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Speaker 1: here's the other side of that. What if this isn't

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Speaker 1: true and what if it does work out? And that's

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Speaker 1: not what was asked, but I'm asking it. You know

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Speaker 1: what if A and M totally turns it around this year?

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Speaker 1: You see why that's one of those inflection point teams.

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Speaker 1: Think about how different that looks, Think about how different

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Speaker 1: it sounds asking about whether Jimbo Fisher is going to

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Speaker 1: be fired the first week of December, versus is Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M going to extend Bobby Petrino multiple years

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Speaker 1: and double his salary Because this just works so well?

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Speaker 1: Is A and M gonna win the SEC Championship game

438
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Speaker 1: could literally go either way. Well a roster as good

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Speaker 1: as theirs. Next up, Nola said, what if Penn State

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Speaker 1: wins the Big Ten? This is a game changer for

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Speaker 1: James Franklin. This is his arrival to the Tier one

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Speaker 1: college football table. I think that's what it would sound like,

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Speaker 1: because I think if Penn State wins the Big Ten,

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Speaker 1: I think they're in the college football playoff, not the

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Speaker 1: twelve team version, the four team version, the version many

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Speaker 1: of you think they're incapable of breaking through and entering.

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Speaker 1: They have got the third best odds to win the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten right now. They go to Ohio State. Just

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Speaker 1: to give you an idea of what the odds market

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Speaker 1: thinks about that. They play at Ohio State in Week eight.

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Speaker 1: They are a ten and a half point dog. They

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Speaker 1: play against Michigan at home three weeks later, and Michigan

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Speaker 1: is favored by about two and a half at Penn State.

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Speaker 1: So they are a dog. Not huge, but they are

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Speaker 1: a dog in both of their biggest games. If they

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Speaker 1: do pull this off, though, and they absolutely have the capability.

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Speaker 1: Forget about quarterback for a second. If Drew Aller plays

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Speaker 1: at a high level, that's like a whole nother stratosphere

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Speaker 1: of a conversation. But they have a great tandem in

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Speaker 1: the backfield. They probably had the best left tackle in football.

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Speaker 1: They have a phenomenal defense led by a phenomenal defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator in Manny Diaz not a lot of holes on

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Speaker 1: that team. So this is not something that would be shocking.

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Speaker 1: But there's a group of people that would be shocked

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Speaker 1: by it because there's a group of people that just

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Speaker 1: think the ceiling for that team, the ceiling for a

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Speaker 1: James Franklin program is below that. I don't happen to

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Speaker 1: be that, but they still I mean, this would be

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest step they've taken as a program

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Speaker 1: in a long long time. That would be playoff access.

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Speaker 1: That would be really big. It would be not just

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Speaker 1: for this year. Think about what that does for recruiting,

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Speaker 1: think about what think about the hype machine behind Penn

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Speaker 1: State going into twenty twenty four. So if Oller takes

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Speaker 1: them to the playoff, a Big Ten championship and a

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Speaker 1: probable playoff trip as a true freshman, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: preseason national championship consideration for Penn State the following year,

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Speaker 1: you would have them in conversations they've never been in

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Speaker 1: under James Franklin up there or in most of our lifetimes. Actually,

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Speaker 1: next up, Now, this one's wild. This one's wild, but

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Speaker 1: it does need to be talked about because it just happened.

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Speaker 1: So Ian said, what if TCU makes the playoff again.

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Speaker 1: This was like a Phil Colin special. This was against

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Speaker 1: all odds last year, close games every week. Somehow, somehow,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, TCU did not win the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: and went to the playoff. I have said before and

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Speaker 1: I'll say again that will be the most misremembered thing

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Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty two season is that TCU won

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. That's how everyone remembers it. They did not,

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Speaker 1: Kansas State did. It's just that TCU's resume was good

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Speaker 1: enough that they didn't need to win their conference title game. Now,

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Speaker 1: that is something you think only happens in the SEC

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Speaker 1: normally or the Big Ten. Nope, happened in the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve last year. This would stun me pretty significantly if

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Speaker 1: they were to make it again. Their twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: S and P plus ranking is twentieth's third highest in

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve entering the season, but they're ninety eighth

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Speaker 1: then returning production, very controversial stat returning production. They lost

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Speaker 1: their OC Garrett Riley to Clemson. They lost their quarterback,

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Speaker 1: top two rushers, top three wide receivers, and key offensive linemen.

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Speaker 1: They're only one of three teams in that conference that

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Speaker 1: have to play OU and Texas. So with all that,

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Speaker 1: what if they still make the playoff? That would cement

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Speaker 1: them as a current top ten program in college football.

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Speaker 1: That's what it would do. I mean, if if anybody

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Speaker 1: pulled that off, if Kirby Smart pulled that off, with

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Speaker 1: all those kind of losses, it's a big deal. If

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Speaker 1: Sonny Dykes pulls it off, and therefore his first two

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Speaker 1: seasons in Fort Worth equal to playoff appearances, you're talking

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Speaker 1: about sort of sort of rewriting top ten, both in

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Speaker 1: terms of head coaches in terms of programs. So that'd

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Speaker 1: be a really big deal and the Big twelve would

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Speaker 1: have representation. Again, I would also love to know, by

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Speaker 1: the way, if they make it, did they make it

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Speaker 1: at the expense of Texas, know you? Because that's its

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Speaker 1: own that's its own little story that needs to be told. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: now this one's the most intriguing, probably of the four.

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Speaker 1: What if an ACC team not named Florida State or

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Speaker 1: Clemson makes that college football playoff? Whoms would this be?

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Speaker 1: We looked at the odds past the top two. Those

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Speaker 1: are clearly the top two. You look at the odds

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Speaker 1: past the top two in the ACC. You got North

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Speaker 1: Carolina and Louisville tied for third. Miami's fifth NC state

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Speaker 1: is six, Pitt is seven, and it pretty much drops

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Speaker 1: off a cliff after that. To Duke for the record,

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Speaker 1: I have a sneaking suspicion that Louisville is just going

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Speaker 1: to figure out a way to hang around this because

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Speaker 1: Louisville has by far the most fortuitous schedule in the ACC.

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Speaker 1: But that would be the talk. If Louisville were to

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Speaker 1: make the playoff, it will be for the fact that

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Speaker 1: they navigated a far less than treacherous schedule. They don't

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Speaker 1: play FSU in the regular season, they don't play Clemson

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Speaker 1: in the regular season, and then they figured out a

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Speaker 1: way to win. They either figured out a way to

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Speaker 1: win the ACC Championship game or just follow me here.

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Speaker 1: What if Louisville were to be this year's TCU, they

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Speaker 1: win a bunch of close games, They'll just be favored

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Speaker 1: in a lot of these games. Period. They go into Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: I think that's where the game is undefeated, don't even

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Speaker 1: win the ACC Championship game, but the rest of the

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Speaker 1: country shakes out in such a way that two teams

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Speaker 1: from the ACC can make it. What if that were

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Speaker 1: to happen, that's a big what if. But if it

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Speaker 1: weren't Louisville. If Miami does this, you need to listen

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Speaker 1: to me very closely. I tell you all the time,

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Speaker 1: you're not ready for Texas to be back, or you're

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Speaker 1: not ready for Alabama fans if Alabama really truly falls off,

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Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure. In fact, I'm very sure the

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Speaker 1: rest of the country is not ready for Miami to

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Speaker 1: be back. You're not ready for fifty six year old

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Speaker 1: sports writers to start using the word swagger. You're not

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Speaker 1: ready for folks throwing that you up in your face,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the middle of a grocery store. You're

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Speaker 1: not ready for all of those T shirts with the

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Speaker 1: stickers still on them all over the country. Miami is

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Speaker 1: a really unique place. Miami is a place, probably more

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Speaker 1: so than any major school in the country, where that

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Speaker 1: big a percentage of the fan base did not go there.

