1
00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,280
Speaker 1: A close dear personal acquaintance in front of the show said,

2
00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,040
Speaker 1: last show is too confrontational. Now, this person is sort

3
00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,000
Speaker 1: of new. I've known them for a long time. They're

4
00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,520
Speaker 1: sort of new to watch the show. Many of you

5
00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,840
Speaker 1: may be new to watching the show. This is the

6
00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,360
Speaker 1: I would say, maybe not the least confrontational show on

7
00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,599
Speaker 1: the planet. It's not a confrontational show, which you have

8
00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,400
Speaker 1: to understand. If Colin did the three sixty view around

9
00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,960
Speaker 1: the studio with the camera, which we don't have the

10
00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,760
Speaker 1: capability of doing, you would see there's nobody in here.

11
00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,279
Speaker 1: But yet there are tons of people who were watching. Now,

12
00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,599
Speaker 1: if you and I were out to lunch somewhere and

13
00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,920
Speaker 1: we disagreed over something, we could just talk back and forth.

14
00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,040
Speaker 1: But that's not the dynamic we have here. But it

15
00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,960
Speaker 1: kind of is. I just have to sometimes vocalize the

16
00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,080
Speaker 1: other side. So it's not confrontational. It's just college football.

17
00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,080
Speaker 1: I promise you, in this stack of papers tonight, on

18
00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,720
Speaker 1: this jam packed show on Sunday, May eighteenth, the year

19
00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,880
Speaker 1: of Our Lord, twenty twenty five, I promise you there's

20
00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,640
Speaker 1: some disagreement in here. I will virtually assure you that

21
00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,480
Speaker 1: you're going to disagree with me. Some tonight I may

22
00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,600
Speaker 1: even disagree with you, but that's okay. We're high a

23
00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,440
Speaker 1: top of sunny downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It's the middle of May.

24
00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,280
Speaker 1: What better things do we have to do? We've got

25
00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,920
Speaker 1: approval ratings. Why talk about your job performance? Why talk

26
00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,119
Speaker 1: about my job performance? Let's talk about someone else's job performance.

27
00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,399
Speaker 1: Therefore we can criticize, and there's no blame for us

28
00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:38,640
Speaker 1: to pass around amongst ourselves. I have soon to come

29
00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,200
Speaker 1: on the show tonight, one of you who are choosing

30
00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,560
Speaker 1: to dredge up a topic that we have not touched on.

31
00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:46,959
Speaker 1: I don't think in a little while on the program,

32
00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,920
Speaker 1: but we will again tonight. It's the thing where I

33
00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,080
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm in the minority or the majority,

34
00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,040
Speaker 1: but I just think there's something very common sensical about

35
00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,800
Speaker 1: the sport and about the way it's sort of top

36
00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,880
Speaker 1: down structure that is flawed. And I've said it and

37
00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,600
Speaker 1: it made some people mad and got some people to agree.

38
00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,400
Speaker 1: It's about the G five in the playoffs, So we'll

39
00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,720
Speaker 1: talk about it tonight. USC had a kid decommit. So

40
00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,320
Speaker 1: the world is ending in Los Angeles, not really, and

41
00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,040
Speaker 1: not to be metaphorical or not to be hyperbolic, not really,

42
00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,520
Speaker 1: but some are suggesting otherwise and calling my good integrity

43
00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,480
Speaker 1: and good name into question on this show, so I

44
00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,480
Speaker 1: will respond. And there's just a really terrible idea that

45
00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,600
Speaker 1: some of you heard a former president of a major

46
00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,160
Speaker 1: network espous this week, and I wanted to wait until

47
00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,400
Speaker 1: the end of the show to talk about it because

48
00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:38,200
Speaker 1: it's not anywhere close to happening. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen,

49
00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:40,240
Speaker 1: but I did want to talk about it. I did

50
00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,800
Speaker 1: hear it, and I did want to talk about it.

51
00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,359
Speaker 1: All that plus Bold predictions were jam packed. They're watching

52
00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:49,359
Speaker 1: us in Stafford, Texas, Bogata, Columbia, is tuned in hilton Head,

53
00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,960
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Winchester, Virginia. Thank you guys so much. Quick

54
00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,600
Speaker 1: programming note as we dive into the show, We're going

55
00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,239
Speaker 1: to have a Tuesday show this week because I got

56
00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,160
Speaker 1: nothing else to do. I have the small matter of

57
00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,400
Speaker 1: getting married in my spring non Saturday wedding, and so

58
00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,280
Speaker 1: we put our heads together, last minute decision, but we

59
00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,760
Speaker 1: decided not to have a show on my actual wedding day.

60
00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,960
Speaker 1: And it was not unanimous, by the way. It was

61
00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,960
Speaker 1: only like sixty percent no versus yes, And I'm not

62
00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,760
Speaker 1: going to tell you which side I was on. So anyway,

63
00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,360
Speaker 1: thanks in advance for the congratulations, which I assume are

64
00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,680
Speaker 1: coming in the comment section, and we'll have a show Tuesday.

65
00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,400
Speaker 1: All right, let's dive into tonight's show. This is fun.

66
00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,040
Speaker 1: We did this last year, so it's fun. You know.

67
00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,640
Speaker 1: We don't get political on the show. However, I do

68
00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,520
Speaker 1: pay attention to the political world, and I see a

69
00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,720
Speaker 1: lot of times job approval ratings and they fascinate me.

70
00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,280
Speaker 1: They fascinate me because no one can pay attention to

71
00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,960
Speaker 1: every decision the president or the governor of a state

72
00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,280
Speaker 1: or a senator is making, or if you do, you

73
00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,280
Speaker 1: got no life outside of that, because that would be

74
00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,120
Speaker 1: a full time job. But yet everyone's got an opinion

75
00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,040
Speaker 1: on it. And so there's approval rating. It's fifty and

76
00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,280
Speaker 1: forty seven percent, and it's always fun to watch that

77
00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,880
Speaker 1: little meter. So in college football terms, and Colin, you

78
00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,720
Speaker 1: don't need to include that in college football world. I

79
00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,520
Speaker 1: think approval ratings job approval ratings are a little bit

80
00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,000
Speaker 1: different than the political world because in the political world,

81
00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,400
Speaker 1: like if you're gauging the approval rating of a President,

82
00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,600
Speaker 1: everybody in the country has got to say. But if

83
00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,320
Speaker 1: I'm gauging the opinion of a college football coaches job

84
00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,800
Speaker 1: approval rating, I only care about that fan base, and

85
00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:29,800
Speaker 1: so they're much more in tune and you're getting a

86
00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,520
Speaker 1: much more accurate read on what a fan base feels

87
00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,320
Speaker 1: than if I'm trying to find out what three hundred

88
00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,479
Speaker 1: and thirty five million people think about one person. So

89
00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,400
Speaker 1: we start going around these conferences this time of year,

90
00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,440
Speaker 1: and tonight I wanted to start with some of the

91
00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,520
Speaker 1: coaches in the SEC. Josh Heipel's job approval rating at Tennessee,

92
00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,799
Speaker 1: I would put it north of eighty percent right now.

93
00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,120
Speaker 1: Now here's the irony. They just went to the college

94
00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,680
Speaker 1: football playoff, so you would think, oh, yeah, man, he's

95
00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,200
Speaker 1: coming off a playoff appearance. Now they got shellacked once

96
00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,600
Speaker 1: they got there. Never warm up with your shirt off

97
00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,040
Speaker 1: if you're from the South in sub freezing conditions. Lesson

98
00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,520
Speaker 1: learned by all of us at the hands or expense

99
00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,560
Speaker 1: rather of Tennessee. But I don't even think his job

100
00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,520
Speaker 1: approval ratings is this high just because they went to

101
00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,400
Speaker 1: the playoff, Because I would bet you I can't prove this,

102
00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,520
Speaker 1: but I would bet you that if you pulled Tennessee

103
00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,480
Speaker 1: fans just prior to kickoff of that playoff game, they

104
00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,400
Speaker 1: don't know they're gonna get blown out. They just know

105
00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,320
Speaker 1: they're in the playoff. I bet Josh Heipel's job approval

106
00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,479
Speaker 1: rating is higher now than it was at kickoff of

107
00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,800
Speaker 1: that game. And I'm gonna tell you why. Because they

108
00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,960
Speaker 1: stood up to Niko Iamaliava in his camp and told

109
00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,640
Speaker 1: him goodbye. And you had an opinion about that if

110
00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,919
Speaker 1: you live in Spokane, Washington, but I promised you the

111
00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,360
Speaker 1: opinion in and around Knoxville, Tennessee was much different. They

112
00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,640
Speaker 1: loved it, and they acknowledge, some of them do that

113
00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,760
Speaker 1: it may even set them back this year. They're hopeful

114
00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't, but if it cost them a win or

115
00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,960
Speaker 1: two this year for the greater good of the stability

116
00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,719
Speaker 1: and integrity of the program, they were proud. And I

117
00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,800
Speaker 1: think they approve of him because of that. Also, he's

118
00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:06,960
Speaker 1: won a whole lot and there's that as well. So

119
00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,279
Speaker 1: if Hypel was fifty to fifty, that Nico thing would

120
00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,440
Speaker 1: have sounded and felt a lot much or much different.

121
00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,440
Speaker 1: But he's not. He's already you know, secured job security wise.

122
00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,640
Speaker 1: But Also, he's resurrected Tennessee football, which is where we

123
00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,960
Speaker 1: always have fascination about the age of your because if

124
00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,679
Speaker 1: you're sixteen years old versus if you're forty six years old,

125
00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,520
Speaker 1: that means a much different thing to you. If you're

126
00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,400
Speaker 1: sixteen years old, you rewind four years. About the time

127
00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,120
Speaker 1: you probably developed the mental wherewithal to understand what's going on,

128
00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,440
Speaker 1: is about the time Hypel takes the job. So you

129
00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,039
Speaker 1: didn't know the Derek Dooley era. You only have read

130
00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,640
Speaker 1: about the Lane Kiffen era, which was one year. By

131
00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:52,320
Speaker 1: the way, you're not familiar with Butch Jones, you're not

132
00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,080
Speaker 1: necessarily familiar with what the wilderness has been for Tennessee.

