1 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Late Kick is Live. 2 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, July thirtieth, year of our Lord, 3 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. There is news breaking all over the place. 4 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: Some of this will probably be old by the time 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 2: we go off the air, but nonetheless happy to have 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: you here. If you haven't already, a quick call to action, 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 2: subscribe to the twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel. 8 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: If you're listening to the podcast, you probably already have 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 2: subscribed there, but if you haven't, go subscribe to the 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 2: pot as well. We do a lot of fun stuff 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: on Wednesdays that our podcast only, so you'll want to 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 2: check that out on the Late Cack Extra podcast that 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: we do really really fun stuff there, and we got 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: a lot of fun slash anxious kind of content to 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: talk about on the show tonight. We are going to 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: have rapid reaction to the SEC scheduling news. We don't 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: have a schedule in our hands yet. The ACC was 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: nice enough to at least give us that, so we're 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 2: going to do rapid reaction to both of those. There 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: were some interesting things that ed Orizron had to say 21 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 2: about his defense that I was under. Apparently the misguided 22 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: notion was pretty good. Last year, he didn't think so. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: All they did was won a national championship anyway, So 24 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,279 Speaker 2: we're going to discuss that. And I've also got something 25 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 2: that I've never talked about on the show. I've never 26 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: spoken about memorabilia. I'm not a memorabilia guy. I don't 27 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: collect memorabilia. I mean, I got a few things, but 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 2: it's definitely not like a man cave trophy room, wall 29 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 2: to wall type memorabilia deal. 30 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: Like some of you have. It's impressive when you do 31 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: have those. 32 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 2: I just don't have it, except that I realized I 33 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: may have something that's worth more than pretty much any 34 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 2: other person that I know has. So I put the 35 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 2: challenge out on Twitter earlier today. Give me your most 36 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 2: priceless or valuable piece of memorabilia. 37 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: There's been some good ones so far. 38 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: I just I'm going to need someone to give me 39 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: a price value on what I have that i'll probably 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 2: never sell, so that before we go off the air. 41 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: But let's get right into this. A lot's going on. 42 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking at a computer screen right now 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 2: in front of me, because as we sit here at 44 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: what time is it is seven oh two Central time 45 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: on this Thursday evening we've got a lot going on 46 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: and we're trying to stay on top of it all. 47 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 2: Got a lot of people here at twenty four to 48 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 2: seven chasing a lot of different tales, trying to keep 49 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: us ahead of this. 50 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: So here's what we know. 51 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: The SEC mid afternoon today announces they're going with a 52 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: ten game conference only schedule. 53 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: That's part A, Part B. 54 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: We're cranking things up on September twenty sixth instead of 55 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: the September fourth or fifth proposed start date that you 56 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: probably saw on your helmet grids that you printed out 57 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 2: back in January. There will be bye weeks, according to 58 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: Commissioner Greg Sanki this afternoon, that will be spread over 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: three weeks somewhere in the middle of the season. So 60 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 2: in other words, there's not going to be this one 61 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 2: week where everybody's off until, of course, December twelfth. And 62 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: that gets me to the third leg of the biggest 63 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: takeaways from the announcement today. You'll have staggered by weeks 64 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 2: during the season, but then there's going to be one 65 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 2: week on December twelfth where no one plays, and that 66 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: is the end of the season. That's after the last 67 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: scheduled game, and that's there essentially as a reservoir for 68 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: all the games that may have to get canceled to 69 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: spill over into that's a cushion date that you're putting 70 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 2: there that you hope you don't have to use. But 71 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: the conference championship game is going to be ever so 72 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: tentatively scheduled for December nineteenth. Right off the bat, as 73 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: I was about to come on the air tonight, I 74 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: saw in our one of our slacker rooms, our recruiting 75 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 2: slack room, Andrew Ivans, who is a recruiting guy that 76 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: covers pretty much the entire country force. 77 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: At this point, he said. 78 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: Has anyone looked around and noticed that that is right 79 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: before early signing day, the conference title game, right before 80 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 2: early signing days, You're going to be prepping at the 81 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: same time as you're trying to lock down your early 82 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 2: signing class. If nothing changes with those dates, fun times, 83 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: all right, So let's dive into this. What are the 84 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: biggest takeaways? You can tell me what you think in 85 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 2: the comment section. I've already heard from a lot of you. 86 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: I want to drop the P word on you, maybe 87 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 2: not the one you think. Inspective is important here. It 88 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: always has been, always will be. But It's important here 89 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: because we don't need to rewind too far. All we 90 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: need to do is rewind about two or three weeks. 91 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 2: Things didn't look so good, did they. Not that we're 92 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 2: by any stretch out of the woods right now, but 93 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 2: things really didn't look good. I was hearing from a 94 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 2: lot of you that you thought the season was going 95 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: to be canceled. You didn't think it was going to happen. 