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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Lake Kick Is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, December, fifth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: Jam Packed Wall the Wall. We're high Top downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: One of our most anticipated shows of the year on

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Speaker 1: an annual basis. We've got Conference Championship Saturday. Now in

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Speaker 1: the rear view mirror, I got about probably three quarters

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Speaker 1: of a voice, fresh off a trip from Atlanta overnight

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Speaker 1: to Nashville. We were on hand on the field for

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Speaker 1: the SEC championship game. Yeah, we've got plenty to say

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Speaker 1: about that. We've also got a full playoff field to

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Speaker 1: talk about. Got several thoughts about something that the expansionists

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Speaker 1: lied to you about and that was exposed today as

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Speaker 1: lies normally are. However, Slash unfortunately we lied on the show,

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Speaker 1: and so we have to expose our own lies in

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Speaker 1: the interest of fairness. If we're going to expose the expansionists,

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Speaker 1: we have to expose ourselves. So I'm gonna do that

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Speaker 1: with some visual evidence in mere moments. So we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about Alabama over Georgia. I have also got to talk

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Speaker 1: about one of the crazier days on the coaching carousel

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Speaker 1: and the thing about it is. No announcements have been

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Speaker 1: made official today, but we've got Brenton Venables maybe in

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Speaker 1: the air right now on the move. We've got Mario

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Speaker 1: christobul rumors everywhere from Eugene, Oregon, to Miami, Florida, and

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Speaker 1: everywhere in between. So that includes pretty much the entire

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Speaker 1: So it's a wild day there. I got playoff thoughts,

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Speaker 1: got all this to talk about, and we may even

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Speaker 1: have more before the show ends. As I said, we've

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Speaker 1: got a playoff field set. We don't have a renaissance

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Speaker 1: some things. I think there are advantages for us to

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Speaker 1: there are obvious advantages for us to go down to

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Speaker 1: announcement in the coming days. Make sure, though, I mean guys,

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Speaker 1: make sure you're following on Twitter and Instagram. At late Kick, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I want to commend a lot of you because you

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Speaker 1: peer pressured me and it worked. I was told for

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Speaker 1: two or three weeks you need to start doing Twitter

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Speaker 1: spaces do some Twitter spaces do Twitter spaces, And as

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Speaker 1: is the case with normal new things on those platforms,

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Speaker 1: I said, no, I'm good. I did a couple last weekend.

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Speaker 1: I did one last night at the SEC Championship game

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Speaker 1: with Greg sank No Less. Yes, most of you missed that,

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Speaker 1: but it was me and the SEC Commissioner talking one

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Speaker 1: on one for like ten minutes. So I'm addicted to

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Speaker 1: those now and so I'm want to start doing them more.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're following, and if you need to google

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Speaker 1: what a Twitter space is, do it. But they're very fun,

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Speaker 1: very interactive. It's kind of like a live podcast and

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Speaker 1: and it's all kind of in one nice little interface

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Speaker 1: they have there. So make sure you're following there. And

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Speaker 1: the other part that requires you to be following is

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Speaker 1: there's so much breaking news coming that I told Jesse

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Speaker 1: and Colin chances are we're gonna get off the air

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Speaker 1: tonight and by the time we get home there will

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Speaker 1: have already been something happen that we are mad we

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Speaker 1: of you do as I said, We've got a loaded

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Speaker 1: show tonight. Thank you so much. I mean, we've got

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Speaker 1: things we can talk about that I fully plan on

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Speaker 1: getting in throughout this week. Michigan cannot state in strong

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Speaker 1: enough terms. Congratulations to Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines

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Speaker 1: for totally turning everything around. It was this time last

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Speaker 1: at a reduced salary. He came back and had the

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Speaker 1: best season he's had so far at Michigan. And I'm

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Speaker 1: talking in the present tense because it's not even over yet.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about Michigan Georgia. Also Baylor. I

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Speaker 1: was standing in the bowels of Mercedes Benz Stadium watching

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Speaker 1: that game wrap up the Big twelve Championship game as

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Speaker 1: and Wow, what an ending. And Dave Randa in Hannibal

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Speaker 1: eighty the entire time that his team is making one

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Speaker 1: Alabama forty one, Georgia twenty four. These two teams played

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Speaker 1: last year, and they played last night, and really all

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Speaker 1: the exact same. I love the SEC Championship game. Those

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Speaker 1: you know I grew up in Georgia, but right on

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Speaker 1: So it was phenomenal to be there last night. It

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Speaker 1: always is. But now I gotta be real with you,

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Speaker 1: this was one of the most painful nights of my life. Professionally,

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Speaker 1: at the very least, it was one of the most

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Speaker 1: He fooled me, Alabama fooled me, And a lot of

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Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be them. A lot of them,

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Speaker 1: a lot of hashtag the casuals. They picked Georgia to win,

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Speaker 1: some of them picked Georgia to cover, and they kind

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Speaker 1: of said it nonchalantly, Bama didn't have it this year, YadA, YadA, YadA,

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Speaker 1: And that's okay, that's all well and good. The casual

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Speaker 1: here to punish myself. So I brought a visual aid.

