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Speaker 1: It is right there, with enough meat on the bone

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Speaker 1: they're actually playing football in October. Late kick Live, no

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Speaker 1: time to waste. We are jam packed, hi on top

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Speaker 1: and exuberant, very glorious downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It's Thursday, May sixteenth,

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Speaker 1: the year of our Lord, twenty twenty four. Dabbo and

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Speaker 1: the Portal is one of the most beautiful sagas that

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Speaker 1: our sport has to offer. Right now. The ACC is

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Speaker 1: a total nightmare, more like a horror story. I always

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Speaker 1: have to say that we're very slower. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: something else. Their future is very much in doubt. I

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Speaker 1: have got every quarterback situation in the entire Southeastern Conference rated,

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Speaker 1: and we're dropping that in tonight's show. July nineteenth is

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Speaker 1: shaping up to be well, I'll just say it one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest days in the history of the United

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Speaker 1: seventy six, and before big big things happen in July nineteenth,

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Speaker 1: I have got so much to talk about tonight. I

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Speaker 1: would love to talk gas station recruiting wars with you.

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Speaker 1: We'll do it Sunday. I would love to talk storm

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Speaker 1: chasing another nonsense with you. No time, We'll do it Sunday.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Lexington, North Carolina, Wells, Nevada, Kalispell, Montana,

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Speaker 1: Base in Georgia, where I'll be later tonight. Not on

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. Make sure you're following at link.

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Speaker 1: Kick Josh. There's so much going on. The Instagram story

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Speaker 1: itself is worth the price of admission. Someone old buddy

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Speaker 1: of mine, Sean, he knows who he is, found a

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Speaker 1: picture of yours truly from high school and posted at

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Speaker 1: last night, and I re shared it. I try and

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Speaker 1: tell you guys, age is not a real thing. It's

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Speaker 1: just a social construct. It is possible to look the

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Speaker 1: exact same, however old they claim. I am today as

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Speaker 1: on the Instagram story though, at let kick Josh. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go, let's dive in. I have gotten many, many,

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Speaker 1: many different directions to take us tonight. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: so much for being tuned. If you are not already,

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Speaker 1: or both, and we'll all be better off for it.

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Speaker 1: The acc is cooked. It just feels cooked. It feels

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Speaker 1: of us who really just wish we could leave well

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Speaker 1: Enough alone. There's a really good Tracy Lawrence song When

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Speaker 1: Daddy was a strong Man. Never got released on the radio,

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Speaker 1: good friend of the program Ross Dellinger over at Yahoo

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Speaker 1: Sports put it very well. If you've not paid attention

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Speaker 1: is Ross Dellinger describing the acc Two of its most

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Speaker 1: unruly children, FSU and Clemson, are causing disruption as they

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Speaker 1: the kid that transferred from Vanderbilt. Ricky Collins is there.

425
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Speaker 1: And I know this is kind of cheating, but man,

426
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Speaker 1: they're about to sign the number one quarterback for the

427
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five class in Bryce Underwood. So I feel

428
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 1: like with LSU, I could look way off on the

429
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 1: horizon and I can see their quarterback situation for years

430
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Speaker 1: to come being a really solid So again, it's why

431
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: we don't write off teams. Not that anyone's right in

432
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Speaker 1: LSU off, but we don't write off teams that are seemingly,

433
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Speaker 1: seemingly set at the quarterback position. LSU is the only

434
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Speaker 1: thing when we get in the weeds with Nussmeyer this

435
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: year is how good can their run game be. It's

436
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: got to be a lot better because you don't have

437
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Speaker 1: Daniels who made up for a lot of that last year,

438
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Speaker 1: and there have been years in the past where LSU

439
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 1: has struggled to generate what they should always have, which

440
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: is a dominant ground game. Hopefully this year we're not

441
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Speaker 1: singing that same tune. Mississippi State just up the road.

442
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: Had to give them a five. Blake Shapin, you know,

443
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 1: formerly of Baylor semi fame. He's there now, twenty three

444
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Speaker 1: starts under his belt. Chris Parson was a former Elite

445
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: eleven quarterback. He's a sophomore now he's the backup. It's

446
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Speaker 1: Jeff Levy's first year. They got to fill the room out.

447
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: It is what it is there right now. Need to

448
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Speaker 1: pull a couple of upsets this year and make sure

449
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Speaker 1: that they just stay at the forefront of people's minds.

450
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Speaker 1: But I'm going to give them a five. Auburn not

451
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: much better. Auburn's room. I'd make a five point five.

452
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: Peyton Thorn is back. He's got experience. It's just mostly bad.

453
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Speaker 1: It seems like forever ago that twenty twenty one season

454
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Speaker 1: happened at Michigan State. But look, experience is wonderful, but

455
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 1: what are you really returning. And I'm of the opinion

456
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,479
Speaker 1: that Hugh Freeze was on the record the other day

457
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: of saying we could have gone and spent a lot

458
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Speaker 1: of money and got a quarterback, but we didn't think

459
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Speaker 1: that was wise. What that really means, if you read

460
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Speaker 1: between the lines, is he is right. They could have

461
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Speaker 1: gone and gotten one. They're more than a quarterback away.

462
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,479
Speaker 1: They knew that, and so that is smart. I got

463
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Speaker 1: smart people running things at Auburn. I do know that much.

464
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Speaker 1: So they're not idiots. They know what they're doing there.

