Speaker 1: Welcome to the Solid Verbal.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Solid Verbal, boys and girls. My
Speaker 2: name is ty Hildon Brant. I am joined as always
Speaker 2: by my good friend and colleague and co host over
Speaker 2: there in beautiful New York City, a gentleman. You know him,
Speaker 2: is Dan Rubenstein. Dan, Welcome to the Verbies.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wish you had said BLUs straight
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Speaker 1: today on this Verbie Wednesday, and I am excited and
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Speaker 2: High, blustery Dan, as our stars are walking the red
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Speaker 2: do it. I am wearing a shirt and it's one
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Speaker 2: up for this gallant occasion here, Gallants.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times.
Speaker 2: We've done the Verbye Awards. Last year, I hate to
Speaker 2: spoil the fun. We didn't actually record in Radio City
Speaker 2: Music Hall. I've been going with that joke for about
Speaker 2: a year now. I feel like it's probably worn out.
Speaker 1: It's welcome. We did some audio man that was overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Last year's hi that the awards show people turning out
Speaker 1: for that was just flabbergasting. It was an overwhelming experience.
Speaker 2: We worked a little audio magic last year and made
Speaker 2: things sound the way we wanted. Suffice to say it
Speaker 2: took a lot of time and a lot of effort.
Speaker 2: It is our off season. We're still doing the Verbies.
Speaker 2: We're just not going to go all out. We're gonna
Speaker 2: go back to the old school variety of verbies here
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. So for those of you who are
Speaker 2: just tuning in, what are the Verby Awards are what
Speaker 2: are we talking about, Well, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and it does escape me when in fact we started
Speaker 2: doing this, But we decided we were going to do
Speaker 2: our own award show, and I believe it was you.
Speaker 2: You came up with the concept of the Verby Awards.
Speaker 2: Kirk Kurbtreet has what the herbies.
Speaker 1: Right, Kirkurbstreet has the Herbies and the preseason Herbies, and
Speaker 1: we came up with the Verbies and have sort of
Speaker 1: woven audio magic throughout the years in various ways. I've
Speaker 1: done this from your mom's house with you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was the first time, I think it was the first
Speaker 1: time I met her. It was definitely the first time
Speaker 1: I spent time in Allentown and went to the house
Speaker 1: in which you grew up. And we've done this show
Speaker 1: with audio magic with various presenters. We did this show
Speaker 1: when I was living in la and I remember making
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll ditching USC and a helicopter jokes on the
Speaker 1: red carpet, something along those lines. So this has been
Speaker 1: a long standing postseason award show tradition. Second only, I
Speaker 1: would say to the Pismen in terms of college football royalty.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so. The way that we've done this over the years.
Speaker 2: It's varied. Originally, we started coming up with our own awards,
Speaker 2: and we came up with our own.
Speaker 1: Set of candidates.
Speaker 2: But then as the verballerhood grew, we started allowing people
Speaker 2: to vote, and then we started allowing people to nominate,
Speaker 2: and it has now basically turned into a verbaler generated
Speaker 2: award show. You gave us the nominees, we put them
Speaker 2: in a form.
Speaker 1: You voted.
Speaker 2: Thousands of you voted on who you thought should win.
Speaker 2: I've got the results here in La La Land in
Speaker 2: individual cards DAN that are appropriately labeled, and we're going
Speaker 2: to go award by award here and announce some winners tonight.
Speaker 2: The only caveat that I will announce and we've done
Speaker 2: this before, kind of like a captain's pick or you
Speaker 2: know what, do they having the voice where they could
Speaker 2: save one person? Sort of along those same lines. You
Speaker 2: and I have overriding ability here because it is our show.
Speaker 2: So if we determine that we want to put someone
Speaker 2: else in and usurp what our audience out there has
Speaker 2: voted for, we reserve that right.
Speaker 1: And of course, thanks as always to Price Waterhouse Cooper
Speaker 1: for keeping track of the safety and security of the
Speaker 1: final results. On that note, Dan, shall we dive right?
Speaker 1: I think we should not Coach of the year, all right?
Speaker 1: Not Coach of the Year. Dan.
Speaker 2: Here are your nominees for basically the reversive coach of
Speaker 2: the year. A lot of coaches out there in the
Speaker 2: wide world of college football didn't have a great year.
Speaker 2: Here were the four that came in above all the others.
Speaker 2: Butch Jones from Tennessee, Charlie Strong from Texas, Bob Diaco
Speaker 2: from Yukon, and Brian Kelly from Notre Dame. If you
Speaker 2: were voting, and I know you voted, who did you
Speaker 2: vote for?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I'm sort of shocked that both Mark Helfrich and Les
Speaker 1: Miles didn't make the final four, so a testament to
Speaker 1: where the heads of the verballers are at. But of
Speaker 1: these four, I would indeed vote for Bob Diaco, Bobby
Speaker 1: Iago the depths to which Yukon fell, even though the
Speaker 1: height the ceiling wasn't going to be as high as
Speaker 1: perhaps Texas and Texas did lose to Kansas, I think
Speaker 1: the complete struggle of even adequate football would give it
Speaker 1: to Bob Diaco.
Speaker 2: For me, I was surprised that Helfrich wasn't on any
Speaker 2: of the lists. Actually, yeah, that we put out there.
Speaker 2: We might have gotten a stray helfridch nomination here or there,
Speaker 2: but not for or not.
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. I voted for.
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly from Notre Dame, from my beloved Not Dame
Speaker 2: fighting guy.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to boost that fantasy things overlooking or what
Speaker 1: was the thing for Brian Kelly. You're just boosting your
Speaker 1: own fantasy second guessing Brian Kelly. There, it is all right, Dan,
Speaker 1: dim the lights here we go. Dim the lights they
Speaker 1: are dimmed.
Speaker 2: Your winner for twenty seventeen, Verbie not Coach of the
Speaker 2: Year is.
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly. Congreg Do you want to give a speech
Speaker 1: on his behalf or do you want me to? I'd
Speaker 1: prefer not to give a speech on behalf of Brian Kelly.
Speaker 1: I mean listen, first and foremost, Texas, Michigan state, Duke,
Speaker 1: NC state in not ideal conditions, Stanford in relatively ideal conditions,
Speaker 1: Navy in just general fine conditions. The lead against Virginia
Speaker 1: attach in USA couldn't have done it without any of those.
Speaker 2: Here, here's what I'd say. This isn't like a funny
Speaker 2: speech or anything like that. I voted for Brian Kelly
Speaker 2: thirty six point eight percent of the vote versus thirty
Speaker 2: five point one percent of the vote for Butch Jones.
Speaker 2: So perhaps for a lesser popular contest, my one vote
Speaker 2: could have made up the difference there. Wow, alas it
Speaker 2: did not. It was a fair margin, but only by
Speaker 2: one point seven percent. Clear cut winner and Brian Kelly.
Speaker 2: I voted for Kelly because so many different things went
Speaker 2: wrong for Notre Dame. It wasn't like just the defense
Speaker 2: or just the offense, or just an injury or just
Speaker 2: a discipline thing. They all kind of occurred to different spots.
Speaker 2: You could never quite get a fix on this season,
Speaker 2: and it just it kind of went into a weird
Speaker 2: death spiral.
Speaker 1: Butch Jones still won like nine games.
Speaker 2: Charlie Strong, you could make a case, Bob Diaco the
Speaker 2: bottom fell out. Okay, I understand that one too, But
Speaker 2: Brian ke Kelly was personal. Brian Kelly was obviously much
Speaker 2: more in the public eye. He is your twenty seventeen
Speaker 2: knot Coach of the Year, Dan.
Speaker 1: And to sort of have that stink where not only
Speaker 1: do you beat a team or lose to a team.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, but after you lose to that team, they
Speaker 1: in turn start losing. So the influence of Brian Kelly,
Speaker 1: the influence that he wheels, is far greater than any
Speaker 1: of these other nominees.
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly was nominated here, but Notre Dame is also
Speaker 2: nominated later for Busts of the Year. They are also
Speaker 2: nominated collectively for tire Fire of the Year in their
Speaker 2: four and eight season, and then Notre Dame Stink is
Speaker 2: also nominated for Capstone Award here podcast Meme of the Year,
Speaker 2: La Lala.
Speaker 1: Land of the twenty seventeen burbies. That's right, okay, Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Moving on, Let's get to our next category, Alternate Uniform
Speaker 2: of the Year. Alright, Alternate Uniform of the Year is
Speaker 2: a relatively new entrant in the Verby Awards. We've been
Speaker 2: doing this, I guess about three or four years now.
Speaker 2: I say that with full working knowledge that I'm not
Speaker 2: sure how long we've done the verbis for, but it
Speaker 2: feels like alternate uniform is a newer category. It was
Speaker 2: suggested by a listener many moons ago, and now here
Speaker 2: we are. What we're trying to do is call out
Speaker 2: I say, the coolest alternate uniform of the year, because
Speaker 2: every school is doing.
Speaker 1: It now, right.
Speaker 2: Do you feel at all like this is like a
Speaker 2: cheap spin off of what Oregon's done with their uniform situation. Uh?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, because a lot of these are honoring throwback looks,
Speaker 1: either in just like replicating the throwback or taking a
Speaker 1: small chunk of what the university was involved in or
Speaker 1: what's associated with the university and turning it into something.
Speaker 1: We've seen this from the service. Academies do various takes
Speaker 1: on you know, military imagery in very cool ways, in
Speaker 1: some sort of weird ways, but there's nothing really too
Speaker 1: futuristic I would say about this year's nominees, which I
Speaker 1: think is Oregon's hallmark.
