WEBVTT - June Q&A (6/1/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:05.600 Welcome to the solid verbal. Ill that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.600 I'm a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:11.280 well I want to be happy. You want to be 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.840 happy for dake Edo state is that woo woom. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.880 And and tie. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.840 Welcome back to the solid verbal, Boys and girls. My 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:28.000 name is Ty Hildebrand joining me over there. Technically when 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.640 you're listening to this, he's on his honeymoon. But since 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.760 we're recording, since we're proactive like that, Dan Rubinstein is 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.400 with us once more, sir, how are you? 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.519 I'm good. I'm going to give myself some future advice 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.920 and that is great job getting married, Yeah, and good job. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.000 Great honeymoon Yeah great, wet as enjoyed it thoroughly. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.000 Oh, glad to hear it. We we just loved having 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.640 you time. Thank you you and Kate. We're wonderful. Uh 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.360 And right now I'm on my honeymoon and I'll just 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.279 flew it up. Just keep d and keep stretching and 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:07.000 get some sun, open the curtains and you know, realize 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.280 this is you live in your best life. And congratulations. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.679 Where are you now? What country? 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:12.600 So? 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.959 What is today? Ty? Today is Thursday. We're releasing this 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:23.840 Thursday juune, so I am in Greece. I think you 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:29.319 can smell the feta cheese everywhere, and the grape leaves 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.560 and the salty, briny ocean air. It's wonderful. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.120 Tie Well, may this podcast be the Grecian formula for 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.440 all that ails you and all that concerns you about 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.880 college football. We will be back at some point in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.759 the next couple of weeks to talk in person again, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.000 but for the interim, you and I are pre recording 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.280 a Q and A show. We've been trying to do 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.280 these once a month because people always send in cool questions, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.400 and we we try to rotate the non college football theme. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.240 What did we go with today? Restaurants, restaurant etiquette, specifically, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.160 what to do in certain situations when you find yourself 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.880 not knowing where to go, not restaurant wise, but once 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.440 you're in the restaurant, when you have to make a 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.560 life decision, what do I do? We're here to help. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.440 Great questions that came in, very very poignant questions. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.720 Here, a lot of specific ones. I love that, very 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.600 good questions. We'll get into those in a little bit. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.679 Also a bunch of football questions here. Don't forget you 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.639 can always email us at saliverbo at gmail dot com, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.720 or find us on Facebook or on Twitter. We did 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:37.720 have a few questions that referenced this article, and I 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.600 did want to start here before we get into our 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.160 Q and A. But a really cool article that you 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.280 guys over at Espionation put out here announcing I don't 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.160 know if it's so much candidacy, a vision, whatever you 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:57.640 want to call it, Bill Connolly for College Football Commissioner. Yes, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:03.160 it was published on May the twenty second, and he 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:09.880 puts forth nine cool ideas for fixing college football or 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.400 his vision for college football as we move forward. So 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:18.200 a student athlete bill of rights, modernizing amateurism. What else 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.280 fixing recruiting, expanding the playoff, bringing back the damn video game, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.880 and caa series, emotion and relegation. A bunch of interesting 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.200 concepts and visions here that Bill puts forth. I am 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.200 ready to sign my name on the dotted line to 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.880 get behind this. I'm excited. Was there anything that you 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.960 saw in here right that you said yes? I either 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.480 love that, no, I really hate that. What was your 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.280 reaction to this? 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.120 So my reaction was, because by now everybody should know 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.320 we love Bill c And how deeply he gets into 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.560 college football. It's almost all positive. There's nothing really negative. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.400 It's just some of the things I look at as 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.880 being sort of a little unrealistic. And maybe it's the 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.760 scheduling thing, which I like the idea as any sports 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.600 should run, like the way Bill wants college football to run, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.520 but because of the way, and I'll be specific, like 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.880 he wants pods scheduling, like he always played the same 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.880 three teams. He wants a bracketbuster in the middle of 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.599 the season to sort of shake things up and we 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.600 get sort of better matchups because of it. Everything he 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.120 is positioning with his candidacy as for scheduling and as 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.680 for the organization of the sport makes a lot more 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.760 sense than the way it's constituted now. The only thing 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.440 is when you start scheduling and you start going relegation, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.200 it chips away at the sort of the context you 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.039 have for Notre Dame, or for Oregon, or for Texts 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.360 A and M, or for Louisville or for usc whatever. