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Speaker 1: And you know what, We're gonna transsolve it tonight because

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Speaker 1: Here at Payton State were jam packed high top. I

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, December seventh, the Year of Our Lord, twenty

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Speaker 1: Let's dive into tonight's substantive topics, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: start with this Florida State many people believe should have

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Speaker 1: and they're upset about it, and the players are upset

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Speaker 1: that's begging the question will it ever happen again in

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Speaker 1: the twelve team playoff era? My opinion is no. But

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Speaker 1: second now, I will, of course tell you, in my world,

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Speaker 1: it is still known in this neighborhood is not moving

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Speaker 1: to Jerry World, as had been feared on programs like

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Speaker 1: this one. They have announced join announcement here ohe you

430
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Speaker 1: in Texas joining arms on Twitter yesterday they announced the

431
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: Red River Rivalry a little bit sanitized, this staying at

432
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Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. The game contract has been renewed through

433
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Speaker 1: twenty thirty six and a one hundred and forty million

434
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: dollar renovation is on the way now. As we know,

435
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Speaker 1: money is no issue in the state of Texas. One

436
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and forty million dollars.

437
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Speaker 1: The important thing is yours truly and anyone else blessed

438
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: enough to be at this game. You can ride a

439
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 1: ferris wheel, you can you can deep fry your cell

440
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: phone if you want to and try and eat it.

441
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: And you can go watch, for my money, the best

442
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: rivalry game environment in college football, and then go right

443
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: back out to the fair afterwards and it's like three

444
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: point thirty in the afternoon. You can get sun burnt

445
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: to the point bordering on sun poisoning. You can win

446
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: a little turkey head like I did there, Colin. I

447
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: didn't know you had this b roll, But now this

448
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 1: is very nostalgic. Look at the flip of chick. That's

449
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: no joke. Guys. If you're listening on podcast, just picture

450
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 1: a catapult and a sledgehammer and a rubber chicken and

451
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: there's this little pot spinning around. And it's not that

452
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: you win the foam chicken head. The foam chicken head

453
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: in and of itself didn't mean much to me. It's

454
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Speaker 1: the pride that goes along with being able to say

455
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: you want it. You know. It's kind of like bowl

456
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: games these days. Guys fight all season to be able

457
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: to make a bowl game, only to opt out of

458
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: the bowl game. Making a bowl game was their motivation,

459
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: then they opt out of it. The bowl game is

460
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: the Texas State Fair version of the foam chicken head.

461
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 1: It's winning it that matters. It's a point of pride.

462
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: And then your black T shirt's covered in funnel cake.

463
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 1: And my point is none of this is possible across

464
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: town at Jerry World, and cooler heads smarter heads prevailed,

465
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: and now we get to watch this thing for at

466
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Speaker 1: least what another decade and a half or so where

467
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: it's been played since the nineteen thirties. Front Office Sports

468
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: detailed some of the particulars here that one hundred and

469
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Speaker 1: forty million renovations. I was worried that they were just

470
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Speaker 1: gonna basically tear the place down and start from scratch. Nope,

471
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Speaker 1: we're just gonna widen the concourses, check escalators. Okay, okay,

472
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: little bit fancy for my taste, little managerial if you will,

473
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: but still check concessions. Always a good thing to upgrade

474
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 1: those restrooms. I love a good troth. But if you

475
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 1: guys need the privacy of an individual urin old ladies,

476
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about this, then I'm all

477
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: good with that as long as we're keeping it in

478
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 1: that building. You know what, I don't even need you

479
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: to bring exterminators in and get rid of the chronic

480
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: locust infestation problem that we have out there, because I

481
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: think it's part of the charm when you have the

482
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Speaker 1: press corrals on the sideline. I think I told this story,

483
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: but I'll tell it once more. Got The little foam

484
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: looking press corrals on the sideline may have advertisement on them.

