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Speaker 1: December sixth, Dear O Lord, twenty twenty two. Here's the

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Speaker 1: thing about adulthood. It's not just a Monday through Friday thing.

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Speaker 1: Adulthood is not just nine to five. Adulthood is four

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Speaker 1: it twenty four to seven, three sixty five. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: it get really really suck. But we're here to talk

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Speaker 1: about the pluses and the minus. As we were jampacked

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Speaker 1: HI atap a saturated downtown Nashville, Tennessee. There are balloons

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Speaker 1: in the hallway, there are velvet ropes, it reeks of management.

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Speaker 1: I'm told we have some big, big big wigs in

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Speaker 1: town tomorrow. Will we come in? Maybe? Maybe not. The

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Speaker 1: portals on fire, portals on fire. And this is the

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Speaker 1: time of year where I suggest you don't miss a show,

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Speaker 1: not that there's a time of ure I suggest you do.

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Speaker 1: But things are changing by the minute and may change

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Speaker 1: before we go off air tonight. The heisman is something

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Speaker 1: that I don't spend a lot of time talking about,

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Speaker 1: but I think college football has a heisman problem so

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Speaker 1: much so that they brought your boy on CBS News

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Speaker 1: today to talk about it. That's right, You're lucky. I'm

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Speaker 1: still here. I've done the news anchoring thing. It's not

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Speaker 1: my cup of teeth. I got some thoughts on Dion

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Speaker 1: Sanders too. Deon Sanders is playing hardball, Deon Sanders being

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Speaker 1: a little rough with the kids out there. Do you

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Speaker 1: agree with his tactics, with his methodology. My dms, which

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Speaker 1: stands for direct messages for those unfamiliar, are filled with

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Speaker 1: people telling me Dion Sanders is treating college kids the

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Speaker 1: way college kids shouldn't be treated. And look, my whole

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Speaker 1: thing is, I didn't know there were kids anymore. Thought

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Speaker 1: we had given him the perks of adulthood. We have.

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Speaker 1: There just happened to be some consequences that come with

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Speaker 1: that too. Ooh, there's that real world people were talking about.

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Speaker 1: Real world's not always fun everyone. I've got some bold

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Speaker 1: predictions too. Speaking of not fun, some of you better

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Speaker 1: we are starting tonight one of several segments over the

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Speaker 1: next month and a half where we will drum roll.

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Speaker 1: Please revisit your bold predictions. You didn't think I deleted these,

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Speaker 1: did you? No? No, we spend all of August gathering

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Speaker 1: bold predictions. Everyone wanted to talk and I'm all for it.

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Speaker 1: I made some myself, but we did segment after segment

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Speaker 1: after segment, and we saved every one of them. And

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Speaker 1: we will start to dive into the bag tonight. They're

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Speaker 1: watching us in Hey Market, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Cherry Hill,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, and Kingman, Arizona. I think I've decided on

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Speaker 1: who we're going to do the collaborative show with. That

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Speaker 1: person has not been informed they have won a prize

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Speaker 1: that gives them no money, but they soon will and

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Speaker 1: we will get that recorded and I will let you

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Speaker 1: know when that episode is going to drop. It will

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Speaker 1: be paper Pop in Nature. Let's dive into the show tonight.

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Speaker 1: The transfer portal's on fire. I think that's pretty obvious.

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Speaker 1: Over a thousand kids win in it in the first

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Speaker 1: have got three words on a very helpful orange posted here.

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Speaker 1: It says informed but unprepared. Those are words from a

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Speaker 1: very high level staffer at a very high level program

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Informed but unprepared. If you're informed,

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Speaker 1: These are generic examples. This is not to lead you

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Speaker 1: to believe I know something. Devin Leary is in the portal, though,

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Speaker 1: And let's say at Peyton State, I need a quarterback

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Speaker 1: and I've got Leary scouted. Let's say I got a

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Speaker 1: going all over the place. Dion Sanders his first few

425
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Speaker 1: days at Colorado. I'm noticing more and more of you

426
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 1: are becoming polarized in nature here. There are very few

427
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Speaker 1: people remaining there who were saying, Dion, hmm, don't really

428
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: have a feel for that guy. Don't really have an

429
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,919
Speaker 1: opinion on him. Either you like his approach or you

430
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 1: don't like his approach. I'm not here to relitigate the

431
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 1: whole Jackson state. Should he have left or should he

432
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 1: have stayed? Thing? Is he a hypocrite? Was he dishonest?

433
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 1: Everyone spoke in their piece. No one's changing their mind

434
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,880
Speaker 1: on that either. But there are some new little tidbits,

435
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 1: little trinkets, little audio bites out there that I'm going

436
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: to play in just a second that I want you

437
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: to listen to. Along with me. Hopefully some of you

438
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: still haven't heard what we're about to play, but even

439
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 1: if you have, I want you to reserve judgment for

440
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: just a second, and I want us to talk about

441
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 1: this together because, as you know, sometimes we tend to

442
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,239
Speaker 1: present a differing point of view here. Then maybe you've

443
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 1: heard elsewhere today or yesterday, because I think this clip, Jesse,

444
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 1: how old is this clip? Is it like one or

445
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 1: two days old? When did he go out there Sunday?

446
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 1: Two days ago? Okay, so we've had some time to

447
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: marinate on this. So what I want to talk to

448
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: you about for just a second. Here are the roster

449
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,959
Speaker 1: management tactics being implemented in Boulder, Colorado, at the University

450
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: of Colorado by one Deon Sanders. Now what I'm about

451
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: to show you is footage from his introductory speech to

452
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: his team. And point do I use the term team

453
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: loosely because I happen to think you are seeing the

454
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: last of a number of kids in this room as

455
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: it relates to them being Colorado Buffaloes. So I want Colin,

456
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: I want you to tee up this audio. It's gonna

457
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: be a little bit hard to hear. Don't worry, I'll

458
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 1: kind of recap it for you on the back end.

459
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: Let's roll it, Seion.

460
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 2: We got a few positions already take care of because

461
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: they're bringing my luggage with me, and it's Louis.

462
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: Okay.

463
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 3: It ain't gonna be no more of a mess that

464
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,120
Speaker 3: these wonderful fans is student body and some of your

465
00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 3: parents put up with for probably two decades. Now I'm coming,

466
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 3: and when I get him.

467
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:06,719
Speaker 2: It's still be changed.

468
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 3: So I want y'all to get ready to go ahead

469
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 3: and jump in the portal and do whatever you're gonna get.

470
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 3: Because more than you jump into a woom.

471
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 2: You make because we ran kids that's smart. Say that's smart, smart, tough,

472
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 2: fast discipline, little good character. One more time, smart, smart, tough,

473
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 2: fast discipline, a good character.

474
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: That's the one we're going to get.

475
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Speaker 3: Is that you?

476
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: Is that you? Is that you?

477
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 2: Yeah?

478
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: He can't do that, can he?