465
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: In the meantime, there's no depth behind him. Walker White

466
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: true freshman, but quarterback is probably not a strength for

467
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Speaker 1: Auburn this year. Let me just put it that way.

468
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: Tennessee is a total different story. Tennessee. I would make

469
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Speaker 1: an eight point five on the one to ten scale,

470
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: and that is very lofty because, as you know nico

471
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: I and Maliava didn't have a ton of starting experience

472
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Speaker 1: under his belt either. It's just how highly I think

473
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Speaker 1: of him. That is going to be a star, That

474
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: is your next star player in college football. So this

475
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: rating is only going to go up. The backup situation's unknown,

476
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Speaker 1: so there's not a ton of depth behind him. I

477
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Speaker 1: do think that you could count on blue chip type

478
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Speaker 1: guy's coming in the next two cycles. But nico I

479
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: and Maliava, I am very very much all in on

480
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Speaker 1: to the point where he didn't have all that starting

481
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Speaker 1: experience under his belt. I'm still putting him at an

482
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Speaker 1: eight point five. Arkansas Bobby Petrino is not taking snaps

483
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Speaker 1: this year. He is, however, calling plays. But Taylor Green

484
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: came there from Boise State. Anytime you talk to someone

485
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: at Arkansas, they either say it's going to be a

486
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Speaker 1: long year or they say Taylor Green. Don't sleep on him.

487
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on him. Well, okay, I'm not. He's got

488
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Speaker 1: twenty two. It starts a duel threat. Not a great

489
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Speaker 1: passer from what I've seen, although that one looked pretty good,

490
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: albeit in a spring game. Bobby, work your magic, my

491
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: friend on the field, work your magic. He needs a lot,

492
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: he needs a lot of help around him. There's no

493
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: experience behind him. The situation is a six point five.

494
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Speaker 1: So there you go. You may have questions about the

495
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Speaker 1: SEC but not about the quarterback situations, because we just

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522
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Speaker 1: that time of the show. I always oh man, there's

523
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Speaker 1: bouncing that chare I always love to well, First off,

524
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Speaker 1: I love to peel the label off of water companies

525
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Speaker 1: that have not purchased advertising on the show. So Colin,

526
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Speaker 1: if you'll just hold on you that just the second,

527
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Speaker 1: all right. I always love when we are doing a

528
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Speaker 1: segment on Clemson to bring my I'm mysterious orange liquid

529
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 1: out and drink it right before we talk about Clemson. Now,

530
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: I should be honest with you, this is laced with caffeine.

531
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Speaker 1: So the energy level, the excitement, the firiness will go

532
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: up during this segment. Bear with me on podcast. I

533
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: do have to chug this. Okay, we can't do all

534
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: of it now. I'm going to be mature in everything

535
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: that I'm about to say that I can almost promise you.

536
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: Dabo Swinny was at the ACC Spring meetings this week

537
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: and Dabo had a lot to say because a lot

538
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: of people had a lot of things to ask Dabo about,

539
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: mainly the transfer portal. We talked about this what Jesse

540
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,479
Speaker 1: just the other night last show, I shared some thoughts

541
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: I'm conflicted and always have been conflicted on the whole

542
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: Dabbo transfer portal thing because of reasons that I'll state

543
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: in just a second. But i don't want you taking

544
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: my word for it when we have audio from the himself.

545
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play two clips for you and the

546
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: entire context. Now, the entire context is there were four

547
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: schools in major college football that took zero transfer portal

548
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: players this past cycle. Three of them were service academy schools,

549
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: and the fourth was Clemson. And this is not a

550
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: one time thing. Clemson has been notoriously resistant to use

551
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: the portal. Dabo has shared his reasons before. This is

552
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: just the latest go around. The first clip is from

553
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: our friends at sirius XM. Here's Dabo on why Clemson

554
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: didn't choose to use the portal.

555
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 2: There's three types of players in the portal. I mean,

556
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 2: it's really pretty simple. Most of the guys in the

557
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: portal aren't good enough to play for us. Yeah, yeah,

558
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 2: that's just the reality of it. The second type of

559
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: guy that goes in the portal is he's only going

560
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 2: in the portal as a formality because the deal has

561
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: already been done. He knows where he's going before he

562
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: ever goes in the in the portal. So when I

563
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: getting that guy and then the third type of guys

564
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: going in the portal just to see what he can get,

565
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: and we're never going to.

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Speaker 1: Win that war. Nothing he says wrong, Nothing he says wrong.

567
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: You see. I always tell you, guys, it's one thing

568
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: to criticize a coach when you know he can't fight back.

569
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: But I have maintained and had this argument with a

570
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: buddy of mine the other day, if you could ever

571
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: sit across from this man, he would sell you pretty

572
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: quickly on his approach. He would sell most of you

573
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: on his approach because he's convicted in it. I don't

574
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 1: agree with a lot of it, but he's convicted in it.

575
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: So let me tell you. He just said something. I

576
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: don't know if you caught it. He said, guys are

577
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Speaker 1: in the portal cause most of them aren't good enough

578
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: to play at Clemson, dead on the money, accurate. I

579
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Speaker 1: would not argue for a moment with him on that.

