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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. We got so much to talk

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Speaker 1: about today. I'm so excited Big ten win totals have

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Speaker 1: Deep dive into it. You guys do not want to

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Speaker 1: miss this. Matt Liner, former USC quarterback, jersey retirement Heisman

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Speaker 1: Trophy winner. He has been asked to unretire his jersey

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Speaker 1: for recruit and he gave the perfect answer. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to explain to you why this is the correct

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Speaker 1: way to think about it and everything else that goes

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Speaker 1: along with that. Dante Moore, Oregon Ducks quarterback, put out

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Speaker 1: a letter essentially about his mental health struggles and detailed

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Speaker 1: the things that went on at UCLA. I tried to

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Speaker 1: tell y'all people called the kid mentally weak, But this

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest sign of strength and why he

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Speaker 1: The NC Double A well maybe future NC Double A

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Speaker 1: out here talking and campaigning like he is running for

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Speaker 1: political office. I'm going to explain to you why he's

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Speaker 1: doing this, not just everything that he's saying, but why

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Speaker 1: he's doing this. This is a power play. There are threats,

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Speaker 1: they're stoken fear, there is minimizing big problems everything that

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Speaker 1: also our NC Double A tournament brackets, we gotta put

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Speaker 1: him out. We're sending you guys a link in the

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. And we got to talk about Bruce Pearl.

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Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl, former Auburn coach, gave his son the job

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Speaker 1: at Auburn because of the timing that he retired and

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Speaker 1: everything else, gave his son the head coaching job and

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Speaker 1: now it hasn't gone as well as everybody expected. They

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Speaker 1: didn't get into the tournament, and he has been criticized

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Speaker 1: so heavily. And I'm going to explain to you why

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Speaker 1: he's been criticized because a lot of people aren't really

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Speaker 1: exactly sure that and so much more here on the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm college Football's truth teller and this is the other frase.

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Speaker 2: Joe Ooh, It's time to get into it.

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Speaker 1: But first go visit Underdog Fantasy because the tournament is

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you guys here what Matt Leonard had

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Speaker 1: to say about what's been happening with USC and they're

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Speaker 1: recruiting because this.

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Speaker 2: Matters at USC.

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Speaker 3: I got my number retired. There's been multiple times where

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Speaker 3: people at USC have asked me if I would unretire

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Speaker 3: want to know what I told those guys? Straight up,

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Speaker 3: I am never going to unretire my jersey for some

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Speaker 3: random dude, who, by the way, now could wear number

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Speaker 3: eleven and transfer after a year. The only person that

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Speaker 3: who's not there right now, is at SEM or two

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Speaker 2: I love this. Matt Leonard is on the right page here.

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Speaker 1: Recruiting has become such a volatile time and a volatile business.

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Speaker 1: Single digit number, number choice preference, and sometimes they do

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Speaker 1: But the only number I wanted was eight, and la

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Speaker 1: The idea that recruits are so tied to numbers in

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Speaker 1: We ask certain things to get prospects. But at the

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Speaker 1: and I know Matt Liner, well, I believe that if

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Speaker 1: I am USC for life, Matt Liner. For my senior year,

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Speaker 1: Please can I wear your number eleven? This is my

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Speaker 1: I've been loyal to USC all of this stuff. I

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Speaker 1: bet you then Matt Lioner would consider that. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not in the opinion that you need to be acquiesce

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Speaker 1: Then the people who are causing them to win and

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Speaker 1: And the truth is you can come in, get a number,

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Speaker 2: Other than that, you can have it. And that's the.

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Speaker 1: Way it needs to be negotiated, because that's the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: Because stone cold said, so, now, next up Dante Moore,

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Speaker 1: I remember when his last game at USC, He's sitting

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Speaker 1: This is why nobody came in last year except for

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Speaker 1: me putting Dante Moore as a top ten quarterback in

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Speaker 1: The talent was undeniable, but people saw that moment that

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Speaker 1: their growth as a human by the choices that they make.

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Speaker 1: Dante Moore chose to leave UCLA to go back up

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Speaker 1: but he rallied, got his team to drive down, down,

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Speaker 1: But there's another thing that he's doing, he said.

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 1: I recently challenged my teammates to lead beyond the field

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Speaker 1: and use our platform to support people who feel voiceless.

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Speaker 1: Leadership is not just about what we do on saturdays.

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Speaker 1: It's about who we stand up for every day. As

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, I'm expected to lead, stay composed, and carry

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Speaker 1: a kid who says documents. Early in his college career,

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Speaker 1: found himself struggling deeply. He was depressed. And when you

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Speaker 1: So is because of Bruce Pearl's history, the most recent incident,

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Speaker 1: how most people feel about nepotism, most normal people. They

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Speaker 1: does not mean incompetence, Nepotism at times means just that

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Speaker 2: And that's fine because that's normal in life.

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Speaker 1: But you can't let it be mixed with incompetence or

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Speaker 1: Why is he not looked at like Dion Sanders and

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Speaker 1: exchange for spying on Thomas. Pearl then recorded a phone

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Speaker 1: You can't knock what he's done with a seven to

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Speaker 1: so we got something new today, Ralph, We got something

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Speaker 4: Not a like Philosophically you don't love the air raid,

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Speaker 4: to be in year four of this and you're five,

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00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,479
Speaker 4: you're five this, yes, and the expectation to be eight

437
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 4: and a half wins. I just what sticks out to

438
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 4: me is that that has nothing to do with you.

439
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 4: So yes, so take that how you want USC fans.

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Speaker 1: And we'll start with USC there. Okay, we will start

441
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: with you USC Ralph their win.

442
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 2: Total eight and a half.

443
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: Now I'm projecting USC to go over over there eight

444
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 1: and a half win total because when you look at

445
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: this schedule, they're not going to lose to San Jose State,

446
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: Fresno State, or Louisiana. They got rid of the Notre

447
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: Dame game, so that they traded Notre Dame for San

448
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: Jose State. They traded they traded a possible win for

449
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 1: a loss. I'm sorry, a possible loss for a win, okay.

450
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: And then this is where stuff gets weird on them.

451
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: They got at Ruggers. Okay, that should be a win.

452
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: Granted it's across the country, but you're more talent team.

453
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: You should win that football game. But here's where things

454
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: get tricky for him, Ralph, when they have to go

455
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: and when they have to play the Oregon Ducks. That's

456
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: when things get crazy for him. And I know that

457
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: everybody is looking looking at that saying, well, they're playing

458
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: at home, they play better at home.

459
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: All this stuff.

460
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: This is the moment where Lincoln Riley's the championship window

461
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: is open, is going to get put to the test.

462
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: It is going to get pressure tested immediately, and they're

463
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: gonna lose that game to Oregon. Then they're gonna have

464
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: Washington at home, which ordinarily actually think that Washington might

465
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: be a fighting chance, but I'm not even sure about

466
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: their situation with Demand Williams. And then I think they

467
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: lose to Penn State, So I think they beat Washington

468
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: only because they're playing in LA and they just lost

469
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: to Oregon, unless they collapse after that, and then they

470
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: will lose at Indiana as well, and they will lose

471
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: to Ohio State. Well sorry, yeah, so I got Oregon,

472
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: Penn State, and either Indiana.

473
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: Or Ohio State.

474
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 4: But you like the over.

475
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: I do like the over because that I think that

476
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: they are getting better, so they will scratch out one

477
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: of Oregon.

478
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 2: Well they they won't beat Oregon, but.

479
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Speaker 1: Penn State, Ohio State, and Indiana they'll squeak one of

480
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: those out.

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Speaker 4: I think a requirement for USC to hit the over,

482
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 4: and I like the over too, is that they at least,

483
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 4: at the very least, they gotta go one and one

484
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 4: at a minimum coming off these two buys. So Wisconsin's

485
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 4: a non negotiable. You gotta you gotta, you gotta win

486
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 4: that game. Indiana, that's gonna be tough, but at a minimum,

487
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 4: you got to get one of these road wins coming

488
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 4: off of buy. I think that that's super important, and

489
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 4: if they can do that, it should be it should

490
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: be easy money. It should be the easiest money. The

491
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 4: worst possible thing that could happen for this team.

492
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Speaker 2: I think.

493
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because that Yeah, if you're if you're at

494
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 4: some point where you just ran four teams out of

495
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 4: the building on talent alone and then you go back

496
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 4: to back losses at home, I think that's tenure ending.

497
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 4: I think that's like James Franklin writing on the wall,

498
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 4: let's see which assistant.

499
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: And then Washington.

500
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Speaker 1: The chances of you losing at Penn State and then

501
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: at Camp Randall, Ohio State Indiana, that gets that goes

502
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: way up.

503
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: Like your you're the bottom could fall out of this thing, Ralph.

