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Speaker 1: It is amazing. So Nick McKenna is the head groundskeeper there.

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Speaker 1: Golden Rake winner Award, by the way, that's like an Emmy.

427
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Speaker 1: That's an Oscar. I mean, that's like the crystal football

428
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Speaker 1: of their world. I talked to that guy, excuse me.

429
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 1: I sat there in silence and listened to him break

430
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Speaker 1: this down for like forty minutes. I was leaving I

431
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Speaker 1: think Sarks press conference or Elcho's press conference, one of

432
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Speaker 1: the two, and I was walking back across the field

433
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Speaker 1: to go get my stuff and he was out there.

434
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Speaker 1: We had finished up a live shot. He came up

435
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Speaker 1: to me, introduced himself, said hey, are you guys done.

436
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Speaker 1: He wasn't shoeing us off. He was asking how much

437
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Speaker 1: longer we needed for our live shot. And I said, yeah,

438
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Speaker 1: we're done now. Man, you can do whatever you need

439
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 1: to do. This is your house. And then I started

440
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,479
Speaker 1: asking some questions, and man, you talk about answers and

441
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: not just the what, but the why. These people are surgical.

442
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 1: These people are surgical. And so because I know people

443
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Speaker 1: like Nick McKenna exist, I'm always gonna tell you sunlight

444
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: don't care, cold weather don't care. They will find a way.

445
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: They will make it work. He's not the only one

446
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Speaker 1: who knows how to do it, even if he is

447
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Speaker 1: the best. As they like to say out there, we

448
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,679
Speaker 1: walk on grass because he walks on water. It's it's

449
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 1: a very very apropos quote from some of the higher

450
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Speaker 1: up there in College station. But gimme grass all day,

451
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 1: every day. If you got a spray painted green, because

452
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: there's some brown spots later in November, so be it.

453
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Speaker 1: What else is going on here? Oh oh oh, So

454
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Speaker 1: just a little while ago, James Franklin was at the podium.

455
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Speaker 1: I'm recording this on Wednesday night. James Franklin was at

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Speaker 1: the podium at Big ten Media Days and he just

457
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Speaker 1: took a flamethrower to Las Vegas. He just railed against

458
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Speaker 1: having Big ten media Days in Las Vegas. And you

459
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Speaker 1: know what, He's right, And a lot of you have

460
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Speaker 1: made careers out of hating on James Franklin, so anything

461
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Speaker 1: he says is wrong. He says the sky is blue,

462
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Speaker 1: and you say, no, it's not. It's it's Awqua, it's Cyrillian. Okay, guys,

463
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Speaker 1: you know what you're doing right now, and I know

464
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and you know that I know what

465
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Speaker 1: you're doing. James Franklin talked about how it makes no

466
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Speaker 1: sense to have Big ten media Days in Las Vegas.

467
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Speaker 1: Now some of the contingent from the West coast has

468
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Speaker 1: chimed in. Casey Cosgrove just hitting me up, noted a

469
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles residence, Casey costicro It's important context here, he said.

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Speaker 1: I disagree, man. You got a national brand, now you

471
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,360
Speaker 1: got a nationwide conference. You gotta spread out the love

472
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Speaker 1: a little bit. I hear you, and I rejected, respectfully.

473
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Speaker 1: I rejected. Here is what I love. I love Indianapolis, Indiana,

474
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Speaker 1: and I love having events there. Notably, one time I

475
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Speaker 1: hated on Indy before I ever went, and they never

476
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Speaker 1: let me hear the end of it, because then I

477
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Speaker 1: went up there and I said, this is, low key

478
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Speaker 1: the best event town in the entire country. And I

479
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Speaker 1: never knew because I was not from Indiana. And Steve

480
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: Wolfong used to tout it all the time, but that's

481
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Speaker 1: cause he's from Indianapolis, and so I thought they were

482
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Speaker 1: lying to me. They weren't. And I love Indy because

483
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Speaker 1: in the Big ten scheme of things, it's much more

484
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Speaker 1: centrally located. Now, usc folks, notwithstanding everyone else, I mean,

485
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Speaker 1: Oregon's gonna have to get on a plane and go

486
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Speaker 1: somewhere no matter what. But Chicago, Indy, those are drivable

487
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Speaker 1: for a lot of the Big ten schools, but I

488
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: don't care about the schools because they're off flying private anyway.