580
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: I would argue that most of them aren't the ones

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00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: you should be looking at. The few who can play

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Speaker 1: at Clemson are the ones you should be looking at.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of sort of a dereliction of duty

584
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Speaker 1: not to look at them. My opinion on that. The

585
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Speaker 1: second thing he said is he started to describe the

586
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Speaker 1: kind of player in the portal. The first one is

587
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Speaker 1: normally not good enough. He's right, like ninety plus percent

588
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: of the portal kids could not play at Clemson. Forget

589
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: about them. Filter them out. It's no different than you

590
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: do recruiting high school. Man. Most of them in high

591
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: school can't play for you either, but a few of

592
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: them can. Those are the ones you target. Those are

593
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Speaker 1: the ones you offer. The second type he said, was

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Speaker 1: the type where they go in the portal and they

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Speaker 1: have the do not Contact tag, which means it's a

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Speaker 1: formality and it's already been decided. Well, how could we

597
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Speaker 1: do anything about that? Tamper with them. Tamper with them.

598
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Speaker 1: That's how you do something about it. You play the

599
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: back channel game. Dabo's telling you, Nope, we're not going

600
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Speaker 1: to do that. So he is standing on principle. He

601
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: is telling you, despite the fact that virtually everyone else

602
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: is doing this. There's a fifty five mile an hour

603
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: speed limit sign there and they're doing sixty two, and

604
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: they're doing sixty eight. And they're doing seventy one. No

605
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: one's doing fifty five. We're gonna do fifty five US

606
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 1: and the Service academies are gonna do fifty five. I

607
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: use that your principles have at it. I'm just telling

608
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: you there is a way around that, and it's one

609
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: that quite literally everyone else is doing. But Josh, just

610
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: cause everyone's doing something doesn't make it right. I didn't

611
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Speaker 1: say it did. That's why I'm conflicted on it. Number three,

612
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: he said, the third kind of kids just in the portal,

613
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: looking to see how much he can make. And he said,

614
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Speaker 1: we're never going to win that. Well, why why not

615
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: pay him? That's how you win it. You either tamper

616
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: with them before they ender the portal, or when they do,

617
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: you go pay them enough money. But if you don't

618
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: want to do those things, then you don't have to

619
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Speaker 1: do those things. Dabo Sweeney is I think misunderstood a lot.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot I love about Daboswenny. I mean, I

621
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Speaker 1: love that he's in college football. There's a lot I

622
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Speaker 1: love about Dabloswiny period because you see he's not stupid.

623
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Speaker 1: Some of you listen to this and you think, oh man,

624
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: this man's just let the game pass him. But he

625
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: didn't even know what he's saying. I'll get back to

626
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: that in a second. But there was another clip from

627
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: Dabo on ACC Network and he kind of went even

628
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Speaker 1: further into the Now. This one got some eye rolls,

629
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Speaker 1: but I didn't roll my eyes at it. I'm gonna

630
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: play it for y'all talk about it when we come back.

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Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't really necessarily like an intentional thing.

632
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,719
Speaker 2: There's a couple of guys we looked at, but you know,

633
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: they gotta love you too.

634
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: But it also tells us you like where you're around.

635
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Speaker 3: You like, yeah, that's what, that's what, that's what people.

636
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: That's the other part of it.

637
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 3: And and honestly, every player is technically a transfer. You know,

638
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: we just signed a whole class of guys transferring from

639
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 3: high school. Uh so we like our guys, We like

640
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: our starters.

641
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: We look at every position.

642
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 3: And we say, okay, you've got you know, Coach Reid,

643
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 3: you're getting to get uh you know, two corners.

644
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: Do you want to no serve? I like my guys.

645
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: Do y'all think he's getting played. He's not getting played.

646
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: He's dead intentional about what he's doing. Every kid we

647
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: took to transfer. They all transfer from high school. This

648
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: is chapter two of the Dabbo. You know, the way

649
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: he goes about doing things. It used to be a

650
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: little old Clemson. That was version one where he kept

651
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: on saying this, and it drove a lot of you,

652
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: crazy me included. But I realized he knows exactly what

653
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: he's doing with this. I'm not gonna let this get

654
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: to me anymore. He's got some of you on this

655
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: because I saw some of you. I saw some folks

656
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: in my industry take to their Twitter accounts or go

657
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: on their shows and start bashing him that is he

658
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: stupid or something. He's not stupid. He's actually very shrewd.

659
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: He's very cerebral. He's very smart and intentional about what

660
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: they're doing. What you have here is you've got a

661
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: situation where a guy in a program has been ultra

662
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: successful doing things a certain way, and they're resistant to

663
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: compromise it. Once upon a time, Blockbuster was that way,

664
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Speaker 1: and you don't see Blockbuster on the street corner anymore. Okay,

665
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: So they believed in a way of doing things, and

666
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: then it was reinforced because it worked a long time.

667
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: Then it didn't. And I don't know the Clemson's gonna

668
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: be blockbuster As the point, I just know we have

669
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: cautionary tales in the past of someone being reinforced because

670
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: a way they did things worked, and then they just

671
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: hit pause. They refused to move, to adjust, to evolve,

672
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: and they died. Is this an adapt or die situation?