485
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 1: Players sometimes get tackled into them. They're there all game. Well,

486
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: what you don't realize in a stadium that is infested

487
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: with just mutant crickets by the millions and millions, is

488
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: they're looking for shade. It's hot man. That game kicks

489
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: off eleven am local time. Well, the crickets all gather

490
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Speaker 1: under the press corrals. So let's just say you're working

491
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Speaker 1: for CBS Sports and you're on the field post game,

492
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Speaker 1: and you're doing your live hit with Akeem Dermish or

493
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: maybe Jeremy Saint Louis or whoever happens to be in

494
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Speaker 1: the studio, and simultaneously the stadium workers are tearing up

495
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Speaker 1: the press corrals. Guess what's under every one of those

496
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: press corrals. Thousands of crickets. And then here's the sad part,

497
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 1: and earmuff the kids, because this does not have a

498
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Speaker 1: happy ending. I don't know how sunlight affects crickets, but

499
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: if they've been without it for a little while and

500
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: are all of a sudden immediately exposed to it, they

501
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: die pretty quick. It's tough it's a tough scenes, not

502
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: for the faint of heart. Luckily the stadium's emptied by

503
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: this point. But I'm talking to you about things that

504
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: would turn pro sports fans off in a nanosecond because

505
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: they've been too coddled unless you've been a Raiders fan.

506
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: And even now, you guys moved to a new city

507
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 1: and got a new stadium. Not for us, though, no,

508
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: not for us. For us on that Saturday, we want

509
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: to be at the Cotton Bowl. And it doesn't matter

510
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: if we have to sit like this, and it doesn't

511
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: matter if you know, concessions, maybe a little cramp. We're

512
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: working on it, but we're keeping the game where it

513
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: should be. And I was concerned. I heard rumblings in

514
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: the spring and summer. Sark made a comment in passing

515
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: that a lot of people picked up on. I can't

516
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: even remember, but it kind of hinted at the idea

517
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: that the game may move venues down the road. And why,

518
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: how could you blame anyone for being concerned about this?

519
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: Literally every other aspect of this game is being corporatized.

520
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: Do you know what we are? Texas ou is like

521
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: a natural preserve of a game and little corporate jackals

522
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: have just been circling the perimeter waiting to sink their

523
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: teeth into this thing and then drag it by the

524
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 1: leg across town to AT and T Stadium. And fortunately

525
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: the city of Dallas stepped in and said, matumbo, not today,

526
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: not today, and not next year or the year after that,

527
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: So we're safe until twenty thirty six. That sound is

528
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 1: me bookmarking this topic, and Colin remind me of December

529
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: twenty thirty five. Probably we need to revisit this one

530
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: in the meantime. And speaking of calendars, could I just

531
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: try and fix ours for a second. Another sit from

532
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: the chalice, because I look, I gotta hydrate myself before

533
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: I single handedly try and fix our great sport. Here.

534
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: This is the part of the show where assistant coaches

535
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: on the road all over the place tell whoever's in

536
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: the passenger seat, hey, hey, shh, he's about to try

537
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: and save me. He's about to try and get me

538
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: at least three or four hours of sleep per night. Colin,

539
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: here's your endpoint. College football calendar is crazy to the

540
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: point of unsustainable. This is not a sentence you hear

541
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: me say very often. But the NFL got this figured

542
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: out and college football doesn't. I like the NFL over

543
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: college football when it comes to the way they operate

544
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: their calendar. Now, part one of the problem is that

545
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: no one person or no one group of people with

546
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: any intimate knowledge or familiarity about what it takes to

547
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: coach or run a program put the calendar together. It's

548
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: just a bunch of people whose names you don't know

549
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: and faces you wouldn't recognize that over time put this

550
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: thing together, and then they don't have to operate in

551
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: accordance with it. It would be like me making rules for

552
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: something and then I step away. Oh no, no, no, I'm

553
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: not participating. I'm just making the rules for you. Well,

554
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: you wouldn't like that very much? Would you imagine being

555
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: a college football coach right now? Not a head coach,

556
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: mind you. They make millions, not an offensive or defensive coordinator.

557
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: At the highest level, they also make millions. I want

558
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: you to imagine, if you will, being a grad assistant

559
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: or just working in a recruiting department. You're making thirty

560
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: seven to five a year something like that, maybe less,

561
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more, and your first impression in

562
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: the morning is alarm goes off at five o'clock. You

563
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: need to be in the building by seven, And then

564
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: your last impression is you pulled in before the sun

565
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: was up. You're leaving after the sun goes down. And

566
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: you're not checking your Capital one account and seeing a

567
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: seventy five hundred thousand dollars spending limit on your credit card.

568
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: You're not looking at your direct deposit and having it say, oh,

569
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars every two weeks, not too bad, No,

570
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: that's your yearly take home. And you're also having to

571
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: work these hours, and you must look around and think

572
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: who made this calendar? And the answer is morons, not

573
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: stupid people. They're just moronic, slash ignorant to basically what

574
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: it takes to do this stuff. So I look at

575
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: the NFL and they have the same things college has.