489
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the beat writers. I'm talking about media,

490
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,360
Speaker 1: like what the event actually exists for. I just think

491
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Speaker 1: it's jumped the shark a lot. And then, on a

492
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Speaker 1: slightly related note, a lot of people have been complaining

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Speaker 1: about how these events have lost their juice. Got a

494
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Speaker 1: little take on that. I was in Atlanta last week

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Speaker 1: for SEC Media Days, and I've got a suspicion and

496
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Speaker 1: hate I hate to call people out, so I'm not

497
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Speaker 1: going to do it by name, but I've got a

498
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Speaker 1: suspicion that a lot of people like covering football for

499
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Speaker 1: everything other than football. And I was listening to Peter Burns,

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Speaker 1: the Great Peter Burns, earlier today on someone's show. It

501
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Speaker 1: may have been that SEC podcast. I think it was

502
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Speaker 1: those guys interviewing him. But he made a good point.

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Speaker 1: He said, you know, this year's SEC Media Days has

504
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Speaker 1: been as much about football as it's been in a

505
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Speaker 1: long time. Twenty twenty you didn't even have it. Twenty

506
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: twenty one it's about coming back from COVID, and twenty

507
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 1: two you've got Ou and Texas coming in and twenty

508
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: three is conference realignment and playoff realignment kind of the

509
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: same way as last year twenty twenty five. Yeah, that

510
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: stuff's been going on, but it was a lot quieter.

511
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Speaker 1: And so what did you have? You had people forced

512
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Speaker 1: to talk about football, And I'm telling you it's a

513
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Speaker 1: blind spot for a lot of folks who cover the sport.

514
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Speaker 1: They don't want to talk about football. I don't think

515
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Speaker 1: they know a lot of the names of the players.

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Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people have really taken

517
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Speaker 1: deep dives for the past four months into rosters. And

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Speaker 1: it's not that they're obligated to. There's nothing that forces

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Speaker 1: you to. But I do think like some of us

520
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: get jacked up for football, and to me, like that

521
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Speaker 1: was great about SEC media days last week. You didn't

522
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Speaker 1: get any sound bites per se because no one's dumb

523
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Speaker 1: enough to give you one, and you didn't get any

524
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Speaker 1: real controversy. McElroy had to provide that. But it was

525
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Speaker 1: about football. And if that's a problem, you know, if

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Speaker 1: that lacks juice, I don't know, maybe you just look

527
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Speaker 1: it through a different prism than I am. I thought

528
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Speaker 1: it was fine, but I don't go into these things

529
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Speaker 1: expecting fireworks. It's not a circus to me. It's about

530
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Speaker 1: networking for a lot of people, honestly, But elsewhere it's

531
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Speaker 1: about seeing old friends. And look, I'm on CAMPI plural

532
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Speaker 1: of campus multiple times per week in the spring anyway,

533
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Speaker 1: so I've already seen all those folks. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: looking to get five minute interviews for guys I've done

535
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Speaker 1: an hour long sit down with I'll catch up with

536
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Speaker 1: him for a second, but I'm not going to those

537
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: events for those purposes or per pie. The plural forms

538
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: are really getting out of control, but I'm not gonna stop.

539
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Speaker 1: So media days are what they are. I mean, if

540
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Speaker 1: you want to complain about them enough, there is a solution.

541
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Speaker 1: You don't have to go, did you guys hear drink wits?