673
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: Or is this a stick to your principles and the

674
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: rest will fade away and you'll be there at the end, because,

675
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: you know what, in a different vein, we just learned

676
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: this lesson a different way. You can talk about the

677
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: Blockbusters all you want to, but just as soon as

678
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: I could point that out, you could come back at

679
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: me and you could say, yeah, what about Jim Harball though,

680
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh, what do I mean by that? Well, back

681
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, everyone was ready to run that guy

682
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: out of town on a rail, and hey, if Harbaugh

683
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: keeps his job, boy, he's got to overhaul everything, doesn't

684
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: he Well, he did keep his job, and he didn't

685
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: overhaul everything. In fact, Jim Harbaugh dug his heels in

686
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: and said, if I'm going down, I'm going down doing

687
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: it the way I belie leave it should be done.

688
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: And instead of going down, they actually went down in history.

689
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: They won three consecutive conference titles. They beat Ohio State

690
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: back to back to back, and they just cleaned the

691
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: confetti up in Houston from where they won a national championship.

692
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: So Dabo Swiney probably looks at that and says, no,

693
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: that guy stuck to his guns. Look what it got him.

694
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick to mine. I'm really conflicted on this,

695
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: have been for a long time because I got all

696
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: the respect in the world for people who are convicted

697
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: in their beliefs and they stick with them even when

698
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: they're not popular. There's not enough of that in that profession.

699
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: There's not enough of that in our society. So I've

700
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: got all the respect in the world for it. There

701
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: is a fine line between conviction and beliefs and dereliction

702
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 1: of duty as a leader of an organization, and I'm

703
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: not sure where the line is, but I think Dabo

704
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: finds himself slightly on the wrong side of it. Sometimes.

705
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: I think at this point that dude's not changing his

706
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: opinion on this. This is not it's not for show.

707
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: He may have a smile on his face when he

708
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: talks about it, but I can guarantee you there is

709
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: an extremely competitive layer of Dabo Swenny who looks at

710
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: everyone and he sees in you or me or anyone

711
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: else who questions him, he sees the same folks who

712
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: probably told him he couldn't do stuff growing up. Dabo

713
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: Sweny's not supposed to be where he is. Like Daboswenny

714
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: is a multi millionaire, multiple time national championship winning head

715
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: coach who long ago should have been cast aside, and

716
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: he just kept on. He just kept on getting out

717
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: of bed and kept on getting after it and probably

718
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: had doubters as high as the tallest building in Birmingham, Alabama,

719
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 1: where he's from, just kept going. And so he's already

720
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 1: done it his way his whole life. Like he's flown

721
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: in the face of convention. He's flown in the face

722
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: of folks telling him to do it another way his

723
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: whole life, and it's worked for him. So you got

724
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: to understand something. This isn't just some attitude that he

725
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: comes up with on a whim. It's him. It's his

726
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: way of life. And I can't blame people who have

727
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: been wired very intentionally in one way for sticking to

728
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: their guns in times like these, and also, you know,

729
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: he probably looks around and as much as you could

730
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 1: see like a Keon Coleman come in and transform Florida

731
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 1: State and up their production and productivity in Florida State's

732
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: taking guys in the portal in general who have done that.

733
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: Dabo probably looks around, and Dabbo's privy to information. You're

734
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: not and I'm not about back channeling amongst coaches and

735
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: how disastrous some portal additions have been to locker rooms.

736
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: And he looks around and he says, we're not a

737
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: disaster here right now. It'd be one thing if Clemson was,

738
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: you know, fighting to keep the nose above water. They're not.

739
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: He looks at his organization and says, we've done it before.

740
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: We're just a few degrees off right now, but we'll

741
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: get it fixed and we'll do it again. And he may.

742
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: It's not like a zero percent chance that he never

743
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: gets back even if they don't use the portal. I

744
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: just think he doesn't put himself in the best position

745
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: to get there by not using the portal. But I'm

746
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: really conflicted on it because I also really respect the

747
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: guy for just how he goes about his business. So

748
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: Aside from all that, I ate an orange earlier today

749
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: and like a piece of the pulp came loose from

750
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: my back tooth. During the middle of that segment. It

751
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: was just floating there, Jesse. This is one of the

752
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: pitfalls of doing the show live. These sorts of things

753
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: happen and don't even start when I get allergies and

754
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: have to sneeze. They're watching us in Des Moines, Iowa,

755
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: Arcadie of Florida, and Moses Lake, Washington. Thank you guys

756
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: so much. All right, this is going to be one

757
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: of the most important moments on this show this year,

758
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: because after I do what I'm about to do, you

759
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: won't even need to watch the season spoiler alert. That's

760
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. Kids, What do we believe

761
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: in on this show? We believe in God, we believe

762
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: in Saturday, and we believe in science. And when the

763
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: three can overlap, that's a beautiful thing. And they're about

764
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: to right now. So last year, we did a segment

765
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: on the show because we were sitting around as a

766
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: staff and we realized, wait a second, the NFL Draft

767
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 1: just happened. And as it turns out, the NFL Draft

768
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: has been telling us everything we need to know about

769
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: how the college football Playoff's going to end. How well

770
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: we found out the NFL draft. Even as we sit

771
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: here now, the NFL draft, for seven straight seasons has

772
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: proven that the team that won the playoff, the team

773
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: that won the national title, ended up having the most

774
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: kids taken in the draft. And so you're sitting around

775
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Wow, that's great, Josh, but that's also useless

776
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: information because the draft doesn't happen until after the title game. Well,

777
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: how do we get ahead of it? That's what we

778
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: wanted to know. How do we get ahead of it? Science,

779
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: That's how we get ahead of it. So Mott Draft

780
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: Science worked its way into the equation of the show

781
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: last year. Last year, just to set the scene for you,

782
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: Michigan ended up having thirteen kids drafted. Michigan also won

783
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: a national championship. Texas had eleven, Bama had ten, Washington

784
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: had ten. You think I'm joking with you. Yes, even

785
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: last year Washington, Washington, which should have been an outlier, right,

786
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: Who could have seen Washington coming? I'll tell you who

787
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: could have seen Washington coming? Because last year Ohio State

788
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: was number one. When we started doing this exercise. Last year,

789
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: we looked at the mock drafts. We aggregated the big

790
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: four in the industry, and we looked and we saw

791
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: Ohio State. They had an average of five projected first rounders.