479
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 4: He can't treat college kids like that. He can't tell

480
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 4: those college kids they don't all have spots. He can't

481
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,120
Speaker 4: tell those college kids he's bringing other kids along with him.

482
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: Boy I heard that a lot today. Boy I heard

483
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: that a lot yesterday, And boy I heard it a

484
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: lot as soon as it happens Sunday. What world do

485
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: we live in now? I guess, is my retort? What

486
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: world do we live in? What world? What college football

487
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: world is this now? Is it nineteen ninety five, is

488
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: it five? Is it twenty fifteen? Or is it twenty

489
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: twenty two? I should have chosen something on the twos.

490
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 1: Deion Sanders can't talk to those kids like that? He

491
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: can't talk to what like that? Those aren't kids. You

492
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: have made it emphatically clear to me. Those are not kids.

493
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: Those are adults. Those are full grown men. Why because

494
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 1: they are over eighteen years old, and therefore they deserve

495
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: the same rights that their classmates do. They should be

496
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: able to move about the country as much as they

497
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: want to, like at Southwest Airlines. They should be able

498
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: to profit off their name, image and likeness. And you're

499
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: right about that. Those are the perks of being an adult.

500
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: Those are the things you get to do that a

501
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: thirteen year old doesn't necessarily get to do. The difference

502
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: in being an adult and being a kid, here's the downside.

503
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: We don't get to come into work here. You don't

504
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: get to drive to work tomorrow morning and live a

505
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: risk free life as an adult. Do you sure you

506
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: get some perks? They give you a paycheck that's kind

507
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: of sizeable. Hopefully every one or two weeks you get

508
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: some vacation. You know, you get to live your life

509
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: in some cases the way you want to. But there

510
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: is that nasty word consequence that comes along with it.

511
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: Memhile used to tell me all the time. Adults don't

512
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 1: get to enjoy the rewards of adulthood without the consequences

513
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: of adulthood. And what Deon Sanders just did is the

514
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: same thing your new boss does when he walks in.

515
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: You get that email on Friday, so and so it

516
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: has been let go. New management's here Monday. You sweat

517
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: it out all weekend. Why because you know your job

518
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: may not be safe. Why is that calls The new

519
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 1: guy or the new woman may not like you, They

520
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: may not have room for you. Your role may not even

521
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: exist in their new organizational flow chart. What is that called?

522
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: It's called life. And what Deon Sanders just served up there,

523
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: that's life. You're able to do some things adults are

524
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: able to do. I'm able to treat you like an adult.

525
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: And what an adult does when he takes over is

526
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: he comes in and he says, it's gonna be my way.

527
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 1: A lot of you don't have a seat on my bus,

528
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: and since they hired me, I'm gonna be the one

529
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: to make the decision, and I don't really care how

530
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: you feel about it. In fact, he went as far

531
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: as to encourage guys to hop into portal. Why he

532
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: needs him to. He wants to filter that room out.

533
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: That's a room that went one in eleven this year.

534
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: Suffires it to say, there aren't many usable parts for

535
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: what Dion Sanders wants to do at Colorado that are

536
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: currently sitting in that room that went one and eleven.

537
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: Now he'll find some diamonds in the rough there, and

538
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: there's some guys who are gonna stick it out because

539
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: there are some winners in that room. And he knows that.

540
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: And here's the thing about winners. You can talk to

541
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: him as tough as you want to, because they're just

542
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: gonna look you in the eye right back, nod their head,

543
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: and they're gonna shake your hand firm, and then when

544
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: it comes time for bring ball, they're going to tear

545
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: it up and they're going to take workout seriously and

546
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: they're going to seamlessly ascribe to your messaging and your

547
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: tactics and your way of doing things and your culture.

548
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: And that's great. Most of them aren't, though I don't

549
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: know what the number is. We were kind of playing

550
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: around with some over unders twenty twenty five. How many

551
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: of those guys will be in this program when they

552
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: take the field for week one next fall. It won't

553
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: be many, which brings me to my next point, and

554
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: that is USC. Last year, around this time, we were

555
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: breaking the news not on this show, but the news

556
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: was breaking that Lincoln Riley was doing what he was

557
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: leaving Oklahoma he was going to USC. Boos mushroom cloud

558
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: over the entire sport, right. And then someone somewhere said, guys,

559
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: you're not paying attention to the right part of the story.

560
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: The story is not Lincoln is going to USC. The

561
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: story is how many of his players are about to

562
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: transfer penalty free with him to USC? And then we

563
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: found out, didn't we? And we also found out there

564
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: were players at other programs that thought, wait a second,

565
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: USC's taking football seriously. They heard a really good coach,

566
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: I want to go play there, you know. Travis Dye

567
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: Boom left Oregon went and played there. So a lot

568
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: of guys did that. Well, a lot of guys are

569
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: about to do that at Colorado too. I've seen some

570
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: of the estimates the amount of four and five star

571
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: caliber players who have reached out. He's not gonna have

572
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: room for all of them. You know, you gonna have

573
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: eighty five scholarship players. I know what I'm saying when

574
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: I tell you he doesn't have room for all of them.

575
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: There are gonna be thousands of kids in that portal,

576
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: and a big chunk of them are going to reach

577
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: out to Deon Sanders in Colorado. They won't have room

578
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: for all of them. And so we're talking about a

579
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: historic percentage of a roster that's about to be flipped

580
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: in less than one calendar year. It will make what

581
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley did look tame by comparison, and what Lincoln

582
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: Riley did to this point, I think is the most

583
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: radical one season roster transformation that we've seen, at least

584
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: for a min program. So it's special circumstances, and I

585
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: think that Deon Sanders may be about to set a

586
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: record that we don't see broken for a long time,

587
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: because I'm not quite sure you're ever gonna have this

588
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: big a change. Agent take a job this bad and

589
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: take over a program this destitute. Destitute. We made it

590
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: all the way to December. My goal was to work

591
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: destitute into the show one time this year, and I

592
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: did it. So Yeah, things are about to change at Colorado,

593
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: and now I expect what's gonna happen is you're gonna

594
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: hear a lot of upset anonymous parents and anonymous players

595
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: start to go to various friendly media sources and outlets,

596
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: and they're gonna kind of air their grievances. And here's

597
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen on this show. I don't know how

598
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: the rest of the national media is going to handle it,

599
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: but here's what's gonna happen on this show. I'm gonna

600
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: read it. I'm gonna say that's too bad, and then

601
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,959
Speaker 1: I'll just move on with my life. It's no different

602
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: than if one of my buddies tells me I got

603
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: fired Friday. It's too bad. I hate it for you.

604
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: I may even venmo you some money to borrow. But

605
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: what I can't do is say, oh, that's not fair.

606
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: It is fair. Well ninety five percent of the time

607
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: it's fair, And in this case, Deon Sanders walking to

608
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: that room and saying I don't need some of you.

