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Speaker 1: where NFL writers swoop in to school us simpletons on

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Speaker 1: and it is Sunday night, June fourth, the year of

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Speaker 1: our Lawer twenty twenty three. One of the worst articles

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Speaker 1: we have ever spent time on this show talking about

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Speaker 1: for a documentary of the University of Florida circa six

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Speaker 1: We'll see where that one stacks up. We have got

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Speaker 1: the launch of one of producer Jesse's brain children tonight.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many of those things are running

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Speaker 1: They're watching this in West Lake Ohio. Satellite Beach Florida

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Speaker 1: is tuned in Southington, Connecticut, Boiling Springs, South Carolina. Thank

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Speaker 1: could know. We're gonna be live from Miami, the University

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Speaker 1: the college football press, starring yours truly. We're headed down

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Speaker 1: Bold Prediction time. What do you believe in so much

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Speaker 1: this fall that you would bet your own hard earned

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Speaker 1: money or perhaps your parents hard earned money on Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you where we went. Immediately to start chapter

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Speaker 1: six of Bold Predictions College Station, Texas, Adam said, point blank, Texas,

431
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Speaker 1: A and M wins under six games and Jimbo gets

432
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Speaker 1: fired at the end of the season. Adam actually hails

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Speaker 1: from Radford, Virginia. Well, these are as correlated as it

434
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Speaker 1: gets normally. I don't care for it when you guys

435
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Speaker 1: go with like double and triple predictions in one tweet

436
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Speaker 1: because it just messes up my branking system. But A

437
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Speaker 1: and M winning fewer than six games and Jimbo being

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Speaker 1: fired or they're correlated. Vegas would never let you parlay this,

439
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Speaker 1: and I'd never let you parlay anything because we don't

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Speaker 1: believe in parlays. I'm gonna make this an eight and

441
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Speaker 1: a half, not crazy Jimbo wins under six games and

442
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Speaker 1: he gets fired. Not crazy, not expected, but not crazy.

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Speaker 1: Eight and a half. They're over underwin total is also

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Speaker 1: eight and a half. As it turns out, there were

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Speaker 1: five and seven last year. I think we all remember that.

446
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Speaker 1: I looked at their schedule earlier today. I mean, so

447
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Speaker 1: let's just get down to brass tags here for a second.

448
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Speaker 1: If they are to win fewer than six games, we

449
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Speaker 1: gotta look here at the schedule. It's got to go

450
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Speaker 1: pretty bad pretty quickly for him. So right off the bat,

451
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you they got three wins against New Mexico

452
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Speaker 1: ulm Abilene Christian. I'm gonna go ahead and call those

453
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Speaker 1: three wins. I need three more wins minimum. Out of

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Speaker 1: the rest of these games. They're gonna be favored by six.

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Speaker 1: It looks right now like they're favored by six at Miami.

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Speaker 1: They're a three point favorite against Arkansas. They are eight

457
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Speaker 1: and a half point dogs against Bama and against Tennessee.

458
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Speaker 1: And by the way, you don't think this is a

459
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Speaker 1: tough four game stretch, how about playing Auburn and then

460
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Speaker 1: Arkansas in Dallas, then Bama comes into College Station, then

461
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Speaker 1: you go to Knoxville boom boom, boom boom. You want

462
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Speaker 1: to know, by the way, why I don't think it's

463
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Speaker 1: the most egregious sin in the world for SEC teams

464
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Speaker 1: to play eight conference games sometimes whereas others play nine.

465
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Speaker 1: It's because that's what a chunk of your conference schedule

466
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Speaker 1: looks like. We'll get to that later on in the show.

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Speaker 1: The last year, Okay, so when you look at how

468
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Speaker 1: bad their season was last year, they got the whole

469
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Speaker 1: lost five games by six points or fewer stat and

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Speaker 1: they're differing opinions as to how valuable that is. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna happen. Okay, if you

472
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Speaker 1: want me on the record, I don't think Jimbo's gonna

473
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Speaker 1: get fired. I don't think they're gonna miss out on

474
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Speaker 1: a bowl game again. But the reason that I only

475
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Speaker 1: made it an eight and a half on the boldness

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Speaker 1: scale is cause, if you think about it, I have

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Speaker 1: called Texas A and M the most potentially volatile program

478
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Speaker 1: to watch this year. Volatile team because there's like so

479
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Speaker 1: much variance in what could happen. It could either go

480
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Speaker 1: really good or it could go really bad. And if

481
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Speaker 1: I have to account for that possibility, the really bad possibility.

482
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Speaker 1: I can't make this anything more than a nine on

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Speaker 1: the boldness scale. So even if I don't think it's

484
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Speaker 1: gonna happen, it's like, you know, it's like you go

485
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Speaker 1: to sleep and you let your buddy drive for six hours.

486
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Speaker 1: You're either gonna end up in the Rockies or you're

487
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Speaker 1: gonna end up out in the middle of Kansas, the

488
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Speaker 1: classic Lloyd Christmas conundrum. And I don't think they're gonna

489
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Speaker 1: end up in Kansas. But but you know that John

490
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: Denver can be full of it sometimes. All right, let's continue.

491
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Speaker 1: That's all a dumb and dumber reference for those unfamiliar

492
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Speaker 1: Jesse you've seen that, Yeah he had, Well that's an

493
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Speaker 1: upset Clemson. According to Gauge at Keesler Air Force Base

494
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Speaker 1: in Biloxi, thank you for watching cage. He said, Clemson

495
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: is gonna be back in the playoffs and have the

496
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Speaker 1: best defense in the country. You want a bold Clemson prediction,

497
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Speaker 1: me learning to pronounce that s properly in Clemson, that

498
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Speaker 1: would be a bold prediction. Because you guys think I

499
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Speaker 1: don't try, and I do. It's just it's a hiccup.

500
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Speaker 1: It's like a pneumonic hiccup of mine. This is a

501
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Speaker 1: nine and a half. I think I may have glossed

502
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Speaker 1: over that. So Gay said, not only is Clemson gonna

503
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Speaker 1: make the playoff, they're gonna do it with the number

504
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Speaker 1: one defense in the country. Hey, I gotta be honest

505
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Speaker 1: with you. Making the playoff is not the biggest hurdle here.

