WEBVTT - Bonus Mailbag! 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.560 Welcome to the solid verbal hull that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:07.880 I'm a man, I'm for. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:10.639 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.399 You want to be happy for dake Edo state is 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:14.560 that woof woof? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.640 And then and Tye, welcome back to the solid verbal 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.759 Boys and Girls is their last episode of August. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.880 I am joined. It's the weirdest way to stay girls. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.920 I love it. I am joining Girls by Dan Rubinstein 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.040 over there in Chicago. I don't know what got into me. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:35.559 How are you? 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.440 It's a touch of Dave Randa. I guess I can 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.640 tell you this, Ty, Whatever happens these next dozens of minutes, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.599 it won't be in a bad way. Because I'm dehydrated. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:53.959 I am sitting next to my sixty four ounce jug growler, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.240 whatever the hell this thing is, and I am sore 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.720 and tie. I feel the hydrogen and oxygen and coursing 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.959 through I don't know. I guess my stomach. I don't know. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:05.959 I feel great, Ty, I'm ready to roll. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.760 Do you ever get to a point where you feel 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.520 like you've had too much water? 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.240 I have gotten to that point before. But here's the thing, 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.480 Tie breaking news. Your body just pees it out. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.920 I understand that at some point your commitment to hydration 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.479 overtakes your commitment to just being a normal, comfortable human, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.000 and the bathroom trips become more frequent, and it just, yeah, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.600 you know, like, is it all worth it? 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.960 It's a tight rope that I'm not afraid to walk. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:36.240 Tie. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.160 That's all I'm going to say right now. I'll leave 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.520 it at that. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.399 Well, suffice to say, we are the most hydrated show 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.120 in the college football ether. I am Tie, he is Dan. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.400 This is the solid verbal. We had originally talked about 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.440 doing an ACC preview. Turns out I got my schedule wrong. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.280 That's going to be next week, okay, or we'll talk 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.480 through all things ACC, maybe start getting you ready for 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.520 the SEC talk about everything going on as it relates 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.720 to this college football season. But one thing that we've 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.240 had happen throughout the span of this pandemic, really but 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.799 particularly as we've gotten a little bit closer to this season, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.560 the questions that we have coming in coursing through the 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.760 soliverbal inbox and across all of our social media platforms. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.440 They are robust. They are among some of the best 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.720 that we have gotten in our decade plus of podcasting. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.560 We felt remiss to not just go back and address 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.040 some of these while we still have the opportunity. As 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.240 I said last show, I think before the end of August. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:39.880 Right correct. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.079 Suffice to say, we're going to be talking about actual 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.160 football and previews and teams really soon. We wanted to 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.440 try and squeeze just one more of these in if 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.120 at all possible. So that's the show you got tonight. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:56.320 Soliverble Mailbag. If you have not already, please do subscribe 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.320 to the show. 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I promise you. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:28.919 Did. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.280 I leave everything so good at teases ty, We've been 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:33.760 teasing stuff for a while. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.880 We had planned a lot of things for like eight 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:42.440 weeks ago and because of everything that is happening, we 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.160 have felt like things don't feel right to take the 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 bubble wrap off immediately. It feels like it's in poor 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.440 taste with some of the things we've been planning to do, 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.040 not in terms of the shows we wanted to do, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.840 but sort of the structure and new things we've been 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.760 planning for a long time. It felt like the wrong time, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.840 so we're hoping that the right time is quickly approaching. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:10.000 We've been grappling with is it middle of September, beginning 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.560 of October for the shirtless calendar, Like, what is the 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.520 right time for that? When is it soon? There's just 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:16.800 so much going on in the world. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.760 Have people already heard the new Manscaped Dad that you're 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:20.359 a part of I. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.120 Don't know if I cannot believe you did that to me, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.039 you scoundrel. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.640 I don't know it's if it's been digitally inserted into 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.760 this episode already, but I would not fast forward advertisements 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:37.400 just in case our newest Manscape Manscaped read is live. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.560 You are a scoundrel for doing that to me. I 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.360 can't believe you did that to me. That was almost 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.320 the end of the podcast. Should we get to news. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:45.279 Let's do that. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.080 We have bracking news. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.560 You've got some energy today, Ty got a little bit 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:56.000 of energy. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.960 Dog's barking in the background. Don't know if you can 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.280 hear her. That's her reaction time. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.599 I yelled that apparently we had the solid Toddler the 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.600 Sodler barkin in the background a little bit earlier. So 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:08.880 it all works out. It's all even. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:14.599 Eight Nebraska football players are suing the Big Ten over 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.760 the Big Ten's decision to postpone the season. They filed 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.600 it on Thursday. They are seeking to invalidate the league's 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.600 postponement of the fall football season and to award damages. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.400 It was filed in Lancaster County District Court. It alleges 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.480 that the conference is in breach of contract by not 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:39.640 following its governing documents, under which athletes are third party beneficiaries. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.560 The athletes, according to the suit, have quote the right 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.800 to expect the Big Ten will follow its own governing 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.640 documents and all of its other rules, regulations, and guidelines, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.040 will not make arbitrary and capricious decisions, and when a 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.719 vote on a decision as momentous as canceling all fall 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.640 sports is announced, will conduct an actual vote end quote. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.719 They are, of course citing some public statements from the 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.520 Minnesota president the Michigan state president when they question whether 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.160 or not a formal vote to postpone ever actually took 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.640 place among the conference's council presidents and chancellors. So a 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.960 lot to digest, They're a lot to unpack, you know, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.400 I get where they're coming from. I understand the frustration. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.599 I would say, almost assuredly they will lose. Yeah, this suit. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.120 I don't think the point of the lawsuit was to 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.520 actually reverse the decision made by the conference, because that 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:39.560 kind of precedent of players deciding on operational procedures for 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.960 a conference is not something that seems like it's in 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.320 the near future. But and if you read any of 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.080 the pieces that there was an interview, I think it's 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:53.280 Noah Pola Gates's mother, a cornerback for defensive back from Nebraska. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.000 She was more talking about we want clarity, we want documents, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.360 we want to know what happened behind them the Big 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.560 ten curtain, and that they haven't gotten those answers to 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.000 their satisfaction. And it could be argued no answers would 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:13.600 be to their satisfaction, which is okay, sort of speaks 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.920 to where everything is right now, So I would imagine 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.680 if this is going to move forward to trial, the 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.000 point is discovery. The point is to be able to 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.920 gather documents, to gather evidence, to have more clarity into 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.680 the thinking. Because there is rightful concern among players and 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.040 you know, this is a belief system as it relates 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.640 to public health and coronavirus and everything like that, that 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.160 they are being denied the opportunity to market themselves and 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.640 further their careers and their marketability for the NFL, and 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.200 sure why they signed up to play college football in 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.240 the first place in a major conference like the Big Ten. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.440 So I think it's more about further evidenced clarity than 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.600 anything else. And even if you read the piece, I 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.520 think there was I mean, it's been covered everywhere, but 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.560 Nebraska parents, Nebraska players are not all on the same page. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.800 Some are totally good with the decision. It's not a 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.520 monolithic thing where it's the entirety of the eighty five Nebraska. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.240 Sione at the time the times, that's the story across 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.600 the board, really right for sure, So I think these 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.680 eight players are acting on behalf of what I'm sure 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.000 is an overwhelming majority of the Nebraska football team as 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.320 well as any other Big Ten team, where they want 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.960 to have as much information as humanly. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.920 Possible, and because they have not gotten it yet, this 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.080 is the step that they felt they needed to take. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.400 And so if there's more information that's able to be 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.839 gleaned from, you know, filing this lawsuit, I think it's 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.800 a win because we'd all like to know. But yeah, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.520 I don't think the point is to actually, you know, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.920 restart the Big Ten season, even if that's what it says. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.320 All right. On the topic of the Big Ten, the 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:01.040 conference is considering multiple domed stadiums as potential sites for 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.080 winter college football. Some of those sites include Lucas Oil 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.199 Stadium in Indianapolis. That's, of course where they play the 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.960 Big Ten championship game, Detroit's Ford Field, the Minneapolis US 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:18.079 Bank Stadium, and the Dome at America Center in Saint Louis. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.560 Some others that I saw kicked around in the CBS 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:27.280 article Miller Park in Milwaukee, Northern Iowa's Uni Dome, and 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:32.000 Northern Michigan's Superior Dome. Sure just some of the stadiums 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.880 that have been kicked around there. It's also possible, of course, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.640 that they could consider some other stadiums outside the central 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.480 geographic area around the Big Ten Conference, but obviously that 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.199 presents some more logistical challenges. Here's what I like about 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.800 the story. What I like about this story is they're 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.880 getting creative. I like that they're getting creative with it. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.200 I like that it seems like they're trying to plan 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.360 for something. Whether you like it or not, this is 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.760 kind of like the last great hope for a Big 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.959 Ten football season. Perhaps it already has not worked out 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.880 the way that they had planned, with other conferences presumably 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.840 trying to carry on in the fall. Maybe they didn't 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.760 expect that, maybe they did. But I like that they're 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.720 getting creative. I like that they're thinking about this. I 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.720 would hope that they would have a better roll out 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.080 plan as it relates to their spring season than they 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.200 did the postponement of their fall season, because that created 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.560 a hell of a shockwave around the world of college football. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.320 Anything that they can do to stave that off now 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.960 with this planning of the spring season, I think would 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:33.880 be much appreciated. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.560 Yeah, I think that's all correct. I think this fall 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.600 is sort of on the everything is on the table 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:47.280 portion of the Big Ten delayed season conversation. They're throwing 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.840 out names of stadiums. By the way, is there still 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.640 a hotel attached to the SkyDome or whatever the Toronto 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.160 Baseball stadium is called. Maybe that's the answer. Yeah, maybe 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.880 you could have the bubble quarantine attached to a dome. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.960 I don't know. I mean, Canada seems like a terrific 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.199 answer for a number of things, but I don't know 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:10.400 what the logistics of playing in what North Dakota in. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.640 I mean, I get that everything is on the table. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.560 I don't know if North Dakota was mentioned in your 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.520 long Northern Iowa. Oh, the Northern Iowa Dome. Yeah, another 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:25.720 FCS dome, but it's uh, I don't know. It all 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.560 seems dicey. We don't know where the world is going 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.600 to be come I guess the middle of winter and 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.440 where the viruses and where vaccines are going to be. 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.839 I think we're going to have better protocol by then, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.240 because I think it's increasing exponentially by the month. We're saying, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.760 I don't know if you put this down. The waste 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.280 water situation at the University of Arizona Zona, bar down, Baby, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.439 bear down, so to catch things very early, certainly is 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:53.600 an advantageous way to go about everything. So sure everything's 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:54.880 on the table. That's my reaction. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.600 There are some postponements to discuss, and I probably did 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.360 get them all. I saw that Troy and ULM are 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:07.880 postponing their September fifth matchup due to a significant COVID 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.800 outbreak at ULM. ECU and Marshall have postponed their game 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.720 on September the twelfth. My guess is that there will 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.400 be others, but those are actually the only two I had. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:19.160 Did I miss anything? 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.760 NC State Virginia Tech by two weeks. They'll respondent because 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.040 things have not been great at NC State. Hopefully it's improving. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:34.400 And yeah, there's I mean, there have been reported position 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.320 groups at various schools. Yeah, we're going to buy their 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.440 tested positive. Yeah, I know you have that in the 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:45.120 news section, just related to postponements. So we assume that 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:49.360 it's related to clusters on campus, perhaps clusters within the 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.400 football team. And we hope everybody's all right, because it 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.760 is strange sometimes that we'll see like North Carolina clusters 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.840 or Notre Dame clusters or Alabama students and we were like, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:05.120 oh man, well they'll be better by football season, Like, well, hopefully, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.640 this is a really awful situation. And yes they're young, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.120 and yes they have the best chance of coming out 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.560 of it in a good place. But it's okay to 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.760 just say, man, I hope they're just hope they're all 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.640 right as human beings. That'd be great. So that's happening everywhere, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:21.720 that's what it seems now. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:26.480 Well, you know, I would further the point of much 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.360 of what Greg Sankie has said, and I think conference 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.120 commissioners have been fairly in unison on the point of 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.920 if we delay, if we wait, that gives us more 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.800 opportunity to build out protocols and build out strategies and 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.360 just come up with some way to handle all this 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.960 and still maybe put on a football season. So one 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.240 of the things here My next tidbit is about the 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.320 Big twelve and Conference USA and some extent the SEC 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:59.560 adopting three COVID nineteen tests per week. The ACC is 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.600 expect did to follow a similar philosophy in the very 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.520 near future, but they're going to do two of those 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.440 like pipe cleaner tests, where they're trying to like get 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:09.839 the gunk out of your brain, which I think you 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:10.520 had one. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:11.040 Had those. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.080 Not No, not at all, but I'm glad I got 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.360 it tested negative. It's not a great time. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.640 Two of those a week and then an antigen test 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.880 later in the week. They're trying to really cover all bases. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.320 It does seem as if testing protocols are being established 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.000 and additional ways to test for the virus are also 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.200 being developed as well. I don't know if that bodes 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.280 better for the Big ten and PAC twelve in the spring. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.240 I'm not going to go there with it, but with 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.480 the advantage of more time, we are finding that some 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.000 of these things are coming to light and look, society 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.680 as a whole can benefit from that. So here's hoping 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.680 that this works out for the Big twelve and really 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.120 any other conference that's going to establish this protocol and 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.480 try to move forward in the fall or even in 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.040 the spring it comes to that. I think that's good news, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.280 good news at a time, and we need some for sure. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.640 Doubling back on your point, though, we do have news 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.360 now that multiple LSU offensive linemen have been placed under 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:17.440 quarantine due to coronavirus exposure. They reportedly only have four 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.000 offensive linemen available at practice who aren't quarantined. A bit 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.080 of a problem. I would say as we get into 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.680 the season, I have not seen whether or not these 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.920 guys actually have the virus, but they had exposure to it, 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.840 and look, this is going to be a recurring theme. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.760 Yeah, And even if every one of these guys turns 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.240 out to be alright, it goes through their system. They 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.440 recover fully. They don't have any obvious side effects, which 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.520 is the best possible situation. Long term effects are not 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:53.480 to be seen. Whatever, they're still not practicing, They're still 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.240 going to be out of shape. It exaclates to where 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.840 they normally are in August going into a season. So 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:08.200 it just I worry about just a bigger likelihood of injuries, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.680 of being out of shape, of being not prepared, and 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:15.480 this leading to other unforeseen circumstances. So hoping for the 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.600 best for guys at LSU or anywhere else where we 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.720 have these these these clusters, but man, it's it's tough 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.160 to see. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.080 All right, what else do we got here? Brennan Armstrong 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.280 is the new Virginia quarterback. He was given the starting 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.800 nod by Broncomanden Hall. When we do our acc preview, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.640 I'll talk about Brendan Armstrong and what you can expect 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.160 that of him. But some actual football. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.480 You not have strong takes about Brennan Armstrong right now. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.280 I don't. Right now, I need a little bit more 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.640 time to I just have so many thoughts that I 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.480 need to get them organized before I present. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.680 I can tell you this, he appears to be a 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.360 south Paw and I always root for lefty quarterbacks to succeed. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.160 I love them left the quarterbacks and kickers. Yeah, oh, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:16:59.880 every time. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.160 Rare gem in the football world. And finally from our 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.520 news is weird. We've got a quote here from less 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.919 Miles that players opting out of the pandemic are opting 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.320 into it. There you go. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.520 Quote, if they out of college football season, they're into 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:17.400 the pandemic. Yeah. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.080 If they opt out, this is a quote. If they 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.400 opt out because of the pandemic, then they opt into 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.520 the pandemic. The last I saw it, the pandemic was worldwide. Okay, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.080 So I don't know what their advantage is to turn 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.120 at this point away from what would be a good 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.240 finish to a college career and the opportunity to advance 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.320 their abilities and then have a choice whether to go 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.680 off to the NFL or stay and compete. So we'd 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.800 love to have them stay and compete. Okay, I don't 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.960 understand any of that. I'm not gonna lie. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.800 It hasn't been a great week for less Miles now 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:47.000 on audio tape. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:52.600 Now, I think I get the general point here. It's 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.200 just a really weird thing to say right now. Less 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.960 Miles is never really the authority you turn to when 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.040 you're looking for like connectedness to world affairs. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.440 And just sometimes sometimes, and you can quote me on this, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:10.120 sometimes football coaches are just football. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:11.720 I'm writing this down. I'm writing this. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.480 Please write that down, underline it, period. That's it. That's 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:20.440 my full thought. Sometimes humans who coach football are simply 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.400 humans who coach football. That's it. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.640 I understand that there is a full spectrum out there 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.879 of how seriously people are taking this. I understand that 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.160 many of whom listen to the show write in about 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.119 the show, and so we're not I'm not going to 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.400 go there with this, but it's just a very weird 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.640 thing to say at this point. And sometimes, yeah, sometimes 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.160 coaches are just coaches who knew Yeah, all right, that's 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:48.560 all I got. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:49.000 Questions. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.560 Yeah, I got in the news department We'll continue to 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.320 do the news for as long as we can't have 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.080 to whatever until we get to actual games to discuss. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:03.879 I'm very excited about. Let's get to some of those questions. Congratulations, Skippy, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.040 you've got mail, You've got mail on the solid ruble 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.800 Dan as often as we can, and maybe for the 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.000 last time before we get to the season. We like 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.920 to pay Homas. Those of you who write into Soli 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.880 Verble at gmail dot com, right into our various social 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:26.080 media accounts, really get us thinking, get us stretching those 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.320 brain muscles in a way that we don't normally when 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.560 we're just talking about the news or odds or I 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.040 don't know whatever else. We've got a menu before us 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:42.320 of outstanding football and non football related questions. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.080 I have had enough water that I feel adequately prepared 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.439 to really hit these with a good amount of energy 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.040 and knowledge. Where do you want to start? You tell 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.760 me all right quickly, sk Murphy. Will Army win the 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:59.880 National Championship? Well, well, Army lost like all of their game, 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.760 and then they built their schedule back up to twelve, 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.800 to a full twelve. It does not include any Power 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.920 five teams, but it does include I believe Cincinnati and BYU. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.280 So I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.880 I am willing to give Army the solidrible national championship 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.200 if they go twelve to zero and they of course 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:18.480 still play Navy and Air Force. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.800 Here's what I want to know. This is what this 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.200 question started me down the path of thinking about. Okay, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:30.280 because we've got three power conferences now, and the College 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.040 Football Playoff Committee is on the record saying that they 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.800 want to proceed as usual, even with fewer teams, they 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.080 still want to conduct a playoff. They're going to do 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.600 their rankings starting in November. How do non Power five 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:48.080 or I guess Power three schools factor in because it's 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.520 kind of more of an open slate now right, I'm 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.160 not saying Army is that team, but yeah, if you're 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.440 not one of those traditional powers, is there any kind 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.640 of like statistical gain here for I don't know if 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.720 boiss I, I guess Bois's not playing. But if now they're 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.360 not a team like Boise, let's say a UCF. If 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.680 you will a UCF, yeah, do they stand a better 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.439 chance of eking their way into this thing? Now that 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.120 it's such a goofy landscape? 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.119 They would have to be. And this is sort of 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.600 true of even years when everybody's playing, but yes, because 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.879 there are fewer teams. If we get to the point 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.920 where all these Power three teams just really just beat 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:32.760 the crap out of each other and they're all seven 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.439 to three and UCF or whoever runs the table and 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.240 just dominates, it probably has to be an AAC team 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.800 just in terms of what we know the talent level 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.760 to be in the American if they just full on dominate. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.560 The problem is these teams, you know, in a normal year, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.080 a Mountain West Power or an American Power is getting 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.720 hopefully a couple of shots against OK Power five opponents 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.560 when they're not going to this year. So it's really 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.800