609
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: I got my own guys coming, and I wish a

610
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: lot of you just kind of go ahead and hit

611
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: that portal, if you know what I mean. It's all's fair. Now.

612
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: Those are adults, those are men, Those are not boys.

613
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: If that was a high school locker room, I'd have

614
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: a problem with it. That's not. That's a locker room,

615
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: college football locker room full of full grown men. Why

616
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: because you wanted it that way, and I didn't push back.

617
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: I merely suggested on this show once upon a time,

618
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: it's not going to be quite as fun as you

619
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be when you find out what the

620
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: world of Nil and Portal is really all about. Because

621
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: really what you're finding out is you have professionalized sports.

622
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: And those right there sitting in that room, they may

623
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: have gone one and eleven last year. Those are professionals.

624
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders as a professional. He just happens to be

625
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: mister to them. He's their boss, and he's got the

626
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: corner office, and one by one they're kind of getting

627
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: called in there and they're being told, in no uncertain terms,

628
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: we don't have spot for you. Sorry, buddy. Up the Road,

629
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: northern Colorado. I don't know. Maybe maybe Idaho. You want

630
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: to go be a vandal. You're not going to be

631
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: a buffalo next year. Hate it for you. Please clean

632
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: out your locker though, and use lysol while you're at it.

633
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: Be classy. It's time. It's first off. Before I get

634
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: to the segment that I have been waiting for for

635
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: so long, I want to remind you if there, let's

636
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: do some quick math, Jesse, get your calculator ready. Let's

637
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: just say there are about forty three hundred people watching

638
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: our show, which there are right now, and let's say

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Speaker 1: only five hundred and fifty nine of them have clicked

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Speaker 1: the thumbs up button. Should I go on a hunger

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Speaker 1: strike because of that ratio? I think I should because

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Speaker 1: it is It's abhorrent, and I want to remind you guys,

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Speaker 1: Big M Management is in town, not little M Management. Okay,

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Speaker 1: big management is in town. And if they walk in

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Speaker 1: here tomorrow and I don't have more than a thousand

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Speaker 1: likes on a live video where I got over forty

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Speaker 1: three hundred two den I could get the Dion Sanders treatment.

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Speaker 1: I don't want it, so you know, short of putting

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Speaker 1: the show behind a paywall. I really mean it. Look

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna copy and I'm gonna paste the message into

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Speaker 1: the chat. Now keep the show free. How do you

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Speaker 1: do it? Subscribe to the channel and like the videos.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Thank you. I'm almost as salty about that

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Speaker 1: number as I am about Hindon Hooker missing out on

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Speaker 1: New York City in the Heisman Trophy. But I'm about

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Speaker 1: to put a smile back on my face because we're

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Speaker 1: going back in time and one of our favorite exercises

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Speaker 1: throughout the rest of December and possibly January is going

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Speaker 1: to be revisiting your bold predictions. We chummed the water

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Speaker 1: and we cast the net far and wide over the summer,

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Speaker 1: and you were happy to oblige, and we thank you,

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Speaker 1: and you gave us your boldest predictions. I only had

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Speaker 1: one rule. Any prediction you give me, you have to

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Speaker 1: be willing to bet your money on. And Colin and Jesse,

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Speaker 1: I think we did like thirty one segments of bold predictions,

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Speaker 1: and we did five per segment. You got that calculator out,

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Speaker 1: still do the math on that. We got a long

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Speaker 1: way to go here. I'm gonna do five of them tonight.

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Speaker 1: First up, Bold Prediction from August and we're going all

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Speaker 1: the way to the Pac twelve. Ion said, a Pac

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Speaker 1: twelve team is going to make the college football Playoff,

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Speaker 1: and it's not Utah. Nope. I put a nine on that,

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Speaker 1: and I was right, and you were I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: do it like that. But this only should have been

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Speaker 1: a seven and a half because, as it turns out,

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Speaker 1: USC got shockingly close. In fact, you could argue that

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Speaker 1: USC is one Caleb Williams handy injury away from actually

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Speaker 1: making the college football Playoff, in which case this would

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Speaker 1: have been right. They'll give me a a lot of close,

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Speaker 1: but no cigars in this game. It is college football.

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Speaker 1: After all, USC was good, Oregon was good. Now they

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Speaker 1: didn't make the playoff. I'm just saying there were some

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Speaker 1: more teams out there that became a much bigger threat

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Speaker 1: than any of us probably thought they would. USC, certainly,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's chief among them. But Oregon UCLA hung

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Speaker 1: around for a little while, Washington hung around for a

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Speaker 1: little while. Who could have known Oregon State was going

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Speaker 1: to be Actually we called them the biggest sleeper in

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Speaker 1: the country, so we could have known that Oregon State

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Speaker 1: was going to be a little bit better than America

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Speaker 1: indicated they could be a PAC twelve team not named

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Speaker 1: Utah makes the playoff, and as it turns out, no

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve team made the playoff. Period. That extends a

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Speaker 1: run that goes all the way back to when Washington

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Speaker 1: made it. So it's been a little while, but I

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Speaker 1: really I'm gonna stand by this. I think the PAC

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Speaker 1: twelve is a good conference this year. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: stand by that PAC twelfth. Paate has to say something

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Speaker 1: along those lines. Next up, Jack, our buddy, Jack said

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Speaker 1: Tennessee will win the SEC East. Nope. I put an

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Speaker 1: eight and a half on this for boldness and it

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Speaker 1: checks out. But bye, I am willing to seed that

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Speaker 1: I probably had a little bit too high a boldness

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Speaker 1: rating on this. Probably should have been an eight, maybe

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Speaker 1: a seven and a half, seven and three quarters if

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Speaker 1: we really want to get specific. I gave reasons though,

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Speaker 1: and I said, I think they'll be an offensive juggernaut.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll be consistent enough defensively. Now, as

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Speaker 1: it turns out, they weren't gonna get through Georgia. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: they beat Alabama. You know, I thought that Alabama being

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Speaker 1: on the schedule, whereas Bama didn't play Georgia. I thought

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Speaker 1: that was gonna be the decider, but really the Georgia

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Speaker 1: game was the decider, and when you watched it unfold,

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Speaker 1: they weren't gonna beat Georgia. And if they played again,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they beat them either. But here was

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Speaker 1: the other part. They could have made the playoff and

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Speaker 1: not won the SEC East. It's that blemish down there

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Speaker 1: at the bottom at South Carolina having the game Cocks

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Speaker 1: casually hang a sixty three burger on you. That is

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Speaker 1: the inadequacy defensively that made me put it an eight

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Speaker 1: and a half on this rating. Colin, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I like this year piece. I've decided,

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Speaker 1: I don't you know, I'm gonna make the unprecedented move.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me for a second. I'm just gonna take it

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Speaker 1: off all right now. It's just me and you. I

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Speaker 1: can't hear the control room. If my life depends on it,

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Speaker 1: I will well, I'll just cease to exist out here.

