WEBVTT - Pre-preseason Q&A 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal. Hell that for me. I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.680 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.640 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.000 for day? Edith Steak is that woof? Woof? And Dan 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.439 and Tie welcome back to the solid verb of boys 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.960 and girls. My name is ty Hildebrand, joining me as always. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:29.360 Are there still in Chicago, Illinois? My man, Dan Rubinstein? 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.159 How you doing, sir? I'm good. I keep forgetting to 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.199 swap out my squeaky chair. Can you hear it? I 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:35.720 don't know if you can kind of hear it. It's 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.600 not great. It's not great for audio, it's not great 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.040 for video. I need to swap it out. I told 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:41.360 you you don't need to swap it out. You just 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.640 need a little w D forty. Yeah, it's true. I 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.960 don't know if we have any lubricating elements. Lubricating elements 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.519 in our in our house. We need to get some. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.960 This is a very very weird start to what are 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.600 you talking about? Q and A show? Dan? Yeah, we 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.440 love three things. We love off topics, we love college 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:05.480 football and your mister lubrication. So how am I speaking 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.000 out of turn here? This actually kind of collects everything 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:09.720 we need to talk about, and then we have, yes, 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.240 a number of college football and non college football topics 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:13.840 to talk about on Today's Q and A show. But 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.560 I think we're writing the crosshairs here, right in the 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.039 cross here. Sure, whatever you say, I am tied. He 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.520 is Dan. We are the Solid Verbal. Don't forget to 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.280 follow along across all of our social media channels. Go 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.560 on out to your website at solid verbal dot com. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.160 You can also sign up for our newsletter while you're 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.520 on the website, or if you go to newsletter dot 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.280 soliverbal dot com you can fill out a little form there, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.880 give us your email, will promise not to spam you 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.319 and send you some interesting stuff over the next couple weeks. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.640 What else, Dan, Solid Verbal at gmail dot com, forballers 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.320 dot com. For ballers dot com is where you can 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.240 go to get some of our bonus content out on Patreon. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.200 A lot of news coming I hope I'm not speaking 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.960 out of turn, but news coming later this week on 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.200 that front. If you are are interested in becoming a 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.240 verball or you've got a lot of new people signing 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.040 up to join the teon in the dance of the 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.560 college football season. Yeah, and we've got our show on Friday, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.800 which were very all years in the making. Yeah, twelve 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.680 years in the making, Dan, Yeah, Okay, what is today's show? 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.080 We have a Q and a show and we haven't 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.320 done one in a while. We've got a bunch of 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.600 good questions both. I mean, it's largely going to be 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.800 about college football and the upcoming twenty twenty one season, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.840 and maybe a couple of big picture questions, but also 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.880 some non college football questions because we scratch all of 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.480 our itches, ty, not the easiest ones, but all of them. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:42.520 Let's get into it. Congratulations, Skippy, you've got mail. You've 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.880 got mail on the solid verbal Dan. As often as 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:51.040 we can, we like to pay homage to those of 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.600 view verbalers out there who write in soliverble at gmail 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:59.400 dot com. We also solicited questions across every possible platform, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:06.440 be it Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, plain old fashioned email. Certainly, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.840 we tapped into our verballer community out there on Patreon 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.480 and in our Discord server, so a bunch of different 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.000 ways that folks could get in touch with us with 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.959 their questions. I'm gonna start with Will, Dan, that's Will 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.520 with one L one L. Is that true? Says just 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.160 one l here on the sheet, which teams in twenty 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.720 twenty one do you think will look better than they 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:34.200 actually are due to an easy schedule? And then conversely, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.920 which teams fall into the opposite category, i e. They're 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.880 going to look worse than they are because of a 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.200 harder schedule. So look, we have started to do some 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.600 of our preseason research. We're going to be announcing at 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.400 some point soon not to give too much away, when 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.240 we're going to start doing our previews, because the college 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.280 football season, now that we're in July, it's getting a 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.800 little bit bigger in the window. So we started Danny 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:02.400 Canell to the mix. We've not added Danny Capelt. Sorry 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.760 he costs too much. We couldn't afford it. I know 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.200 it's true. We started doing research, we started looking at teams. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.520 Have you started looking at schedules? I have, Yeah, especially 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.000 in a couple of the conferences that we're doing early on, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.200 and it's as always fascinating to see like, well, this 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.520 team isn't that good, but they could win eight, they 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.800 could win nine, Like they return enough that they were 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.360 only so so, But it's a schedule that really gives 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.000 them a chance to sort of push up against their ceilings. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.640 So yeah, I have been looking at schedules. I have 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.839 been looking at you know, better than their schedule, what 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.440 have you believe or better than you know you would 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.799 believe based on their record based on a really tough schedule. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.839 I mean, we've talked about Clemson with this that maybe 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.080 their record will be better than their reality. Although you know, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.920 I love the ceiling of where they are at quarterback 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.520 and receiver and upfront on defense, it's just after Georgia, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.880 it's a whole lot of maybe. Okay, that's one of 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:02.839 the those teams for sure. Arkansas, Arkansas year two of 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.280 Sam Himan. What a brutality, brutal schedule. So we already 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:12.360 talked about Arkansas getting Texas in the non conference. They've 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:17.000 also got Georgia as one of their cross conference inter 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.400 divisional matchups. I believe they also have Bama and LSU 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.200 on the road, which right out of the shoot, that's 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.719 four losses as a starting point, I think, I guess, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.279 I mean, your Texas love is now documented, but continue. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.080 So Arkansas is one of those teams that I think 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.680 falls into the category of having a really hard schedule. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.880 I know, Phil Steele just from looking at the magazine, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.680 it's somewhere in this studio for those watching on the 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:48.960 video feed. He's pretty high on Kentucky finishing third in 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.680 the SEC East, and that is due in no small 0:05:52.800 --> 0:06:02.240 part to its schedule. Eighty fourth schedule wow in FBS. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:08.360 So you know, they get a game against Louisvilleville Louville 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.800 on the road, but for the most part their non 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.000 conference schedule outside of Louisville, they've got um, They've got 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.279 New Mexico State. Does he has everything right? The easiest 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.520 and toughest schedules in each conference, correct, that's all laid out, 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.400 go through it. Yeah, Well, I don't have this magazine 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.960 in front of me. I just put couple. I have 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.440 it right here, ty. Look. Easiest schedule in the Big 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.960 twelve Oklahoma, Yep, they've got Nebraska. That's the big heavyweight 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:40.000 in the early portion of their schedule. The toughest is Kansas. Well, yeah, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.440 I think Kansas is no matter what their schedule look like, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.760 short of it being a like a MEAC schedule or 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.760 a I don't you know, a Big Sky schedule or 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.080 something like that, that was going to be a tough 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.720 road anyway. And you're one of a new coach with 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.520 all the turnover they have. The Arizona schools are on 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.400 either end of the spectrum. Arizona State with a pretty 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.800 easy you know, they get BYU, but it's BYU with 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.520 a new offensive coordinator and a new quarterback. And I 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.400 feel like I don't have the big ten in front 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.320 of me, but I feel like it was North I 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.200 having Eastern, Yep, Northwestern and Perdue easiest, hardest. Yeah, Okay, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.720 so that's the Arkansas one is really unfortunate for Sam Pittman, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:25.200 and I think it will probably serve to detract a 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.440 bit from the progress that they made last year, because 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.960 they did make progress last year. Sure, it's just an 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.160 impossible schedule that he's going to have to deal with. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.119 The Northwestern one is interesting to me as well, because Northwestern, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.320 again slow but steady, always finds a way to be 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.520 in the mix, and with the benefit of a good schedule, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.240 they could again contend for that big ten. West. Well, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.000 I just think they're a good program. They did have 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.880 a catastrophically pad offense two years ago and last year 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:58.240 it improved to simply definitely bad. But yeah, they they 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.040 can navigate it. Who's in that they have what who 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.040 do they have anybody of note in there? They have 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.160 Duke who is sort of dramatically changing things up on 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.440 offense and moving on to a new starting quarterback and 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.640 loses a few big pieces up front on that defense. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.880 So Northwestern is in a really good spot to to 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.960 once again contend for the West. Will by the way, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.920 is a verboler fi ver baller on our night Patreon 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.920 forballers dot com. Okay, let's go to Pundevil pun Devil, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:35.000 also another verballerballers dot com. Yes, what is your favorite 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.600 mascot name? I'm saying, what is your favorite mascot name? 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:44.240 Like their actual first name? Okay, so like not necessarily 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.320 the falcon, the way, the buffalo, the green wave is 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.480 a popular one, The green Wave. I don't and I 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.800 don't want like you to say, like, you know, the whatever, 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.959 the Stanford Tree, although I don't know if the tree 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.720 actually is named like Edgar or something like that, but 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.280 O great, I can't imagine. Is it just the tree? 