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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Late Kick is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday night, January thirty first, the Year of

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Speaker 2: Our Lord, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Jam Back director.

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Speaker 2: Colin and I have been working for about the past

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Speaker 2: six hours to just condense one We're in the long

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Speaker 2: sleeves that and it's freezing in here to just condense

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Speaker 2: the show down into what would be an acceptable amount

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Speaker 2: of time tonight. So hey, under an hour, that's all

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Speaker 2: I can promise. Eric Gilbert's not in the transfer a

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Speaker 2: portal anymore he was when we started formatting the show

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Speaker 2: about six hours ago.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban's got a leaked zoom.

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Speaker 2: Video where he's recruiting a kid out of Philadelphia somewhere

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Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. I know he's got five stars next to

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Speaker 2: his name. I don't know if he still has Alabama

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Speaker 2: offer next to his name, but it's.

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Speaker 1: Just stirring video.

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Speaker 2: When you're able to peel back the curtain a little

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Speaker 2: bit and we're able to finally see the things we

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Speaker 2: normally don't get to see, it's fascinating. So we decided

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Speaker 2: to do like a full forensic audit of that video tonight.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna break that down. If you haven't seen it,

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Speaker 2: or if you have, you're gonna see bits and pieces

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: We rarely play sots sound on tapes on the show,

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Speaker 2: but we are tonight all that, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: take a deep dive into what the transfer portal is

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Speaker 2: doing to college football, and specifically what it's doing to

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Speaker 2: the makeup of personnel departments and coaching staff. So I've

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Speaker 2: been talking with a couple of people for about a

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Speaker 2: week and a half now about this. I didn't just

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Speaker 2: get a real feel for how people inside the college

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Speaker 2: football coaching world and personnel world are dealing with this.

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Speaker 2: Things are rapidly evolving, as we're about to talk about

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Speaker 2: in like two minutes with Eric Gilbert, We're gonna do that.

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Speaker 2: Plus we've got mood tracker tonight told you it's a

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Speaker 2: Jampeck show. We're talking Michigan, We're talking LSU. It is

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Speaker 2: not a slow content week. There are no slow content weeks.

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Speaker 2: And so if someone tells you it's a slow content

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Speaker 2: week in the world of college football, just come over here,

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Speaker 2: because we'll have something to talk about. In fact, many

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Speaker 2: things to talk about. Also totally unrelated to the show,

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Speaker 2: but I got to put it out there because I

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Speaker 2: need some help. I know a lot of you who

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Speaker 2: watched the show live in Nashville. I know some of

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Speaker 2: you play Men's league softball.

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Speaker 1: So I got me.

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Speaker 2: I got a couple of guys. Don't know what the

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Speaker 2: scene is here with the parks and rec deal, so

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Speaker 2: I just need you if you know things, if you

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Speaker 2: understand how the situation works up here. I'm looking to

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Speaker 2: be a free agent this spring, so hit me in

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Speaker 2: my inbox Josh Pate seven zero six at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: I may have a couple of folks to bring with me.

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Speaker 2: I cannot vouch for their athleticism. One claims to have

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Speaker 2: played baseball in middle school. The other has caught at

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Speaker 2: the high school level. And I've played a fair amount,

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Speaker 2: so I can't promise the quality. But hey, we will

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Speaker 2: be high character guys, So hit me up in the

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Speaker 2: inbox if you've played up here. In all seriousness, I'm

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Speaker 2: not joking about that. All right, let's dive in, Director Colin.

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Speaker 2: We have got a lot to get to tonight. Eric

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Speaker 2: Gilbert is the University of Florida's latest superstar tight end recruit.

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Speaker 2: If we want to call him that because he's coming

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Speaker 2: out of the transfer portal. So he shocked everyone. About

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Speaker 2: two or so hours ago, Gilbert had been in the portal,

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Speaker 2: and you know the timeline here he January I.