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Speaker 1: So I put this at an eight and a half

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Speaker 1: and it pans out. But I am willing. I'm willing

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Speaker 1: to admit Tennessee in the top ten all year. Probably

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Speaker 1: not something that we saw coming, although the model did so.

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Speaker 1: I guess I should give me and the Model have

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Speaker 1: been on bad terms lately. I guess I should give

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Speaker 1: you a little credit because you did have Tennessee Power

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Speaker 1: rated eight preseason, and I'm not you for that, and

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Speaker 1: for that I apologize. That's as good as I can

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Speaker 1: do with the model right now, because it still loves Texas.

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Speaker 1: The Model would probably be PU Texas in the playoff

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Speaker 1: right now if you gave it an opportunity. So the model.

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Speaker 1: Keep it at arms distance is what I would suggest

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Speaker 1: you do with the Model. Let's go to the Big Twelve. Oh,

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Speaker 1: speaking of the Horns, vengeance hit us up. His bolt

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Speaker 1: prediction was that West Virginia makes it to the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve championship game against Texas. No, no, nope, nope, nope.

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Speaker 1: This one's gross. This one is like throw up all

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Speaker 1: over your keyboard. Gross. I put a nine and a

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Speaker 1: half on this, and I probably didn't go high enough.

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Speaker 1: West Virginia was horrific. They finished ninth in the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 1: Don't let the name of the conference fool you. They

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Speaker 1: only got ten teams out there, and West Virginia was

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Speaker 1: worse than nine of them. I don't want to tell

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Speaker 1: you who finished tenth. It will only hurt my feelings. Now,

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Speaker 1: Texas did end up third, so credit the long Horns.

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Speaker 1: They had an improved season. They finished eight and four.

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Speaker 1: That's better than five and seven, which they were last year.

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Speaker 1: But Kansas finished higher than West Virginia and Kansas was

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Speaker 1: six and six. So yeah, this one was not close,

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Speaker 1: this one, this one. And I think most of us

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Speaker 1: sniffed this one out. It's not like I was sleuthing.

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Speaker 1: It's not like I was out sleuthing you guys on

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Speaker 1: that one. Next up, this one holds a special place

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Speaker 1: in my heart for all the wrong reasons. Kelly Ford

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Speaker 1: said that Lake Kick will pull off a doubleheader and

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Speaker 1: attend two games on a single day. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: make the mistake of compounding it and trying to guess

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Speaker 1: which date, but it's going to happen on a given Saturday.

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Speaker 1: And I called this a nine. I put a nine

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Speaker 1: on the boldness scale, and it turned out we almost

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Speaker 1: pulled it off. In fact, I woke up the morning

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Speaker 1: of Week six fully expecting to attend two games that day. Remember,

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Speaker 1: and you know how rarely I used this sentence. We

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Speaker 1: had private plane issues that day. Yes, that's how we

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Speaker 1: roll or or don't. So we were gonna go Tennessee

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Speaker 1: LSU that morning, and then we were gonna go A

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Speaker 1: and M Alabama that evening, but then we kind of

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Speaker 1: got stuck in Tuscaloosa. As it turns out, we caught

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Speaker 1: the better game of the day, plus Tennessee just drug

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Speaker 1: LSU for four corps, whereas Alabama, A and M came

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Speaker 1: down to the last play. But this should have been lower.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were so close. It was just that

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Speaker 1: small issue of not being able to get a plane

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Speaker 1: off the ground. That's how close we were to being

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Speaker 1: able to go to two games in one day. So

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Speaker 1: I called that a nine on the boldness scale. I

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Speaker 1: think it should have been a five. I did not

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Speaker 1: have access to the information I shortly thereafter had access to.

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Speaker 1: Next up, I guess we're going back to the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve here, Jackson said. Blake Shapin takes Baylor back to

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve title game and the Bears win it. Nope,

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Speaker 1: I put a six on that. I think it's cause

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Speaker 1: I agreed with him at the time, but it's his prediction,

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Speaker 1: not mine, so he's wrong, not me. That was a six,

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Speaker 1: it should have been a seven and a half because

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Speaker 1: Baylor ended up six and six. They ended up sixugh

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Speaker 1: a lot of sixes here. They ended up sixth in

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve out of ten teams. And here's the

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Speaker 1: other downside. It's not like they lost a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of close games. It's not like they lost six game

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Speaker 1: aims by combined twenty points. They lost to Texas by

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Speaker 1: double digits. They lost to Oklahoma State by double digits.

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Speaker 1: They lost to Kansas State by four touchdowns. They did

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Speaker 1: lose close to West Virginia. Yeah, point being they lost

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Speaker 1: to West Virginia, and they lost to TCU by one.

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Speaker 1: Baylor ended up not really being that close this year,

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Speaker 1: So I guess I should have put about a seven

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Speaker 1: and a half on that one out of six. You

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Speaker 1: notice a theme that has emerged so far. Everyone wants

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Speaker 1: to hit on me for my predictions. Well, so far,

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Speaker 1: you guys went zero for five there. Now, I am

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Speaker 1: told that down the road, not too far from now,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have some segments where some of you hit

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Speaker 1: out of left field on some bold predictions. In fact,

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Speaker 1: some predictions I put a nine or above on you hit,

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Speaker 1: So I'm enjoying it right now, because I think the

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Speaker 1: mood is going to change very very shortly. I see

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Speaker 1: you guys got us over one thousand likes pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that we will have a Christmas around here

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Speaker 1: after all. All right, let's move on. Let's dive into

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Speaker 1: the Late Kick mail bag. Take a sip out of

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Speaker 1: the chalice. I'm almost out. Actually, some of you have

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Speaker 1: suggested that we should actually make Chaali for sale in

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Speaker 1: the Late kickstore. I'm just not ready to do it yet.

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Speaker 1: There may be some new products coming soon, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not ready to make Chaali available for general purchase because

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00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: then it's kind of like expanding the playoff. Once you

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Speaker 1: know everyone can have one, they kind of lose their value,

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Speaker 1: don't they. All right, let's dive into the mail bag here.

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Speaker 1: Interesting question. I think it's the perception of a lot

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Speaker 1: of you. So I'm glad. Dan asked Dan head us up,

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Speaker 1: and he said, why have Dabbo and Saban started to

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Speaker 1: slip at the same time? Slip? Weird? The weird way

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Speaker 1: to put it there, Dan, But I will acknowledge the

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Speaker 1: question as it was worded. What a slip mean? What

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Speaker 1: do we mean by this? Do we mean they're not

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Speaker 1: playing for the national title every year? They did play

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Speaker 1: four consecutive years in the playoffs, So if we do

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Speaker 1: mean they're slipping, as in they're not in the playoff

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Speaker 1: this year, I guess shame on Nick Saban and Daboswiney

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Speaker 1: they're slipping. I don't necessarily know that. I'm ready to

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Speaker 1: say they're slipping. I would go a bit further on

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Speaker 1: Clemson than Alabama, but I'll hit on both of them

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Speaker 1: since you asked about both of them. So Alabama lost

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Speaker 1: two games this year. They lost two by four points.