542
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Speaker 1: By the way, last week at said media days, he

543
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Speaker 1: was talking about how he was kind of breaking from

544
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Speaker 1: the pack. I respect the heck out of him, man,

545
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: because everyone else is in lockstep, like everyone gets their

546
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: marching orders. The SEC does it, the Big ten does it,

547
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Speaker 1: the Big twelve does it, and no one is to

548
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Speaker 1: step out of line. We'll drink what's got to the

549
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: podium and said, hey, man, it may get me in trouble,

550
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: it may be unpopular in my own league, but I'm

551
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: not for the five plus eleven stuff. I'm a lot

552
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: more in favor of the AQ format and whatnot, because

553
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Speaker 1: I at least want a structure where we know what

554
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: it's going to take to get in and it's not

555
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: left in the hands of the committee. And then that

556
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: sparked this debate I've had with several people off camera

557
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: and off the record, but I guess I can do

558
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: it here. You know, it's a matter of principle to me,

559
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: a lot more than a matter of case study when

560
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: it comes to the committee. Because if you're telling me

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Speaker 1: that you don't want a committee deciding who's in the playoff,

562
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: that is a completely fair take. I even tend to

563
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Speaker 1: agree with you, but I'm not necessarily agreeing with you,

564
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Speaker 1: because I think there is case after case after case

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Speaker 1: of the committee getting it wrong. I actually think the

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Speaker 1: Committe's gotten it largely right. There may have been one

567
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Speaker 1: or two instances where I had a mild disagreement. I've

568
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: never been just completely beside myself. If you have been

569
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Speaker 1: completely beside yourself, you're probably talking about Florida state a

570
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, which is a totally fair take.

571
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Speaker 1: But by and large, the committee, I think has gotten

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Speaker 1: it right. So if I take a stand that I

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Speaker 1: don't want to committee deciding things, it's not because they

574
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: screwed it up. It's a lot more a matter of principle.

575
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: It's a lot more me, you know, sitting on the

576
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: dock sipping aziva in the middle of the summer and

577
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: there's no drama, and like there's no selection show this Sunday.

578
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking out loud, talking to the lake, talking

579
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: to the fish, and saying, how should this work? Just

580
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: matter of principle? Okay, no specific year, but in general,

581
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: how should it work. Should we have a bunch of

582
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Speaker 1: administrative types in a room pretending they're watching games, pretending

583
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Speaker 1: they're glued to it all week every week in the fall,

584
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Speaker 1: or should we have a structure where in week one

585
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Speaker 1: you know what you've got to do to make it

586
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: and in that AQ model, like Eli Drinkwitz, for example,

587
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: knows he has got to be one of the six

588
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: best teams in his conference not to make the playoff.

589
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: Let's make sure we understand how that works. The number

590
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: six team in the SEC's not guaranteed a playoff spot

591
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: at all, nor is the number three team in the SEC.

592
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: Only one and two would be guaranteed playoff spots. But

593
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: what Number six does know is they're going to go

594
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: to Number three's building in the first Saturday in December

595
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: to play for the right to go to the playoff.

596
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: And you know that at the beginning of the year.

597
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Speaker 1: So that is preferable to some people, and I happen

598
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: to agree with it. But what I loved more was,

599
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Speaker 1: however this goes, and whoever wins out, man, at least

600
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: Drinkwitz took a stand, and at least he broke from

601
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: the pack. And you better believe he's not the only one.

602
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: Just other guys are too afraid to speak out. And

603
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Speaker 1: I don't know why, because, as far as I can tell,

604
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Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, July twenty third, at seven to ten pm

605
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: Pacific Standard time as I'm recording this right now, he

606
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: looks like he's still the coach at Missouri. I mean,

607
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, he's still alive. He's

608
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: still still heart beating, he's still good, still drawing a paycheck,

609
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: He's all right. Look at that, he's okay, We're oh Okay,

610
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: College Football Unlimited just got it. This is unfair because

611
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my Twitter account as I'm recording, and

612
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: everyone who's sending me stuff right now is getting bumped

613
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: to the front of the line. But he asked me,

614
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: what's the most confident bet you've placed? Huh, that's an

615
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: early Raminudal Express question. Perhaps Romanudele Express returning with a

616
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: vengeance this year, by the way, as is Friday Night

617
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: Lines returning with a vengeance. I'm telling you, if you're

618
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: new around here, I will have to do one of

619
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Speaker 1: those explainer videos again to welcome the Nubes into the season,

620
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: because we add hundreds of thousands every spring. So I

621
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: will in time let you know what all these terms mean.