96 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 2: So pretend it's three weeks ago. If I were to 97 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: tell you three weeks ago that we're going to fast 98 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: forward three weeks later and we're going to have schedules 99 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 2: being released, at the very least, it would have made 100 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 2: you feel a little warm and fuzzy inside. 101 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind. 102 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 2: Let's work off that sentiment, and let's work off a 103 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 2: warm and fuzzy feeling instead of an ever pessimistic feeling. 104 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 2: Biggest questions here is the delay. Smart there are two 105 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 2: schools of thought. Don't really even know which one I 106 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 2: reside in. That's why I'm not being paid to make 107 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 2: the decisions. But you got some conferences that are going 108 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: to try and start on time or maybe a week later. 109 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 2: I like the acc And then you got the sec 110 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 2: it was very clear that the room was divided on 111 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: when they I wanted to start. I've heard a couple 112 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: maybe three programs drug their feet on the start date 113 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: more than others, and eventually September twenty sixth was just 114 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 2: the compromise. 115 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: One school of thought on this is. 116 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 2: Okay, well, this lets us have other leagues start, and 117 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 2: maybe pro sports, pro football starts, and so we can 118 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: learn from any mistakes they make, and then we can 119 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: be all the wiser when we eventually do crank things up. 120 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 2: Of course, the second school of thought is it's largely 121 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 2: thought that some games are going to be canceled. 122 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: Like it's a very very thin line. 123 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: You're going you're gonna have to what is it called 124 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 2: thread a pretty small needle there you go to get 125 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 2: all these games off as schedule. 126 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: The later you start, the less wiggle room you give yourself. 127 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: You're telling me that we have one bye week and 128 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 2: then one universal by week before the conference championship game. 129 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: Is that going to be enough? 130 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: You can't know the answers to these, but obviously the 131 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: path that they've gone with in the SEC leaves very 132 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 2: little wiggle room. Two added conference games. This is the 133 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: biggest talking point. This is something that's not sorted out yet. 134 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: So in summary, if you missed it earlier, today the league, 135 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: the SEC announces ten conference games. 136 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: That is the schedule. Now, you play eight of them 137 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: every year. 138 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: Whether you think it should be nine or ten, whatever 139 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: the case may be, you play eight every year. Obviously, 140 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 2: ten means we're adding two more conference games on where 141 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 2: are they coming from? 142 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: Presumably not in your division. I don't think Florida is 143 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: playing Georgia. 144 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 2: Twice, So it stands to reason you're going to play 145 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 2: four teams from over on the other side of the river, 146 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: unless you're Missouri and you already live on the wrong 147 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 2: side of the river and you're in the SEC East. 148 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 2: But how are you going to decide those other two 149 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 2: cross division games? This has been a point of significant 150 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 2: consternation over the past forty eight hours since there have 151 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: been some proposals floated out there. And listen, it's not 152 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: just the past forty eight hours. Our Brandon Marcelo has 153 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: been reporting this for quite a while that one of 154 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: the proposals on the table was if you expand and 155 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 2: you go ten conference games to just add on whoever 156 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: your next cross division opponents would have been using future scheduling. Well, 157 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: that all sounds well and good, doesn't it until you 158 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 2: hear the cries out of Gainesville right now? 159 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: Do you hear that? 160 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: You can hear them yelling at Florida. And here's why. 161 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: If we were to go with that template. Florida has 162 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: added two games would be Alabama and Texas, a and 163 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 2: m chief rival in the SEC East. Georgia's added two 164 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 2: games would be Arkansas and Mississippi State. That is a 165 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: recipe for Florida to beat Georgia and still lose the East. 166 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: That's probably how that would end up, knowing how this 167 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 2: works out, like I have seen it work out in 168 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 2: the past. So Florida has a problem with that for 169 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 2: obvious reasons. So our Brandon Marcelo again comes to the 170 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: table or late this afternoon and reports that the SEC 171 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: sources out of the league office are saying that the 172 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 2: scheduling is done and the dates are done. It's just 173 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 2: they've got to vote on which of the models they're 174 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 2: going to go with. So this is what's happening. There's 175 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 2: a computer somewhere in Birmingham and it's probably just got 176 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 2: an Excel spreadsheet open on it, and it's got three 177 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 2: or four different options option ABC and D, and the 178 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 2: league and representatives in the league have to vote on 179 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: which option they're going to go with. Now, you could 180 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 2: have the one that's already on the table, which is 181 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: just we're going to add the teams that you would 182 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 2: have played anyway, and so be you're just gonna have 183 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: to swallow a very bitter pill or eat cotton candy, 184 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: depending on which draw you get. But also there have 185 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 2: been some other ideas floated here, and one of them 186 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 2: was a strength of schedule that's taken into account into 187 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 2: a model that tries to equally balance out everyone's schedule. 188 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: Now you tell me how that works. 189 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 2: Tell me how you look at everyone's current eight game 190 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 2: schedule and then you divide things up evenly where no 191 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 2: one gets a tougher break than anyone else. Do you 192 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 2: know what that requires? Have you thought about this for 193 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 2: a second in the fifteen seconds we've had on the table. 