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Speaker 1: Think thirty first is today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so January thirty first, which is today, he announces

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Speaker 2: and then everywhere in between has been rumor city as

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Speaker 1: So this guy got rave reviews out of high school.

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Speaker 1: You remember him.

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Speaker 2: I told you he's the most impressive specimen I've watched

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Speaker 1: Now he's out of it.

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Speaker 2: Now he's going to Florida. And so he tweeted the

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Speaker 2: because when inspiration hits you, it doesn't matter where you are,

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Speaker 1: So I want to jump into this.

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Speaker 2: This is obviously huge news for Dan Mullin, it's huge

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Speaker 2: news for Florida. Twenty twenty landed Eric Gilbert. I know,

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Speaker 2: Tim Brewster Dan Mullin, like you could throw around a

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Speaker 2: lot of credit for which coach took the lead on this,

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Speaker 2: But the twenty twenty season is what landed Eric Gilbert.

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Speaker 2: I mean, do you think he would have gone there

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Speaker 2: Part B, even more specifically, is Kyle Pitts. You could

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Speaker 2: way for players like Eric Gilbert to be ranked as

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Speaker 2: lofty as they have been, because they kind of create

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Speaker 2: I mean certainly he fits that. No one questions the

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Speaker 2: athleticism there. And this is another example outside of just

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Speaker 2: the immediate impact, this is an example of Florida properly

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Speaker 2: valuing and leveraging the transfer portal. This is something we're

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Speaker 2: going to dive way deep into towards the end of

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Speaker 2: the show, but right here on the surface to begin with,

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Speaker 2: this is an example of a program it's recruiting good. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Florida's not recruiting and an elite level, but they're recruiting

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Speaker 2: at a very good level. So right now, I think

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Speaker 2: they're ranked thirteenth in the country for this twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: Not quite elite.

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Speaker 2: But what if you combine really really good recruiting with

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Speaker 2: a phenomenal grasp of how to work the transfer portalcols

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Speaker 2: This is not the first major transfer even in this

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Speaker 2: maybe him Anyway, if you were to add DeMarcus Bowman

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Speaker 2: Kyle Trask is out, presumably it's Emery Jones. Really nice

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Speaker 2: to have that caliber tight end. It's also nice to

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Speaker 2: what teams like Alabama are able to do. It's what

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Speaker 2: be able to do. But aside from the obvious impact.

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Speaker 2: Just one more thing here. I don't think I need

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Speaker 2: You just kept an elite talent off of Alabama's roster,

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Speaker 1: And off of George's roster.

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Speaker 2: So aside from the impact he's going to have there,

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Speaker 2: he's not going to have the impact there.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a little two for one trade off.

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Speaker 2: Those haven't gone our way enough if I'm a Florida fan,

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Speaker 2: and now finally one has gone our way, and then two,

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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you are headed to Atlanta

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Speaker 2: every year or every other year instead of once every

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Speaker 2: blue moon. So really big day for Florida. Florida right now.

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Speaker 2: Now they got to close strong in this signing class.

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Speaker 2: They got the number thirteen class in the country right now.

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Speaker 2: Signing day is Wednesday. Myself and Steve will Fong along

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Speaker 2: with several others, will be live right here in this

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Speaker 2: But Eric Gilbert, Florida, it is a massive pickup for

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Speaker 2: the Gators alrighty, now we roll on. As I said early,

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Speaker 2: there is a news industry kind of TV term for

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Speaker 2: It's sound on tape. Even though we don't use tape anymore,

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Speaker 2: a SoundBite. That's basically what it's called. So we don't

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Speaker 2: leaked Nick Saban. So here's nice, easy incut Colin. Nick

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Speaker 2: Saban had a recruiting video, kind of a zoom chat

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Speaker 2: be named. It's not really germane to the overall topic here,

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Speaker 2: it went public and it was like fifteen minutes long. Now,

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Speaker 1: However, if you.