576
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: Really think about this for a second. So the NFL

577
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: has playoffs just like college football does. They have a

578
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: championship game just like college football. They do that in

579
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: January February. But then that's when they do their staff moves.

580
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: They don't do staff moves before. They don't do staff

581
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: moves during because they're smart enough not to interrupt the

582
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: most important stretch of games and inventory that they have

583
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: on their shelf. Then and only then after they crown

584
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: a champion do they start free agency or as you

585
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: would call it, the transfer portal. That happens in March.

586
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: For them, they have the draft or as you would

587
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: call it, signing day in late April. You notice how

588
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: we're spacing this stuff out, and then they release schedules

589
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: for the upcoming year in May. I've gotten you to

590
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: summer already. In college, we do all that in the

591
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: span of a month. We have the portal opened, we

592
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: have early signing day happen, we have coaching moves going on,

593
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: and then we got a playoff, and it all happens

594
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: boom boom boom, like a four or five layer cake

595
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: on top of each other. And some of the same

596
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: people in these buildings are responsible for doing all of it.

597
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: It's not sustainable. And if you don't really want to

598
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: feel bad about the big earners, then understand that's only

599
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: what zero point two percent of the people actually tasked

600
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: with handling this stuff. When I'm college football commissioner, could

601
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: be one week, could be two weeks. But when I'm

602
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: college football commissioner, humbly, I would like to suggest this

603
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: and I'm going to start in June. Okay, in June.

604
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: I just want to bake in a big fat dead

605
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: period for you guys, and I want you to go

606
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: wherever you want to go, wherever Cliff Kingsbury disappeared to

607
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: last year for a little while. Just go there, go

608
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: to the most remote corners of the earth imaginable, and

609
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: get away from football. You're going to need to because

610
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: you still got to do the same things. I'm just

611
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: going to space them out a little bit for you.

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00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: I would love for Early Signing Day to be in July. Now.

613
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: I go to the Recruiting and Personnel Symposium every year

614
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: and they have fights about this thing. There are pros

615
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: and cons to it. What I love is I'd love

616
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: that early signing day to be moved up to July.

617
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: And there are going to be some requisites along with this.

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Speaker 1: I think that I would like offers to be mandatory committable.

619
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Speaker 1: No offering a kid and then saying once he tries

620
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: to commit, well, no, it's not quite committable yet. Well

621
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Speaker 1: that's not an offer. So what this would do is

622
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: it would heavily police offers. So the most sure thing

623
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,719
Speaker 1: five star lot kids that still have their offers, and

624
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: the if I'm commissioner, would be, if you offer five

625
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: star Collin, whether you're Bowling Green or whether you're Boise State,

626
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: you offer five star Collin. If he tries to commit

627
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: to you before that early signing day and you put

628
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: an offer on his table, you gotta take it. And

629
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: the follow up rule is, even if he gets hurt

630
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: his senior year of high school, you're gonna honor what

631
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: you offered him. You know what that would do. It

632
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: would really thin out the offer list then still be there.

633
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: You'd still have some big time commitments, but it wouldn't

634
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: be nearly to the degree it is right now. And

635
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: don't worry if you don't commit early, I'm still gonna

636
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: have the second signing day. It's just gonna be a

637
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: little bit later. Okay. So I want that wrapped up

638
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: by early to mid July. I'm gonna bake you guys

639
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: in another week or two of vacation, and then I

640
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: want media days right before we open fall camp. No

641
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: media days in mid July, and then you take another

642
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: two weeks. We're done with that, and then we open

643
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: fall camp and Fall camp's in August, and then the

644
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: regular season is September, October, November, we get to December,

645
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna have conference championship Saturday. As of now, entertaining

646
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: the idea of opening the portal the same time we

647
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: normally do, I can't clean this up completely. I think

648
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: we'll still have a bunch of coaching moves happening at

649
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: the same time that we have a lot of players

650
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: moving around. But what I'm not doing is I'm not

651
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: stacking the early signing Day on top of those things

652
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: as it exists right now. I have the early signing

653
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: Day happen back in July. My other signing day is

654
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: not going to happen all the way until next February,

655
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: where it always has been parked by the way. You

656
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: got your playoffs in December, you got your national championship

657
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: game in January. February is my second national signing Day.

658
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: And then what I would love to do in this

659
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: sport is I would love to take March, and I

660
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: would love to before we open spring practice. I'd love

661
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: to have that period of time where we do schedule reveals.

