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Speaker 1: They're not keeping us off the air. Tonight Late Kick

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. Clayton hit me up from

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Speaker 1: Fort Myers, Florida. He said, can you believe how much

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Speaker 1: whining is coming from the FSU fan base. It's a

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Speaker 1: bit pathetic, is it. Though I've been targeted by these people,

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Speaker 1: a fringe minority of them, I've been targeted by them,

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Speaker 1: so it's not like I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: But did you please just for a second, anyone out

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Speaker 1: there who feels this way, could you please tell me

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Speaker 1: how you'd handle this differently if it happened to your team.

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Speaker 1: You just went undefeated in a Power five conference, you

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Speaker 1: won the conference championship game, You did everything history has

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Speaker 1: told you you have to do to be a playoff team.

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Speaker 1: And then a group of people locked themselves in a room,

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Speaker 1: didn't let you see their process. A bunch of high

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Speaker 1: profile media types in the interim seem to have targeted

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Speaker 1: you and lobbied openly against you making the playoff. You

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Speaker 1: don't make the playoff, and then everyone kind of tries

444
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Speaker 1: to pile on you because you're outraged by it. And

445
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Speaker 1: then your own conference is filing lawsuits against you because

446
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Speaker 1: you're trying to get out of a dying conference, and

447
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Speaker 1: it feels like a lot of chips are stacked against you.

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Speaker 1: It feels like media is complicit. It feels like the

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Speaker 1: college football bureaucracy is complicit. I have been accused of

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Speaker 1: being complicit, although I'm not. I just shared opinions on

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Speaker 1: what happened. But nevertheless, how would you respond if you're

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Speaker 1: a Louisville fan, if you're a Texas fan, all that

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Speaker 1: stuff happened to you, how would you respond? There is

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Speaker 1: no rational fan base. That's why they're called fans. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that about them, even when they hate me. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that about him. You know what would suck, you know,

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Speaker 1: what would indicate a dying program if they just kind

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Speaker 1: of took it, If they said, oh, well, if FSU

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Speaker 1: went in e or mode and said that's the way

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Speaker 1: the cookie crumbles, well, that's not them, never has been them.

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Speaker 1: That's what I appreciate about them. Now, I've been on

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Speaker 1: the receiving end of a lot of the criticism and

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Speaker 1: a lot of the animosity, so I know what they've

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Speaker 1: been saying. I understood that report that came out the

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Speaker 1: morning of the National Championship Game when I think it

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Speaker 1: was Bill Hancock, it said they've had to hire private

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Speaker 1: security for some of the members of the playoff committee.

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Speaker 1: Is that taking it overboard? Of course it is. Has

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Speaker 1: there been a lot of ignorant spewed from some FSU folks. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a very clear line in the sand

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't cross. Most of them haven't. A few have.

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Speaker 1: That's not an indicative of how the entire fan base operates.

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Speaker 1: So now that that PSA is out of the way,

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Speaker 1: it would be one thing if they didn't have reason

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Speaker 1: to be upset. That's when I join you. I can't

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Speaker 1: join you on that. I mean, Florida State folk's got

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Speaker 1: every reason in the world to be irate. Now, I

478
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Speaker 1: told you when it happened, I told you I think

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Speaker 1: that this is going to suck for a little while,

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Speaker 1: there's no two ways about that. But I think long

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Speaker 1: term it's going to pay off for them. I think

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Speaker 1: they'll end up benefiting from it. So my thinking there,

483
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Speaker 1: which sounded dumb, because how can you benefit from being

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Speaker 1: screwed out of a playoff spot in that year? You can't.

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Speaker 1: But in the long term, it is my opinion Florida

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Speaker 1: State wouldn't have gone on to win the title. Can't

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Speaker 1: prove that obviously, So if they made it, I think

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Speaker 1: they go to the semi final round, they get beat

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Speaker 1: and that's it. But if they get removed from the equation,

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Speaker 1: they feel like they got screwed out of a spot,

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Speaker 1: and that does something like when you feel like you

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Speaker 1: had something, you earn something, and it gets taken from you.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is very it's a very stone cold

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Speaker 1: Steve Austin Vince McMahon dynamic from the late nineties, and

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Speaker 1: what it does inside your organization is one thing. What

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Speaker 1: it does to your fan base is also another thing.

