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Speaker 2: tried that, thinks it's all fastballs, like I like some

429
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 2: change ups. Another thing I saw I saw him change

430
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 2: arm angles without taking a big wind up and throw,

431
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 2: which I really really like because the dude's got plenty

432
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 2: of arm strength to turn and flick it. It ain't no

433
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 2: thing for him. So understanding that, but I think it's

434
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: more personality driven with Gunner Stockton than any He's a

435
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 2: kid that doesn't want to mess up. He's a kid

436
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 2: that wants to be perfect. Those are hard things, man,

437
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,120
Speaker 2: because life ain't perfect. Quarterback, dang sure ain't perfect.

438
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Speaker 1: He said it, Jesse does. David pollackate Georgia. Did I

439
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: miss this? David Pollock anti Georgia. So I get where

440
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: he's going there. Let's talk about this. So remember there's

441
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: this way of thinking that is permeating, not Pollic necessarily,

442
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: but the college football ecosystem that Georgia is on the downslope.

443
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: Georgia's regressing. Now. All they've done is make the playoff

444
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: with first round byas back to back years and one

445
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 1: back to back conference titles. So that's I look, that's

446
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,959
Speaker 1: fading if I've ever seen it. But there is a

447
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: thought that maybe their best is good enough to get there,

448
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: but not good enough to win it right now. Fair

449
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: it hasn't been good enough the last two years. Gunner

450
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 1: Stocked him first full year as a starter. Last year,

451
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: he enters this year. Let's just lay it out. Let's

452
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: lay out the case. He's got top ten Heisman ods.

453
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: Make of that what you will. But Georgia can they

454
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Speaker 1: win a national title if they get the same Gunner

455
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 1: stocked Because what Pollock did not say is they can't

456
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: win a title with Gunner Stockton. Just what the internet does.

457
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to beat the Internet to the punch.

458
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: The Internet will listen to that and they'll hear him

459
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: say Georgia can't win a title with Gunner Stockin. That's

460
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: not what he said. He said they can't win a

461
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: title with the same Gunner Stockton they just got. There's

462
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: a little slider on the screen right now if you're

463
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: listening on podcasts, that is showing us the Gunner Stockton

464
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: they got last year thirty four to five total TD

465
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: to nearly a seventy percent completion. Guy, I mean got

466
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: knocked all over the place and never tapped out pound

467
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: for pound like the toughest player that we saw in

468
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: the country last year. But Georgia as a team this year,

469
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: let's just say they were to get the same production,

470
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: the same Gunner Stockton, that's going to be a top

471
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: ten team in returning production. That is one of those

472
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Speaker 1: teams that has quarterback, head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator back.

473
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: They've been the number one recruiter in the country the

474
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Speaker 1: last four years. They're number six, and the overall playoff

475
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: title odds that probably be higher than that if they

476
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: were in the Big Twelve or the ACC. And you

477
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: know what they can also do. They can match physicality.

478
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: So if they go up against a Miami or they

479
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 1: go up against whoever you want to throw out there

480
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, it's not that they're guaranteed to win

481
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: or anything like that. They won't be bulldozed. They won't

482
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: be a physically second best. There's a big difference in saying, boy,

483
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a low margin for error versus they can't.

484
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: And I think if I were to get the same

485
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: Gun or Stockton from last year, I will grant you

486
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: there's a pretty low margin for error. If George is

487
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: in the playoffs with him, I'm not gonna say that

488
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: they got no shot though. I'm not gonna do that

489
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: number one, because I don't know what the rest of

490
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: the field looks like. Just any given year, and number two.

491
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: Last year, they ran into what we were saying at

492
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 1: the outset of the playoffs was the most dangerous quarterback,

493
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: the most dangerous player in the playoffs, Trinidad Chambliss. They

494
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 1: ran into him, and they played a classic down there

495
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and they got beat And if they

496
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: have some kind of player, maybe it's Trinidad Chambliss again,

497
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: And they got some kind of player that does that

498
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: to him this year. Okay, it's tough, man, it's the playoffs.