662
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: Right now, college football is not structured at all in

663
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: the way it does that, and even if you know

664
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: the opponents, you're gonna face you don't you know the

665
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: exact dates. So I would love to do a schedule reveal,

666
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: sort of a tent pole event right before spring practice

667
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: is open. Then you have spring practice. You know that.

668
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: I have long advocated for spring games, which happen in April,

669
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: to give you the option to schedule maybe an FCS team,

670
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: because I really am not interested in you playing FCS

671
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: opponents in the fall. So a lot of you say, well,

672
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: we got to keep the little guy afloat cool. I

673
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: will give you a TV partner. I, as Commissioner Pate

674
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: will help facilitate television partnership deals between CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN,

675
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,479
Speaker 1: and so I'm going to give them a valuable piece

676
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: of inventory. At the end of spring. They're going to

677
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: fit the bill for that FCS team to come to Athens,

678
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: Georgia and take the same beating that they would in

679
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: the fall. Only difference is you get to structure it

680
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: and it gets to be an actual event that people

681
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: want to come see because it resembles a football game.

682
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: If you don't want to do it, you don't have

683
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: to do it. You can have your normal spring game

684
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: if you want to. For all I care I'm going

685
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: to ine devise you to play actual games and then

686
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: springs over. Then in May we have the early portal

687
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: or second portal window, I guess we would call it,

688
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: and it's largely the same as it is right now.

689
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: Not a huge fan of it, but as far as

690
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: I can tell, we do need to have it. And

691
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: then what do we have, Well, we have a whole year.

692
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: That's what we just did. We get back to July. Now,

693
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: that is part entertainment, that is hopefully part functionality for

694
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 1: people to be able to breathe every once in a while.

695
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: I hope I baked in enough vacation time, but if

696
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: I didn't, then I'm open to suggestions. I know I

697
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: am going to get per capita or pound for pound,

698
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: whichever fits here, more feedback from player personnel and recruiting

699
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: people than I will all year on this segment, because

700
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: every one of them's got thoughts. You ought to sit

701
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: in the room when we're at these symposiums and you know,

702
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: town hall type things, and I'm fortunate enough to be

703
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: privy to some of them, been moderated some of the panels,

704
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: and it's spirited. It's spirited what folks think is necessary

705
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: what would work. What would the unintended consequences be if

706
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: you move some of the stuff around, because it's always present,

707
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: always present. They're watching us in Pacolette or maybe pacalat

708
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Orlando, Florida and Omaha, Nebraska. Appreciate you guys

709
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: so so much. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan. Do you hear that? No? Nope,

710
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Big ten of the NC douaa. No,

711
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: there are there are strong rumors, strong rumblings that he

712
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: may have a contract extension in the immediate future. Richard Johnson,

713
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: a real human, as he designates on his Twitter account

714
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: that works over at SI. He put this out earlier today.

715
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: Source Michigan is working on a contract extension for Jim

716
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: Harball worth eleven million per year over five years. Them.

717
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: Listen to this, listen to this. This is important. The

718
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: main hurdle remaining is a commitment in writing from Harball

719
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: that he will not pursue an NFL job this cycle.

720
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: So what do we think about that? I think about this.

721
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: So this is where my head went. Number One, the

722
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: NC doublea investigation into their program still ongoing. Now I'll

723
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: be the only person apparently in the room that says,

724
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 1: I have no idea how that's gonna end up. Everyone

725
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 1: else on the internet seems to have guided knowledge about

726
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: where the NCAA is gonna go. Oh, by the way,

727
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: I don't think the nc DOUAA knows where they're gonna

728
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: go with that, But you have fun trying to predict

729
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: what those folks are gonna do. That's like trying to

730
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: nail jello to the wall. Not very profitable as a

731
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: strategy for you, but go for it anyway. My point is,

732
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: Michigan must be pretty confident if they're putting this in

733
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: front of him, if it's true. I saw John Bacon

734
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: talking earlier today about how it's in front of him

735
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: like the ball is in Jim Harbaugh's court. If that's true,

736
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: then they must be pretty darn confident that there are

737
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: no catastrophic sanctions coming down from the NCAA. I would

738
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: my guess is I would agree with that. And so

739
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 1: the follow up from Richard Johnson there is he said

740
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: they want in writing that Jim Harball will not pursue

741
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. Now what he said is this cycle, and

742
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: I wonder is that what the language says or does

743
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: it just say over the length of this new deal,

744
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: which would be five years. Reportedly, we don't want you

745
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: flirting with the NFL because this has been last two

746
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: or three years. This has been in every thing for

747
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: Jim Harball, and now I wouldn't want it either if

748
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: I were him, especially if I'm offering him eleven plus

749
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 1: mil per year. But then my mind goes a little

750
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: bit further. My mind goes to what could Jim Harball

751
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: be waiting on now? This could be a million different things.