133
00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,800
Speaker 1: And you're not familiar that Tennessee used to be a

134
00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,440
Speaker 1: national powerhouse. Well, they all always could have been. They

135
00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,039
Speaker 1: weren't for a while. They are again thanks to Josh Hypel.

136
00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,320
Speaker 1: He brought Tennessee football back. And for that, I've got

137
00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,160
Speaker 1: him polling it north of eighty percent approval rating amongst

138
00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,480
Speaker 1: Tennessee fans. You might ask, well, why not ninety plus? Well,

139
00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,320
Speaker 1: because he hadn't won anything of substance for the crowd

140
00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,560
Speaker 1: that thinks the only way to validate yourself as a

141
00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,840
Speaker 1: major head coach is to win a championship. I don't know.

142
00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,440
Speaker 1: I don't share that, but there are people who feel

143
00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,920
Speaker 1: that way. I'm not going to tell him how to think.

144
00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm just here to report the facts, and this is

145
00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,880
Speaker 1: science on this show. Eighty percent. Josh Hypel, good job.

146
00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,960
Speaker 1: Congratulations to the folks over there in Knoxville. All right,

147
00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,040
Speaker 1: Next up, this is a tricky one. This is tricky.

148
00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,200
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly at LSU, what do you think his job

149
00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:48,400
Speaker 1: approval rating would be amongst LSU fans. I think he

150
00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,960
Speaker 1: is at about sixty five percent. That seems strange. Ten wins,

151
00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,600
Speaker 1: ten wins, nine wins, So that added up. We had

152
00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,440
Speaker 1: stats and then for run those numbers, and it turns

153
00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,040
Speaker 1: out that's twenty nine wins over a three year period,

154
00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,960
Speaker 1: including a trip to the SEC championship game in his

155
00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,960
Speaker 1: first year, a win over Bama in his first year.

156
00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,960
Speaker 1: It's the beneath the surface stuff that I think would

157
00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,560
Speaker 1: drag Kelly's approval rating down. Still sixty five percent, Still

158
00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,880
Speaker 1: really good. This is the SEC, after all. I think

159
00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,680
Speaker 1: there are a few factors in play here. Okay, First,

160
00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,280
Speaker 1: is a lot of LSU fans would look at the

161
00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,160
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels year and rightly say they wasted having a

162
00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,520
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner because they were terrible defensively. He put

163
00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,920
Speaker 1: that staff together, So that's on him. Still a pretty

164
00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,920
Speaker 1: good year, but you got the best quarterback in the country,

165
00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,079
Speaker 1: you got a future first round draft pick, and you

166
00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,400
Speaker 1: got the Heisman Trophy winner. You got to do more

167
00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,840
Speaker 1: at LSU than just above average, like really good. You

168
00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,480
Speaker 1: should be a national championship winner. You should at the

169
00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,760
Speaker 1: very least be in the game with that. And they

170
00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,400
Speaker 1: weren't anywhere closed because they, as me Mal would say,

171
00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,800
Speaker 1: couldn't stop molasses in December. Well that was on Brian

172
00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,960
Speaker 1: Kelly and so he had to course correct, and I

173
00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,079
Speaker 1: intentionally phrase it like this. LSU had to course correct

174
00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,600
Speaker 1: in their hiring and that's both on the staff and

175
00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,520
Speaker 1: in the front office. LSU had to course correct. You'll

176
00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,719
Speaker 1: notice they just really went crazy in the portal this

177
00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,920
Speaker 1: last cycle. They've set themselves up potentially to compete for

178
00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,920
Speaker 1: a national title this year. That's because LSU had to

179
00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,079
Speaker 1: make that decision. Now, the closer you get to the program,

180
00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,360
Speaker 1: I think, the closer you get to die hard fans

181
00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,440
Speaker 1: and diehard fans would also tell you Brian Kelly didn't

182
00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,719
Speaker 1: build up a whole lot of equity with the Louisiana's

183
00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,079
Speaker 1: the way he came into LSU, because he didn't necessarily

184
00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,040
Speaker 1: wrap his arms around Louisiana publicly. He did, he said

185
00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,400
Speaker 1: all the right things. Behind the scenes, there was sort

186
00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,920
Speaker 1: of a flush of a lot of Louisiana flavor out

187
00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,720
Speaker 1: of that building. Now, if you win, that doesn't matter.

188
00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,480
Speaker 1: I got why Brian Kelly did what he did, but

189
00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,520
Speaker 1: it didn't work right out of the gate, and so

190
00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,320
Speaker 1: they had to course correct and bring a lot of

191
00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,800
Speaker 1: folks back in to the building there and back into

192
00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,760
Speaker 1: LSU who know ls you and who know Louisiana. And

193
00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,280
Speaker 1: you know what, if they win at the end of

194
00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,079
Speaker 1: the day, if they're playing in Atlanta in December, if

195
00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,720
Speaker 1: they're a seven seed in the playoff or better or whatever,

196
00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,320
Speaker 1: then all this is a moot point. The reason I

197
00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,200
Speaker 1: think he doesn't poll as high as maybe a guy

198
00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,040
Speaker 1: averaging nine and a half wins per year over his

199
00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,520
Speaker 1: first three years would poll is because I think maybe

200
00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,760
Speaker 1: behind the scenes there's just a little friction here and

201
00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,120
Speaker 1: there sometimes that can drag that down. The next one's

202
00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,480
Speaker 1: not difficult at all. The next one will probably take

203
00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,080
Speaker 1: about thirty seconds. Kirby Smart at Georgia number one head

204
00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,239
Speaker 1: coach in the country, I agree, a number one program

205
00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,679
Speaker 1: in the country, I would say Georgia still I agree.

206
00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,199
Speaker 1: So if you've got the number one head coach leading

207
00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,320
Speaker 1: the number one program, that's ninety plus percent. That's as

208
00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,320
Speaker 1: high as we go here. We don't go higher than

209
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,000
Speaker 1: ninety percent on the job approval rating. So amongst Georgia fans, clearly,

210
00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,440
Speaker 1: if you got to one hundred, Kirby would be as

211
00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,440
Speaker 1: close to one hundred as you can get. And there

212
00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,000
Speaker 1: are few holdouts who just want to see the world

213
00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,040
Speaker 1: burn to the ground who would disapprove of Kirby Smart's

214
00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,280
Speaker 1: job approval, would disapprove of it and say something like

215
00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,840
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, Mike Bobo. That would be

216
00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:14,040
Speaker 1: the reason, Mike Bobo. It's the butt Bobo syndrome, and

217
00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:18,320
Speaker 1: that is what a beautiful day, what a great afternoon

218
00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:23,600
Speaker 1: with the family, But Bobo. There are people in my

219
00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,720
Speaker 1: home state who would end any joyful sentence with butt

220
00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,640
Speaker 1: bobo because you've got to bring it back down to earth.

221
00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,640
Speaker 1: You've got to got a sandbag the balloon every now

222
00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,880
Speaker 1: and then. But yeah, Kirby, smart man. He's made Georgia

223
00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,720
Speaker 1: what a lot of folks, myself included, always thought Georgia

224
00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,000
Speaker 1: could be but never had been. There was like a

225
00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:48,240
Speaker 1: couple of rungs on the ladder that some people didn't

226
00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,200
Speaker 1: think existed. But I've always thought that was crazy. There

227
00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,559
Speaker 1: were the two or three higher rungs on the ladder

228
00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,120
Speaker 1: that Georgia football could always climb. He's just the one

229
00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,959
Speaker 1: who did it. And I mean one hundred years from

230
00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,160
Speaker 1: now they'll talk about that. So, yeah, Kirby sky high

231
00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,880
Speaker 1: job approval rating? What about the next guy? What about

232
00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,840
Speaker 1: the guy he faced off with in Atlanta last year

233
00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:15,280
Speaker 1: in the SEC Championship game. His name Steve Sarkisian. His

234
00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:20,000
Speaker 1: job approval rating amongst Texas fans, I've got at a

235
00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,680
Speaker 1: solid eighty five percent, Not ninety ninety is the highest

236
00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,880
Speaker 1: we go. It's not quite there yet. I do think

237
00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,360
Speaker 1: it's sky high. They're an obvious superpower program. Anyone who

238
00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:36,160
Speaker 1: argues otherwise, we obviously define superpower different I guess. So

239
00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:41,320
Speaker 1: there are some knits that you can pick with Steve Sarkisian,

240
00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,199
Speaker 1: but they get drowned by a flood of positivity. So

241
00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,079
Speaker 1: the positivity is talent acquisition. Maybe the best program in

242
00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,360
Speaker 1: the country right now, just an army of high level

243
00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,760
Speaker 1: people in all walks of a football program that are

244
00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,040
Speaker 1: in the building there in Austin. This is not ninety percent,

245
00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,200
Speaker 1: because there is a group out there that requires you

246
00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,040
Speaker 1: to have national championship rings or at least one on

247
00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,280
Speaker 1: your finger before they're going to validate you as being

248
00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,199
Speaker 1: a successful head coach. At the University of Texas, You've

249
00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,640
Speaker 1: got about five programs out there that think to themselves,

250
00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,640
Speaker 1: until a coach has won a national championship here, he

251
00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,800
Speaker 1: hasn't won me over. I have told you before, I'll

252
00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,640
Speaker 1: tell you again. I think that's a fairly psychotic way

253
00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,960
Speaker 1: to live your life, or to view this world through

254
00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,320
Speaker 1: the prism of But you're free to do that. It

255
00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:38,040
Speaker 1: is in the Constitution. It's thirteen fourteenth Amendment somewhere around there.