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.680 Whereas if you're not all of a sudden playing a 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.719 lot of the same teams every year, then you lose 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.400 a lot of context. So it's like Arizona is not 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.320 a rival of Oregon, but every year Oregon plays Arizona, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.240 I'm flooded with the context and memories that matchup. And 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.880 that's what it sort of seasons it in a unique 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:08.400 way that perhaps a more ambitious, futuristic way of scheduling 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.200 and organizing the sport doesn't if you were One of 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.359 the examples he used was with relegation specifically, like, you know, 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.080 maybe watching a Virginia game at the end of the 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.240 season wasn't all that fun for anybody, Virginia fans included, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.680 but if there was relegation on the line, so if 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.640 you know, Virginia was going to have to go down 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.640 and become a group of five school and not an 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.200 ACC school they were playing against an FCS school or 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.240 something like that. If Virginia gets relegated, that's such a 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.320 huge blow to I think Virginia's bottom line, and you 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.440 start to sort of inflict some wounds into the sport 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.400 that might be unintended in some cases. So that's what 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.400 sort of jumped out to me that in a perfect world, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.880 in a vacuum, all of this pretty much works and 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.680 would make the sport more fun and higher quality. I 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.520 just don't know that you can unweave a lot of 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.919 the fabric that's it's in place already. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:06.360 If you were to start tomorrow day one new college football, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.279 you could put a lot of this stuff in. The 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.880 problem now is not that these aren't good ideas. The 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.520 problem is that there is obviously a contractual obligation on 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.719 so many different fronts to continue the status quo. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.760 Sure, relegation promotion. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.560 By the way, for those that aren't tracking, it's a 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.000 lot like they do in English soccer, or really in 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.799 any soccer league where the bottom three or however many 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.720 teams at the bottom of said league said conference go 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.320 down to a Tier two league the following year if 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.839 they don't do well enough to continue on in their 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.719 present division. And in some cases, if you're in like 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.040 a Tier two league and you finish in the top two, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.640 well then maybe you get to bump up and play 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.920 against the big boys the next season. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.080 Sure, like Bois say, would have been like a Pac 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.400 ten school, a Pac twelve school, with all the success 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.120 they had by the time time they were killing everybody 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.680 in the Wacken Mountain West. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.960 Or even like in North Dakota State might have progressively 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.680 been able to work their way up into a top 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.800 tier conference. It's an interesting concept. I like the concept. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.560 My thing with college football has always been the issue 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.640 is that the football teams are tied to an academic institution. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.400 If you could somehow find a way to decouple those two, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.960 I think you'd solve a lot of problems. But we're 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.040 so far into it now, and obviously the financial stakes 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.880 are so high that that's never anything we could find 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:34.400 a way to do. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.920 There's no way. I think the fact that it starts 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.360 with the Student Athlete Bill of Rights to just sort 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.920 of organize everything in terms of what is availed to 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.880 the players playing college football, especially on a high level, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.240 makes a lot of sense because we came from a 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.480 sport that was like, Okay, well the Pac ten is 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.040 doing this, the ACC is doing this, the Big twelve 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.160 over the Big eight or the SWC whatever. It's to 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.360 be like these mini sports that just happen to be 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.760 playing many conferences excuse me, or many regions that happen 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.080 to be doing the same thing. Whereas now everything is 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.240 so much more nationalized and it seems a lot more homogenous. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.160 With the TV deals, you know, every conference appears on 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.320 one of two networks. Basically right now, so everybody has 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.720 access to eyeballs. Everybody is trying to They're hiring each 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.920 other's coaches. It's a lot less regional than it used 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.800 to be, so centralizing the rights of the players of 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.600 the labor it makes sense whether and Bill brings up 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.320 the points of healthcare of you know, the right to 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:39.080 graduate scholarships, you know, guaranteeing undergraduate scholarships, you know, safety guidelines, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.760 transfer rules that are set in place that everybody has 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.680 to follow, and then the sort of Olympic style amateurism, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.280 which is what he is pitching, which basically says, and 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.800 ty correct me if I'm wrong, it's that you have 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.400 the right to earn based on your likeness. And I 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.560 am all for this, and the you know, the obvious 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.800 counter argument is, well, and you know, the schools with 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.000 the most money and the boosters with the most money 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.160 are only are always going to get the best players, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.400 which is how it already is. Yeah, it's just how 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.360 it is already. And it would just be a way 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.280 for schools to not have the burden of being creative 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.719 to pay players and to let players go out and 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.679 seek compensation themselves, which seems reasonable. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.240 Well, and that becomes then the foundation to actually bring 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.840 back the video game. As he says here in his 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.440 fourth bullet point, we'll put the link in the show 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.559 description here so that if you haven't seen it, you 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:34.920 can go out and check it out. But a lot 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.959 of really good stuff here from Bill. I suspect this 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.080 is something that you and I can discuss throughout the 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.240 course of the entire offseason, because there is a lot 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.440 of meat here. But I like the fact that he 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:51.679 gets into scheduling, both division scheduling and non conference scheduling, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.080 and talks about how that could be an issue and 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.240 it could be resolved. He also talks about the games 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.760 being too long and the adverse effect that has on 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.640 fans watching the game also taking part in the game. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.320 A lot of really good stuff here, But at least 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.400 as of now, I support the cause for Bill c 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.360 as College Football Commissioner. And the biggest point perhaps in 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.880 all of this, certainly one of the most controversial points, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.600 which we will get into when we get to our 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.280 Q and A here momentarily, is the topic around expanding 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.440 the college football playoff. Yes, so we'll talk about that 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.640 here in a little bit. In the meantime that we 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.880 have two great sponsors that we do need to discuss 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.240 love before we get into your questions. 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You've got 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:22.080 mail on the solid verbal dan as often as we can. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.000 And now once a month in the off season here 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.920 as we've got ye that's college football to talk about. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.960 We do our best to pay homage to those of 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.080 you who write in soliverble at gmail dot com, to 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.080 those of you who tweet us, who send us comments 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.600 on the facebooks and beyond. We talk a little bit 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.320 about college football. We talk a little bit tonight about 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:46.320 restaurant etiquette. But let's start on the college football side, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:51.120 and let's first go to Augusto HMM. To dovetail nicely 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:57.160 with our previous discussion about Bill Connolly's proposals his vision 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.960 to try and modernize college football. Augusta writes in and 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.120 says that an eight team playoff would radically change college 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:09.200 football for the worst. Similar to college basketball, the season 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.240 would not be as important and games would lose some 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.920 sense of urgency, It will allow one or more two 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.000 loss teams to get in, and this past year, as 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.400 an example, might have allowed for a three loss team 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.720 to get into the playoff. If two or three losses 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:31.960 gets in, urgency of regular season is effectively gone. That's 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.960 from Augusto not so much a question. This is a 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.080 generally held viewpoint for a lot of people. Yeah, Ty, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.200 do you agree with this line of thinking that eight 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.600 dilutes the interests in a college football postseason because it 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.640 is too many teams? I would argue that eight out 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.920 of whatever one hundred and thirty is different than sixty 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.880 four out of three hundred, which are sixty eight out 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.080 of three hundred. The percentages are sort of different in 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.800 college basketball. But do you agree with this line of 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.080 thinking that the the season would take on less importance 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.200 with a bigger playoff. I don't think it diminishes the 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.600 significance of those games down the stretch or at any 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.200 point in the season. If now we've got eight instead 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.560 of four, I just don't buy it. It's not college basketball. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.240 As you said, we're not picking sixty eight. We're still 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:24.120 only picking eight, and so the stakes are still pretty high. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.160 Unless you're like you know, the number one team, maybe 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.000 you go out and get blown out. All of a sudden, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.920 your candidacy to be part of that expanded playoff is 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.040 somewhat in question. You're still playing for things that matter. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.560 The degrees might be a little bit off compared to 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.840 what we're used to now in a four team playoffs. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.160 So no, I've never really bought into the whole urgency thing. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.720 So the thing that stands out to me about this 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.240 argument is on the surface, it seems reasonable, but you 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.520 think about the context of actual college football seasons and 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.560 what teams go through, and sometimes you get and by 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.120 sometimes I mean it feels like every year you get 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.919 a team like twenty sixteen USC. They come out the gates, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.879 they look completely overmatched, but then they switch quarterbacks up, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.359 they get into a rhythm, and all of a sudden, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.600 by the end of the season, they've won the Rose Bowl, 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.359 they have a presumptive number one overall NFL draft pick. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.280 And the idea is teams can greatly improve and we're 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.040 adding I think, let's if we go from a four 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.600 team playoff to an eight team playoff or adding I 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.359 believe four games. Is that correct? Four total games in 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.880 the playoff sure, so four more football games. I think 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.959 it's okay to make peace with the fact that college 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.800 football is a TV show. We all sort of like 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.760 the fact that we can watch whatever college football game 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.240 we'd like with minimal efforts, and that's because of TV 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:46.359 availability and TV money, and it means more good matchups 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.840 at the end of the year. Twenty sixteen didn't feel 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.639 like we had a lot of good matchups throughout the 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.000 year for whatever reason. It was just one of those years. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.919 But this basically guarantees a matchup like, I don't know, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:02.440 Penn State playing against Let's see, you had Michigan and 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.840 Penn State being like, you know, five and six last year, right, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.280 so you have you have Penn State against Alabama, or 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.159 you Penn State against Clemson, you have Michigan against Oklahoma, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.639 whatever the case may be. You get more good football 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.160 at the end of the year with teams that, even 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.639 if they don't at the end of the year have 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.720 that clear argument that they deserve to be in the 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:24.679 national championship conversation, you're still getting a top tier level 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.520 of additional games and entertainment. So I can't look down 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.040 at eight games as being like a deathknell for the 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.159 sport that only has twelve regular season games annually to 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.879 begin with, that's all we get twelve regular season games. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.080 So it's such a low number that I think people 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.639 are going to stick with the sports until maybe it 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:45.680 goes to sixty eight. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.800 Yeah, sixteen I think would be an interesting argument. When 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.880 you get to sixteen, maybe then maybe then this argument. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.760 Holds a little bit more water. But at eight, eight 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.439 I think is big enough. Even six. NFL's got twelve 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.720 of what thirty two? Yeah, that's a chunk. People still 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.639 watch games if he gets to six. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.760 If you get to eight, you can effectively if you 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.520 want to solve the issue about Power five conference champions 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.880 not getting into the playoff. Yeah, and I think from 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.639 my standpoint that that might be the most important argument 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.920 for it. Let's make sure that we have the best 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.560 from each conference represented in the National Championship playoff, whatever 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:32.120 system that is. So, next question, Next question, Alan, has 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:37.200 the national backlash against Lamar Jackson been so intense that 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.680 he has become underrated? Oh my gosh, Okay, is there 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.520 a backlash against Lamar Jackson that I was. 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.879 Not aware of. I don't know that it's backlash as 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.639 much as it is him flying under the radar because 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.880 of his maybe the last third of twenty sixteen where 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.040 he did struggle and the way he finished the bowl 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.000 game wasn't great. He struggled, but also he had a 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.600 particularly bad offensive line in front of him. You know, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.480 they lose something like thirty to nine, twenty nine to 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.159 nine to LSU in the ballgame. They lose their final 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.639 three games. You know, the Houston game was sort of 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.399 everybody watch, you know, the Houston defense against Lamar Jackson, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.160 and that was sort of a mess for him as well. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.960 I would say he is too far underneath the radar 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.640 for somebody who looked like a Heisman winner the first 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.560 half of the season with how he played against Florida 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.520 State and Clemson, and I would say he is. He 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.919 is poised to have another big year. They have have 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.720 the schedule in front of me, Ty, They have North 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.480 Carolina and Clemson two of the first three weeks of 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.560 the season, so he will be able to make a 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.720 statement early on. Is if he is too far beneath. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.360 The radar, still only a sophomore last season, you got 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.040 to give him a little bit of a chance to 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.280 grow on top of that, though he did sputter down 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.680 the stretch, still put up incredible numbers, thirty five hundred 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.200 yards passing. I think I saw that if he were 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.320 a running back, just in terms of pure yardage, he 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.119 would have been tenth overall, had something like fifteen hunds 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:06.439 seventy some odd rushing yards, So really a versatile player 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.600 out there. I think backlash is too strong a word, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.119 but I agree to the extent that all I'm hearing 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:18.880 so far this young offseason is Sam Darnold. I'm hearing 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.520 a lot about Josh Rosen coming back. I'm hearing a 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.920 lot about what Jared Stidham can do, what Shane Burschelle 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.679 can do. Sure, what Jake Browning is going to do 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.240 in another year in the Chris Peterson system, JT. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:34.959 Barrett and Kevin Wilson system. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.159 What's going to happen at Clemson, what will happen with 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:42.960 DeAndre Francois taking another step forward at FSU, Brandon Wimbush 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.760 at Notre Dame. Strangely, it seems like all of those 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:49.439 are bigger stories than what Lamar Jackson's going to do. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.919 By the way, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, what he 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.160 is going to do now in another year at Lousville. 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.280