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Speaker 1: So it's a pretty small school. It's private school, so

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Speaker 1: a vast majority of the alumni are not actually alumni.

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Speaker 1: They just identify with Miami. And nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 1: I got nothing. I got no problem with that, but

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Speaker 1: it just it makes for a different dynamic when you're

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Speaker 1: not winning. When you're not winning, those folks don't have

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Speaker 1: the same kind of attachment that you, a Mississippi State

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Speaker 1: fan have because you graduated from there and you've lived

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Speaker 1: within twenty miles of Starkville your whole life. That's a

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Speaker 1: different kind of attachment. A lot of these folks live

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Speaker 1: in la they live in Atlanta, they live in Raleigh,

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Speaker 1: they live in New York, and a lot of them

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Speaker 1: live in Miami. But if you're not winning, they're not

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Speaker 1: giving you that time like they would if they were

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Speaker 1: in Auburn. But here's where some of you were wrong.

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Speaker 1: Some of you think, oh, Miami game Day atmospheres leaves

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Speaker 1: a lot to be desired. It does when they're losing.

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Speaker 1: I will promise you, and I know I'm right because

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Speaker 1: I've seen it happen. I will promise you if Miami

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Speaker 1: gets things figured out, if they're back on top of

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Speaker 1: the ACC if Miami is ever a college football playoff contender,

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Speaker 1: they will sell out hard Rock. Make no mistake about it,

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Speaker 1: because it almost happened a few years ago. There's just

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Speaker 1: a game that's kind of been forgotten by the public.

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Speaker 1: It was in the latter portion of the Mark Rick era.

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Speaker 1: They played Notre Dame down there, smoked them, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and hard Rock Stadium was unlike anything you've seen down

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Speaker 1: there outside of a playoff game or a national title game.

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Speaker 1: It was jammed or the rafters. You couldn't hear anything.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was stunned. I was talking to someone who was

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Speaker 1: with the broadcast crew a few weeks ago, and they

590
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Speaker 1: were talking about that game. They were saying, people think

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Speaker 1: Miami can't pack a stadium. No, they're not gonna pack

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Speaker 1: a stadium or come close to it if the team's

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Speaker 1: not good. If the team's good, it is the most

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Speaker 1: radical difference. It's the most radical turnaround in the nature

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Speaker 1: of a fan base that you'll see anywhere. USC's kind

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Speaker 1: of like that. Miami is absolutely like that. So there

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Speaker 1: are some very consequential what ifs there on the sheet tonight.

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Speaker 1: You know what I need to do. I need to

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Speaker 1: show you some pictures. Okay, So the first thing I

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Speaker 1: need to do is I need to tell you before

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Speaker 1: you go outside tomorrow, go to Academy Sports and Outdoors.

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Speaker 1: It'll do everyone a world of good. They sell everything

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Speaker 1: you need virtually everything you need. One of you sent

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Speaker 1: me a picture the other day and you purchased some

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Speaker 1: big leak chew in the checkout line and Academy, yes

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Speaker 1: they carry such things, but they also have they got

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Speaker 1: outdoors where they got swimwear if you need it tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: probably a pool noodle or two could be found around Academy.

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Speaker 1: You need one of those basketball hoops that fits in

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Speaker 1: the swimming pool. They got everything taken care of, and

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Speaker 1: so that is your outdoor sporting goods supplier, plus grills, tents, etc.

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Speaker 1: But I tell you all the time, a lot of

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Speaker 1: you guys send me evidence that you go there. So

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Speaker 1: I showed you a couple of weeks ago a few pictures.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening on podcast, we are looking at a

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Speaker 1: but there is a real life person seated in a

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Speaker 1: chair at Academy, great chairs at Academy. That's Dirk. Dirk

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Speaker 1: did not send me these pictures to celebrate himself. He

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Speaker 1: wanted us to know that little baby Iris, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the world. Iris made her first trip to an Academy

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Speaker 1: and outside the Academy in Birmingham, Alabama. So from us

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Speaker 1: to you, Iris, you're off to a great start in life,

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Speaker 1: far greater than I was. It was several years before

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Speaker 1: I went to Academy Sports and Outdoors and you're there

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Speaker 1: before you can even talk. Who know, you know, I

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Speaker 1: need to keep in touch with Dirk. Maybe her first

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Speaker 1: word would be academy and if you could capture that

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Speaker 1: you all of you guys for making Academy like a

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Speaker 1: Flap the wings. That's our hope. Uh. I guess we

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Speaker 1: got to talk about Steve Sarkisian, don't we. Jesse wants

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Speaker 1: me to ask you to like the video, cause four

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Speaker 1: you deliver. Steve Sarkisian, head coach at Texas about to

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Speaker 1: enter his third year great trivia question, where was he

643
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: a head coach before hit Texas, and the answer is Alabama. No,

644
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Speaker 1: he wasn't. He was the offensive coordinator at Alabama except

645
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: the Iron Bowl in twenty twenty, when he was the

646
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: room because Nick Saban had to stay home due to

647
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: the evils of COVID. Break that out at your next

648
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: college football trivia night. See how many people get it.

649
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian one to zho undefeated as a head coach

650
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: at Alabama. There is no head coach in America that

651
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: could change the perception of himself more in one year

652
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: than Steve Sarkisian. This fall in Austin, they're favored to

653
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: win the Big Twelve. If they do it, they'll be

654
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: right there in college football playoff consideration. They got a

655
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: stacked quarterback room, they got a stacked wide receiver room.

656
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: They're recruiting very, very well. The opinion that I got

657
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,919
Speaker 1: more often than not from you today is no one

658
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: questions his acumen as an offensive coordinator. As a play caller,

659
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: he is lethal in both of those categories. But the

660
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: most popular refrain from you, and this was not a

661
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: surprise to me, was think he's a great play caller,

662
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: great offensive coordinator, I've either got questions about him as

663
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: a head coach or I just don't think he's a

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Speaker 1: good head coach. It was something along those lines, So

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Speaker 1: I'll address that in a second. But there were several

666
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Speaker 1: of you, in fact, a surprising number of you, who said,

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Speaker 1: I think this is a make or break year for

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Speaker 1: Steve Sarksian. No, it's not. This is not a make

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Speaker 1: or break year for him. Let me ask you a question,

670
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: what do you mean by break? Do you mean if

671
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Speaker 1: he doesn't win a certain number of games, he's fired?

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00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: Is that what you mean? Certainly, if they go nine

673
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: and three in the regular season, they haven't arrived. But

674
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: he's not getting fired. So what are we talking about.

675
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: That phrase is thrown around him far too loosely. In

676
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: college football, they hope for more than nine and three.

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00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: But I can confidently tell you if Sart goes nine

678
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: to three, Number one, that means he improved on last

679
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: year's record and will have improved every year he's been

680
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: at Texas. And number two, he will be back to

681
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: lead the Longhorns in twenty twenty four. It is not

682
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: a make or break year. If they go four and eight,

683
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: then you start having a different conversation. I don't think

684
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: they're going to go four to eight this year. Then again,

685
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: I said A and M was disaster proof last year

686
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: and we saw that out. So no promises, but I

687
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 1: feel pretty confident about that. Steve Sarkisian also has had

688
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: a very public battle with alcoholism in the past. I

689
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: respect anyone who's public about that. I've watched it before

690
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: up close. It is disgusting. I mean what it's. It's

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00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: something that I don't think is properly talked about in

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00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: the just the mainstream conversation because a lot of folks

693
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: haven't been around it. But many people haven't experienced it.

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Speaker 1: I haven't experienced it personally, I eliminate it from the equation.