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Speaker 1: The contrarian would walk in the door right now if

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Speaker 1: I had two mics, and they would grab the other

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Speaker 1: mic and they would say, yeah, but they won a

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Speaker 1: bunch of close games too. I know that. So what

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Speaker 1: I'm not here to do is say, hey, this was

849
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: a ventage Alabama team that just caught some bad breaks. No,

850
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: that was a team that beat Texas by one, They

851
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: beat A and M by four. They look at this,

852
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: They beat Ole Miss by one possession. So yeah, there

853
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: were some close games there. And I understand that this

854
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: was an Alabama team that a lot of people, myself included,

855
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: thought would win the national championship and they're not playing

856
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: even in the playoff. So yeah, by that metric, I

857
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: guess expectation wise, they slipped a little bit this year.

858
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: They played for the national championship. Last year they won

859
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: it the year before. What slipping are we talking about

860
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: right now? As far as I can tell, we're talking

861
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: about a season that didn't quite live up to the

862
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: loftiest of expectations. That happens a lot. There are a

863
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: lot of years. I mean, I guarantee a lot of

864
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: you picked Ohio State to go to the playoff, and

865
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: until they got some help, it looked like they were

866
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: out of it. Last week recently is last week. So

867
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: there's just an insanely high standard for Alabama. But at

868
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: the same time, I do think that it's a very

869
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: valid thing to say that you have some areas of concern.

870
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 1: My biggest area of concern for Alabama's been player developed.

871
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: You know, two years in a row. I just told

872
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: you they played for the title last year. They don't

873
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: without Jamison Williams, And I don't think it's any coincidence

874
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: by the way that Jamo did what he did last

875
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: year and was able to walk right in and grab

876
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: a starting spot, the starting spot. And oh, by the way,

877
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: a lot of those receivers who you thought would be

878
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: on the field that weren't last year and maybe didn't

879
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: shine this year are hitting the portal. Jojo Earls in

880
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 1: the portal, Christian Leary is in the portal, Treshaun Holden's

881
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: in the portal. They got a lot of receivers leaving town.

882
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: They just didn't develop that group nearly to the degree

883
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: they had been. Now, what they had been doing was

884
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith and Jerry Judy and Jayleen Waddle. So yeah,

885
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean they had historic receiver rooms for a few years.

886
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: I think there's a happy medium between what Bama was

887
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: in those few years where they had all those first

888
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: round guys, what they have been, and what they could be.

889
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: You know, all the Bama folks want is what they

890
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: could be. So yeah, Jamier Gibbs came in this year,

891
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: Jamiir Gibbs and Bryce Young. Bryce Young's not a transfer,

892
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: but Jamier Gibbs comes in again this year, and he

893
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: is the focal point of their offense once the ball

894
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: leaves the hands of Bright Young, he is their offense

895
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: in some of those games. And my point there is

896
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: they're not developed in house. And it's not cause Bama

897
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: is is filling gaps left by recruiting classes that finished

898
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: in the teens or twenties. Bama's in the top five

899
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: near number one, if not number one, every year. They're

900
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: about to land the number one class in the country again.

901
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: They are a runaway number one right now in the

902
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three recruiting class rankings. What does it mean

903
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,479
Speaker 1: if you can't develop guys? Now? When I say can't

904
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: develop guys again, I'm talking about the Bama standard, the

905
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: one where everybody should maximize their potential. Every year they

906
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: should be playing for the title. Is it an insanely

907
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: high standard? Yes? Is it warranted also? Yes, because that's

908
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: what Nick Saban's built there. So if you want to

909
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: acknowledge slippage as being a couple of years where maybe

910
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: player development, I'd add defensive tackle in here. I don't

911
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: think on the interior the defensive line, they've been what

912
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: they have been in the more vintage Alabama years. As

913
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: for Clemson, this is one where I think you got

914
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: to dive in a little deeper because, as I have

915
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: told you before, there could be some serious slippage that

916
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: it just takes a few years to see firm evidence

917
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: of in the win loss column. I know they lost

918
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: two games this year. Let's be real, they still won

919
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: the ACC. They were still overwhelmingly and ended up being

920
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: the best team in the conference this year. So what

921
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean when I tell you it may take a

922
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: few years is if I take a jet airliner and

923
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,720
Speaker 1: I'm at thirty five thousand feet and we're going probably

924
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: groundspeed about five hundred, five hundred fifty miles an hour.

925
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 1: If I just kill both engines, boom, it's dead. Stick

926
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: is just gliding at that point. Even then, it still

927
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: takes a while for that plane to hit the ground

928
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: because of all of the energy it's built up and

929
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: the altitude it's built up and the speed it's built up.

930
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: And football programs in the same way. So even if

931
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: Clemson was not just slipping, even if they were tumbling, yeah,

932
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: I acknowledge, it would take a little while. They're not

933
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: just going to go three and nine all of a sudden.

934
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: So just because they won the ACC this year, you

935
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: could argue, does not mean there isn't some slippage. I

936
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: get that, Okay. What I am trying to say is

937
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: if that's the case, if I found the magic ingredients

938
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: to power those engines back up. I could save that

939
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: plane and get it back up to thirty five thousand

940
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: feet relatively quickly. So if it hasn't gone into a

941
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: full blown tail spin it clums in, which it hasn't,

942
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: then even if you're right, I still think some changes

943
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 1: could be made here. But point blank, I am of

944
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: the opinion they are as close to the playoff this

945
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: year at well, not losing the South Carolina Frankly, that

946
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: is what cost them a playoff spot as it turns out.

947
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,919
Speaker 1: But really, if you want to get more granular there,

948
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: if he starts Kdeklubnick sooner than he does, they're in

949
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: the playoff. I firmly believe that I said the other night,

950
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: and now I'll reiterate it again. I really am the

951
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: last one in the world to question personnel decisions and

952
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: play calling. You never hear me do it on this show.

953
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: I just believe it. I believed it in the preseason.

954
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: I believe Kid Clubnik was going to give them a

955
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: better chance to win in the preseason, And even if

956
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,919
Speaker 1: that wasn't true the first few weeks, it became true

957
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: at some point this year and Dabo never pulled the

958
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: trigger until it was too late, really, because even though

959
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: he did pull the trigger, like in the conference title game,

960
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: for example, kaid Klubnick doesn't start, but he eventually goes

961
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: in and they run the score up and he goes

962
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: like twenty of twenty four. I'm not talking about pulling

963
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: the trigger soon enough to win the ACC. I'm talking

964
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: about pulling the trigger soon enough to compete for a

965
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: national championship. You may think to yourself, Oh, even with

966
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: club Nick, Clemson wasn't going to be good enough to

967
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: win the title. How do you know who's good enough

968
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: to do what? This year? I will maintain it's the

969
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: most open and opportunity myanistic year for a flawed team

970
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 1: to win the title in quite a while. Georgia folks

971
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,919
Speaker 1: are going to push back at me on that. I'm

972
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: just telling you. You got even you, Georgia fans. You

973
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: got Tennessee at home this year. You had a very

974
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: flawed LSU team in the conference title game. You haven't

975
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: really been pushed. Now, you've dominated, You've done everything an

976
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: elite team is supposed to do. I'm just saying it

977
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: is a very winnable year, and I don't know what

978
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,919
Speaker 1: could have happened. I'd love to find out what could

979
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: have happened if Dabo made the move earlier. But you

980
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: remember twenty eighteen? How well do you remember that. I'm

981
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: about to ask this question in another segment, so I'll

982
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,800
Speaker 1: ask it now. How well do you remember twenty eighteen?