256
00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,440
Speaker 1: You're free to do that. But although that is irrational,

257
00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,720
Speaker 1: it is real. And so that gets us around to

258
00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,439
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin, the less visited side

259
00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,280
Speaker 1: of the coin, you know, the fifteen percent thumbs down

260
00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,080
Speaker 1: on Steve Sarkisian side of the coin, and those people

261
00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,720
Speaker 1: would say, well, big deal, he's taken the head job

262
00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,520
Speaker 1: at Texas and we've recruited a lot of talent. Texas

263
00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,520
Speaker 1: was always talented. That's lie number one. I don't have

264
00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,080
Speaker 1: time to go down that road tonight because we got

265
00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,920
Speaker 1: a loaded show. At no point during the past decade

266
00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,680
Speaker 1: and a half did Texas's roster look remotely comparable to

267
00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: what it looks like right now, not even remotely comparable.

268
00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,440
Speaker 1: So miss me save that, Just miss me with all that.

269
00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,840
Speaker 1: And the second thing they'll say is, well, I mean,

270
00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,080
Speaker 1: if they're so good, why did they lose to Georgia

271
00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,000
Speaker 1: twice last year? Because Georgia was pretty good too. That's said,

272
00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,120
Speaker 1: Are we gonna denigrate the guy's status as a pretty

273
00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,440
Speaker 1: high level head coach because he didn't beat, by near

274
00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,240
Speaker 1: universal standards, the number one coach in the game right now?

275
00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,720
Speaker 1: That's sort of the same crowd that says James Franklin's

276
00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,840
Speaker 1: the most overrated head coach in America? Why because they

277
00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,760
Speaker 1: can't beat Ohio State. Well, no one said he's better

278
00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,760
Speaker 1: than Ryan Day. Well, I don't see people placing Steve's

279
00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,000
Speaker 1: accusing above Kirby Smart right now, I could see it

280
00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,480
Speaker 1: happen one day, but no one's saying it right now,

281
00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,440
Speaker 1: So you know, absent placing them as the literal number

282
00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,160
Speaker 1: one program in the country, him as the number one

283
00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,800
Speaker 1: head coach in the country. I'm happy saying I think

284
00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,920
Speaker 1: Texas fans approve of Steve Sarkusian at an overwhelming rate

285
00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:14,680
Speaker 1: right now. Next up South Carolina Shane Biemer at South

286
00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:19,440
Speaker 1: Carolina job approval rating as of today seventy five percent

287
00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,240
Speaker 1: amongst game Cock fans. He's coming off a nine and

288
00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,560
Speaker 1: four season, and that really helps because I think this

289
00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,720
Speaker 1: number would have been much lower had we done this

290
00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,960
Speaker 1: segment this time last year. I know it was because

291
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,440
Speaker 1: we did, and it was lower. Shane Beemer is of

292
00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,560
Speaker 1: what we call a PPF, not a PFF, a PPF,

293
00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,840
Speaker 1: a puzzle piece fit. You got this every now and then,

294
00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,560
Speaker 1: Kenny Dillingham in Arizona State is this. Shane Beemer feels

295
00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,560
Speaker 1: like he was born to be the head coach at

296
00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,960
Speaker 1: South Carolina. South Carolina football existed to attract a guy

297
00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,600
Speaker 1: like Shane Beemer to be the head coach. It helps

298
00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,440
Speaker 1: a lot when the fan base wanted him to be

299
00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,640
Speaker 1: the head coach. That's a few years back now, but

300
00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,640
Speaker 1: if you'll remember when he was hired. Sometimes a guy

301
00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,960
Speaker 1: gets hired and the collective you know, attitude on the

302
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,800
Speaker 1: message boards and whatnot, is oh okay whatever, or what

303
00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:14,960
Speaker 1: has this guy done to get the job? That was

304
00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,840
Speaker 1: the opposite. You want to talk about an approval rating.

305
00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,720
Speaker 1: The approval rating of the hire of Shane Biemer at

306
00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,680
Speaker 1: South Carolina several years ago was like ninety plus percent.

307
00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,000
Speaker 1: So they loved it. They should have loved it. He's

308
00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,600
Speaker 1: had one losing season there, and I want to remind

309
00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,840
Speaker 1: you he wasn't a veteran head coach. This is his shot.

310
00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,360
Speaker 1: So while Kirby gets Georgia as his first shot, Ryan

311
00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:41,560
Speaker 1: Day gets you know, Ohio State, Lincoln Riley got Oklahoma, Well,

312
00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,160
Speaker 1: Shane Biemer got South Carolina. Historically, it's a lot harder

313
00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,440
Speaker 1: to win at South Carolina than it is those previous

314
00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,440
Speaker 1: three I mentioned there. And yet he's only had one

315
00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,640
Speaker 1: losing season and he's a fifth year head coach. Logic

316
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,960
Speaker 1: would suggest he's still very much evolving. We always go

317
00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,240
Speaker 1: back to the Nick sabe an extreme example, but Saban

318
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,000
Speaker 1: was fifty three and several years in to being a

319
00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,639
Speaker 1: head coach before he ever won his first national title,

320
00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,359
Speaker 1: and it's funny how he reshaped the world because everyone

321
00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,600
Speaker 1: gets measured against him, which is insane. But Shane Biemer

322
00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,080
Speaker 1: only fifth season as a head coach, I really, really

323
00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,920
Speaker 1: really think that that bears repeating. You'll notice I've already

324
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,960
Speaker 1: said it twice. Fifth year as a head coach. So

325
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,440
Speaker 1: what still hasn't fully developed about him? By the way,

326
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,040
Speaker 1: we had him on the show like a month and

327
00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,320
Speaker 1: a half ago and I asked him a version of

328
00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,320
Speaker 1: that question. You'll remember Eve a pretty lengthy response about

329
00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,639
Speaker 1: just the ways he's already changed, the ways he still

330
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,600
Speaker 1: could change. I I just think he understands, and that

331
00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,720
Speaker 1: program understands because of his vision, they can't just try

332
00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,880
Speaker 1: and out Georgia Georgia or out Alabama Alabama by doing

333
00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,720
Speaker 1: it exactly the way that those guys do it. History

334
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:06,159
Speaker 1: says that's a losing approach for a second tier program

335
00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,000
Speaker 1: in the conference like South Carolina. Now, he would listen

336
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,960
Speaker 1: to that off the record, he would admit that's accurate

337
00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,679
Speaker 1: on the record, actually off and on the record, he'd say, well,

338
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,920
Speaker 1: who says we always have to be a second tier program?

339
00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,040
Speaker 1: And I respect that. I'm saying historically they have been

340
00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,199
Speaker 1: if that in this conference, But my point remains. My

341
00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:31,119
Speaker 1: point is they're very innovative. You know, there's some avenues

342
00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,320
Speaker 1: that they go down. There's some approaches that they take

343
00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,400
Speaker 1: that you don't necessarily see a lot of the other

344
00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,080
Speaker 1: programs take. Now, it doesn't always mean that it's gonna

345
00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,280
Speaker 1: yield fruit immediately, but I think he at least gets that.

346
00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,800
Speaker 1: And the last thing they needed was someone to come

347
00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,760
Speaker 1: in and look down the road n Athens. All Right,

348
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,400
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart has built a megapower down there. We're gonna

349
00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,840
Speaker 1: copy and paste his approach and beat him. You may

350
00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,680
Speaker 1: try and copy and paste his approach. You'll probably fail

351
00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,320
Speaker 1: at that, but even if you succeed, you're South Carolina

352
00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,760
Speaker 1: and there Georgia so stands to reason. The way you

353
00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:06,720
Speaker 1: try and pull it off against the Georgias of the

354
00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,359
Speaker 1: world is you do it your way after you define

355
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,080
Speaker 1: what your way is. And lastly, a guy we just

356
00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,879
Speaker 1: had to sit down with the other day, Billy Napier's

357
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,240
Speaker 1: job approval rating at Florida amongst Florida fans right now,

358
00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 1: this is a fluid number, fifty three point five percent.

359
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,439
Speaker 1: Again scientific, of course, eight months ago, I think this

360
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,400
Speaker 1: would have been under ten percent because eight months ago

361
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,600
Speaker 1: we were in the middle of the season. Eight months

362
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 1: ago they were three and three and eight months ago,

363
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,320
Speaker 1: not only had Billy Napier already lost his job if

364
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,520
Speaker 1: you listen to pretty much everyone, they were already searching

365
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 1: for his replacement. The most popular topic amongst Florida fans

366
00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 1: was not how do you think we're gonna do against Kentucky?

367
00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:00,280
Speaker 1: It was are we gonna hire a guy before for

368
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 1: the Bowl game? If we make it? What's the buyout

369
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,600
Speaker 1: we have to pay? Napier? Can we afford? It was

370
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,840
Speaker 1: already an afterthought, and so certainly if you would have

371
00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 1: suggested we're going to keep him, that would have been

372
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,760
Speaker 1: torch and pitchfork time. His job approval was under ten percent. Well, then,

373
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,920
Speaker 1: as I've put it many times, they had the audacity

374
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 1: to continue to compete. Then they won some games. Lagway

375
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,880
Speaker 1: was the turning point. His fate is hitched to DJ

376
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,440
Speaker 1: Lagway as it stands right now. But I will tell

377
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,480
Speaker 1: you with the way they ended the season last year

378
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: and knowing Lagway's coming back this year, and just the

379
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 1: other day I flat out asked him is he healthy?