506
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: Having the number one defense in the country is. And

507
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Speaker 1: you may think out there if you don't pay much

508
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Speaker 1: attention to stats, Oh, Clemson's always dominant defensively, Well, they're

509
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: always pretty good defensively. They've only had the number one

510
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Speaker 1: defense in the country one time since Dabo's been there,

511
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Speaker 1: and that was during the Brent Venables era. He's gone.

512
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Speaker 1: Now they're coming off the worst statistical defensive year they've

513
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Speaker 1: had since twenty sixteen. That was last year they finished

514
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Speaker 1: twenty third, And I'm supposed to believe they're gonna vault

515
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: right back up. They're lost three important players to the draft,

516
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Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to believe, having recruited outside the top

517
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: ten a couple of years in a row, voluntarily forsaking

518
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Speaker 1: the portal, that they have elevated their roster to number one.

519
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Speaker 1: I know they're gonna be good Number one. I don't

520
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Speaker 1: know about that. I'm making this a nine and a half.

521
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: I do not believe Clemson is gonna have the best

522
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Speaker 1: defense in the country. They may very well make the playoff,

523
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Speaker 1: but that's less than half of this prediction if you

524
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Speaker 1: really want me to slice the pie accordingly. Also, if

525
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Speaker 1: you look at their schedule, thank you Colin right on cue.

526
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Speaker 1: They play North Carolina, they play Florida State, South Carolina, Miami,

527
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Duke, O'Reilly Leonard and Duke to start the season.

528
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Speaker 1: These are not easy offenses to go up against, and

529
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Speaker 1: so number one defense is a stretch. That's a nine

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Speaker 1: and a half for me. Next up, it's a multi tiered,

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Speaker 1: a multifaceted prediction. Again, but it's your predictions, not mine.

532
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Speaker 1: Gary said, I've been leaving a bold prediction in the

533
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Speaker 1: comments on YouTube, but I've seen you read them on Twitter,

534
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Speaker 1: So I have a good one. Notre Dame's gonna beat

535
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Ohio State's gonna beat Michigan. Please see this.

536
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Speaker 1: I really want to hear your opinion. Well, Gary, here's

537
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Speaker 1: my opinion. This is an eight and a half on

538
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Speaker 1: the boldness scale. We already have lines on these games.

539
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Speaker 1: Ohio State. I believe Jesse, what week does this game happen?

540
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Speaker 1: It's not Week two, right, It's Week four? Maybe Week four, yeah,

541
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Speaker 1: because that's the same week Florida State goes to Clemson.

542
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Speaker 1: So Notre Dame hosts Ohio State week four. Buckeye is

543
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Speaker 1: currently a seven point favorite. You remember this game was

544
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Speaker 1: pretty back and forth last year. It wasn't so much

545
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Speaker 1: back and forth. It was just close. And then Ohio State,

546
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Speaker 1: I think they scored twenty one. That was their lowest

547
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Speaker 1: output of the season. It was tied with that like

548
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: hurricane game they played against Northwestern basically, but Notre Dame

549
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job limiting them last year. I

550
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: can't say I'm crazy about the matchup of Notre Dame

551
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: secondary against the Ohio State receiver corps this year. Of course,

552
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: your counter to me could be, well, who's throwing them

553
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: the ball? I hear you, sounded like a smoker? I

554
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: hear you. Okay, that's only part one. Part two is

555
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State then goes on the road and beats Michigan.

556
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: So Buckeyes back against the wall. As our buddy J. C.

557
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: Sherbert would say, they would be in the proverbial wounded

558
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: animal mode. Had they already lost to Notre Dame. Now

559
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: they're going into the big House. Remember they're still undefeated

560
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: in conference play in this scenario, but the playoff hopes

561
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: are on the line here. Most likely they are the

562
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Speaker 1: Buckeyes a current two and a half half point dog

563
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: against Michigan and that game is forever from now, so

564
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: that could very well change. Just think about that. By

565
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Speaker 1: the way, if Ohio State did lose an upset fashion

566
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Speaker 1: to Notre Dame, because these are the two games on

567
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Speaker 1: their schedule, everyone's circling and if they lose that first one,

568
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: who such drama, such a tight rope walk for the

569
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Speaker 1: rest of the year for Ryan Day, his coaching staff,

570
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: that team. It could actually serve them. Well, we've seen

571
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: that happen many times before. And I also feel the

572
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: need to remind you I don't need to bake in

573
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: added drama to Ohio State Michigan because the Ohio State

574
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: Buckeyes right now are trying to avoid something that last

575
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: happened pre It's pre y two K. Yeah, pre y

576
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Speaker 1: two K. The last time they lost three in a

577
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Speaker 1: row to Michigan was ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven.

578
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Speaker 1: The Braves won the World Series one of those years,

579
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Speaker 1: they cost themselves the World Series the next year, and

580
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: ninety seven was the Eric greg fiasco in the NLCS.

581
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: And that's how my mind was. When it comes to

582
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: the nineties, I correlate college football occurrences with Atlanta Braves

583
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: Division Championship runs. This is an eight and a half.

584
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: That's what that is for me. Last bold prediction for

585
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: this evening, We've got one that takes us all the

586
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Speaker 1: way to Seattle, Washington. How about this. Washington becomes the

587
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: first Pack twelve team since twenty fourteen to make the

588
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: National Championship Game, and unlike TCU, makes it competitive. This

589
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: is such a sign of the times. And I'm not

590
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: trying to hate on Washington really good team, and I'm

591
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: not trying to hate on the Pac twelve. I can't.

592
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm Pack twelve, Paight. These are like my children, These

593
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: programs are like my kids. But the boldest prediction that

594
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: our friends on the West Coast can muster now is

595
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: just one of our teams is gonna make the title game,

596
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Speaker 1: not even win it. We're just gonna make the title game. Now.

597
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Speaker 1: What do you say to that, buddy, Well, I say

598
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Speaker 1: it's a nine because even having said that, there is

599
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Speaker 1: a difference. Now, there's a difference between making the play

600
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Speaker 1: off and making the title game. Now, TCU did show

601
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: us last year it's possible to do one and then

602
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: get completely splattered all over the place in the next.