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.000 That's a very Standford thing to do. If there's a 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.280 name for it, I have never heard it. It's always 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.840 just been referred to as the tree. What would be 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.880 a good name for the tree. If that tree is 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.400 simply not named and it's just the tree, now, you 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.720 have to remember it dances around in wacky ways, it 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.120 has wacky googly eyes, so it needs a name befitting 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.960 of its presence. If you named it Conifer, it sounds 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.880 a little bit like Lucifer, which gives Stanford more of 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.520 an edge than you'd expect. And also it sounds like 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.360 the tree. Yeah. Yeah. That also it sounds like a 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.479 you know, an arrested development Parks and rec kind of combination. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.200 Non existent name conifer. But I don't believe it's a 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.120 conifer tree. I don't know what kind of tree it is, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.360 so regardless, that's the first thing that came to mind. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.319 I guess it would have to be a Conifer tree, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.720 right in order to be named Conifer. Yeah, something like uh. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.599 I actually like Edgar a lot Edgar. Edgar covers the 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.320 spectrum for me of either very serious or very silly. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:13.560 Maybe a Walter, maybe a maybe a Leslie. Not a 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.840 lot of tree names out there. To be honest with you, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.160 I don't know if it's a Douglas fir, but if 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.880 it were, it would be a you know, Doug is 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.520 easy Doug. Yeah, Doug would Beezy my favorite actual name 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.320 for a mascot. Uh, it's a tie to me. I 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:33.040 love the name Ramsy's o, the you know, the the 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:37.360 Longhorned Sheep whatever you know, kind of uh tar heel 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:42.679 mascot wise. Yeah, and Ralphie obviously, Ralphie is a wonderful name. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.959 Ralphie is up there for me. I have a sauce 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.600 spot for Bucky Badger, Monkey b Ainger, Bucky b Edger. Okay, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.240 I just think that is the coolest mascot to look 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.079 at outside of all the almost one name though, Like 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.320 do you like Bevo? I like Bevo. Bev's fine, but 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.880 I'm just saying in general for me, outside of the 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:08.400 live mascots mm hmm, the very clearly fake, big headed mascots. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.480 For me, Bucky Badger is the coolest one. And I 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.800 just love the name Bucky Badger, So that's always been 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.160 the answer for me. I like the sort of creativity 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:22.160 of naming George's bulldog Uga after Uga, right, and got 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.120 an espen quality to it. Right. It's kind of controversial 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:31.439 among Oregon fans, but technically speaking, it's just the duck, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.680 which is very boring. But I believe it was when 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:39.319 Oregon had a live duck mascot. The duck's name was Puddles, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.520 and that has carried over and I think that's adorable 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.680 and I'm if people want to call the duck Puddles, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.600 I'm thrilled to go along with that. So that's my 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:54.400 asterisk here. Let's go to Joseph, also another verballer, Okay, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.120 assemble your dream college football Saturday, not related to your 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.160 own team in any way, and he highlights a few 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.480 possibilities here can be a unique college football venue or 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.640 college town. A question on this is coming up here also, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.560 maybe by Joseph, the same Joseph. I don't know, but 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.520 this is a great question that I'm going to ask next. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:20.840 Hold that in mind. Also could pertain to matchup tailgating 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.400 food a celebrity fan to watch the game with Dan. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.600 You have been is It's no secret in this show 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.800 you have been to many more college football venues than me. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.319 So with the benefit of that experience, what does your 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:39.480 dream college football Saturday not related to Oregon now right? 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.960 What does that look like for you? So I cannot choose? Okay, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:47.040 so of the locales both in terms of town, city 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:53.080 and tailgate and atmosphere of a game. I mean I 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.120 do have favorites. I mean I loved going to Baton 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.319 Rouge and seeing a game at Death Valley SYLSU South Carolina, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.040 which was not a mark matchup, but it was an 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.240 insanely fun time. Nonetheless, Now Baton Rouge as a town, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.800 I think it's a perfectly good town. Does it stand 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.640 out in college towns to me? Not necessarily, but you 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.760 do have the New Orleans ability, so there's that element, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:19.200 but that's not the college town. God, It'd be hard 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.360 to turn away Madison at this point for me because 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.440 I like the food, I like the town, I like 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.120 the atmosphere of the game. It's you know, there's an 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.320 electricity there that I do love. But if I had 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:35.800 to put everything together, man, I don't know, see, and 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.560 that's going up and down the list of places I've been, Like, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.199 I love ann Arbor, but like the Michigan in game experience. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.720 I don't know. It's just that that's where it falls 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.439 off a little bit. For me. What about you, Well, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.080 now you love Athens. I do love Athens. I'm not 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.959 going to go Athens with this because I've been there, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.160 but I the best I can do here is tell 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.679 you the elements of college football that I'm intrigued by 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.360 and have yet to experience. So, for example, I am 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.760 very intrigued by some sort of pregame tailgating experience that 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:13.360 involves boats. That's Tennessee Washington standout. And I've done both. Yeah, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.000 Tennessee and Washington standout, So you would tell you could 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.040 tell me which one's better, But I am intrigued by 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:25.800 that first and foremost. I ate better Before a Washington game, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.080 the local seafood people were grilling up fish and making 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.120 fish tacos, and I think there was some sort of 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.680 oyster situation that was great. That was legitimately a great 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.800 eating experience for me outside of I think it was 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.400 a Washington Oregon game two thousand and seven, so that 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.760 was wonderful. So I would recommend that. But the Tennessee 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.840 the Vall Navy is great too, and that is a 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.720 Meland stadium is an overwhelming stadium experience. Now are you 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:57.480 going to get that electricity for current Ish Tennessee matching 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.600 up in a big game. I don't know. I don't know, 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.280 so that's takes away something about it. But I think 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.040 if if Washington lives up to their hype and ceiling 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.160 this season as a top fifteen ish team. I think 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.280 you would have a really good time. It's a loud stadium. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.360 I don't know if you've spent time in Seattle, have you? No, No, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.480 I've been a college town. I've been to Portland and 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.880 never been the site. Seattle's great. You can eat well, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.440 you can explore, there's different neighborhoods. It's on the water. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.240 You want to go. There's like different islands you can visit. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.640 You can see orcas certain parts of the year. To me, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.520 that's that's a big positive in a college town orca 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.960 options options all right, So let's say Washington just by happenstance. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.120 But the boat thing, to me is interesting as a 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.520 tailgating exercise in terms of which I would love to 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.720 tailgate in a kackaboose at South Carolina. I think Columbia 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:52.000 isn't crazy attractive to me. Let me move on to matchup, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.480 I'd say, okay, pretty much any big time rivalry, So 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.200 give me Ohio State Michigan. I don't know. I mean 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.960 that's the rivalry to end all rivalries in college sports, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.760 maybe in sports in general. I mean it it's fine. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.080 So if i'm picking, I'll just pick a rivalry. I 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.840 don't really have a proclivity towards any one particular matchup. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.640 Tailgating food. Tailgating food's interesting to me. It's interesting to me. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.479 Maybe not as interesting to me as it is to you. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.560 You're the foodie of the group. But no, but you're 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.920 I'm interested in food, am I am intrigued by having 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.600 tacos outside of a college football game? Sure, I've never 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.320 done that at a Penn State game or a Notre 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.720 Dame game. To be perfectly honest with you, great tailgate 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.200 food handheld can grill. Also anyone who does Poe Boys. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.359 So maybe that drives me more towards the South Southwest. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.880 I don't know what it's not a big tailgate food 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.120 though maybe I'm wrong on that, just throwing I see 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.440 a lot of When I went to Baton Rouge, and 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:49.840 I've been to I mean, I've been to a lot 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.040 of plays in the SEC, but especially Baton Rouge, which 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.640 I would assume Louisiana is most associated with Poe Boys 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.040 and New Orleans and everything. Uh, it was much more 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:06.040 giant pots of different stews and different options in terms 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.760 of royal crap oil right dumping out, Well, it's more 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.360 shrimp to me. I don't know, cross, but I don't 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.280 know if crawfish is fully in season in the fall. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.919 I don't believe it is. But yeah, that's what I 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.720 associated big pots, cauldron type situations and it was freaking amazing. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.119 But I think I think your answer should be lsu Bama, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.439 lse Ole miss something like that in Death Valley and 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.600 then the final one here celebrity fan to watch a 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.480 game with. Now you go a thousand directions here, right, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.920 we're biased towards McConaughey. He was on the show. I 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.760 don't know what it did, like walk us through he 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.960 walked us through his ideal Texas football weekend. He did. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.959 We asked him specifically about that. And so for my money, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:56.160 he came on the show outside of Lex Steel And 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.320 I'm trying to think what other celebrities we've had on 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:04.320 the showcanaughey is clearly the most famous person that we've 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:05.639 had on the show. So for me, it's got to 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.680 be had Ralph Russo on. We have had Ralph on Okay, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.080 So don't just say McConaughey without fully considering the breadth 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:19.280 of options. Stu Mandel. We've had Stu on too. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.440 I don't. I don't have a celebrity. I mean McConaughey 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.000 would be fun. That'd be ridiculous. Let's say the Big 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.159 twelve tie. Chris wants to know big picture thoughts on 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.159 Kansas State heading into the season, and I think he 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.240 went on to ask about a possible hot seat for 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.879 Chris Climb and I'm gonna say no. Yeah, I'm definitely 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.760 going to say no to that because I do think 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.040 the early returns are promising. Not his fault that Will 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.840 Howard had to step in last year, and you know, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.520 the record certainly indicated the falloff at quarterback between he 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.119 and Skyler Thompson. My big big picture thoughts on k 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.040 State is they need to get the defense in order. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.919 They brought in some promising transfers. We hope Skyler Thompson's healthy, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.760 and if Skyler Thompson and that offense are able to 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:03.160 look like they did at times together, we should see 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.320 a ridiculously entertaining and productive douce Vaughn. Now what develops 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.760 a round douce vont to, you know, take away some 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.480 of that gravity. I don't know if it's Malik Knowles. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.000 I don't know who it is who had kind of 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.000 a disappointing year last year. That's what I'm curious about. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.160 On offense, the schedule is I believe, and I had 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.840 it in front of me earlier. It's really tough early on, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.840 and especially in terms of quarterbacks consecutively. It was like, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.280 you know, Brock Party and Spencer Rattler, Spencer Sanders if 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.719 he reaches his potential like a bunch of those guys 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.560 early on, and then the back half is pretty nice 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.840 in terms of quarterback matchups. So I would say eight 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.760 wins is relatively realistic if they are going to return 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.600 to the you know, not regrest, but progress to the 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.560 mean in terms of injury luck. So you know, it 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.640 was it was an unfortunate twenty twenty for k State 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.920 in terms of all of the like numbers issues they 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.560 had because of health and safety protocols in Skyler Thompson. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.520 So I think they are going to return to where 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.160 they should be in terms of availability and just luck. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.600 So yeah, I see them as an eight and four programmer. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.199 Eight eight wins is totally doable with this schedule. The 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.000 other thing about K State's schedule is that they open 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.320 with Stanford neutral syche game, oh bodyclock game right, like 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.480 an eleven am local kick. Yeah, yep, yep, eleven am 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:26.199 local kick. I play it in Arlington, and we have 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.760 been pretty public that. You have been way more public 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.800 than I have about your Stanford distained. Maybe I'm being 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.680 a staying harm but you're not a Stanford SR. Yeah, 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.639 you're not a Stanford fan. You're not a fan of 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.679 this iteration of Stanford football. Let's say going to the 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.960 twenty twenty one season, that's a that's an interesting matchup 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.400 for k State. Stanford's got some acclaim. You beat Stanford 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.840 out of the shoot it puts k State a little 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.000 bit more in the conversation right off the off the bat. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.639 Two very winnable games after that against Southern Illinois and 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.560 nov maybe startling. Illinois did beat North Dakota State in 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.920 February TI they beat North Dakota State, but also Southern 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.600 Illinois has that that DNA in them. They have the 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.720 antibodies tie. Chris crime Climan is the North Dakota State 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:18.080 a Dakota State I get, but possibly off to a 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:19.640 three and zh start before you get to the real 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.399 teeth of that schedule. Which is Oklahoma State, Oklahoma a 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.560 bye week, and then Iowa State. Sure, so nonetheless, you 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.520 look at the schedule, you could you could find eight 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.560 wins here. So I think I think I'm with you. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.959 They had the number one rate at all things, you know, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.080 being not great for k State in terms of numbers 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:41.400 and their bad luck last year. I think I saw 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.879 that their defensive line was the number one havoc filled 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.880 line in college fotball last year, obviously in large part 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.520 to Wyatt ubi Hau, who is no longer there. He's 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.719 I think he was drafted by the Bengals, so uh 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.840 production to be replaced for sure. But yeah, I think 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.920 they have a nice bounce back here because even when 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.720 Will Howard was struggling at times, they were in I 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:05.800 think it was the Baylor in Oklahoma State games, so 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.600 they had a shot at games, even though they finished 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:15.840 pretty unexceptionally last year. Alrighty Dan, let's go to Let's 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.000 go to Bert. Let's go to Bart all the way 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.320 at the bottom of the dock. What atom Bart? Is 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:29.720 TCU a dark horse Big twelve contender Flora's yours? No 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.760 they're not. That's oh man, can you can you carve 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.360 out a path for me. Can I carve out a path? 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.640 I can pull up their schedule and we can try 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:45.200 to carve out a path. I cannot in good faith 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:50.560 sit here before the verballer hood and come up with 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.439