792
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: We thought Ohio State would win the national title. More

793
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: on that in a second, But look what happened right

794
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: behind them. Alabama was second, Washington was fourth, Washington was

795
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: actually tied for third, Texas was tied for third. All

796
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: of the playoff teams were there except one. Michigan wasn't

797
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 1: up there. Michigan. What happened with Michigan. Well, what happened

798
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: was when we look at the mock drafts this time

799
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 1: of year, all they projects first rounders. Okay, there aren't

800
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: mock drafts out there that projects seven rounds for something

801
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: happened in a year from now, because that would be psychotic,

802
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: even by Mott draft standards. And what happened was Michigan

803
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: ended up sending JJ McCarthy and then a whole lot

804
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: of second through seventh round guys. Well they didn't show

805
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: up in the Mott drafts. That didn't mean Michigan want loaded.

806
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: Michigan may have the opposite problem this year. So here's

807
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 1: what I'm getting to that's the past. Here's the future.

808
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: I am literally it is seven forty one PM on

809
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: Thursday May sixteenth, the year of our alert, twenty twenty

810
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: four and spoiler alert. I apologize, But what else are

811
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: we going to do tonight? I'm gonna tell who's going

812
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: to win the national championship this upcoming year. And this

813
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: is science. This is not me. This is science. So

814
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 1: if I'm right, I want the credit. If I'm wrong,

815
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: it's all on Jesse aka science. So we combined twenty

816
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: four to seven and the Athletic and PFF and ESPM

817
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: because we really like the Mott drafts they put together.

818
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: And here's what we have come to the conclusion of Michigan.

819
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: Michigan's gonna win the national championship again? How well Michigan

820
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: is projected to have three point seven five first round

821
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: draft picks on average? Is it gonna happen? Do you

822
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: think this is gonna happen? Well more in just a second.

823
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: It sure would be the story of the decade in

824
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: college football. At least one of Ohio State's right behind

825
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: them Georgia as well with three projected a piece on average,

826
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: Texas and LSU LSU circling here. Even with Texas two

827
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: point seven to five average first round draft picks projected,

828
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: friends Colorado is squarely in the mix. I will dismiss

829
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: them momentarily because I'm either a hater or a realist,

830
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: and it's crazy how frequently those two are conflated when

831
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: talking about Colorado, Penn State, and Oregon one point seventy

832
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: five projected on average. So here's the thing with Michigan.

833
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: I think that I want to argue with the science

834
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: a bit. Far be it for me to do that, right,

835
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: But I want to argue with the science a bit.

836
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: I think we need to watch what we are calling

837
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: the classic Michigan inversion conundrum or a mick or a mic.

838
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking into one, we're dealing with one.

839
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: So last year, Michigan has not first round heavy talent.

840
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: They've got second through seventh round talent all over the place.

841
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: They just what was it, Jesse fifteen? They sent like

842
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: fifteen to the draft, but they weren't first rounders. Well,

843
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: now Michigan's got some star studded, like first round caliber

844
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: talent here, but I don't think they'll have nearly the

845
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: second through seventh round talent, and so it could be

846
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: that Michigan is working the science against us. Will we

847
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: be fooled? Well, you have to tune in in August

848
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: for my National championship predictions. Ohio State though, here's what

849
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: happened with them last year. So Ohio State was the

850
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: one in the catbird seat with all the mock drafts.

851
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: They were the one. They were the team that was

852
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: going to send all these kids to the first round.

853
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: Yet all those kids that were projected to go first

854
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: round came back. That's why Ohio State ended up not

855
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: littering the NFL draft to the degree they could have,

856
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: cause JTT back Jack, saw your back, Abuka. All those

857
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: guys are back, and I think that boat's pretty well

858
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: for them this year. Colorado's an outlier. Colorado. What you're

859
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: gonna end up seeing is they'll have a couple of

860
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: guys go really high, like Shador Travis Hunter. They're in

861
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: that conversation. They could go really high and they may

862
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: not even have another guy drafted, or if they do,

863
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 1: it certainly won't be anywhere close to the same ballpark

864
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: as what Michigan just did. Arizona is intriguing. Arizona's not

865
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: gonna win a national championship this year, I don't think.

866
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: But Arizona's intriguing cause Brennan came in there from San

867
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: Jose State. But they kept their star players Noah Flafida,

868
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about in a little while. They kept

869
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: some star players there and it's an underrated roster. So

870
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: let's just keep an eye on Arizona. Let's keep an

871
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: eye on Michigan inversion. But that's science. So again, if

872
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 1: you want to argue with me, just know that you're

873
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: arguing with science. You're not arguing with me or Jesse.