603
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: But they did make it. I'm gonna call this a

604
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: nine because I think the Pac twelve schedule is no

605
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: joke this year, and Washington's got about as high an

606
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: expectation as pretty much anyone out there. But they've got

607
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: they got a road, especially after their bye week, that

608
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: includes Oregon coming in there. They go to USC, They've

609
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: got Utah, they go to Oregon State. Now, as you'll

610
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: notice on there, they do avoid some teams that would

611
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: be tough draws. But eventually, if you don't even play

612
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: them in the regular season, you would play them in

613
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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve championship game. They could, if they make it,

614
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: play Oregon twice or play USC or Utah twice. So,

615
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: having said all that, that pass defense has got to

616
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Speaker 1: be better. You know, you remember Michael Pennix, and I'd

617
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: be very very curious by the way who they may

618
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: have a quarterback advantage over in some of these hypothetic

619
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: matchups in the Semis, but their pass defense was one

620
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: hundred in the country last year. That's got to get better.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that a nine. It's tough to make

622
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Speaker 1: the national Championship game. I'm gonna make that a nine. Boy.

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Speaker 1: Do I have some video for you coming up momentarily

624
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625
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Speaker 1: it's actually going to be a caboose on the Academy

626
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Speaker 1: ad read. I almost achieved my dreams the other night,

627
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Speaker 1: so let me just tease it up for you that way.

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Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors they equip me, and as you

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Speaker 1: can see, I have fairly fairly low standards for what

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Speaker 1: I need to operate on a day to day basis.

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Speaker 1: I need a white T shirt, some contact lenses, a

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Speaker 1: And look if they don't, truthfully, do you really need it?

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Speaker 1: Do you really need it? Food and water? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: league cho So there's your dessert. Academy Sports and Outdoors

637
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Speaker 1: has had our back for years now, Colin. We can

638
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: say that, yeah, for years now because it's in the plural,

639
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: it's more than one, and we appreciate them. Right on cue,

640
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: there's the nightly text from Cole Cublic while I'm on

641
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: the air. Just with friends like Cole cuber lit Man,

642
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Speaker 1: there's very much a lack of a need for enemies.

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00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: So Academy Sports and Outdoors got your back. But also,

644
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Speaker 1: as I have come to find out a lot of you,

645
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: it seems like are going to the store just so

646
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: you can send me your receipts. And I'm fine with

647
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 1: it because, as I've told you, I forward them right

648
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Speaker 1: onto Academy Academy dot com. They've got you set if

649
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: you can't get there in person. So here was my situation,

650
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: in a classic practice what you preach scenario. I was

651
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: sitting here in January, and I knew that Church League

652
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: softball season was coming up. So I went and got

653
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: some pants from Academy Shoes pants classic blue shirt, not

654
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: Academy blue per se, although it is blue and it

655
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: is from Academy, And so I equipped myself, like I

656
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: had to tell I even got a little rag I

657
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: hang out of my back pocket just in case you

658
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: have a little wetter outfield than you planned on, which

659
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: we did the other night. So anyway, what does this

660
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: have to do with unlocking my dreams. Well, one of

661
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: my dreams is just for you to go to Academy

662
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: and try them out. My other dream that I've had

663
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: since I was a little boy has been very simple.

664
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: They tell you to dream big when you're a kid,

665
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: and I'm all for it. But really, I've had one dream,

666
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: and one dream only I've been focused on. It's a

667
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 1: goal of mine that still listed this very day. I

668
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: just want to hit a car with a home run.

669
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: That's all I want to do, and I have not

670
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: gotten as close as I would like. The other night, friends,

671
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: it almost happened. There's a drive deep left center. It's

672
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: well out of there. One vehicle passes, ball hits the road,

673
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: then another vehicle passes. If I were two seconds earlier

674
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: or later i achieved my dreams, I probably pull a

675
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: loo gearing speech and just retire right there on the field,

676
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: because I will have achieved everything that I've wanted in life.

677
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: As it turns out, the hunt continues, but I got

678
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: close due to Academy Sports and outdoors. Thanks for the

679
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: entire wardrobe, guys. If you're listening on podcast, I couldn't

680
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: really do it justice. I put that on my Instagram

681
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: at Lake Kick Josh, if you want to see it.

682
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: That was a three run home run in a very

683
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: pivotal spot. And yet I walked to the dugout depressed.

684
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: And it's not that I'm for property destruction. I would

685
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,919
Speaker 1: have gladly sent a proxy out there. Not Jesse because

686
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: he bailed on us the other night, but I would

687
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: have sent Belchie out there. Take their name and number.

688
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: I will gladly replace the windshield. It would be the

689
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: highlight of my life to pay to replace someone's windshield

690
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: if it came courtesy of one of my home run balls.

691
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 1: That's just the pinnacle of life. And I think anyone

692
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: out there who's ever who's ever girded up their loins

693
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: to play a game of slow pitch softball understands where

694
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: I'm coming from. Okay, we've got we got a lot

695
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: of show left to go, so I need to get

696
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 1: to it. I have something right now that I need

697
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: to talk to you about that we we found out

698
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: about the other day, and it's it's going to impact

699
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: all of our lives. Brentley from Owensboro, Kentucky hit me up.

700
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: He said, what do you think about the Netflix show

701
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: about Urban Meyer in Florida. Oh, I have a lot

702
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: of thoughts about it, Brentley. Now, this is not official, official, official,

703
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: but it's pretty official. How do we know? Well, Brandon

704
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: Siler was a linebacker at Florida back in the day.

705
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: He posted a screenshot of an email he got from

706
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: Netflix that confirmed a documentary called swamp Kings that chronicles

707
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: Florida's run six to nine is set to debut August

708
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: twenty third of this year. This is not like Euphoria,

709
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: where apparently I'm going to wait until twenty twenty five

710
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: for actors already in their twenties to continue to portray

711
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: high school kids. No, we get swamp Kings right before

712
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: the kickoff of the twenty twenty three season. The way

713
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: God intended, this could be great could also be terrible.