499
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: It's very, very tough. Had they won, had they won,

500
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: they would have gone and played Miami. That would have

501
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,439
Speaker 1: been tough too. And then if they won that, I mean,

502
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: you're eventually gonna run into Indiana. No one wanted that

503
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: last year. But Georgia look just as an overall concept.

504
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: George is gonna be good enough to win a title

505
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: if things go right for him. It's just that this

506
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: kind of Georgia team with Gunner Stockton, if he's not improved,

507
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: if he's just who he was last year, they can

508
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: afford for less things to go wrong. That's the only

509
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: difference with them. There have been versions of Georgia in

510
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: the past, versions of Bama teams before them LSU twenty nineteen. Frankly,

511
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: they could afford for quite a few things to go

512
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 1: wrong and still be okay. Your margin for error is

513
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: just greatly lowered. That's all it is. That's all it is.

514
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: Next up, speaking of predictions, it's all. I don't even

515
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: know if we stacked the show like this, but it

516
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: worked out well. Mark from Sandpoint, Idaho said, what are

517
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: your worst college football predictions you've made? Why are we

518
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: doing this? We get to select the questions on the show.

519
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: Florida was not good last year. Florida didn't make the

520
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: playoff last year. DJ Lagway was not the number one

521
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league last year. Why am I mentioning

522
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: these things? Well, it's because the staff has gleefully decided

523
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: to put on the screen my SEC preseason quarterback rankings

524
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: from a year ago. It's a disaster. DJ Lagway was

525
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: number one. You know, I don't need to read any further.

526
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: This is one of those where I hope most of

527
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: you are listening on podcasts and not watching on YouTube.

528
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: We would certainly hate for this to be screenshat and

529
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: posted all over the place. Yeah, so I guess this

530
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: was really all tied to my belief that Florida was

531
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: gonna have a good year last year. I believed that

532
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: Billy Napier was going to quiet his critics because I

533
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: believed that Florida was gonna be a fringe playoff contender

534
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: and because of that, that meant I believed in DJ

535
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: Lagway and it was just whiff with everything with Florida

536
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: was a whiff. Last year. We did pick them to

537
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 1: beat Texas. That was our one shining moment and I

538
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: do mean one shining moment with Florida. So that wasn't

539
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: a fun ride last year with the Gators. Peyton Stateton,

540
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: the Gators trust issues. Now, that's what John Summerl has

541
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,959
Speaker 1: to overcome. That's his biggest challenge. Also, you'll remember two

542
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: springs ago. This was when the spring portal, the like

543
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: the second portal window, right after spring practice that was

544
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: coming up, and I had listened to some of the

545
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: wrong people in the winter, and those wrong people had

546
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: told me this post spring transfer portal window is going

547
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: to blow up. It's gonna explode, It's gonna be like

548
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: nothing thing the sport's ever seen before. These people were idiots,

549
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: but I was an idiot for listening to them, and

550
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: unlike these people who are anonymous, I have a microphone

551
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: in front of me. And therefore, when I said it,

552
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: I became the face of the failed prediction that the

553
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: post spring transfer portal was gonna go ballistic. It's all

554
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: on me. I take responsibility for it. And then when

555
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: it was just crickets largely in the post spring portal window,

556
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: everyone started coming at me as I would if I

557
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: were them, saying where's all the fireworks? Where are they at?

558
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: What's happening? And I hid bunker mentality. I didn't even

559
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: come out of my apartment except to do the show.