380
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 1: He say, yeah, He's ready to go. He'll be ready

381
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 1: to go for the season, knowing that you've got that,

382
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 1: knowing you got the returning production that they do, knowing

383
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,439
Speaker 1: you got the offensive line coming back, knowing you got

384
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 1: the wide receiver room, knowing you got the high end

385
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 1: potential defensively that they do. It makes sense why he's

386
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten percent convicted in his approach. I

387
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,479
Speaker 1: said that last year when we were talking to him

388
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 1: in spring, I said, now, you know, for all the

389
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: people clown in this guy and thinking he's down there

390
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: searching for a way, you'd feel differently. Then you may

391
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 1: still doubt him if you met him and talked to him,

392
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: but you would feel differently. There's no searching, there's no

393
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: feeling it out. They've got a very meticulous and clearly

394
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 1: defined process. They don't bend on it. I think they've

395
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 1: been extremely smart about the way they go about acquiring

396
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,800
Speaker 1: talent and putting the roster together. And what I mean

397
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 1: by that is we're coming up on some pretty uncertain

398
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: times and there are some programs out there that have

399
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 1: leaned out over their skis a little bit, and you

400
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 1: don't know what the future holds. You're doing that in

401
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: some very thick fog right now, and you could have

402
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 1: a clean slope ahead of you, or you could have

403
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 1: a giant tree ahead of you. They've chosen not to

404
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 1: do it. Now they're still recruiting at a a top

405
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: ten level, maybe not a top three level, but they've

406
00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 1: also not overexposed themselves financially. And so I mean, I

407
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: really feel, and I think Florida fans as well, look

408
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 1: at the roster and say, there's some stability here, there's

409
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: some talent here as well, and we got a you know,

410
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: murderer's row of a schedule again. But that's life as

411
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: a Florida Gator fan. Twenty twenty five is the pivot year,

412
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. This number could fluctuate that literally forty

413
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 1: points either way, because that's the fickle nature of job

414
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: approval as an SEC head coach. So I put in

415
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: Napier fifty five percent. We're not done with those, in fact,

416
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 1: not by a long shot. We didn't even do half

417
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: the SEC. I just I can't do a whole conference

418
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,439
Speaker 1: in one night because these conferences are like thirty coaches

419
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 1: deep now and expanding with every every headline. So we'll

420
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,919
Speaker 1: we'll just continue that because it's May so we got

421
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 1: a little while. I don't think we have any game

422
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: schedule between now and like Media Days or August. One

423
00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: of you made a trip to Academy Sports and Outdoors today,

424
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,640
Speaker 1: I think it was, and you went and you bought

425
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: over fifty dollars of Jordan gear, and you tagged me

426
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: and Academy with the hashtag Academy ex Jordan and guess

427
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 1: what you want? A gift card? Because it's that simple

428
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: and that could be you. Academy is the presenting partner

429
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: of this show. We are proudly brought to you by

430
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors. Always have been, some say always

431
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: will be. You know, yeah, I don't want to say

432
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: that NEARMI because it's an ad Rey. Technically I had

433
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 1: a usual go to phrase that probably approve of it,

434
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: but I can't be one hundred percent sure. Plus legal

435
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: maybe watching, so we'll just move along. But Academy Sports

436
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,919
Speaker 1: and Outdoors your home for Jordan gear, and and then

437
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: just fill in the blank big lea chew, a basketball goal,

438
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: a bike. I don't know what you're doing in your

439
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: personal time out there, but whatever you're doing, if it's

440
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: outdoors in nature, chances are Academy can help you out.

441
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: We appreciate them, all right. It's going to get contentious

442
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: here for a second. But that I truly don't know

443
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: where the public falls on this. I haven't done any

444
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: polling on this. We don't have an approval disapproval on this,

445
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: this topic that we're going to talk about here, but

446
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: I feel strongly about it. Normally, if our audience is

447
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty on something, I'm no more than sixty

448
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: forty myself. Normally it's pretty controversial several layers to it.

449
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: I am ninety five to five on this topic. So

450
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: let me take a little swigg of water right quick.

451
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: I promise, as I said at the entro, I promise

452
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be mean on this. I'm not

453
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: trying to be hot takey. We're not clickbaiting. What do

454
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: I want you to click on? You're already here, So

455
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm sharing what I think would be a

456
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: positive step forward for the sport. But the pushback that

457
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: I get, and I'm telling you before I even read

458
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: this tweet to you, is from the very people i'm

459
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: trying to help. That's how big my heart is. Okay,

460
00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: here's the swigg of water. And I hope my G

461
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: five boys heard every word. Okay, Josh from Portland, Oregon said,

462
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: did I hear you correctly the other day when you

463
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: said you want the G five to have their own playoff? Yes,

464
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: you did hear me correctly. He continues, Why are people

465
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: like you so opposed to having smaller teams have a

466
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: chance to win a title. I'm not opposed to it

467
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,199
Speaker 1: at all, Quite the opposite. I'm a supporter of the

468
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: only kind of model that would give smaller teams an

469
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: actual shot to win a title. Josh. Right now, you're

470
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: in a no win situation. You're in a situation where

471
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: no small team Josh. Most of the Power four can't

472
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,959
Speaker 1: win a national title. Right now. Kentucky's in the SEC.

473
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: They've got zero shot of winning a national title. Okay,

474
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: purduees in the Big Ten, they got zero shot at

475
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: winning a national title, and yet they still have a

476
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: much bigger edge than you do at the G five

477
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: level of winning a national championship. Now, what I've all

478
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: want believed is I love G five football. I've watched

479
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: it my whole life, in some form or fashion, no

480
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: matter what the label was. Okay, so I look at

481
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: it and I say, dude, watching the MAC on a

482
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, watching a lot of these Sun Belt teams

483
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: or Conference USA any given year or whatnot, this is

484
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: really fun. I remember watching like Bill Clark at UAB

485
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: thinking this guy may be one of the best head

486
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: coaches in the country. I wish he competed at a

487
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: level of the sport where a national championship was a

488
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: realistic possibility. And to me, that's logical. To me, that

489
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: makes sense. And yet the most resistance you'll get on

490
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: this topic is not from Power for fans. It's from

491
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: fans of G five teams, and they'll say exactly what

492
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: our guy from Portland just said. There, why do you

493
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: have such a problem with us competing for a title?

494
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: Why do you have such a problem seeing you're not

495
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: competing for a title? You're not You think Boise State

496
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: last year, maybe with one of the best players in

497
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: the country on their team, had a shot at winning

498
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: a national title. The difference is you define shot as

499
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: being in the postseason. You're thinking mathematically, you know, like

500
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: we've got a shot of three asteroids landing on the

501
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: studio before the show's over. There's a shot of that happening,

502
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: Whereas if we didn't have the show, we're not even

503
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: given the asteroids a shot. Yeah, Boise had a shot

504
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: of winning a national title, but they didn't have a

505
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: shot at winning a national championship. I think most sane

506
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: people understand that, and it's just semantics when you use

507
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: that word shot or opportunity. They deserve an opportunity. We

508
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: agree on that. The difference is I want them to

509
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: have a real opportunity to win a real title. Here's

510
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: the sad part to me of all this. So right now,

511
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,479
Speaker 1: the best chance you have in making the playoff is

512
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: just doing that, making the playoff, having access to a playoff,

513
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: and then getting your skull crushed in. That's what happens.

514
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen. The chance to get your

515
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: head caved in is of more value to many G

516
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: five fans than the creation of a model that would

517
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: give you a chance to actually win a title. A

518
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of them don't want that. It's always boggled my mind.

519
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: But see, here's the thing. When I debate it on

520
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: the merits of the argument, Slowly but surely they start

521
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: to give way on their initial straw man stance. The

522
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: straw man stance to me is, well, you never know

523
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: unless you put him in. Yes you do, Yes, you do.

524
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: You circle whichever UNLV boys or whoever you think the

525
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: best G five team will be this year. You know,

526
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: I know the calculator knows. The head coaches of both

527
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: of those programs know they got no shot of winning

528
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: that twelve team playoff field. I do not care how

529
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: quickly and how thoroughly the stars align. Not happening. You

530
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: and I both know that, and slowly orly the bravado

531
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: and the false confidence wanes from the top layer of

532
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: the argument. So you you effectively debate someone strong enough

533
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: on the merits of that initial point, they'll see that

534
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: ground to you. And then what they'll say is, but

535
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: if we're not in that playoff, we don't get the paycheck.

536
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: And if we don't get the paycheck, how can we

537
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: ever build our program. That's a good point. That's a

538
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: good point. But see, you're not arguing the same thing anymore,

539
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: because I agree with you there. If you don't have money,

540
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: you're broke, and if you're broke, you can't run a

541
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: program effectively that can compete with the Texases of the

542
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: world or the Michigans of the world. But you're never

543
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: going to anyway. You're in the best of worlds, in

544
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: the best of the you know, the the pulling of

545
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: that playoff money, those dollars down to your level, and

546
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: the best of worlds there, what you're never pulling anywhere

547
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: remotely close to even or even into the same zip

548
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: code where you can see the tail lights of the

549
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: major programs. What I look at is I look at

550
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: that and I acknowledge it for what it is. And

551
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: I've got I don't know how big the crowd is,

552
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: but I've got a lot of G five folks who

553
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: look at it and say, no, you just feel that

554
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: way because you hate G five footballer, You hate those programs.

555
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: You don't want them to have a shot. Just lunacy,

556
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: just total lunacy. Here's the truth. The truth is there's

557
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: an obvious gap in levels of college football, but we

558
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: haven't acknowledged it on paper. We've acknowledged it, at least

559
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: most of us with our eyes, but we haven't acknowledged

560
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: it in structure. And so we've got you know, programs

561
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: like Texas spending ten times what the University of Texas

562
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: San Antonio is, but we're still pretending they play the

563
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: same sport at the same level, and we're pretending that

564
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: they're competing for the same title. Now, if we had

565
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: someone who is sports savvy but ignorant to college football

566
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: walk in the door today, they look at that and say, well,

567
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: that makes no sense. Well, you're right, it makes no sense.