695
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: I don't drink at all. That's the only way to

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00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: one hundred percent guarantee it. But I've watched people go

697
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: through it, and you can so clearly tell people who

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00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: have gone through it or personally witnessed it close up

699
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: versus people who haven't. The ones who haven't are the

700
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: ones who joke about it and are flipping about it,

701
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: which I think is kind of pathetic. And I saw

702
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: a lot of that today. That is what it is.

703
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: We don't I'm not going to traffic in that. But

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00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian is a guy who, because of those sorts

705
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: of external factors, really cost himself early opportunities in his career.

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Speaker 1: This is nothing that he hasn't spoken about publicly, and

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00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: I respect the heck out of anyone who will talk

708
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 1: about it publicly. And so he goes to Alabama. There

709
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: were hiccups at Alabama. I remember one year they were

710
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: on the field celebrating. First time I ever talked to

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00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian. They were on the field celebrating, and he did, ironically,

712
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: he did the same thing Kiffin would do when Alabama

713
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: would be celebrating winning the SEC or even a playoff

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Speaker 1: game or a national title. He and Kiffin, when they

715
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: were there, respectfully or respectively, they would stand off to

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00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: the side. They would like stand off out where the

717
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: media is standing on the field and they would just

718
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: kind of watch from afar. They wouldn't be up on

719
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: the stage, they'd be out of the spotlight. And I

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00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: walked up to him, I said, man, I want you

721
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: to know I'm really really happy for you, and he said, man,

722
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: I appreciate that more than anything. You'll know, just moved

723
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: right along. But I remember that because I felt it.

724
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: I didn't say it to him just to you know,

725
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: introduce myself. Well if I said it to him, because

726
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: he had been really open about the battles that he

727
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: had faced, just inner demons, just stuff that has nothing

728
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: to do with football, that obviously impacts football. And it's

729
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 1: very very well documented how it went down at Washington,

730
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: It's very well documented how he sort of resurrected his

731
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: career at Alabama. And now he gets a shot at Texas.

732
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Speaker 1: And there are a lot of folks out there, every

733
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Speaker 1: bit within their right to doubt whether he'll ultimately be

734
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: the guy who brings Texas back. But I'm just telling you,

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00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: if he does, they're recruiting very well right now, and

736
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: they're trending very well right now. If he does, think

737
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: about the added layer, I mean, think about the story

738
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: that that is and sort of the motivational aspect, the

739
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: motivational layer that's woven in there. Maybe for people who

740
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: don't even care about college football, you get a guy

741
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: who is in the depths of alcoholism, completely rehabilitates his image,

742
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: competes at the highest level of the sport, ghost to

743
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: work for the best in the world in Nick Saban

744
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: gets his endorsement to the point where I don't think

745
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: I ever saw Nick Saban yell at him. Saban would

746
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 1: chew Kiffin's head off every other quarter in Tuscaloosa. Sark

747
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: was so lethal at Alabama, Saban thought to himself, what

748
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: can I say to this guy? That's how good Steve

749
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: Sarkisan was as a coordinator and a play caller. And

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00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: if he goes through that and then he goes to

751
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: Texas and undertakes what the Texas head coaching job is.

752
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: By the way, it's a job, and it's a situation

753
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: that has been thought by some in the past to

754
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: be unwinnable because of all the mess you have to

755
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: deal with internally. If he, of all people dealing with

756
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: what he's dealt with in his personal life, is the

757
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: one who goes in there and who navigates those waters

758
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: and brings Texas back just as they're about to enter

759
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: the sec mind, you think about what kind of story

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00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: that is in the history of college football, not just Texas,

761
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: in the history of college football. So I watch it

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00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: from that vantage point like that's I look at. And also,

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00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: if you want my personal opinion, on this. I think

764
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: he's really good. I think Steve Sarkisian is being treated

765
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: sort of like many other younger head coaches are now.

766
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: Sark is not as young or as wet behind the

767
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: ears as a Lincoln Riley when he was at Oklahoma

768
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: or Kirby at Georgia or Ryan Day at Ohio State.

769
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: Sark It had head coaching jobs before he messed him up,

770
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: and then he worked his way back up, got another shot,

771
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: and now he's got one of the big boy jobs

772
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: in college football. But it's sort of the same, sort

773
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: of the same process in place, So some of the

774
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 1: same mechanisms are in place. People looking at him like

775
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: they look at Lincoln Riley, like they look at Kiffin

776
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: sometimes like they look at Ryan Day. Yeah, these guys

777
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: are really good offensive minds, and yeah, man, their offense

778
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: any given Saturday could score fifty on you. But is

779
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: the culture conducive to playing the kind of defense that

780
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: you have to play the overall team football aspect, is

781
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: it conducive to playing championship caliber football? So far, the

782
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: answer has been no. At Texas, But then again, they

783
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: had to rebuild at Texas. They don't necessarily have to

784
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: rebuild at Oklahoma or Ohio State. They got to rebuild

785
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: at Texas. And that's the point they've been doing it.

786
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: And here's why I think it's ultimately going to work out.

787
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: I think Steve Sarkisian will be a successful head coach

788
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: at Texas. I strongly believe it, or not believe in

789
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: them this year. The reason is because he has not

790
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: gone in there and just littered his roster with a

791
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: bunch of wide receivers and running backs quarterbacks. He's gone

792
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: in there and rebuilt the line of scrimmage. He's got

793
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: a really, really good recruiting staff. I mean, they've got

794
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: they got over a century of NFL experience in that

795
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: coaching room. Those guys know what they're doing. And that

796
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: also indicates, by the way, there are a lot of

797
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: folks perfectly willing to tie their name to the name

798
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian. You may not think about that as being significant.

799
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: It is coordinators, position coaches. Yeah, that make a lot

800
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: of money when they go to Texas. But they also

801
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: know if they hitch their wagon to a losing horse

802
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: sometimes it can torpedo their career. So guys have to

803
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: be shrewd about those moves. Just like head coaches do

804
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: just like recruits do. They got the players. And when

805
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: you have the players, and you're never gonna hurt in

806
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback room. I'll tell you this, if I had

807
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: to go against them, if I were looking at Texas

808
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: and Texas was my rival, or I knew I was

809
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: gonna deal with Texas, you can laugh at him right

810
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: now if you want to. If I were a coach

811
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: and I knew what Sark was capable of, I would

812
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,919
Speaker 1: be terrified of him getting the entire cultural aspect figured out.

813
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: Because Texas with culture figured out is a superpower in

814
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: college football. It's happened before, that happened in a while.

815
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: A lot of you apparently don't think it can happen

816
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: with him. Hey, that's the fun of watching the games

817
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: get played. Man, It's as fun and as serious as

818
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: that on Saturday. I want to put this right here, immunity.

819
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to do bold predictions right now. After bold predictions,

820
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: now that we're into the show a little bit. Oh,

821
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: I got a recommendation for you, guys and girls. I've

822
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: I've got to recommend I don't hand these out very often,

823
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: but I got a recommendation for you. It's going to

824
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: change your life. I hope I can follow through on that.

825
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: All right, let me take a sip from the chalice.