714
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: And if you're unfamiliar with how documentaries work, it really

715
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: all comes down to creative and cooperation. That's the way

716
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: documentaries have always been. Favorite college football documentary of all

717
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: time is the thirty for thirty about SMU Pony Excess.

718
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: Go find it. It's in the archives at ESPN. Brilliantly done,

719
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: and they got all the power players except for Sherwood

720
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: Blunt defiant to this day on the record. They got

721
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: everybody who was anybody around that scandal to talk, and

722
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: they took their time, and they laid it out meticulously.

723
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: And if you go into that thing not knowing one

724
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: bit of fact based detail about the SMU cheating scandal,

725
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: you'll walk away with a full education on it. So

726
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,280
Speaker 1: that is the barometer by which I judge all college

727
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: football and sports documentaries on a scale of one to

728
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 1: pony excess. What will swamp Kings rate? Well, we don't

729
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: have to wait long to find out. So anyway, my thoughts,

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00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: since you asked me creative and cooperation number one, what's

731
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: the creative vision? Who called the editorial shots? Do they

732
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: really really understand the weeds of what that era was like?

733
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: Are they willing to ask the tough questions about that era?

734
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: Let's face it, now, you had a transcendent talent like

735
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow. You had a generational head coach troubled as

736
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: it turned out, but a generational head coach in Urban Meyer.

737
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: You had star players littered all over that roster, but

738
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: you also had a future serial killer on the roster.

739
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: You also had several dozen guys that were going to

740
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: go on to serve time in prison on that roster.

741
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: You can't tell the entire story of that period of

742
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 1: Florida football without touching on all that. If they do,

743
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: it could be classic and also cooperation. We don't know

744
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: who they got to sit down to be interviewed for this.

745
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: Are we going to hear from Urban Meyer? Are we

746
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: going to hear from Tim Tebow? Who else are we

747
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 1: going to hear from? Could be really fun. I remember

748
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine. This is long before anyone

749
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: ever paid me to go to a football game, I

750
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: can assure you. And it was also the time where

751
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: I could not afford to go to games like the

752
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: Sea Championship game. So I go up to Atlanta with

753
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine and this is Saban versus Meyer.

754
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: This is Bama versus Florida, Part two. This is the

755
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: nine game, and Florida is looking to cap a run

756
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: that may very well coordinate them as the greatest team

757
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: of all time because they were already coming off a

758
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: national championship year. All those dudes come back. This is

759
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: the classic t Bow. I'm coming back. Let's do it again.

760
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: And they go undefeated regular season. They go to Atlanta,

761
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: they meet Bama, and I remember going under the Georgia Dome.

762
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Georgia Dome. I remember going under the

763
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: Georgia Dome with my buddy before the game, and Florida's

764
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: bus is pulled up, and so the team gets off,

765
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: and this is the point in my life where I'm

766
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: not used to seeing this. So team gets off, and

767
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: there were there were twins, the pouncy twins walk by

768
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: and just look ready to annihilate someone. But I'll tell

769
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: you what I never forgot. And I was telling Jesse

770
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: this earlier today, unfiltered, I'll tell you a sanitized version

771
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: of it. Aaron Hernandez walked by. Aaron Hernandez had a

772
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: different look in his eye than any athlete I'd ever seen.

773
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: Aaron Hernandez had a different way about him and gave

774
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: off a different vibe than any human I had ever

775
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: been around. And I'll leave that where it is. It

776
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: stuck with me to this day. That sticks with me.

777
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: These games were so huge, This period of Florida football

778
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: and then college football was so huge. I think it

779
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: may be accurate to say that if you were to

780
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: go back and you were to just chart like the

781
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: lineage of college football. If you want to look for

782
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: peaks in the sport, if you want to look for

783
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: moments where the sport has never felt bigger. Those games

784
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: between Bama and Florida, they weren't even national title games.

785
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: Those were bigger than the national title both years, both

786
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: years they were one versus two. It's Saban versus Meyer.

787
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: It's urban Meyer being the king of the SEC after

788
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: everyone doubted him when he got hired. And if you

789
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: don't believe me, go down south and ask some people

790
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: who are man enough to be honest with you what

791
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: they thought when this dude from Utah got hired to

792
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: come into the big bad SEC, And they'll tell you

793
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: they laughed at it. And they thought that Mickey Mouse

794
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: conference he's in out there, some of those offensive tricks,

795
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: that smoking mirror offense he runs out there, it's not

796
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: going to work in the SEC. He completely redefined offensive

797
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: football in the SEC. He came in and out recruited everyone.

798
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: He redefined the standard of what it was to recruit

799
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: in the SEC. He wasn't from here, he had never

800
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: been here. He has got a death grip on the SEC.

801
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Saban comes to Bama two years in, he gets his

802
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: first shot at him. They lead in Atlanta going into

803
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Tim Tebow does what he does. Florida

804
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: wins thirty one to twenty and the entire two thousand

805
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: and nine season. I oh man, I'll never forget it.

806
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: It's like everybody views it as a formality and in reality,

807
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: both of them are having a dogfight to get back

808
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, but everyone is building up like it's a

809
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: prize fight. They're promoting it week five, week six, week seven,

810
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: like it's already scheduled. And they both get to Atlanta undefeated.

811
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,720
Speaker 1: That moment going into that two thousand and nine SEC

812
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: Championship game, that's as big as college football has ever

813
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: felt to me. That's pre playoff is that is in

814
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: a world where even though you're both spotless and you're

815
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: both one versus two, there's no safety net because you've

816
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 1: got a two team playoff. It's the BCS era. Number

817
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: one is gonna play number two, and so they know

818
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: losers going home. That felt like the National Championship game.

819
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: It was you had to be there. I guess you

820
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: had to be there. So is that the story this

821
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 1: documentary is gonna tell we will see. It is due

822
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: out in a little over two months, swamp Kings on Netflix.

823
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do a watch along, let's do some spotlight,

824
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: let's go to school for a second. Here's what I'm

825
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: gonna do over the next call it a month, month

826
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: and a half, maybe a little bit longer. It is

827
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: preview magazine season, after all, and I encourage you guys

828
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: patronize the magazines. I hear some are a little bit

829
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: thinner this year than they have been in the past.

830
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what controls that, but anyway, go buy them.