568
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: But but there's more to it now, No, there's really

569
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: not more to it. Here's the other problem. The gap

570
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: that I just talked about is not shrinking. The gap

571
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: between the haves and the have nots in college football

572
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: is only getting wider. It's at this point someone walks

573
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: in the other door on the other side of the

574
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: room and says, uh uh no, no, because you haven't

575
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: heard what the portal's doing. You haven't heard what NIL

576
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: is doing. Yes, I've heard. Have you heard? Have you

577
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: heard what portal and NIL are doing to the competitive

578
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: balance of college football? Yet John's even in the sport out. No, No,

579
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: it's not at all. It's actually never been more disproportionately

580
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: tilted one way, and it never will stop continuing that way.

581
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: But you've been fooled. You've been fooled because George is

582
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: not quite as deep or Alabama's not quite as deep.

583
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. So the very very tops of

584
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: the tallest trees got shaved off. Guess where the shrubbery landed.

585
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: It landed in the lap of programs three through fifteen.

586
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: That's the flattening of the sport. You went from having

587
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: four or five programs that ran the sport to now

588
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: any given year you got like twelve to fifteen of

589
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: them that can compete. Guess which conferences they reside in.

590
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: Guess which level of the sport they reside in. Here's

591
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: the really, really dirty part B of that. The Portal

592
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: and NIL have made glaringly obvious what was already the case.

593
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: It's just expedited it. In nature, you're a feeder system.

594
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: The G five is a feeder system. It's not being mean,

595
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: it's just reality. I was sitting in the office of

596
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: a current general manager at a college football program in

597
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: the last month who hated this fact, but said, I

598
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: hate it, but it is what it is. I mean,

599
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: we look at it right now, and this is a

600
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: guy also talking about it from the NFL a vantage point.

601
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: He said, I talked to NFL folks, and they look

602
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: at it like it's He used Major League Baseball as

603
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: a comparison. These are not my words, although I completely

604
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: agree with it. The portal is actually illustrating what the

605
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: reality of this situation is. The reality of this situation

606
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: is you've got major league college football and you've got

607
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: minor league college football. Now, baseball acknowledged that long ago.

608
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: Like no one runs around saying, how come the round

609
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: Rock Express or the Nashville Sounds just down the road

610
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: here don't get a shot to play for the World Series.

611
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,959
Speaker 1: Why are they denied a shot? Well, I'll tell you why,

612
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: because they're TRIPAA baseball teams, and we acknowledge that they're

613
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: playing a different caliber baseball than their Major league peers,

614
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: not counterparts peers. Here's what's fun about this. Sad but fun. Inevitably,

615
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: when I just said that someone yelled at their phone

616
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: or their computer or their TV. Oh, that's a disingenuous comparison. Why, Well,

617
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: because that's a developmental league. It sure is. It sure is.

618
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: The only difference in Major League Baseball Triple A versus

619
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: major leagues and college football is Major League Baseball has

620
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: acknowledged that it has layers, has levels to itself, and

621
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: the triple A, Double A, Single A layers are developmental

622
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:38,760
Speaker 1: feeder systems to the major league level. College football present

623
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: day is operating the exact same way. It just doesn't

624
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: look like that on paper. It's not written that way. So,

625
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: like to take the Major League Baseball equivalent. Over in

626
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: college football, we do have the Nashville Sounds developing players

627
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: to when they get good enough, they eventually just go

628
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee and play for the Brewers. However, over in

629
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: college football they're also telling the Sounds. But yeah, but

630
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: you guys also you deserve the chance to compete against

631
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Braves. No,

632
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: they don't because it makes no sense. Instead, they aught

633
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 1: to compete against Triple A teams where they've got a

634
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 1: shot to win an actual title. And it's also fair

635
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: and logical, and it's somewhat even footing in college football

636
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,479
Speaker 1: because of the jacked up way that revenue works. From

637
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: the media rights perspective, in this world, we just kind

638
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 1: of whistle and pretend like everyone's playing the same sport.

639
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: And if you dare to say otherwise, you're trying to

640
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: strip the chance to win a title from the little guy. Yeah,

641
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing. That's the role we've always played

642
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: on this show. We hate the little guy. Oh despise

643
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: the little guy, can't stand him. It used to be

644
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: that every now and then Boise, Oklahoma seven is an example.

645
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 1: It used to be that every now and then, and

646
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: you had a really good coach at the G five level,

647
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 1: and he went, he got out recruited. He certainly never

648
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: measured up on National signing Day to the big boys.

649
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: But that's okay because they could evaluate talent, and they

650
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: could develop talent, and every so often you'd have a

651
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: Boise state have a lot of homegrown products, third, fourth,

652
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: in some cases fifth year, get an opportunity on the

653
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: big stage with the big boys that pull off a

654
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: legendary upset. Present day, let me tell you what happens.

655
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: Present day Oklahoma doesn't offer any of those kids on

656
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 1: National signing Day, they don't sign with Oklahoma. But present day,

657
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: after two or three years of those kids developing on

658
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: Boise's dime, they're not there anymore. Don't throw ashtingenty at me.

659
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: That's one. I can give you ninety nine counterpoints to that.

660
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: That is the overwhelming exception to the rule. The rule is,

661
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: even if those G five programs do go and evaluate

662
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: some diamonds in the rough. They know what's happening. By

663
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: the way, all the coaches talk about this behind the scenes.

664
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: All they're gonna do is invest two years into the kid.

665
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: Invest their money and time and energy into the kid.

666
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna develop two years, and he's gonna transfer to

667
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: Michigan State. That's what's about to happen. So even the

668
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: diamond and the rough kids, even the exception to the

669
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: rule types that you used to have sprinkled across the

670
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: G five level, they're not even there anymore. The moment

671
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 1: they get good enough to attract an offer, they filter up.

672
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: It's the same way minor league sports work to the

673
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 1: major league level. It's the same way college football works now.

674
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: So you got some people who look at it and

675
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: still want to recall some game that happened in seven Well,

676
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: how can we ever know if this would happen if

677
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: we don't give teams a shot? And then you got

678
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: other folks who realize, like everything else with this sport,

679
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: those days are gone. So wouldn't it make more sense

680
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: to have a model that makes sense? Apparently not? Apparently not.

681
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait to get the feedback

682
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: on that one. We're just a mean, means show. That's

683
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: all we are. Next up, we've been trashing Miami too, apparently,

684
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: so let's take a look at this one while we're

685
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: at it. John down in Miami, he said, I know

686
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: you've been tough on Miami for blowing it down the

687
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: stretch last season, But don't you think it's too harsh

688
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: to call ten wins a wasted season? Yes, John, I

689
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: do think it would be harsh if I called last

690
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: year a wasted season. I didn't say it was a

691
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: wasted season. I said they wasted cam Ward. They wasted

692
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do something much bigger and better. So

693
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: my stance on this is cam Wards don't come around

694
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: very often anywhere, Miami included. That is a generational talent,

695
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the draft, and when you

696
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: get him dropped in your lap, you ought to do

697
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: more than just win ten games. You ought to be

698
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: playing for the conference title and you ought to be

699
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: in the playoff. And there was no excuse for Miami

700
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,959
Speaker 1: not to be in one or the other last year.

701
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: But they dropped the ball because their defense was terrible.

702
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: The thing about it is it wasn't terrible out of

703
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: the gate. It got terrible. Now, John said, I've been

704
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: too harsh on that take. Okay, well, here's what I

705
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: would ask you. If the head coach at Miami looks

706
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: at you and says the same thing, are you gonna

707
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: accuse him of being too harsh? In fairness, John, I

708
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: sat on this question from you until we went and

709
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: talked to Mario, which we did last Thursday. I'm gonna

710
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: have Colin in just a second play a clip from

711
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: our conversation with him that will air on the channel

712
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, because I said the exact same thing to him.

713
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: So here's what the head coach at Miami had to say.

714
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: He just reminds me how conflicted I felt watching you

715
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: guys last year. I'm watching Cam Moore do his thing.

716
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: I'm watching you guys score thirty five, forty forty five

717
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: points every week, but I'm also saying they better score

718
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: thirty five or forty or forty five because it's needed

719
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: because you're having trouble stopping the other team. We lost

720
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: our way.

721
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 2: That's what happened, and it came in the form of communication,

722
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 2: a line in assignment, which the simplicity of that makes

723
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: you play fast. So we went from playing fast and

724
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 2: physical to being uncertain and losing a step and playing

725
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 2: slow and looking confused. And it was painful because that's

726
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: a generational offense. I mean, that was made for TV

727
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: type of stuff right there. And at the very end,

728
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 2: you know, again, we're there. Okay, that might as well

729
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 2: be this. You're not there, you're not there, and we

730
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 2: recognize that.

731
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: It's not harsh. Their goal is not to win ten

732
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: games down there, now, John, you can say that, and

733
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: you can also acknowledge there's a lot of progress that's

734
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: been made down there. So I'm not ignorant enough to

735
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 1: have already forgotten where Miami was when Mario got there.

736
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: When he got there, they were laughing stock. And so

737
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: there's five wins. The first year, there's seven wins, the

738
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: second year, there's ten wins the third year. If you

739
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: just believe in linear progress, Miami's your program because they're

740
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: heading straight line right up. You're one year, two, year three,

741
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: and it's a big deal that they're back in double

742
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: digit win territory. It's a big deal that you can't

743
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 1: have the conversation about the college football playoff preseason odds

744
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: without having Miami in it. That's a wonderful thing. Those

745
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: are conversations they were not in. I'm down there a

746
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: fair amount. I know how it felt when he first

747
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: got there. I know how it feels now it's night

748
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: and day. A lot of the guys who started on

749
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 1: that first Miami team wouldn't be on his too deep

750
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: right now. So they've replenished their roster, they've attacked in recruiting,

751
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: they've attacked via the portal. But let me tell you something.

