we can't tell it

745
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: in ten minutes, which is how long we had to

746
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: sit down with him. Mike Locksley this year, for the

747
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: first time, was bold enough to come in here and

748
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: start talking about competing for the actual Big Ten East,

749
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: competing for the Big Ten championship. And he actually said,

750
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,479
Speaker 1: I've never said that before. You know, anyone who pays

751
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: attention to me year to year, I've never used that

752
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: kind of nomenclature. Five dollars in the verbage jar there,

753
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: I've never you is that kind of phrasing. I am

754
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: this year because I feel good enough about that. He's

755
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: another coach by the way who came here and talked

756
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: a lot about a player led team. Now I mentioned

757
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: that to you guys sometimes in passing, But all that

758
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: means is I got a veteran laden team most of

759
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: the time. That's what that means, And it means I

760
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: got a team who has taken accountability to the point

761
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: where the coaches don't really have to be on players

762
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: every second of every day. They care about the outcome.

763
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: They're invested, They got skin in the game to the

764
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: point where it's their team. You know, we're kind of

765
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: keeping it on the rails, but it's their team and

766
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: they will determine how far they go, which is a

767
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: beautiful thing when it works out. It's a nightmare when

768
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Maryland top twenty by the end of the year, though,

769
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: that's an eight point seventy five on the Boldness scale

770
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 1: S and P plus. They're starting the season at forty first.

771
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: They've gone three and nine, two and three the COVID year,

772
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: seven and six, eight and five, so there's a noticeable

773
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: progression there post COVID. If I could get them to

774
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: nine and three this year, that's probably good enough for

775
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: a top twenty five finish. Here's the problem. They go

776
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: at Michigan State at Ohio State, Illinois will be a

777
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: dogfight at home. Even Penn State at Nebraska Michigan. They

778
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: I don't know about spreads on some of those. They're

779
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: a point spread underdog in most of those games, though,

780
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: And so I need some upsets. I either need some

781
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: upsets or I need some losses. And like a monumental

782
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 1: upset against Ohio State or Michigan. It's his best team, though,

783
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: I think it'll be Mike Loxley's best team. So this

784
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: is not out of the realm. And they said top twenty,

785
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: not top ten. So I'm gonna go eight point seventy

786
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: five on that boldness scale. What about this one? There's

787
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: some layers to this next one, and this one has

788
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: some G five flavor to it. Tulane goes undefeated but

789
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: does not make the college football playoff. Huh. Now, we

790
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: saw this couple of years ago. The cannot crowd turned

791
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: into the has not crowd when they told you that

792
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: Cincinnati G five team couldn't make the playoff. Then all

793
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they made the playoff. We held strong

794
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: on our show, by the way, So TWU Lane goes undefeated,

795
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: this year and they don't make it. Well, I'll tell

796
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: you a couple of things here. Firstly, it's hard to

797
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,439
Speaker 1: go undefeated, so I'm going to make this a nine

798
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: point five on the boldness scale, although they have the

799
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: best odds of ANYG five team to do it. Secondly,

800
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: look at Ole Miss in week two, they come to Tulane.

801
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: That's it. There is no more Power five team, which

802
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: leads me to my next point. A lot of hypocrisy

803
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: in this sport. Couldn't be us, but a lot of

804
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: hypocrisy in this sport. Some of that hypocrisy sounds like this,

805
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,760
Speaker 1: you heard it earlier in the show. All the SEC

806
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: should play nine conference games? Why well, their schedule is

807
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: not strong enough. Some of those same people would look

808
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: at Tulane go undefeated and they would say, well, they

809
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: deserve a shot at the playoff. And I'd ask them why,

810
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: well they went undefeated? Okay, and well you are what

811
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: your Rickard says, you are, Like, how could you deny

812
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: an undefeated team a shot at the college football playoff?