622
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: But for those of you who have been around for

623
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Speaker 1: a while, sophomores and above at pat State, you know

624
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: what the Rominudel Express is. You know what Friday Night

625
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: Lines is. My most confident bet I've placed so far

626
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: is the Georgia Tech over Win Total. I'm so confident

627
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: in it. I'm so confident in it. When I was

628
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: down at SEC Media Days last week, when I left,

629
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: I went over there for a little while. Let me

630
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: tell you something Brent Key is. He's a dude. He's awesome.

631
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: I didn't record anything with him. I just went and

632
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: hung out with those guys for a little while and

633
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: I pull in. So there's a lot of construction going

634
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: on at George Tech right now, so you know, a

635
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: lot of people are displaced. Brent Key's one of the

636
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Speaker 1: only people who can't park in the parking garage over

637
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: there because his truck's jacked up too high. Just everything

638
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: about Georgia Tech, right down to the vehicle parked outside

639
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: the stadium, not even in a spot, just like pulls

640
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: it right up the stadium and walks in, and then

641
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: the team and the vibe and everything perfectly reflects Brent Key.

642
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: I've got so little doubt about them this year. I'm

643
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: not sitting here telling you they're going to go beat

644
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: Clemson or anything like that, but I think every ounce

645
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: of potential will be squeezed out of that team, and

646
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: if I'm right about that, they'll go well above the

647
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: wind total that was posted when I got it. Now

648
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't think the wind total that I got is

649
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: even available anymore, because I think that FanDuel and everyone

650
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: else has jacked it up a little bit. Which is understandable,

651
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: but I love them this year. I have them power

652
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: rated extremely high. When the JP pole comes out in

653
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, and yes that's coming as well Immunity,

654
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: you will know how much I am the model believe

655
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: in Georgia tech. So I love that. Bet Jeff asked

656
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: if I have heard Kublick and his Wife's podcast. I

657
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: just listened to it earlier today. I've listened to every

658
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: episode and left a five star review. It's very addictive.

659
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about it, it's very addictive.

660
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: I think it was mainly her idea Tuesday date night podcast.

661
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: I would encourage you guys to go listen. It is

662
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: a very very intoxicating listen. And you know, I don't

663
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: promote other shows unless I truly truly believe in them.

664
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: And I have not been paid anything so far to

665
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: promote this, which is kind of BS. Honestly, I should,

666
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: but I haven't been, but I have listened to it. Now.

667
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: The follow up question that I'm looking at here is

668
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: am I ever going to do anything like that with

669
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: Savannah State. I think it could be in the cards.

670
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: Here's what I have noticed, all right, here's the theme

671
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: that I would work on with her. First off, she

672
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: worked for Saban at BAMA, she worked for Miles at LSU,

673
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: she worked for Freeze at Old Miss. So she's got

674
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: story after story after story. Honestly, should probably do a

675
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: better football podcast than me. But she could also do

676
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: you guys a lot of good because I've got an

677
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: army of eighteen to twenty five year old males who

678
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: listen to this show. And every time we do a

679
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: mail bag just like this one, I'll wade through the

680
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: replies and the questions, and there are like twenty or

681
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: thirty relationship questions, advice on how to propose this and that,

682
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: up and down, all kinds of different questions that frankly,

683
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: she's more qualified to answer. And so I've told her,

684
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: if we ever explore this concept, here's what I need

685
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,479
Speaker 1: you to do. I need you to cross enemy lines

686
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: and I need you to help us. Okay, our people

687
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: sometimes here at Peyton State, they need help. They need

688
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: a tutor, not for sociology, not for chemistry, for life,

689
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: for life, And I think I can get us some help,

690
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,479
Speaker 1: and I think I can get you guys some help.

691
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: So if we ever, if we ever team up with

692
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: Savannah State. Okay, if we ever bring her into the

693
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: fold and we do a separate pod, I think that's

694
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 1: gonna be it. I think it's just you unload your

695
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: issues in a mail bag. I don't know how we

696
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: even do that, and she just teas off and gives

697
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: you some tough love, gives you some sound sage advice.