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Speaker 1: And when you kind of have all that coalesce, there's

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Speaker 1: an energy that you could never manufacture that your program

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Speaker 1: gets on us against the world mentality that you can preach,

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Speaker 1: you can bang against the trash can all you want to.

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Speaker 1: They gotta feel it. Florida State feels it now, like

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Speaker 1: they truly feel like there's a machine out there and

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Speaker 1: they don't have anything to do with it. They're not

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Speaker 1: inside of it. It's built and it got used against them.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even here to tell you they're wrong about it.

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Speaker 1: We went very in depth on that. I'm not revisiting that.

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Speaker 1: But they get to have all that UCF energy once

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Speaker 1: upon a time. But unlike UCF back in the day,

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Speaker 1: Florida State's at the head table. They're at what you

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Speaker 1: used to call the power five table. That stuff will

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Speaker 1: never happen to them again. There will be no undefeated

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Speaker 1: season where they're left out because you're going to a

513
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Speaker 1: twelve team playoff era now. So what just happened to

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Speaker 1: them is very unfortunate. It'll never happen again. But they

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Speaker 1: get to bottle all that up and they get to

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Speaker 1: use it and in the interim, not that it was

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Speaker 1: any solace for them in the moment, but in the interim,

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Speaker 1: I thought the biggest takeaway for me from the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three season was, Wow, I guess there's no question

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Speaker 1: about whether Mike Norvel is the real deal or not.

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Speaker 1: Now they'd come back at you because I've dealt with them,

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Speaker 1: and they say, yeah, we already knew that. Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: you did. Now the rest of the country knows. And

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00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: so you got the right coach, you got the right attitude,

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Speaker 1: You've got the right talent roster being built like everything's up,

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Speaker 1: up up, and you also get to believe the entire

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Speaker 1: world of college football is out to get you and

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00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: built against you. Where are they watching us? I bet

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Speaker 1: they're watching us in Tallahassee tonight. But I can prove

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Speaker 1: to you because the live chat told me so. They're

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Speaker 1: watching us in State College, Pennsylvania, Rock Mark, Georgia, Murphysboro, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys so much. Remember remember, kids, this

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Speaker 1: is free. Does it cost you or your parents a dime.

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is subscribe to the channel

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Speaker 1: and it can stay that way. They're here. I guess

536
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Speaker 1: I can let you in a little bit on this.

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Speaker 1: So we're always well above the minimum baseline quotas that

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Speaker 1: we want to hit here. I mean, there's a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of traction that we need to keep the show

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Speaker 1: free We're always above it. Now, I'm not saying we're

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Speaker 1: in danger of slipping below it. I never want to

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Speaker 1: come remotely close. So I always want to be out

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Speaker 1: pacing that thing by one hundred and two hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: That's why periodically I'll remind you fifty one percent of

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Speaker 1: you are not subscribed to the channel, and then I

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Speaker 1: will look at you, slight wrist pop, slight wrist pop,

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Speaker 1: and I'll say, why, why, just help us out. That's

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Speaker 1: all it takes. Just subscribe. Let's go. Portal takeaways here,

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Speaker 1: very interesting, very interesting. So the transfer portal window is closed.

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Speaker 1: Of course for teams whose coaches left, they can still move.

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Speaker 1: But overall, I wanted to take a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: look at this the quarterback situation, especially because now, more

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Speaker 1: so than ever, you have no way of forecasting programs

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Speaker 1: two or three years down the road, because every transfer

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Speaker 1: portal period comes with teams totally overhauling their quarterback room,

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Speaker 1: which means they overhauled their team pays. In point Michigan State,

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Speaker 1: not only do they get a new head coach and

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Smith he brings his quarterback from Oregon State. Aiden

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Speaker 1: Childs going to be a really big time player down

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Speaker 1: the road. Think about what Oregon did. Oregon went and

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Speaker 1: got Dylan Gabriel, who was the starter at Oklahoma. They

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Speaker 1: also went and got Dante Moore, who was the starter

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Speaker 1: at some points of the season for UCLA. Totally overhauled

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Speaker 1: the quarterback room. Ty Thompson gone, totally overhauled the quarterback room.