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Speaker 1: and this is what happens when you doubt Nick Saban

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Speaker 1: and Alabama. So I am sorry. I am sorry Nick Saban,

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Speaker 1: to use that prop again. What happened last night, I

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Speaker 1: will tell you what happened. Friends. The freeze point got met.

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Speaker 1: You know, the freeze point. We've talked about it for

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Speaker 1: Neither is ever going to freeze. Conversely, well, actually similarly,

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Speaker 1: another Bryce Young on Georgia's schedule. Now, this wasn't a mystery,

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Speaker 1: up until last night, at least a very subpar offensive

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Speaker 1: and yet Bryce Young has been phenomenal. He is your

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Speaker 1: what was it Jesse minus four thousand Jukes favorite now

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Speaker 1: to win the Heisman translation, that's over he numbers if

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Speaker 1: beat you soundly. Like I said, same score as last

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Speaker 1: year in Tuscaloosa. The only thing that changes really is

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Speaker 1: the venue. So obviously we've got a lot more to

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Speaker 1: talk about when it comes to both these teams, and

431
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Speaker 1: they're still alive. We go into the playoff. Now, this

432
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Speaker 1: is not something that just wears off over twenty four

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Speaker 1: to forty eight hours. Though for Georgia. If you've got

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Speaker 1: a whole different set of cards that you can draw

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Speaker 1: from with Alabama, but with Georgia, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: the locker room is affected. I can assure you the

437
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Speaker 1: we're in the back of their mind creep into the

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Speaker 1: is our year. We just got beat. So one of

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Speaker 1: our goals is out the window. Now, I mean, what

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Speaker 1: if we don't beat Michigan, or if we do get

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Speaker 1: back to the title game and it's Alabama there, what

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Speaker 1: What a busy Sunday. This, like I said, is one

490
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Speaker 1: of the most anticipated Sundays in the college football calendar

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Speaker 1: because there's so much happening. So the college football playoff

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Speaker 1: field is set. Now We've got, of course Alabama versus Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: That's your one four matchup, and you've also got Georgia

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Speaker 1: and Michigan the two to three matchup. It's a tough

495
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Speaker 1: tough day, though, you know you know what I mean?

496
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Speaker 1: Do you? Yeah? I think you do know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough day for the expansionists out there because

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Speaker 1: the expansionists saw another one of their lies get shattered.

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Speaker 1: And that lie, of course was no G five team

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Speaker 1: will ever make the playoff. Well, I see that Cincinnati

501
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Speaker 1: Bearcat logo there, and I can assure you Jesse and

502
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Speaker 1: Collin didn't put it in there just for entertainment purposes.

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Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bearcats are in the playoff, another expansionist myth exposed.

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Speaker 1: And you would think, therefore that the expansionists are thrilled.

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Speaker 2: They got to be over the moon excited, right, The

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Speaker 2: expansionists should be out in the middle of the street

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Speaker 2: throwing a parade, because why because their dreams were granted.

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Speaker 1: They've been turned into a reality. Now. Of course, by dreams,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're longing for a G five team to

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Speaker 1: be included. That's what this has all been about. Right.

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Speaker 1: The entire premise of needing to expand the playoff is

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Speaker 1: because the G five's they don't have access and we

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Speaker 1: wanted new blood. Well there you go. You're looking right now,

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Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube at the playoff field, I

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Speaker 1: count two and out of force stats and info tells

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Speaker 1: me that is fifty percent of this playoff field is

517
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Speaker 1: not only new blood, but mixed within the new blood.

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Speaker 1: You've got G five blood, that pure G five blood.

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Speaker 1: And yet all I've seen is complaining from the expansionists today.

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Speaker 1: Why is that because they were lying to you all along.

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Speaker 1: Not only were they giving the big lie, which was

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Speaker 1: the G five is not allowed in the playoff. No,

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Speaker 1: there's a difference between has not been in and cannot

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Speaker 1: be in. That myth has been exposed, but the much

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Speaker 1: bigger myth. And the reason I've always had a problem

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Speaker 1: with the expansionists is because it's never really been about

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Speaker 1: what they say it's about. Those were some convenient talking

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Speaker 1: points to get you in line with their thinking. All

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Speaker 1: this has ever been about, at the very top of

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Speaker 1: the latter at least, has been about expansion for the

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Speaker 1: sake of inclusion, merely for the sake of inclusion, which

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Speaker 1: ultimately means a paycheck. Now you may think, oh, everyone

533
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Speaker 1: says is always about the money. Well, that's because it

534
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Speaker 1: usually is always about the money. But that wasn't the trick.

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Speaker 1: The trick wasn't a lot of people with already deep

536
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Speaker 1: pockets wanting more and wanting deeper pockets. That's happened since

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Speaker 1: the beginning of time. The trick was they had to

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Speaker 1: get you on board. And so what do they say, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: help us get richer. Of course not what.

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Speaker 2: They say is don't you care about the underdog? Don't

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Speaker 2: you care about these poor innocent G fives left out

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Speaker 2: in the cold.