698
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: She does it to me all the time. Sometimes I

699
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: listen to it. I think there's a little bit of

700
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: a market for that. Above and beyond just the stories.

701
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: Oh my, the stories you want to talk about first

702
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: and second and third date stuff. The stories, guys, the stories.

703
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: Do you know what it's like being inside the recruiting

704
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: machine of Alabama, or being at Ole, miss during Freeze's

705
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: peak years, or being at LSU when less Miles was there.

706
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: The stories are golden. Now, Look, she may be shy.

707
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: You know, maybe we don't know her as well as

708
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: we think we do. Maybe she's shy and a little

709
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: too timid, stage fright public speaking. Is she scared of it?

710
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. I really don't. I don't know. Our

711
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: balls are in her court. You know, what more can

712
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: you say? Offer is on the table? We got a

713
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: tour question? Do you have a name for the tour

714
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: this fall yet, was the question. I think I have

715
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: two finalists. I've sent those options to a number of

716
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: people close, like inside the inner inner circle. I think

717
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: we have a sixty forty maybe a sixty five to

718
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,439
Speaker 1: thirty five favorite, just a leader in the clubhouse. Now,

719
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: as you all know, if I like the thirty five option,

720
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna manually override the vote and go with

721
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: it anyway. But right now, fortunately the one I like

722
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: is the one that's in the lead. I think we

723
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: got two winners here. Honestly, we may have just named

724
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: the next two seasons worth of tours, but I can't

725
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,959
Speaker 1: announce it publicly yet, but I will. I will be

726
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: probably announcing that in the next couple of weeks. We

727
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of st up coming obviously in

728
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. But yes, tour name. We

729
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: are efforting that as we speak. Someone wanted me to

730
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: talk about Dan Mullins joining the Mountain West. Well, Dan

731
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: Mullen has joined the Mountain West. That is true. I

732
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: am looking at his football building right now outside my window,

733
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: and I'm going to go over there tomorrow before I

734
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: head back to Nashville. I actually texted him the other day.

735
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: I said, I'm in town. Is the door unlocked? And

736
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: he said yeah, And they got a week zero game,

737
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 1: and so they're already practicing. So I'm gonna go over

738
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: there tomorrow. I'm going to see what it's like over there.

739
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: What's happening over there? Has he remodeled the office? Are

740
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: they going to win the Mountain West? Are they going

741
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: to be in the playoff this year? Are they going

742
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: to lose nine games? To be determined, We'll see. Speaking

743
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: of week zero, we need to address this. A lot

744
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: of you are asking for me to address how I'm

745
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: not acknowledging week zero. This is not complicated, people. Ninety

746
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: five percent of the college football public feels the same

747
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: way about Week zero. As far as the overall totality

748
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: of the college football season goes. That's not the beginning

749
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: of it. That's the warm up. It is wonderful that

750
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: we get to watch Kansas State and Iowa State. For me, obviously,

751
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 1: I'll be glued to it. I mean, that's a huge

752
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: important game for me. That's not when ninety five percent

753
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: of the country acknowledges college football season starting. College football

754
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: season starts on the week where a vast majority of

755
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: the country plays. Here's the problem, the five percent who

756
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: disagree with that. Every one of them speaks up on

757
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: Saturday when I say there are six weeks until kickoff,

758
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: five weeks until kickoff, And if you're counting down to

759
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: week one instead of counting down to week zero, you're

760
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: not acknowledging week zero. You're saying those games don't matter.

761
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: How can you be someone who says he loves all

762
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: of college football if you're ignoring college football games. I'm

763
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: not ignoring college football games. This is so easy. It

764
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: is not complicated. There's no need to overthink the rule here. Again,

765
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: this is a super majority consensus. It's just that the

766
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: minority is an extreme vocal minority, which again is okay.

767
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: But it's dumb to do a season countdown to week

768
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: zero for all of college football because all of college

769
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: football does not start in week zero. In fact, a

770
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: vast majority of it does not start in week zero.