504
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 4: That's when you got to look at the stat that

505
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 4: is that is at USC right now, and you have

506
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 4: to find the most non threatening name that isn't gonna

507
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: put you in a Clay Helton position to have hired

508
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 4: somebody who took over and then give you like five

509
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,959
Speaker 4: seasons of mediocrity. So when I pull up the staff,

510
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 4: you notice they just brought in Gary Patterson, who has

511
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 4: the head coaching experience at at TCU. Is that a

512
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 4: guy who you hand the program off to. If you're

513
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 4: in the middle of the season, you still have to worry,

514
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 4: I mean, and the two buys. The thing about teams

515
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 4: with expectations is bye weeks are actually transition points. That's

516
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 4: when your your AD and jen Co is still running

517
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 4: things out there, right, So that's when your AD actually

518
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 4: has the runway to say like, oh, we have two

519
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 4: weeks to prepare this team.

520
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: So if they Ralph, that is a great point because

521
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: if they lose to Yeah, if USC loses some combination

522
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: of Oregon, Washington, Pen Penn State, if they drop all

523
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: three of those and then beat Wisconsin and then drop

524
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: Ohio State and they got four losses already with Indiana,

525
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: Maryland and UCLA coming through.

526
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: That, yeah, that could be the end.

527
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: It's a lot and yeah, the BIOT is still huge.

528
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like fifty five million dollars after this year.

529
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 4: But it's USC and the standard out there should be

530
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 4: like when you watch Penn State make these moves mid

531
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 4: season and you watch schools like Florida State and USC

532
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 4: wrestle over it like these are not.

533
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: USC was wrestling this last offseason. I think that they

534
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: went all in on this twenty twenty six class and

535
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: a failing season, like you know, four losses when he

536
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: declared the window open, that's going to impact the finances

537
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: going forward for the next recruiting class. Like people are

538
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: gonna be like, listen, we're not We're not chucking money

539
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: for this, dude. We need to find somebody else. And

540
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: if the bottom falls out like a five lost season,

541
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: oh they are going to which is very possible with

542
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: this schedule.

543
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 4: So you know, I feel like a universe exists where

544
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 4: USC and Alabama both to disappoint this year and then

545
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 4: and then Kaylin de boor reunites with Jen Cohen in

546
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 4: LA and kicks off like a massive run of USC success.

547
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 4: It's possible.

548
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: See and the people will say that I hate USC

549
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: if I hated USC out of picture to win seven

550
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: games this year. But college football truth teller here, I

551
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: think that nine games feels appropriate.

552
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 4: I think I think they'll be on the cusp of

553
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 4: a playoff spot.

554
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there is also the possibility that there is

555
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: five losses stare you in the face without Notre Dame.

556
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: That would be that would be atrocious.

557
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: All right.

558
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: The next team up, the Ohio State Buck guys. Boy,

559
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are picking him to

560
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: win the national championship. They love Julian saying Jeremiah Smith. Obviously,

561
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: Brian Hartline left. New coordinator Matt Patrici's back making eight

562
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: thousand million dollars a year. But this Ohio State team, Ralph,

563
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: they their win total is only nine and a half,

564
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: which feels when is the last time that we've seen

565
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: an Ohio State team not with a double digit win total.

566
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 4: Honestly, George, I don't remember, Like I just pencil him

567
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: in for double digits. Every single year Ryan Days, in

568
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 4: entire tenure is double digit winning seasons. We're reminded of

569
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 4: that by their fans all the time. And we're past

570
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 4: the born on third accusations. We're well outside that. So

571
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 4: I I mean, genuinely, I cannot remember the last time

572
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 4: USC was like mid really can't.

573
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well you mean Ohio State. But look at

574
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: the schedule though, Ralph, you got ball State. Actually love

575
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: that they have a warm up game prior to the

576
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: prior to going down to DKR at Texas. I think

577
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: both teams are going to be in a better spot

578
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: like in terms of where they're playing. So now there's

579
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: no it was the first week, excuse, Nope, this is

580
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: a huge game for Ohio State. So you got losable

581
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: game at Texas, then you got Kent State.

582
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 2: Illinois. You're at Iowa.

583
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: You got Maryland at Indiana, USC, Oregon, Northwestern at Nebraska,

584
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: and then you got Michigan. I am taking Ohio State

585
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: and the over I'm taking them over ten games, Ralph

586
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: over ten, I'm sorry, over nine and a half games.

587
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: With ten wins, they're gonna lose the game at Texas

588
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 1: and they're going to lose.

589
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 2: At USC. How about that?

590
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 4: Interesting ten wins would and that.

591
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 2: Can beat Oregon at home?

592
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, you're you're fighting all these accusations of bias

593
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 4: on today's show. Hey, it's not gonna matter. It's not

594
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 4: gonna matter at all. It's gonna make no dent in

595
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 4: the way people assume that you go about your business. Here,

596
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 4: ten wins would be Ryan days the worst performance as

597
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 4: a coach, just in volume, because twenty twenty, I mean

598
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 4: they only play the eight games. You got to assume

599
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 4: they play a full slate. That's a very very good team.

600
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 4: But the minimum he I mean eleven eleven is the

601
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 4: minimum for him. So a ten win season is a

602
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 4: ten win season enough to forget a Big Ten championship,

603
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 4: because ten win season is enough to get them in

604
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 4: a college football playoff.

605
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, if the win is over Oregon right, and then

606
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: their only losses to USC and Texas and they're ten

607
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 1: and two. Ten and two is gonna get you in

608
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: in the strongest conference in college football. So I got

609
00:36:55,200 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: Ohio State over the nine and a half. But the

610
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: but the biggest question, though Ralph feels like surrounding Ohio

611
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: State to me, is what is going to happen with

612
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: Julian Saying and Jeremiah Smith? Because Jeremiah Smith obviously supremely talented,

613
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: but he's in a very unique situation. People were projecting

614
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: him as a number one overall pick as a freshman,

615
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: and then the more tape they get on you, the

616
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: more that they are going to scrutinize you, and you're

617
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: gonna have a situation where he's he's on his quote

618
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 1: unquote revenge to where everybody's got to feel it. So

619
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: the moment that he doesn't get the amount of balls

620
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: that he that he wants or desires, he's still a

621
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver and wide receivers or defus even the best

622
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: of them are, and that could disrupt the way that

623
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: this team is going breaking in a new offensive coordinator.

624
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: It is going to and is Ryan Day call Hini

625
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: play this year?

626
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 4: I believe he ended the season calling plays right, But

627
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 4: I don't think he's calling plays going into the season.

628
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 4: I don't believe. So I don't think he's adding that

629
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 4: to his resume in year eight or whatever.

630
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, correct, So we'll see because he took it

631
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: over for the Miami game and they lost. So we'll

632
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,720
Speaker 1: see about that, all right. Next team up the team

633
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: because mathematically, the way it works, would actually finish second

634
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten would be Oregon, because if Ohio

635
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: State beats Oregon, Oregon would finish. I have them finishing

636
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: eleven and one. Their win total is ten and a half.

637
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 2: Ralph.

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00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: I have that Ohio State game is the only game

639
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: that they lose. And the reason why I even picked

640
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: them to lose that Ohio State game is because winning

641
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: it with me that to win a national championship, they're

642
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: gonna go twelve to zero, and I think that that

643
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: is very difficult to do, to go twelve to zero

644
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: and then win a national championship, even though we just

645
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: saw Indiana doing it. This feels like the realistic part

646
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: of me because I have equated this Oregon twenty twenty

647
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: this Oregon twenty twenty sixteen to Ohio State twenty twenty

648
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: four four gone conclusion. We know who's going to win,

649
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: even though people are still fighting it. And I believe

650
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: that they're fighting it because Oregon has never won a

651
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: national championship, so they're saying, oh, well, this is not

652
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We need to find somebody else who's actually

653
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,439
Speaker 1: going to win. Despite everything, if you were to look

654
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,959
Speaker 1: at the Ohio State twenty twenty four roster, Oregon's twenty

655
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: twenty six roster veteran quarterback except for a guy that's

656
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Speaker 1: projected to be a top ten pick instead of what

657
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: they had running backs, very good. Ohio State would get

658
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: the slight edge offensive line, both really good defense. That's

659
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 1: where the gotcha gotcha is because you had Jack Sawyer, JT.

660
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 2: Tulam Aloud, Caleb downs some corners.

661
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 1: It's literally what Oregon has an entire defense coming back

662
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: minus a nickel and a safety who they replaced with

663
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: Coy Parrish, same defense. This is the exact same thing

664
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Speaker 1: that everybody was like, Ohio State cannot lose, and that's

665
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: exactly what I feel with this Oregon team, Ralph, it

666
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: just makes all the sense in the world. Even though

667
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: people don't want to hear it quite as much or

668
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: say it out loud.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. I also think that the interesting

670
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 4: thing about this Oregon team is the amount of players

671
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 4: that left, right that, because when your OC leaves and

672
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 4: your DC leaves, people are gonna see opportunity, maybe all opportunity.