194 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 2: That means that someone in the league office is task 195 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: with ranking their teams, not based on a win loss 196 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 2: record like they do at the end of the year. 197 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 2: They're having to rank the teams before they've played games, 198 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 2: no different than a preseason magazine would no different than 199 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 2: a Vegas oddsmaker. Would natural question for me is who's 200 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 2: given that responsibility? Who is power ranking SEC teams in 201 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 2: the SEC League office? Isn't that fun to speculate wildly 202 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 2: about because we'd probably never know. Now, those are the 203 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 2: two schools I thought about, and there are more than 204 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 2: two models, mind you, there could be three or more. 205 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 2: In fact, Brandon Marcello reporting there are more than three 206 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: models out there, three options for the SEC schedule. 207 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: So we'll see which one they settle on. 208 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 2: Could happen any minute, could wait till early next week 209 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 2: to happen. 210 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: We really don't know. 211 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 2: But the Arkansas Athletic Director this afternoon saying that Mark Womack, 212 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 2: who is an SEC administer, kind of an SEC admin 213 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 2: type guy, he's going to be the one tasked with 214 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 2: providing that schedule. So if you're sending prayers up this evening, 215 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 2: send one up for mister Walmack in the SEC League office. 216 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 2: I had a suggestion that of course, is not going 217 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: to be followed through uncaus no one ever listens to 218 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 2: my ideas, and someone would have a problem with it, 219 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 2: but it would do big numbers in the television world. 220 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 2: If you don't want to yell at the schedule maker 221 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 2: and blame him, and no one wants to just use 222 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 2: what would have happened anyway over the next couple of years. 223 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 2: We can always go the lottery route. You can put 224 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 2: a bunch of ping pong balls in there and if 225 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 2: things don't go your way, you can just blame the balls. Actually, 226 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 2: it's not a bad strategy in life. Just blame the balls. 227 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 2: And so you could go lottery. And I'm assuming the 228 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: entire world and portions of the rest of the globe 229 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 2: would watch an SEC schedule lottery. 230 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: But we're not going to go that route. 231 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: My guess is they're going to go with that power route, 232 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: that power rating route. That way to decide that tries 233 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 2: to balance everyone out, because if if Florida watches that 234 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 2: schedule play out as was speculated and floated wildly up 235 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 2: the last forty eight hours, they would just assume float 236 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 2: off into the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean 237 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 2: as actually play that schedule and watch Georgia play the 238 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 2: schedule that's been proposed in a year where they legitimately 239 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: think they can overtake Georgia in the East. Trash was 240 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 2: the most commonly used adjective to describe that by our 241 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 2: Florida fans in the inbox, and I understand it. However, 242 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 2: let's just again before we move on here, let's take 243 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 2: time and pause and realize, at least in late July 244 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 2: early August, we are talking about the schedule and how 245 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 2: it should be formatted instead of what the schedule would 246 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 2: have looked like if we looked like if we had 247 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 2: a season. So everything remains crossed that we will have 248 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 2: a season. The ACC schedule, at least in principle, was 249 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 2: released yesterday and we don't have dates yet, so we 250 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 2: don't know who goes where when, but we do have 251 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: the ACC schedule out. What we know there is they 252 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 2: had a ten conference games plus and then just a 253 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: big question mark. Now, it's stands to reason that what 254 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: they were trying to do is force the SEC's hand 255 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 2: and basically shout to the world, if the SEC wants 256 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 2: to play these games like Florida fsu Kentucky, Louisville, South Carolina, 257 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 2: clebs In, Georgia, Georgia Tech, they can do it well. 258 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: The SEC squashed it like a bug on a windshield 259 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 2: be cause they're tired of being second to the party 260 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 2: in these announcements, and so it looks like the ACC's 261 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 2: probably going with that ten conference game slate too. 262 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: Notre Dame is in this thing. 263 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: Notre Dame, much to the chagrin of many, including some 264 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 2: in this building, right now eligible the Fighting Irish eligible 265 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 2: for the ACC Championship Game, which will be held, by 266 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 2: the way, either December twelfth or December nineteenth. The biggest 267 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 2: thing that I noticed immediately is see that if you're 268 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 2: watching on YouTube, over to the right side of this 269 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: graphic that Colin's showing you that the league office released, 270 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 2: they put basically the parameters and you see December twelfth 271 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: or nineteenth for the conference championship game. But it's not 272 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 2: a two division format since they have fifteen teams here, 273 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 2: they're just going one division, all fifteen teams in the 274 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 2: same pot, and we're just taking the best too, based 275 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 2: off winning percentage of conference games. What does that mean? Well, 276 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 2: you know, for example, we've got Notre Dame playing Clemson. Well, 277 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 2: if they were in the same division, you would have 278 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: that fear that, Okay, Notre Dame may end up being 279 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: the second best team in this conference by a mile. 280 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 2: But since they're parking there behind Clemson. They're not going 281 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 2: to be able to play for a conference championship game. 282 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 2: Clemson's going to end up being favored by four touchdowns 283 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 2: in the conference title game. They may still end up 284 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 2: being favored by four tds, but it's going to be 285 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: against the true second best team in the conference, as 286 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 2: records indicate, as opposed to what you would have if 287 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 2: you had. 288 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: Two divisions there. 