831
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care if you treat it as

832
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: the Bible or as like a college football farmer's almanac

833
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 1: for yourself. Go buy them. Keep the industry afloat. But also,

834
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 1: what we're going to do on our show is I'm

835
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,280
Speaker 1: going to kind of do like a page by page version.

836
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: And none of these are going to last too long,

837
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,760
Speaker 1: but I want to give you the listener or viewer

838
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: of Late Kick. If this is your only stop for

839
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: college football, I want to give you a pretty good

840
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: view of some of these teams. So maybe you don't

841
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 1: feel like you have to go to thirty seven other places.

842
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: Although I encourage you to go there, but if you don't,

843
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: that's your prerogative. Oklahoma paid state one oh one. What

844
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: do you need to know about Oklahoma coming into this year?

845
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: I got three questions for him. The first is how

846
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: much defensive improvement is it fair for me to expect?

847
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: They were bad last year? Out Outside of just the

848
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: record slapping you in the face and then barely making

849
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: a bowl game and you're one under Brent Venables, their

850
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: defensive play left a lot to be desired. Almost in

851
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: a strange way. They were so bad defensively it was comforting.

852
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: That sounds crazy. What I mean is if they were

853
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: just kind of bad, you may look at it and say, oh,

854
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: maybe Brenton Venables was just a little overrated. They were

855
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: actually so bad defensively it's almost like you look at

856
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: it and say, oh, something was clearly wrong. It's if

857
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: you're watching a NASCAR race and a car is three

858
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: miles an hour off the pace, that's bad. If they're

859
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: thirty miles an hour off the pace, you're almost less

860
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: worried because you just know something mechanically is wrong and

861
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: you'll fix it and you'll be better next week. They

862
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: were ninety ninth in points per game. There were one

863
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty second in yards giving up per game.

864
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: There is newness everywhere on this team. They portaled and

865
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: they portaled hard linebacker, defensive line. We're going to talk

866
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: about that in a second. So if they're bad this year,

867
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: it will not be because they did not retool. They

868
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: got a bunch of dudes, Peyton Bowen coming in their

869
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: plane as a freshman probably, so they'll be different, they'll

870
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 1: be new, they'll be more skilled defensively. I think it'll translate.

871
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: My question is what is fair to expect from them?

872
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: Number two? Question? Number two? Is there a wide receiver

873
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: one on this roster? Because they lost Marvin Memes that

874
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: was the only thousand yard pass catcher they had last year.

875
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: Lost a couple of more of their top leading pass catchers,

876
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: but they really only had one that stood out statistically,

877
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: and he went in the second round of the NFL draft.

878
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 1: So Drake Stoops he's on the roster. Jilil Faruk he's there.

879
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: Andre Anthony they added him. Also, Jaden Gibson. They expect

880
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: a lot out of him, but this is largely an

881
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: unproven crop of players. Dylan Gabriel there to throw you

882
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: the ball Jackson Arnold waiting in the wing, so you

883
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: are not going to be hurting at quarterback. It's just

884
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: how many catchers there can I depend on? Can I

885
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: depend on? And is there is there a true wide

886
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: receiver one in that room? That's what God created fall

887
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: camp for question number three, who's right about Brent Venables? Strangely,

888
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: although he's just one year into his tenure, there doesn't

889
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: seem to be a lot of indifference on Brent Venables.

890
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: There are people who believe in him, and there are

891
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: people who have totally sold their stock on him, and

892
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: there are not a lot of people where I am,

893
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: which is just kind of in between. I don't think

894
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: I have enough information on him yet, and there is

895
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: a lot of wisdom sometimes and just taking away and

896
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: see approach it. It's really weird though, because most of

897
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: the time people will just give you benefit of the doubt.

898
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: For a little while, there was kind of a more

899
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: knee jerk reaction to Britain Venables. I was ironically worried

900
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: about talent acquisition when he came to Oklahoma. Some of

901
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: you will remember me saying this. I was saying, I

902
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: don't doubt that he can coach football. I don't doubt

903
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: he'll put a good staff together. Will they be able

904
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: to attack Texas? Will they be able to attack this

905
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: new thing at the time called the transfer portal Number

906
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: four and number eight last year in those two rankings,

907
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: number four and number nine this year in those two rankings.

908
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: So they've been top ten both of his years in

909
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: recruiting and in portal rankings. I can find ways to

910
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,439
Speaker 1: reasonably explain away all of the bad stuff last year,

911
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: whether I'm right or wrong as it as history will

912
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: show us or as the future will show us, I

913
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: can at least explain it away. Talent acquisition at least

914
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: is not going to be a problem for them. So

915
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: if they fail, if the people who doubt Brent Venables

916
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: are right, they're going to be right solely because he

917
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: can't coach, They're not going to be right. This is

918
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: one fear that's been alleviated. They're not going to be

919
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: right because it turned out he couldn't go get the

920
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: players the best position group on this team. I could

921
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: have said a linebacker, I could have said safety. I

922
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: actually went the pretty easy route. I went quarterback. Dylan

923
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: Gabriel's there. And last year when he went down forty

924
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: nine to nothing against Texas was result this year. You

925
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: actually have one of the best quarterbacks out of last

926
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: year's cycle in the room in Jackson Arnold. We saw

927
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: him at the lead eleven last year. We'll be out

928
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: there again in a couple of weeks. By the way,

929
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'll save that for next week. Quarterbacks are

930
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: a really good room here. But as I said, you know,

931
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel, if healthy, is the guy this year and

932
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: should be the guy this year, the breakout candidate. Though.

933
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: That's where I go to another position group. Deshaun McCullough

934
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: is a name you really need to know. Now. Oklahoma

935
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: fans have probably already heard about him to the point

936
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: that they feel like he's started there multiple years. No,

937
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: he started at Indiana as a freshman and he was

938
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: a true freshman All American and played in all twelve

939
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: games for the Hoosiers. As a true freshman, he tied

940
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,959
Speaker 1: for the team lead in sacks six, five, two thirty.

941
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,760
Speaker 1: He's going to play that cheatah position in venables defense.