983
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: That was the fourth of four consecutive years where Bama

984
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: and Clemson, Dabbo and sab and faced off in the

985
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: either the national championship game or the semi final game.

986
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: We were coming off Clemson Bama Part four. And at

987
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 1: the time, this is only four years ago. At the time,

988
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: I was being told by certain casual pundits out there

989
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: that the sport had to change, Otherwise, Clemson and Alabama

990
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: We're just gonna leave everybody behind. You needed to expand

991
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: the playoff. That's what I was told. And now I

992
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: look around and the natural life cycle that has always

993
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: existed in this sport has taken care of Clemson and Alabama.

994
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: That's not that they're gone, but look, neither one of

995
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: them are in the playoff this year, and it's still

996
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: the same size it was in twenty fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.

997
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: You see here's the funny thing. There's this misconception that

998
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: when teams become powerhouses like Clemson and Bama were and

999
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: still are, but they were and really running rush out

1000
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: over the sport for a little while, there's this misconception

1001
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: that every other program just sits still and every other

1002
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: coaching staff just throws up their hands and I guess

1003
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: we'll just have to wait for Saban to retire, you know,

1004
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess we'll just have to wait for

1005
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: Dabo to Society doesn't want to do football and go

1006
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: and do TV. That's not how competitors think, you know.

1007
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: So just because you thought at the time there was

1008
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: this insurmountable task, there was this unclosable gap between Clemson

1009
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: and Alabama and the rest of the sport, it may

1010
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: have looked that way at the time, but nobody was

1011
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: sitting still. Everybody had their focus on Alabama and Clemson.

1012
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: And as good as they are, as good as Nick

1013
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: Saban is, as good as Dabo may be, you've got

1014
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: the best in the world at some of these other

1015
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: major programs next to you. Of course, you've got the

1016
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: best in the world. And they've got resources too, you know,

1017
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: they can recruit too. They can coach too, They can

1018
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: X and O two, and they can go get players too,

1019
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: and they can instill in those players the right mentality too.

1020
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, you can have Josh Heipel

1021
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: turned Tennessee into what they are now. You could have

1022
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley turn USC into what they are now. You

1023
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: could have Brian Kelly come to LSU and turn LSU around.

1024
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: The point is the sport was never gonna sit still.

1025
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: Those teams were. Nobody has ever cruised for a decade

1026
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: or fifteen years and just been the best team in

1027
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: America every year. That never happens. It doesn't happen in

1028
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: the pros. It doesn't happen in college football. But you

1029
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: know what you did in the process, You turn the

1030
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: entire sport upside down trying to accomplish something that was

1031
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: gonna happen anyway. You didn't need to change college football fundamentally.

1032
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: Dabbo and Saban were eventually gonna get beat Nick. Saban

1033
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: and Alabama were eventually not gonna be the best program

1034
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: in America anymore. I don't know if we're there yet,

1035
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: by the way, but it was going to happen. If

1036
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: it hadn't happened already, Bumson was gonna face some bumps

1037
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: on the road. And if it hadn't happened already, it

1038
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: will soon happen. I would argue, it's happening right now.

1039
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: You didn't have to change the sport fundamentally to accomplish it.

1040
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: Football and competition would have accomplished it. Instead, you tore

1041
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: whch the entire forest and up look at that. But

1042
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 1: look but before before we even put out the fire.

1043
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: Turns out it was gonna happen anyway. But you can't.

1044
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: You can't rebuild what you changed in order to accomplish

1045
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: these things. Now, I know a lot of people are

1046
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: going to say, well, how do you know that part

1047
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: of the changes didn't contribute to this? Well, I know

1048
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: it because you know what. Let me back up, I

1049
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: guess I can't definitively prove that. So I guess you

1050
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 1: could tell me I don't have definitive proof. Otherwise you

1051
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: could tell me the transfer portal is what neutralized them.

1052
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: I have a hard time buying that because Alabama cherry

1053
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: picks in the transfer portal. Now, you could make a

1054
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:48,240
Speaker 1: little side conclusion that Dabo's unwillingness to traffic in the portal,

1055
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: maybe voluntarily putting Clemson at a competitive disadvantage. I believe

1056
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: that guy can run this program however he wants to.

1057
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: But I believe that when your opponents are dipping into

1058
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: a resource and you have access to it and you're

1059
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,479
Speaker 1: abstaining from it voluntarily, yeah, I do. I do agree

1060
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 1: with that. I also would add a side side note

1061
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: that I think we may see Daboswiney change his stance

1062
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: on that a little bit. I think we may see

1063
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: Clemson specifically at the receiver position go and get one

1064
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: or two pieces out of the portal, and if they don't,

1065
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 1: I really really questioned the direction there at that point.

1066
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: So slippage are they slipping? I guess. I guess, as

1067
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 1: Memo would say, slippage is in the eye of the beholder.

1068
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: Memo has her own Twitter account, and I don't know

1069
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: which one of you did it, but it's been pretty

1070
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: funny to watch. So keep it up. All right, let's continue.

1071
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: Let's go back into the back into the late kick

1072
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 1: mail bag. You never know what you're gonna find in here.

1073
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: Georgia Man aka Freddie Hayes to some of you hit

1074
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: us up. He said, Hey, if Georgia wins another title.

1075
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: Where does Kirby rank nationally? I assume he means in

1076
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 1: the head coach power ratings, it'd be I guess number one.

1077
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: I'm silent because I want you to yell at me.

1078
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you are, So I look

1079
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: at this a different way. I always have, whether we're

1080
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:29,760
Speaker 1: measuring jobs or coaches or whatnot, whether I'm power rating

1081
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: teams or not. I always look strictly from this point

1082
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: moving forward. Okay, even as I say that, I'm going

1083
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 1: to look in the comments later and someone's gonna tell

1084
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: me Kirby can't possibly be number one over someone like

1085
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: Nick Saban because they didn't have as many national championships.

1086
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: And then I'm just gonna say, did you listen to

1087
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: what I said? And then they're going to type in

1088
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: all caps back at me in the vicious circle or cycle.