673
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 4: Maybe that was the lead recruiter, and you did have

674
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 4: a lot of guys go to cal And so if

675
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 4: anybody is doubting or wants to bet the under for

676
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 4: ten and a half, you've got to understand that a

677
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 4: lot of those guys got replaced by people who are

678
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 4: ready to go yep. Right. If you're worried about Oregon

679
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 4: at wide receiver, We've been talking about Gatlin Bear for years.

680
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: Not everybody comes back. McClellan, the kid, the chorium more,

681
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: Evan Stewart is back. They're solid at tight end with.

682
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 4: I think Jalen lott of. I think Jalen lot the freshman,

683
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 4: I think he could play in a pinch. I think

684
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 4: he could play effectively because you your receivers are gonna

685
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 4: get banged up, especially the way Oregon plays no block,

686
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 4: no rock. Right, So, and then you got Kendre Harrison.

687
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 4: Everybody's talking about these tight ends all over the country.

688
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 4: Are they going to make an impact as a freshman?

689
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 4: Kendra Harrison's out, from my neck of it, one of

690
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 4: the best athletes I've ever seen. So you do have

691
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 4: guys that can step in in a pinch as as

692
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 4: the season goes on, as your roster gets eroded from injury.

693
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 4: I think that they're gonna be great. That My biggest

694
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 4: concern is quarterback. I think you're in a situation where

695
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 4: you would I would bet my house on over ten

696
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 4: and a half wins if I didn't think that, Uh,

697
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 4: changing quarterback early in the season could be the difference

698
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 4: between a national championship and an eight and five season.

699
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: Oh you're saying if something happens to Dante Moore, yes,

700
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, I mean yeah. I mean that's pretty

701
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: much all the teams. So if you lose your quarterback,

702
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: you you probably have lost, but at.

703
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 4: Least But but there's some teams that can get away

704
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 4: with it, and you can't have that discussion without being

705
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 4: accused of being against their quarterback. But sometimes it's just

706
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 4: how the quarterback plays football. So we're not gonna get

707
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 4: too deep into this, but I feel like Oregon is

708
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 4: the team in the country with the biggest variance between

709
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 4: who they are with their starter and who they might

710
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 4: have to become or how they might have to grind

711
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 4: out wins in a situation where it starts.

712
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Speaker 2: Tiller Ryola Cruze coming at you, buddy.

713
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Speaker 4: They've been mad at me since he was a sophomore

714
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 4: in high school.

715
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Speaker 1: So Boise State, at Oklahoma State, Portland State, and then

716
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Speaker 1: at USC obviously, I think that they get through the

717
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: first three, three and zero. That's a statement game at

718
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 1: USC because it matters to both of those programs big

719
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: time in recruiting. You're more talented than UCLA, and you

720
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Speaker 1: play them at home despite Bob Chesney just playing you

721
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Speaker 1: in Austin Stadium. So that could be a competitive I mean,

722
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Speaker 1: I think LA is gonna be much more competitive this year.

723
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Speaker 1: They're gonna beat Nebraska Illinois, I think, and we pointed

724
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: this out tough game Nebraska. I'm sorry, nor Northwestern, that

725
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: should be an easy win. That Ohio State game is

726
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: obviously going.

727
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 2: To be tough.

728
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Speaker 1: But I don't even think that that's one of the

729
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: five most important games on Oregon schedule, which there's a

730
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Speaker 1: video about go back and check it out on the

731
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Speaker 1: channel and yeah, So this feels like maximum, Ralph, maximum

732
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Speaker 1: maximum maximum. Worst case scenario a two loss situation, but

733
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Speaker 1: more likely a one loss or undefeated season for.

734
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Speaker 4: Me, percentage chance you will be in Indianapolis on December fifth,

735
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Speaker 4: personally you.

736
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Speaker 1: On December fifth for the Big Ten Championship. Yes, sir, probably,

737
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it.

738
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 2: Eight.

739
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Speaker 1: Depends on where as long as I don't have work,

740
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: I will be there and with the with the with

741
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: the fam, with the kiddos, because they love going in

742
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: their games.

743
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: All right.

744
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: The next team that we have up is the team

745
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: that we projecting to finish third in the Big Ten.

746
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: That is the Michigan Wolverines. Their win total is just

747
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: like USC's eight and a half, and I have them

748
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: going over as well.

749
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:22,720
Speaker 2: Ralph.

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Speaker 1: I am a Kyle Whittingham believer. I think this schedule

751
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: sets them up and puts them in a good situation.

752
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: Believe that their losses will come to U that their

753
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 1: most likely losses are against Oregon, Ohio State, and Oklahoma.

754
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:48,959
Speaker 1: That's where I think that they drop.

755
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 4: So the what do we know we know about Kyle Whittingham,

756
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 4: who did he struggle with every once in a while,

757
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 4: not every game, but every once in a while, who

758
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 4: would Utah struggle with In PAC twelve Play was a

759
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 4: beloved coach that you and I were often critical of,

760
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 4: but it seems like everyone loves him because he turned

761
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 4: every conversation into something about dinosaurs or dating.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Mike leet hmm, so he yeah, every once in

763
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Speaker 1: a while.

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Speaker 4: People don't realize this. Every once in a while, like

765
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 4: the Mighty Utes would get absolutely run off the field

766
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 4: by somebody running an air raid type system. I worry

767
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 4: a little bit like you about Ben Arbuckle, John Matteer,

768
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Speaker 4: the Washington State coalition over there at Oklahoma. I worry

769
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Speaker 4: about that game, in particular getting a little messy and

770
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Speaker 4: maybe Kyle Whittingham losing some of the grace of the

771
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Speaker 4: fans because they want to win, right. But I don't

772
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Speaker 4: really see I look at this schedule and I see

773
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Speaker 4: a lot of games stylistically that are advantageous to the

774
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 4: way that this particular coaching staff does things. They're not

775
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Speaker 4: devoid of talent. I am one hundred percent with you.

776
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 4: I'm all in on over eight and a half games.

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Speaker 4: I do think Oklahoma might whoop their ass in a

778
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Speaker 4: way that's not indicative of like how things are gonna be.

779
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 4: It's just if you don't know Kyle Whittingham, if you

780
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 4: don't know Utah's history, sometimes they'll just give a game

781
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 4: because it's not that's not what you're preparing for for

782
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 4: the whole right, So sometimes they'll just go out there

783
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 4: and risk it with talent. One thing Utah could never do, though,

784
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 4: is put five dbs on the field that could hang. Yes,

785
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 4: Utah was great having two dbs who were definitely going

786
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 4: to the NFL every single year, but they were never deep.

787
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 4: And Michigan could be deep. Michigan could solve it. This

788
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 4: could be a special year for the Wolverines. But I

789
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 4: worry about that Oklahoma game quite a bit.

790
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Speaker 5: Oh.

791
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 2: I definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely.

792
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Speaker 1: That the the Oregon Ohio state and and I do

793
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Speaker 1: believe that all of this comes down to one player, Ralph.

794
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: One player that is Bryce Underwood. If they go under

795
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 1: it's because Bryce Underwood got got benched.

796
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 2: That's why does he have?

797
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Speaker 4: Does Bryce Underwood have all the tools that a Devin

798
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:37,720
Speaker 4: Dampier had to be able to get out of trouble

799
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Speaker 4: and just extend a driver.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, Devin damp Year the quarterback now at Utah.

801
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 1: He is much more elusive, much more elusive, So that

802
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: affords you the opportunity to extend plays way more. Bryce

803
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: is a good athlete, but he's not a special well sorry,

804
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: he's not a dynamic runner, and I think that that's

805
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: the difference.

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00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 2: All right.

807
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: Now, we got our national champions, reigning national champions, Indiana

808
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: over under ten and a half. Now, the reason why

809
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: they're over under is ten and a half is because

810
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: their preseason schedule is pitiful. It is it is garbage,

811
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: it is it is uh despicable, it is gross. And

812
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: I like Kurt Signetti, like all these things are true.

813
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm a Kurt Signetti truther and believer, and I'm also

814
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: a person that hates this with every single fiber of

815
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 1: my body. This is not how you are supposed to schedule.