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Speaker 1: These are kids too. These players have hearts and souls

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Speaker 1: and they work as hard as those Alabama players. And

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Speaker 1: how dare you support this evil four team infrastructure that's

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Speaker 1: going to leave them out in the cold. They pivoted today,

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Speaker 1: and they've long since pivoted once they saw that this

548
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Speaker 1: was becoming more and more possibility, and they're nowhere to

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Speaker 1: be found. You notice none of the expansionists we're out

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Speaker 1: there really taking much of a victory lab today. In fact,

551
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Speaker 1: we on link kick are taking more of a victory

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Speaker 1: lap than they are. Because it was on this program.

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Speaker 1: I should have loaded this video up. It was on

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Speaker 1: this very program on July eighteenth, The Ear of Our

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Speaker 1: Lord twenty twenty one, where yours truly with the endorsement

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Speaker 1: of Jesse and Colin, at least I think so. They

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Speaker 1: didn't tell me they disagreed we said on this show,

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Speaker 1: and I maintained all year. I never wavered that if

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bearcats were undefeated, they would be in the

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Speaker 1: college football Playoff. Well, friends, fast forward spoiler alert. If

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Speaker 1: you recorded the game yesterday, the Cincinnati Bearcats went undefeated,

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Speaker 1: and they are now in the College Football Playoff, making

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Speaker 1: it the first time a G five team has ever

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Speaker 1: made an en My buddy Parker, misguided though he may be.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes he has a good heart, good intentions, but poor

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Speaker 1: takes on the playoffs sometimes. I saw him say today

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, he said, make no mistake, no glass ceiling

568
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Speaker 1: was broken here. The only reason Cincinnati's m is because

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Speaker 1: other teams lost and they had no other shot but

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Speaker 1: to put him in. That's accurate, that is actually true.

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Speaker 1: It's just I don't get the point. That's always been

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Speaker 1: the path for a G five team. It's the reason

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Speaker 1: that I said what I said about Cincinnati this year.

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Speaker 1: It was because I thought so many dominoes were going

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Speaker 1: to be knocked down because of the hashtag renaissance season,

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Speaker 1: that there was gonna be an open path, at least

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Speaker 1: wide open enough where if a G five team, in

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Speaker 1: this case Cincinnati, took care of their business, they were

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Speaker 1: gonna make it in. Well one did, and one made

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Speaker 1: it in. That should always be the path for a

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Speaker 1: G five team. Fact number one, Cincinnati's in the playoff,

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Speaker 1: and I think they deserve to be in this year.

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Speaker 1: Fact number two, no other G five teams ever made

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Speaker 1: it in, nor in my opinion, has any other G

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Speaker 1: five team ever deserved to be in When we weigh

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Speaker 1: all the criteria and we weigh to me what is pivotal,

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Speaker 1: which is strength of schedule and the baseline that you

588
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Speaker 1: need to meet to even be involved in this conversation,

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Speaker 1: and see when we measure the rest of the landscape,

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Speaker 1: you can go back to your Central Florida examples all

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Speaker 1: you want to, or even go back further than that.

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Speaker 1: The fact of the matter, I guess, a fact in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, is we haven't had a landscape like this.

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Speaker 1: This is the landscape you needed. Cincinnati got the landscape.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you some quick thoughts. Obviously we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do full game breakdowns on both of these. I gotta

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Speaker 1: choose which one of these games to go to, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need some assistance there. Yes, there is a

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Speaker 1: draw to being in South Florida on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 1: There is also a draw to being in a game

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Speaker 1: that starts at three thirty pm on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 1: And I think you know what the draw is for me.

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Speaker 1: I am not a social butterfly like some of you.

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Speaker 1: I would just assume be thirty five thousand feet over

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Speaker 1: Arkansas when the new year rings in, as opposed to

606
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Speaker 1: being wherever you guys are going to be in Dallas.

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00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: So we got to figure that out. We got time.

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Speaker 1: First matchup is three point thirty Eastern Time on Friday,

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Speaker 1: December thirty first, the last day in the year of

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Speaker 1: our Lord, as it turns out, twenty twenty one. I

611
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Speaker 1: am a believer that there is a perfect atmospheric scientific

612
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: metaphor a fancy term for weather that ties into Alabama

613
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Speaker 1: being allowed in the playoff. You don't want to allow

614
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: a vulnerable Alabama team to get in the playoff. You

615
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: want to blame someone. Blame Georgia. They had a shot.

616
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: Blame Auburn. They had a shot, and they didn't. They

617
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Speaker 1: didn't fully take the crowbar to the shin. They just

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00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: grazed them and so Alabama limped around. But then they

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Speaker 1: got their footing back and kick both of them in

620
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Speaker 1: the face. Well, now Alabama's in the playoff, and the

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Speaker 1: weather EQUIPMV of this is when you're looking down in

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Speaker 1: the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, You've got a disorganized,

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Speaker 1: low pressure system. But what happens it gets into the Gulf,

624
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Speaker 1: and it gets into the Gulf in early to mid

625
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Speaker 1: September when it's as warm as bathwater and you haven't

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Speaker 1: had any upwelling translation when another system has come through

627
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Speaker 1: and churned the water up and brought some of the

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Speaker 1: cooler water up to the surface, and so there's just

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Speaker 1: that warm, moist surface layer, and it's a perfect fueling

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Speaker 1: environment for a tropical storm or a hurricane. Well, once

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Speaker 1: an injured Alabama gets through the SEC Championship game, and

632
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: once a vulnerable offensive line finds its way in the