289 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 2: I think that's the way to go this particular year 290 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: in the ACC. I don't know what the SEC is 291 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 2: going to do about that. There are a lot of 292 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 2: people on both sides of that fence. Some people think 293 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 2: you should maintain the divisions. Some people think that you 294 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: should go the alternative roup. I think the SEC is 295 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 2: going to maintain divisions. I think the ACC had a 296 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: perfect reason not to maintain divisions, and it's going to 297 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 2: work out very well for them. Some teams that I 298 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: was looking at, Notre Dame. Obviously, you get a bunch 299 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 2: of really good matchups. You get Notre Dame, Clemson, Notre 300 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 2: Dame FSU SO and I think both of those games 301 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 2: are in South Bend, so those are really fun to 302 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 2: think about. It's just kind of fun to think about 303 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 2: a different world. I don't think this is going to 304 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: be the new normal. By the way, Notre Dame being 305 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 2: in a conference, don't think that's going to be the 306 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: new normal. But let me tell you, the team that 307 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 2: popped right off the screen to me was Duke. The 308 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 2: Duke Blue Devils want to set the scene. 309 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: For you here. You've got calamity, you've got chaos. 310 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 2: A million other C words, and so you've got all 311 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 2: that happening, and of course everyone's favorite is Clemson, including myself, 312 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 2: And then you've got Notre Dame in the mix. And 313 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: then you've got the usual questions about is Miami ready, 314 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: is Florida State ready? 315 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: But then you've got. 316 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: Dave Cutcliffe just sitting at Duke, and he's got Chase 317 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 2: Brice as his transfer quarterback formally at Clemson, and you 318 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 2: got a really good developer at the quarterback position, and 319 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: you've got a guy who is very capable at quarterback, 320 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 2: and it just seems like the kind of world that 321 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 2: is tailor made custom for Dave Cutcliffe to be standing 322 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 2: there at the end of the day, finishing well into 323 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 2: the top half of this conference, a place that Vegas 324 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 2: Odds will probably tell you he and Duke have. 325 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: No business finishing in. It just seems like that kind 326 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: of year. 327 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: I'm not going to break down Duke's depth chart for 328 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 2: you right now, but I'm keeping an eye on Duke 329 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: NC State. If you didn't know anything about any of 330 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 2: the teams, NC State would be the program that my 331 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 2: attention went to the most because NC State, if you 332 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 2: look up and down that helmet or that grid schedule 333 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 2: that Colin showed you, it's the only program. They're the 334 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 2: only one in the entire conference that is able to 335 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 2: avoid Clemson end Notre Dame. 336 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean their schedule is a ca qualt. 337 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 2: But Elliott did a really good feature on twenty four 338 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: to seven sports dot Com today about how just because 339 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: NC State doesn't play, for example, using NC State as 340 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 2: the example, just because they don't play the two big boys, 341 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: they still have Florida State, they still have Miami, still 342 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 2: have North Carolina, they still have Virginia Tech Virginia. So 343 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 2: like they don't play one in two, but they basically 344 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 2: play three, four, five, six, and so it up that 345 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 2: NC State doesn't have the easiest road to hoe and 346 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 2: not to mention the whole point is, we don't know 347 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 2: what kind of program they have this year. I saw 348 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 2: some people making a little bit of noise about them 349 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 2: on Twitter yesterday. Now the whole point is, I mean, 350 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: there have been some fairly significant internal problems there. There's 351 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 2: been some fairly significant roster problems there. Where those rectified 352 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 2: overnight and I didn't know about it. So I had 353 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 2: to turn in my one through fifteen and that was easy. 354 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 2: My one through fifteen order of finish for the ACC today, 355 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: I did not have NC State in the top half 356 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 2: of the conference, despite at least on the surface, the 357 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: very workable schedule. Now, I'll tell you who my attention 358 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 2: is on the most in terms of needing to prove something, 359 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 2: and that's Virginia Tech and justin Flinte And they've got 360 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: their chance. They've got their chance because they've got Clemson, 361 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 2: but they've got them at home. 362 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: They got Miami, but they got him at home. 363 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 2: I know that your mind and mind kind of is 364 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: still trained to think about the home. 365 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: Environment as the classic home environment. 366 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 2: Well, obviously that's not going to be case this year, 367 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 2: but at least you don't have to travel in those 368 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 2: two circumstances they come to you. And also, you know, 369 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 2: everyone just kind of assumes Clemson is Clemson, Miami is Miami. Well, 370 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 2: you don't know with all the uncertainty out there, you 371 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 2: don't know who's. 372 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: Going to be on the field any given week. 373 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 2: And so you know, if you have your if you 374 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 2: have your stuff together, and you know, maybe something affects 375 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: their roster, you have no idea what that game looks 376 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 2: like come game week. What if they upset Clemson at home. 377 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 2: If you take that leap, that's a double digit underdog situation. 