816
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: And ten and a half wins Ralph. I have Indiana

817
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: with the under. I believe that last season was really good,

818
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: but you gotta rebuild the whole crew. Obviously, Josh Hoover,

819
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: he throws way more interceptions and he's not the runner

820
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 1: that Fernando Mendoza is, so he's gonna not look quite

821
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: as good as Fernando Mendoza. So I am looking at

822
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Speaker 1: this Indiana team, Ohio State at Michigan. Those look like

823
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: tough win tough games. And that's why ten and a

824
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: half is a half a game too much, half a

825
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: game too much, because obviously they're not gonna lose to

826
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Speaker 1: North Texas Howard or Western Kentucky. They're gonna beat Northwestern,

827
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: Rutgers Nebraska. They don't even have Ralph a really competitive

828
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: game until October seventeenth, and then that's when it gets tricky.

829
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Speaker 2: And then they got Minnesota and then they're off.

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Speaker 1: Then they got USC, Washington and a layup with Purdue

831
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. So I I just

832
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: don't see a world. I mean, I guess they could.

833
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: Even if they lose to a house, they beat Michigan

834
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: and then lose to USC or lose to Washington, that

835
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: still puts them at ten wins and it's still the under.

836
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: Everything points to the under this season. And know that's

837
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: not a knock on Kurt Signetty. The fact if he

838
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: wins ten games again with losing everything he lost, it

839
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Speaker 1: just proves how great of a coach he is.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. I think ten and a half

841
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 4: wins for Indiana is a sucker bet. I think it

842
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 4: is meant to pull people in as a reaction for

843
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 4: what they did the last two years. I think most

844
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 4: of the money is gonna be on the over, and

845
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily think that's a smart bet. It's gonna

846
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 4: look good early because they got Bishop Sycamore, Bishop Sycamore Tech,

847
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 4: and Bishop Sycamore AA them to start the season, and

848
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 4: Kurt Signetty's proud of that. I think they're gonna stack

849
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 4: wins early. They could go into October seventeenth undefeated.

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00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: He said, Samore Business, Sycamore State, Sycamore A, and M

851
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: I love it for Indiana.

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00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what I get. I understand why

853
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 4: they're doing it. Had they not won a national championship

854
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 4: last year, I think it would even be more necessary

855
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 4: to continue the progress and track the Indiana football is on.

856
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 4: But now it just looks terrible, which it is. It is.

857
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 4: It is an objectively terrible thing. But josh Ue is

858
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 4: a good quarterback. There's no Elijah Surrat, no Omar Cooper.

859
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 4: He's not evenna have anybody I think on Eric McAllister's

860
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 4: level who he had at TCU. So I do think

861
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a little more difficult for this team

862
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 4: to move the football. I still think they'll be good.

863
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 4: Nine wins when it's all said and done. For me

864
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 4: is where I'm out on India.

865
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 2: All right.

866
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: The Penn State Nitney Lions over under nine and a half.

867
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: I got them over, Ralph. I got them at ten

868
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: wins this season. And I know that this is going

869
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: to shock people. They're like, George, did you know how

870
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 1: sorry they were last year? No, they were a very

871
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: talented team.

872
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 2: Last year.

873
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: They were a very talented team. And they put all

874
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: their hopes and dreams in the Oregon game and they lost,

875
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: and then the whole season fell apart. Gave up on

876
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: James Franklin, everything, Marshall, Temple, and Buffalo. Get the hell

877
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: out of here. Penn State with that week ass schedule

878
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: to start the season. No, no, no, this is unacceptable.

879
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 1: This is one of the Ralph one of the biggest

880
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: reasons why we need leadership in charge of college football

881
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: because the schedule situation is atrocious. Because everybody there is

882
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: going to say, well, let's just put some bs' for

883
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: our fans for the first three games. You know who's

884
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: gonna push back, the TV networks. That's who's gonna stop this.

885
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: It's a damn shame that we gotta ask for the

886
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: people it suits to fix a problem that is clear

887
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 1: and obvious. Give the fans more better inventory. You are

888
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: servicing the fans. You're trying to You're you're falling in

889
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: the way of the NBA ralph They're falling away to

890
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 1: NBA where the NBA.

891
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,280
Speaker 2: Championships, championships, championships.

892
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: Let's be ready for the playoffs. Well, you gotta give

893
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: the fans stuff to show up to in the regular season.

894
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: When people buy tickets in the regular season, they should

895
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: get a good product on the field. They want to

896
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: see competitive games.

897
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 4: George, they got a road game, Well, they got a

898
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 4: neutral game against Temple. That's tough, right, I'll tell you what.

899
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 4: Here's a more interesting Uh, here's a more interesting overrun

900
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 4: for me. Pretty decent chance they start the season five

901
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 4: and oh. Wisconsin could be tough, at Northwestern could be tough.

902
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 4: Pretty decent chance they start the season five and oh,

903
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 4: will they score more than one hundred and ten assuming

904
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 4: may go five and oh, will they score more than

905
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 4: one hundred and ten points in the first five games?

906
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 4: Come on, that's twenty two points a game. Yes, Or

907
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 4: do you think they're gonna be out here beating Temple

908
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 4: ten to seven, beaten Buffalo fourteen to ten.

909
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: No, they are, Matt, Matt Campbell is gonna be happy.

910
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 2: These games are much easier with better players. Lord, have mercy, You.

911
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 4: Be like Kurk. Not seeing Kirk Farnce across the field

912
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 4: in early September is gonna help free up that offense.

913
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, so I'm excited about it. I believe

914
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm looking at their wins, Ralph and their situation, and

915
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 1: I know that people are gonna be like.

916
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 2: George, this is way over for Penn State.

917
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: Maybe, but they're starting out with three free wins and

918
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: then I like them losing at Michigan and at Washington.

919
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: They avoid Oregon, Indiana and Ohio State. This is how

920
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: you get to ten wins. When you avoid those three teams,

921
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to get to ten wins.

922
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks the way it looks now being able

923
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 4: to finish the season on a three game stretch when

924
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 4: a lot of other teams are going to be dropping

925
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 4: down in the rankings. If anybody wasn't, there's a really

926
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 4: good chance of this. Georgia, if anybody wasn't excited about

927
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 4: the Matt Campbell higher. I think by the end of

928
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 4: the year, you'll see people coming around.

929
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:44,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

930
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: And this is honestly the perfect schedule for him in

931
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: year one, because then he'll get a chance to get

932
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: a good transfer portal class, build up the recruited rankings

933
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: with a lot of momentum, and now you can go

934
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty seven where you will much likely have

935
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: a much more difficult conference slate, and he and be

936
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: all right, all right, next team that we have up.

937
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: We got the Iowa Hawkeyes ralph seven and a half

938
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: win total.

939
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 2: Seven and a half, and I got him going under.

940
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 4: Render.

941
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: This feels sacrilegious. I know that a lot of people

942
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: are are that A lot of you know, people are like,

943
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: come on, bro, come on bro, this is you are

944
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: going way overboard. Kirk Farnce does not do unders. He

945
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: does not do seven and a half wins. So I

946
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: keep trying to like math this out, and this feels

947
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 1: like a seven win roster to me. I think that

948
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: this is the year that if they don't get any

949
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: offense going, that it's gonna just work out terribly for him.

950
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna beat Iowa State, then they Northern Iowa, they

951
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: win at Michigan, Ohio State, at Washington, bro this is

952
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:22,479
Speaker 1: at Illinois. This is not an easy schedule by any

953
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. And I got them losing at Michigan,

954
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State, at Washington, at Minnesota.

955
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 2: So and then so maybe eight wins if they beat

956
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 2: oh Iowa State.

957
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 4: If they don't be Iowa State, that's gonna be a

958
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 4: problem because I think I'm on Iowa State's roster this year.

959
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,959
Speaker 4: I think you might be two. We might get called

960
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 4: up for that game. Can you tell me the last

961
00:58:55,960 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 4: time that you think Iowa won seven games or less?

962
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 4: And no counting the COVID year.

963
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 2: Obviously, let's go twenty eighteen.

964
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 4: Twenty fourteen. Twenty fourteen is the last time they won

965
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 4: seven games or less and they followed that year up

966
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 4: where they went seven and six, four and four in

967
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 4: conference with Kirk Farrence's only undefeated run in the Big Ten.

968
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 4: In twenty fifteen, Iowa went twelve and to eight and

969
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 4: zero in conference and finished fifth. That's the highest that

970
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 4: he's ever Fe's actually never had a top ten finish.

971
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 4: That was the only one. So even if they do

972
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 4: win seven games, who knows what's around the corner. I

973
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 4: don't love the under just because it feels different than

974
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 4: what we're used to, but it's a bold prediction, and

975
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 4: you sometimes you'll make a bold prediction.

976
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 2: Hey, somebody's got to lose these games. I know.

977
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 4: I was like, I weel like eight straight overs. I'm like, wait,

978
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 4: every Big ten team, it's just gonna be a twelfth

979
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 4: team playoff of Big ten teams.

980
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, absolutely not all right.