633
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Speaker 1: SEC Championship game, now you let him get into the Gulf,

634
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: which in college football playoff world is December. Now, they've

635
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Speaker 1: got a few weeks to get healthy, and they've got

636
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Speaker 1: a few weeks to get Brian Robbinson one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: And they've got a few weeks and this is going

638
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Speaker 1: to be crucial. This is one of the biggest points

639
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: in this game to get that wide receiver core fixed

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Speaker 1: the way it needs to be with some of those

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Speaker 1: younger guys, because John Metchi is not going to play

642
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Speaker 1: in this game. He is a great receiver for them,

643
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: but his hidden skill and the reason he's on the

644
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: field so much for him is he is their best

645
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Speaker 1: perimeter blocker. You know, he is what a lot of

646
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: those guys in years past have been. I don't think

647
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: he's got enough credit for that, but a lot of

648
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Speaker 1: what you've seen Jameson Williams do this year in the

649
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: open field has been the cause of John Metchi. So

650
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be a JI hauled.

651
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: Jacory Brooks has already been on the field. Jojo Earl,

652
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: according to Nick Saban, may be available in this game.

653
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: You got Christian Leary. They can get creative with him.

654
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: That's something to watch here. Cincinnati, Hey, I think is

655
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: better at quarterback than Georgia was. Desmond Ritter is a

656
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: very good quarterback. Jerome Ford, a former Alabama player, transferred

657
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. He was on my All American list I

658
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: filled out today. He was one of the four running

659
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Speaker 1: backs I put on my All American lists. Yeah. I

660
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys knew that I do fill

661
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: out an All American list. But here's the thing I

662
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,959
Speaker 1: want to focus on. Amad Gardner nickname Sauce. You will

663
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: hear that name, and that's a guy that is going

664
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Speaker 1: to have, maybe by some opinions, the unenviable task or maybe,

665
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: in his opinion, a welcome challenge of trying to man

666
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: up against Jamison Williams Now is a tall task for anyone.

667
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Speaker 1: There are some race horses that I would not like

668
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: in that matchup. But at the very least, Cincinnati will

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Speaker 1: look at that and they'll say, Okay, we're gonna make

670
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Speaker 1: someone other than number one beat us. We've got a

671
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Speaker 1: guy that can greatly help us there. If they cannot

672
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Speaker 1: fill the void of John Metchi, and maybe if we

673
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Speaker 1: can limit them running the ball, then maybe we give

674
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Speaker 1: ourselves a shot here. But the wide receiver depth is

675
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: what I'm focused on with Alabama the most. What about Georgia.

676
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: How about these Dynamics. By the way, Georgia is playing Michigan.

677
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: This is the two to three game, this is in Miami,

678
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: it's the late kickoff. It is seven to thirty Eastern

679
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: time on New Year's Eve, and Georgia opens as a

680
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: seven and a half point favorite. When I mentioned Dynamics,

681
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: the reason I'm mentioning them is because Georgia finds themselves

682
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: as it relates to Michigan in the exact same spot

683
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: they found themselves in relation to Alabama last night. The

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Speaker 1: difference is instead of telling a team for one week

685
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Speaker 1: that you don't have much of a shot, Michigan gets

686
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: three weeks to be told they don't have much of

687
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: a shot. I've seen Michigan in person two times this year.

688
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: You watch them bodybag Iowa last night in front of

689
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: God and everyone on National TV. I can assure you

690
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Speaker 1: Michigan does have a shot against Georgia. Now, what specifically

691
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Speaker 1: is it going to take. Well, obviously we'll do that

692
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: more in our game breakdown. But Georgia, they're gonna have

693
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Speaker 1: to run the ball better, regardless of who starts at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The talking for the rest of December right on through

695
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Speaker 1: Christmas is going to be JT. Daniels. J T. Daniels,

696
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Speaker 1: J T. Daniels. Are we gonna get him ready? Because

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Speaker 1: we can't be put stets bending out there. Listen, if

698
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Speaker 1: you're barely cracking one hundred yards on the ground, I

699
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: don't really care who you have out there. And Michigan

700
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: is a salty defense. They can get pressure with four,

701
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Speaker 1: but they can also limit you on the ground. This

702
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Speaker 1: is not going to be an easy matchup at all

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Speaker 1: for Georgia Michigan. When you look at them offensively. I

704
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Speaker 1: think they've evolved fairly rapidly this year. They kind of

705
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: had a little bit of an Oklahoma State vibe to them,

706
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: only Michigan is a better team than Oklahoma State, but

707
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 1: both of those teams were getting by early and then

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00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: they started to get some margin on teams a little

709
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: bit later in the year. Oklahoma States still didn't have

710
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Speaker 1: much of an offense. Michigan's got a pretty good offense.

711
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: They can have balance, they can achieve real life balance,

712
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: not just fifty to fifty on a piece of paper.

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Speaker 1: But it's all about the response from Georgia. I think

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Speaker 1: this is more about Georgia than Michigan. But I think

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Speaker 1: I am more fascinated by Michigan than Georgia response. For Georgia,

716
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: like I said, when they go in there last night,

717
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: they know they have a safety net under them. They

718
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: know they can lose to Alabama and they can still

719
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: make this game. Yeah, they know all that, but it's

720
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: still about response because now there is no more safety net.