378 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: But if you take that leap and they're one of 379 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 2: the ones that just end up shocking the world this year, 380 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 2: in the year where I think the world is going 381 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 2: to be shocked on a week to week basis because 382 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 2: of the nature of what we're dealing with right now, 383 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 2: they do that, they get Miami at home. What if 384 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, justin flinte in the most uncertain 385 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 2: of times, takes a program that everyone is uncertain about, 386 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 2: and this is the year that they go bang. Virginia 387 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 2: Tech's one that I'm looking at because elsewhere they got 388 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 2: a trip to North Carolina, they got Louisvillet home, they 389 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 2: got Duke at home. Like they're not with the easiest, 390 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: They're not with the hardest, but they're right there to 391 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 2: where if there's going to be a year and if 392 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 2: there's going to be someone come out of the blue. 393 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,199 Speaker 2: Aside from Duke Uardi told you about Blue Duke, you 394 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 2: got that. Virginia Tech is another one that I'm looking at. 395 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 2: So just some thoughts there on the ACC schedule release. 396 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: Will get dates on that eventually, and there's a lot more. 397 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 2: We did a ton about that yesterday on twenty four 398 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: to seven Supports dot Com. One of the benefits of 399 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 2: being the league office that put out the schedule first, 400 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 2: you get a disproportionate amount of coverage on your conference. 401 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 2: So now I want to go down south to Baton. 402 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,479 Speaker 2: Rouge hadn't talked about LSU in a couple of weeks, 403 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 2: so Edwards are on. 404 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: I think he was speaking at a Rotary Club. 405 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 2: Event yesterday day before yesterday, and as usual when edwars 406 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,439 Speaker 2: Ron speaks, he says a whole lot and a lot 407 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: of it was noteworthy. 408 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: He's not one for coach speak. 409 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 2: And so there's perception versus reality here that I want 410 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 2: to use to frame this next couple of minutes of 411 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 2: this show. Perception last year without around this time last year, 412 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 2: LSU had been stuck in the nineteen forties offensively forever. 413 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 2: Since the nineteen forties, it seemed, and the perception was, 414 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 2: I don't care how excited they are down there, there's 415 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: no way that with the same quarterback and a lot 416 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 2: of the same offensive pieces that just got shut out 417 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 2: at home by Alabama the year before, there's no way 418 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 2: that they're just going to revolutionize everything. And the mere 419 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 2: hiring of a position coach from the New Orleans Saints 420 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 2: is going to be the one lighter into the bucket 421 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 2: of fluid and everything goes boom. 422 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. That was perception. Reality was, 423 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: it happened. 424 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 2: Every bit of that happened, and then some everything LSU 425 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 2: folks thought in their wildest dreams the best of best 426 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 2: case scenarios came to fruition. So there was a gap 427 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 2: between reality and perception. Well, this year we look on 428 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 2: the other side of the ball and you got defense 429 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 2: that I didn't think was half bad last year. 430 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,479 Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't vintage, but didn't need to be. 431 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 2: But this year LSU's defense, you got Dave Randa, who 432 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 2: wasn't fired. He goes on to take a head coaching 433 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 2: job at Baylor. That's a promotion in pretty much anyone's book. 434 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 2: So David Randa was being paid on godly amounts of money. 435 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 2: Good for him, by the way, but with incredible money 436 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 2: as a coordinator, and he moves on and Bo Polini 437 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 2: now comes in and he was there aside from last year, 438 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 2: the last time they won a national championship, that's been 439 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 2: a long time. I mean back then you were defending 440 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 2: John Parker Wilson and Terry Grant. Now you've got a 441 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 2: world of Tua Tongua Bai Looo or Bryce Young or 442 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 2: Mac Jones and half a dozen first round draft picks 443 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 2: at wide receiver. It's a different conference. Perception is they're 444 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 2: not going to come in and be a dominant defense. 445 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: I mean, what are they going to do? You can't 446 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: be dominant offensively and defensively. That's just what the book says. 447 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 2: Well, that's where the perception is right now, and that's 448 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 2: as far as we can go. 449 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: We can't get to reality yet. That's what the season 450 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: will provide us. But these were some quotes for head 451 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: coach of lsu at oorzeron yesterday at that little rotary 452 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: club event. We didn't play good defense last year. That's 453 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: why bo Palini is here. 454 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 2: Now we'll be able to use our athletes and play 455 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 2: better defense. Too many points scored on us last year, 456 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 2: You're going to see big improvement. So I defended LSU's defense, 457 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 2: especially second half of the year last year. I thought 458 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: a lot of their issues were not necessarily a personnel 459 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 2: or scheme related. They were just missing a lot of 460 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 2: key components that they ended up getting back. And secondly, 461 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 2: I think we'd all agree that offense bought them a 462 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 2: lot of leeway. 463 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 1: Let him take a lot of chances. 464 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 2: Now, I don't think that the locals think that you 465 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 2: took enough chances up to an including the head coach 466 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 2: of the team at Orzion. So part of culture a 467 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 2: word that is overutilized as just something to fill in 468 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 2: a blank, but underutilized by people who actually understand it. 469 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: Part of culture is identity and fit. 470 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: And I think what's being suggested you don't need to 471 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 2: read too far between the lines here. What's being suggested 472 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 2: it is you can have two things that are true 473 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 2: at once. Dave Randa could be a heck of a 474 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: defensive coach. He could be one of the best defensive 475 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 2: minds in the game, he could be a good enough 476 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 2: football mind to be hired as a Power five head coach. 