981
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: The next thing that we have up is the Washington

982
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: Huskies seven and a half.

983
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 2: You know how much I hate Washington, Ralph.

984
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 1: You know I hate Washington, So you know that I

985
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: had to pick them to win more than seven and

986
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: a half games because I'm college football's truth teller.

987
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 2: Man.

988
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: Their issue is so their toughest non conference game is

989
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: going to be Washington State, which is not you know,

990
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. And then they go from

991
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: there they have at USC, at Nebraska, Indiana, and and Oregon.

992
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: The thing that's given me pause, Ralph with not giving

993
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: this team a nine win team is the controversy with

994
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: their quarterback de Mon Williams. I just don't know how

995
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: this team's going to jail. I believe Jeed Fish is

996
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: a good coach. I like his staff new he's got

997
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: a new coordinator, and because Jimmy Doherty is out, he's

998
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: got JP Lowsman in uh former you know, big time

999
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: college football quarterback, the short time as the NFL quarterback.

1000
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,919
Speaker 1: This feels like a tricky set of events because you're

1001
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: at USC.

1002
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 2: USC is very good at.

1003
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: Home, they are awful on the road in Washington, well, USC,

1004
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: Actually that fits both of those teams. They're both awful

1005
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: on the road and have been. And then you got

1006
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: and then at Nebraska. But then you could you might

1007
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: be able to trade out the at Nebraska for the

1008
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: Watt for the Iowa game. They got Penn State, Indiana, Oregon.

1009
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: It is gonna be hard Ralph to get more than

1010
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: more than eight wins out of this roster, I'm sorry,

1011
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: out of this schedule. Nine is the your absolute ceiling.

1012
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 4: I feel like you're right, And I don't know, it's

1013
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 4: just been the home and away thing, and maybe it's

1014
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 4: just big ten. Maybe that's just how it's gonna be

1015
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 4: for some of these teams. But I sometimes I'm obsessed

1016
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 4: with with with the Washington hate because I want to

1017
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 4: play a little game with you right now. It's just

1018
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 4: thumbs up, thumbs down. Okay, here we go, so for

1019
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 4: people to see like at some point in this there's

1020
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 4: this a disconnect ready. Thumbs up, thumbs down. The City

1021
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 4: of Seattle thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs down.

1022
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 2: Warren Moon Oh two thumbs up, love war super good.

1023
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 4: Thumbs up, thumbs down. Jedfish as a coach thumbs up.

1024
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 4: All right, thumbs up, thumbs down, the color purple thumbs up,

1025
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 4: thumbs up, thumbs down, Demand Williams just like the every

1026
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 4: everything about him thumbs up. Okay. Huskies as a pet,

1027
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 4: like just as a dog.

1028
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 2: Thumbs down.

1029
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm thumbs down on all dogs that that

1030
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: that are shed so that's not a husky thing. It's

1031
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: just any dogs that that shd. I'm thumbs down because

1032
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: I don't like hair all over Maya house, even though

1033
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: I can appreciate them from Afar and huskies look very

1034
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: very nice. I'm just thumbs down on all dogs that

1035
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: that ship.

1036
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 4: Would you would you go on a dog sled?

1037
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 2: You love? I would go on a dog sled, So

1038
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:47,959
Speaker 2: thumbs up.

1039
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 4: For dog sns okay, all right. University of Washington as

1040
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 4: an institution.

1041
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: Oh, thumbs up, very good, good school research institution, bro.

1042
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 4: Super thin up. Okay, Washington Football.

1043
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 2: I think they're a good football team. Thumbs up.

1044
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 4: That's like, that's like, that's like one hundred plus one

1045
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 4: hundred plus one hundred plus one hundred plus one hundred

1046
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 4: plus one hundred equals negative five thousand. That's the mastha.

1047
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 4: I love that. I just it always makes you laugh

1048
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 4: because when it comes down to like the individual things,

1049
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, no, very cool, love the color purple,

1050
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 4: love Seattle as a city, demon's cool. Love chopping it

1051
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 4: up with Jeff Fish. I think he's a great coach.

1052
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 4: Warner Moon is my boy. That's my favorite. That's one

1053
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 4: of my goats. And they're like uh, and then you

1054
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 4: just yeah. When it's the topic, I'm like, Washington football

1055
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:59,439
Speaker 4: husky suck. I hate everything about him. But you don't though.

1056
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: We're not here to let common sense get in away

1057
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: of our argument. Truths were told, but that doesn't mean

1058
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: that we're gonna let let that get in away of

1059
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: our emotions.

1060
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 5: At times, I get it speaking of that, my daughter,

1061
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 5: my precious daughter, my youngest daughter, tenth grade.

1062
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,439
Speaker 2: Dad, I think I want to go to Washington because

1063
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 2: she wants to be a pediatrician. Why would you do that?

1064
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, I hope you're prepared to

1065
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: take out some student loans because daddy's not giving them

1066
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: no money.

1067
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 2: She was like why not.

1068
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, they must have beaten Oregon before,

1069
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: and I was like, yes, pity, it's our biggest rival.

1070
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 2: Oh I really want to go there now.

1071
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 4: That's why my reaction with like, oh, that's cool. You're

1072
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 4: going to get to see University of Oregon win twice

1073
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 4: in person. Yeah, well, pediatricians, you might get to see

1074
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 4: it four times.

1075
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 1: Yes exactly, there will be a lot of that, all right, yes,

1076
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: all right. Then we got and as we get deeper

1077
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: in this list, we got to speed them up. We

1078
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: got Wisconsin six and a half games, Ralph, I'm taking

1079
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and the over and the over. I got Wisconsin

1080
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: winning seven games this year. Huge comeback for them and

1081
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 1: Luke Fickle. This this schedule is.

1082
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 2: Honestly not kind at all.

1083
01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: But it feels like to me, if they can get

1084
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: seven wins out of this schedule, Ralph, that this feels

1085
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: not even good, but fantastic. They play Notre Dame at

1086
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: Penn State USC.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this feels very This feels like a seven win

1089
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: team that you can get excited about. Can you see

1090
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: a way that after last season, that they win more

1091
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: than seven games out of their schedule?

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01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 4: I think it's possible. But my question for you is

1093
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 4: seven enough to continue the Luke Fickle experiment? Is seven enough.

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01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: As long as you don't finish out the season on

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01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:35,160
Speaker 1: a bad run, like if they finish out the season

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01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: with losses to Minnesota, Maryland and Purdue. No, but if

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01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: they win, if they go two and two in their

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01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: last four against Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, and Minnesota, and then

1099
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: they're able to knock off a good team because they

1100
01:07:55,520 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: got wins against Western, Western, Illinois, Eastern Michigan. Those are

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01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 1: two and now we're fighting for five, well for five

1102
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: out of the last ten.

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01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 2: If you can go five?

1104
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: About if they can go about and Big Ten play

1105
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 1: and lose to Notre Notre Dame. I think five and

1106
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: four and Big Ten play would be good.

1107
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 4: Okay, So what about six and O at home with

1108
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 4: a losing record in the Big Ten but a win

1109
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 4: over Notre Dame? So seven wins the hard way? Do

1110
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 4: you think that would do it?

1111
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1112
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 1: Six and oh at at home with a win over

1113
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: Notre Notre Dame. That would that would put him in

1114
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,280
Speaker 1: a way that their fans are like, hell, yeah, we'll take.

1115
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 4: That, but that includes a loss at p two.

1116
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:50,799
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah yeah.

1117
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: I think Fickle has a chance to secure his his

1118
01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: job just by just by getting seven seven games with

1119
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: at least one key win. And you can't have the

1120
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:09,640
Speaker 1: bottom fallout at the end of the season, but you

1121
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: gotta be careful season either because then you won't make

1122
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: it to the end of the season.

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01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 4: As long as they run the ball, they're gonna have

1124
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 4: a chance, and they just haven't been running the ball.

1125
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 4: So we'll see if they get that, right yep?

1126
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 2: All right?

1127
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: Uh, Illinois seven and a half, Ralph And you know,

1128
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: I'm a Brett beelam a guy.

1129
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 2: I like them to go under.

1130
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 1: Okay, I think that it's gonna be that they lost

1131
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator. It's gonna be a little bit of

1132
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: a rebuild. But this doesn't mean that I'm down on Illinois.

1133
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 1: Down on Illinois more for this season and then I

1134
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: think that there's a big bounce back the following season.

1135
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 4: That's kind of the point, like, if you're gonna have

1136
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:07,599
Speaker 4: Brett Beilima coach your team right, like you raise the floor.