826
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: We're forty three minutes into the show. I'm going an

827
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: hour and a half. But I don't apologize because I

828
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: look at our audience retention metrics and you guys don't

829
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: tune out, that's for sure. Bold Predictions, Chapter fourteen. They're

830
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: getting bolder and bolder. What do you believe about this

831
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: college football season that you would bet your money on? Well,

832
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: we got a good one right out of the gate here,

833
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: and it has to do with those Clemson Tigers. Cleave

834
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: great name by the way. Clee says Clemson is going

835
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: fifteen And oh, do you think it's bolder to predict

836
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: this or bolder to predict that? I will rightfully pronounce

837
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: Clemson one day down the road. I think both are

838
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: pretty This is a nine for me, some people said,

839
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: some people being Jesse. Some people said this should not

840
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: be all the way up at a nine. Well, I'll

841
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: give you my reasoning. So Clemson going undefeated and winning

842
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: the title. They did it in twenty eighteen. We've seen

843
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: him do it before. We've seen him win multiple titles

844
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 1: under Dabo. Four out of the last five national champions

845
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: by the way, were undefeated, so more often than not,

846
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: that's what it's taken. They've got a team win total

847
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: of ten, They've got the sixth best odds in the country,

848
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: tied for fifth kind or tied for six to win

849
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: the national championship. This would be Dabo Swinty just storming

850
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: back into the head room of college football. Now I

851
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: would argue he hasn't left it, but I get disagreement

852
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: on that. Well, no one would disagree. If Clemson goes undefeated,

853
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: I mean that means the Garrett Riley higher worked out phenomenally.

854
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 1: That means kid Klubnick played at a great high level

855
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 1: all year. It also means they duke Florida State, Notre Dame, Miami,

856
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: North Carolina, South Carolina, the ACC championship game they gotta win,

857
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: and they won a playoff game and the national title.

858
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: That is difficult, very difficult. They could lose one of

859
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,439
Speaker 1: those games and still win the title. But to win

860
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: all of them, that's why it's a nine for me.

861
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: Given the blend of how competitive some of those games

862
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: should be and the uncertainty right now, that's what you

863
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: gotta call it uncertainty. So that's a nine. Next up,

864
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: I think some of you may go nine with this one.

865
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: Edward from Fair Hope, Alabama says Auburn is gonna win

866
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: at least one of their games against Bama and Georgia.

867
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: First thing, you know, you gotta check with Auburn. Where

868
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 1: are these games played? Jordan Hare Stadium. Okay, if they've

869
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 1: got a pulse and they're playing there, they got a shot.

870
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: The lines are out on these games. They are favored, well,

871
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: they're not favored against either. They are an eighteen and

872
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: a half point underdog against Georgia at home. That's early

873
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 1: in the year, by the way, I think Week five,

874
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: and then they play Bama last week of the regular season,

875
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: and they are a fourteen point dog against Alabama. Both

876
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: of those games are at home. Though Auburn beats Georgia

877
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: or Alabama, this is an eight point five on the

878
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: boldness scale for me. You may think I need to

879
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: go higher than that, but I think I know Auburn,

880
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: and I think I know what that place is like

881
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: when they get those particular teams in there. And I

882
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: took a little break like I took Jesse to the

883
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 1: Penn State Auburn game last year, and I was trying

884
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: to convince producer Jesse, a Penn State grad. Mind you,

885
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: I was trying to convince him, Jesse, you don't know

886
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: what you're walking into, Jesse, Jordenhair Stadium is no joke.

887
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: I know you go in these big ten venues that

888
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: dwarf Jordenhair Stadium in overall capacity, but this place just

889
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: has a little different soul to it. Splattering, and Producer

890
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: Jesse looks at me as if to say, what happened?

891
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: Where's the magic? What happened? Well? I was wrong that day.

892
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm right in general about what that place is like

893
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: environment plus the unknown. I don't know what Hugh Freeze's

894
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: team's gonna look like this year. No one does. They

895
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: brought in more four star plus portal talent than any

896
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 1: team in America, so no one has any clue, including

897
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze candidly has no clue what is team's going

898
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: to look like This year could be really good. Well, see,

899
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: my point is in the lineage of Auburn football, getting

900
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: those big games at home and having a ton of

901
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: unknown can just lead to crazy things happening. So if

902
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: you think I'm gonna put a nine on the possibility

903
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 1: they pull off one of those upsets. You hadn't watched

904
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: Auburn football long enough. Next up we got we got

905
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 1: an upset alert here Trevor from Fort Worth, Texas. It's

906
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: a long winded way of saying Kansas is gonna upset

907
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: Oklahoma this year. Well, I only made this a seven

908
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: point five, and I'll tell you why. It's not that bold.

909
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: Oklahoma goes there in Week nine, Oklahoma's only favored by

910
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: six and a half. This would not be a massive upset. Uh,

911
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 1: They've won eighteen straight in the series, have the Oklahoma Sooners.

912
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: So remember Kansas got started off hot last year and

913
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: then they faded really really quickly. Do they fade again?

914
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: Because as I said, this is week nine, not Week two.

915
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 1: Kansas will be off a buy in this game. OU's

916
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: got a game the week before against Central Florida, so

917
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: Kansas will be rested. Kansas is number one in the

918
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: country in returning production. Jalen Daniels quarterback win healthy last

919
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: year when healthy, number one QBR in the country. There

920
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: are some things they have going for them there. And

921
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: the line, as I said, is only six and a half.

922
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: So I'm making that a seven point five. Not the

923
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 1: boldest prediction that we've ever had. Next up, this one's

924
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: pretty bold. This one was flirting with a nine for me.

925
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: Steve said Michigan will lose at least three games in

926
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: the regular season. From Richmond, Virginia. That's an eight point

927
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: seven to five Steve on the boldness scale. The team

928
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: win total is ten and a half. Michigan is number

929
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: seven in returning production. They are a third in the

930
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: S and P plus preseason rankings. Let me put it

931
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: to you like this, Steve, Michigan faces two teams this

932
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 1: year with a preseason win total over seven, and that's

933
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Penn State. Outside of that, if you're

934
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: looking for a third loss, and that's just assuming they

935
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: lose both of those games, you're looking for a third loss, Steve,

936
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen against Minnesota, Maryland, Nebraska, Michigan State. All

937
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: four of those are on the road. Crazier things have happened.

938
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: They got Purdue, but they got Purdue off a bye.

939
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: It is tough. I will say this that trip to Maryland.

940
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube the last three weeks of

941
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: the season, Michigan's schedule goes at Penn State at Maryland

942
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 1: Ohio State. The second leg of a back to back

943
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: road stretch. Being sandwiched between a trip to Penn State

944
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: and a home date against Ohio State not the easiest

945
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: thing to manage. But then again, Maryland has been a

946
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: pretty easy thing to manage. And that's disrespectful, but it's true.

947
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: So where's the third loss coming from? I mean, this

948
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: is a this is a sound football team. There are

949
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: not a lot of questions. They return a ton of guys.

950
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 1: There aren't a bunch of unproven units. I just I

951
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 1: have trouble seeing it. So I'm going eight point seventy

952
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. Okay, kids, gather around because

953
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: it is it is time to take about a forty

954
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: five second break from college football. I gotta tell you something.

955
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: So our old friend Tim Watts, formerly of this company,

956
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: and I don't know what he's doing now. Who is

957
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: I think he works at Lee County Flea Market now

958
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: or I don't know, some company, But anyway, Watts hits

959
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: me up like three times a day recommending shows, and

960
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 1: so I have had to build a pretty strong filtration

961
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: process in my own mind. Well, he struck Gold. I

962
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 1: need you to have Amazon Prime subscriptions if you haven't

963
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: already or borrowed Collins Password. Daisy Jones and the Six

964
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: is the best show that I've watched in a long, long,

965
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: long time. And you know my love for classic rock.

966
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: Most of my favorite songs were recorded before I was born,

967
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: and many of my favorite bands existed before I was born.

968
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: Like I was the second grader listening to Fleetwood Mac

969
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: at Sherwood Elementary School in Phoenix City getting made fun

970
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 1: of how the turntables by the way, which is an

971
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: intentional phrase for those of you who don't watch The Office,

972
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: because now everyone loves Fleetwood Mac. Now they're in every

973
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: TikTok video. I was on them long before the rest

974
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: of you were. But anyway, this show is set in

975
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: the seventies and it takes elements of the story of

976
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac. But it's entirely fictitious. But that's not what

977
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,959
Speaker 1: I want you to take away. It's a phenomenal show.