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Speaker 1: Kentucky got Will Levis three years ago. I got Devin

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Speaker 1: Leary last year, and now they've gotten Brock Vandergriff from Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Never would have known that was coming a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Totally overhauled their quarterback room. Riley Leonard is not at Duke,

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Speaker 1: He's now at Notre Dame. Totally overhauled the quarterback room.

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Speaker 1: And also our boy Tyler van Dyke not at Miami anymore.

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Speaker 1: He goes to Wisconsin. They had Mordecai from SMU last year.

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Speaker 1: If that sounds confusing, its cause it is. It's because

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Speaker 1: just like this, seemingly now, you can change the entire

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Speaker 1: fortune of your team for a coming season by doing

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Speaker 1: what even Ohio State did. They went and got Will Howard.

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Speaker 1: No one would have seen that company year ago. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Will Howard's entrenched at Kansas State, A year ago. So

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Speaker 1: that's the first thing that you need to know, and

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Speaker 1: I would probably advise you to rewind this portion of

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Speaker 1: the video and watch it again to make sure you

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Speaker 1: know all the new names and faces in the new places.

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Speaker 1: The second thing you need to know is, for yet

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Speaker 1: another cycle, we did not have multiple superstar names and

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Speaker 1: of the transfer portal. Forget about Bama. That's a unique,

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Speaker 1: extenuating circumstance where a coach left. So yes, some star

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Speaker 1: players from Alabama are going in, but I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: places where there was no coaching turnover, or maybe there

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Speaker 1: even was coaching turnover, But the collectives there had things

589
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Speaker 1: in order behind the scenes, and they made sure their

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Speaker 1: top tier players were compensated through nil to the point

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Speaker 1: where they never hit the open market. And that happened

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Speaker 1: last year. It was a story last year, and it's

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Speaker 1: happened again this year. You just haven't seen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Quinhawn Judkins is one of the few exceptions to the rule.

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Speaker 1: You had the A and M kids go in, which

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Speaker 1: was to be expected. You've got Bama's kids going in

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00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. What would happen with Michigan. But

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Speaker 1: those are exceptions to the rule. By and large, we

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Speaker 1: have not seen a flood of ultra talented, high level

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Speaker 1: star players that that program tried to spend top dollar

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Speaker 1: to keep and couldn't. So it's being taken care of

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Speaker 1: on the front end, out of public view in most cases.

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Speaker 1: What about USC's dilemma, Maybe we'll call it a dilemma.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. I got a stance on this. So when

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley told the media after the season, I'm overhauling

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Speaker 1: everything philosophically about this programming got UCLA's defensive coordinator. I'm

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Speaker 1: not telling you that story. I'm sorry I should not

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Speaker 1: have done that. I am sorry about that, but I

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Speaker 1: cannot tell you that story. I had some insight into

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Speaker 1: that process. Let me just put it that way. So

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Speaker 1: when he brought in UCLA's defensive coordinator, Lincoln Riley said,

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Speaker 1: we're changing everything from the top down. We're changing the

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Speaker 1: way we practice, We're changing the way we think defense first.

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Speaker 1: What Okay, Now, I'm willing to give it a wait

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Speaker 1: and see. It's hard for me to imagine that Lincoln

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Speaker 1: Riley will be a defensive first or defense oriented head coach.

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Speaker 1: Crazier things have happened. I do think he understands radical

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Speaker 1: changes needed within his program. So I'm willing to wait

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Speaker 1: they're not replacing talent for talent. Corey Foreman was gone.

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Speaker 1: Has he underachieved there? Yeah, but formerly that was one

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Speaker 1: of the top players in the country, Demani Jackson gone.