560
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: That was a failed prediction. And then, of course, who

561
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: could forget twenty twenty three, the National Championship Game featured

562
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: Washington and Michigan. Yours truly here went a combined and

563
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: seven picking against them in in regular season games. As

564
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: it turned out, they meet each other in the National

565
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: Championship Game, and so then it's up to me to

566
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: pick the winner. Thankfully I picked the winner, but it

567
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: didn't matter, Jesse. The die was already cast, as Mema

568
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: would say, by that point, because when I got home

569
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: from the National Championship Game, I think it was from

570
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: the National I had gotten home from one of these

571
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: teams playing a game, and we had mail. We always

572
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: get excited when we get mail at the office, and

573
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: so when they told me I had a package at

574
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: the office, I'm like, great, what is it? And we

575
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: open the box and this is what we got. And

576
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: then come to find out, I fly all the way

577
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: across the country from LA this morning, I get back

578
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: home and someone has shipped a box of clown noses

579
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: to the office. And if I find out who did this,

580
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: you're going down. I still think inside job. But we'd

581
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: never found out who did that. Director Colin. Perhaps I

582
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: don't know who has seen Director Colin lately. That's very mysterious.

583
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: That's conspicuous. Director Colin's fine, He's doing fine, healthy and happy. Yeah,

584
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: so that was a bad deal, But I did pick

585
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: Michigan in the end. So I went one to zero

586
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: in National Championship play with those teams that year, and

587
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: then in the interest of full disclosure, transparency and just

588
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: bearing my soul to the world, Yes, I thought Brian

589
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: Kelly would do okay at LSU. Yes, I thought it

590
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: was going to be a great fit down there. In

591
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: my defense, there is no defending me. But in my defense,

592
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,719
Speaker 1: I do think Brian Kelly didn't do what I assumed

593
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: he would do. I assumed too much about Brian Kelly.

594
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: I assumed that he'd walk in and readily embrace all

595
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: that is Louisiana, all that is LSU. And it turns

596
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: out he wasn't really interested in that. Now. Had someone

597
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: told me that at the beginning, yeah, I would have

598
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 1: tempered my expectations, but I didn't want to because this

599
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: show does really good when La Shoe does good. I'm

600
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: not saying we play favorites. I'm just saying that LSU

601
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: is one of my favorites. There's clear distinction there. You

602
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: just have to really read between the lines. Yeah, so

603
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. Florida and Lagway didn't work out,

604
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: Michigan and Washington, Indiana. Last year it was just so

605
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: fresh we didn't even want to bring it up. But yeah,

606
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: we still got the box of clown noses. I've used

607
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: it a couple of times since then. I'm not perfect.

608
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: I have flaws just like everyone else. Those were four

609
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: of them. Let's move along. We had a friend from More, Oklahoma,

610
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: home of Toby Keith. Only town that's been hit with

611
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: two e F five tornadoes in my lifetime. Also, he said,

612
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: who has the toughest first five games in twenty twenty six?

613
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: I will proffer it's the first time that word has

614
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: been used in the mailbag. I will proffer the University

615
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma with week two at Michigan, Week four at Georgia,

616
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: week six versus Texas after the bye. That's a good submission. Okay,

617
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: let's start there. Yeah, I would say that if you're

618
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: playing Michigan, Georgia, and Texas all away from home in

619
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: the first half of your season, that qualifies. Nice little

620
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: tune up against UTAP and then it's Oklahoma leaves home

621
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: a lot this year. Yeah, that's three top fifteen teams

622
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: in the first six weeks. And also you do play Florida, Ole,

623
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: miss In Texas, A and m and Missouri to end

624
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: the year, So you have to afford yourself some wiggle room.

625
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: You can't be walking the tightrope already before mid October.

626
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: I'd say USC belongs on this list a little bit.

627
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: USC it's weird because they open with three games you

628
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: won't pay attention to. They open with San Jose State,

629
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: Fresno State, Louisiana. All right, Now here's what's interesting. People

630
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: will see Rutgers on there and they'll say, that's a

631
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: fourth easy game. Remember this is USC so they have

632
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: to fly two Rutgers for a conference game. What a sentence.

633
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: And then they've got Oregon at home the next week,

634
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: and then Washington the next week and then at Penn

635
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: State the next week. So that's I'm going to count

636
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: Rutgers in the difficult game discussion there, because that's boom boom,

637
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: boom boom, two cross country trips, two three time zone trips,

638
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: whatever we want to call that. We need a tern

639
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Speaker 1: for that. And then remember, kind of like I said here,

640
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a familiar theme. You gotta win these

641
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Speaker 1: games because you've still got Ohio State and Indiana in

642
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: the back half, so you gotta have some wiggle room.