Speaker 2: A lot of close voting in this year's Verbi Awards.
Speaker 2: I'm looking just at this category because again the results
Speaker 2: are individually wrapped here. I'm not privy to any of
Speaker 2: these results before the show, but this one was relatively
Speaker 2: close as well. Alternate Uniforms of the Year. Here are
Speaker 2: the nominees. One the Army Red Devils uniforms, two the
Speaker 2: Air Force Shark toothed uniforms. Three the Oregon quote unquote
Speaker 2: mascot uniform What were the mascot uniforms?
Speaker 1: So the mascot uniforms were for the Colorado game, I believe,
Speaker 1: which they lost. Last second, the color scheme matched the
Speaker 1: Ducks Dusk game. So the white helmet with the orange
Speaker 1: masks for the Duck bill, the green and yellow the
Speaker 1: same shade jersey, the white pants, and then orange socks
Speaker 1: and orange shoes to match the Ducks leg and web feet,
Speaker 1: and then finally pits yellow throwback uniforms. If I'm being
Speaker 1: honest here, I feel like, what's the coolest? Right?
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I feel like Oregon invented this category.
Speaker 2: Therefore they are a requisite nominee every year they have
Speaker 2: to be in this category. Beyond that, though, I think the.
Speaker 1: Coolest was far and away the Air Force. The Air Force, look,
Speaker 1: that was pretty damn cool with the shark teeth, the
Speaker 1: big shark. Yeah, it looks like an old plane, like
Speaker 1: the old paint plane, the shark toothplanes they were. They
Speaker 1: had the paint job that reminded me of like the
Speaker 1: old World War Two reports, like tell the boys over
Speaker 1: a seas that they're gonna be receiving the number one
Speaker 1: pack like that is just a wonderful thing to me.
Speaker 1: But despite the pies men, I believe being one in
Speaker 1: Pitt's throwback uniforms, which I like that touch, I still
Speaker 1: think the mascot you dressing up as the mascot to
Speaker 1: me as a Homer, as a biased person, I still
Speaker 1: think the complete look is the best of these four.
Speaker 1: I like all of these.
Speaker 2: If I am grading them on a scale of one
Speaker 2: through four, first being my favorite, fourth being my least favorite,
Speaker 2: I would put Oregon fourth because I think the others
Speaker 2: are cooler, But that doesn't mean it is not cool
Speaker 2: in its own right. I liked it, just not as
Speaker 2: much much as Shark Tooth.
Speaker 1: Okay, the voice I was trying to do. By the way,
Speaker 1: you know Kats is the deli here, Yeah, in New York.
Speaker 1: So they have a poster up and it's send a
Speaker 1: Salami to your boy in the Army, And that's what
Speaker 1: the Shark reminds me of.
Speaker 3: So I like it.
Speaker 2: Daniel, dim the lights, Oh here I go. You're a
Speaker 2: winner for twenty seventeen Alternate Uniform of the Year, the.
Speaker 1: Air Force Shark Tooth uniforms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations to air Force.
Speaker 1: I think it's appropriate and they did a great job
Speaker 1: with its.
Speaker 2: Thirty five point one percent of the vote went to
Speaker 2: Air Force. Pits Yellow Throwbacks got twenty seven, Armies Red
Speaker 2: Devils got twenty point two, and then Oregon did come
Speaker 2: in fourth with seventeen percent, so relatively close vote. People
Speaker 2: were not overwhelmingly in favor of one versus the others.
Speaker 1: And a quiet ten win season for Air Force, so
Speaker 1: the wins keep piling up for the Falcons. They finished
Speaker 1: the season, they won their bowl game, they beat Boise State,
Speaker 1: so they finished the air with six wins on the
Speaker 1: field and a big win off it, Ty send a
Speaker 1: salami to you boy in the Army. Moving on our next.
Speaker 2: Award, Worst Year Back, Worst Year Back. What does this
Speaker 2: award mean to you? That is the intrinsic question here.
Speaker 2: It's meant a lot of different things to us since
Speaker 2: we started awarding this, let's say three years ago. It
Speaker 2: was originally because of what happened to Matt Barkley, because,
Speaker 2: as you know, Matt Barkley had a baller junior year,
Speaker 2: was a consensus top five pick, and then decided to
Speaker 2: come back to college. It was pretty much all downhill
Speaker 2: from there. Matt Barkley never materialized in the NFL. He
Speaker 2: was a later pick in the NFL draft. He did
Speaker 2: not cash in when his stock was the highest.
Speaker 1: Worst.
Speaker 2: You're back Matt Barkley senior year. But over time it's
Speaker 2: come to mean different things. Originally it was supposed to
Speaker 2: be a junior for going the draft to go for
Speaker 2: a senior season, but then Christian.
Speaker 1: Hackenberg came around.
Speaker 2: Christian Hackenberg wasn't quite in that in that same situation, right.
Speaker 2: It just it fell out from under him once James
Speaker 2: Franklin got to town and then we incorporated him and
Speaker 2: thought that he was fitting. This year, we've actually incorporated
Speaker 2: a coach into the field here. So what does does
Speaker 2: this mean to you?
Speaker 3: Dan?
Speaker 1: I think you hit it on the head. I think
Speaker 1: it's something that you know uncertainty whether a person, coach, player,
Speaker 1: or whatever is going to come back. So maybe a
Speaker 1: coach that flirts with the NFL or flirts with taking
Speaker 1: another job and ultimately decides to remain at his school,
Speaker 1: or a player flirting with the NFL draft and deciding
Speaker 1: to come back for another season, something along those lines.
Speaker 1: And I guess it can mean something else to anybody
Speaker 1: who's voting the three nominees. I think it sort of
Speaker 1: means different things. But I think I agree with two
Speaker 1: of these three as for fitting in the category and
Speaker 1: being a finalist. The other one I'm not sure about.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, I can tell you.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that's the way the voting went,
Speaker 2: for what it's worth, and we'll get into that here.
Speaker 2: But yes, the fringe candidate every year we've done this
Speaker 2: has been Pat Fitzgerald. Every year we get a couple
Speaker 2: suggestions for Pat Fitzgerald. I'm not saying I agree with it,
Speaker 2: but I'm also not saying I fully disagree with it.
Speaker 2: I understand if you're looking at the Pat Fitzgerald stock
Speaker 2: report why you might think that Pat Fitzgerald could potentially
Speaker 2: be a candidate for this. Not a strong enough candidate,
Speaker 2: but he is the ultimate fringe candidate. The real candidates
Speaker 2: are as follows. The aforementioned coach, Les Miles, formerly the
Speaker 2: coach of UNSU, was unceremoniously fired at long last and
Speaker 2: was sort of only got back as sort of a
Speaker 2: last minute decision to keep him.
Speaker 1: So he is back in the conventional sense of this award.
Speaker 2: He was back, but just not for as long as
Speaker 2: Josh Rosen sure or maybe he was Josh Rosen. He
Speaker 2: only played half the season. Yeah if that, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like it's unfair for Josh Rosen to
Speaker 2: be in here.
Speaker 1: He was hurt. That's a bad year back, though, tie,
Speaker 1: it's a bad year back. Severe nerve damage to your
Speaker 1: shoulder is not great. Okay, that's fair. And then Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey nicked up, was nicked up, was good while he
Speaker 1: played poor quarterback play did not help him.
Speaker 2: I feel like Christian McCaffrey had more on his shoulders
Speaker 2: this season when he wasn't nicked up than he did
Speaker 2: when Kevin Hogan was still quarterback, and that probably contributed
Speaker 2: a little bit to reduced output.
Speaker 1: I'm going to cast my vote for less Miles because
Speaker 1: the uncertainty of will I get fired or won't die
Speaker 1: at the beginning of last year, after last season, after
Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen season, compounded with turbulence early on in
Speaker 1: the season losing your job and then interviewing for a
Speaker 1: bunch of jobs or meeting with teams for a bunch
Speaker 1: of new jobs, and everybody just sort of passing. So
Speaker 1: there's some compound fracturing there for less Miles that I
Speaker 1: don't think is the same for the others, because Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey ultimately had a pretty good season and well, there's
Speaker 1: a good chance he'll get drafted in the first round,
Speaker 1: so ultimately not a terrible year. I voted for less
Speaker 1: as well. I'm going less. Gim the lights. Here we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 2: Moment of truth, you're twenty seventeen worst year back, Josh Rosen. Wow,
Speaker 2: bit of a stutter, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, going into the season, there was the hype.
Speaker 1: There was they're going to a pro style offense with
Speaker 1: Kennedy Palamalu. It's we're going to see an unleashed Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen a sophomore. You can make a statement early against
Speaker 1: Texas A and M. You know, they have all this
Speaker 1: returning talent on defense to put them in good position
Speaker 1: and just a huge bummer of an injury. It's not
Speaker 1: a good year back, ty, it is not a good
Speaker 1: year back.
Speaker 2: Forty one point seven percent versus thirty nine point five
Speaker 2: percent of the vote, These darn third party candidates and
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey stealing eighteen percent of the vote. I'd be
Speaker 2: curious if we didn't have cemac in the category, how
Speaker 2: this would have gone if it might have swung in
Speaker 2: the favor of less Miles, but.
Speaker 1: A last would you have added somebody else different?