1137
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 4: The before Brett Beilamo was hired at Illinois, they had

1138
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:18,640
Speaker 4: three win season in twenty sixteen. They had a two

1139
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 4: win season in twenty seventeen. They went two and six

1140
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 4: in the COVID shortened year, but they wouldn't have got

1141
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 4: five wins in that year. Since hiring Brett be Bilima,

1142
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 4: the floor has been five wins, but they've also reached eight,

1143
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:34,719
Speaker 4: nine and ten wins over three of the last four seasons.

1144
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I think I think you if you're

1145
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 4: an Illinois fan and somebody tells you that your flora

1146
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 4: is seven wins, you're like, hell yeah. It reminds me

1147
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 4: of the end of the ron Zuck era. You know

1148
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 4: what ultimately got him. You know, didn't he go to

1149
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 4: Florida for a minute, Yeah, yep, he was, or was

1150
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 4: he at Florida before Illinois? But I but yeah, the

1151
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 4: Illinois Okay, but you know when ron Zuck ended his tenure. Yeah,

1152
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 4: you're right, he was at Florida and then Illinois, but

1153
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,719
Speaker 4: he ended his tenure you know, seven and six, six

1154
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,880
Speaker 4: and six, even a little bit of like dabbling in

1155
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 4: the in the AP poll I think that's kind of

1156
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 4: the sweet spot for Illinois if you can. And that

1157
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 4: also justifies kind of some of this scheduling that people

1158
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,679
Speaker 4: talk about of stacking wins early early in the season,

1159
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 4: which explains maybe why people do it. But the Duke

1160
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 4: game is respectable. They beat the hell out of Duke

1161
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 4: in the second half last year. I think they're gonna

1162
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 4: do it again this year. But as long as they

1163
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 4: as long as the wheels don't fall off having the

1164
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 4: buy going into hosting Oregon. You've said you feel like

1165
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,599
Speaker 4: it is one of the more dangerous games this year.

1166
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 4: If they're able to pull that off, even if they

1167
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 4: only get seven wins this season, that they're gonna be

1168
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 4: burning couches in the street Like that's that's an incredible year,

1169
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 4: coming off of a huge build up into competing for

1170
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 4: a spot in the College Football Playoff.

1171
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, one hundred percent. Our next team up the

1172
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're at the Minnesota, the Minnesota Golden go

1173
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:16,719
Speaker 1: with US five? Is that five and a half? Damn

1174
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: five and a half wins? I got them with the

1175
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: over They return their quarterback, return their running back. Those

1176
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:28,679
Speaker 1: are significant things. And Drake Lindsey is a very good

1177
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: quarterback up there. He if he stays at Minnesota again

1178
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,600
Speaker 1: after this year, he's gonna make a well, sorry, if

1179
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 1: he decides to leave, he's gonna make a mint in

1180
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. He's gonna be one of them players

1181
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: that they try to pry him out of Minnesota. Round

1182
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: five and a half wins, I got the over. I

1183
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 1: got them actually getting to seven wins. I know a

1184
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: lot of people aren't seeing it, but I believe that

1185
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 1: they're head coach PJ. Fleck's a good coach, and they're

1186
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 1: one of those teams that that that they have to have.

1187
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: You know that they're like Illinois, that the right set

1188
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: of circumstances has to happen, that they have to have

1189
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 1: veteran players there for a couple of years and then

1190
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 1: they can, you know, hit that ten win mark. But

1191
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: this non conference schedule, Eastern Illinois, Mississippi State acron. If

1192
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: they get Mississippi State, Oh, they are going to be

1193
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 1: in a good way. And I think their losses ultimately

1194
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 1: end up coming from Washington, Michigan, Indiana, Penn State, and

1195
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 1: either Wisconsin or Mississippi State.

1196
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 4: They have senior leadership at quarterback. They've senior leadership at

1197
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 4: running back. They've been frisky. They're recruiting well. In my opinion,

1198
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 4: they're recruiting well. You know, I might different than some

1199
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:58,640
Speaker 4: of the recruiting agencies or whatever. My big thing on

1200
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 4: them is do they have big playability? Can they get

1201
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 4: can they get a big chunk? I'm interested to see

1202
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,360
Speaker 4: they bring back Javon Tracy. He was their second leading

1203
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 4: receiver last year. Was originally at Miami of Ohio. And

1204
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:17,720
Speaker 4: he's older. That's what we like now, right, we like

1205
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 4: the older players. He's a he's gonna be a fifth

1206
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 4: year guy. He had six touchdowns. I think he went

1207
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 4: off against Northwestern last year. If he ends up being

1208
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 4: that that guy for them, if he could be a

1209
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 4: sixty catch guy, and you know, they got a guy

1210
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:32,439
Speaker 4: at quarterback, they got a guy at running back, they

1211
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:35,439
Speaker 4: got a guy at receiver. Then yet it's very possible

1212
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 4: you could put together a special run. This to me,

1213
01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 4: I feel like this is the most obvious over in

1214
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 4: the in the Big Ten. I like them to win

1215
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 4: seven eight games, But I also think they might have

1216
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 4: a little bit of that magic in him of like

1217
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 4: a twenty twenty four Arizona State that made a run.

1218
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:57,520
Speaker 4: If you if you really do have a solid guy

1219
01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 4: at your primary positions.

1220
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: For them to have a run where they end up

1221
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 1: at the top of the conference.

1222
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 4: Yeah and yeah, I feel you on that. But every

1223
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:09,639
Speaker 4: it's got to be somebody. Every year, there's got there's

1224
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 4: someone that comes out of nowhere every single year. And

1225
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 4: you know, I know that there's a bunch of data

1226
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 4: against the idea that you know, if somebody's gonna make

1227
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:21,679
Speaker 4: a run like that, it's gonna be earlier in their

1228
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 4: time coaching. But then you also got to look at

1229
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 4: how things are coming together. I think they've got a

1230
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 4: decent O line and I just really really like them

1231
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,719
Speaker 4: on offense this year, and we'll see if that's enough.

1232
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: All Right, we got UCLA at six and a half wins,

1233
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 1: Ralph at six and a half wins projected. I have

1234
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: this team as a strong six and six. Okay, I

1235
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 1: got them going under, but this feels like a strong

1236
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: six and six team to me. Obviously, this this Cow

1237
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 1: game is gonna be tough. You're gonna be going against

1238
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:05,560
Speaker 1: Tosh Boy col probably like they're in a similar roster situation,

1239
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 1: except for you got veterans coming over from James Madison,

1240
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: which could kind of speed up the process for for

1241
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:20,800
Speaker 1: Bob Chesney. Then you got San Diego State, tough game,

1242
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: Purdue at Maryland, at Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nevada at Minnesota,

1243
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 1: and then you got Illinois, Michigan and USC.

1244
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:38,799
Speaker 2: I believe that they will be highly competitive this year.

1245
01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: Six and six fields like the most likely outcome, But

1246
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: there's a world where they get to eight wins, which

1247
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: would be like heroic territory for him in year one.

1248
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: And if he gets eight wins in year one, and

1249
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 1: this is not an easy Big Ten slate, oh boy,

1250
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 1: oh boy, you better watch out if you are USC.

1251
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 4: Bob Chesney is a lot like Caitlin de Boor. He's

1252
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 4: a lot like Kurt Signetti, and everywhere he's been he's

1253
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 4: had a lot of success, and a lot of that

1254
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 4: success has come in conference play. They hired him at

1255
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 4: UCLA because they chose to go to the Big Ten

1256
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:23,559
Speaker 4: and break up the Pac twelve. And if you're going

1257
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 4: to do that, then you got to compete within that conference.

1258
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 4: And this is somebody who has one four and four

1259
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 4: year in conference and is in the Sun Belt in

1260
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 4: his first year at James Madison. But outside of that

1261
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 4: four and four year. If you go back to twenty twenty,

1262
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:44,439
Speaker 4: he's nineteen and one, twenty seven and one, twenty seven

1263
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 4: and one in conference outside of a four and four

1264
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:50,680
Speaker 4: year going back to twenty twenty, So if you want to,

1265
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 4: you can say that he's what thirty one and five,

1266
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 4: thirty one and five in conference in the last six seasons.

1267
01:17:56,840 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 4: This is a guy who wins it. It would shock me,

1268
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 4: shock me to see him come out of the gate

1269
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 4: and have UCLA look non functional like they've looked on

1270
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 4: offense at times in the last few years. So I

1271
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 4: think I'm with you. I think they'll be borderline on

1272
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:18,680
Speaker 4: it and give them the opportunity, give themselves the opportunity

1273
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 4: to hit that over in postseason play.

1274
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:25,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, next team do we have up? The

1275
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 1: Nebraska Cornhuskers ralph They're over under five and a half.