477 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: All those things have happened. Those things can be true, 478 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 2: but it can also be true that for whatever reason 479 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 2: or list of reasons, he just wasn't the best fit 480 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 2: for an ed Orgeron led program. So maybe both of 481 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 2: those things were true here, and he didn't necessarily mesh 482 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 2: his vision with oorserons. So they flip things from a 483 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 2: three to four to a four to three. This is 484 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 2: stuff that I think is overblown too. To be honest 485 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 2: with you, we've had a lot of questions about LSU 486 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 2: flipping from the three four to the four to three 487 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 2: in the Late Kick Extra podcast inbox where we take questions. 488 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: It's all a mailbag. 489 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 2: Subscribe by the way to the podcast if you haven't already, 490 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: and give us a five star review. We're approaching four 491 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 2: hundred and we eventually want to get to one thousand. 492 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,239 Speaker 2: So anyway, back on point here, A lot of our 493 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 2: LSU brethren have asked, Hey, what do you think about 494 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 2: us moving to the four to three. Well, really it 495 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 2: matters to me most in recruiting, doesn't matter schematically. I mean, 496 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 2: if you'll look at the front you're in when you 497 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 2: face teams like Alabama. 498 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: Since we're looking at. 499 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 2: Footage of last year's game on the YouTube live feed here, 500 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: that's the personnel package that they dictate you b in anyway, 501 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 2: And so I don't care about it so much there, 502 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 2: or I care about it is I know what opposing 503 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 2: staffs do to anyone out there who officially runs a 504 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 2: three to four They go into the home of every 505 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 2: defensive end and outside linebacker edge rushing type and they say, 506 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: you go play for a three to four defense, and 507 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 2: you're just gonna be a clogger, and you're not gonna 508 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 2: fill your stat sheet up, and you've got the build 509 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 2: to be an elite future first round type edge rusher, 510 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 2: but you're gonna throw all that potential away down there, 511 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 2: and you're gonna throw away potential first round money. And yeah, 512 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 2: maybe you'll still go pro and maybe you'll play in 513 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 2: the NFL, but you won't get that big fat rookie 514 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 2: contract that you would have gotten if you came here 515 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: and played in a traditional four man front. 516 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: So now LSU didn't have to worry about that anymore. 517 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 2: I don't know how much it was affecting the I 518 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 2: just know in the past that that's been an issue 519 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 2: that people who run a three to four officially deal with. 520 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 2: But now the second place that it matters is it 521 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 2: matters in style. And if you'll listen to ed Orseron, 522 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 2: I didn't give you his entire speech, I just gave 523 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 2: you quotes. He went on to say that he really 524 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 2: prefers a more attacking style and what you get to 525 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 2: do when you have the kind of offense implemented that 526 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 2: LSU has. 527 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 1: And that's kind of the side question. 528 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 2: Do they continue on the same general trajectory offensively this 529 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 2: year that they did last year? 530 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: Don't have to match the numbers, just general style. I mean, 531 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: are they. 532 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 2: Still a legitimate threat to be a top ten, top 533 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 2: five offensive caliber product. If the answer is yes, there, 534 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 2: you don't have to have a suffocating product defensively. I 535 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: don't think that's what ed Orderan is asking for here. 536 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 2: I actually think he probably prefers a swarming style over 537 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 2: a suffocating style. Knowing we arrive at the stadium with 538 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: the pretty good idea that we're putting up thirty or 539 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 2: forty against most teams, so we know that we can 540 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: take risks here. We know we can take chances that 541 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 2: we could and when it was a struggle to get twenty. 542 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: So let me ask you something. 543 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you a question, but you're not gonna 544 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 2: get all the information you need to answer it. My 545 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 2: question is, would you rather give up fourteen points a 546 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 2: game on average or seventeen points a game? Naturally you 547 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 2: go fourteen, But what if I told you the part 548 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 2: be there is if you give up seventeen points a game, 549 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 2: you get the kind of offense that the big boys run. 550 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 2: You give up fourteen, you get a snail offense. Which 551 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 2: one would you rather have? I think at Orizeron sitting 552 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 2: here saying, listen, I'm not sitting here telling you just 553 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 2: take risk after risk and let folks go up and 554 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 2: down the field on us. But I think he is saying, 555 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 2: we're gonna load this roster up with guys who can 556 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 2: harass the quarterback. And I don't need you to pitch shutouts. 557 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 2: I don't need you to hold folks in the single digits. 