978
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: There are original songs in this show. One of them

979
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: is on my Instagram story right now by the way

980
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 1: at Lake Kick Josh. This is not a real band, people,

981
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: It's not like you can go see them on tour.

982
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: But it's like the movie Almost Famous. It's like the

983
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: movie rock Star. They took the movie so seriously. They

984
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: take this show, Daisy Jones and the Six so seriously.

985
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,439
Speaker 1: They recorded legit music for a legit album that they're

986
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: recording sort of during the show. I think Rumors by

987
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac is the best album ever created. They got

988
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: two songs so far off this show, I legit think

989
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: could go on Rumors and they would be indistinguishable from

990
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: listening to Fleetwood Mac. That's how good that stuff is.

991
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: So go watch. I don't spoil anything for you, but

992
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: go watch. Including the studio sessions in the show, it

993
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: is great. It is like you are immersed in the

994
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: seventies and watching what music used to be, like the

995
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: music industry used to be. Like, it's on Amazon Prime.

996
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: Daisy Jones and the Six could not recommend it anymore phenomenal.

997
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,439
Speaker 1: I guarantee you you'll like it all right. Next up

998
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: Spotlight Time Team Spotlight Tonight, we're gonna shine it brightly

999
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: about two hours. Let's say to our east on the

1000
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: University of Tennessee. This is like a preview magazine page.

1001
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: What do you need to know about Tennessee. First question, naturally,

1002
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: is what is the University of Tennessee at quarterback? I

1003
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 1: just mean as a program. Is this really the kind

1004
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: of program that has found themselves in the sweet spot

1005
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: such that pretty much any quarterback is gonna thrive here,

1006
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: Like Lincoln Riley in his career, seems like everyone turns

1007
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: into a Heisman Trophy contender. Is that Josh Hipel. Is

1008
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: Josh Hipel gonna be that kind of head coach and

1009
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: that kind of play caller to where Hendon Hooker walks

1010
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: out the door and it's, oh no, look at all

1011
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: that production, and all we have left is Joe Milton.

1012
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: And then Joe Milton just shreds someone in a bowl

1013
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: game and it turns out it's just a precursor to

1014
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: the next year, and then Niko iamli Aava's behind him.

1015
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: Is it just gonna be like a factory, like a

1016
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: conveyor belt of Heisman caliber quarterbacks? If it is, we'll

1017
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: start to learn about that this year because all the

1018
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: preview magazines and all the talk is gonna be hm.

1019
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna make up for that

1020
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: lost production at quarterback. Well, if it's that kind of place,

1021
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: that's how they'll make it up up. Question number two,

1022
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: what kind of level of offensive line play are we

1023
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: going to see here? They got kind of three spots

1024
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: up for grabs in the spring, left tackle, right tackle,

1025
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: I think left guard also what for grabs. That's an

1026
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: area and obviously that will heavily impact the overall play

1027
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 1: of quarterback. But the third question, and this is one

1028
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: that cost them last year big time. Are they going

1029
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: to improve in the back end of their defense? This

1030
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,760
Speaker 1: is one of those that, unlike the other two questions

1031
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: I just asked, where if quarterback goes right, it could

1032
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: go really right, and if offensive line goes right, it

1033
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: could go really right. I don't know how right their

1034
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: pass defense could go this year. They don't look like

1035
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: even at their best, they have a very high ceiling

1036
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: in their secondary. And last year their secondary was one

1037
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seventh in the country in passyards per

1038
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: game allowed. They were seventy sixth and explosive plays per

1039
00:54:54,640 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: game allowed, and it cost them in Knights, like when

1040
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: they played South Carolina. That's how you open yourself up

1041
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: to just this inexplicable result, like South Carolina going from

1042
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: scoring zero offensive points against Florida the week before to

1043
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: hang in sixty plus on you how you can't stop them.

1044
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: You can't defend a forward pass. And if you're not clicking,

1045
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 1: if you're not scoring every possession, all of a sudden,

1046
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 1: even average offenses can pull away from you. So we

1047
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: got to do better there, got to do a lot

1048
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: better there. What is the best position group on this team?

1049
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: I think you could say quarterback, but like with the

1050
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:38,720
Speaker 1: number of teams, we're gonna skip past quarterback. Wide receiver

1051
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: is probably the best other position group on this team.

1052
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: And that's with Hyatt and Tilman both gone. Squirrel White

1053
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 1: is a guy that could very much emerge on the

1054
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,240
Speaker 1: national scene this year. And let's be real, the country

1055
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: has waited a long time for an elite player named Squirrel,

1056
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: and we finally got him in Knoxville. No less, we

1057
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: finally got him, But they got bru McCoy up there.

1058
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: They got Dante Thornton, who was an under the radar

1059
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: transfer from Oregon I thought should have been rated a

1060
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: little higher. He's in Tennessee now, Ramel Keaton fifth year guy,

1061
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: he's there. So they got a really good, solid stable

1062
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. But a Squirrel White's not the

1063
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: breakout player on this team, and he very well could be.

1064
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 1: Who will be the breakout player? You know where I'm going.

1065
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: I'm going a true freshman linebacker Arian Carter from just

1066
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: down the road in Smyrna, Tennessee, where a devastating loss

1067
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: was handed to us in the softball playoffs the other night.

1068
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: By the way, he wasn't on the team. He's busy

1069
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: getting ready to start, probably at linebacker. He was a

1070
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: four star in this pass recruiting cycle. They went head

1071
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: to head against Alabama for him and they ended up

1072
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: winning his services. I think because of their depth situation

1073
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: on defense, he will be an immediate starter. I think

1074
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,280
Speaker 1: he's got instant impact type potential six' one two. Twenty

1075
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 1: i'm not sure what weight they want him to play,

1076
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: at but now this is this twenty twenty. Three guys

1077
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: play at linebacker wiging less than that all the, time

1078
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: even in this. Conference So Arion carter just gonna take

1079
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: a flyer on. Him really good, player wanted by the,

1080
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 1: Best so he's there. Now as for the, schedule The tennessee,

1081
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: schedule they, play you, know they Play georgia every, year

1082
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: they Play bama every, year or at least they. Have

1083
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: who knows what the schedule will look like in the.

1084
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: Future tennessee plays three of the top fifteen odds teams

1085
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: in the. Country they open for the record just across the,

1086
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: river just across The Cumberland. River we can see the

1087
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: stadium as clear as day outside our. Window they open

1088
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: In nashville Against, virginia and they got a trip To

1089
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: florida in week, three that's when they open conference. Play

1090
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: they GOT a AND m At alabama back to, back

1091
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: and that concerns me, obviously BECAUSE i, mean those are

1092
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: two of the toughest games they. Play but this is

1093
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: a landmine spot on anyone's. Schedule when you play back

1094
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: to back road, games it's always. Tough so in this particular,

1095
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: Season tennessee has a three week. Stretch they Play, TEXAS

1096
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: a AND m at, home they go To, alabama and

1097
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 1: then they go To kentucky the next. Week kentucky is

1098
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: off a. Bye so while you're getting beat up AGAINST

1099
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: a AND m And bama and you're going To lexington

1100
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: a week after you went To, Tuscaloosa kentucky's just been. Chillin'

1101
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: it's not the most favorable of late season schedule dynamics.

1102
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: There tennessee could be a really good team again this.