1276
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: I am going to And it's funny because when I'm

1277
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 1: going through this sitting here, like how in the world,

1278
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,679
Speaker 1: Like I'm not a big believer of what's going on

1279
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: with Matt Ruhle and everything there, but I was looking

1280
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:51,479
Speaker 1: at this schedule and this feels like that this is

1281
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 1: one of the teams that I'm looking at that is

1282
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:58,439
Speaker 1: going to surprise this season, and it's confusing to me

1283
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:02,719
Speaker 1: because when I look at this, they got Ohio Bowling Green,

1284
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: North North Dakota. All right, cool, that is three free wins.

1285
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 1: Now you gotta go four and five, which feels like

1286
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: like four and five in the Big Ten. Feels exactly

1287
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 1: what I think about Nebraska. But I'm looking at this

1288
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:24,720
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, I feel like that this is a

1289
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 1: team that can get because their win totals five and

1290
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: a half, so all they need is six to go

1291
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 1: over and I can see a world where they go

1292
01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:39,719
Speaker 1: three and six into Big Ten or five and four

1293
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:43,719
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, four and five. That feels like the ceiling,

1294
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 1: four and five in the Big Ten getting the seven

1295
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: wins because they're not gonna beat Indiana, They're not gonna

1296
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,600
Speaker 1: beat the Oregon. Their quarterback situation is not what it

1297
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Speaker 1: needs to be. They're not gonna beat Washington. I start,

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Speaker 1: excuse me. They might beat Washington because that game is

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Speaker 1: at home, but then they got to go to Illinois.

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Speaker 1: They got Ohio State Ralph. This is not looking like

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Speaker 1: a good Big Ten run for them, but it's gonna

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Speaker 1: feel better because if they go three and six into

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Speaker 1: Big Ten and then start out three and Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna look because they're gonna be like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: We're going to a ball game again.

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Speaker 1: But deep down under the cover it that ain't it.

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Speaker 4: Is there anything Nebraska can do that they actually have

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Speaker 4: control over to be a competitive team this year? The

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Speaker 4: heart of what I'm asking you is TJ Latif, who's

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Speaker 4: got some experience. Daniel Kalin, who I think was at Nebraska,

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Speaker 4: went to Virginia and came back. And then Anthony Calandria,

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Speaker 4: the Mountain West player of the year, who I think

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01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:02,919
Speaker 4: was at Vergin and then did his damage at UNLB.

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Speaker 4: Is there any choice that Matt Rule could make or

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01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 4: Dana Holguson could make that would affect how you see

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Speaker 4: them versus the over under or even them being better? Like,

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01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 4: is there a choice they can make where they be

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Speaker 4: obviously better?

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Speaker 1: Seven wins assumes good quarterback play, That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Like it assumes good quarterback play. Nebraska fans will sit

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01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: up here and tell you we had three eight and

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Speaker 1: a million freshmen last year, but then you take a

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01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: small recruiting class this year, so now your classes are

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Speaker 1: way imbalanced. I just don't see the vision and Nebraska

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01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 1: feels like it is not it for me right now,

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Speaker 1: not it at all. But we're we're actually gonna finish

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Speaker 1: up the big ten teams. I'm gonna put the graphic

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Speaker 1: on the schedule so you guys can see it all

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Speaker 1: at once, and oh, uh okay, here we go, Ralph,

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01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: here is the here are the win totals.

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Speaker 2: So we have.

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Speaker 1: For Maryland four and a half under feels like the

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Speaker 1: end for Mike Loxley. Michigan State with with with with

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Speaker 1: their new head coach, Pat Fitzgerald. Ralph pointed out that

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01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 1: Pat Fitzgerald, that the aura of Pat Fields Fitzgerald feels

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01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 1: better than the results of Pat Fitzgerald. So we got

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01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 1: them over their three and a half win total for four,

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01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: Northwestern under three and nine but a competitive three and

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Speaker 1: nine though, we got under their three and a half wins.

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Speaker 1: But their situation, to me, Ralph, feels a lot like

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01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 1: Virginia where Tony Elliott, where people year four, people like, oh,

1342
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the end for Tony Elliott and

1343
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,280
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden everything that they've been building

1344
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,640
Speaker 1: and working on that it finally clicks.

1345
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 2: And then you got Rutgers.

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01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 1: Yep, I know that people are are going to hate that,

1347
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: but somebody's got to finish at the bottom.

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01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 2: And it's just the reality of the world.

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Speaker 4: So here's my question, George. Every year people make emotional

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Speaker 4: decisions by people, I mean fans based on expectations that

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01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 4: were set. Like you could come into a season and

1352
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 4: it could be this like beautiful thing, Football's back, and

1353
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,679
Speaker 4: right before the season, if somebody whispers in your ear,

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01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 4: this is a nine win team, and then that team

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Speaker 4: goes out and wins eight wins, you want to jump

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01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 4: off a bridge. But the truth of the matter is

1357
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 4: like your mind was made up by somebody else providing

1358
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Speaker 4: you these expectations. So my question for you, George, which

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01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 4: team on here has the best opportunity to blow expectations

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01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 4: out of the water. And which team on here is

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01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 4: expectations the biggest threat to just the overall health of

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Speaker 4: the fan base and the future of the program.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think the answer to both of those is, Well,

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Speaker 1: that I could answer usc for both of those questions

1365
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 1: is that their win totals eight and a half and

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Speaker 1: if they go ten.

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Speaker 2: Wins, hallelujah. Right.

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Speaker 1: But also the way that their schedule is set up,

1369
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: you got Penn State Oregon, Ohio State, and Indiana all

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Speaker 1: on the same schedule. That could get you down to

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Speaker 1: seven wins too if the bottom falls out.

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Speaker 4: So God, you're making such a good point here, because

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Speaker 4: this entire time, I was seeing the eight and a

1374
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 4: half win expectation from line setters and saying, oh wow,

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Speaker 4: this should actually be a huge reality check for USC

1376
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 4: fans that they're not where they should be at this

1377
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:24,519
Speaker 4: point in time. But then you and I both picked

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01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 4: the over and then you point out this actually gives

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01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 4: them the opportunity to exceed expectations that were probably artificially

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Speaker 4: low for where they should be at this time. That's

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01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 4: a really good point, Like USC has a chance to

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Speaker 4: impress by doing something that's not impressive, not by their standards.

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Speaker 2: Yep, exactly.

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Speaker 4: They could win win nine games and have people feeling

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Speaker 4: good about themselves. But that's not USC football. In my lifetime,

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Speaker 4: in my opinion, USC I was a part of the

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Speaker 4: PAC twelve South. I went to Arizona. I win the

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Speaker 4: games I went to when I was attending Arizona State University.

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Speaker 4: I think there was one game where we returned to kickoff,

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Speaker 4: took a seven er leads allowed us to ever heard

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Speaker 4: Sun Devil Stadium, and I think we lost that game

1392
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 4: by forty. They are monsters like to So the idea

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01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 4: of nine wins for them, that's not successful but to me,

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01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 4: but to their fans it might be.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I think Washington is in this is in a

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01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: similar situation because they play USC this year. Oh wait, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: they don't. Well, Washington's in a similar situation. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: they do play u USC due we talked about that.

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Speaker 1: So look at Washington schedule. If Washington can get either Oregon,

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01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 1: Indiana pensed like USC, if they can win some of

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Speaker 1: those games, that's seven and a half, that can look

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01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 1: like nine or ten real quick. So they're another team

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01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:11,520
Speaker 1: that can absolutely put themselves in a good spot. And

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Speaker 1: I would say another team is Ohio State because if

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Speaker 1: Ohio State drops that Texas game, or if they dropped

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01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:26,200
Speaker 1: the yeah, if they dropped Ohio State, excuse me, if

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01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 1: they drop that Texas game and they dropped the Oregon game.

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01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 1: So here's our schedule here, drop the Oregon game two,

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01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:37,600
Speaker 1: So Texas Oregon.

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01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:38,959
Speaker 2: And then if you lose to USC.

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Speaker 1: Now now you're looking at a maximum of nine wins,

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01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:48,720
Speaker 1: which would be devastating for Ohio State fans. They they

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01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:53,640
Speaker 1: would be ready to turn Ryan Day inside out if that.

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01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 4: If that happens, especially in the given Matt Patricia almost

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01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 4: four million dollars a year, three.

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Speaker 2: Points them five. Yep.

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Speaker 1: But you guys, you guys, tell us what you think

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Speaker 1: about our win totals down in the comments, the big

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Speaker 1: ten win totals. Next week we will have the SEC

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Speaker 1: win totals as well, and then we will proceed through

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Speaker 1: these brackets, Ralph, because I have not looked at your

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Speaker 1: bracket yet. I have your bracket, but I the way

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Speaker 1: I can put it up on the screen. But I

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Speaker 1: assure you I have not looked at your bracket yet.

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Speaker 1: You have not seen my bracket yet because I didn't

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Speaker 1: send it to you. So I so we are going

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Speaker 1: to see who ends up with the better brackets.