643
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: What about LSU, We were just talking about them a

644
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: second ago. LSU opens with Clemson at home. They play

645
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Speaker 1: at Ole Miss and Texas A and M also in

646
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: their first four games. Now LSU's schedule is like two seasons.

647
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: They got three losable games there, really, and then they'll

648
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: go off the radar for a little while. McNee and

649
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: Kentucky and Mississippi State, and then they'll come back on

650
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 1: the radar and it's at Auburn, Bama Texas and at

651
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee before they finished the season at ARC saw back

652
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: to back road games there to in the year. LSU

653
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: doesn't have it easy. Texas doesn't have it easy. Texas

654
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: had a little run these first two years of the

655
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: difference in scheduling of having a little bit easier time maybe,

656
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: and that's come to an end. They got Ohio State,

657
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: at Tennessee, Oklahoma in the first few weeks, and two

658
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: of those are away from home. Those are all top

659
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Speaker 1: fifteen teams, and you're gonna find out how dynamic Texas

660
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: is there. Look, if they roll through those three undefeated,

661
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: then its lookout time. But if they stumble, nothing is

662
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: really lost. But at least it puts a little chum

663
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Speaker 1: in the water for people to think, Oh Texas, same

664
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Speaker 1: old Texas, Same old Texas. Now they'll probably just talent

665
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Speaker 1: their way to a seven seed in the playoff, but

666
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: Texas is gonna get bounced again. It'll either be that

667
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: or who can even compete with Texas. Probably something in

668
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Speaker 1: the middle of that. Florida State breaks dealt to Florida

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Speaker 1: State SMU they play in week two. Is that Week two?

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Speaker 1: Jessere Week one, that's week one, so they got a

671
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Speaker 1: week zero game and then week one they play SMU.

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Speaker 1: Week two they go to Alabama, and then to start October,

673
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Speaker 1: there's this line of Virginia at Louisville at Miami Clemson.

674
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: The Miami game is Week seven, so they will have

675
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: already played really one, two, three, four. That's their fifth

676
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: losable game in the first seven weeks, first eight games

677
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Speaker 1: for them. If it's gonna go downhill for Mike Norvell,

678
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna go downhill early. And remember last year was

679
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: the year where we had all the firings in October.

680
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 1: If that's gonna happen anywhere, it could happen at Florida

681
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: State this year. So that's something to keep an eye on.

682
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: And in the interest of not making this just a

683
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: couple of conferences, we talked about FSU there, what about Colorado?

684
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 1: What about Dion and Colorado. They open on the Georgia

685
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: Tech and then a couple of weeks later they got

686
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Speaker 1: to go to Northwestern and then they go to Baylor.

687
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: So there're three road games here in their first four

688
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Speaker 1: and then what do they get for the reward? They

689
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: get Texas Tech in Boulder when they come home. Not

690
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: a lot of noise around Colorado right now, but the

691
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: schedule makers did not forget. They're out there. Let's move along.

692
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Speaker 1: Got a couple of things I still want to get

693
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: to here, Ryan and san Antonio. He said, if you

694
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Speaker 1: were the ACC or Big twelve commissioner, would you want

695
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Speaker 1: Miami or Texas Tech to dominate and give you one

696
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: legit national title contender or would you want parody in

697
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: the conference? Very easy answer. I want both. These don't

698
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: have to be mutual exclusive, mutual, elite exclusive. Here's where

699
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: my mind is out on this easy answer. I look around.

700
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Speaker 1: If I'm the ACC commissioner, and I love that Miami

701
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: is elevating, I want them to be as good as possible.

702
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: I want them to be dominant. They can win thirteen

703
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: national titles in the next fifteen years for all I care.