721
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: Now it's do or Diet's playoff setting and there's as

722
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: much uncertainty around this Georgia team now as there has

723
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 1: been all year. And it's weird that your uncertainty peaks

724
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: in December. But that's what happens when you don't play

725
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: a schedule that's built to expose you. Necessarily. Not saying

726
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: it was a week schedule, I'm saying relative to the

727
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Speaker 1: one Bama played, that may have been weaker. There's some

728
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Speaker 1: people trying to hate on Georgia's schedule. They played Arkansas,

729
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: they played Kentucky, they played Clemson, and I can assure

730
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Speaker 1: you if a G five team had played those three,

731
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: you would be yelling it from the mountaintops. Georgia playing

732
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Speaker 1: an Okay schedule not the strongest in the world. They

733
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Speaker 1: playing in an Okay schedule they did and play quarterbacks

734
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: or wide receiver units that were built to expose them

735
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: Bama did. Now we'll see what Michigan can do. But

736
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Speaker 1: that external dynamic, the one that we can't quantify, the

737
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Speaker 1: one Nick Sabin smiled and talked about last night in

738
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Speaker 1: the post game, that yummy rat poison, as he put it,

739
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: Michigan gets it for three weeks. They get to look,

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Speaker 1: at least right now, at a number even fatter than

741
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Speaker 1: the one in the SEC championship game last night. It

742
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Speaker 1: was six and a half. Now George is favored by

743
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: seven and a half. That's gonna be a fun one.

744
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: There's at least a fifty percent chance will be there.

745
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a fun one. Those are some early

746
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: thoughts on the playoff. Be very interested to hear what

747
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: you guys had to say. Did you notice, as it

748
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: turned out, there was really no gnashing of teeth today.

749
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: Everyone pretty much agreed. Maybe not in the ordering exactly,

750
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: but I think most people even agreed in the ordering

751
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: and the committee. I'll give it to him. It wasn't

752
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: that hard to do this year. This makes well every

753
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: year so far that I think they've gotten the field right.

754
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: So as much complaining as I do, sometimes the end

755
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: result I have agreed with. And so I don't have

756
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: a poster over here like I did for the Nick

757
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: Saban apology, but thank you committee, thank you for that.

758
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: I got about thirty five hundred of you wow tuned

759
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: in live, So let me go and say hi, thank

760
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 1: you for that. And also make sure you are subscribed

761
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: to the channel. If you're here right now, you might

762
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: as well do it. You don't have anything better to do,

763
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: because I'm about to shut up for like three seconds

764
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: and let you do it. Subscribe. It's still a little

765
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: red button. It's free, doesn't cost anything. We had a

766
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Speaker 1: massive spike in subscriptions when I merely asked you for

767
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: it last week. So for those of you who didn't already,

768
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: please do and thank you. Somebody said, Hi, Ryan, Hi, Mike, Hi,

769
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: thank you guys. Hi Hi. This is interactivity at it's

770
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: very peate, guys. So here was our conundrum today, right

771
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: up until showtime. I do the show live. I don't

772
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: ever want to pre record the show. We are live

773
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: as live can be right now. Now. Obviously that has

774
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: its pitfalls, and the pitfalls are this time of year,

775
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: especially after Conference Championship Saturday. Anything could happen in the

776
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: coaching world. Anything and everything is on the table. So

777
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: the entire production team we had to huddle around today

778
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: in the only air conditioned room in this whole building.

779
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: Right now, it's all of like seven months old, so

780
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: it stands to reason the AC doesn't work anymore. But

781
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: we had to huddle around and we had to talk

782
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: about what's going to happen with Mario Crystabal, how do

783
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: we handle this on the show tonight? And even as

784
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: I sit here right now, there's really not a great

785
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,479
Speaker 1: game plan on how to handle it. And so here's

786
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: what we know, Colin. I doubt we'll even be able

787
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: to post this video because probably going to be dated

788
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: by in the morning. But here's what we know right

789
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: now with Mario Cristobal Mario crystabal reportedly, I'm gonna use

790
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: that word emphatically, reportedly, and it ain't me reporting it. Reportedly,

791
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: Mario Christobaul has been an extended and very very deep

792
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: discussions with Miami to take over as the Hurricanes head coach. Now,

793
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: some of you out there who don't live in this world,

794
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: and you just live in a normal world, but you're

795
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: privy to the inner workings here. You may say, how

796
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: can he be a candidate for a job that's not available. Well,

797
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: the answer to that is Miami or I guess the

798
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: better answer is college football. That's the only way I

799
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: can explain that. So, you got a guy right now

800
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: that is the current holder of a position and his

801
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: employer is saying, stay right there, don't move. But if

802
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: we go get someone that we like better than you,

803
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: then we're going to tell you to move. Got it. Okay,

804
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: that's the situation at Miami right now. I'm not one

805
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: to tell someone how to run their house. I have

806
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: been one that has been a little bit wrong, maybe

807
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: maybe wrong on this. I am going to save that

808
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: ful media cull before if Slash win this is made official,

809
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,479
Speaker 1: because again, as of you know, we're seven thirty seven

810
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: Central time right now, and we don't have anything firm