1089
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: If Kirby were to win another national title this year,

1090
00:56:57,719 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: I mean, he would have gone back to back. They

1091
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: are the faith ritch to do so, and they have

1092
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: every aspect of their program humming. There's an excellent synergy

1093
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: over there. I don't think Kirbie could coach another twenty

1094
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: years and have more synergy amongst a coaching staff on

1095
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: an organization than he has right now. They got it

1096
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: rolling right now. That's not a promise it'll always be

1097
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: that way. It's very, very hard to create what they

1098
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: have over there right now. And the thing about it

1099
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: is when you have it, everyone wants it, and everyone

1100
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: comes and tries to poach, and everyone's got an advancement

1101
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: opportunity professionally. For some of your guys, you're on rung

1102
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: three there, I'll put you on Rung two over here.

1103
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: So that's the here and now. But if he were

1104
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: to win it, then certainly you can at least have

1105
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: that conversation. I think it'd get really dumb and some

1106
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: people would say some really regrettable things on both sides

1107
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: of the aisle. But that's not what I want to do.

1108
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: I gave you my token answer. Yeah, I guess it'd

1109
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: be number one or one A if that makes you happy.

1110
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: Do you remember December twenty twenty one? We were looking

1111
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: at b roll there of January twenty twenty one, two,

1112
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: But do you remember December twenty twenty one? Let me

1113
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: take you back. Let's hit the old rewind button here

1114
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: January twenty twenty one or I'm gonna restart that because

1115
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,959
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna clip this for later, keep rolling

1116
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: colin December twenty twenty one. You remember December twenty twent

1117
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: It's only a year ago December twenty twenty one. This week,

1118
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, Kirby Smart is getting harpooned

1119
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: by some of his own fan base and by the

1120
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: national media. And let me tell you what they're saying

1121
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: about Kirby Smart one year ago today. They're saying, it

1122
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how much he wins in the regular season.

1123
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many number one recruiting classes he has,

1124
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how many guys are projected to go

1125
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: first round in the draft, because he can't beat Nick

1126
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: Saban and he can't win the Big One. Seems like

1127
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: a long time ago, doesn't it. One year ago, Just

1128
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: the same as they were telling you Stet's and Bennett

1129
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: can't start the playoff games. He just lost to Alabama,

1130
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 1: putting JT. Daniels in. They were telling you Kirby Smart

1131
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: can't win the Big One. Man, So much changed in January,

1132
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: didn't it? And now lo and behold, I got folks

1133
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: asking me he's Kirby's part the best head coach in

1134
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: the country. Same folks, same ones. If you go to

1135
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: their tweet history, same ones. Say Kirby can't win the

1136
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: Big One. Got y'all got Mark Rick two point over.

1137
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: They can't win the Big One. Foolishness, It was always foolishness.

1138
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: They lost to him in twenty seventeen, They lost to

1139
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: him in twenty eighteen, they lost to him in twenty

1140
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: twenty and one year ago. Last week they had lost

1141
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: to him for a fourth straight time. Kirby was zero

1142
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: to four against Nick Saban, beat him once in the

1143
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,439
Speaker 1: National Championship Game, the most important game you can play in.

1144
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: And now I got folks telling me, well, not only

1145
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: is he backpass Nick Saban, but ma, he's number one

1146
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: overall in the country. If he wins another one, will

1147
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 1: you people make your mind up? Understand, you could have

1148
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: your opinions move at the speed of honey instead of

1149
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: water on this sort of thing. If I put drops

1150
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: of both on a plate and turn it sideways, water

1151
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: just falls right off. And that's some of you. He's

1152
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: the best. No, he's not the best. He'll never win

1153
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: the Big One. Man, guy's to win five for the

1154
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: next ten and there's the drop of honey. It's still moving.

1155
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: It's moving very very slowly. That honey is wise, that

1156
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: honey knows things don't really change all that radically. Kirby smart.

1157
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: I got blasted last year because I told you I

1158
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: thought he already was one of the two best coaches

1159
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: in college football. I put him at number two, and

1160
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: you blasted me because you said, how could you have

1161
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 1: him above Dabo Swinny. Dabo's won multiple titles and Kirby hasn't.

1162
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: And I said, point blank, from this point moving forward,

1163
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: I think I would take Kirby at Pate State. We

1164
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: haven't talked, been no negotiation. I don't want to start

1165
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: any rumors. I'm just saying if Peate State had an

1166
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: opening and I did happen to target Kirby or Dabo,

1167
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 1: and I had both available, because why wouldn't we, I

1168
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: think I'd go after Kirby, and people thought that was

1169
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: crazy because well, he didn't have as many national titles.

1170
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: And I if you're judging resumes, if this is a

1171
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: LinkedIn dot com competition, that's one thing. But this is

1172
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 1: the real world and we're talking about present time, moving forward.

1173
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: So I guess the follow up there if you're trying

1174
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: to rank him if they are to win the national championship.

1175
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: I guess the follow up would be, what do you

1176
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: expect from Nick Saban moving forward? See, some of you

1177
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: probably expect he's about to retire and he's not. And

1178
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: some of you probably expect Nick Saban is a little

1179
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: down trodden because they didn't perform better this year. Well,

1180
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: there's one way to describe his mood and his attitude

1181
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: as it relates to this year. I don't think down trodden,

1182
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: is it now? Apner and Alabaster, Wayne and Watumka, you know,

1183
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: Sylvia and Silicaga. They may be a little bit down trodden.

1184
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: They may be down in the dumps. They may have

1185
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: their dobbers down. Nick Saban's just going to go on

1186
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 1: a warpath. He's gonna fire everyone, and he's gonna portal

1187
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: kids out of because he has a button that does

1188
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: just that. And they'll have a new looking team next year.

1189
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: I know some of you have been hitting me up saying,

1190
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: I thought you said these coordinators were going to be gone.

1191
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: M yeah, I said that, still saying it for the record.

1192
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: So coordinators is a plural term. I'm not definitive on

1193
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: two of them being gone. I am very certain on

1194
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: one of them being gone, and you can guess which

1195
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: side of the ball I'm talking about. So yeah, I

1196
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of changes still to come there.

1197
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:30,479
Speaker 1: I don't think my point is I think Nick Saban

1198
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: will be fully recharged on a moment's notice, and they'll

1199
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: be right back in the thick of things again next year.