771
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: I hate week zero as a concept. I wish every

772
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: one of the games started in the same week. I

773
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: know why we do it kind of, but I don't

774
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: like it. So, I mean, week zero just kind of

775
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: messes things up. To me the concept of week zero.

776
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to the games.

777
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 1: You give me a game right now, I'm looking forward

778
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: to it. If they play a game down in this

779
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 1: Mandalay Bay parking lot, I'm watching it. I'm not gonna

780
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: say the season just started for everyone, all right, got

781
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: that out of the way. The next one. We all

782
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: know the top four teams in the SEC. Now, if

783
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: you had to pick the next best, who is it?

784
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: I know it's a crowded field with a little difference.

785
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: But if you had to, hey, I don't know the

786
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: top four teams in the SEC. Who knows the top

787
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: four teams in the SEC? I think what you're saying

788
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: is there was a pretty clear one through four in

789
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: the voting last week, or the odds market has some

790
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: combination of Georgia, Texas, Bama, LSU. That's not clear. If

791
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: you think there is like a clear drop off after

792
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: those four, you're looking at some different picture than I am. Now.

793
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: I do agree that if you simulated this season one

794
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: hundred times, those teams would probably win the conference more

795
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: often than maybe South Carolina would, But it's not clear.

796
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: There is not clear distinction. There is not some wall

797
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: between number four and number five. That Tier one it's

798
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: like a it's like Tier two, A, Tier two, B,

799
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: Tier two C. I don't even look at it as

800
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: Tier one Tier two right now. I almost look at

801
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: the SEC as Tier one is open. It's vacant, and

802
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: we'll see who plays their way into Tier one. Cause

803
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, I think the SEC

804
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: is going to be a complete car wreck this year.

805
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really messy, really jumbled. I

806
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: do think at least one of their three loss teams

807
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: is going to make the playoff. I think there may

808
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: be a couple of three loss teams in the playoff

809
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: this year. But that's only cause I don't think there's

810
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: a team to beat out there. I've said that many

811
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: many times. I also think in the SEC it bears

812
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: repeating at least once more. This may apply to other

813
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: conferences as well, but I know it will apply to

814
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: the SEC. We have not recalibrated our thinking properly. We

815
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: have not, and so there are so many teams that

816
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: think they're about to contend in the SEC this year,

817
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: and not everyone can. Someone's got to take losses, and

818
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: normally that may be Kentucky or maybe Vandy or maybe

819
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. But here's the problem. This year, there are

820
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: some teams that are gonna have to take L's that

821
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: fancy themselves a contender, and someone who's got their eyes

822
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 1: on Atlanta right now is gonna finish six and six

823
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: and they're gonna want to freak out about it, and

824
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: that may be warranted. Or it may be that you

825
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: just had a six and six year where all of

826
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 1: your six losses were by a combined twenty three points

827
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: and it was just a dog fight and you came

828
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: out on the wrong end a couple of times. Maybe

829
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: your quarterback got hurt, maybe turnovers didn't go your way,

830
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 1: bounce the ball didn't go your way. But it's gonna

831
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: be bad in the SEC. Think about how many teams

832
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: viewed last year as a tune up for this year.

833
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: LSU absolutely, Bama absolutely, Georgia thinks they can level back

834
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: up and they won the conference last year. Florida absolutely

835
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: thinks that, Auburn absolutely thinks that Oklahoma and AMM both

836
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: absolutely think that I just rattled off half the conference

837
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: that legitimately thinks last year, Okay, that was good, but

838
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: watch what we do this year. Not everybody can do that.

839
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: Not everybody can do it, and so someone's got to

840
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: drop off, someone's got to take the LS. And I

841
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: just think it's gonna be a car wreck. I mean,

842
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: I think the winner of that conference probably has two losses,

843
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 1: kind of like they did last year. I think it's

844
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: going to be a car wreck. Okay, this was good.

845
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: This was therapeutic for me. I got to order dinner now.

846
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: But I'm glad we did this, and I gotta be

847
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: real with you, I may do this a little more

848
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: frequently between now and when we crank the show back up.

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