942
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: Deshaun mccull is going to be a really really good

943
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: player for them. Keep an eye on him. And as

944
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: for the schedule, with Oklahoma Paper Pop. According to the

945
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 1: unofficial producer Jesse Metrics, Oklahoma has the second weakest schedule

946
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve. Sound the alarm, let me hit

947
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: the pause button, let me call one of my three

948
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: timeouts per show. I didn't say Oklahoma has a week schedule.

949
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: I know some of you heard that. That's not what

950
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: I said. I said relative to the rest of the

951
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: Big Twelve. Oklahoma, you could make the argument, has the

952
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: second weakest schedule amongst Big Twelve teams. Did everyone catch that? Okay,

953
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: for the record, we think Oklahoma State has the weakest.

954
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: So something about the state there. They play seven of

955
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: the bottom eight odds teams in the Big Twelve, So

956
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: we line up the odds to win the Big Twelve

957
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: seven of the bottom eight teams Oklahoma plays them This year.

958
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: They got Texas As they always do neutral site. They

959
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: don't play Texas Tech. They don't play Kansas State, they

960
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: don't play Baylor. They got Tulsa, Arkansas State in SMU

961
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: in non conference play. Now, I don't want to gloss

962
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 1: over SMU because that's a really good team. They're playing

963
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,240
Speaker 1: Week two over under win total eight and a half

964
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: for SMU, So that's not a gimme. But it's also

965
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: not like Texas going to Alabama in Week two. Oklahoma's

966
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: over under win totals nine and a half. This is

967
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: going to be a radically different looking team this year.

968
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 1: How much of that different is a good kind of different,

969
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: and how much of that different is just, oh, it's

970
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: the same result. It's just like a different route to

971
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: get to the same result. I happen to think they'll

972
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: springboard nicely this year, but I have some buddies whose

973
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: opinions I trust, who just totally disagree with me on that.

974
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: We'll see. They're watching us in Columbus, Ohio. Tampa, Florida

975
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: is tuned in. Santa Monica, California is tuned in. Thank

976
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: you guys so much. If you're tuned in live, doubly

977
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And whether you're watching live or replay, subscribe

978
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: to the channel and like the video. We have a tweet,

979
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: don't we call in? Yeah, let's show this tweet to

980
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: tee this next segment up, and let me take a

981
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: sip from the chalice beforehand. A lot of questionable liquid

982
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: in the childice tonight. A lot of questionable liquid. How's

983
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: you know? I was about to ask myself on air,

984
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: how should I explain this? I don't have to explain it.

985
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: Read does for me? Read from Decatur, Georgia. Read said,

986
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: I don't get why you wouldn't support all leagues playing

987
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: the same number of conference games instead of being okay

988
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: with the SEC hiding from competition and playing eight. Look,

989
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: I've listened to this for the better part of a week.

990
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: I'm tired of talking about it, but you're not. And

991
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: I do have a couple of angles I want to

992
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: go with you tonight that I have not spoken about

993
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: on this show. Can we just put it all out

994
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: there in the open. When people say the SEC should

995
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: play nine conference games, whether you believe it or not,

996
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: you've got the same opinion I do. I want them

997
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: to play nine conference games. I'm not against it. In fact,

998
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: last show I emphatically stated multiple times, Yeah, in a

999
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: perfect world, I'd like them to play nine conference games.

1000
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: That came off somehow as me defend the SEC playing

1001
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: eight conference games. But anyway, I digress. If you don't

1002
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: like the current setup and you say I just prefer

1003
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: them to play nine, that's fine. Even if I disagree

1004
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: with you, that's fine. There are too many people of

1005
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: Reed's ilk out there and read, I love you, So

1006
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: this is not a shot at you as a person.

1007
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't like your take. There are too many people

1008
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: like read out there right now, who are who are

1009
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: going to the old standby of the SEC is scared,

1010
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: The SEC is hiding from competition, and the SEC here's

1011
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: my favorite. It's so easy to beat down like a

1012
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: pinata logically, but here's my favorite. The SEC is masking things.

1013
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 1: And the way it really goes is I guess masking

1014
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: is not the right word here. It is the SEC

1015
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: is inflating themselves by playing only eight conference games. And

1016
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: I think our buddies at College Football Nerds did a

1017
00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: really good job of summing this up today, and so

1018
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: I'm showing one of their tweets on the screen right now.

1019
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,720
Speaker 1: And if you're listening on podcasts, here's what it says.

1020
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: In the playoffs, nine game conferences are three to twelve

1021
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 1: versus eight game conferences. Nine gamers have blown out eight

1022
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 1: gamers twice. Eight gamers have blown out nine gamers eight times.

1023
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: And here's the point. If that lost you, If that's

1024
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,919
Speaker 1: just minutia for you, here's the hammer home point. If

1025
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: eight game conferences work the system to unfairly get in

1026
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the results would be the opposite. It's a

1027
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: great point. It, in more words, is saying what I

1028
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: tried to tell you the other day. The claim that

1029
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: you just want them to play nine games is fine.

1030
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: But the claim that you want them to play nine

1031
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: games because somehow the eight game conference schedule falsely props

1032
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: them up is false. And the way you know it's

1033
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: false is because eventually they have to get to the

1034
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: playoff and play again against conferences that played the nine

1035
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: game league schedule. If you were right about the SEC

1036
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:11,760
Speaker 1: being falsely inflated, they'd get exposed. They don't. The opposite happens.

1037
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: To this point, No team from a conference that plays

1038
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:22,280
Speaker 1: nine conference games has ever won a national title ever. Ever,

1039
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 1: Like in all the years we've done it, the only

1040
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: year it happened was a technicality. It was the twenty

1041
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: twenty COVID year, and that was the year Bama won it,

1042
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: and they played all Power five competition, so relative to

1043
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: the rest of the country, they had a scheduling disadvantage

1044
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: that year. There's this other part of the argument where

1045
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: eight games doesn't make sense. This is the one I

1046
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: wanted to hit on tonight, and I'm going to give

1047
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: our buddies at College Football Nerds more credit. I'm going

1048
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: to go right back to them again because it was

1049
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: like it was like the Steve Austin promo after King

1050
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: of the Ring ninety six. They spit out two winners

1051
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: here over the course of like a couple of seconds.