Speaker 2: I feel like these were the two strongest candidates that
Speaker 2: we received when we initially threw it out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was uncertainty about Charlie Strong after last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to vote of confidence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a number of names that you could
Speaker 2: have thrown in there. I don't know if any of
Speaker 2: them were particularly strong. I feel like less Miles was
Speaker 2: the strongest.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's reasonable. I want to say there was some
Speaker 1: smoke around Lane Kiffin after last year, but again they
Speaker 1: went undefeated during the regular season. Hart to say it
Speaker 1: was a bad year back, but it ended unceremoniously.
Speaker 2: Worst year back Josh Rosen so thus far not Coach
Speaker 2: of the Year Brian Kelly thirty six point eight percent,
Speaker 2: Alternate Uniform of the Year Air Force's Shark tooth Uniforms
Speaker 2: thirty five point one and our worst year back Josh
Speaker 2: Rosen forty one point seven percent of the vote. Will
Speaker 2: that be the highest percentage of the vote. A lot
Speaker 2: of close vote totals here, Dan, Let's move on. Let's
Speaker 2: go to half team of the year Half Team of
Speaker 2: the Year.
Speaker 1: This is a Dan Rubinstein special here what is half
Speaker 1: the end of the year? Half Team of the Year
Speaker 1: is awarded to the team that puts forth the best
Speaker 1: side of the ball that is paired with the worst
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So a team that puts out
Speaker 1: an unbelievable defense, and a couple of examples. A couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, what inspired this was Missouri's defense was
Speaker 1: just it was full of NFL players. They locked everybody down,
Speaker 1: and their offense just couldn't even get a first down.
Speaker 1: They were just atrocious. The defense kept putting the offense
Speaker 1: in good position to take advantage of teams could not
Speaker 1: do anything. We have Texas Tech defense, which I think
Speaker 1: I believe they're a nominee this year, but even two
Speaker 1: years ago that offense, oh excuse me. The offense is
Speaker 1: the half team because of the excruciatingly disappointing defense. And
Speaker 1: we had Boston College's defense a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: under Don Brown has since moved on to Michigan. So
Speaker 1: a number of teams put forth an unbelievable effort on
Speaker 1: one side of the ball and are completely let down
Speaker 1: by incompetence on the other. So we want to reward
Speaker 1: those teams for those struggles that they're in very little
Speaker 1: control of. Last year, it was a gripping speech by
Speaker 1: our good friend Steve Dazio. Boston College's defense took the
Speaker 1: cake last year. This year, I feel we've got a
Speaker 1: really balanced cast of characters to choose from. Okay, I
Speaker 1: will read these off in alphabetical order. Florida's defense, h yeah,
Speaker 1: LSU's defense, absolutely, Pitt's offense, Texas Techs offense. Those year
Speaker 1: four nominees. I think the weakest entrant here is LSU's defense,
Speaker 1: not because elis U's defense is bad, but because, by
Speaker 1: the end of the year, at least under at Orizron,
Speaker 1: I felt like the offense turned a corner. The two
Speaker 1: headed running backs. The passing game wasn't there, but they
Speaker 1: were putting up points. They were moving the ball, but
Speaker 1: there were moments where games were lost because of an
Speaker 1: inability to move the ball consistently. When you have that
Speaker 1: level of NFL defense, elise Used offense should have been better.
Speaker 2: I voted for Florida's defense. Florida's defense carried that football team,
Speaker 2: and I think what swung my vote in their direction
Speaker 2: was just the fact that the offense was so unexpectedly
Speaker 2: bad for a second straight year under Jim mcawain. He's
Speaker 2: an offensive minded guy. He would expect by now he'd
Speaker 2: be able to assemble enough parts offensively to feel the
Speaker 2: better offense. Not that I'm saying I expected them to
Speaker 2: come out there and be pyrotechnic on the offensive side
Speaker 2: of the ball.
Speaker 1: I never did.
Speaker 2: I just expected more, and the fact that the defense
Speaker 2: had to carry them again, I just I felt like
Speaker 2: they deserve something. They deserve something for that effort, and
Speaker 2: if it's only a lowly verbie, then so be it.
Speaker 2: But you gotta give them some props. That's why I
Speaker 2: voted for them. I really feel for that Texas Tech offense.
Speaker 2: They put up points and against the Big twelve, Texas
Speaker 2: Tech allowed forty three points six points a game. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's not good enough.
Speaker 1: I I'm going to say this, it should be easier
Speaker 1: for Florida, a team who has recently won multiple national
Speaker 1: championships and has had a Heisman quarterback to field an
Speaker 1: offense with the available talent that is in state. They
Speaker 1: should be able to put forth an offense that scores
Speaker 1: thirty points a game to compliment that Florida should never
Speaker 1: really win fewer than nine games a year, and had
Speaker 1: they had an offense, they would have won at least
Speaker 1: a couple more. So, I think the Florida pick is
Speaker 1: the right pick. I think, Hey, I'm going there. Half
Speaker 1: Team of the Year, dim theolights, it's good our drum
Speaker 1: roll in here. Your winner twenty seventeen Half Team of
Speaker 1: the Year is Texas Tech Offense. Hey, I see it,
Speaker 1: I see it. Ty good for them, good f They
Speaker 1: had an S and P plus defensive rating two years
Speaker 1: ago of forty one point two. That's atrocious. Last year
Speaker 1: they improved to forty and they remained the worst efficiency
Speaker 1: defense in college football while having an NFL caliber quarterback
Speaker 1: dropped like fifty points a game.
Speaker 2: Thirty seven percent of the vote versus twenty five percent
Speaker 2: of the vote for Florida. LSU comes in third with
Speaker 2: about nineteen and Pick comes in fourth with about seventeen
Speaker 2: percent of the vote. Here, I can't say I strongly
Speaker 2: disagree with Tech Tech offense selection. In truth, they could
Speaker 2: have won last year. They could have won an of
Speaker 2: the last five years if we're being honest here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so Texas Tech Offense thirty seven percent congratulations Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes actually nominated a little bit later
Speaker 2: for Losing Effort of the Year, so potentially a really
Speaker 2: big night here for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football program.
Speaker 1: I think we should exclusively judge Texas Tech's twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: season by if they are a nominee for this award
Speaker 1: next year. If they're just not a nominee in either
Speaker 1: direction for this award, the season was a huge success.
Speaker 1: I don't even care if they go three and nine
Speaker 1: without Patrick Mahomes, and if they are here next year,
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing how Lincoln Riley will change
Speaker 1: things in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, if they're here next year,
Speaker 2: that means Cliff Kingsbury is a nominee for not Coach
Speaker 2: of the Year, right, Absolutely. Moving on, Let's go to
Speaker 2: another favorite.
Speaker 1: Crime of the Year.
Speaker 2: Very dramatic Dan Wow, Yeah, worked up Crime of the
Speaker 2: Year man. Okay, We've had a bunch of odd, odd
Speaker 2: candidates for this award in the past. We've had guys
Speaker 2: going into three point stances and charging at the cops.
Speaker 2: We've had, as we do this year, a guy shoplifting
Speaker 2: on his Bowl trip to a Belk. Just a bunch
Speaker 2: of weird stuff that's going on in and around the
Speaker 2: college football ether since we started doing the verbies.
Speaker 1: This is also a newer.
Speaker 2: Award, but not to be overshadowed at all. One of
Speaker 2: our favorites. Three really good candidates this year. I already
Speaker 2: mentioned Jeremy Sprinkle shoplifting from Belk. He did that during
Speaker 2: his Belk Bowl visit. Excuse me, he played for Arkansas.
Speaker 2: I believe, if memory serves.
Speaker 1: Belk is a department store for those in the dark,
Speaker 1: A department store that's correct, Southern department store. Jeremy Sprinkle
Speaker 1: a great middle name.
Speaker 2: Crime of the year. Shoplifting from a Belk another one
Speaker 2: that pops up here, and rightfully so. Whoever nominated this
Speaker 2: was extremely creative, not taking crime literally, but somewhat creatively
Speaker 2: in saying that Central Michigan's win over Oklahoma State on
Speaker 2: that bizarre last second play yeah, should qualify as a crime.
Speaker 2: And I agree Central Michigan's win over Oklahoma State very
Speaker 2: much a crime because.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't have been a win at all. Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: got screwed. This is all true.
Speaker 2: The big question for me, though, is whether or not
Speaker 2: either of those two has what it takes to knock
Speaker 2: off Wakey Leaks. Wakey Leaks is ty.
Speaker 1: We live in turbulent times, we do fair to say
Speaker 1: yes and throwing an item on here. Espionage assisting foreign enemies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is You're scratching a lot of people right where
Speaker 1: they itch dog wake elenx is is right there. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do not know how you find something
Speaker 1: bigger than wake Leaks. Then you finding a radio analyst
Speaker 1: helping out wake Forest, a wake Forest radio analyst helping
Speaker 1: out wake Forest opponents during the season by slipping them
Speaker 1: game plans xerox copies very Americans of wake Forests, or
Speaker 1: at least a radio announcers. So I don't know how
Speaker 1: wake e Leaks gets topped. I just don't.
Speaker 2: This is so stupid it could only happen in college football,
Speaker 2: Sue one of the people say about our podcast, by
Speaker 2: the way, oh yeah, yeah. One of the dumbest things
Speaker 2: I've ever heard my entire life.
Speaker 1: Still there, that.