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Speaker 2: So here is my bracket. Let me make it a

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Speaker 2: little bit. Actually, here we go. We are tech technology.

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Speaker 1: People, so here is what we shall do.

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Speaker 2: Do you see who I've winning?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: My god, the Houston Cougars, Baby, the Houston Cougars.

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Speaker 4: That'd be a fun place to be if it went

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Speaker 4: down that way, that'd be a great I'm a big

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Speaker 4: Paul Wall fan. I love Mike Jones. I love twenty

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Speaker 4: eighteen James Harden shut out the city of Houston.

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Speaker 1: Eight three toh eight zero zero fo all right, you

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Speaker 1: got the Duke Blue Devils Winny, Okay, your final four

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Speaker 1: is Duke Houston, Arizona and Kentucky. Oh no, no, no, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Duke Houston, Arizona and Iowa State. I have Duke Houston,

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01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:39,679
Speaker 1: Arizona and Kentucky. So I want Kelvin Sampson to win

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01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 1: so bad. Ralph, I don't know, I like, I've never

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Speaker 1: liked Kevin Kelvin Sampson. As much as I like him now,

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01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: I want nothing but great things for him and his teams.

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01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:54,439
Speaker 1: I like what he's doing as a head coach. I

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Speaker 1: think I I think I fell in love with him,

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Speaker 1: like and what he's doing when he was talking about

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Speaker 1: prior to NIL, how he had families who were trying

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01:32:07,360 --> 01:32:10,679
Speaker 1: to come to games and parents were like, we'll sleep

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Speaker 1: on the floor in the room, and they were like, no,

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Speaker 1: we can't do it. It's an NCAA violation, all of

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Speaker 1: this stuff. So yeah, that's when I fell in love

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Speaker 1: with Kelvin Simpson. But to me, Ralph, this season and now,

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01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:27,120
Speaker 1: mind you, we focus way more on college football here,

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Speaker 1: but it feels like Duke, Arizona, Florida, and Michigan are

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Speaker 1: on a totally different level than everybody else. And then

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Speaker 1: there's Houston, whose defense is crazy good, which I think

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01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:47,839
Speaker 1: that they're gonna get some good matchups because Duke's bracket

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01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: is crazy hard, and yeah, I just think that this

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01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:54,880
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for that.

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Speaker 4: If what people notice about my picks is as an

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Speaker 4: Arizona State guy, over the last two years, these are

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Speaker 4: the teams that have embarrassed my team. The absolute most.

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Speaker 4: And so I'm making the assumption that based on watching

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Speaker 4: all these Arizona State games, whoever killed us the most,

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Speaker 4: that those are the best teams. And I do think

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Speaker 4: Big twelve basketball has been absolutely fantastic lately. I love

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Speaker 4: these freshmen that are at Houston. I Harwell is a monster,

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Speaker 4: Duke is so good this year. It really it's very easy,

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Speaker 4: very very easy this year to see the separation. Like,

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Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna we're gonna have anybody outside

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Speaker 4: of a two seed in the final four. I really don't.

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Speaker 4: Iowa State is probably to me the highest effort team,

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Speaker 4: and they're not all effort, they're very skill based as well.

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01:33:51,240 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 4: And then Arizona has a player named CoA Pete who

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Speaker 4: I covered at the high school level.

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Speaker 2: He won.

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Speaker 4: He's a Andres Pete, the Stanford legend and probably made

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01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:03,839
Speaker 4: a hundred million dollars playing in the NFL. Andrews. Pete's

1515
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:06,160
Speaker 4: youngest sibling. They have eight kids in that family. I

1516
01:34:06,200 --> 01:34:09,719
Speaker 4: think every single one of them played collegiate athletics. CoA

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01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 4: Pete's the youngest, and he won a championship his freshman

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01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 4: year of high school, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year.

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01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 4: Then he helped Arizona win the Big Twelve regular season

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01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:24,760
Speaker 4: and the Big Twelve Conference tournament, and he was the

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01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 4: leading scorer. I have to believe that if he wins

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01:34:28,439 --> 01:34:31,920
Speaker 4: four high school championships, the Big Twelve, the Big Twelve Tournament,

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01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:36,320
Speaker 4: and the NCAA Tournament in his freshman year, that got

1524
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 4: to be the greatest five year run of basketball I've

1525
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 4: ever seen before someone reaches the professional level, and I

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01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:44,400
Speaker 4: think there's a possibility he might not even be a

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01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:49,679
Speaker 4: top five pick, that's how talented the field is this year.

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01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:55,360
Speaker 4: So love, I love these four teams to be there.

1529
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,920
Speaker 4: I feel pretty confident that these four teams will be there.

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01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:01,240
Speaker 4: I think Michigan will be the biggest disappin ointment, but

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01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 4: I do think that Duke gets it done. Interesting thing

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01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 4: about living out here in North Carolina, no one actually

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01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:09,679
Speaker 4: likes Duke. There's not like a bunch of Duke fans

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01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:12,800
Speaker 4: running around. It's like anywhere else, it's like you have

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01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:16,800
Speaker 4: you got a few Duke fans here and there, But

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01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:19,639
Speaker 4: in the state of North Carolina, they're all about NC State,

1537
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 4: North Carolina, Wake Forest, all those teams. Duke fans are

1538
01:35:22,680 --> 01:35:23,799
Speaker 4: pretty few and far between.

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01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:31,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I see. I appreciated Duke with with with

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01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 1: coach K. But then I think it got tricky for me.

1541
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 1: So who are your biggest So my double digit seats

1542
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 1: I have winning. I got Northern Iowa beating Saint John's.

1543
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:49,360
Speaker 1: I got South Florida beating Louisville. I have McNee State

1544
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 1: beating Vanderbilt. And then I.

1545
01:35:56,200 --> 01:35:59,920
Speaker 2: Have oh, Miami of Ohio.

1546
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:04,719
Speaker 1: Oh. I like them because everybody's been talking trash about

1547
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 1: them with and so I hope that they I hope

1548
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 1: that they come out and beat the s m U

1549
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 1: in the playing game and then beat Tennessee. I want

1550
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:17,799
Speaker 1: that more than anything. Then I think I got Hofstra winning.

1551
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:21,840
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of them winning, and Missouri beating Miami,

1552
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:25,719
Speaker 1: and and who do you have winning?

1553
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 2: Oh? You got South Florida beating Louisville. So we're there there.

1554
01:36:30,160 --> 01:36:32,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that you. I love that you're a

1555
01:36:32,600 --> 01:36:35,519
Speaker 4: Miami of Ohio guy. When the truth of the matter

1556
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 4: is like, you don't get you don't get sentimental over

1557
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 4: underdogs like that, not all you don't.

1558
01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:42,960
Speaker 2: I don't.

1559
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:44,960
Speaker 1: I don't care about your feel good story at all.

1560
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 1: You got text saying him beating Saint Mary's.

1561
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:54,639
Speaker 4: Which how much of an upset is that? Really?

1562
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:56,920
Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not.

1563
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:01,360
Speaker 1: You got Santa Clara beating Kentucky in the first round.

1564
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 1: Coach Cow's not the coach.

1565
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 2: There anymore, Ralph, that's true.

1566
01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:08,040
Speaker 4: It's true. But Santa Clara is coached by Herb Syndeck,

1567
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 4: and he was an Arizona State coach for about ten years.

1568
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:14,400
Speaker 4: It took him this long to make the tournament. He

1569
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:17,400
Speaker 4: did get Jalen Williams to the NBA, and Jalen Williams

1570
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 4: got an NBA championship. Now a former also same high

1571
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:24,519
Speaker 4: school as co Pete. But I would like to see

1572
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 4: Herb Syndeck a career as a great basketball coach at

1573
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:31,439
Speaker 4: NC State, Arizona State, and Santa Clara. I would love

1574
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 4: to see him beat Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament. I

1575
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,760
Speaker 4: didn't just pick that. I'm like openly rooting for it

1576
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 4: to happen.

1577
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 1: Okay, And then you got Missouri beating Miami as well,

1578
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:45,680
Speaker 1: and you got Utah State over Villanova. But this is

1579
01:37:45,720 --> 01:37:47,840
Speaker 1: not your father's Villanova team.

1580
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 4: And if you Tas State wins that game, Arizona State

1581
01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:53,759
Speaker 4: might hire their coach. So I'm I have a vested

1582
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:59,559
Speaker 4: interest in that I do. Everything runs through Tempe Arizona,

1583
01:37:59,560 --> 01:38:01,800
Speaker 4: even though we're not a good basketball school.

1584
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 2: All right, Well, you guys, that is Unafraid show for

1585
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Speaker 2: the day.

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1587
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:11,000
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1588
01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:15,639
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01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:17,519
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1590
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