1103
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: Year And i've picked up on some. Doubt i've picked,

1104
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: up as is usually the case when you all of

1105
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: a sudden flash on the national, Radar i've picked up

1106
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: on some. Doubters we're gonna have media days In nashville

1107
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: in a couple of, weeks And i'm sure that'll be

1108
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: the talking. Point how serious should we Take? Tennessee that's

1109
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: WHY i just go hide in the bathroom sometimes at

1110
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: media days or in the snack. Tent i'm sure that'll

1111
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: be really big. HERE i take them. Serious and here's the,

1112
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: thing here's what it will sound. Like how serious do

1113
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: you Take? TENNESSEE i take them pretty? Serious, oh how

1114
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: do you Take tennessee? SERIOUSLY i didn't ask for your,

1115
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: Opinion y's for. MINE i take them. SERIOUSLY i don't

1116
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: know what more you want to tell. You they're watching

1117
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: us In, China, Texas, Valentine, Nebraska Winston, Salem North. Carolina

1118
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being tuned. In and if you,

1119
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: are if you're already, here why don't you just go

1120
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: ahead and click the thumbs up button while you're at,

1121
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: It because it's free and it helps us subscribe to

1122
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: the channel. Too fifty six point five percent of you

1123
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: are still. Unsubscribed we had some, questions and you, know

1124
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: this week will be a normal. Week still gonna get

1125
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: you A Late Kick extra podcast On, tuesday but we

1126
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: won't have any video elements off of. It and SO i,

1127
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: figured you know, what let's go in the mail bag

1128
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: and let's take SOME q AND a for. Tonight you,

1129
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: know just have a little inventory In colin's back. Pocket

1130
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: and so we're gonna do. It here we. Go carson

1131
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: is In, Louisville, kentucky and he, said what are some

1132
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: of your early thoughts On week one? GAMES i got.

1133
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 1: Several i'm not gonna do previews or, anything BUT i

1134
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: Mean Florida state PLAYS lsu on A sunday night In, Orlando,

1135
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 1: florida AND lsu is favored by two and a half right.

1136
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: Now and that is one of the beautiful things about

1137
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: college football in our, Sport at least for one more,

1138
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: year you can have A week one game that feels

1139
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: like a playoff game because you can already have one

1140
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: of those teams either driving or flying back to their

1141
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: campus after that one's, over knowing we probably have no

1142
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: more margin for error after this if we've lost and

1143
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: last year's was crazy down in The, superdome and this

1144
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: year's should be the. Same you Got Jordan travis And

1145
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: jade And daniels at. Quarterback both of those guys are

1146
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: on several Preseason heisman watch, lists, rightfully so both of

1147
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: them have win totals of nine and a. Half it's

1148
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: a Great week one. Matchup wish it would have been

1149
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: In Tiger stadium AND fsu oh. Man no home. Games

1150
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: i've been to one of. Them i've been to one

1151
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: At dope and it was Against. Clemson it was a

1152
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: few years, ago just lit. UP i would love to

1153
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: see that. Again by the, way stat's An info tells,

1154
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: me we have only five games In week one involving

1155
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: A power five team with a spread of under. Seven

1156
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: WHEN i am College football, commissioner you will never have

1157
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: a stat like that. AGAIN i am telling people when

1158
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: they're playing because it's in your best, interest And i'm

1159
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: not gonna deal everyone the kind of deck that the

1160
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: conference regularly Deals arkansas when it comes to. Scheduling but

1161
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: you're not all loading up on fcs AND g five

1162
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: nobodies In week one getting favored by half one. Hundred,

1163
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: no many more of you are gonna step up to

1164
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: the plate LIKE lsu AND fsu Did thursday. Night you

1165
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: don't have to wait Until. Saturday Thursday, Night florida goes To.

1166
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: Utah florida At Utah Friends thursday. Night utah is a

1167
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: nine point. Favorite this one was an instant classic last

1168
01:01:54,920 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: year down In, gainesville and we'll see and Cause florida

1169
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,439
Speaker 1: that preseason over underwent. TOTAL i really don't think most

1170
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: of the country's seen it. YET i think a lot

1171
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: of the country is gonna come back to the table

1172
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: Mid august and they're gonna, Say, okay what DID i?

1173
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 1: Miss and they're gonna they're gonna flip through the preview

1174
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,919
Speaker 1: mags and look at the odds and they're gonna see

1175
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: five and a half next To florida and they're gonna,

1176
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: say that can't be. Right it's. Right, well it's the.

1177
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: ODDS i don't know if it's right or. Not it's the.

1178
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: Odds and then out In, utah you're playing the back

1179
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: to back Defending, well they're back to. Back they're not defending.

1180
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: Anything they're back to back back twelve champs been knocking

1181
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: on the door of the playoff both years incredibly difficult to.

1182
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: Beat last year you got to go into their house

1183
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: In Salt Lake. City now that's. Fun it's always fun

1184
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: to watch THE sec go out of. Conference you, Know

1185
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: dion's on the. Road in week, one they're AT. Tcu

1186
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: anyone want to venture a guest by the way points spread,

1187
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: There colorado AT TCU tcu minus. TWENTY i don't know

1188
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: what to. EXPECT i don't know if there's a bunch

1189
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: of skill in even breaking that game. Down i'm sure we,

1190
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: will BUT i don't know what to. EXPECT i here

1191
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: is my. Thought my thought is the same as my

1192
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: sister's thought would. BE i can't wait to see What

1193
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: dion looks like as the head coach Of. Colorado that's about.

1194
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: It The floyd is my. WITNESS i have no idea

1195
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: what to. Expect if you know, what this is a

1196
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: good spot to. Do it's a good spot to bring our,

1197
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: friend the alien back. Down IF i could pick one

1198
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: game in week one to PLoP the alien down next

1199
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: to me on the, COUCH i Pick colorado AT, tcu

1200
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: and the alien has no better guess than. Me like

1201
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: he gives his prediction on the game AND i give my,

1202
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: prediction and it is coin. FLIP i have no clue

1203
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: what's gonna. Happen it's gonna be fun to, watch, though

1204
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: BECAUSE tc you could win that thing forty nine to.

1205
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 1: Nothing colorado will wins twenty four to twenty, three and

1206
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:56,439
Speaker 1: neither result surprises. ME unc And South carolina regrettably play

1207
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 1: a neutral site, game but fortunately at least PLAY aga

1208
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 1: In week. One the site Is, Charlotte North. Carolina North

1209
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: carolina is favored by one and a half in this

1210
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: game right now in the odds. Market Got Spencer ratler

1211
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: back at. Quarterback he Got Drake may back at. Quarterback

1212
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: the country can't quite figure out how to Process Spencer,

1213
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: rattler can. They i've told you my. Opinion my opinion

1214
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: is as simple as. Thought he was sheckled to the

1215
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: wrong offensive coordinator last, year and once he was free

1216
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: of that situation in lieu of using much harsher, terminology

1217
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 1: he looked a lot. Better and so this, year that's

1218
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: an entire season of. THAT i think it'll look a lot.

1219
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: Better and by the, way how much do you have

1220
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: to be salivating as A South carolina quarterback or any

1221
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: kind of quarterback to Draw North carolina's defense as Your

1222
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: week one, opponent that's got to be a Fun august.

1223
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 1: Build and so we've got that. One we Got West

1224
01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: virginia At Penn. STATE i DON'T i get to See

1225
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: Drew awler start at. Quarterback we get to see and

1226
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 1: we get to, see you, Know Penn state kind kind

1227
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 1: of crack their knuckles a little. Bit Penn state's favored

1228
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: by twenty in this. One the difference is they're not Playing,

1229
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: colorado they're Playing West virginia several years in now to

1230
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: The Neil brown. Tenure Neil brown probably the hottest seat

1231
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: of any head coach in college football this. Year and

1232
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: so let's see how that one turns. Out and, lastly

1233
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:25,919
Speaker 1: but not, leastly it's just on A monday. Night, chronologically

1234
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: it's the last game of the. Week clemson goes To.

1235
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: Duke you have nothing else to do On Labor day.

1236
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: Night college football, wise at least keep an eye on this.

1237
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: Game not a big point. SPREAD tcu is favored by

1238
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: a lot more Over, colorado And Penn state is favored

1239
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: by a lot more Over West virginia Than clemson is Over.