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Speaker 2: Didn't, here's the setup and then director Colin in just

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Speaker 2: a second, we're going to play you different clips of

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Speaker 2: it because I want to comment on several facets of

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Speaker 2: this video. Nick Saban is the secret behind Alabama recruiting.

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Speaker 1: That's no breaking.

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Speaker 2: News, but in twenty twenty one, this twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: class is getting ready to possibly shatter all time recruiting

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Speaker 2: records for highest rated classes. I saw a stat today,

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Speaker 2: This one just I don't even know how to properly

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Speaker 2: categorize this. The things they're able to do in their

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Speaker 2: in saying, do you know what it's like to be

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Speaker 1: That's not an error, that's real. They can say that

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Speaker 2: We've had more linebackers drafted into the NFL than games lost.

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Speaker 2: So the backstory, I've shared this before and I've talked

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Speaker 3: And you know everybody's going to tell you in recruiting,

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Speaker 1: They're essentially running interference.

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Speaker 2: eastbounding down YadA, YadA, YadA. Well, those rival coaching staffs

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Speaker 1: Because physically they all have it.

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Speaker 2: Like he said, I wouldn't be talking to you if

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Speaker 2: You want to go fight for a job every day.

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Speaker 2: You would ask yourself, how can people be put through

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Speaker 3: Cam Robinson play left tackle here, one of the ALFA

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Speaker 2: But I always am humored, and we'll hear it this week. Inevitably,

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's this kind of notion that there's the

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Speaker 2: You are the five star recruit. You have aspirations to

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Speaker 2: And you tell me what part of what you're about

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Speaker 2: to hear come out of Nick Saban's mouth doesn't do

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Speaker 3: One more championships. We've won six championships in the last

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Speaker 2: Not quite sure what more you'd be looking for there, Like,

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Speaker 2: you find out about it through secondary sourcing, it just

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00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,520
Speaker 2: makes them all the more legendary. Nick Saban is now

437
00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,639
Speaker 2: made to look all the more legendary because he's just

438
00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,760
Speaker 2: sitting there in his element. He's just kind of, you know,

439
00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,240
Speaker 2: hands behind his head, just kind of leaned back. He

440
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,919
Speaker 2: doesn't have the sweatstains I do on the shirt, but

441
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,120
Speaker 2: he just kind of leaned back and he's saying, this

442
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,000
Speaker 2: is who we are. If you want to come here,

443
00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,040
Speaker 2: that's great. Probably beat you into a coma if you

444
00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,720
Speaker 2: don't come here, but it is what it is. Make

445
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,000
Speaker 2: up your mind. I got another five star to call.

446
00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,520
Speaker 2: And that's the great thing about the legends. The legends

447
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,640
Speaker 2: don't really ever have to remind you that they're legends.

448
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,639
Speaker 2: Nick Saban never talks about himself publicly. It doesn't have

449
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,920
Speaker 2: to because the actions and the results kind of speak

450
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 2: for themselves, so that was really fun to watch. I

451
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,360
Speaker 2: hope we get more. I don't think we'll get any

452
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,199
Speaker 2: more anytime soon. It is mood Tracker time, though. The

453
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 2: mood Tracker has just taken off. I look at the traffic,

454
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,080
Speaker 2: and I look at the comments, and I look at

455
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 2: the per fifty viewer comments, and we get more comments

456
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,159
Speaker 2: per video capita on the mood Tracker segments. Then we

457
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 2: do pretty much anything else. And the mood Tracker rolls

458
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Speaker 2: on tonight. And I've been asking you guys, you can

459
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,960
Speaker 2: hit me in my Twitter, DMS or email. The most

460
00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 2: requested programs are getting priority. Let me say that LSU's

461
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,159
Speaker 2: mood Tracker has been put off for about two weeks now. Now,

462
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 2: the LSU Mood Tracker was in hot demand from all

463
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 2: of you guys, but yet I wanted to.