Speaker 2: Somebody would risk their career, and not only their current career,
Speaker 2: but their future career to try and sell off wake
Speaker 2: Forest game plans. Yep, I don't even know if he
Speaker 2: tried to sell them off. He just tried to pawn
Speaker 2: them off as some sort of revenge scheme.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And he actually found a couple takers. But
Speaker 1: I don't know how you top it. I just don't.
Speaker 2: Crime of the Year, We've got Jeremy Sprinkle, we've got
Speaker 2: Central Michigan, and we've got.
Speaker 1: Wakey Leaks in the lights your winner. Crime of the Year.
Speaker 2: Forty four point nine percent of the vote should have
Speaker 2: gotten fifty let's hear it for waki Leaks.
Speaker 1: Yeah it has to be.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Forty four point nine percent of the vote
Speaker 3: goes to Wakei Leaks, thirty two percent going to Central
Speaker 3: Michigan's quote unquote win over Oklahoma State, and then another
Speaker 3: twenty two point five percent going to Jeremy Sprinkle shoplifting
Speaker 3: from a Belk on Arkansas's trip to the Belk Ball.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Sprinkle got a lot more love than I expected. Actually,
Speaker 2: Central Michigan got a lot more love than I expected.
Speaker 2: Wakey Leaks to me was the eight thousand pound gorilla
Speaker 2: in this room. And I'm glad that they took home
Speaker 2: the hardware. So congratuate has to be, has to be.
Speaker 1: It feels good that, you know, such a deserving candidate
Speaker 1: is able to take home the gold. We're about halfway through.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm gonna stretch our Verbie Awards here. Dan,
Speaker 1: where's the after party the hotel lobby? Okay, you know that, Ty,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to know what happens
Speaker 1: after the hotel lobby.
Speaker 2: Before we get to our station break, Dan, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask you to bring out your solemn tones.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know where you're going with this.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you to bring out your solemn tones.
Speaker 2: As you know, not all is fun of games in
Speaker 2: the college football world. Each and every season, we've got
Speaker 2: things that go into the great college football beyond.
Speaker 1: They leave us cruel reality. It's time for memoriam. Okay.
Speaker 1: Eight years of successful Oregon football. The Matt Hatter Notre Dames,
Speaker 1: one year Navy winning streak, All Missus defensive back Deontay
Speaker 1: Anderson trying to tackle Leonard Fournette, Louisville's offensive line over
Speaker 1: and over. Mitch Trubisky's Hurricane completion percentage, Mitchell Mitchell, Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson's pants, the time it took to cut Mike Gundy's hair.
Speaker 1: Texas being back again, Ohio State's Bowl nearly ninety six
Speaker 1: year non consecutive bowl scoring streak, undefeated, Iowa Went too Young,
Speaker 1: TI Went too Young, James Franklin's hot seat, the Yukon
Speaker 1: Fight in Diaco's, Navy's winning streak over Army Florida, LSU
Speaker 1: in Gainesville, newly mature Lane Kiffen, Arkansas's comfortable lead, Brish
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech in that BELF Bowl, and finally tie this tweet.
Speaker 1: If you have facts about a violation, send it to
Speaker 1: compliance at Olemiss dot edu. If not, please do not
Speaker 1: slander these young men or insult their family. Oh Ty,
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Speaker 1: we got a bust of the year. Bust the year,
Speaker 1: okad this one's I mean three or four of are
Speaker 1: very highly contested.
Speaker 2: Here Busts of the Year used to be known as
Speaker 2: Clemson of the Year. Yeah, used to be Clemson of
Speaker 2: the Year, but no longer.
Speaker 1: No longer.
Speaker 2: Last year we officially retired, at least in our little world,
Speaker 2: the clemsoning term. Yes, I shouldn't even have said it now,
Speaker 2: but I did. It's okay, proving a point, you're human.
Speaker 2: We retired the term. In so doing, we retired Clemson
Speaker 2: of the Year. We've renamed it to Bust of the
Speaker 2: Year out of respect to our good friends down there
Speaker 2: in Clemson, South Carolina. This year, we've got four nominees
Speaker 2: that all are very deserving of this award.
Speaker 1: What qualifies as a bus tie?
Speaker 2: I think what qualifies as a bus is coming in
Speaker 2: with really high expectations and then totally underperforming those expectations,
Speaker 2: plain and simple.
Speaker 1: That's my definition. So we saw a team doing something
Speaker 1: and they let us down, and thus we can call
Speaker 1: them a name. That's right.
Speaker 2: Your first nominee here is Notre Dame. Yeah, Notre Dame
Speaker 2: went four and eight. If you don't know that Notre
Speaker 2: Dame went to four and eight, you probably just found
Speaker 2: out about college football, or haven't listened to the show,
Speaker 2: or haven't been on Twitter or the internet in general,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame going four and eight is one of the
Speaker 2: longest running jokes in the college football world right now,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, your first nominee. Number two is Oregon. Oregon
Speaker 2: also went four and eight, but for some reason you
Speaker 2: didn't get quite the.
Speaker 1: Blowback that Notre Dame did. Dan, Why is that people
Speaker 1: like or do they they do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah they do.
Speaker 2: It's pretty fitting that both of our teams are on
Speaker 2: this list, also very depressing.
Speaker 1: It was not a fun fall for either one of us. Ty,
Speaker 1: you got a new coach out of this.
Speaker 2: That is true. I have no idea if he's going
Speaker 2: to be good. Ore you went four and eight. They're
Speaker 2: also on this list. Michigan State also on this list,
Speaker 2: a very sound contender for this award.
Speaker 1: Probably not as.
Speaker 2: Flashy name as Notre Dame or Oregon, but certainly a
Speaker 2: successful name.
Speaker 1: Michigan State was in.
Speaker 2: The College Football Playoff a year prior, fell off the
Speaker 2: face of the earth and actually had a worse record
Speaker 2: three to nine, but they.
Speaker 1: Did beat noted. True they did, which means very little.
Speaker 1: And then there's TCU. TCU went six and seven, lost
Speaker 1: their bowl game, but I feel like TCU is deserving
Speaker 1: of this spot on the list because many folks, including myself,
Speaker 1: including Kirk Kurbstreet, a lot of college football talkers had
Speaker 1: TCU as a dark horse playoff contender and they just
Speaker 1: never got out, never got it going, whether it was offense,
Speaker 1: whether it was defense, just could never fire on both
Speaker 1: cylinders and was kind of a mess for a good
Speaker 1: chunk of the year. So TCU is deserving of this spot.
Speaker 1: I would have given it to UCLA even with the
Speaker 1: injury to Josh Rosen, TCU had a new quarterback, some change,
Speaker 1: they still go. They're still in the vicinity of five hundred.
Speaker 1: UCLA two and seven in the PAC twelve, four and
Speaker 1: eight overall, another team at four and eight, and we'll
Speaker 1: have a number of players on both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball drafted either this year or next year. They had
Speaker 1: an NFL caliber onlin NFL caliber, but a defense stocked
Speaker 1: with NFL type talent last year and one that should
Speaker 1: not have lost to a number of teams that are
Speaker 1: far lesser. So UCLA I would say had a more
Speaker 1: disappointing If I had a vote, I would have gone
Speaker 1: that direction.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. We do have a vote. It's
Speaker 2: our damn show mm hmm.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: Well, miss also can qualify. We can do whatever we
Speaker 2: want here. So what I'm suggesting, I know you're writing
Speaker 2: these down.
Speaker 1: I know you live by these, these awards. We love
Speaker 1: these awards every year.
Speaker 2: What I'm suggesting is, let's take a good hard look
Speaker 2: at all of these categories after the winners have been announced,
Speaker 2: and then, in true La La land moonlight.
Speaker 1: Fashion, let's just award new ones.
Speaker 2: Let's go back and see if maybe we think another
Speaker 2: candidate is more deserving. Does it have to be a
Speaker 2: candidate on the list could be a UCLA coming out
Speaker 2: of nowhere?
Speaker 1: True, very much.
Speaker 2: We reserve that right here as the founders of the
Speaker 2: solid verbal. We did get some UCLA input here for
Speaker 2: Busts of the Year, not as many as we did
Speaker 2: for the other four. My interpretation there was because Josh
Speaker 2: Rosen was hurt. If Joshsen totally totally reasonable. If he
Speaker 2: hadn't been hurt, UCLA would have been a much stronger
Speaker 2: candidate here. But as it were, he was hurt. Perhaps
Speaker 2: that contributed anyway. Notre Dame, Oregon, Michigan State and TCU
Speaker 2: dim the lights here we go. Twenty seventeen Bust of
Speaker 2: the year goes to.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Oh, Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, four and eight.
Speaker 1: I would be happier about this award as a Notre
Speaker 1: Dame fan than some other ones, because at least this
Speaker 1: implies people held Notre Dame in high regard before the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then disappointed everybody whereas the other you know, not
Speaker 1: coach the year stuff like that. That's just like you
Speaker 1: are bad. Notre Dame is disappointing. Which if you've ever
Speaker 1: come home past curfew, you're not mad, You're disappointed that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So I think this one's okay. I
Speaker 1: think you can you can sleep well with.
Speaker 2: This one sometimes, Dan, you got a laugh to keep
Speaker 2: from crying. And when you go four and eight, this
Speaker 2: is this is.
Speaker 1: What you get. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I will accept this on behalf of the Notre Dame community. Okay,
Speaker 2: here is the bigger question. What do you think the
Speaker 2: spread was? We had four candidates here? What percent of
Speaker 2: the vote did Notre Dame achieve here?
Speaker 1: Forty seven percent? Forty seven percent on the nose? Wow?