874
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: You're arguing with science. Don't be the guy who argues

875
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: with science. Okay, especially on the Internet. Don't do that.

876
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: It will not end well for you. Bold Prediction time, Yes,

877
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: what would America's college football show be without ridiculously bold

878
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: predictions from the audience themselves? Bold Prediction season is basically

879
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: May through August around here at Peate State. And what

880
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 1: we do is I ask you to do one thing.

881
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: You got to go honor system with me on this

882
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: because there's no way to track it. But I ask you,

883
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: what is the boldest possible thing you believe will happen

884
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: this year? That you would be willing to bet money on,

885
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: and thankfully a lot of you abuse the system and

886
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: it leads to really good content. So here we go

887
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: bold prediction number one tonight from Ovedo, Florida. Florida wins

888
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: eight plus games and goes three and oho in state.

889
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: So Florida plays the toughest schedule this side of the

890
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: AFC East this year, and they're going to be an

891
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: underdog in several games. But they do play Miami in

892
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: Week one, they play Central Florida, and they play Florida

893
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: State like they do every year at the end of

894
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: the season. So what we're saying here is they're gonna

895
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: beat all three of those teams. Miami, they'll be a

896
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: short underdog against Florida, I think will be about a

897
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: touchdown or still against Central Florida, and they'll as it

898
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,919
Speaker 1: stands now, be about a double digit dog against Florida State.

899
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: But that's at the end of the season, so like

900
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: who knows what happens between now and them. But outside

901
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: of that, they got A and m they got at Tennessee,

902
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: they got Georgia at Texas, LSU all miss they got

903
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: a lot of games where they're gonna be a underdog here.

904
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: You told me they got to win eight of those

905
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: and three of the eight have to be wins over

906
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: Florida State, Central Florida and Miami. If this happens, Billy

907
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: Napier is the coach of the year, I think. But

908
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: if it happens, it's also a miracle. So I'm gonna

909
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: say nine point five on the boldness scale, and you

910
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: know the rules. I think you know the rules, but

911
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: let me remind you of the rules if you make

912
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: a prediction on this show that I rate a nine

913
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: point five or higher and you hit chalice of supremacy

914
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: at your doorstep. And I think we had to think.

915
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: We had two such situations last year, two or three.

916
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: So we'll see next Up told you we were going

917
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: back to Arizona. Zach hit us up and said Arizona

918
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: will run the table and win the Big Twelve. Noah

919
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: Fafieda wins the Heisman at plus three thousand odds. Those

920
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: are well, that's a bold prediction. There's a couple of

921
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: bold predictions. Let's deal with the Big Twelve. First, they

922
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: have the fourth best odds. Do the Arizona Wildcats to

923
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: win the Big Twelve? And it's a group of Utah,

924
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: Kansas State, Kansas, Arizona, and then you got Texas Tech

925
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: and Iowa State. You got to go Oklahoma State, UCF,

926
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: TCU West Virgina, you go all the way. So that's

927
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: two four, six eight. They are ten deep of teams

928
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: where Vegas is basically saying, yeah, these teams legitimately could

929
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: win this thing. Amazing the Big twelve America's Football Conference.

930
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: They got early tests at Kansas State and at Utah,

931
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: and that Kansas State games on a Friday night and

932
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: that was going to be wild. When we were up

933
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: at Kansas State of about a month and a half ago,

934
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: they had just announced that thing was going to be

935
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: a Friday night game and they were already talking about it.

936
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: That Friday night Fox game is going to be pretty wild,

937
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: especially that one. So if they obviously, if they get

938
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: through those first two, then they're off to the races,

939
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: and I think that Friday night game's crucial. So Fafida

940
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: has the fourteenth best HEISMANADS. That's the quarterback there. He's

941
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 1: got the fourteenth best HEISMANADS. You got to ask yourself,

942
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: how many times is he going to be in the spotlight?

943
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe or Carson Beck or like even Will Howard.

944
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: Those guys will be national TV every week. You won't

945
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,479
Speaker 1: have to struggle to find them. Will you be able

946
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: to find Arizona games. Here's what's got to happen that

947
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: Week three game when they go to Kansas State. That's

948
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: a standalone game, that's a Friday night game, so it

949
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: probably it may be the biggest audience that watches him

950
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: all year. He's got to go off in that game.

951
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: They got to go to Kansas State. They got to

952
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: pull the upset, and he's got to have like like

953
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: three point fifty and four touchdowns and another two on

954
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,479
Speaker 1: the ground. Like, he's got to have some crazy game

955
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: to get people talking early to where he ends up

956
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: being appointment television throughout the rest of the year. And

957
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: if that happens, we'll see this is a nine and

958
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: a half, though. You got to have both of these

959
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: things happen. So that's our second nine point five in

960
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: a row. This is a nine point five. If this

961
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: goes down, Zach Poff gets the chalice of supremacy. Next up,

962
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: not quite as bold, how about this one in the

963
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest, Oregon has the best defense in all of

964
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 1: college football. How about what this prediction would have sounded

965
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: like a decade ago. So as it stands, this is

966
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: only an eight on the boldness scale nowadays. They were

967
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: number nine in scoring offense last year, so they were

968
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: already top ten and seventy percent of that production returns

969
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: and they are number fifteen if you care about these

970
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: sorts of things. They're number fifteen in the preseason smp

971
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 1: plus defensive rankings according to bi Conley. Here's what I

972
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: think about. So, yeah, it's nice to get seventy percent

973
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: of that production back, but I care that that recruiting

974
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: continues to stack up. They're bringing in portal needs and

975
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: they're addressing it on that side of the ball. But

976
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: also they're going into a conference that will probably boost

977
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: their defensive profile, going from the Pac twelve, where folks

978
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: throw it all over you all day, to the Big Ten.

