WEBVTT - Fixing College Football 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal Hell that for me. I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:08.000 a man, I'm. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.039 For I've heard so many players say, well, I want 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:10.639 to be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for a day? Edith Steak 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.840 is that woo woof? And then and Tie? 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.520 Welcome back to the solid verbal Boys and girls, My 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.680 name is Ty Hildenbrand, joining me as always over there 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.560 in Chili, Chicago, Illinois. The one and only Dan Rubinstein sirs, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:31.880 how are you? 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:33.640 Some wise words? 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:34.120 Tie? 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.440 When you try your best but you don't succeed, when 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.239 you get what you want but not what you need, Ty, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.320 when you feel so tired but you can't sleep, stuck 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.919 in reverse? You want me to continue? 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.320 Are we doing the New Age version or are we 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.960 doing the cold Play version? Because I think there's like 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.400 a new version of that song. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.240 I just know, my boy Chrissy Martin. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.920 Actually no, I lie, it's not a new version of 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.080 Fix You is a cover that I think I saw 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.120 somewhere out on YouTube. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.080 Oh okay, well I remember it from the OC. That's 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:11.920 that's where I go back to. So thematically, Tie, You're 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.360 you're recovering and I'm trying to fix you. You know 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:18.880 That's who I am. Also for this show. We get 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:24.479 inundated throughout the season with playoff fixes, with individual game fixes, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.479 with schedule fixes, with conference fixes, and that's never really 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.560 the right time. And I wanted to right now, as 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.360 the season has ended, when all of those strong emotions 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:39.319 are still fresh at our on our cortexes tie very fresh. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.680 I wanted to I wanted to fix you college football 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:49.000 via verbaler's suggestions. I said, no, no, what's it called 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.600 no postseason stuff? And you're gonna You're gonna give all 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.800 of our fun solid verbal information here momentarily. But this 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.640 is how I wanted to tie it all back together 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.080 to Chris Martin and Marissa from the OC, and. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.600 I think that's an apt way to put it. Dan, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.200 we are the Soliverbol Thank you and me. My voice 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:11.000 is recovering, recovering, although when we connect it up here 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.560 it had a moment which I think was caused for 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:15.959 alarm on both things. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.239 You got the black lung pop. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.400 But we're working through it. We're doing our best. To 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.600 Soldier on Hello, welcome back, I'm Ty He's Dan. This 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.240 is the Soliverble College Football Podcast. Just because there is 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.600 no college football does not mean there is not a 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.720 soliverable podcast. We'll be going twice a week Tuesday Thursday 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.520 for the foreseeable future. At some point as we get 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.160 closer to the season, maybe in like July, we're gonna 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.079 ramp back up to three episodes per week. But got 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.160 a couple of months here, We've got time to fill. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.880 Got stuff to talk about an on tonight's show. Yeah, 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.840 we're talking some serious stuff in many regards, this is 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.440 one of the more important shows that we've ever done. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.639 In this podcast, we're talking serious subjects. How do we 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:08.399 fix college football? We went out there, we pulled our 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.920 wise and all knowing verballerhood to get their suggestions. We 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:15.880 got some good ones that we I think need to 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.320 chew on here over the course of like the next 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.959 forty minutes or so Verballers dot com is our Patreon. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:23.959 We've got bonus content that we're going to be dropping 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.840 there all off season long. If you're interested again verballers 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.760 dot com. You of course can follow along on all 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.960 of our social media channels. We've got a Twitter and Instagram, 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:37.040 a Facebook, a Twitch. All of it is at Solid Verbal, 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.160 and we do have a YouTube channel where we post 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.400 some of our clips as well. That is the the. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.600 Solid verbal by bonus content in the off season. You 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.480 mean mainly the two of us playing Super Smash Bros. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.200 Mainly mainly, right, there is more to it than just that, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.320 But okay, it's an element, an element. Why don't we 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.160 get to news before we do that? Fix things? 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:09.520 I'm not doing the primal scream today, Dan breaking new 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.960 That wasn't bad. You had a little bit of a 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.120 of a vibrato. Yeah, yeah, going at the end there, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.039 which I appreciate. We've got a mess at Tennessee, don't we. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.520 I mean sort of status quo, but yeah. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.600 We've got well, a different kind of mess at Tennessee. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:33.400 Tennessee was conducting an internal investigation into its football program 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.839 after I guess interviewing Jeremy Pruitt and finding what they found, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.320 they decided to get rid of him. Phil Fulmer, their 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.400 ad is also stepping down. This presents a very unique 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.479 circumstance on a number of different fronts, not the least 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.760 of which is that Kevin Steele, who was just brought 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.240 over from Auburn after losing his job down there. He 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.840 is now reinstalled as an interim head coach at another 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.560 program because they needed somebody who could fill the gaps. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.480 So Kevin Steele is in there dutyflee, trying to bring 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.159 over guys from Auburn who he thinks might be good 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.880 for the staff. I don't think he's going to get 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.280 that job. There is some confusion over whether he even 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.040 has the authority to make hires at this point. All 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.160 the while, we've got this NCAA investigation, we've got the 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.240 Tennessee self investigation. Jeremy Pruett and his lawyer are obviously 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.279 pissed about this scenario, and presumably there is some sort 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.360 of ongoing search for not only a new ad but 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:37.520 also a head football coach. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:38.800 Jan what you would think? 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.680 So, what a freaking mess in Knoxville. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:43.960 I was really hoping you were going to go to 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.240 the point. And maybe you didn't read this, because it's 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.159 the silliest part of this whole thing, and also the 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:49.600 best part of this whole thing. Did you see the 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.599 dan Patrick report about some of the brazen operations alleged 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.520 by the recruiting staff and assistant coaches? Was this ledged? 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.440 It was this, the thing about giving money out to 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.040 recruits in McDonald's bags. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:10.080 I am infuriated by this allegation, and I'm not infuriated 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.000 because of the money. And I'm not infuriated because of 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:17.039 recruits getting money or family's getting whatever. Is McDonald's and 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:23.120 their wrappings, their bags and the boxes that perhaps like 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.120 a Big Mac comes in. Is that the best fast 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:33.039 food solution for money donating payment? To me, it feels 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.320 like Chipotle is the easy answer because of the shape 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:42.080 of a burrito in foil. It would not that money 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.200 in a brown bag would raise any eyebrows because you 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.000 can't see the money through the bag. And perhaps if 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.960 it's in a Big Mac stacked box whatever, I just 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.000 maybe Chipotle's too obvious. I don't know how close to 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.600 Chipotle is to the Tennessee campus if all of this 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.880 is true, which who knows. But what I'm trying to think, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.720 but fast food bag and or box vehicle pizza's too 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.279 easily found, right, Pizza box? 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.320 Well, I mean, look, it's not going to be in 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.680 a Tennis Tennessee branded envelope. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.640 No, no, no, But but you just open a pizza box 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.840 and you know every the food is naked to the eye. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.000 There's no unwrapping of a pizza after you open the box. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.400 But you could you could hide cash within a situation. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.560 So you're really you're going like you're you're going like 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.680 deep cover with this thing you're talking about. Let's take 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.320 the rolls of twenties, Let's position them accordingly, and then 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.360 put the tinfoil around so it presents as a burrito. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.480 Honestly, I would find somebody, a friendly worker at Chipotle 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:46.280 to actually make a burrito with rolls of twenties stuffed in. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:47.320 This is whatever. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.480 This is kind of like a Poyo situation. Yeah, at 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:52.360 a breaking bad. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.440 Right, Yeah, I just I think you could have gotten 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.040 more creative with the delivery mechanism than just the standard 0:07:59.120 --> 0:07:59.880 McDonald's bag. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.160 Like, eighty five percent of life is packaging, and they 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:09.960 chose they chose McDonald's here allegedly, allegedly, which is one 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.800 approach I have not given much thought to the best 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.160 fast food packaging. Maybe this is something else that we 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.520 can put to the verballer hood, because my guess is 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.840 we're going to get some creative solutions here as well 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.200 as for the mess at Tennessee beyond the packaging. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.400 Yeah, so you want to go over coaching candidates. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.880 Well, have you earned some of the names that are 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.360 being thrown about because it's not the latest certainly it's 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.640 not as late as we saw at Michigan State a 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.920 year ago, but it's still pretty late in the game. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.840 What are some of the names being thrown about at 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:41.520 this juncture. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.600 There are a few Knoxville area Chipotle Mexican Grills, but. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.240 Oh, terrific great there are. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.160 So there are options. Some of the names the more 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:57.280 Jamie Chadwell Coast Carolina Tennessee connections. Billy Napier from the 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.800 state certainly has succeeded in the area. I know his 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.480 name went up on campus on the famous giant Tennessee rock. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.880 Bill O'Brien, even though he has the Alabama job right 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.920 now as offensive coordinator under consideration because now he's willing 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.960 to coach in the SEC. Perhaps he wants a head job. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.200 Tom Herman, Gus Melson, I don't know. I mean, Kevin 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.280 Steele's probably in that mix because he was in the 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.360 mix at Auburn and he's on campus as the acting 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.720 head coach. So a number of large names. It's a 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.240 difficult job though, in terms of well, there's no athletic 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.040 director right now, so we got to see who's hired 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.080 and who that person might have connections to in the 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:41.360 coaching world. But also you have two growing and now 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.480 established powers. Florida was in the SEC championship game. Georgia 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.400 has been recruiting on another worldly level and it has 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.760 been playing in some big games. And Tennessee, while they've 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.760 recruited very well, it's another situation in which what they 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.559 lost their final five games by double digits, and there 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.400 is now I think a bit of a stigma about 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.800 coaching Tennessee, how you'll be treated at Tennessee being let 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.480 go pretty quickly. You know, guys just keep getting fired 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.200 and they haven't been the right answer for sure. But 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:14.200 Jeremy Pruitt goes sixteen to nineteen and Tennessee searches, arguably 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.360 successfully for a reason to get rid of him without 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.600 paying him a buyout. And it just it seems like 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.559 stability is the name of the game in terms of 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.560 college football success, and Tennessee is whatever the opposite of 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:29.720 stable is. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.360 Yeah. Well, in other news around college football, we'll we'll 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.400 obviously stay on top of that one as best as 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.880 we can. There are other openings around college football, not 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.520 so much on that top line with the head coaching position, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.079 but big time defensive coordinator positions that are still open 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:54.719 at LSU, at Oregon, at Washington as their guy went 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:59.960 to Texas, your guy, mister Avelo set Oregon went back 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.600 to Boise to be head football coach. So those are 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.560 three big ones in particular that we could discuss. We've 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.440 also had some assistant hires. I think we talked about 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.320 the Marcus Freeman move on one of our show. I 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.559 like the move, yeah, I really do. I really like 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.120 the move to get Marcus Freeman from Cincinnati to be 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.800 the Notre Dame defensive coordinator. Doug Marone, a name that 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.640 many in college football and just football fans are familiar with, 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.160 had a run with Syracuse, was recently with the Jacksonville 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.479 Jaguars fired. Now he's going to Bama as an offensive 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.440 line coach. Some other dan Enos dan Enos, the name 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.640 who has been bounced around a bunch of times now 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.360 over the last couple of seasons, had that stint at 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.080 Miami and then he was with Cincinnati. He's going to 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.800 Maryland as an offensive coordinator, which I think is an 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.640 interesting high. Any other names to you that are of 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:55.400 interest there? 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.760 Well, yeah, South Carolina retained and then lost Mike Bobo 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.240 to Auburn and now Marcus Aderfield, who is a Matt 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.000 Ruhle guy who he was with him at Baylor and 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:05.840 I think he was with him at Temple and with 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.959 him with the Panthers as an assistant offensive line coach. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.800 He is the new offensive coordinator at South Carolina. A 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.360 lot of NFL to college moves. Jim O'Neill, who was 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.240 the Raiders defensive backs coach, and I saw Roger Sherman 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.119 tweet this out because Jim O'Neill is heading to Northwestern, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.520 is their new DC, replacing Mike Hankowitz. Jim O'Neil the 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.840 architect of one of the all time worst NFL defenses 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.960 for the forty nine Ers four years ago. I don't 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.320 know enough about that stint, but that's a thing. Jesse Minter, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.320 the Ravens defensive backs coach, goes to Vanderbilt. So Clark Lee, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.720 we assume has a pretty good eye for defensive talent, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.240 so he's going to the NFL as well in search 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:50.160 of his coordinator. Maurice Linguist, a Cowboys defensive backs coach. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.640 I don't know enough about the Cowboys defense because I 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.400 don't watch the NFL, but he is going to be 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:59.000 a co defensive coordinator with Mike McDonald, who Jim Harbaugh 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.240 hired away from John Harbaugh at the Ravens as well. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.480 Doug Marone, which is wild was an NFL head coach, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.520 is now going to be the offensive line coach at Alabama, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:13.200 replacing Kyle Flood, one of the absolute best offensive line 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.480 coaches in the country. If you watch what Alabama did 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.120 this past year. He moves on to go to Texas 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.000 and hang around with Sark, so moves all over the 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.800 place there. That's just sort of a drop in the 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.320 bucket because all sorts of position coaches, coordinators all over 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.920 the sport. Those changes are happening every day. But those 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.600 are some of the ones that stuck out to me. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.120 And Washington with a bunch of talent, organ with a 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.360 bunch of talent, LSU with a bunch of talent. LSU 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.520 thought they were getting a Saints coach in the way 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.559 that they got Joe Brady a couple of years ago. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.240 But Ryan Nielsen is returning to the Saints after it 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.280 looked like he was going to go to LSU. So yeah, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.400 all sorts of movement that will keep happening, I'm sure 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.000 even more after the full official signing day, so we'll 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:55.720 see what happens. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.960 We will see what happens, all right? Shall we get 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.640 to are more important business of the day. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:03.920 Our Chris Martin game. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.720 Yeah, we want to fix college football. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.520 We do. I like college football, but you know I'm 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:12.520 open to ideas. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:18.080 Ty, How did how did we present this question to 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:19.080 the verballer hood? 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.120 We said, outside of the postseason, so bowls and playoff 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.720 et cetera. What's your best idea to improve college football? 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.040 The more out there the better. And I think between 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.160 Twitter and email and wherever, we got about one hundred 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.000 and fifty ideas. I paired it down to I guess 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.800 six pages worth on this document. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.560 But how many resplects? Just did we get to this? 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.000 Like one hundred and fifty? 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.480 So I think we should. I posted the ones that 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.760 were most intriguing. And here's how I want this exercise 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.000 to go. This is my plan for us. Please, I 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.600 want to some of these are sillier than others, but 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.720 I want to approach it considering the positive change that 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.360 this idea from whoever, from whomever, would bring about, and 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.000 then we can poke holes in it. I don't want 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.440 to laugh at an idea for being silly. I want 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.520 to look at what an idea addresses, what problem the 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:18.560 idea addresses, talk about how it might result in a 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:24.240 positive outcome for the sport, and then say, but this 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.960 is also a consideration which makes it not make as 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:27.480 much sense. 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.520 Okay, there are three ideas that were sent to us 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:36.520 that I would consider marrying over my wife whoa three 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.480 ideas on here, and we can discuss them. I will 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.120 make sure we discuss them. Three He don't tell her 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.400 I said that I will not. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.080 I will not. She is not a patron. She's waiting 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.240 to see more out of us before she fully commits. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:53.480 There are three ideas on here in particular that really 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.800 would never work, but are things I had never previously considered. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.680 And I'm going let's talk about the problem they attempt 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.840 to solve and evaluate. Okay, where do you want to start? 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.800 Why don't we go first? You get to pick. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.480 I've seen this sentiment basically since the playoff came together 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.800 in Alabama won their whatever number national championship, where people 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.840 I've been saying, and I hate you know, that's sort 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.920 of a straw man. People on Twitter are saying, but 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.320 I have seen this from a number of a number 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.040 of college football fans that something has to be done. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.720 Capital d about Alabama and the powers of the sport, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:34.520 Ohio State, Clemson, whatever, amassing too much talent, hogging all 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.080 of the five star talent. Okay, so I'll start here. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.920 Kimmi Lynn long long, long, long, long long time for 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.760 baller says, limit the number of five star recruits a 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.880 program can sign based on where they finish for the year. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.800 If you make the playoff, you cannot sign more than 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.760 three five stars in the top ten outside of the 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.480 college football plaoff, no more than five five stars and 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:59.040 similar sentiments from both Bobby and Aquila Aquila, you know, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.440 lowering a scholarship limit and making all teams relevant and 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:09.000 recruiting more balanced. Ty, what say you about approaching that 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.200 perceived problem head on and making actual changes to how 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.119 a program can build its roster. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:24.760 It's very difficult. It certainly would impose a new challenge 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.679 on the likes of Nick Saban and Dabo Sweeney. So 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.000 I think let's put this way. If your goal, so. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.840 What are we talking twenty four to seven composite five stars? 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.159 I'm assuming so we're basically putting the future of the 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.040 sport in the hands of Bud Elliott, which I'm fine 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:40.800 with because I love Budd. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.680 Totally good by me, totally totally good. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.280 Bud's smart dude, he knows what he's doing. Yeah, if 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.720 the goal of this we are first to consider the 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.800 positive change that this would bring about. Yes, m hmm. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.679 If the goal, the intended desire of this rule is 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:01.520 to curb how much talent the have currently have on 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.680 their roster, this would accomplish that very quickly. This would 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.960 accomplish that within you know, a couple of years. I 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.040 think for sure, at least at the top level, it 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.199 wouldn't solve at all because I don't see anything here 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.879 about four stars and three stars. But in terms of 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.520 five star talent, for sure, the teams the top would 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.919 get fewer of those. The teams at the bottom would 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.760 at least have more access to some of those five 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.440 stars that you know wouldn't find favor with the likes 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.120 of an Alabama, Clemson, Georgia. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.280 So we're talking essentially, we're talking if guys are unable 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.399 to go to teams at the top of the sport, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.639 and it trickles down so all of a sudden, a 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:51.400 team like Iowa State or Northwestern right, or exactly Oklahoma State, 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.199 suddenly they're getting five star defensive linemen, they're getting a 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.359 top top national quarterback most years or some years as 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:04.960 opposed to never a team like NC State getting the 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.800 number one running back in the country, and all you 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:12.520 game changing players at individual positions, not necessarily dramatically changing 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:17.600 the complexion of their roster overall, but pieces they normally wouldn't. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.959 Have exactly, so like Northwestern could have ruined Hunter Johnson 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.440 as a freshman, not as a transfer, that sort of thing. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.399 I mean, it's I don't want to say it's silly 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.720 because I appreciate the problem it's trying to solve, and 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:35.240 I don't know if it's a fixable problem. You can't 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.040 just you have to let kids go where they want 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:42.400 to go, right, because there are reasons, real reasons that 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.280 you know, if they go to this power, they're going 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.280 to be developed in a better way for the NFL. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.199 They're going to be practicing against higher level competition that 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.600 better prepares them for both games and for their NFL goals, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.160 especially if they're top level recruits. What do you do 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:01.160 to discourage or even a playing field one. I don't 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:02.960 know that the playing field needs to be even that 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.720 has never really been a feature of the sport. It's 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.040 never like how many national championships have those schools that 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.320 I just rattled off one, I don't know if they've 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.600 won any. And that's okay, because it's just a very 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.720 strange sport. What I will say, though, ty, if we 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.719 went down a certain number of scholarships, and I'm I 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.119 hear me out because I think the number of scholarships 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:26.720 should remain the same. But if we went down the 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.160 number of acceptable scholarships to say seventy five, and then 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:36.119 for every scholarship you issue over seventy five, you have 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:37.960 to pay some sort of luxury tax. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.200 Okay, so you're going Major League Baseball at this. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.479 Yeah, NBA does this, and there's like the repeater tax. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.800 And let's say we kill two birds with one stone 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:53.520 and say that tax. Say it's twenty thousand dollars for 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:59.240 every scholarship this is over seventy five. Continue, and then 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.280 at the end end of the season, that all gets 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.760 split to like the twenty four players who play the 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:04.760 most snaps. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.600 Oh man, Okay, so. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.240 I want to include special teams. That's why I said 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.520 twenty four and not twenty two, so we can include 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.320 a specialist. Okay, well who dominates there. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.560 Look, the problem with this is that it doesn't say 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.960 anything about four stars. And if you're Alabama, if you're Alabama, 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.960 if you're Clemson, for sure you get a ton of 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:28.200 five stars, but you get more four stars and you 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.480 even get some really high level three stars there where 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.840 they are because of their ability to develop. 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:37.359 Talent, right, you're holding something against them for working hard 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.000 and being talented exactly. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.360 So you know, just because you can pick a five 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.480 star off the vine doesn't mean it's going to ripen 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.880 into a superstar. And I think those schools in particular 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.280 have proven very very good at doing that for a 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.800 variety of reasons, coaching, just philosophy. We could talk about 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:57.960 that until we're blue in the face. So I don't 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:01.960 think this actually addresses the problem. I think furthermore, to 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.959 punish teams that do really well in the playoff or 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:12.200