752
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: My blind speculate is maybe he is interested in taking

753
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: one more swing at the NFL. Doesn't need it, but

754
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: he's interested in it. Maybe he's still entertaining it, and

755
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: maybe he thinks to himself, Okay, so I just got

756
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: this in my hand from Michigan. I will sign it

757
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: at my convenience. I'm gonna leave it right here, and

758
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait one more cycle and the NFL season

759
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: when it starts to wrap up here, I'm gonna see

760
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: one more time if an offer that I want to

761
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: jump back comes along, and if it does, I'm gone.

762
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: If it doesn't, that's it for me. And boom, he

763
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: signs his name to that piece of paper, and that's it.

764
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: That could be the long and short of it. That

765
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: could be where his mind's at. I mean, I certainly

766
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: don't think he slammed the door on the NFL, but

767
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: it also it couldn't be something that just burns deep

768
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: inside his gut and keeps him up at night. It

769
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: could be something that, you know, sixty forty I'd rather

770
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: go back to the NFL. But it's not gonna kill

771
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,720
Speaker 1: me if I don't, especially now that he's got Michigan

772
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: role in the way it is. Taking of that. That's

773
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: the other place my mind went. You remember what this

774
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: used to be for Michigan fans, You remember what this

775
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: used to be. This used to be all right, So

776
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: Harball came home, big celebration, and then it became since

777
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: he didn't just immediately overtake Ohio State, we're still happy

778
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: to have him, but we got to have more. And

779
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: then there was a little period of time, especially you know,

780
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: culminating in twenty twenty, where a lot of folks in

781
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: Michigan circles wanted to move on, and so at best

782
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: at that point, it was one eye on Harball, but

783
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: the other I on the landscape and looking around and thinking, well,

784
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: this is not the guy that's gonna take down Ohio State.

785
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: This is not the guy that's gonna put our program

786
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: on the top of the Big Ten mountain. So who's

787
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: it gonna be. We're not gonna do our guy dirty.

788
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: He's one of us, So we're gonna we're gonna try

789
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: and class up his exit. But he's got an exit,

790
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: and he didn't and he got it figured out. And

791
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: now they're on top of the Big Ten. And now

792
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: they are the number one seed in the College Football Playoff.

793
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: They're gonna play Alabama. They've got yet another shot to

794
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: do what thus far is the only thing he hasn't

795
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: been able to do, and that's make noise in the playoff.

796
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: He's going over to here. In the last two seasons,

797
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: I just think back to how not hopeless it looked,

798
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: but maybe how hopeless the future under Harball seemed. And

799
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: it's just it's always crazy to me if you just

800
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 1: let a guy keep going, Sometimes a guy keeps going

801
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: and just digs himself a deeper hole. But other times

802
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: a guy keeps going and he's tried it this way,

803
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, to this degree angle, and he shifts at

804
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: one or two degrees over and one or two degrees

805
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: more over, and outsiders, I've said this before, I've been

806
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: guilty of saying this. Outsiders may think not a thing's changing.

807
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: Well maybe to your eye it's not, but you don't

808
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: see you see a fraction of what's actually going on

809
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: in there. And I'm just always fast by changes subtly

810
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: an approach, change a staffer here, change a practice philosophy there.

811
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 1: You just never know what makes the difference. And you see,

812
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: you saw the game they just played against Ohio State.

813
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: It's a six point game. There's not a massive gap

814
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: in that game, but just very, very incremental differences the

815
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: some of those make up the edge in a game

816
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: like that. So I will say this as I continue

817
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: to think if I were Michigan, I don't know that

818
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: I could ever hope to handle what's happened this year

819
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: better than they have. I'm not talking about the whole

820
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: Connor Stallion's thing. Let's endorse that. I'm saying, given that

821
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: happened from that point forward, the way they've handled it

822
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: is they they have been as immune to suffering from

823
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: the criticism as a program could ever be. That's what

824
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: happens when you're veteran and you got folks who know

825
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: what they're doing running your and quite the opposite, they've

826
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: actually leveraged it and harnessed it to their advantage. So

827
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: I know half of you out there hate them, maybe

828
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of your indifferent, and the other twenty

829
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: five percent love them. I don't have to fit into

830
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: any of those categories. I just know as someone who

831
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: picked them to lose two games and went oh for two,

832
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: they've proven me wrong. And maybe they're not done proven

833
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,720
Speaker 1: folks wrong. Let's see what they do in the playoff.