1052
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: So people who claim the eight game conference schedule is

1053
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: just corrupt, it doesn't make sense. It should be nine

1054
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: or nothing. I actually don't agree with that. If you

1055
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,720
Speaker 1: ask me my perfect world, I agree with our buddies

1056
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: at CFB Nerds. Listen to this. Think about it. Before

1057
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: you just start screaming at your phone. Think about this

1058
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: for a second. They said the same thing I agree with.

1059
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: They said, our desired model has always been all Power

1060
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 1: five conferences play eight games in conference, and then they

1061
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: require two out of conference Power five opponents. You know

1062
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: what that does. What it does is it gives a

1063
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of cross conference data points. Right now, you're

1064
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 1: just asking teams to load up within their own conference,

1065
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: and that's wonderful for being able to figure out how

1066
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: good teams are within their conference. But a lot of

1067
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: the conversation about college football is national. Like when you

1068
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: see polls come out on Sunday, when you see the

1069
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff Committee meet, they're not putting out Big

1070
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: ten rankings. They're not putting out SEC rankings, are Packed

1071
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: twelve rankings. They're putting out national rankings, and they're consequential

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00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: when it comes to the committee. You know what would

1073
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: greatly help. It would greatly help when we're wondering what

1074
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 1: nine to one means in the ACC versus a nine

1075
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: and one in the Big twelve. It would help if

1076
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,240
Speaker 1: we had a lot more out of conference data points.

1077
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: It would help if NC State had played Oklahoma State,

1078
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: It would help, if Auburn had played Arizona State. Those

1079
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 1: data points help because then you can extrapolate accordingly, and

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00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: you can figure out conference versus conference. What does the

1081
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: sixth seed here look like relative to the four seed there?

1082
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: As it stands, you have to wait until bowl season

1083
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: for that, and by that point folks are opting out,

1084
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: and in some cases you're not even getting a true result,

1085
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: and by then it's too late. Anyway, I love that model.

1086
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: If you ask me my perfect model, I want all

1087
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: of them play eight conference games and then requiring at

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00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: least two Power five non conferences, and by the way,

1089
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: that's a minimum. Feel free to play more, especially if

1090
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: we're properly interpreting strength of schedule amongst the committee, feel

1091
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: free to play more. This fascination with nine games, In

1092
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: some ways I get where it comes from, because in

1093
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: the world we live in, if we're not all gonna

1094
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: play eight, I'm all for the entertainment product being ramped up.

1095
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: So I'm fine with the SEC if they want to

1096
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: go to nine games, I'd even support it. My perfect

1097
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: world is much more in line with what CFB nerds said,

1098
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: which is every conference plays eight and then you beef

1099
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: up your out of conference schedule, Like I'd love to

1100
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: see cross conference competition pre Bowl season as much as possible.

1101
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: But the conference game as a metric has been so

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00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: warped over the past few years. People pretending like your

1103
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: ninth game of the year, if it's against a conference opponent,

1104
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 1: just carry so much more weight, Like playing someone in

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00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: your conference is worth one hundred and twenty five percent

1106
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: of playing someone good from another conference. No, it's the

1107
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: strength of your schedule, period. That's all I care about.

1108
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: I don't care about how many of the teams came

1109
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: from your conference. Ultimately, I know you're gonna have a

1110
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: big enough sample size of conference play that you can

1111
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: then seed your conference title game and crown a champ.

1112
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: I don't ever worry about that, whether you're playing eight

1113
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: or nine. I would love a world where we've got

1114
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: a healthy dose of both. We got a nice sizable

1115
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: portion of conference play, it's like two thirds, or your

1116
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: schedule or however that fraction works out. But then there

1117
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: is also a couple of really good data points on here.

1118
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: Where you go play Minnesota, you gotta play Penn State,

1119
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: you go play Nebraska, Big ten heavy there. I know

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Speaker 1: that's where I stand on that. So in conclusion, I

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00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: don't know that it does me any good to say

1122
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: this over and over again. I wasn't defending it the

1123
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Speaker 1: other night. I led the segment and concluded this segment

1124
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: by saying, I don't like the decision. I want them

1125
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: to play nine conference games if this is the world

1126
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna live in. But I also said, I do

1127
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: understand the realism of the moment instead of the idealism

1128
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 1: of the moment, and I get the reasons I don't

1129
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: care about being Bowl eligible. I don't care how much

1130
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: money ESPN is or isn't willing to pay you, because

1131
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: none of those things really affect me, or they don't

1132
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: matter to me. But I absolutely share your concern with

1133
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: you voluntarily beefing up your schedule only to be punished

1134
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: for playing a tougher schedule by a playoff committee that

1135
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: may or may not completely adhere to the U are

1136
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: what your record says you are philosophy. Did I say

1137
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: that too fast? Probably? I'm not going to say it again, though,

1138
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: So I think there were some valid concerns in the

1139
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: SEC's room, even if I didn't get the result I wanted.

1140
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was stupid. I didn't think it

1141
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: was the worst decision, like a catastrophic decision. It was

1142
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: a decision, and it's temporary, and in twenty thirty you

1143
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: won't be worried about it. Okay. I want to close

1144
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: tonight with sharing some names with you. Did. I think

1145
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: it's in your best interest to know because over these

1146
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: next two months, and I think you all know how

1147
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: summer shakes out around here. Summer looks like this. Everyone

1148
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: else goes on vacation and we just continue to grind.

1149
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: But also because of that we put ourselves that much

1150
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: further ahead come August and then especially September. And I

1151
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 1: know many of you, and I know the warehouses you

1152
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: work in, and I know the routes you drive, and

1153
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: I know the office cubicles you sit in, and I

1154
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: know what you talk about. Anytime that you're given that's

1155
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: called free time, I know what you're talking about. You're

1156
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: with your buddies and you're talking about college football. And

1157
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: one of the most most precious things that you can

1158
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: hold is the upper hand in those conversations by knowing

1159
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: things your buddies don't know. And humbly, that's what I'm

1160
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: here to provide you. I thought Chris Hummer did a

1161
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: really good job on twenty seven twenty four seven sports

1162
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: dot Com the other day of providing some sleeper under

1163
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: the radar names in the portal. And I said, that's

1164
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: a good idea, Hummer, I think I'll take it. Tanner Mordecai,

1165
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: quarterback starting quarterback this year for Wisconsin. By way of SMU,

1166
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: that's an under the radar portal player you need to

1167
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 1: know about. This guy's going to play a big role

1168
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: in determining the outcome of the Big Ten West this year, ohios,

1169
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: it has to go there, I think as well. He

1170
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: was the eighth rated transfer quarterback, so he's not exactly

1171
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: up there with Sam Hartman in terms of profile. But

1172
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: back to back years at SMU he threw for over

1173
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred yards and had over thirty touchdowns. He's

1174
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: not green, he's not a depth chart casualty from somewhere else.