1240
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: Duke that's a twelve point line And duke has got

1241
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: a heck of a, quarterback and they get the home field,

1242
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: advantage whatever that. Means In, Durham North, carolina they got

1243
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: home field. Advantage be really, fun be really fun to.

1244
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: Watch you Remember clemson open With Georgia. TECH i think

1245
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: it was last, year and it was a really tight

1246
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 1: game for a, half and Then clemson eventually pulled. Away

1247
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: BUT i remember at halftime like it's like a one

1248
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: possession game and everyone's, going, oh this offense looks, gross

1249
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: and it didn't improve a, ton but they did win that. One,

1250
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: well what if we get like a replay But duke

1251
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: actually takes him to the? Wire Fun week one matchups?

1252
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: There next, up got another question and take another sip

1253
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: from the. Chalice we got a good pace going right.

1254
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: Now you, know, TRUTHFULLY i thought we ran the risk

1255
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: of doing a two hour show. Tonight we're not going

1256
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: to go two hours UNLESS i really really get out

1257
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: of hand with these last two. Segments but thanks for. Watching,

1258
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 1: Nonetheless john hit us up From louisiana and he, SAID

1259
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: i saw an article THAT lsu has the best quarterback

1260
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 1: room in the country BEHIND. Usc do you, Agree who

1261
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: would you put ahead of? Them if? Anyone, WELL lsu

1262
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: didn't have the best quarterback room in the. Country they

1263
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: got a really good. One you don't have a better

1264
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: quarterback room than, you at LEAST i, mean you've Got

1265
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: Caleb williams out. There he's still, alive like he still

1266
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 1: exists and plays college. Football the dude who would have

1267
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 1: been the top overall draft pick in last year's draft

1268
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 1: had he, gone is still out there In Los, angeles

1269
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: still out there throwing the, football hitting the uprights from

1270
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: the fifty at a leite, eleven you, know those sorts of.

1271
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,919
Speaker 1: Things but they also Got Melachai nelson out there, too

1272
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 1: another five star just waiting in the. Wings Miller moss

1273
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: is out. There there's not no you don't have a

1274
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: better quarterback room than. That And i'll tell you in

1275
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: this one may be a little more. CONTROVERSIAL i don't,

1276
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: know depending on your point of. View i'd take The

1277
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: texas quarterback room OVER lsu as. Well now that's about.

1278
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,479
Speaker 1: It those are about the only two THAT i would.

1279
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 1: TAKE i would take The texas quarterback. Room. NOW i

1280
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: probably believe in Quinn ewers a little more than someone

1281
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: who disagrees with me, here and that's. Okay he was

1282
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: under sixty percent completion percentage last, year SO i just

1283
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 1: flat out expect way higher production from him this. Year

1284
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: so given my expectation for, THAT i Got Malik murphy behind.

1285
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: Him that picture that's circulating out of The texas weight

1286
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: room of viewers And arch And Malik. Murphy Maybe Malik

1287
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: murphy was the alien that we've been featuring on the

1288
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: show all, along BECAUSE i don't know where exactly he's

1289
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: been working, out but it does not look like it's

1290
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,679
Speaker 1: been happening on this. Planet and this Is Malik. Murphy

1291
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 1: we're showing you some bureau of. Him during the spring.

1292
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: Game it was one of the most eye opening performances

1293
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: of any spring, game and it was a bunch of people,

1294
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 1: saying that's our third. String, well, no he ran with

1295
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: the twos during. Spring but then when you corrected, people they,

1296
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: said but still, though that's the second string. Guy and

1297
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,600
Speaker 1: then a lot of folks hit him up behind the

1298
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 1: scenes trying to get him into the transfer portal and

1299
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: he didn't go in. There and because he, DIDN'T i

1300
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: Think Malie murphy helps constitute the number two at the

1301
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: very least quarterback room in the. Country Now i'll Put

1302
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 1: lsu in the number three. Spot Jayden daniel's, There Garrett nussmeyer,

1303
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: There Ricky collins is. THERE i just, man you're talking

1304
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: about like premiere, potential top five draft pick type. Talent

1305
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: Quinn ewers has a long way to go this year

1306
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: to fulfill that. Potential BUT i, mean nothing needs to

1307
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: be sad About Kayleb. Williams but With Jaden, daniels that

1308
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:20,760
Speaker 1: guy right, there that guy played at a very high

1309
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: level last. Year obviously he's back this. Year And i'm

1310
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: telling you that's the kind of quarterback that for some,

1311
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: reason WELL i mean there's a valid, reason but for

1312
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: many reasons when you talk about, Him Jaden daniels is

1313
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: more fun for me to talk about because people PUT

1314
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: nfl draft talk on the back, burner Like Jayden daniels

1315
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: is a college football. Quarterback, Well i'm a college football,

1316
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:45,840
Speaker 1: guy SO i love players Like Jaden daniels and also

1317
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 1: think about his trip whenever he tells his full. Story

1318
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: Jaden daniels is going to talk to you about playing

1319
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 1: At Arizona state and then transferring TO lsu and winning

1320
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 1: The west in his head coach's first. Year that's a

1321
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: great story to listen. To Garrett, NUSSMEYER i thought this

1322
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: time last, year he may end up being their starting.

1323
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: Quarterback he went in Because Jayden daniels won the job

1324
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:10,839
Speaker 1: there the other room worth mentioning here two of them Actually,

1325
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Jackson arnold's waiting in the wings up. There won

1326
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 1: The elite eleven last, year and he's sitting Behind Dylan

1327
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: gabriel this. Year and also you could Throw tennessee in

1328
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: here as. Well we just talked about him a little

1329
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: while ago in the, Show Joe milton and then behind.

1330
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: Him kind of a similar situation really to what they

1331
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,719
Speaker 1: have there AT. Ou you got to transfer quarterbacks starting

1332
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: and then you've got a very very high level guy

1333
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: that's sitting in the. Background in one case Is Jackson.

1334
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: Arnold In tennessee's case Is Nico ima ALIAVA. USC i

1335
01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 1: think has the best quarterback room in the. COUNTRY i

1336
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: Think texas is number. Two you give ME lsu number,

1337
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 1: Three i'm, fine and Then, Tennessee, oklahoma in no particular.

1338
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: Order that's HOW i would see. That i'm Sure i'll

1339
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 1: get just complete across the board consensus agreement in the

1340
01:10:56,240 --> 01:11:02,680
Speaker 1: comment section last order of business on tonight's. Program we

1341
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 1: have just exhausted ourselves of every other topic. MAN i

1342
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 1: used to never talk about. This what, Changed. JESSE i

1343
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: don't know what. Changed nick is In, Pendergrass. Georgia i'll

1344
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: be In georgia later. Tonight nick got a long drive

1345
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: ahead of. Me, Anyway nick, said if you had to

1346
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: hop on The Rama Noodle express early and lay some

1347
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 1: money on a dark horse candidate for The Heisman, trophy

1348
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:35,120
Speaker 1: who would it? Be Xavier worthy plus ten thousand odds

1349
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 1: forty third best odds in the country to win The.

1350
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: Heisman That nick is the player That i'd go bet

1351
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: some money. On AND i know that BECAUSE i already

1352
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 1: have and got a little bit better odds even than

1353
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: that he. Was he was third in The big twelve

1354
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: and drops last. Year he dropped six percent of the

1355
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: balls thrown his. WAY i think he'll rectify that this

1356
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: year BECAUSE i think injury had a lot to do

1357
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: with that last, year and he didn't really talk about it.