704
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean the rest of my conference has to

705
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: fall by the wayside. Same thing. If I'm Brett, you

706
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: or Mark out in the Big twelve, Yeah, man, go

707
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: spend as much as you want to as long as

708
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: the rules allow it. Build a powerhouse out in Lubbock.

709
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: But how foolish of me to think that that has

710
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Speaker 1: to come at the expense of the rest of my conference. No,

711
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Speaker 1: here's what I want happening in the ACC. I want

712
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Speaker 1: people in Clemson and in Tallahassee and in Blacksburg and

713
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I want them watching Miami and saying, Wow,

714
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Speaker 1: we're feeling a lot of heat because of them. Wow,

715
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: we're feeling a lot of pressure because of them. How

716
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: about this mentality? Wow? If they can do that, why

717
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: can't we do that? And in the Big Twelve, especially

718
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: if I'm in oh I don't know, Waco, Texas. If

719
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm in Stillwater, Oklahoma, if I'm in Tempe Arizona, it's

720
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Speaker 1: a free nil. Shout out here for Kenny Dillingham. Give people, give,

721
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Speaker 1: give Give. If I'm watching what's happening in Lubbock, why

722
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: do I have to just resign myself to the fact that, oh,

723
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: they're good again. Oh man, they went and got a

724
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: bunch of players again. I guess that's curtains for us.

725
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that way. It's not that

726
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: way in the SEC. It's not that way at the

727
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: top of the Big Ten. Did you see Indiana look

728
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: around and say, well, Ohio State's already good, and man

729
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: Oregon's already in the league, and Michigan just recently won

730
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: a national title. We can't do anything about that. No,

731
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: they just did something about it, and then they went

732
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: and won a national title themselves. So in the SEC,

733
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: do you see anyone looking around saying, boy, Georgia, Georgia

734
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: and Kirby, as long as they're there, not much we

735
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: can do. Nobody thinks that way. Well, Josh, they just

736
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: have more money to spend in those conferences. You don't

737
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: until you do. Don't act broke, stop that. You got money.

738
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: You got money. You just got to go to the

739
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: right people who are willing to spend it. That's what

740
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: Texas Tech did. That's what Texas Tech did. Hooms to

741
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: amongst us doesn't have a billionaire cousin that we couldn't

742
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: call and say, hey, we need money for football, we

743
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: need money for football. I know I would. I am

744
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: not the billionaire, but I would make the call. Absolutely

745
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: would make the call. So yeah, I want both man,

746
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: I want both of them to be dominant. And then

747
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to have a downstream effect in the positive

748
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Speaker 1: on the rest of my league. Move it, move it,

749
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Speaker 1: move it. The mailbag has a good tempo about it.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we don't drag one segment or one

751
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: thought on too long. Jake from Lincoln, Nebraska, where springball

752
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: is already concluded, he said, who is your biggest influence

753
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: for your love of college football? Oh, I'd say dad.

754
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: I think a lot of dudes would say that. I

755
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: would say my dad because I always had a stack,

756
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: probably higher than that, a stack of VHS tapes when

757
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: I grew up that some of them I used to

758
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: take him and record Monday Night Raw over them did

759
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: not go over well when you record Monday Night Raw

760
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight over Alabama Nebraska from the seventy seven. Yeah, now,

761
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: come to find out down the road there would just

762
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Speaker 1: be limitless copies of these games out there. But he

763
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Speaker 1: didn't know that at the time. So anyway, Yeah, I'd

764
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 1: just watch all these old games. I mean i'd I'd

765
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767
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Speaker 1: Ohio State and Michigan because I mean, he had it

768
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Speaker 1: all recorded, so I would just watch that stuff. I

769
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,920
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771
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Speaker 1: seventy seven feels so long ago, and now we are

772
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773
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774
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Speaker 1: But what was really fun is growing up in the South,

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788
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Speaker 1: Last up, this is not a mail but well, I

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Speaker 1: I like your Truth Teller series. But you know you're

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Speaker 1: I haven't criticized Steve Sarkisian enough. Is that the claim?