752
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: You can do all that, but when cam Ward comes along,

753
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: that's a different type of athlete. And you had him.

754
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: You had him just like Lsu had Jaden Daniels two

755
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: years ago. And you accomplished some good things, but you

756
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: should have accomplished great things, and things that had nothing

757
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: to do with your offense kept you from that. So

758
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: whose fault is that, Well, it's everybody's fault. It's on Mario,

759
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: It's on Lance Guidry, who's not there anymore. It's on

760
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: players who don't execute. It's on players not being put

761
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: in a position to execute by the coaching staff. So

762
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: they addressed all of it like they made moves. So

763
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 1: you went and got Carson Beck out of the portal

764
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: and you hope that you'll be able to saddle him

765
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: up and ride him this year. And the difference is

766
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: your defense doesn't let you down. But it's got to

767
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: be a lesson learned because you can't go back in

768
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: time and change it. But I don't think it's too

769
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: harsh to call that out. John. I would ask you this.

770
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: I assume you're a Miami fan. Did you watch the

771
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: Syracuse game or the Georgia Tech game last year? Did

772
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: you watch the cow game for that matter, last year

773
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: and sit there and say, this is okay, this is fine.

774
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: Of course you didn't. There's no way. You don't have

775
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 1: a pulse like you don't have a heart beating inside

776
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: of you that really cares about Miami football if you

777
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: sat there and just said, yeah, this is okay. Cause

778
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: I can promise you that coaching staff didn't feel that way.

779
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: Nobody in that building felt that way. So no, if

780
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: they felt that way, it's not too harsh for someone

781
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: on the outside of the building to feel the same way.

782
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: For the record preseason, no ods Miami plus four to

783
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: forty at FanDuel right now to win the ACC This year,

784
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see Carson Beck and DJ Lagway, two

785
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: guys that I had at least questions about in spring.

786
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: Lagway is not throwing much at Florida in spring. Beck

787
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 1: can't go through spring because he's hurt. And now both

788
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: of those guys are throwing, and both of those guys

789
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: look like they'll be good to go week one. So

790
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: there's that if you're headed to the game week one,

791
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: week five, week ten, I don't care quick trip at

792
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: your stop. You know a lot of gas stations in

793
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 1: convenience stores in the country, a lot of quick trips,

794
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: and now every time anything happens at a quick trip,

795
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: I get tagged in it, which is okay. Generally. The

796
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: kind of action we like to see at a quick

797
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: trip is, you know, you perusing the copious amounts of

798
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: food and beverage selections inside a quick trip, or either

799
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: you're choosing different flavors of gasoline for your car, not

800
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: for you for legal purpis plural purpose. But quick trip's

801
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: got you fueled up. They've had us fueled up. We've

802
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: been all over the country this spring, we'll be all

803
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: over the country this fall, and it'll be because of them.

804
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: And it was about this time last year that we

805
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: committed a quick Trip. I think I probably need to

806
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: repost that we got a lot of viewers who are

807
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 1: new to the show that we're not around this time

808
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: last year. When I tell you we did a full

809
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: recruitment where different gas stations recruited us, and we did

810
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: a full commitment ceremony where I committed a quick trip,

811
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: I literally mean that we did all of those things,

812
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: and some say it's the best content we've ever produced.

813
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: I am some. Let's continue Bold Prediction Season. I have

814
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: not forgotten. Bold Prediction Season is upon us. What are

815
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: the things that you believe that you're bold enough to

816
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: allow me to put on air. Well, we'll start with LSU.

817
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: So I thought this one was fairly bold. LSU's coming

818
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: into a pivotal year, and Adorra from Roswell George just

819
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: said LSU will let's just say LSU will have three

820
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: losses in the first six weeks of the season. Okay. Now,

821
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: obviously the next thing you want to know is what's

822
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 1: their schedule in the first six weeks. Adora says they're

823
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: gonna lose three games. I've got them playing four games

824
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 1: that I would rate eight plus on the difficulty scale.

825
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: So they play at Clemson, Week one, there'll be an

826
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: underdog there. They play Florida at home week three, I

827
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: would say they're a short favorite. They go to Old

828
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: Miss a couple of weeks later, pick them maybe slightly

829
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: a dog against Old Miss. Will see, and then they

830
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: play South Carolina at home. I would guesstimate they'll be

831
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: between a three and a seven point favorite in that game.

832
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: Those are all tough out of conference. They shouldn't have issues,

833
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: but those are tough. So there's a lot of pressure here.

834
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put an eight and a half on this

835
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: because it's not crazy like technically LSU could lose all

836
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: those games. Of course, they could win all those games.

837
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is they got four losable games. If

838
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: they go one in three, there odds are against that,

839
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: but it's far from impossible. And remember, this is a

840
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: team that's going to rely heavily on an infusion of

841
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: portal talent. Now I believe in the portal talent, but

842
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: if you're going heavy portal for your especially frontline starters,

843
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: what you love is you love a schedule that's backloaded,

844
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: where you get time to get all your affairs in order,

845
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: and then you hit that back half hard immunity. But

846
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,959
Speaker 1: that's not what we have here. What we have here

847
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: is multiple losable games right out of the gate, So

848
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: that means they got to be clicking right out of

849
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: the gate. Fortunately, your quarterback is not a new addition.

850
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: He's not a new arrival. Garrett nus Meyer's been there.

851
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna put an eight and a half on

852
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: that one. I don't think it's gonna happen, but it

853
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world if it did.

854
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: And look ls, you could lose three games and be

855
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: a pretty good team by the way. You lose to Clemson,

856
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: Florida and Ole Miss two of those on the road,

857
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: or South Carolina, Like, there's some good teams out there

858
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: that would lose to three of those four. Next up,

859
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: this is something that just happened. Connor from Morrison, Tennessee, said,

860
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy ceremony will feature two non quarterbacks. So

861
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: these are finalists in New York. Sometimes you got three,

862
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: sometimes four, sometimes five. Connor's saying two of those will

863
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: not be quarterbacks. This just happened. Genty from Boise and

864
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter from Colorado not quarterbacks. However, I'm putting a

865
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: nine and a half on this because right now at FanDuel,

866
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: thirty nine of the top forty two in the odds

867
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: to win the Heisman are quarterbacks. We've got. Let's see,

868
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith is fourth, so that's a wide receiver. Ryan

869
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: Williams is eighteenth, Jeremiah Love is twenty second. Outside of

870
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,399
Speaker 1: that top forty two, everybody's quarterbacks. So two of those

871
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: guys or someone from nowhere has to, you know, come

872
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 1: in like from the rafters, and I think it's very unlikely.

873
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a nine and a half on that one.

874
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: Next up, I had to take some liberties with this

875
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: one game day Chug Good good legal name there. He

876
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: hit us up. He said three Texas teams will win

877
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: their conference. Now he specified which teams, so he said,

878
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: Houston's gonna win the Big twelve, SMU is gonna win

879
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: the ACC, Texas A and M's gonna win the SEC.

880
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: I think that's astronomical in terms of odds. In fact,

881
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: if you went to FanDuel and parlayed that five dollars

882
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: would win twenty four K may do it just for fun. Anyway,

883
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do you a favor. That's a ten. So

884
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: if that wins, clearly you win a chalice of supremacy.

885
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: I took out the specifics, okay, so let's just say

886
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 1: your prediction was three Texas teams win their conference, period,

887
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: but it could be any Texas teams any offers. That's

888
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: still a nine and a half, so you still qualify

889
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: to win a chalice of supremacy. In the Big Twelve.

890
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: That's your best and may be your best shot. Statistically,

891
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: Texas Tech's got the second. Texas Tech actually is tied

892
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: for the best odds in the conference right now. Baylor

893
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: is fourth, I think, or kind of yeah, fourth, TCU seventh,

894
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: Houston twelfth, So could happen. It's the Big Twelve. Anything

895
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: could happen. SEC Texas currently has the best odds to

896
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: win the SEC, so they're the favorite. Technically, Texas A

897
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: and M is sixth, so you got two shots there.

898
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: There's only one Texas team in the ACC. SMU's fourth

899
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: and still long odds. Georgia could could screw this up

900
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: for you, LSU could screw this up for you. Alabama

901
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: could screw this up, or you know, Arizona State could

902
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: screw this up. Clemson, Miami. So I'm gonna still put

903
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: a nine and a half on it. I do appreciate

904
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: the boldness though. And lastly, did Compton send this to us? No? No,

905
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: John from Fort Worth, probably Will's cousin. Nebraska goes eleven

906
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: and one makes the playoff. Now I just assume if

907
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: they go eleven and one, they're gonna make the playoffs.

908
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: So these are one and the same nine and a quarter.

909
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: This would be bolder if not for the rule rule,

910
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: which is the Matt Rule, Year three, I'm gonna win

911
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: double digit games rule. He did it at Temple, he

912
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: did it at Baylor. You know, just natural progression of things. Here. Again,

913
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 1: we believe in science around here. The science. The science

914
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: says Matt Rule's gonna win ten games. At least. Don't

915
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: argue with me, argue with the wall. It's science. The

916
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: question is not whether Matt rule will win ten games.

917
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: That's a given. That's a given at this point. The

918
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: question is will he win eleven? Will he make the playoff?