1358
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 1: Publicly But i'm here to represent, him So i'm talking

1359
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: about it for. Him Xavier worthy has the same odds

1360
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: to win The heisman As hudson card And Niko, iamaliaba

1361
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 1: who's not even going to start at quarterback For. Tennessee

1362
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: the injury last SEASON i think watered down these odds

1363
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 1: to Where i'm taking advantage of. It and let me

1364
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: also remind those of you out there who say wide,

1365
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 1: receiver it's almost impossible for them to win The. Heisman that's,

1366
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: true almost, Impossible but there is an exception to the. Rule.

1367
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 1: Right everyone Remembers Davante. Smith does everyone remember who HIS oc? Was?

1368
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: Though anyone remember who kept dialing up ball after ball

1369
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: after ball to the tune of one hundred and seventeen

1370
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:47,680
Speaker 1: catches for over eighteen hundred yards and twenty three touchdowns

1371
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:52,719
Speaker 1: in only thirteen games facing an ALL sec schedule in twenty.

1372
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 1: Twenty that would Be Steve sarkejan calling those plays For Davonte.

1373
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: Smith there will be a casual or two who takes

1374
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: away from this. Show josh just Compared worthy To DeVante,

1375
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: smith which of COURSE i didn't. Do WHAT i said

1376
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: is if there is a receiver on this particular roster

1377
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,599
Speaker 1: that is positioned well enough to benefit From Steve sarkis

1378
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: in the Way DeVante smith. DID i think it's, Worthy

1379
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:19,559
Speaker 1: and you are outside your mind if you think there

1380
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: are forty three players more likely to win The Heisman

1381
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:24,479
Speaker 1: trophy this year than. Him SO i think those are good.

1382
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: Odds i'm taking, him But i'm not done. Yet let's

1383
01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:29,759
Speaker 1: just go talk About Joe milton some. More Joe milton.

1384
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:32,320
Speaker 1: Again this is a long shot. Market this is a

1385
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: dark horse. Market if we really are entering in an

1386
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:39,600
Speaker 1: era where Any Josh hypel quarterback is instantly going to

1387
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: be in the mix and he just works magic up

1388
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 1: there and every one of them throws for four thousand.

1389
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: Yards Joe milton sitting there plus twenty two hundred odds

1390
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 1: to win The, heisman the twelfth best odds should be top.

1391
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: Ten if that's the, case it's a nice little coin

1392
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 1: flip prospect there for. Me Hendon hooker belonged In New

1393
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 1: York city last, Year. Travesty After travesty gets committed on that,

1394
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 1: stage got a good wide receiver. Corps we talked about

1395
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: it earlier in the Show Perfect. Offense and here's what

1396
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: else you need to keep in. MIND i detest the

1397
01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: Phrase heisman. MOMENT i think it's a, Joke but this

1398
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: is an award that writers vote, on so for many,

1399
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:22,640
Speaker 1: Reasons i'm not going down that. Road but if you

1400
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: want your Precious heisman, moment NEED i remind you who

1401
01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: they play the second to last week of the, year

1402
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: The university Of georgia rolls into. Town Hendon hooker arrived

1403
01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:36,760
Speaker 1: on the national scene full scale when they took Down

1404
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:38,600
Speaker 1: alabama and they hung half a hundred on him And

1405
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: kneeland last. Year we should know we were there right

1406
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: in the midst of. It smoke inholation on the field

1407
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: in an outdoor. Venue it was so, thick. Unbelievable, well

1408
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:53,760
Speaker 1: if that were to, happen or anything remotely close to

1409
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: that were to. Happen And tennessee took Down georgia late

1410
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,880
Speaker 1: in the year and it Was Joe milton hanging thirty

1411
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: eight On. Georgia what would that do for a late

1412
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 1: Season heisman? Push how about that for a late Season heisman?

1413
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: Moment and, lastly, YES i have a third dark course

1414
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: for The. Heisman this young man has plus three thousand

1415
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: odds next to his. Name he is the sixteenth player

1416
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: on the odds, board and that would Be ou Quarterback Dylan,

1417
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: gabriel same kind of odds As Blake korum And Quinn Shawn.

1418
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 1: Judkins those are the two highest ranked running backs in

1419
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: The heisman ods. Market so that's the kind of shot

1420
01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:34,000
Speaker 1: In vegas has Given Dylan. Gabriel everything's just more settled

1421
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: With oklahoma this. YEAR i have to count on. THAT

1422
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 1: i also have to count on the wide receiver corps

1423
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:40,680
Speaker 1: really stepping up for. Him like one of the big

1424
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 1: questions AROUND ou is do they have a true wide

1425
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 1: receiver one out? There, well If Dylan gabriel plays at

1426
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:50,599
Speaker 1: the high, level those things sort of help settle each,

1427
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: other or those settle each other's. QUESTIONS i guess they

1428
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: have eight games last. Year i'm looking at his last year's,

1429
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: stats had eight games where he had multiple passing, touchdowns

1430
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 1: and he had injury that took him out of The

1431
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: texas game entirely last year and they got. Blanked gabriel's

1432
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 1: capable of being in this, conversation and, if of course

1433
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:12,680
Speaker 1: this is a dark, horse that means we're taking a.

1434
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: RISK i am taking a calculated risk THAT ou as

1435
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: a team sort of turns the, Snow it sort of

1436
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 1: turns the, hourglass the sand starts going the other direction

1437
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 1: from what it was going last, year and they're not

1438
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,320
Speaker 1: losing the close. Games in, fact they're getting margin on.

1439
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 1: People and he's one of the big reasons. Why and

1440
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: as a, RESULT ou is right in the thick of

1441
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: The big twelve title, race and they're right in the

1442
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: thick of the playoff. Conversation maybe they Beat. Texas who.

1443
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: Knows if they do though any of those, things it'll

1444
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: be in doing large part To Dylan, gabriel and that

1445
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 1: will mean those plus three thousand numbers out there right

1446
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: now would disappear. Quickly SO i want to grab them

1447
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: WHILE i. Can Xavier worthy my favorite, heisman Dark, horse

1448
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 1: But i'll also take Some Joe milton And Dylan. Gabriel,

1449
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: AH i think we went under. TONIGHT i really. DO i,

1450
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 1: Mean i'm proud of myself BECAUSE i have a long

1451
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: drive ahead of, me SO i was very economical with

1452
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: the show. TONIGHT i got to tell you one more.

1453
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 1: Thing so at the end of, months when we log

1454
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: into our analytics on, YouTube sort of gives us a

1455
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:21,080
Speaker 1: month in review and you can dive a little deeper

1456
01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 1: and it shows year over year. Stuff this bores most of.

1457
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: You if you're, bored tune. Out that's. Fine i'll see.

1458
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: You i'll see it later this. Week Happy july. Fourth

1459
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 1: for those of you interested in such. Things let me

1460
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:33,799
Speaker 1: tell you what you. Did all you did In june

1461
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: is give us right at one hundred percent year over

1462
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: year growth in all the key, metrics including, revenue and

1463
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:48,360
Speaker 1: SO i appreciate. It management sees it that the high

1464
01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: up mustaches In New york see. IT i see, it

1465
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: AND i appreciate, it and you've given us the. Opportunity

1466
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 1: now we'll have several announcements coming up for, you some

1467
01:17:57,760 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: of Them i've kind of made, publicly but if you

1468
01:17:59,920 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: have already picked up on, him don't. Worry the month

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Speaker 1: Of july and then especially Early, August i'm going to

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Speaker 1: have several announcements coming your way because when you give

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Speaker 1: WHEN i go to the big, wigs they really can't say.

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Speaker 1: No so we can just we just pretty much do

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Speaker 1: what we. Want as long as as long as you're

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Speaker 1: hanging out with us like, that we can do what we.

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Speaker 1: i have yourselves a very very happy and safe early

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Speaker 1: start your holiday. Week for Director, Colin for Producer, Jesse

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh. Bate take, care have a great start to that,

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Speaker 1: week And god bless