813
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: I don't think there's strength of schedule warrants it. That's

814
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: my very cold, serial killerish heart beat not above eighty

815
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: response to that because we've had to do this before,

816
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: and I'd probably have the same conversation. I would tell

817
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: you I don't care that you're undefeated alone. I do

818
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: care about it, but I also care that I think

819
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: I would favor fifteen teams in the country to go

820
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: undefeated against your schedule some years, that's the way it

821
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: works out. We'll have to see how this works out

822
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: for TWU Lane. So there may very well be a

823
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: scenario where they go undefeated and I'm sitting here like

824
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: I was with Cincinnati two years ago, saying, no, I

825
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: think they deserve to be in the playoff, but it

826
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 1: would be out of Tulane's hands because that's the card

827
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: you draw when you're a G five team. My answer

828
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: has been have a G five playoff. No one wants

829
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: to do it. And so in lieu of that, if

830
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna continue the charade that one hundred and thirty

831
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: some odd teams actually play the same caliber of this sport,

832
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna be a little bit more of a

833
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: stickler about strengthen to schedule and let's be consistent by

834
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: the way across the board and how we talk about that.

835
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: So I think it'd be tough for him to go undefeated,

836
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,399
Speaker 1: and then going undefeated not making the playoff is tough.

837
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make it the nine point five lastly

838
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: and the boldest prediction of the night. And he's been

839
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: in the news for other reasons today, but from Dallas, Texas,

840
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: we got a prediction that said Dion Sanders will be

841
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: on the hot seat after year one. What how? And

842
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,919
Speaker 1: we're removing scandal from this. Okay, so if scandal breaks out,

843
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 1: totally different thing. But if it's just for football, Deon

844
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: Sanders on the hot seat after year one, Dude, they

845
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: could go winless and only regress by one game from

846
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: last year. I think we've forgotten because of how much

847
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: he's been in the news, how much hype he's gotten.

848
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: We've contributed to it. Maybe people are forgotten where this

849
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: program is. They just had to take over seventy kids

850
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: out of the portal, or they had a roster turnover

851
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: of that much. They were a one win team last year.

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Speaker 1: probably does not need to be featured in bold predictions

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Speaker 1: very much. Moving forward, I'm making that a nine point

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Speaker 1: seventy five. And if you remove scandal from the equation,

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Speaker 1: year one, that's that's close enough to make that a

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Speaker 1: ten on the boldness scale. Don't see that at all.

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Speaker 1: Been a busy day, been a good trip, though. We

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Speaker 1: ton of people watching, and I'm sure many more of

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Speaker 1: you will watch the replay. So I was talking in

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Speaker 1: you guys. I dropped some nuggets in there, drop some

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Speaker 1: nuggets about what's about to happen next month. Always watch

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Speaker 1: the show live if you can. You won't miss much.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry. Announcements are coming. But in the meantime, let

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Speaker 1: me tell you what to look forward to. So we'll

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Speaker 1: be back live Sunday. I'll be in Nashville. Will be

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Speaker 1: good to go. We have got a Luke Fickle conversation

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Speaker 1: coming up on the YouTube channel. We got Matt Ruhle.

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Speaker 1: He went really in depth about how it ended in Carolina.

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Speaker 1: He did not plan on being back in coaching. He

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Speaker 1: opened the book man, he was really he was really

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Speaker 1: good with us. That'll be on the YouTube channel, so

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. We got a ton of

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Speaker 1: content coming. Look now through the National Championship Game, we're

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Speaker 1: wide open and so we appreciate you taking the ride.

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Speaker 1: And if you want to follow on the socials at

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Speaker 1: late kick joshus where you can find me. And after

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Speaker 1: that you've had enough of me, because I've had enough

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Speaker 1: of myself. So for director Colin and producer Grishie back

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Speaker 1: in Nashville, Big Game, Dane is posted up on the

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Speaker 1: wall just behind the camera. For the sake of time,

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Speaker 1: I won't have him appear on cam, but I appreciate

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Speaker 1: him and now the rest of our crew here because

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Speaker 1: it has been a trying time trying to get things

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Speaker 1: together due to things out of our control earlier this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: but we got it done. Appreciate you guys tuning in live.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back same time Sunday night, normal time Sunday

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