1175
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: He's played, and he's played a lot, and he's six

1176
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: three two fourteen. You got the Phil Longo offense up there.

1177
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: They are going to ask him to throw it around

1178
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: a lot. It would not shock me with the way

1179
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: they're going to use him if he didn't challenge for

1180
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: those thirty five hundred and thirty five total touchdown type

1181
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: numbers again this upcoming year. And by the way, what

1182
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: a shock to the senses that would be if Wisconsin

1183
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: did that. Your buddies right now, expect more ground and

1184
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: pound from Wisconsin. But you know better, don't you. Next

1185
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: up from right here in our backyard, there was a

1186
01:01:56,440 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: running back at Vanderbilt named Ray Davis could just as

1187
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: easily have been a session percussion musician down on music

1188
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: Row as he could a running back with that kind

1189
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: of name but Ray Davis ran the ball very well

1190
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: for Vandy last year, twenty nine receptions as well, to

1191
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: go on top of a thousand yards rushing. He headed

1192
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: to Kentucky just up I sixty five good Waysy headed

1193
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: to Kentucky. Kentucky lost Chris Rodriguez, so they needed help.

1194
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: They got him, They got another kid from NC State,

1195
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: They added Devin Leary, and they added a bunch of

1196
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: offensive line help, which was their problem last year. Could

1197
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: be a good offense, new offensive coordinator as well, kind

1198
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: of new, although he's been there before, so sneaky good

1199
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: offense there. Ray Davis five ten, two sixteen, ranked one

1200
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty fifth overall, number eleven running back in

1201
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: the portal class. I think he'll perform a little bit

1202
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: more admirably than those numbers would suggest. Next, I want

1203
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: to take you to Nebraska. We had a kid at Virginia.

1204
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: His name was Billy Kemp. The fourth and twenty twenty

1205
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: one was really his pop year Virginia. He had seventy

1206
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: four receptions, seven hundred and twenty five yards, six touchdowns.

1207
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: He's five to nine point eighty. He has not been

1208
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: a household name even in the ACC and Virginia was

1209
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: horrific last year in every facet, so he didn't shine

1210
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: last year. There is some thought around the Nebraska program

1211
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: that kid could end up being their number one receiver

1212
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: this year. And it is also thought around the Nebraska

1213
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: program that if you want to talk about synergy, if

1214
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: you want to talk about puzzle pieces meshing together, Jeff

1215
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: Simms at quarterback by way of Georgia Tech and then

1216
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: Billy Kemp by way of Virginia could be a really

1217
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: good one two pairing there. And then lastly, but certainly

1218
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: not least around here, our guy at the University of Arkansas,

1219
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: var Key's Gums. He was committed, he was uncommitted, then

1220
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:51,600
Speaker 1: he committed again. Tight end six three two thirty North

1221
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: Texas single season records for receptions and yards for a

1222
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: tight end. That's what he did last year. He was

1223
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Speaker 1: all conference as a tree than freshman. If you go

1224
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: and google this kid's name, our videos pop up. That's

1225
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: how much we've talked about him. That's how on that's

1226
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: how much on the var Keys Gums train we have been.

1227
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: So we are riding or dying with him. And to

1228
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: a certain extent, Arkansas's offense is kind of going to

1229
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: be willing to do that this year Arkansas. You know

1230
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: my my proclivity for leaning a little bit more towards Fayettville.

1231
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: That's naturally how my posture is right now. Actually that's

1232
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 1: the Northwest over there. I think that he could be

1233
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: an integral part, just a fascinating piece to that offense,

1234
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: and therefore a fascinating offensive piece in the SEC West

1235
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: in general. It's going to be the same for Arkansas

1236
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: this year. They're going to be in a lot of

1237
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: close games. They do not have as tough as schedule

1238
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: as they did last year. I think they're perfectly happy

1239
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: with no one talking about that, and so I won't yet.

1240
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: But it's a long summer and I cannot promise anything

1241
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: except that if he's healthy for kids, Gums is going

1242
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: to be a very very important part of that offensive attack. Okay,

1243
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,439
Speaker 1: we're going to be live from Miami Thursday. We will

1244
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: have normalcy this week, at least in terms of our

1245
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: work rate. We're gonna put out a Late Kick extra

1246
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: podcast on Tuesday. We will have laate Kick Live on

1247
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: Thursday night. We'll have Mario Christabaul on the show. A

1248
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: few other surprises. It's not just gonna be a Miami show.

1249
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a normal show. It's just that will

1250
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: also happen to have an extended sit down. As I've

1251
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: told you before, if we take time to go on

1252
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: the road, we're not producing a cookie cutter interview. We're

1253
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: not doing little ping pong ball Q and A's Hey, hey,

1254
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: you fit so well at Miami. Tell me why. It's

1255
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 1: not the kind of talk that we're gonna have. Now.

1256
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: We've had Mario on the show a few times, so

1257
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: some stuff you want to hear, you'll hear it Thursday,

1258
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: at least, if I am halfway decent at doing my job.

1259
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 1: And I look forward to you guys tuning in Big

1260
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: Week in South Florida. Hopefully we can find parking down

1261
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: there Big Week. I appreciate you guys so much. Make

1262
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: sure you're subscribed everywhere that you get this show. Subscribing

1263
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: is the key to the game and it's what helps

1264
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: us the most. Thank you so much for director Colin,

1265
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: for producer Jesse, I'm Josh Bate. Take care of a

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Speaker 1: great start to your week, and godless