834
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 1: Now they are Jesse, could you do me a favor? No, actually,

835
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: never mind, don't do this. They're playing Alabama in the

836
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: semi final. Texas is playing Washington in the semi final.

837
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: And I know I know our audience. Very rarely do

838
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: I look in the comment or look in the live

839
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: chat and see people put the thinking man in moji

840
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: and saying I don't have an immediate take on this game.

841
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: Let me think about it most of the time, you

842
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: guys boom, no immediate. Well, I would encourage you if

843
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 1: you think you have a read on either of those games,

844
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: or especially any of these Bowl games, better get on

845
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: over to FanDuel. Those lines are going to be moving

846
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: closer to kickoff, obviously, but there's no action like early action,

847
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,959
Speaker 1: as Mimo always says. So if you think you got

848
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: to read disproportionate motivation levels, if you think that you

849
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: know opt outs are going to disproportionately hurt one team

850
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: over the other, Bowl season could be where you got

851
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: the best age that you would ever have against the

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Speaker 1: Saban's best coaching job yet. Now he's had a lot

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Speaker 1: of coaching jobs. He's been there, what sixteen years, seventeen years,

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00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,080
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Speaker 1: to walk you through something. You lose Bryce Young, you

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Speaker 1: for most teams. You're gonna regress several games. At Alabama,

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Speaker 1: Some people say that they actually do it there. Could I,

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Speaker 1: guys just walk you through something. My answer is yes,

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Speaker 1: I think it's been a phenomenal coaching job. Think about

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Speaker 1: the following Things look so dire for them. At one

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Speaker 1: point in the spring, Saban got out of spring practice

899
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: and took a transfer quarterback. Never seen him do it before.

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Speaker 1: He goes and gets Tyler Butner from Notre Dame, who

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Speaker 1: ends up coming in and after a disastrous start, by

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Speaker 1: Jaln Milroe against Texas in a Week two double digit

903
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: loss at home, Butner ends up starting against USF. It

904
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: is the worst game I've ever seen Alabama play in

905
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Speaker 1: the Nick Saban Era, even though they won. Butner is

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00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: five of fourteen for thirty four yards had a QBR

907
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: of nine point four that day. It was so bad

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Speaker 1: that dude's in the portal now as a lacrosse player.

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00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: Paper pop statement there, Bama started a dude who is

910
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,359
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Speaker 1: they still found a way into the college football playoff.

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Speaker 1: They still found a way to win the SEC Championship. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd say it's a pretty good coaching job. They went

914
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915
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Speaker 1: headline coverage. They went and got Kevin Steele out of Miami.

916
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: Half of you didn't even know Steele was still coaching,

917
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: And then people made fun of it and said, Tommy Reese,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Steele, Saban used to have great coordinators and now

919
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Speaker 1: look what he's settling for. What did he settle for?

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00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: What did he settle for? Dude seventy two years old

921
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: and is still grinding every bit is hard, if not

922
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: harder than he ever has Monday through Monday and everything

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Speaker 1: Steele from a hiring perspective like the rest of you do.

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Speaker 1: He looks at him and says, I could win with

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Speaker 1: is sound. They didn't think that they were wired the

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Speaker 1: right way. Last year. The team mentally wasn't wired the

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Speaker 1: talking about how anxiety affected the team. A little too anxious,

939
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Speaker 1: a little too nervous, like what, dude, go go that

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Speaker 1: It would be a little too graphic for me to say.

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Speaker 1: I know, kids, listen to the show. The mentality you

942
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Speaker 1: need to have to go play at Alabama is not

943
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Speaker 1: one that has room for anxiety to be part of

944
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Speaker 1: the equation, and so hadn't seen that this year and

945
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Speaker 1: this SEC Championship game this last week. You wanna talk

946
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Speaker 1: about mental toughness. Georgia sliced them on the opening drive

947
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Speaker 1: no anxiety, no competitive anxiety this time around, just took

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Speaker 1: care of business. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say it's been a

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Speaker 1: in the season entered the lacrosse portal and is still

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Speaker 1: in the playoff? Can anyone find that for me? Until

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Speaker 1: you do that, I'm gonna call this a pretty darn

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