1200
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: I just think Kirby Smart's that good. It's wild to

1201
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: me to just kind of put a cap on this

1202
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 1: segment and this show. Really, it is wild to me

1203
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: that someone else has been able to raise a program

1204
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: to the level that Saban has Alabama operating. I never

1205
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: thought it would happen. I never ever thought until that

1206
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: guy left college football, anyone else would get their program

1207
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: rating even remotely on a comparable level. And Kirby did

1208
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: it time and time again. We've seen coaches, even since

1209
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: Kirby was at Alabama, we've seen coaches come to Alabama,

1210
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: leave Alabama try and duplicate Alabama and fail miserably because

1211
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you have the blueprint. Nick Saban's

1212
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: never even been bashful about talking about his approach. He

1213
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: does clinics, he has coaches come in there and brainstorm

1214
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 1: and share ideas. Why has he never been shy about

1215
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: sharing his secret sauce because he knows the sauce is

1216
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: not the secret he is. And there's not another one

1217
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: of him out there. And he was almost right because

1218
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: there haven't been. But there is one now and he's

1219
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: over in Athens, Georgia. He worked under him for a

1220
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: decade and a half. Kirby Smart pulled it off. He

1221
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: pulled off what I thought no one could ever pull off. Now,

1222
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: the challenge two point zero is what Nick Saban is

1223
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 1: most famous for and what I praise him the most for,

1224
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: and that is sustaining excellence over a decade. Dabo had

1225
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: a big flash. Dabo was in the title game in fifteen,

1226
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: he won it in sixteen, he won it again in eighteen,

1227
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: he was there again in nineteen. That was an incredible

1228
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,440
Speaker 1: little brief stretch there. And Clemson may not be done.

1229
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: They may be recharging. Georgia is in sort of the

1230
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: prime period now as a program that Clemson found themselves

1231
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: in a few years ago, will they sustain it long term?

1232
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: That's what Nick Saban's done. He's had the number one

1233
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: program in America since I would argue two thousand and nine,

1234
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: and it never changes. There's never been a down down year.

1235
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 1: There's never been the eight win season. The closest they

1236
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: came was this year, and they still won double digit games.

1237
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm amazed at it, though I'm not amazed that it

1238
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: happened at Georgia. You know, before I go, since we're

1239
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: talking about how much I've been blasted in the past,

1240
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: I got into it big time with one Timothy Watts,

1241
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: who I'm told is giving a stirring speech in Sheffield,

1242
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: Alabama as we speak. I got into it one time

1243
01:04:56,560 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: with Watts because I got asked an innocent quot on

1244
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:04,439
Speaker 1: this show, and it was which job do you think

1245
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: is the best in college football? And very quickly I

1246
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: answered Georgia, And of course the usual blowback was, how

1247
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: can you say a program that at that point had

1248
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: not won a title in thirty eight years is better

1249
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: than one that's winning them every year or other year?

1250
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: And I said, well, you didn't ask me who I

1251
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: think the best head coach in college football is. He

1252
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: asked me which job I thought was the best. In

1253
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 1: other words, where is every resource I need to dominate

1254
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: the sport most readily? Available, and I thought the answer

1255
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: has been the University of Georgia for a long time.

1256
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: The fact the had and won titles just means they'd underachieved.

1257
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: Trus me. I grew up there. I've long been aware

1258
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: of the underachievement in nexus that had been Georgia football.

1259
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 1: And now it's changed, and so everyone can get on

1260
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: board now, and now it's cool to say, oh, George's

1261
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: number one job in the country. They were before Kirby

1262
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: Smart got there. When Kirby went there, it was a

1263
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: kin to you know, back in the day Florida finally

1264
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 1: getting the right head coach. People knew for a long time. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I hope Florida never hires the right coach because Florida

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Speaker 1: was bad. But they were a great job. It's just

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Speaker 1: no one had realized it. Texas A and M is

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Speaker 1: that right now. Texas A and M is a sleeping goliath.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Jimbo's the right guy. If they

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Speaker 1: do ever get the right guy, Texas A and M

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Speaker 1: can do that. Texas can do it like a lot

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Speaker 1: of places can do it. I've just always thought Georgia

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Speaker 1: was there, it was primed, and they happened to get

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Speaker 1: the right guy. They did their due diligence. They didn't

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Speaker 1: care that he didn't have any head coaching experience. They

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Speaker 1: got the right guy, and as a result, he's got

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Speaker 1: the program right there at the top echelona college football,

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Speaker 1: and he himself as a head coach isn't the top

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Speaker 1: echelon of college football. You know, I got a sneaking suspicion.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people in the control room over here

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Speaker 1: thought we were about to have about a forty minute

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Speaker 1: show a little while ago. Yeah, we were never going

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Speaker 1: to be under an hour tonight. I appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: being tuned in. Our audience retention is so incredible. We

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Speaker 1: get a certain number of folks watching the show and

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Speaker 1: they just stay there, and that is worth its weight

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Speaker 1: in something beyond gold in our industry because when we

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Speaker 1: can take that to people and show them that you

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Speaker 1: show up and you don't go anywhere, boy, it means

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Speaker 1: a lot. So we appreciate that. Just make sure, especially

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Speaker 1: this time of year because it means a little bit

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Speaker 1: more in December, make sure that you are liking the videos, subscribing,

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Speaker 1: or following. If you're in the podcast world. For some reason,

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Speaker 1: they use different terminology over there. It helps, it helps,

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Speaker 1: it helps, and coming up and I think it's the

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Speaker 1: twenty first, and they can't talk to me in my ear. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you want to use the Voice of God function? Colin,

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Speaker 1: you want to tell me a yes or no? There

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Speaker 1: I think on the twenty first, yes, yeah, see we

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Speaker 1: got a speaker. None of you know about the twenty

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Speaker 1: first is national. It's early signing day. Yeah, I'm just

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Speaker 1: scrolling through my calendar on the air in a big

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Speaker 1: got we got a big signing day show. So it's

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Speaker 1: going to emanate from two places. I think I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be down in Fort Lauderdale and I think some

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Speaker 1: people are going to be in Nashville. That's not nailed,

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Speaker 1: but we'll have everybody on deck. Now. Remember this is

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Speaker 1: the thing. This is the event last year where Jimbo

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Speaker 1: yelled at me. I haven't forgotten. And this is also

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Speaker 1: the day last year where Travis Hunter quite literally shocks

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Speaker 1: of the world goes some being an FSU commit to

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Speaker 1: going to Jackson State. Anyway, I'm starting to get you

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Speaker 1: ready for that now, because yesterday we had the Transfer

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Speaker 1: Portal Palsas show on the twenty four to seven Sports

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, which is different than this one, and I

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Speaker 1: really need you guys to subscribe to both of them

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Speaker 1: if you can. But the twenty four seven Sports YouTube

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Speaker 1: channel is where you're going to need to be to

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Speaker 1: watch those special, really really big, tent pole event type shows.

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Speaker 1: So what are we today? We're the sixth today. The

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Speaker 1: twenty first is fifteen days from now. You got plenty

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Speaker 1: of lead time. That's going to be a really really

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Speaker 1: big day because it's also think about it, in the

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Speaker 1: heart of transfer portal season. That's right before the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So don't this shows. December is a pivotal month in

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Speaker 1: this fourth a lot of things that will happen next

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Speaker 1: year or because of what's going to be happening in December.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, you got all that. Okay, we're on our

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Speaker 1: way out of here now. We're producer Jesse for director Colin.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Bate. Thanks so much. Take care. We will

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Speaker 1: be back here Thursday night. Until then, couple us