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Speaker 1: Cornerback Malachi Nelson once upon time, one of the top

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the country gone. Now every USC fan understands, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but Malachi wasn't gonna start here. I know all that

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Speaker 1: Corey Foreman k had one big moment or two, but

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Speaker 1: he really wasn't an impact player. I know all that. Guys,

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Speaker 1: there is a world where they have the potential and

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Speaker 1: that possibility. But since I'm in wait and see mode,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at those kind of guys walking out

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Speaker 1: to UNLV and A and M and Mississippi State and

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Speaker 1: Oregon State and Vandy and taking replacement players in the portal,

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say, maybe Lincoln Riley knows what he's doing,

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Speaker 1: the chen. Okay, let's wait and see. I'm happy to

638
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: wait and see because God affords us to be able

639
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: to do that. In January. Don't have to have definitive

640
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: opinions on someone's twenty twenty four season in January. Ole

641
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: Miss kind of same deal, but I think a lot

642
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: of folks are more aligned on Ole Miss. Ole Miss

643
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,239
Speaker 1: got a little bit different strategy here. Texas does not

644
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: have to have this kind of strategy. Every year is

645
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: a year Texas could win the national title. Georgia does

646
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: not have to have this kind of strategy. Every year

647
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: is a year that Georgia can win the national title.

648
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: Ole Miss has to go what I call window shopping,

649
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: and that is not in the classical sense. They're not

650
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: looking in a window and taking something that they see.

651
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: What they're doing is looking for windows. Twenty twenty four

652
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: is a window for them. They've circled it. Schedule is

653
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: pretty advantageous, and they've gone all in on the portal

654
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: to put together a team that can compete for a

655
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: national title in twenty twenty four. They've got the number

656
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: one defensive lineman, number two edge, number three linebacker, number

657
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: four wide receiver. They've taken seven Blue Chippers out of

658
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: the portal. They've done good in recruiting as well. Jackson

659
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: darts back one of the most filthy receiver rooms in

660
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: all of college football. Ole Miss will be a legitimate

661
00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: contender this year. Now. The main point of con tension

662
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: that I hear from our Old Miss viewers is, you, guys,

663
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: don't think this is a window thing. You think this

664
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: is just the new normal for ole Miss. I disagree

665
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: with that. You may be right, but I would be

666
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 1: hard pressed to see them doing this every single cycle.

667
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: But we'll see. How about the SEC and Big ten

668
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: in general, this is either this is either something to

669
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: celebrate or it's a big problem, depending on your perspective.

670
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: But the Big ten and the SEC predictably are flexing

671
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: pretty hard here. Twenty two of the top twenty four

672
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: committed players in the portal are going to SEC or

673
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: Big ten schools. Fifty of the top seventy eight kids

674
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: out of the portal are going to SEC or Big

675
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: ten schools, and the SEC and Big Ten collectively just

676
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: signed twenty three of the top thirty recruiting classes, including

677
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 1: eight of the top nine. There is no more Power five,

678
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: There is no Power four. It is a power two

679
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: and you decide whatever you want want to call arrest

680
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: and it's not disrespectful, it's just reality. So those are

681
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: some of the takeaways I've had thus far from the

682
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: transfer portal. And as you know, still got some movement happening.

683
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: And as you also know, I think you know, we've

684
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 1: got the post spring window coming up, which because we've

685
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: had high profile coaching changes, could mean teams like Alabama

686
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 1: are way way more active post spring than they normally

687
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: would be. There is a little caveat you can't have

688
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: interconference movement or intra conference movement during that window, or

689
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: the guys have to sit out a year. Isn't that

690
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: a fun little caveat that I don't think most folks

691
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: realize right now. So, yes, challenging, na, yes, but guys

692
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: are being handsomely compensated for their work. Here. Uh, just

693
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: some generic chapstick. It's not chapstick. You know, when I

694
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: put on chapstick what I call chapstick on air, I

695
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: say I'm putting on chapstick because I want you guys

696
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 1: who are listening just to the podcast to know why

697
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: they're There is a brief pause. I'm okay, I'm just

698
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: putting on chapstick. But I have been dutifully informed that chapstick,

699
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: like coke, is a brand, it's not a generic product.

700
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: And so I'm apparently calling Pepsi coke here, I am

701
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: calling Bert's Bee's lip balm chapstick. And so I apologize

702
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: to anyone I've offended out there. But frankly, this company

703
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: has not paid a dime to be on this desk.

704
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: So I'll call them whatever I want to, but I

705
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: am open to a negotiation. All right, let's dive into

706
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: the mailbag. We've still got a lot to get to

707
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: actually on a good pace though. Eli from Pinegrove, Mississippi.