Speaker 1: Really is it?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: You are correct sir? I did not see I am
Speaker 1: telling you right now. I am looking at an unchecked
Speaker 1: version of our ballots to see do you see three
Speaker 1: of these cards here? I don't. I cannot like it's opaque.
Speaker 1: I don't. I am not looking forty seven percent. What's
Speaker 1: the net? Who was who came in second?
Speaker 2: Michigan State came in second with forty three point seven percent.
Speaker 2: So Notre Dame forty seven point four, Michigan State second
Speaker 2: forty three point seven, Oregon only six point seven.
Speaker 1: Percent of the vote. That surprises me a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's seek to me that if I were to award this,
Speaker 1: I think I would go with Michigan State. It seemed
Speaker 1: like they had a higher ceiling. Like Notre Dame has
Speaker 1: lost some dumb games. Oregon has lost some dumb games.
Speaker 1: You know, they had the huge defensive struggles the year
Speaker 1: before as well. TCU, you know, still in the vicinity
Speaker 1: of five hundred. It makes sense to me Michigan State
Speaker 1: going from the playoff to three wins. I feel like
Speaker 1: that is the most precipitous decline that would have been
Speaker 1: my vote Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: So if you count the Brian Kelly victory before, that's
Speaker 2: two for Notreed.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take one of those pictures in the green
Speaker 1: room juggling his Verbie Awards like Alicia Keys does at
Speaker 1: the Grammys. I like that we.
Speaker 2: Still got Notre Dame stank. We still got Notre Dame's
Speaker 2: four to eight seasons. So potentially a big night. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe as many wins on Verbie Night as there were
Speaker 2: the whole regular season. Gotta win at some point, Toy
Speaker 2: get that w Moving on Losing Effort of the Year,
Speaker 2: Losing effort of the year, one of our crowd favorites, Yeah,
Speaker 2: one of our crowd favorites. Would you like to explain
Speaker 2: the genesis of losing effort in?
Speaker 1: Losing Effort of the Year originally came out when we
Speaker 1: kept saying week after week Nick Foles had four hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy two yards, five touchdowns, and one pick in
Speaker 1: a losing effort because Arizona kept getting great performances from
Speaker 1: former quarterback Nick Foles and kept wasting them. So we
Speaker 1: found ourselves saying that so much that we created Nick
Speaker 1: Foles in a losing effort and then have subsequently awarded
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or other players who have put up Gotti's statlines
Speaker 1: and huge games without also accruing a win. So we
Speaker 1: award the person who is able to. I know, like
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman was nominated last year for his performance against
Speaker 1: Washington States. So it's either a season long tribute or
Speaker 1: a single game tribute to a great performance without the
Speaker 1: w This year brought extraordinary circumstances. Oh, I like this.
Speaker 1: There was one candidate for a Losing Effort of the Year,
Speaker 1: like a Lifetime Achievement award, in this case, one candidate
Speaker 1: for Losing Effort of the Year. The way that we
Speaker 1: go out there and solicit feedback on these awards, we
Speaker 1: have a free response Google form and we tell our
Speaker 1: fans to go out there and submit your submit your nominations.
Speaker 1: There were a few others outside of Patrick Mahomes that
Speaker 1: came in, but generally, what you're looking for, if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, you're looking for repeats, You're looking for trends.
Speaker 1: You're looking for where the most momentum is among some
Speaker 1: of this feedback. And though there might have been a
Speaker 1: few stragglers here and there might have had a Deshaun
Speaker 1: Kaiser right, I don't know why, but it might have
Speaker 1: had it. Deshaun Kaiser might have had a few other
Speaker 1: names here and there. Patrick Mahomes was overwhelmingly logan woodside
Speaker 1: against BYU, we had a logan woodside shirt. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: is far and away the most nominated for losing Effort
Speaker 1: the year. It has to be.
Speaker 2: And given the fact that Texas Tech was also in
Speaker 2: on this for Half Team of the Year, I started
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, perhaps Patrick Mahomes should be the only
Speaker 2: candidate here. You could make a case that Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: could have been Half Team of the Year. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes far and away was the only candidate that
Speaker 2: I felt worthy of putting in this category. So, Daniel
Speaker 2: dim the Lights, your twenty seventeen Verbie Award winner for
Speaker 2: Losing Effort of the Year, is you already know it's
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes, congratulations. Oh yeah, like you said,
Speaker 2: maybe more of a lifetime achievement award.
Speaker 1: But one hundred percent of the vote. Isn't that what
Speaker 1: they gave Jackie Chan this year? The oscars one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of the vote or Losing Effort of the Year
Speaker 1: just an honorary lifetime achievement just because Jackie Chan is
Speaker 1: very much a Patrick Mahomes and ty Hildon Brandt type.
Speaker 1: So Patrick Mahomes, I have his stat lines in front
Speaker 1: of me, and if you watch Patrick Mahomes at all,
Speaker 1: you know he was one of the clear most entertaining
Speaker 1: players of the twenty sixteen twenty fifteen season as a
Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback for Texas Tech. Here's his touchdown to
Speaker 1: interception ratio by game four to zero, five to two,
Speaker 1: five to zero, four to one, two to one, one
Speaker 1: to one, five to one, two to one, three to one,
Speaker 1: three to zero, one to two, and then finally against
Speaker 1: Baylor with fifty points and a win six to zero. Damn.
Speaker 1: He threw four over five thousand yards, completed sixty five
Speaker 1: percent of his passes, had a final touchdown interception ratio
Speaker 1: of forty one to ten, had eight and a half
Speaker 1: yards per attempt, and completed three hundred and eighty eight
Speaker 1: of five hundred and ninety one. He threw the ball
Speaker 1: nearly six hundred times in twelve games, Wow, which is absurd,
Speaker 1: and did everything he could, made some ridiculous throws. If
Speaker 1: you are going to look back at like the ten
Speaker 1: best dimes of the year, the ten just other worldly
Speaker 1: passes of the twenty sixteen seats, and he might have
Speaker 1: three or four of them. He was that good and
Speaker 1: unfortunately Texas Tech put together a half of a team,
Speaker 1: like we've already mentioned. So Patrick Mahomes, we salute you
Speaker 1: for your efforts, even if they were in losing situations.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes was eighty percent of that half team, I'd say, yeah,
Speaker 2: if not more a worthy candidate if we've ever had
Speaker 2: one for a losing effort of the year one of
Speaker 2: the vote. Perhaps a little engineering to get him there,
Speaker 2: but alas, congratulations Patrick Mahomes. Congratulations in Texas Tech now
Speaker 2: tied equally with Notre Dame for most successful night here.
Speaker 1: So Kingsberry's with the Alicia Keys, juggling the verbies in
Speaker 1: his arms on the red carpet in the green room.
Speaker 1: I like that. Moving on, let's get to another crowd
Speaker 1: favorite name of the year. Name of the Year. Wow,
Speaker 1: this one's pretty impossible.
Speaker 2: This is a thankless and impossible list of candidates to
Speaker 2: pull together every year. Every year you get a ton
Speaker 2: of suggestions for name of the year. My hunch is
Speaker 2: that I know where this one is headed, but I
Speaker 2: have not looked at it yet. And the other cool
Speaker 2: thing about this category is that a lot of times
Speaker 2: you can see him coming, you know, like a year
Speaker 2: in advance.
Speaker 1: Who's going to be who's going to be in You
Speaker 1: see him coming up through the recruiting world. Absolutely absolutely so.
Speaker 2: Like for example, Kobe Buffalo Meat is the name of
Speaker 2: a recruit for what was it, Illinois State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he ended up at Illinois State. There was also
Speaker 1: a good Kansas player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kobe Buffalo Meat is a real player's name. I
Speaker 2: believe going to Illinois State. Maybe he's from the state
Speaker 2: of Cams and he's going Illinois State. I think that's
Speaker 2: what it is. Yeah, he is going to be in
Speaker 2: this category next year. But seeing as how he was
Speaker 2: just a recruit, how he didn't actually play, he can't.
Speaker 2: He can't qualify for Name of the Year this year.
Speaker 2: Here are the nominees. Got five good ones from BYU.
Speaker 2: We've got Squally Canada real name, Squally Canada. Love it
Speaker 2: from Michigan Taco Charlton.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmm. A good player could be a first round,
Speaker 1: second round pick. Man Berg man.
Speaker 2: Berg real name from Illinois man Burg A man, B, E,
Speaker 2: R G, two syllables. A lot of punch there.
Speaker 1: That's so if if you're gonna call your genitals the
Speaker 1: sexy Titanic, that you know what they're crashing into ty,
Speaker 1: the man Burg. That's right, the man Burg.
Speaker 2: We've also got a lion king from eastern Michigan. Yep,
Speaker 2: of course we do real name lion king. And then
Speaker 2: we've also got another Notre Dame nominee, which I forgot
Speaker 2: to mention. Actually five chances here to get another.
Speaker 1: Bite at the apple. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Equanimius Saint Brown EQ big tall, speedy, wide receiver, Notre
Speaker 2: Dame number one threat this past year strikes me as
Speaker 2: a Taco Charlton type in that he could be a
Speaker 2: multiple time nominee for this award movie. Okay, has at
Speaker 2: least another year at Notre Dame esb.
Speaker 1: Ty. I'm going to ask him, going to deposit this
Speaker 1: as cleanly as I can. What name do you just
Speaker 1: want to say out loud right now? Is what will
Speaker 1: be the most pleasing for you to say out loud
Speaker 1: of these five names, because I think that is where
Speaker 1: anybody voting, that's where their brain should go. What do
Speaker 1: I want to say out loud of all these names?