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Speaker 1: Jack from Norman, Oklahoma. By the way, let's not let's

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Speaker 1: not just leave the geography out of this. The truth

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Speaker 1: if you can handle the truth. Jack. They may win

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Speaker 1: the national title this year May, but that's not the

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838
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,400
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Speaker 1: and so he's calling plays in the National title game,

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Speaker 1: and then he goes to the Falcons, and then he

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Speaker 1: comes back to Alabama's the offensive coordinator and engineers that

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, and then he gets the Texas job.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of inflection points here. Texas was also

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Speaker 1: lied about. Though. If we're calling this the truth Teller

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Speaker 1: series and if we're trying to tell the truth about

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Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian, well let's also tell the truth about Texas.

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Speaker 1: Because for a long time people kept lying about Texas.

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Speaker 1: They kept talking about how loaded Texas was, about how

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Speaker 1: Texas had all the players they needed. No they didn't, No,

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Speaker 1: they didn't. Texas had one double digit win season from

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Speaker 1: twenty ten to twenty twenty two. Who could forget that

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Speaker 1: magical run? Tom Herman took us on, who could forget that? Well?

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Speaker 1: Me because I had to go look it up. But

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Speaker 1: maybe you guys hadn't forgot it. No, Texas was not

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Speaker 1: just loaded to the gills with the kind of players

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Speaker 1: they have now now they are. I was looking at

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Speaker 1: start talking to Chris Lowe yesterday, now they are, Texas

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Speaker 1: didn't look like that. This Texas team they're about to

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Speaker 1: put on the field this fault. That's a national championship

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Speaker 1: caliber team. They didn't have that, man, they didn't have

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Speaker 1: that at all. Here's what they did have. They had

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Speaker 1: some highly rated kids at certain positions that made recruiting

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Speaker 1: classes and recruiting rankings look fat. But they weren't. They

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00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: weren't well proportioned classes. Texas on the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 1: was a joke for a long time, So now they're not.

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Speaker 1: So I think the most important chapter of Steve Sarkisian's

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Speaker 1: book probably hasn't even been written yet, because if they

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Speaker 1: were to win a national title at Texas this year

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Speaker 1: or just in the next couple of years, or maybe

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Speaker 1: they win several, maybe they win multiple, think about the

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Speaker 1: story that you tell about him and how different it

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Speaker 1: is with that added into it. Okay, then think about

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Speaker 1: how different it could be moving forward. Think about what

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Speaker 1: it entails. Think about being the guy that finally got

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Speaker 1: Texas back to winning a title because the last one

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Speaker 1: was five, right, so the last one was over two

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Speaker 1: decades ago. Imagine being the guy that pulls that off again,

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Speaker 1: and what kind of legend you are, And then imagine

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Speaker 1: it's not some hotshot coordinator that was thirty two or

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Speaker 1: thirty three years old. Imagine it's Steve Sarksian with the

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Speaker 1: story that his life is and then closely correlated with

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Speaker 1: the story that his coaching career is. I think it'd

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Speaker 1: be incredible, and we don't know because here's the downside.

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Speaker 1: The downside is they don't come through, they don't follow

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Speaker 1: through on the potential, and then the book is Steve

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Speaker 1: Sarkusan was a really brilliant offensive mind, but as a

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Speaker 1: coach he could never get over the ultimate hump that

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Speaker 1: could end up being what that chapter or final few

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Speaker 1: chapters sound like. I just find it fun. I find

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Speaker 1: it a little interesting that, like I said, Sark's not

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Speaker 1: brand new to this. Like he became the head coach

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Speaker 1: at Washington in nine so we've known about him for

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Speaker 1: a long time. So to be sitting here in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six saying, boy, I think the most important chapters

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Speaker 1: of his career have yet to be written. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of a crazy thing. You could say it about Landing.

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Speaker 1: Landing's a new head coach. You could say it about

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Speaker 1: like Alex goal Ish at Auburn. His head coaching career

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