WEBVTT - Mega June Q&A: Cheese Smuggling & Conference Switcheroos 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal hull. That for me, I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:08.160 a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:10.639 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for a day at a steak? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:13.640 Is that? 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:19.319 Woo woof? And them and tie Welcome back to the 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.760 solid rubber boys and girls. My name is Ty hilde Brand. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.079 That fine gentleman over there, the one and only Dan 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.600 Rubinstein now back in Chicago, Land, Dan, how are you? Yeah, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:30.520 I'm good, I'm good. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.800 I would recommend not flying with a three month old 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:35.400 and a two and a half year old. I think 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:36.680 that's super not fun. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.360 You also, you also flew with like eight pounds of cheese. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.239 What to explain? Yeah, it wasn't explain to me the 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.800 cheese thing. And like, did you have trouble getting through 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.840 security with that? Like, what's it like trying to put 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.120 that through the the scanner? Twelve pounds of cheese? Twelve 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.800 pounds of cheese? Uh, there was a brand of cheese 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.560 I was looking for that they didn't have in the Midwest, 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.480 even though it's a brand that I think is made 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.520 in the Midwest. But they had it at a restaurant 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.520 supply supply store on the West Coast, but they didn't 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:11.039 have it in. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.280 The supply store I go to here. So I knew 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.200 I had a really light suitcase because a bulk of 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.160 the clothes and stuff where in Jody with and I. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.600 Her suitcase had also the kids stuff. So I just 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.720 had mine in a little suitcase. It was like a 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.680 twelve pound suitcase and it's not overweight until like fifty 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.759 and it was a checked bag. And so I said, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.360 you know what, I could throw a couple of those 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.119 blue ice things in there with the two blocks of cheese, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.720 the two six pound blocks of cheese, and it's cold 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.920 underneath the plane. And I just said, look, if I 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.440 open my suitcase after the fact and there it's warm 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.400 blocks of cheese, I'll toss it. It's not a big deal. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:44.800 It was not. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.080 It didn't break the bank to buy this cheese. But 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.840 if they're cold still, it seems like a wind for 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.080 me who goes through a lot of cheese making pizza 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.280 at home. You're now officially a cheese runner. Yeah, a 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.360 coyote of dairy. Yeah that's me. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.400 Have you used it yet in the pizza? No? Not yet. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.400 I will this week. And this is a college football show. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.040 This is a Q and a college football show that 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.800 I promise we're going to get to momentarily. I do 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.799 do do promise, but no, I have not used it yet. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.360 Later in the week I'm going to make a couple 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.880 pies and see how it works out. I have to 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.240 be pretty strategic with my pizza making right now, with 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.480 two little ones and this and the Soliverable Universe and 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.960 future solivable projects occupying my time. So I'm very excited 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.560 to use the Supputo. I like Grande brand a lot, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:36.280 but that's harder to get Supputo Premium Gold label pizza cheese. Yeah, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.600 it's a slower melt tie, so you get the cheese 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.280 bubbling and browning at the same rate as your dough 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.480 and crust. So you're one of the weirdest people I 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.680 know for admitting this one you and I love you 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:46.280 for it. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:46.840 I love it. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.280 Just always embrace who you are and what you do. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.600 There's no reason to do otherwise. It's it's the healthiest 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:52.000 thing to me. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.560 There it is. Well, welcome back, everybody, Thank you for listening. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.600 Two hours. So now what miniseriies that we ran throughout 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.120 the month of May. Last week was the final week. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.399 Got a lot of great feedback. Got some feedback from 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.359 some folks who were like, you know what, let's screw 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.160 twenty twenty. I want to talk about twenty twenty one. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.720 So we're going to start doing that now as we 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.080 go through your questions. We had a bunch of questions, 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.760 forward looking questions about the twenty twenty one season. Excited 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.839 to go through those with you, Daniel. One other thing, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.799 One other housekeeping note that I'm just going to mention 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.320 quickly before we play the sound and get the questions. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.760 You may recall a few weeks ago we were taking 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:36.360 submissions at submissions at saliverble dot com email address for 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.440 people who wanted to help us out, and right we 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.720 had incredible outpouring of response to that request. There is 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.480 now another slot that we are able to open, and 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:51.800 that is for a social media intern. Social media is 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.480 like a thing now. I don't know if you've heard 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.480 of this. We're looking for a social media intern, somebody 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.680 who can show us that they've done this sort of 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.840 thing for not just like on a personal level, but 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.720 have like worked and helps help out a little bit, yeah, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.119 others on social media sides. So submissions at soliverbal dot 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.320 com we're looking for fun, people who'd want to come 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.480 on help us out and can help, you know, with 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.720 some cool ideas. So yeah, that's what we're waiting for 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.200 submissions at soliverbal dot com for our social media intern 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:21.880 if you're interested. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.480 Would love that, would love to hear from people interested. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.919 There's not much in the way of news before we 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.240 get into the questions. As is the case, there have 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.799 been some transfers. I saw Sam Noyer, the Colorado starting 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.080 quarterback from last season, who was himself a converted safety. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.120 The quarterback room in Boulder is particularly thin, so it'll 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.400 be JT. Shroud or it looks like Brendan Lewis, who 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.400 was a red shirt freshman I believe. I saw Nick 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.039 Saban got an extension for years and years, which makes sense, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:49.919 and we got kind of a. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.159 Rollover question about that, which maybe we did start with. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.120 Nick Saban got an extension, So you know, there's more 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.080 transfers trickling in. I saw Keelan Robinson, a former blue 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.279 chip running back who I had committed, who has been 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.960 in the Alabama program, transferred to Texas to rejoin a 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.200 number of the staff members who made that move, including 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.960 obviously Sark and Kyle Flood, who is the offensive coordinator 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.520 quote unquote, but it's Sark running the show and he 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.560 will be running the offensive line. Flood will be so 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.520 not a ton in the way of big news. I've 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.640 saw that there are some we mentioned this a little bit, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.520 some kickoff issues that the PAC twelve coaches are Coach 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.279 David Shaw, the Kansas State thing, it'll be we mentioned 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.200 that on a previous show, or actually I think it 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.400 was probably on the Patreon only show we did that. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.640 David Shaw none too pleased with the body clock game 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.960 that they have against what Kansas State and Arlington at 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.320 Jerry World. And I know I think the the Oregon 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.080 Ohio State game is an eleven am Central, nine am 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.599 Pacific kick in Columbus, So that's like the big noon 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.360 Saturday because it's new Eastern time, big noon Saturday kick, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.480 so that'll be early for Oregon. I don't think I've 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.200 heard anything in the way of Oregon coaches talking about 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.520 that kick, but it is something that is not a 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.000 terrific thing for teams flying west to east. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.200 So there's that. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.120 The PAC twelve as a new commissioner, and we'll see 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.840 if kick times and TV deals and bowl deals and 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.400 all that stuff gets revised, updated, as you know, whenever 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:18.680 that TV deal comes up. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.880 So that's that. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.560 Otherwise, not too much else worth diving deep into. We 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.120 have a number of really strong questions, good, good, spears, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.080 hood whatever. Yeah, And if you are a Patreon verballer, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.400 and that means you have signed up at verballers dot com, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.280 you can also choose to watch this. And Ty looks 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.279 particularly handsome, but I deemed a it looks like a 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.720 cotton linen baby blue blend. There's a collar, it's a 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.080 button down. He looks like he's about to go on 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.360 an above average date. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.560 See, you're always giving me a hard time because all 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.800 I have are gray T shirts, right, and I'm wearing 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.400 a great T shirt and you're wearing a great T shirt, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.279 which I didn't know before we connect it up here. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.280 So when we decided, like, oh, we have to record this, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.120 I ran into the room. I grabbed the first first 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.839 non gray shirt that I could find, and it was 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.600 this looks spok. You look great. You're back from your 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.679 trips out west. We are back collectively as a show 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.160 from our trip back into twenty twenty. I went to 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.560 a restaurant for the first time yesterday and like over 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.520 a year, I'm feeling good man, So why not dress up? 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.120 Why not dress up? Why not? Why not build the 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.160 excitement headed into this twenty twenty one season. I'm ready. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.520 All right, Let's let's start at the only place that 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.160 we really should start, and that's in ames Iowa tie 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.640 Brice Hall Heisman. This comes to us from Bort for 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.440 baller bort or very active and fantastic. What would Bryce 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.720 Hall have to do to win the Heisman? Is this team, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.200 the Clones, a realistic national championship contender? And just how 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.800 badly will they beat Iowa this year? Well, let's go 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.120 how badly will Iowa State beat Iowa. I'm going to 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.600 say not very because that doesn't seem to be never 0:07:58.640 --> 0:07:59.880 happened the way that the world. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:01.960 No, necessarily no, no. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.119 They of course did not play the Syhawk game last 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:11.320 season because the Big Ten was conference only. But early 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.239 prediction on that game. I tend to like Iowa ugly 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.320 because that's just the way of the world. Early prediction 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.520 on that game, and how high are your expectations in 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.040 terms of national conversation, because this is an Iowa State 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.680 team who won a New Year's six Bowl game, last 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.640 year against a legitimately good team and Breise Hall and 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.000 in Nueva York. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.040 I mean, look, I like Iowa State as I have 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.720 every year for the last what feels like eternity. It's 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.800 a fun team to root for. You'll remember back in 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.240 the day way Paul Rhodes on the Show of course, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.120 friend of the Show, Paul Rhades, so proud. We've always 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.440 stuck for Iowa State. I'm looking at Iowa State schedule 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:01.520 right now. Look, Iowa State is going to have to 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.720 deal with a backloaded schedule. Have to deal with the 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.520 backloaded schedule. There's a good chance that they run through 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:12.160 the first half eight games I don't know of this 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.760 schedule and they go undefeated. There's a good chance of that. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.000 But what it comes down to for them is the 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.560 last couple weeks of the year in November, when they've 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.000 got Texts at home, they've got Oklahoma on the road, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.559 and they've got TCU at home, and then have a 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.280 Big twelve championship game. If they can make it through 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.520 that stretch of November, they certainly got a shot at 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:39.160 the Big Twelve. I don't think that's too far beyond 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:46.600 reason in terms of a pure national contender, though I 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.480 don't know if I'm feeling that. Man, that's a little 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:50.480 bit of a bridge too far. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.440 I don't know how good of a chance they have 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.360 it eight No, I mean, aside from Iowa they also 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.920 have what Kansas State and Oklahoma State, and I know 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.760 that opening and Oklahoma State has been kind of a nightmare. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.679 They have loans, I share. I just I feel like 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:11.360 the Big twelve should be the goal. And yeah, if 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.360 if you can get to eight to oho and give 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.040 yourself a shot going into November, that's kind of the goal, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.240 as opposed to are we going to make the playoff? 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.479 Are we going to win the Big twelve? Or undefeated? 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.760 It's reasonably fair to say a year after winning the 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.840 Fiesta Bal a New Year six game over another conference champion, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.240 not that Iowa State was, but by a conference champion, 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.800 a P five conference champion, say, okay, where do we 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.640 stand nationally now? I mean they were a balanced team 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:43.640 with a relatively strong offense, relatively strong defense. I think 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.400 they returned Greg Eysworth, he comes back, and Charlie Cohler 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.199 would start at tight end for chan or anybody. Chaz 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.439 excuse me, Chaz Cohler would start at tight end for 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.360 damn near anybody, and they return a good amount. So 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.240 I think it's a fair question to say not just 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.360 Big twelve because they beat the Big twelve champion last year. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.640 They came back and beat Texas and they beat Oregon, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.000 so they their stage has grown. They're the attention the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.440 magnifying glasses grown in magnitude on the clones. The problem 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.079 with Iowa State right now is I don't see a 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.520 winter Wonder a killer at receiver. All due respect to 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.080 Xavier Hutchinson, who I believe is back, and Rock Purdy 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.120 has these disappearing acts in certain games. They had four 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.640 or five straight three and outs, I believe against Oklahoma State, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.280 and I looked it up, seemed like a clear day, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.920 wasn't especially windy, there was not a monsoon situation happening, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.360 and I think they missed a semi guppy they doing 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.840 the field goal, lost by three and doing the field 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.800 goal late in the first half, and so there's that issue. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.280 To me, if we're going to talk about a national 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:45.160 championship contender, I want explosive speed on offense, game breaking 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.880 speed that if they are in an ugly game, they 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.600 have somebody who can bust an eighty one yard run, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.280 and I like bris Hall a good amount, but I 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.600 don't think that offense is necessarily inventive, creative and intended 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.640 to generate those plays. It's much more ball control at times. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.680 I looked up his percentage of carries going for five 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.040 plus yards was pretty low compared to the best of 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.560 twenty twenty's best running backs. And I don't think it's 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.760 necessarily his fault, but I think the way that that 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:23.199 offense is designed, it's not especially built for consistent explosion 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.400 from running back. And I also don't think he is 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.640 not necessarily a Heisman contender both for that reason, and 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.040 I don't think he is the type of all purpose player. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.800 Now if he puts up cartoonish numbers, you know, like 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.439 somebody like who was it Andre Williams at Boston College 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.480 who went for two k I went two thousand yards, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.680 that's a conversation. I'd like to see him in a 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.880 more all purpose Naji Harry, Naji Harry, Naji Harris, Christian McCaffrey, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.640 those are the guys that seem to get those invites. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.800 Were like, Okay, this guy is a danger out of 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.960 the backfield in the passing game, or in the return game, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.680 and so I think, well, and here's just he just 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.079 happens to be very, very good. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.000 He's very good. He rushed for almost seven hundred more 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:07.559 yards in twenty twenty over the previous season. We all 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.600 know it was a goofy season in twenty twenty. We 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.320 talked about that for the last month. But like, the 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.199 other component of this is that Spencer Ratler is also 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.760 in the Big Twelve, and there's a good chance that 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.120 Spencer Ratler's team is going to beat Iowa State once, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.920 maybe twice, depending on how things go. That offense is 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.439 set up for someone like Spencer Rattler. So you would 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.520 need your team, I think, to outperform Oklahoma once, if 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.319 not twice. And then also you'd need to do something 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.440 statistically that's sort of cartoonish to make up for the 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.280 fact that Spencer Ratler is going to put up crazy numbers. Right. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.760 I'd also say, because we mentioned the Iowa game and Bort, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.280 it's so funny it's saying that name is sport Bort. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:55.280 My son is also named Bort. If Breis Hall goes 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.000 bonkers against Iowa in week I believe it's two, right, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.520 they have one two If he goes bonkers in a 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.040 winning efforts. I think September statements are huge. Now it's 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.080 not everything, but from a place that isn't necessarily going 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.160 to get benefits of the doubt late in the year. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:18.040 In terms of talent, I think bonkers against the Hawks. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.560 I think it's a conversation we can have in earnest 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.600 at that point. I will then yeah, wait and see. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.000 I will say this though, I do think he is 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:33.440 the top running back at this early juncture in the preseason. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.840 He's a twelve or overall. Now he's the top running 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:42.920 back candidate for the Heisman. Interesting, so I think he's 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.720 I think he's definitely got a shot. I just think 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.640 his path is going to be blocked by the fact 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.000 that his team needs to beat Oklahoma again once, if 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.360 not twice. And secondly, I think the Heisman front runner 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.000 Spencer Rattler is also in the Big twelve. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.600 So b Jean Robinson has I think better odds right 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.280 now at Texas at running back. Okay, that's what I'm 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.760 seeing right now, per Vegas Insider. Right, Bjeon Robinson will 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.080 be playing in that more inventive offense. We'll see who 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.320 ends up winning that quarterback job, but b Jeon Robinson 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.320 with the benefit of Sark, with the benefit of what 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.960 we've seen from him in terms of explosivity. Now I 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.160 think a lot that's Colorado and the Bowl game whatever. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.920 But sorry, Colorado, I look I like, I think his 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.120 ceiling might be higher, but the proven guy is Breece Hall. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:34.680 Though the guy you can set your watch to is 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:35.120 bris Hall. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.920 But yeah, I think we've been we've been waiting for Yeah, 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.880 we've been waiting for Texas to be back as long 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.200 as we've been waiting for Texas to find a running 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.680 back consistently. So now if you're asking me who am 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.240 I picking who am I betting on, I would definitely 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.840 pick Brice Hal over Bejon Robinson. Even if the ceiling 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.280 is higher, it's just more of a proven commodity at 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.120 this point. So anyway, let's move on. Let's go next question. Okay, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:01.560 you tell me where do you want to go. Let's 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.280 talk about the Sabin question. We got it from Justin 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.200 and he says, what is the ideal retirement scenario for Sabin? 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.880 Does he win one more, go off into the sunset, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.760 get a cushy TV gig. He's pretty good on TV 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.160 by the way, just good throwing this out there, better 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.840 at coaching, better coaching? Or does he coach until he 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.080 can't anymore because he can't imagine doing anything else. So 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.280 a couple different ways that you can approach Justin's question. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.400 He says, what is the ideal retirement for Saban? That 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:37.120 is a subjective question for Nick Saban, what is ideal 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.520 for him? I find it hard to believe that Nick 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:47.120 Saban's going to be satisfied doing anything other than coaching. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.840 I agree, he seems like he would be miserable around 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.680 the house doing household chores, maybe just doing the TV 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.720 thing that urban's been doing the last couple of years 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.560 before he caught on with the Jags. So if from 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.560 my layman's perspective, I think the ideal for him as 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.920 a man would be to just coach until he can't anymore. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.280 It seems like he's a dude. I don't think there's 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.960 any sort of elegant way to do things. I mean, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:16.520 we saw. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.000 We've seen guys at major places, bigging on Power five 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.840 programs say okay, it's May, it's June. I think Bob 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.159 Stoops retired when I was on my honeymoon had to 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.159 be like TI get somebody. I don't think I have 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:33.480 an Internet connection in Santorini. Yeah, there's no right way, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:34.800 there's no best way. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:35.320 You know. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.280 I don't see a Nick Saban situation because he's so 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.280 competitive that he is going to retire after winning a 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.760 national championship and put his successor, especially if it's somebody 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.119 internally in a really bad recruiting position where all of 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.240 a sudden, guys are asking out of their letters of 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.440 intent and it's not great for them the way Bob 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.359 Stoops did it, where he didn't do it until June, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.200 and so guys were sort of locked in with Spring 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.320 practice and you know, much further along the road that 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.600 in that process. But I think that's what we'll probably. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:04.879 End up seeing. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.159 And maybe Nick Saban's going to stay on in an 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.560 advisory role, but no, I think Nick Saban will know 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.840 when whenever it is that he doesn't feel the juice 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.639 to recruits, to coach, to be at practice, to be 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.520 the person that pays that close attention to every single detail, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.520 he just be like I'm out, or his health will 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.520 dictate it, something will dictate that. He is just like, nope, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.680 I'm not giving everything I have, so it's not worth 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.639 it and he'll just leave. Now, will it be a 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.600 situation like Steve spurriy or middle of the season, I 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.080 say no. I think he will be able to muster. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.200 If he's physically able to. He'll coach out whatever his 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.760 final year is, unless there is something, you know, physically 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:47.720 holding him back. But now I think it's going to 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.199 be much closer to Bob Stoops, where he is just 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.919 going to be in the doldrums of the offseason and 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.719 just realizes he doesn't have the capacity to dig as 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.399 deep as as he demands of himself and he'll be like, yeah, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.760 that's that offensive coordinators taking over whatever? 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.080 Could Could it be an nil kind of thing? Because 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.560 we just saw coach k from Duke decide that he's 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.280 going to hang it up after this year. Reportedly, one 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.520 of the reasons, or one of the accelerants, let's say, 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.840 in that decision making was the NIL and the variables 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.800 inflicting reports on that that he had been boths he 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.320 had been supportive of publicly anyway supportive of the changes. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.520 You know, obviously basketball is a lot trickier with fewer 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:37.120 roster spots and all the how transfers affect a basketball roster, 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.320 maybe more so than football, because there's only so many 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.400 guys you can lose before you really have to start panicking. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.159 I don't think it's it's a clear analog, but obviously 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.360 these are two all time great coaches in their sports. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.960 But no, I just don't see Alabama being especially affected 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.639 by things like that. They've they've been able to you know, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.479 they lose coaches every year and they restock no problem. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.480 They release transfer his top level transfer, they restock like 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.240 Nick Saban just has been so ahead of the curb 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.640 and able to roll with a pretty extreme and drastic 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.760 changes throughout the year. So I don't think that's that 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.919 as being something that affects him. No, And that's the 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.200 thing I was thinking Joe paternal all right, Joe Paterno 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.000 should have retired long before he was eventually forced out. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.480 I'm not going into all that, but just a from 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.680 a football coaching standpoint, Joe Paterno got to a point 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.440 where everything he was doing was stagnant. There was no creativity. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.040 You'd bring new guys in here and there, but it 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.560 was ultimately the same thing that he ran for fifty years. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.399 Nick Saban doesn't do that, just disrespect to the spread. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:44.480