979
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: And according to Stats and Info, they play one offense

980
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: in the preseason smp plus top twenty five, and that's

981
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: Ohio State. They play six offenses ranked seventy fifth or worse,

982
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: and they open with Idaho and Boise State before going

983
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: to Oregon State. So this is not out of the

984
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: realm of possibility. And how sweet would it be for

985
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning with all this talk about his quarterbacks and

986
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: all this firepower they've had with bo Nicks, and now

987
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: they're going to have it with Gabriel and then it's

988
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: going to be It's just an endless supply of offensive fireworks.

989
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: Dante Moore after that, what if he can knock on

990
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: your door, walk in your living room and say hello,

991
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,439
Speaker 1: I also have the top defense in the country. Would

992
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: you like to come play for us if we can

993
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: afford to offer you. I'm gonna make that one an

994
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: eight on the boldness scale because it's not the boldest

995
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 1: thing in the world. Lastly, for tonight, Oh, this would

996
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: be fun. You want to know about a prediction I'll

997
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: just openly root for. How about this one from Lincoln, Nebraska.

998
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 1: We get this Virginia Tech will be undefeated when they

999
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: play Clemson College game Day. Is there the world sees

1000
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: how great Blacksburg truly is. That one's hot, That one's

1001
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: really hot. It's a seven point five on the boldness scale,

1002
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: partly because I think it could happen, also because I'm

1003
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: trying to wish it into existence. That is their ninth game.

1004
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 1: I believe Jesse The Clemson game is their ninth game,

1005
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: so they have to be eight to o for this

1006
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: to happen. One two, three, four, five, six seven eight night.

1007
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: It's their tenth game, but it's at home. I mean,

1008
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: let me just read this schedule to you. At Vandy

1009
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: Marshall at Old Dominion, Rutgers at Miami's the first time.

1010
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: I'm confident they'll be an underdog at Stanford, no rest

1011
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: the next week. Boston College, Georgia Tech at Syracuse Clemson.

1012
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: This is one of the most workable schedules in the country.

1013
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is to harken back to our good

1014
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: buddy and friend of the program JP from Angels in

1015
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: the Outfield. Okay, it could happen. Not it will happen.

1016
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: You know what, Maybe I should just say it will happen.

1017
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,919
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is they can run the ball. They're

1018
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: more confident about who they are. Kirene drones up there.

1019
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: I went to watch practice up in Blacksburg, my first

1020
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: visit there, about a month and a half ago, which

1021
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: of course means nothing, but it sounds good to say.

1022
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: If this happens, there is a portion of the audience.

1023
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: I think my high school and college age audience who

1024
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: would learn for the first time what a lot of

1025
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 1: us once upon a time knew, and that is Virginia Tech,

1026
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,919
Speaker 1: when they're nationally relevant, can be one of the most

1027
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: incredible brands in college football. And the home atmosphere that

1028
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: Clemson would walk into if Virginia Tech was nine to

1029
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: zero and awaiting their visit in early November in a

1030
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: place where they sell out Lane Stadium even when they're bad,

1031
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: if those folks finally get a winner back in their lab,

1032
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,479
Speaker 1: if Brent Pry and his staff deliver those folks a winner,

1033
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: and there is not a fan base more starved and

1034
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: more deserving of a winner than Virginia Tech fans. If

1035
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: they get that and game days up there, and I

1036
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: can promise you I'd be up there along with them. Oh,

1037
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: it just makes your mouth water. I oh, I need

1038
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: to wash it down right quick. So the reason I

1039
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: don't call myself a journalist is because I want to

1040
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: leave myself the leeway to root for certain things and

1041
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: have open biases. And one of my biases is, yeah,

1042
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm just going to openly root for Virginia Tech this year.

1043
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 1: So there you go, do without what you will. Colin

1044
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: can you do me a favor right quick? Can you

1045
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: put up the slider of their over under win total again?

1046
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: Because I want to see something. It's in reference to FanDuel.

1047
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: Our friends at FanDuel are the exclusive odds provider of

1048
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: our show. There you see Virginia Tech and Colin very

1049
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: slyly changes the lower while also give me the slider.

1050
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: If you're listening on podcasts, that means nothing. Virginia Tech's

1051
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: over under win total seven and a half. So like

1052
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: that bold prediction that would have the over already taken

1053
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: care of before that Clemson game even happens. But there

1054
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: you see it, and if you want to bet that,

1055
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 1: that's available to be bet on FanDuel right now now.

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Speaker 1: and that's obviously we need to talk about video games.

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Speaker 1: Do we have a question? Yeah, we got the question. Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: uh Palo Alto's favorite tree. I assume that's a birth

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Speaker 1: certificate verified name from San Rafael, California, said, Hey, what's

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on all the NCAA covers that were released

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Speaker 1: this past week? Did they choose the right players? So

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Speaker 1: he of course is talking about NCAA College Football twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, which is coming to us July nineteenth. More

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Speaker 1: on that very important date in a second for multiple reasons.