708
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: Hit me, He says, does Nico, Iamliava and Tennessee have

709
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: a real shot at the playoffs next year? Now? Hold on,

710
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: I think I heard a lot of you, A lot

711
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: of you say no, Tennessee is not making the playoffs. Well,

712
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: I have it on good authority from our friends at

713
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: FanDuel that as of today, January eighteenth, Tennessee has the

714
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: fourteenth best odds to win the national title this coming year. Secondly,

715
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. The answer is yes, they can

716
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: make the playoff. The reaction to the question is more

717
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: interesting to me because I do think there is still

718
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 1: a marriage mentally between a lot of college football fans

719
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: and the old system. And the old system was you

720
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: better be one of the top four teams in the country.

721
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: I don't think you can make the playoff, but you

722
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 1: don't have to be that anymore. We've watered the playoff down,

723
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: or as some of you would call it, we have

724
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: expanded the playoff. There are like forty teams that can

725
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: make the playoff this year. You get that right. We

726
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: have vastly expanded the amount of teams capable of making

727
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: it because we have vastly deluded what it takes to

728
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: be able to make it. So you tell me Tennessee's

729
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: got Nico returning number one, I just need to know

730
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: that because there are going to be teams that are

731
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: hot at quarterback and otherwise are flawed football teams that

732
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: make this tournament. That's just gonna be the way it

733
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: is every year. So the second thing that I think

734
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee could be a poster child for is there's going

735
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: to be a team or two every year that loses

736
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: some games, but they find a way in and they're

737
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: really good at quarterback, Like they're flawed, but you look

738
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: at them and you say, hmm, I can see why

739
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: over the course of a season they lost some games.

740
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: But they're like a hot three point shooter in the

741
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: tournament in March or April. If that guy's hot, I

742
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: think they could beat anybody. Tennessee or someone like them

743
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: is going to get in here with like two losses

744
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: or maybe three losses to the right teams, and they're

745
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: going to have a quarterback that hits his stride in November,

746
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be saying, man, I know they're an

747
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: eleven seed, but I got no interest in playing Tennessee.

748
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Miami or two of those teams this year

749
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: because of cam Ward and Nico, respectively. They play three

750
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: teams with top fifteen title odds. They play at George

751
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: this year, they play Alabama, they go to Oklahoma. That'll

752
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 1: be fun for Josh Heifel. Yes, the answer is yes.

753
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: Who in the world is saying no, Tennessee has no

754
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: shot of making a twelve team playoff. It's twelve teams. Yes,

755
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: they absolutely could do that, and yes, they're like thirty

756
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: five or forty other teams that I'm going to answer

757
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: yes to next up. I sorry, Colin, I don't think

758
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: the snap of the fingers really does anything. Take a

759
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: sip from the challis right quick? Uh? This is from Jeffrey?

760
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I did want to address this. Okay,

761
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: So Jeffrey said, should I get my hopes up about

762
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: the sudden energy around my Buckeyes? Your hope should always

763
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: be up, Jeffrey, you're an Ohio State fan. Poverty for you,

764
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: guys is winning eleven games? Like? Sign me up for that? Yes? Yeah,

765
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: I would be excited if I were you. Now, I

766
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: know a lot of attention up there and around college

767
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: football when it comes to Ohio State has been on

768
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: the way. They ended the season with the losses to Michigan,

769
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: and then they lost or what was left of them

770
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: lost to Missouri, and then they hired a new ad

771
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: Ross York. Did you miss this? Headline goes to Columbus

772
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: from Texas, A and M this past week. So a

773
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: lot of people have been paying attention to that. You

774
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: know what I've been paying attention to because frankly, you're

775
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: gonna notice this a lot more than you do. The

776
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: athletic director, the players they've gotten to return for the

777
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season, like JT. Tumloout did not go

778
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: to the draft, Jack Sawyer, Denzel Burke, they did not

779
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: go to the draft. They're all back a Mecca Agbuka

780
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: that where a wide receiver did not go, Traveon Henderson

781
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: running back did not go. They added quin Shawn Judkins,

782
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: They added Will Howard at quarterback. They got four returning

783
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. The streets are saying this could

784
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: end up being Ryan Day's best team overall. That's what

785
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm paying attention to. And whoever the new ad is

786
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: can sit there in his and enjoy it. That right

787
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: there is what I'm paying attention to. And then I

788
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: couple that with the fact that there is a horrific

789
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: taste in the mouth of that program right now, and

790
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: there should be because they hadn't been good enough to

791
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: beat Michigan three consecutive years. You can't even utter those words.