811
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: and definitive and official out of the mouths of anyone

812
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: we're ready to run with. I can tell you if

813
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 1: this does happen, if Mario does leave Oregon from Miami,

814
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: it will have come as a surprise to me. When

815
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: I say come as a surprise, I don't mean at

816
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: this moment. Obviously I see the smoke. Obviously you can

817
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: read tea leaves. But in a general sense, this will

818
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: have come as a big surprise to me. You guys

819
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: know I was very outspoken on this about what a

820
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 1: month or a month and a half ago. We still

821
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: have the video. I've seen Twitter today. I know a

822
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: lot of you still have that video. I'm not going

823
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: to run from that. Don't you worry. I'm not going

824
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: to delete that or anything, and if I did, you

825
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: probably saved it already. Anyway, We'll own it, and I

826
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Speaker 1: will talk at length about what was wrong that we said,

827
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: and where it was wrong and why it was wrong,

828
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Speaker 1: or maybe some parts that were at the moment right

829
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: and then things changed, and that would all be complimentary

830
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: towards Miami. If this happens, though, this is a landscape

831
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: changer in South Florida, because you have to understand something.

832
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,760
Speaker 1: If Mario goes to Miami, it's not just him moving,

833
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: it coincides with fundamental changes that have been promised about

834
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: the program. And that's the biggest takeaway here. It's not

835
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: just we got our guy. He's coming home. For those

836
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: unfamiliar Mario cristaball played at Miami, It's not just that.

837
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: It's what it took to get him there and what

838
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: it will take to get Mario cristabaal. There would obviously

839
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Speaker 1: be massive promises on investment in facility upgrades. You'll have

840
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: a huge salary pool. Obviously, it would probably require an

841
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: extensive promise on nil infrastructure. Same kind of thing Texas

842
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: is doing right now, same kind of thing Southern Cow's

843
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: doing right now. Same thing a lot of programs are

844
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: doing behind the scenes. And I want to pause. I

845
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: know you see headlines sometimes this school's doing this, this

846
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: school's doing that a lot of them are doing it, guys,

847
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: it's just not everyone puts a press release out about it.

848
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: So it's not just Texas, for example, that's doing a

849
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: version what you saw last week with that whole ten

850
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Speaker 1: million dollar budget for NIL. I'm not saying everyone's putting

851
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Speaker 1: ten million in the conference. I'm saying a lot of

852
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: programs are doing versions of that. Well, Miami would be

853
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: doing at the very least a version of that. And

854
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: also because of that, if you get him home, that's

855
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: the game changer in recruiting, obviously that we've been looking for,

856
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: and by we I even mean me in this case.

857
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: We've been looking for someone to come in and lock

858
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: in more of the in state talent in the state

859
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: of Florida. Could have been in Gainesville, could have been

860
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: in Tallahassee, could have been in core Gables. Ideally more

861
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: than one of the three. But every year, as we

862
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: talked about that, you watch Nick Saban or Dabos Swiney

863
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: or Ryan Day come into South Florida and have more

864
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: success than the in state programs. Is one more day

865
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: further away from parody you are in college football. That's

866
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: been the secret. The secret's not expanding the playoff. The

867
00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: secret's not lowering scholarship numbers, none of that garbage. That's

868
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: all cosmetic, and the big boys will find a way

869
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: around it anyway. They're going into South Florida and taking

870
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: the talent. You got to cut off the pipeline from

871
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: leaking out of state, at least as much as you can.

872
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: A higher light, Mario Cristaball begins to go a long

873
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: way and doing that. Hopefully other programs keep up their

874
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: end of the deal too. None of this is official, though,

875
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: So we got adot the eyes, we got to cross

876
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: the t's. My best guess is there's far too much

877
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: smoke here for there to not be any fire. But again,

878
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 1: we've seen eleventh hour changes of heart before, so we

879
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: just gotta make sure before we run with this. But

880
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: right now I think there's a lot of reason for optimism. Now. Listen,

881
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: this puts immense pressure on Mario Cristaball. They finished the

882
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: season very poorly this year, and I don't think he'd

883
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: argue that. Of course, you could counter now we know

884
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: what's been going on behind the scenes, and maybe you

885
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: could argue with me, and I don't know that I

886
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,439
Speaker 1: would disagree. Maybe that was a factor for his team

887
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: checking out on it. Maybe he wasn't all in. Is

888
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,720
Speaker 1: that excuse making? Yes it is. Are some excuses viable?

889
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: Yes they are. So we'll see dot dot We'll see

890
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: on Mario Chris Baul. There is another coaching carousel. Bit

891
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: of smoke that has turned into more of I would

892
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: say bombfire to a forest fire. This is my favorite thing.

893
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: When Jesse walts in the studio, all right, timely, timely, Okay,

894
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: So you see this, this piece of paper wetting on

895
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: the desk two minutes ago. According to Pete Thamil and

896
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman, brent Vinnibles and Oklahoma have finalized the deal.

897
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,959
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman and Pete Thamil are names we can rely

898
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: on here, and so we know now Brenton Venables is

899
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: headed to Oklahoma as the new head coach. So what

900
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is, for a second, I'm gonna pause.