919
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say that's tough, that's tough. You gotta

920
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: really believe in Dylan Royola and Dana Holgerson, the old

921
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: quarterback marriage there, and you gotta believe that you can

922
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: lose a high caliber defensive coordinator like they did, but

923
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: things don't really drop off all that much. It's a

924
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: lot to believe in. But but yet, we are a

925
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: very faith based show. Typically that faith is not founded

926
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: in Matt rule in Nebraska football. But why not above

927
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: and beyond our normal faith based concepts, why not add

928
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: Matt rule in Nebraska? It's just eleven games. People do

929
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: it all the time. It's a it's a fact someone's

930
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: gonna win eleven games this year. Why not Nebraska?

931
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 3: Uh?

932
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: Actually, there are many reasons why, but it's rhetorical. I

933
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: don't need I don't need a response to that. They're

934
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: watching us in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Homa, Louisiana, and Saint Louis, Missouri.

935
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys, very very much. Okay, more dissension

936
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: in the ranks. I see this. Next kind of segment's

937
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: my favorite kind of segment. This is the this is

938
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: like a Papa Top on a Zva kind of segment.

939
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 1: You know, there's a country song back in the day

940
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: by an artist I assume all of you know named

941
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: jim Ed Brown, called pop a Top and it wasn't

942
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: about Zvia that I know of Alan Jackson redid that song,

943
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: and it's one of the glaring examples of a remake

944
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: that was better than the original. Carol King suffered from

945
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: this her whole career. Everybody who remade a Carol King

946
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: song did it better than Carol King. But yeah, you

947
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: got a credit Carol King because she wrote the song. Right, So,

948
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: James Taylor, you do whatever. Rod Stewart, you do whatever.

949
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: Carol King wrote the song. What was I doing? Oh?

950
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: I was gonna take a sip of Zvia cream soda

951
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: for the win tonight. But yeah, so brief musical history there.

952
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: At any point we just pivot this thing into a

953
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: music podcast and would be okay, But that's not what

954
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: we're doing tonight. What we're doing tonight is we are

955
00:52:55,360 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: going to defend ourselves fervently. Smokes Jackson from Seattle decided

956
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: to be a jerk and he said, are you going

957
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: to put on another clown nose? Now that USC has

958
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: lost yet another five star. It's the same thing every

959
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: year USC starts out hot and recruiting, you tout them

960
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: and then the class whimpers to the end and you

961
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: never take the stand for your take. Now this sounds great.

962
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: Of course, none of it's true. So this let's just

963
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: break this down point for point. The clown's in the room.

964
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: There is a clown in the room. It's just not

965
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: the person you think it is. They always count on

966
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: the fortune cookie approach. You'll notice when you break open

967
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: a fortune cookie and you pull out the message, there's

968
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: no deep analytical dive you take on that. You don't

969
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: break it down psychologically. It says you're gonna be getting

970
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: some new clothes soon. All right, toss the fortune, eat

971
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: the cookie. We move on with our day. When you

972
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: see a cool looking bumper sticker, you don't really break

973
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: it down point for point and walk it through to

974
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: a logic based conclusion. It's just a bumper sticker. You're

975
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: driving through Murphy's Burrow. You just want to get home.

976
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 1: That's what they count on when they tweet us. Truthfully,

977
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: I think many of you tweet us hoping we don't

978
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 1: see it, but unfortunately we saw it. So we're gonna

979
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: walk through this point by point. It won't take long.

980
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 1: This will be a pretty thorough takedown. Firstly, you said us,

981
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: he's always here, us he's never here. One in the

982
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: world's last time USC had twenty seven verbal commits and

983
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: the number one overall ranked class in May check. Never

984
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,479
Speaker 1: hasn't happened in a long time. So no, it's not true.

985
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: They're always in this position. That's the first thing. The

986
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: second thing is you never stand behind your take. I do,

987
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: I do. I guarantee you you couldn't tell me what

988
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: my take is on us. He's twenty twenty five class

989
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: if your life depended on it. I assume someone who

990
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: doesn't watch the show along with you told you what

991
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: my take is, and it's a pretty good idea. Was incorrect.

992
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: I'll give you my take in a second again. But

993
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: here's what happened. There was a five star rated kid

994
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: who recently decommitted from USC's class, and so a lot

995
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: of people took it upon themselves to do this and say,

996
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: I told you, you told me what this happened last year.

997
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,760
Speaker 1: Last year. You know, the track record, according to the tweet,

998
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: is that I always prop USC up and they fall flat,

999
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: and I don't stand behind my take. Here's the bad

1000
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: thing about this show. We don't delete anything, so everything

1001
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 1: I've said is public record. And so last year I

1002
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: had Jesse go look, and sure enough, USC had some

1003
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: five star rated kids committed last year, and what was

1004
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: I busy doing. I was busy telling you they're not

1005
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: gonna stick. You don't have to take my word for it.

1006
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: Roll it, Colin. All that's well and good. No one

1007
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: is betting the farm that they stay committed to USC

1008
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: out there right now. It's the million dollar question. It's

1009
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: can we hang on to them? Because I can confidently

1010
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,720
Speaker 1: tell you these are defense if players in the state

1011
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: of Georgia that Kirby Smart and Georgia want, they win

1012
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: those far more often than not. Yeah, So last year

1013
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: USC had some kids committed. I knew they weren't going

1014
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: to stay committed. I warned people repeatedly, don't get too

1015
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: worked up. They're going to decommit. They did. They did.

1016
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: Every kid I told you would decommit last year decommitted.

1017
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't even cover recruiting, and

1018
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: I knew it was going to happen. So this year

1019
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: is different. You want to know what my take on

1020
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five USC recruiting is. You don't have to guess,

1021
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 1: you don't have to reference a message board. I'm right here,

1022
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Here are my thoughts on it. Number

1023
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: one there's a noticeable change in the energy of the program,

1024
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: which I think matters number two. Their recruiting momentum right

1025
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: now does mean something. What it doesn't mean is all

1026
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: those kids are going to sign with USC. I'll take

1027
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: it a step further. All of those kids aren't signing

1028
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: with USC. They just lost one. Chances are they'll lose

1029
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 1: a couple of more, but they're not going to lose

1030
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: all of them. And so my theory is that it

1031
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: does mean most of them will sign with USC. Now,

1032
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: if you know that I'm wrong and the class will implode, uh,

1033
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: make some money off of it, you know, because my

1034
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: offer is still on the table, Jesse and Colin that

1035
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: you will be unsurprised to find that no one's taken

1036
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: me up on my offer yet. My offer for everyone

1037
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: who says verbal commits mean nothing and this class will

1038
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: fall apart just like they all do, quote unquote, well,

1039
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: I'm challenging you make some money off of it. My

1040
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: offer is on the table. There's the table right there.

1041
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: Here sits my offer. And my offer is that for

1042
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: every kid who decommits from this class right now verbally committed,

1043
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: any kid who decommits, I will pay you one thousand

1044
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: dollars as long as for every kid who's verbally committed

1045
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 1: that eventually signs with USC, you pay me one thousand dollars.

1046
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: If the class is gonna fall apart. If these verbal

1047
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: commits me nothing, take advantage of me immunity, take advantage

1048
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: financially of me. Make some money. Times are tight right now.

1049
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: Imagine a generous offer like this in this economy. Take

1050
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: advantage of it. You won't. You won't. You know you

1051
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: don't really believe it's gonna fall apart. None of you do.

1052
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: If you're ignorant enough to believe more than fifty percent

1053
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: of this class is gonna decommit. I'd love to make

1054
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: some money off you. It's not, you know, my main

1055
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: source of revenue on the show, but i'd love to

1056
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: make some money off of you. Now, here's what's funny

1057
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: about all this. You actually agree with me, and you

1058
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: don't even know it. Here's how I know you agree.

1059
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 3: No.

1060
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: Sooner have I put that offer out than not only

1061
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: will no one take me up on it, but someone's

1062
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: gonna say, there you go, there you go, moving the

1063
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 1: goal posts again. Of course, you know more than half

1064
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: of them are gonna stay committed. Therefore you're guaranteed to

1065
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: win financially. Well. Of course, more than half of them

1066
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:19,919
Speaker 1: are gonna remain committed. Yes, that's my point. My point

1067
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: is they've loaded up on verbal commits. Not all of

1068
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: them are gonna stick, but most of them will. Therefore

1069
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: it means something. We're in agreement. You agreed with me

1070
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: the whole time. You just didn't know it because you

1071
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: probably hate USC. That's okay, that's ok It's okay for

1072
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: you to hate them. Hey, doesn't mean they're gonna win

1073
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: with them once they sign. But make no mistake, most

1074
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: of those kids are signing with USC UH by the way.

1075
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: By the way, they will have some taken from them

1076
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: because there's some big programs out there that have yet

1077
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: to even make their move. For a lot of the

1078
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: kids that USC has signed or excuse me, committed, not signed,

1079
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: so they'll lose some. They won't lose all of them.

1080
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:57,439
Speaker 3: Though.

1081
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: And if you can't sense the difference around US football vibes,

1082
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: wise right now, you're blind. I know vibes don't win games.

1083
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: Me and mo I used to tell me that all

1084
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: the time. Vibes don't win games. Stay away from the

1085
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: yellow snow vibes don't win games, just a few of

1086
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: the many age old axioms that Memoi used to hammer

1087
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: home to me. I know that they know that everybody

1088
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: knows that. Stop stating the obvious. Roll the dice here.

1089
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: Take me up on my offer. I'm waiting all proceeds

1090
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: to charity. My charity is the Josh Foundation, which pays

1091
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: for such things as my food and gas and your charity.

1092
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. You could be whatever you want to.

1093
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: FanDuel's got some odds for you, guys. If you want

1094
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: to go bet against USC, if you're just in the

1095
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: mood to hate on Lincoln Riley, you can go bet

1096
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: against them right now. They're win totals up right, Yes,

1097
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: other odds to win the Big Ten are up right now.