Speaker 1: Equanimius Saint Brown. See, I'm man Burg. I will say
Speaker 1: Manberg all night in my head. Now, man Manburg, absolutely
Speaker 1: your your.
Speaker 2: Description of it had we known it sooner could have
Speaker 2: swung things in favor of man Berg. Perhaps, Okay, dim
Speaker 2: the lights drum roll please twenty seventeen Name of the Year.
Speaker 1: Hard to go against Lion King, Dan, Wow, of course
Speaker 1: everything the light touches will someday be yours. Hard to
Speaker 1: go against Lion King. Close voting, five way voting. Manberg
Speaker 1: came in last, Dan, that's unbelievable to me, five point
Speaker 1: two percent. Squally Canada came in fourth with eleven point six,
Speaker 1: Taco Charlton with twenty four point four, ESB twenty eight
Speaker 1: point one, and Lion King not much separation, but two
Speaker 1: and a half percent got him to thirty point six percent,
Speaker 1: got him his first ever Name of the Year verb
Speaker 1: be congratulations Lion King. Yeah, and perhaps Michigan will have
Speaker 1: a nominee next year. I mean he played for the
Speaker 1: World or in the twenty sixteen but Eddie McDoom hard
Speaker 1: to discount. But Taco Charlton certainly the better of the
Speaker 1: two Michigan names. Did you, by the way, see the
Speaker 1: twenty seven team Name of the Year bracket? I did.
Speaker 1: That was on dead Spin and any of the I
Speaker 1: have it in front of me. Kobe, he's a number
Speaker 1: one seed. He's a one seed. Marmaduke Treblecock is a
Speaker 1: one seed. Quindarius Monday's a one seed. Chardonnay Pantastico is
Speaker 1: a one seed. But alpha McMath alpha McMath alpha McMath
Speaker 1: and tuts Honey Church with a nearly impossible I mean
Speaker 1: they'd meet in the second round of that. There are
Speaker 1: Taco dibbitts Aphrodite body comb is hard to overlook, Luigi Villain,
Speaker 1: who I believe is a college football player, and incoming
Speaker 1: college football recruits. Luigi's Villain because Luigi Villain, if you
Speaker 1: subscribe to the way the Mario Universe works, would be
Speaker 1: known as Ja Luigi, right, Yeah, that's right. Yeah so
Speaker 1: and naquees Pringle another great one in there. So I
Speaker 1: would encourage everybody to google Name of the Year ted
Speaker 1: Spin because they have a terrific bracket.
Speaker 2: The last five winners of the Name of the Year
Speaker 2: bracket go to the Name of the Year dot com.
Speaker 2: You can read up on this. Yes, we've actually talked
Speaker 2: to these guys. At some point, we should have more
Speaker 2: to talk about what's going on in college football.
Speaker 1: But Dallas Creamer, we've got Taco b m Monster mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Oh In Alzheimer, Leo, Moses sporn Star, yep, Seamus beagle Hole.
Speaker 1: My favorite in twenty fifteen was Amanda Miranda Panda, and
Speaker 1: then last year it was Pope McCorkle the third. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you who's a seventh seed in the Boltron
Speaker 1: region this year, ty h King Buttermore the third. By
Speaker 1: the way, and this is going, I mean just further
Speaker 1: veering off topic, but did you see somebody posted the
Speaker 1: made up names that were in some nes video game
Speaker 1: of I don't know if it was Bases Loaded. It
Speaker 1: was one of those old baseball games that didn't have
Speaker 1: the licensing rights to MLB player names. So some poor
Speaker 1: Japanese guy or gal was forced to think about what
Speaker 1: would a ton of made up American names be for
Speaker 1: a baseball game? And it makes no sense and it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: It is extraordinary, and I suggest you look it up
Speaker 1: because it's it's American names that are just slightly off.
Speaker 1: So instead of like Johnson, it's like Dwight Monson. It's
Speaker 1: just it's at the same time very considerate and very lazy,
Speaker 1: which is a standard we hold ourselves to.
Speaker 2: Great congratulations to Lion King m hmm. Absolutely moving on
Speaker 2: three more to go. Here is one to me, Dan
Speaker 2: that is of personal significance. Here random fact to it
Speaker 2: that malely interests Tom Hammond of the year. Random factoid
Speaker 2: that malely interest Tom Hammond of the year. So here
Speaker 2: is Here is how this award started. I've always had
Speaker 2: this beef with Tom Hammond.
Speaker 1: Mister GPA.
Speaker 2: As a Notre Dame fan, I was accustomed to him
Speaker 2: calling games on NBC for Notre Dame. He would pull
Speaker 2: this stunt where it'd be a critical game situation, fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: third quarter, could be any quarter, but a critical game situation,
Speaker 2: and he would always take that opportunity, at least once
Speaker 2: a game to introduce the most random factoid that had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with anything. Oftentimes it was a GPA
Speaker 2: or someone's college roommate or someone's major, just something that
Speaker 2: didn't fit with the scenario, and it always bothered me.
Speaker 1: It always bothered me. Well, it's a baseball broadcaster, move right.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that are putting in so much time
Speaker 1: because they have so much air to phil something between
Speaker 1: two to two the count looking at first, but like
Speaker 1: there's just so little to say as it relates to
Speaker 1: a baseball game that announcers are oftentimes, and I believe
Speaker 1: Tom Hammond does multiple sports. It's just track. There's all
Speaker 1: sorts of Olympics stuff for horse racing, yep. That it's
Speaker 1: natural for them to try to insert context and character
Speaker 1: and color into their broadcast. But football moves a little
Speaker 1: bit quicker, and there are heightened moments of drama where
Speaker 1: perhaps you shouldn't know who Colt McCoy's roommate is, or
Speaker 1: you shouldn't know exactly how tall brock Osweiler is at
Speaker 1: all times of a game.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would describe it as Vince Scully minus all
Speaker 2: of the charm. Yeah. Vin Scully does it perfectly exactly.
Speaker 2: So here we are random fact with that mainly interests
Speaker 2: Tom Hammon. We've got three great candidates here. The first
Speaker 2: one I forgot about, and as a Penn State alum,
Speaker 2: I probably should have been.
Speaker 1: All over this, but this was a.
Speaker 2: Popular submission on our form. Did you know that Trace
Speaker 2: McSorley played in four state championship games in high school?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be very honest with you, ty, I did
Speaker 1: not know that played in four state championship games.
Speaker 2: It was a popular talking point during many a Penn
Speaker 2: State football games, the announcers would bring this up all this,
Speaker 2: especially once Penn State went on its run after they
Speaker 2: lost to Michigan and then got it together and ripped
Speaker 2: off a bunch of wins in a row. This was
Speaker 2: a popular talking point. This kid's a winner. Did you
Speaker 2: know he played in four state championship games in high school?
Speaker 1: That sort of thing. Uh, yeah, most of my pen's
Speaker 1: stay watching was on a muted TV fair ne I
Speaker 1: apologies not to volume TV, I understand. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, second candidate, here is Jim Harbaugh drinking milk with
Speaker 2: his steak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just milk in general. The love he has
Speaker 1: a sponsorship, a milk sponsorship now right, a milk sponsorship,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, he went into overdrive. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how I feel about this one. I'm a little
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh out. It's not really a factoid anymore because
Speaker 1: they've all been hit over the head with it, even
Speaker 1: outside of games.
Speaker 2: Also, I questioned a little bit whether or not this
Speaker 2: qualifies because this whole thing started by him tweeting out
Speaker 2: a picture or a picture of him circulating after he
Speaker 2: went to the steakhouse and had milk with the steak. Right,
Speaker 2: It wasn't like an announcer dug this up and then
Speaker 2: inserted it into a broadcast. It just kind of inserted
Speaker 2: itself onto the internet.
Speaker 1: Not a good year. As for people's steak preferences, notable
Speaker 1: people's steak preference is becoming public, including I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not notable, but my disdain of steakhouses.
Speaker 2: Finally, Sam Darnold, did you know had a grandfather by
Speaker 2: the name of dick Hammer.
Speaker 1: Dick Hammer was the Marlborough man Dan. Yeah, dick Hammer
Speaker 1: best friends with Mannberg. This is a tough one to beat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think see. I think the Sam Darnold factoid best
Speaker 1: fits under the random factoid that may only interest Tom
Speaker 1: Hammond of the year because it's the most random trace.
Speaker 1: McSorley playing in championship games makes sense. He's a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh drinking milk with his steak makes sense because
Speaker 1: he's certifiably out of his mind and will do dumb
Speaker 1: things like that because milk is also bad. So Sam
Speaker 1: Donald's grandfather being a famous in a certain way individual
Speaker 1: I think fits the award is the spirit of the
Speaker 1: award more than the other two. In the lights here
Speaker 1: we got drum roll please random.
Speaker 2: Fact with him Ali Interest, Tom Hammond of the Year
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 3: Sam Donald, Yeah, yeah, Sam Donald.
Speaker 2: His grandfather Dick Hammer aka the Marlborough Man, achieved sixty
Speaker 2: three point two percent of the vote. Dan Wow sixty
Speaker 2: three point two percent, followed a distant second by Jim
Speaker 2: Harbaugh drinking milk with his steake twenty nine point nine
Speaker 2: percent and Trace McSorley bringing up the rear six point
Speaker 2: nine percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Not a lot of people dig in the Trace
Speaker 1: mcsory thing. But Sam Donald's, if you've paid any attention,
Speaker 1: is the is a surefire Hall of Famer. That's what
Speaker 1: I've learned. That's in the off season. I'm already saying
Speaker 1: the tweets that like NFL Scouts are already saying, so
Speaker 1: he's the new Josh Rosen, new Josh Rosen. We must
Speaker 1: move quickly. Two more.