901
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm gonna pause is because when we're

902
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: gonna put this video up, I know what you guys

903
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: are gonna do. You were gonna say we had the

904
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: wrong lower third. And so for the sake of the

905
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: live audience, bear with me for five seconds so that

906
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: we can get production and get our lower third up

907
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: the way we want it. This is a big deal though,

908
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: So this has been going on for a few days.

909
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley was fired the way he didn't get fired.

910
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: He left, and this was about a week ago. And

911
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: it's been an eternity in Norman. It has been an

912
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: eternity in Oklahoma. But now here we go. So Colin,

913
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: here's your endpoint. Bruce Feldman and Pete Famill both reporting

914
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: at this hour on Sunday night. At long last, Brenton

915
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 1: Vinables and Oklahoma have finalized a deal. Brent Vinnables, long

916
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: time Clemson defensive coordinator, will become Oklahoma's new head coach.

917
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: College football coaching searches are just phenomenal. They're great. I

918
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't have it any other way. This coaching search feels

919
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: like it's been going on a long time. It's only

920
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: been a week since Lincoln Riley said, bye, I'm going

921
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: to Baton Rouge. Scratch that, I'm going to Los Angeles,

922
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: and the coaching search it barely had time to get

923
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: off the ground. But yet you've had thirty seven updates

924
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 1: from all the different websites that cover Oklahoma, and you've

925
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: had hundreds to thousands in those Twitter spaces that even

926
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: got my attention talking about this. But finally, now we

927
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: know it's going to be Brenton Vinibles. Here's what I

928
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 1: love about coaching searches. Let me give you a little

929
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: inside baseball or inside football if it were in the

930
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: world of college football coaching searches. You're looking for one

931
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: of three telltale signs that you got your guy. One

932
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: of those telltale signs could be a screenshot from flyaware

933
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: dot com. The second could be inside information from a

934
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: cousin's buddy who's a real estate agent in the potential

935
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: market that the coach is moving to, at which point

936
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: you will be told the head coach's wife is already

937
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: there looking at apartments or maybe even looking at houses.

938
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: But that's not what we got today. I got to

939
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: give tiger Net credit. They got the scoop finally hiding

940
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: in some form of bush or tree. They got us

941
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: the critical third potential piece of evidence, and that is

942
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: a sketchy photo from someone's backyard on their lake house

943
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: with a moving dumpster already on the driveway. That is Joekstiglion,

944
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,479
Speaker 1: who is the ad at Oklahoma. And that is Brent

945
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: and Venables, and they're wearing suits, and you know, good

946
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: and well, no one wears suit to go eat porridge

947
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: or talk about what they're going to do for Christmas.

948
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: They are negotiating a contract and as it turns out,

949
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: that contract has been finalized again. According to Pete Thamil

950
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: and Bruce Feldman, if this is true, which we assume

951
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: it is, now, that means Oklahoma has accomplished two major goals.

952
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: I love the picture, by the way, I would love

953
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: to do the rest of the show. You got castigli owned,

954
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: you got Brent Vinnables in a giant red dumpster. I'm

955
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: trying to paint the picture for those of you listening

956
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: on podcasts. So they're accomplishing I think two of their

957
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: major goals here. The first is they got someone who

958
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: is intimately familiar with Oklahoma. Brent Vinnables was at Oklahoma

959
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: for a long time before he ended up going to Clemson.

960
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: The second box I think they checked, which may take

961
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: you by surprise, is I think they got a guy

962
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: with adequate experience. Now you may look at that and

963
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: you may say, what are you talking about. He hadn't

964
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: been a head coach, he doesn't have experience. That's true.

965
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: He has been around one of the best though in

966
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: Daboswinty and Brent Vinables has himself sort of been the

967
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: face of that program to a degree. I know it's different.

968
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: I know it's different coordinating a defense as opposed to

969
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: running a program. I'm not saying he's fully up speed,

970
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: well versed on every intricate detail that it takes to

971
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: run an organization. But I also don't think he's totally green.

972
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: I think he's been able to observe. I think he's

973
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: probably learned a lot. So you combine that with the familiarity,

974
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: I think in those categories it's a good match. I

975
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: still have question about just the fit overall. Fit has

976
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: been the word of the month, but they do have

977
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: reasons to have some question, or at least I do.

978
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: I say they may have all their questions answered, but

979
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: recruiting wise, you don't know until you know. Really it's

980
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: different when you go into a living room and you've

981
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: got a Tiger Paul on your polo but you're representing

982
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: someone else's program, versus going in there with that Ou

983
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: on your polo but you're representing your program. They're no

984
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,919
Speaker 1: longer going to play for Debos Swinny and you, they're

985
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: coming to play for you. So we sit here and

986
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: it kinds to remain to be seen how Brenton Vinables

987
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: will do from a recruiting aspect leading an organization. You

988
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: can't know until you know. You know how he leads

989
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: a defense. You know the feedback and the testimonials, but

990
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: we've never seen him lead an entire organization, and you

991
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: can't know that. That's the risk you take. They are

992
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: willing to accept that risk at Oklahoma. The third and

993
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: the most important I say this. Anytime we're bringing a

994
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: guy up from G five, like Billy Napier to Florida,

995
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: or in this case, we're bringing a guy who is

996
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: a coordinator into the head coaches chair, I don't give