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Speaker 1: We have the Deluxe edition, which has a lot of

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Speaker 1: players on it, then we got the regular edition over there,

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Speaker 1: Quinn viewers, Travis Hunter and Dylan Edwards are on both

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Speaker 1: of them. Donovan Evers are on both of them. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they chose the right players because there's no wrong choice here.

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Speaker 1: You guys are getting the game back. Five seconds into

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Speaker 1: getting this game back, and some of you wanted to quibble,

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Speaker 1: By the way, do we have to tweet Colin from

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Speaker 1: whatever a Dov Climbing is? How about this? Do you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about coming up with the headline and

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Speaker 1: trying to find the story to match it. Dob climb

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Speaker 1: is one of those aggregation accounts on Twitter comes at

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Speaker 1: us with this headline five nanoseconds after the video game

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Speaker 1: covers are released trending, many fans are upset that sho

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Speaker 1: Door Sanders is nowhere to be seen on the deluxe

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Speaker 1: cover of EA Sports College Football twenty five. Dude, Shadure

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Speaker 1: Sanders didn't even complain about it. No one complained about this.

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Speaker 1: I have here an exhaustive list of the fans. The

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Speaker 1: many fans who were upset at Shadure not being on

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Speaker 1: the cover, there are no names. Dov are the upset

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Speaker 1: fans in the room with you right now? Do you

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Speaker 1: see the upset fans at the table with you? So anyway,

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Speaker 1: nobody cares about that. A lot of people care about

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Speaker 1: this game coming out. Quinn Shawn Judkins made the cover

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Speaker 1: of the Deluxe Edition in an Ohio State uniform, even

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Speaker 1: though he's never played for him yet, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Carson Beck's on their Millro's on there, Edwards Hunter ewers Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a really big deal. I'm

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Speaker 1: not the biggest gamer in the world, but this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a really big deal. But let me

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Speaker 1: tell you what's even bigger. Immunity. I need you to

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Speaker 1: be serious with me for a second. Even though I

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Speaker 1: just said immunity, I need you to be real with

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Speaker 1: me for a second. July nineteenth is going to go

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Speaker 1: down as one of the biggest days in the history

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Speaker 1: of this country, Nay, one of the biggest days in

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Speaker 1: the history of the world. The EA Sports College Football

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Speaker 1: game is released for the first time in a decade

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Speaker 1: on the same day that Twisters is released. And I

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Speaker 1: have come up with a strategy for many of you

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Speaker 1: who are who are very at odds with how you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to handle your day that day without question, call

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Speaker 1: nothing to your community that day. That goes without saying.

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Speaker 1: But here's what I want you to do. I have

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Speaker 1: it on good authority that even if you buy this

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Speaker 1: thing and you download it, Jesse, probably like two to

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Speaker 1: four hours is what we think it's going to take

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Speaker 1: for it to download, which is just enough time, friends,

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Speaker 1: for you to get your ticket, get in line, go

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Speaker 1: see Twisters, and can you imagine the euphoria of experiencing

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Speaker 1: Twister come back to us for the first time in

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Speaker 1: thirty years. And as the credits start to roll and

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Speaker 1: you've been blessed with that experience, you're about to head home,

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Speaker 1: and you're about to crank up the sticks and play

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Speaker 1: college football video games for the rest of your night.

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Speaker 1: You might as well be fifteen years old again. You

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Speaker 1: might as well have dunk a ruse. You might as

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Speaker 1: old you are again. I don't care if you have

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Speaker 1: a job. I don't care about actual real world responsibilities.

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Speaker 1: July nineteenth should be a federal holiday and a day

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Speaker 1: where you worry about none of that crying baby in

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Speaker 1: the background. Let them cry. We got Twisters out, and

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Speaker 1: we got NCAA College Football twenty five video game out,

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Speaker 1: and I look, here's my only piece of advice. That's

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Speaker 1: the last day this video game comes out, and Twisters

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Speaker 1: comes out, the last day of SEC Media Days, and

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Speaker 1: Herb Vincent Herb, Herb, Herb runs this thing for the SEC. Brother,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening, you have always shown yourself to be

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Speaker 1: to be decided by how now you handle from an

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Speaker 1: organizational standpoint, the last day of Media Days. Because you

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Speaker 1: think you have a lot of adults covering that event,

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Speaker 1: you just got a lot of kids posing as adults.

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Speaker 1: And I may be one of them. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know what you got to do to get it done,

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Speaker 1: but you better have some consoles set up there at

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Speaker 1: a very sparse crowd on the last day of SEC

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Speaker 1: Media Days. Someone just said, great show as always. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a good way in the live chat to

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Speaker 1: end the show. Thank you guys so much. We do

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Speaker 1: not believe in an off season, and we don't because

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Speaker 1: there's always stuff to talk about. The NBA Playoffs are

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Speaker 1: going on entering month three right now. If that's your

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Speaker 1: cup of tea, that's your cup of tea. It's just

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Speaker 1: not going to be talking about on this show because

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Speaker 1: we have plenty of college football at our fingertips. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys so much. All I ask you to do

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Speaker 1: is subscribe to the podcast, subscribe to the YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: and that's it and the show will remain free until forever.

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Speaker 1: For producer Jesse, director Colin, I'm Josh Fate, Take care,

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Speaker 1: have a great start to your weekend, and God bless.

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