558 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 2: We are not what we used to be. We are 559 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 2: now a modernized version of LSU football now, and we'll 560 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 2: be moving forward as long as I'm here. 561 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: You take your risks, because I think it's gonna pay off. 562 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 2: And I think that for every couple more points on 563 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 2: average per game, we may give up. I think you're 564 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 2: going to turn the ball over, and I think you're 565 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,959 Speaker 2: going to give us a lot more fortuitous field position, 566 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 2: and it's worth it. And that is the gamble that 567 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 2: they're making that he thinks is going to pay off. 568 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 2: And we wrap it right back around to that perception 569 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 2: versus reality. This time last year, he was adamant about 570 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 2: that offense, adamant. He is just as adamant when you 571 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 2: hear him talk about this defense this year. So I 572 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 2: didn't doubt I'm offensively last year. That's why a lot 573 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 2: of LSU folks loved this program last year, but a 574 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: lot of people did. I would caution you fool me once, 575 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 2: shame on you fool me twice. 576 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: What does that make you? 577 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 2: So I would at the very least give reasonable doubt 578 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 2: and deference to what ed or Zuran's saying about his 579 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 2: team as opposed to maybe what you think about his 580 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 2: team and what is and isn't possible. All right, let's 581 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 2: wrap it up with this. As I told you, I 582 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 2: am not a big memorabilia guy. I just don't collect 583 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 2: a lot of things, and that goes up to and 584 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 2: including today. But I have something I didn't really realize 585 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 2: that I had. It didn't never look at it as 586 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 2: memorabilia until I was rummaging around through my stuff last time. 587 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 2: I was at home in Columbus and I realized, you. 588 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: Know what, I need to talk about this. 589 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 2: So we haven't done an all access story in about 590 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 2: a month, and a lot of you hit me up, 591 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 2: a couple of you in particular, every week and say 592 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 2: when is the next all access story? 593 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: Well, it's tonight right now. 594 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the all access stories are 595 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 2: just that's exactly what they are, behind the scenes stories 596 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: from covering games. So let me take it back to 597 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 2: twenty seven teen. I'm in Columbus, Georgia. I'm working at 598 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 2: WLTZNBC thirty eight. That is the local NBC affiliate there. 599 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: It was a golden era, to say the least, to 600 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: be covering college football in that market. You're covering Georgia, 601 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: you're covering Auburn, and you're covering Alabama and the CSU 602 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 2: Cougar's club football team. 603 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: So Cougar's to the side. 604 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 2: You're talking about Georgia, Bama and Auburn, and think about 605 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 2: what twenty seventeen did. When I say Golden era, you 606 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 2: have the Gus Malson fiasco, so proper, whatever you want 607 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: to call it, and you have them go to LSU 608 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 2: and lose. 609 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: And everyone thinks he's going to be fired. 610 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 2: And then they come back home five weeks later and 611 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: he beats number one Georgia and he beats number one Alabama, 612 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 2: and so all of this is happening right in our backyard. 613 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: Auburn goes to. 614 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 2: Atlanta, but not before Malson and his representation push Auburn 615 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 2: up against a wall and say give us a new deal, 616 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 2: and they verbally agree to it. And then they go 617 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 2: get beat in the SEC Championship game where Georgia atones 618 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 2: for their loss, and so Georgia's going to the playoffs 619 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 2: and Alabama gets to go to the playoffs too. Best 620 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 2: case scenario for anyone who is covering college football in 621 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 2: Columbus Georgia. So half of the college football playoff is 622 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 2: made up of teams that we cover. So Georgia goes 623 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 2: out to the Rose Bowl, they win that classic in overtime. 624 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 2: I'm sitting in the press box in the New Orleans 625 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 2: Super Dome. I'm watching that game because we've got Bama 626 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 2: versus Clemson in the Sugar Bowl, a rematch of last 627 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 2: year's title game. Alabama wins that one, which sets up 628 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 2: the absolute dream scenario you could work in Columbus, Georgia 629 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: five hundred years. 630 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: How often are you going to have two of your. 631 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 2: Local teams playing a national championship game in your backyard? 632 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: In Atlanta, Georgia. 633 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 2: You got Auburn, you got over there, who has had 634 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 2: an incredible season and ups and downs all over the place. 635 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: Then you got Georgia and Alabama go to the playoff 636 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: and they're playing in the National championship game in Atlanta. 637 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 2: So easily, the high water mark of my admittedly fairly 638 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 2: young career was that season and then that night. But 639 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 2: that doesn't have anything to do with memorabilia. Here's where 640 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 2: the whole memorabilia angle comes into question. We're standing on 641 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 2: the sideline, it's overtime to it gets sacked the second 642 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 2: and like Ackworth, Georgia to go and then second and 643 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,479 Speaker 2: twenty six happens and DeVante Smith catches the ball right 644 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: across the field for me, and so it's chaos. It's 645 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 2: total bedlam. Your mind can't process fully what's happening. And 646 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 2: so we're on the field. This is actually Colin is 647 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 2: rolling the footage that I just pulled out the iPhone 648 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 2: and started shooting. Didn't even have a camera in my 649 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 2: hand at the moment, and so all this is happening 650 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 2: just absolute mayhem. And it's that way. It's like when 651 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 2: you're riding a roller coaster and you're going down the 652 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 2: first big hill. It's kind of that feeling, but it's 653 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 2: for about ten minutes and you just don't really know 654 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 2: what to do, and you're trying to absorb it and 655 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 2: you're trying to take it all in. And so I 656 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 2: also got buddies back home that if I go to 657 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 2: these games, they ask, hey, like, if my team wins, 658 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: can you get me some confetti? Can you get me 659 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,719 Speaker 2: some of those newspapers, you know, the commemorative newspapers they 660 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 2: pass around. 