997
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: it a grade. I don't even formulate a full opinion

998
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: until I see the staff. I mean, we've got a

999
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,479
Speaker 1: lot of rumors out there right now about potentially Jeff

1000
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: Levy at Old miss who, according to some is the

1001
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: straw that has stirred the drink there this year. Offensively,

1002
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: maybe he goes to Norman as new OC. Joe Brady

1003
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: got the can today at the Carolina Panthers and so

1004
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: maybe him. I don't think that may be a little

1005
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: more far fetched than you think, but Jeff Levy's been

1006
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: a hot name there. There's some people who already think

1007
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: that's done again. That could change by the time we

1008
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: go off. Air is critical, and not just assistance and

1009
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: on field guys. You got to get your director of

1010
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,919
Speaker 1: player personnel in there. You've got to get an entire

1011
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: sports science team and there it is critical that Brent

1012
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: Vinnables nails the sports science and nutrition aspect of his program.

1013
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff's boring to talk about, and you

1014
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: never see these people. I can assure you. I was

1015
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: on the field last night after Bama beat Georgia, and

1016
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: a lot of those names and faces that you may

1017
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: not know but are critical to making that program run,

1018
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: that were critical to some of those players even being

1019
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,439
Speaker 1: able to get on the field last night. You got

1020
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: to have them. If you're going to compete with the

1021
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: Alabamas and Georgia's, you got to have personnel, and you

1022
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: got to have a massive army of a staff like

1023
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: they have. And to do that, you got to know

1024
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: how to build it, and you've also got to know

1025
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: who to go after. You got to have their trust too.

1026
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: Here's the third part that would concern me about any

1027
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: new hire. This is not even Briton Venables. Think about

1028
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: how much the landscape's changed right now. Think about what

1029
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 1: you have to have in house when it comes to nil,

1030
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: but also what you have to have in house when

1031
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,720
Speaker 1: it comes to the trend for portal. You've got coaching

1032
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: staffs now that have college scouting departments that didn't exist

1033
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: five years ago. By that, I mean there are people

1034
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: in your organization whose specific job it is to be

1035
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: scouting college players because at any time they could go

1036
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: in the portal and it's no different than NFL free agency.

1037
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: Well you didn't used to have that, and now you

1038
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 1: do have to have it. Listen, Venables just left Clemson

1039
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: Daboswiney struggling to adjust on this, and Dabo's been at

1040
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: it for a long time and won a couple of titles.

1041
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: This stuff's not easy, So I think building a program

1042
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 1: now is probably harder than it's ever been, just because

1043
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: there are more layers that you have to build. But

1044
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: I'll say this now, if a lot of folks out

1045
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,959
Speaker 1: there in Oklahoma are using the H word hate towards

1046
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, I'm sure, you guys don't mean it, But

1047
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: for argument's sake, if you do hate Lincoln Riley, you'll

1048
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: probably love Briton Venables because they are total opposites, at

1049
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: least from a personality and an approach to life standpoint,

1050
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: they are total opposites. I was over on OEU Insider

1051
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: today and I saw probably my face favorite quote of

1052
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: the month so far, and that quote was from Iowa

1053
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: Sooner three eight seven and he said Lincoln Riley was

1054
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: like the corvette you can't drive in the winter. Well,

1055
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: I can assure you, Brent Vinnibles has chains on the tires.

1056
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: He's got four wheel drive, and not the optional kind

1057
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: that you have to shift into and come to a

1058
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: complete stop. He can drive around in the winter. He's

1059
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: a guy that's very no nonsense. Probably not gonna be

1060
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: the most friendly. If you run into him in a

1061
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Speaker 1: coffee shop, probably get someone to go get his coffee

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Speaker 1: for him. But he has been around winners. They are

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Speaker 1: betting that he knows how to win. I'll be interested

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Speaker 1: in watching this. I just think it's refreshing to see

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Speaker 1: defensive names getting shots at big head coaching positions in

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Speaker 1: a conference that just a few years ago people thought

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Speaker 1: would never be the case anymore. No one's ever going

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Speaker 1: to hire a defensive guy out here anymore. Well, the

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Speaker 1: names that were bent eed around a lot for this

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Speaker 1: job were Dan Lanning, Head coaching or DC at Georgia

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Speaker 1: and Brent Vinibles DC at Clemson. So because of the

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Speaker 1: nature of Brent Vimbles, the OC hire there is going

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Speaker 1: to be very, very pivotal. A good show tonight. You know,

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Speaker 1: in some cases we know no more than we open

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Speaker 1: the show with keep it locked on Twitter at Late

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Speaker 1: Kick Josh. Obviously, if something breaks with christ Ball to Miami,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a lot to say. I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: a lot of apologizing to dude, but I'll have a

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Speaker 1: lot to say. So that's the place to be. There's

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Speaker 1: a ton of stuff happening in this time of year,

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Speaker 1: so make sure you're following there at Late Kick Josh

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Speaker 1: for Jesse Colin our entire crew here, I'm Josh Paton.

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Speaker 1: Have a great start to your week. We've got some

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Speaker 1: interesting things coming up this week. You'll know when it's

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Speaker 1: time to know. Until then, have a great week and

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Speaker 1: God bless