Speaker 2: Here we go, big ones. We got big ones left here.
Speaker 2: Danv on.
Speaker 1: Tire Fire of the Year. Very sad music there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how does what is a tire fire to you? Ty?
Speaker 1: Because your name is already right there in the award.
Speaker 1: It's right there in the award tire Fire.
Speaker 2: We also have a bust of the Year award. We
Speaker 2: also have a worst year back. We've got some other
Speaker 2: things that kind of beat around the bush. But tire
Speaker 2: Fire of the Year it's more situational.
Speaker 1: I'd say it's.
Speaker 2: More situational and to me, like last year, the classic
Speaker 2: example was LSU's botched firing of Less Miles, very situational,
Speaker 2: very public, and just poorly organized. Something you would define
Speaker 2: as a mess, but more of a mess, something more
Speaker 2: emphatic than just being a mess. Oh, how about a
Speaker 2: giant warming perhaps burning pile of rubber tires. Yes, we've
Speaker 2: got five awesome candidates here. I'm not sure how I
Speaker 2: feel about two of them.
Speaker 1: I feel that there's some overlap with at least one
Speaker 1: to three of them agreed, agreed, But this is what
Speaker 1: we got. But this is sort of like at the
Speaker 1: same time the Grammys give out, and I know there's
Speaker 1: a difference, Like it's like Song of the Year and
Speaker 1: Album of the Year, and one of them is for
Speaker 1: the performer and one of them is for the writer
Speaker 1: of the song, I believe, So there is like a
Speaker 1: slight difference. So Bust of the Year is, you know,
Speaker 1: for expectations. Tire Fire of the Year is for say,
Speaker 1: just can assistent awful presence in the college football universe,
Speaker 1: which again, that's the standard. We hold ourselves to, a
Speaker 1: consistent awful presence in the college football universe.
Speaker 2: Very much, So, yes, thank you. We've got three candidates
Speaker 2: here that deal with a really bad situation throughout the
Speaker 2: course of a football season, and then we've got two
Speaker 2: that deal with something that's more targeted, a little bit
Speaker 2: more focused. So the three seasonal nominees here are Notre
Speaker 2: Dame's four to eight season. Okay, obviously a worthy contender. Again,
Speaker 2: what does tire fire mean to you? A bit subjective.
Speaker 2: We've also got Florida's offense and Texas Tech defense pretty
Speaker 2: much a direct spinoff from what we saw in half
Speaker 2: Team of the Year a little earlier on in the show.
Speaker 2: So Notre Dame going four to eight, Florida's offense, Texas
Speaker 2: Tech defense. The two situational plays are the Big twelve
Speaker 2: expansion plans. Oh and the playoff semi final blowouts.
Speaker 1: Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know which of those two I would pick,
Speaker 2: but those are my top two for me. It is
Speaker 2: more situational.
Speaker 1: I would go with the playoff blowouts just because of
Speaker 1: the expectations for high quality football given that these were
Speaker 1: arguably at the moment, considered to be the best four
Speaker 1: teams in the country. Notre Dame's four and eighth season
Speaker 1: was fun and I think sort of lifted the spirits
Speaker 1: of America during a time that it needed it. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: I don't think a ton of people watch Notre Dame
Speaker 1: games by the end of the year, so I don't
Speaker 1: think it had the same notoriety as playoff semi funnel bloats.
Speaker 1: And I would also add selfishly happily that tire fire
Speaker 1: of the year and worst year back omitting Brady Hoaks
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Oregon defense is woh, just wiping my brow.
Speaker 2: We did get we did get a few Brady Hoaks
Speaker 2: in there. Okay, good, Yeah, not enough steam on Brady
Speaker 2: hok okay, I understand that to put him into either category,
Speaker 2: so he got off Scott Free. I would have enjoyed
Speaker 2: talking about that. But absolutely, here we go. We've got
Speaker 2: Notre Dame going four to eight, Florida's offense, Texas Techs
Speaker 2: defense playoff semi final blowouts in Big twelve expansion plans.
Speaker 2: One of the rare categories, along with name of the
Speaker 2: Year to actually have five nominees for the award.
Speaker 1: Dim the Lights.
Speaker 2: Tire Fire of the Year twenty seventeen. Big twelve expansion
Speaker 2: plans damn wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that really screwed over a lot of
Speaker 1: people that had put together pitches, put together plans, really
Speaker 1: thought of themselves as moving up in the world. Only
Speaker 1: not only does it disappoint people for not getting into
Speaker 1: the Big twelve, into a new, big, better richer situation,
Speaker 1: but nobody got in.
Speaker 2: Big twelve expansion plans fade a bit into the background
Speaker 2: because it happened before the season, but it should not
Speaker 2: be overlooked. Playoff semi final blowouts was absolutely a tire fire,
Speaker 2: definitely qualifies. I don't think it was as big a
Speaker 2: tire fire in hindsight as Big twelve expansion plans, because
Speaker 2: anytime you start talking expansion in college football, it attracts attention.
Speaker 2: Remember when we had expansion Mageddon a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Is the Pac twelve going to consume the Big twelve?
Speaker 2: What's going to happen in Notre Dame, in the Big
Speaker 2: Ten in the ACC Just a giant tirefire in its
Speaker 2: own right. Anytime you start talking about expansion, and then
Speaker 2: things started leaking out about these little PowerPoint slide decks
Speaker 2: that like Cincinnati and Houston and some other schools Boise
Speaker 2: State were trying to submit to the Big twelve to
Speaker 2: try and be considered. Then there was some talk that
Speaker 2: they were going to take a couple teams, then there
Speaker 2: was not, Then there was the vote, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the whole thing was off on the
Speaker 2: back burner until further notice, maybe never again. Definitely not
Speaker 2: handled uniformly from a PR standpoint, and it was very
Speaker 2: confusing from the outside in trying to follow these things.
Speaker 2: Refreshing Twitter, What's Brett McMurphy, What did Bruce Felman have
Speaker 2: to say about this? It was confusing there for a while.
Speaker 2: But a last no expansion and uh, entire fire of
Speaker 2: the year?
Speaker 1: Gradually What was the name of the pill brand that
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson was a spokesperson for those yet? Yeah, to
Speaker 1: grow You're junk right, extends, so a promise of growth, bigger, better,
Speaker 1: a more robust situation into the year. Yeah, And ultimately
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know if this is the best decision.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is good for everybody involved.
Speaker 1: So this is all to say we are going to
Speaker 1: try to get an extend sponsorship for for entire Fire
Speaker 1: of the Year twenty eight.
Speaker 2: That's an extremely mixed metaphor, but I love it. Thank yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you for providing that.
Speaker 1: Dan, no problem. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 2: We've got one final award. It is the Big Tamali,
Speaker 2: one of our favorites. It's everyone's favorite. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Meme of the year here it is Meme of the Year.
Speaker 1: Do you do you know a lot of youths. I
Speaker 1: do youth Okah, because our office is a pretty young
Speaker 1: one and we keep hiring younger and younger people. And
Speaker 1: the young people tie, they love their memes. Yeah. We've
Speaker 1: got actually a Notre Dame alumnus we'll try to have
Speaker 1: on the show. Perhaps we want to we want to
Speaker 1: offer some some more positive Notre Dame presence to the
Speaker 1: solid verbal she is. When she started, She's like, I'm
Speaker 1: here for the memes. Okay, I'm here for the memes.
Speaker 1: She works on our social media team. She's here for
Speaker 1: the memes. So yeah, understandable. So memes an inside joke.
Speaker 1: M h, it's inside joke.
Speaker 2: And as trusted listeners and friends and verballers. As you're known,
Speaker 2: you're kind of privy to some of our humor. Not
Speaker 2: all of it's funny, most of it isn't, but it
Speaker 2: is uniquely solid verbal. It's ours, it's our babies and
Speaker 2: what we try to do every year. Inevitably, these things
Speaker 2: just happen. We're not often trying to come up with something,
Speaker 2: kind of like the talking to your kids about Iowa
Speaker 2: stunt a year ago.
Speaker 1: They just sort of happened. They just sort of.
Speaker 2: Happen organically, and then we run with them. We think
Speaker 2: they're funny, other people do, and they take on a
Speaker 2: life of their own. This year we had four four
Speaker 2: that stuck out and one that I'm going to throw
Speaker 2: in as potentially a dark horse here. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's got enough run. But the Secret Garbage episode from
Speaker 2: a week ago Dan.
Speaker 1: Is going to get a feedback. It's going to go
Speaker 1: down in history.
Speaker 2: That Avatar versus ketchup battle might not have been the
Speaker 2: thriller in Manila, and there may or may not have
Speaker 2: been a bullying component, depending on which perspective you're coming from.
Speaker 2: I have never seen such feedback to a show like
Speaker 2: what we saw after our volunteers, good sign Avatar versus
Speaker 2: Ketchup rivalry. Yeah, we're gonna have to bring back Avatar
Speaker 2: and Ketchup and secret garbage just in general. Absolutely, that
Speaker 2: would be a new thing that was great. Here were
Speaker 2: the actual nominees, So secret garbage could be something we
Speaker 2: throw in here if we're not satisfied with the quality
Speaker 2: of the other the other right, it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't an in season thing, so I think we can
Speaker 1: go with these four. I think we've got four good options.