661 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: You can never get the T shirts or the hats. 662 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 2: So I'm walking around knowing full well that I got 663 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 2: a high tail it to the Georgia locker room because 664 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,239 Speaker 2: I have to gather sound. I gotta get into both 665 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 2: of them because we cover both teams. So I'm looking 666 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 2: for newspapers and I can't find any, but I see 667 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 2: something else on the ground. I pick it up, and 668 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 2: I'm putting it in my backpack and I'll just sort 669 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: it out later. So I go into the Georgia locker room. 670 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 2: Some of the most impressive stuff you'll ever see. Those 671 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 2: guys just having their absolute heart ripped out of their chest, 672 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 2: manning up, looking you dead in your eyes, and doing 673 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: as many interview minutes as you need them to do. 674 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 2: So it was impressive just on the surface, being in 675 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 2: the Georgia locker room and being around a lot of 676 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 2: guys that I don't think people appreciated how hard it 677 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 2: was going to be to replace. 678 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: To be honest with you, you just assume we're recruiting 679 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: five star guys, so it'll be easy. No. 680 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 2: Now, I would argue you still hadn't replaced some of 681 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 2: those guys, but anyway, So then we get back over 682 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 2: to the Bama locker room, We get sound out of 683 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 2: the Alabama locker room press conference and whatnot. 684 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: Two hours go by. 685 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 2: I only have like an hour's drive home, so we 686 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 2: didn't leave there until way late in the night, and 687 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 2: we're doing stand up stuff on the field afterwards, and 688 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 2: so I dig in my bag to find something, and 689 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: I remember, Oh, there's this thing that I picked up 690 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 2: on the field. 691 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: Let me see what that was. 692 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 2: It's the playsheet for Brian Dabele, who is the current 693 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 2: offensive coordinator at Alabama, and it is the offensive playshet 694 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 2: front and back, including that very memorable Seattle play. There 695 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 2: are many audibles on the back of this thing for 696 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,040 Speaker 2: the second and twenty six game winning National champion and 697 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 2: winning touchdown from Tongo Iloa to DeVante Smith. Now, I 698 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 2: asked some dude who is big in the memorabilia world 699 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 2: months later, Hey, you know what I got? And I 700 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 2: told him and he I think he may actually be 701 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 2: a Bama guy. He had to sit down for a 702 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 2: second start fanning himself essentially, and gives me some number that, 703 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 2: to be honest with you, I don't believe. But he 704 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 2: gives me some number that that would be worth. Now, 705 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 2: you will have to pry this out of my cold 706 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 2: dead hands. I'm not giving this thing away. I'm not 707 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 2: selling it. In fact, if anyone at the University of 708 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 2: Alabama or wherever Brian Davile is today is watching, it's 709 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 2: probably about the safest hands that it could possibly be. 710 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 2: But I didn't even look at it as memorabilia. You know, 711 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 2: to me, memorabilia is like a signed helmet or a 712 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 2: signed football, maybe a bag of confetti. You know, I 713 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 2: remember the first first time we went to a championship game. 714 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 2: Clemson wasn't the first one, but when Clemson first won 715 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 2: their title game, guys offered me money to get him 716 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 2: bag as of confetti. That's that's garbage, you know that, right, 717 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 2: That's just cut up garbage that's colored. But nonetheless, it 718 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 2: was important. So you never know what kind of price 719 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 2: someone puts on something. But here's what I can promise you. 720 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: There is only one of these play sheets out there, 721 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 2: and there's only one time you were ever gonna walk 722 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 2: someone off second and twenty six in the National Championship game, 723 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 2: And that is the sheet that the play came off of. 724 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: Listening to that Lamina and it sits right. 725 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 2: Here in my hand, and I was fanning myself in 726 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: the control room beforehand because it makes a good substitute 727 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 2: as a fan. But yeah, that's my best piece of memorabilia, 728 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 2: and in a lot of ways, one of the only 729 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 2: pieces of memorabilia. 730 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: I got that. 731 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 2: And I got a box full of like dozens and 732 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 2: dozens of credentials from games with the final scores written 733 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,239 Speaker 2: on the back of them. That is the extent of 734 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 2: my memorabilia collection. But I thought a lot of you 735 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 2: would enjoy that because I haven't heard a story quite 736 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 2: like that one now. 737 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: To your credit, I put it out on Twitter earlier today. 738 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 2: Give me your best piece of memorabilia one of you 739 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 2: got engaged at the fifty yard line in Knoxville at 740 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 2: Neeland Stadium. 741 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: That was a really good one. 742 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 2: Our buddy Sean Fox from down in Louisiana had a 743 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 2: pro from the funeral of the late Eddie Robinson. That's 744 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 2: pretty impressive. And I haven't even been able to update. 745 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 2: I have right now thirty seven notifications on Twitter, so 746 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 2: I'm assuming someone may have topped me. But I think 747 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 2: I got at least ninety five percent of you beat, 748 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 2: so I really appreciate you. 749 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: Guys. Tune in to night. We have a very active chat. 750 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: If you haven't. 751 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 2: Already, a few of you haven't subscribed to the twenty 752 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 2: four to seven Sports YouTube channel. Also click the bell 753 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 2: for notifications. Going to be more and more important as 754 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 2: more and more news breaks and news breaking season. 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