792
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: You can't even utter the team's name, much less the

793
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: fact that you haven't been able to beat in them

794
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: three years. So that right there is exciting. Yes, I'm

795
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: excited for it, and I'm not even an Ohio State fan.

796
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: So if you're an Ohio State fan, absolutely you should.

797
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: Now here's what I'm curious about. And it granted it's

798
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: only January. I'm sure at some point maybe we'll make

799
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: our way to Columbus the spring, we'll sit down with

800
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: Ryan Day and we'll have him explain the answer to

801
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: the following question. What other changes did he deem necessary

802
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: to make that aren't so apparent on the surface. That's

803
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: a question if you could get any coach to answer

804
00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: it in January would be fascinating. Want to know specifically

805
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: from Ryan Day. Sure, if you need to make a

806
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: new hire or you need to go get a quarterback

807
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: out of the portal, everybody knows that you have to

808
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: make a decision there. But what if he subtly decided

809
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: portions of how we practice on Tuesday have to be overhauled.

810
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: The philosophy I have on how I fill a job

811
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: opening for an off field position within my organization, what

812
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: we do in nutrition, what we do from a psychological

813
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: standpoint with guys from March through June, it has to

814
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: be overhaul just subtle things. That's what I'd love to know.

815
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: That's what I'd really love to know, And I'd love

816
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: to know how much emphasis has been put across the

817
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: board because of the way the last three seasons have ended.

818
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: If you want to get an early jump on how

819
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: this coming season will end. If you think Ohio State's

820
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: going to win the title this year, you don't have

821
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 1: to sit on that information. Friends, you can go to FanDuel.

822
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: Right now. They have the second best jesse I think,

823
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: the second best odds to win the national Championship this

824
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: upcoming year, right behind Georgia. Same old, same old. They're

825
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: at the top. But if you feel like you've you've

826
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: gotten yourself a little edge, if you like what you

827
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: just heard, I'm not quite ready to bet it, but

828
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: maybe you are. FanDuel is the place to go. Not

829
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 1: to mention, I was looking the other day. I think

830
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: it was during the Buffalo game. Yeah, no, no, no,

831
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: what it was KC. It was KC Miami. Any game

832
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: played below zero degrees, I'm locked in. I don't care

833
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: if it's outdoor hockey. I will be locked in once

834
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: the elements are involved to that degree. And I was

835
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: looking at the plethora, and you know how rarely I

836
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: use that word, the plethora of live betting options during

837
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: those games on FanDuel. And it's been a while since

838
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: I bet the NFL live because I don't bet for fun,

839
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of you do. And man,

840
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: that's like walking down the cereal aisle at your local

841
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: grocery store. If you love cereal, which I do, it's

842
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: tough like it's the equivalent of FI. I have shelves

843
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: of Count Shocula when you look at FanDuel live betting options,

844
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 1: and frankly, that's where the ad read's going to end,

845
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 1: because I could never give you a stronger testimonial than

846
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: correlating Count Shocula with live betting and during NFL playoffs

847
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: on FanDuel. You're welcome, guys, Jesse. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: citizenry sent me that I would just like to address here. Colin.

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Speaker 1: The first one does not need its own individual YouTube treatment. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so just know that ahead of time. Once I address this,

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Speaker 1: In the corresponding podcast, Hugh, I'm just gonna read this

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Speaker 1: guy's entire name uncle to day macshin Taylor's version. Tone

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Speaker 1: setter hit me up, definitely a real person and said

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Speaker 1: course it could be true. So I responded to whatever

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Speaker 1: the guy went after that person and he never answered me.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not quite sure what harm has been done.

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Speaker 1: I would love to know. I don't get one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent approval rating. I look at the comments. So anyone,

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Speaker 1: anyone and everyone who does have a problem, anyone who

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Speaker 1: thinks we're bad for the sport around here, I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to listen. I may disagree, but I'm happy to listen.