Speaker 2: The first is the ongoing mystery of the Notre Dame stink.
Speaker 2: You came up with Notre Dame stank? Dan, What is
Speaker 2: Notre Dame stank?
Speaker 1: Again? Just refresh our listeners. It's sort of like the
Speaker 1: movie What is the movie where you watched the tape
Speaker 1: and then you get killed? Is that final ring?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah. If you beat Notre Dame, you sort of you
Speaker 1: inhabit something. You get a disease, you get a virus.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame inflicts you with the virus, and you just
Speaker 1: start losing like crazy after you beat Notre Dame. That
Speaker 1: was just a thing this year. Everybody that beat Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: with maybe the exception of USC because they did win
Speaker 1: the Rose Ball at the end of the year, but
Speaker 1: early on in the middle of the season, teams that
Speaker 1: beat Notre Dame went on to have some troubles and
Speaker 1: so that sort of started. Like Texas and Michigan State
Speaker 1: notably had very disappointing seasons right after they got that
Speaker 1: Notre Dame stank on them.
Speaker 2: Michigan State, Texas. Yeah, the list goes on. Lord knows
Speaker 2: eight choices there that you can discuss. We also have
Speaker 2: the Adam Amean secret verbal. The adam of means secret verbal.
Speaker 2: We did this thing where as you know, we've got
Speaker 2: a secret verbal. You listen to a long enough show.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we'll give you a code where go out there
Speaker 2: and tweet it at a friend of ours or a
Speaker 2: new friend of ours and tell him that we sent you.
Speaker 2: But just tweet adam I means something about milk shakes.
Speaker 2: That's what we did. It got back to Adam Amean.
Speaker 2: He was all about it. Came on the show with
Speaker 2: you to shake it up a little bit, talk about
Speaker 2: milk shakes. No college football, just milkshakes. But Adam Amean,
Speaker 2: our new best friend, called a video game with us
Speaker 2: while we were down in Tampa. Did a long show
Speaker 2: telling us all about what it's like to call games
Speaker 2: with Mac Brown and YadA YadA YadA, had a great
Speaker 2: conversation with him. He is a good dude. The Adam
Speaker 2: I mean secret verbal was one of my favorite moments
Speaker 2: from the past year.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Adam I mean and I would say, Adam,
Speaker 1: I mean friendship. Yeah. It's a great guy. And he
Speaker 1: was the play by play when Mac Brown just left
Speaker 1: the booth right because he had to catch a flight.
Speaker 1: So that's how we first became familiar.
Speaker 2: We've also got krock potting on here, Dan krockpotting becoming
Speaker 2: a verb.
Speaker 1: So rockpotting is you? Please explain?
Speaker 2: This was a multi part effort from you and I.
Speaker 2: I mentioned I went back and checked the tapes I
Speaker 2: mentioned very early on in our first preview show when
Speaker 2: we were talking about Alabama USC. I mentioned the phenomenon
Speaker 2: of Alabama beating a team as if they were cooking
Speaker 2: something in a crockpot. Throw them in there for four hours,
Speaker 2: turn it on low. See a bubble here, little bit
Speaker 2: of movement in the sauce there, you pop it out
Speaker 2: four hours later, It's done. You didn't even know it.
Speaker 2: That whole thing is kind of like putting something in
Speaker 2: a crockpot. You took it and ran with it and said, oh,
Speaker 2: we'll just call it a crockpotting, crockpotting, crockpotting, crockpotting. Crockpotting
Speaker 2: became a thing, became a verb here.
Speaker 1: It's what Obama did.
Speaker 2: People were tweeting about it, people were calling in on
Speaker 2: the reverb blind about it. It very much was what
Speaker 2: Alabama did, and it very much became a thing. Crockpotting
Speaker 2: very strong contender here. And then finally, I hate that
Speaker 2: this is on there, but I understand why. My inability,
Speaker 2: fittingly because we are sponsored by Blue Apron here, my
Speaker 2: inability to pronounce Blue Apron menu item down fairness, I
Speaker 2: got better. I think I got better at this you did.
Speaker 2: I may not be as cultured as you when it
Speaker 2: comes to food. I'm okay with that. I am proud
Speaker 2: of that. I'm a total fraud continue, but yes, my
Speaker 2: inability to pronounce Blue Apron menu items was something that
Speaker 2: gave people a disproportionate amount of joy. So I'm happy
Speaker 2: in that in that sense. Then to keep this, keep
Speaker 2: this anomaly on our list of contenders.
Speaker 1: I will. I will promise you this right now, ty
Speaker 1: as It relates to that if at any point I
Speaker 1: come into a considerable amount of money, I will take
Speaker 1: you to like Pouquet, I will take you to Bangkok,
Speaker 1: I will take you maybe Hong Kong, and I will
Speaker 1: document how you order every single meal that you get,
Speaker 1: because I just I want to live that life. And
Speaker 1: the solid fiance is definitely allergic to seafood, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'll be able to go to Bangkok.
Speaker 1: So if I come into a bunch of money, We're
Speaker 1: going on a tie vacation, a tie eating vacation. So
Speaker 1: there you go. There are your four maybe five nominees.
Speaker 1: Dan dim the Lights Dimmed Podcast Meme of the Year.
Speaker 1: Here for the memes for twenty seventeen. Crock Potting. Crock Potting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I actually just got a new crock pot.
Speaker 1: It was in the registry. Yeah, so very appropriate. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: To watch an Alabama game was not unlike watching a
Speaker 1: piece of tenderloin or whatever it is that you know,
Speaker 1: a chicken you make pulled chicken in there, yeah, ty yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've done that with beef. It was it was a
Speaker 1: special year to watch Alabama win like twenty seven into
Speaker 1: seven games, that's all it was that happened slowly, but
Speaker 1: ultimately there was tenderization. The secret sauce, if you will,
Speaker 1: to a successful meme within our little universe is when
Speaker 1: you see it being used outside the universe, when you
Speaker 1: see people tweeting it at actual college football experts, when
Speaker 1: you see Kirk Kurvestreet getting tweets about crockpotting, when you
Speaker 1: see it being used in print form or being tweeted
Speaker 1: out by other experts, borrowing it, using it for their
Speaker 1: for their own that's fine, we don't care. But when
Speaker 1: you see it kind of take that next step, that's
Speaker 1: when you know that it should be on this list.
Speaker 1: And Crockpotting, of all the ones that we got on
Speaker 1: here a side of the secret verbal, which is sort
Speaker 1: of a setup, crock Potting becoming a thing was absolutely
Speaker 1: something that took that next step. Yes, Notre Dame very
Speaker 1: important secret verbal to a lesser degree, but crock Potting
Speaker 1: far and away my favorite thing that we can up
Speaker 1: with this past year.
Speaker 2: Totally organic. Wasn't planned. None of this stuff was, but
Speaker 2: that certainly wasn't. Just feels right to me, A good
Speaker 2: way to go out.
Speaker 1: Here, and Notre Dame wins somewhere between four and eight
Speaker 1: of these awards. Yeah, thank you. What's the final count, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no problem, that's why.
Speaker 2: That's why we have it thirty three point one percent
Speaker 2: of the vote by two percent over my Blue Apron mishaps.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, if I win some sort of
Speaker 1: lottery or I create a company and sell it for
Speaker 1: a billion dollars, we are going to have the most
Speaker 1: lavish pouquette bro Honeymoon ever created.
Speaker 2: Daniel Big thanks to our sponsor this evening, Blue Apron Big.
Speaker 2: Thanks to all of our loyal listeners who write in,
Speaker 2: who give us incredible feedback, not only after each show,
Speaker 2: but certainly when it comes down to little user generated
Speaker 2: award shows like this one. With the twenty seventeen Verby Awards,
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Speaker 2: at iTunes, dot com slash Solid Verbal. Dan, I'm going
Speaker 2: to play this music one more time and run through
Speaker 2: your twenty seventeen Verby Award winners.
Speaker 1: Dan, with your not Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: We've got Brian Kelly Alternate Uniform of the Year, Air
Speaker 2: Force's shark tooth uniforms, Worse You're Back, Josh Rosen Half
Speaker 2: Team of the Year, Texas Tech's offense, Crime of the Year,
Speaker 2: Waki Leaks, Bust of the Year, Notre Dame losing Effort
Speaker 2: of the Year with one hundred percent of the vote
Speaker 2: of first in Verby History, Patrick Mahomes of Texas Tech,
Speaker 2: Name of the Year, Lion King, random factoid, Sam Darnold's
Speaker 2: grandfather being Dick Hammer, the Marlborough Man tire Fire of
Speaker 2: the Year, the Big twelve expansion plans, and finally everyone's
Speaker 2: favorite podcast meme, crock Potting becoming a verb Yep, there you.
Speaker 1: Go, Ty, Just a whirlwind of emotion and uh, we're
Speaker 1: about to have a hell of an after party. What's
Speaker 1: for dinner tonight, Tach, something from Blue Apron. That's good answer.
Speaker 2: Go to that guy over there, my good friend and
Speaker 2: co host Dan Rubinstein for myself, Tie Hildebrand, thanks again
Speaker 2: for another great year of college football goodness. Thanks for
Speaker 2: participating in our verbies. We'll catch you all next week.
Speaker 2: Talk some more sports. Stay solid, peace,