1098
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: You know, as we get closer to the season, FanDuel

1099
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: is sadistic as they could possibly be. They even put

1100
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: up odds that are yes or no. So you know,

1101
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: it used to be for a long time you could

1102
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 1: bet one thing. You could go, USC, will they win

1103
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 1: the Big Ten? Yes? Plus four to sixty return. Okay,

1104
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: but you couldn't bet. No, you couldn't bet against them.

1105
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: Now you can. Now you can FanDuel looked at it

1106
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: and said, you want to really be ruthless, put the

1107
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: no option out there. Oh it's great. It's really toxic,

1108
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: but it's great. I love them. They're the official odds

1109
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: provider of the show, and there's already a ton to

1110
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: bet on over there. But as the season gets closer,

1111
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,439
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you don't bet. By the way,

1112
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: if you're just interested, a lot of you don't bet,

1113
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: which is completely fine with me. And if you can't

1114
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: do it responsibly, don't be putting a sent on this stuff.

1115
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: But you may just be curious. Go over there. Look,

1116
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: it's free to look. It's absolutely free to look. There's

1117
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: a fourth immunity on the show tonight. Sign up for

1118
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: FanDuel at FanDuel dot com backslash CFB promotion. Must be

1119
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: twenty one plus and present in select states for Kansas

1120
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino, or eighteen plus and

1121
01:01:57,160 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: present in Washington, DC. First online real money wager only

1122
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: ten dollars first deposit required. Bonus issued is non withdrawable

1123
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: bonus bet that expires seven days after receipt. Do you

1124
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: have a gambling problem? If so, call one eight hundred Gambler,

1125
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: or visitfanduel dot com backslash RG call one eight eight

1126
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven, or visit

1127
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: CCPG dot org backslash chat in Connecticut, or visit MD

1128
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: gamblinghelp dot org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit gambling

1129
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: Helplinema dot org. Or call eight hundred three two seven

1130
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: fifty fifty for twenty four seven support in Massachusetts. Or

1131
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: call one eight seven seven eight Hope, n Y. Or

1132
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: text h O P E n Y in New York.

1133
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: All right, lastly, and I saved this to last for

1134
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: a reason. I don't think too much of it, but

1135
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: enough of you saw this this week and asked me

1136
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: about it that I did want to talk about it.

1137
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 1: Mark from Charlotte, North Carolina said, did you see Skipper

1138
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: say he can see college football games becoming pay per views?

1139
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: Could be interesting? Feels like he's someone who could help

1140
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: with the college football TV issues. Well, this wouldn't help

1141
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: at all with the TV issues in college football. So

1142
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: he is referring to John Skipper, who's the former president

1143
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: of ESPN, And he was on Pablo Torre's show this

1144
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: week and he was talking speculatively about the media industry,

1145
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 1: and he was talking about college football and he was

1146
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: just tossing some ideas around. He's talking about ESPN's new

1147
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: over the top or streaming platform, whatever you want to

1148
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 1: call it, how you drive revenue to that, and there's

1149
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: a lot of in the weeds business stuff, but he

1150
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: was tossing out some of his theories. One of his

1151
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: long held theories has been one day the NFL will

1152
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: make the Super Bowl a pay per view event. And

1153
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: I disagree with that as well, but who knows, maybe

1154
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: he's right. He did formerly run ESPN, emphasis on formerly,

1155
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: so now he gets to the college football part and

1156
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 1: he was talk this is the context he's talking about ESPN. Okay,

1157
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 1: they are about to launch a streaming platform. It's called

1158
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: ESPN by the way, and they have properties like the

1159
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: sec TV contract and the Playoff TV contract, and he

1160
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 1: was saying, you know, it could be in the future

1161
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: that for the biggest college football games during the season,

1162
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: you don't just turn on the channel and get him.

1163
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: You got to pay four ninety nine five dollars, six

1164
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: dollars seven dollars to watch Georgia versus Alabama. And it's

1165
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: imperative to have the right people in the room because

1166
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: the right people in the room would shoot that down

1167
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 1: in two seconds. But I can't guarantee you that what

1168
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: he said will never happen because college football doesn't always

1169
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: have the right people in the room. And you'll notice

1170
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: John Skipper's not the right person to be in the room.

1171
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: A TV executive is not the right person to be

1172
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: in the room because left to their own devices, they'll

1173
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: just head down that road. That's why you've got to

1174
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: have strong leadership on the college football side of the

1175
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: table that says, oh, you're serious.

1176
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 3: Leave.

1177
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: That's what good leadership does when they're told we want

1178
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 1: to charge an extra little pay per view rate for

1179
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 1: five big games this year, which turns into seven next year,

1180
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: which turns into fifteen, which turns into you know, you're

1181
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 1: playing for two games every Saturday, or you're not so Josh.

1182
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: You know this works for boxing back in the day,

1183
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 1: It works for UFC. It does. They also hit each

1184
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: other in the throat in UFC. We don't do that

1185
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: in college football. Do you want to make any other

1186
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: irrelevant comparisons to UFC and college football, let me also

1187
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: explain to you a key difference to their friend why

1188
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: that model does work for UFC and doesn't work. Slash

1189
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: has no business in college football. UFC fights are standalone events,

1190
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: meaning if I fight Jesse in the octagon on Sunday night,

1191
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: that's just we just fought, and there's a winner and

1192
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: a loser. And if he's a big star and he's

1193
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 1: a celebrity and I'm a celebrity, and our popularity has

1194
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: transcended just our sport. A lot of people care and

1195
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: they'll pay nineteen dollars ninety five cents to watch it,

1196
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: but then that's it. In college football, Georgia plays Alabama

1197
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: in a regular season game in hopes of trying to

1198
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 1: get to an SEC championship game that everyone will be

1199
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: able to watch for free, in hopes of advancing to

1200
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: a college football playoff. So the emphasis in the sport

1201
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: as people like that have blown the playoff up to

1202
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: be as big as possible. Side effect is the regular

1203
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: season games, relatively speaking, are less meaningful now than they

1204
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,160
Speaker 1: were ten years ago. And yet you're floating out the

1205
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: theory that maybe we can charge people. It's just it's

1206
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: such a gross misreading of the room. But you know,

1207
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: people like that, although they're in the business where they

1208
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: should care to to a ten out of ten degree,

1209
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: what the public feels and what they think. They don't

1210
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: have their finger on the pulse of college football fans.

1211
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 1: They don't They know what data on a spreadsheet says,

1212
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: but they don't know you. I used to think otherwise.

1213
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. I was talking to someone today

1214
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: about the big sledgehammer to my face when I got

1215
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: into our business and realized a lot of those people

1216
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: are clueless. They're smart people. They're very very smart people.

1217
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: Smart people can be ignorant on a topic. Unfortunately, a

1218
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: lot of executive types in the media world are smart

1219
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: people that are ignorant about college football because they don't

1220
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 1: have a background in it. They got a background in

1221
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: pro sports. They know the NFL, they know the NBA.

1222
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: You ever wonder why the NBA is less popular in

1223
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: this country than college football, but gets covered way more

1224
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: than college football. It's because more people who make decisions

1225
01:07:55,960 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: at network levels know the NBA, care about the NBA,

1226
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 1: know how to sell the NBA. They don't know how

1227
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: to sell college football because they don't know the consumer

1228
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: base of college football. Therefore, they don't know the right

1229
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: brands to pitch to who are relying on that demographic.

1230
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:21,600
Speaker 1: It's mind bodily anyway. Don't overestimate these people. You overestimate

1231
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 1: or underestimate it. Yeah, overestimate them to your own peril.

1232
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: But I can guarantee you this won't happen, or I

1233
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 1: can't guarantee you this won't happen. That're written down on

1234
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 1: a piece of paper. That's why I misspoke. I can

1235
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: guarantee you it shouldn't happen, I can't guarantee it'll never

1236
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 1: happen because I can't guarantee that the right decisions will

1237
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,800
Speaker 1: always be made in college football. I can guarantee it

1238
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: won't happen anytime soon, but I can't guarantee you for

1239
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 1: certain it won't happen. What will happen is we'll have

1240
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: a show Tuesday night, so we'll be right back here.

1241
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 1: No road trips this week. We've got other matters to

1242
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 1: attend to here on the home front, and gonna be

1243
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: fun times. Nothing matter. It's just a wedding, you know,

1244
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 1: just my wedding, So fun times this week. With a

1245
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:03,679
Speaker 1: busy week, we'll be here Tuesday. So for director column

1246
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: producer Jesse, I'm Josh Bate. Take care. We'll see you

1247
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,719
Speaker 1: back here Tuesday night. Until then, have a good start.

1248
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 3: To your week and God bless.

1249
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:32,839
Speaker 1: Sign up for FanDuel at FanDuel dot com backslash CFB

1250
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: promotion must be twenty one plus and present in select

1251
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino or

1252
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: eighteen plus and present in Washington, DC. First online real

1253
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: money wager only ten dollars first deposit required. Bonus issued

1254
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 1: is non withdrawable bonus bet that expires seven days after receipt.

1255
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: Do you have a gambling problem if so called one

1256
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:00,080
Speaker 1: eight hundred gambler or visitfanduel dot com backslash rg D

1257
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 1: call one eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven

1258
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:08,600
Speaker 1: seven seven, or visit CCPG dot org backslash chat in Connecticut,

1259
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: or visit MD Gamblinghelp dot org In Maryland. Hope is here,

1260
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:17,400
Speaker 1: visit Gamblinghelplinema dot org or call eight hundred three two

1261
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: seven fifty fifty for twenty four seven support in Massachusetts

1262
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: or call one eight seven seven eight Hope, n Y.

1263
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: Or text h O P E n Y. In New

1264
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 1: York