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Speaker 1: Jesse told me he had a profile built for me

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Speaker 1: I know I'm not going to tell you how old

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Speaker 1: we don't celebrate birthdays in the office. I'm not allegedly

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent correct on all my game predictions, Guys.

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Speaker 1: I've never been wrong on a game prediction. I have

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Speaker 1: hit one hundred percent on game predictions. It is not

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Speaker 1: my fault if kids or coaches or officials screw up. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you remove that, I've never missed on a pick.

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Speaker 1: What else does it say there? I've got dreams of

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Speaker 1: working an imaginary position as commissioner. There's nothing imaginary about

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Speaker 1: the coming campaign that will I will launch to become

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Speaker 1: college football commissioner. Like I'll just serve in dual roles.

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Speaker 1: My office could be right here. Where's the same pair

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Speaker 1: of sweatpants every day? Won't buy new ones. I'll buy

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Speaker 1: new ones when these wear out. Do you understand how

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Speaker 1: big a blessing it is when your sweatpants are so

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Speaker 1: broken in that they naturally ventilate cause the crotch is

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Speaker 1: worn out and there's a hole. Nick Saban doesn't have

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00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: a problem with it. He sat down with us Mario

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Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with it. Shannon Dawson down there

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Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with it. The folks at the

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Speaker 1: Texas State Fair don't have a problem with it. And

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Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcasts, these are just some of

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Speaker 1: the portions of b roll that Colin's running through. Look,

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Speaker 1: that's a rented suit. I'll grant you that. But Rick Knew,

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Speaker 1: problem with it. So I would say to whoever this

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna say. Next up, Colin, let's roll on.

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Speaker 1: Too much time was given to that Southern Rivals football

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Speaker 1: show hit us and said Pat McAfee saved college Game Day.

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Speaker 1: No shot at Pat McAfee. You got a lot of

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Speaker 1: respect for the guy. I didn't know game Day needed saving. Now,

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Speaker 1: I will grant you I'm not the biggest viewer of

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Speaker 1: college Game Day because I'm on the road every week

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Speaker 1: hardly ever get to watch game Day. I see bits

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Speaker 1: and pieces of it a lot of times, I'm on

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Speaker 1: campus where the broadcast is emanating from. But I've heard

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Speaker 1: people say this. I've heard people say Pat McAfee saved

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Speaker 1: college game Day. I don't doubt Pat's brought a different

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Speaker 1: tone and attitude to college game Day. And I don't

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Speaker 1: doubt some of you may not like the broadcast more

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Speaker 1: now than you used to. Some of you may tune

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Speaker 1: in more, some of you may be turned off by it.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's that's not been a one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: that they've made. But I don't doubt any of that.

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Speaker 1: What I'm asking is did they need saving? As far

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Speaker 1: as I can tell, that's still the number one pregame

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Speaker 1: college football show in the land. I think Fox puts

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Speaker 1: forth a great product on Saturday mornings. Our boy Brady

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Speaker 1: an institution, It's been around forever, and they needed saving. No.

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Speaker 1: I think they may have needed a strong little shot

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Speaker 1: of adrenaline. And I certainly think that there was upheaval

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Speaker 1: in production this past summer that, uh, you know, probably

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Speaker 1: the product they put on Man's that's second to none

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Speaker 1: as far as I can tell. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: they needed saving. You can say they were doing just

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Speaker 1: fine as was and that he's added something to it,

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Speaker 1: because I don't really even think. If you've got truth sermon,

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Speaker 1: Other reason I know that is because if Pat McAfee

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Speaker 1: left College Game Day tomorrow, they'd still be fine. Some

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Speaker 1: of you may tune out, some of you may tune

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Speaker 1: back in. They'd be okay. You know, they may add

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban this fall. They may that's the hot rumor

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Speaker 1: College Game Day this fall. So how do we save

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Speaker 1: late k Hoo's amongst us could appear on the broadcast.

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Speaker 1: That would save this show. People are asking, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: that's unanswerable for you. We got to get out of

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Speaker 1: here because somehow we haven't drive home TONI So for

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Speaker 1: producer Jesse, for direct Colin, I'm Josh Baate, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: watching the show tonight. Enjoy an early start to your weekend.

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Speaker 2: Take care and God bless.

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