464
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Speaker 1: See kind of wait and see.

465
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Speaker 2: I guess what happened with the coaching searches and replacements

466
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 2: and Edward's run trying to fill out his staff. And

467
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 2: he's done that, and now I kind of still was

468
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 2: on the fence today. So it's LSU dayere We're gonna

469
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 2: do LSU today. However, sometimes I got a really firm

470
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 2: grip on the pulse of a fan base. Other times,

471
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 2: as was the case with LSU today, it kind of

472
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 2: feels a little bit fragmented and a little bit decentralized,

473
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,880
Speaker 2: where you're trying to fire into a flock of birds

474
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 2: instead of at a deer.

475
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 1: You know, it's very hard to aim.

476
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 2: I reach in there, I try and grab, I don't

477
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 2: come away with anything. And so that's when you got

478
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,679
Speaker 2: to go to the people directly. You got to go

479
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,160
Speaker 2: to the board. So I went over to go twenty

480
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 2: four to seven earlier today and the people responded several

481
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Speaker 2: pages deep, is that thread over there already? So this

482
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 2: is why we do mood Tracker, because the view that

483
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 2: a lot of the national types have about your program

484
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 2: from say fifty thousand feet does not always match or

485
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,639
Speaker 2: equal what the real feel is on the ground level.

486
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 2: So I go on the message board for LSU today

487
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 2: and I just flat out said, we're doing this tonight.

488
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 2: I want to know from you in a word or

489
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 2: a phrase, give me your mood currently, as we said

490
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 2: here January thirty first, twenty twenty one on LSU football.

491
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Speaker 2: So these were some of the most popular reactions you

492
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,400
Speaker 2: got cautious optimism. That was by far the most popular

493
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 2: do or die. Now, there was a lot of just

494
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 2: genuine energy. They're very happy to have a younger, more

495
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,199
Speaker 2: attractive coaching staff that probably is more relatable to your players.

496
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: There's a lot of that boom or bust.

497
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 2: Do or die, as I said, was very popular, ready rejuvenated,

498
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 2: and then overall there's just this mixture of emotion. There

499
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 2: are people who are willing to be excited, but they're

500
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 2: also trepidation. There were very few people ready to just

501
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 2: run off the cliff. And so I look at that,

502
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 2: I sum it all up, I put it in the mind,

503
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 2: and out came what I call Henry Rowing Gardner territory. Now,

504
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 2: this is not a football movie. It's a baseball movie.

505
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: But if you're.

506
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 2: Familiar with the movie Rookie of the Year, Henry rowing

507
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 2: Gardner was a twelve year old pitcher for the Cubs.

508
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 2: Very tough last name to pronounce, but he signed with PEPSI.

509
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 2: He's a millionaire, really good player, and it was because

510
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 2: he had an arm injury that made him throw like

511
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirteen miles an hour.

512
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Speaker 1: So with LSU, they're kind of at the place.

513
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 2: Right now where Henan Gardner was when you got that

514
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: do or die game to win and go to the playoffs.

515
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 2: You've seen the fastball, so we know you can throw

516
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 2: like one hundred and nine miles an hour. But then

517
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 2: you slip and you fall and the arm pops back

518
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 2: into place, and all of a sudden you're just a

519
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 2: twelve year old again, and you say.

520
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm okay.

521
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 2: But then you get on the mound and your first

522
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 2: warm up pitch two hops to catcher at like forty

523
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 2: eight miles an hour, And so that's where we are

524
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 2: right now. We've seen the fastball twenty nineteen was incredible.

525
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 2: No one could stop it. And then it's like it's

526
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: like LSU football collectively slips on a banana peel or

527
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 2: a wayward baseball, as it were, and you convince everyone

528
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 2: you're okay. For example, if your editor's run, you convince everyone, no, no, no,

529
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 2: no, no no. Not only are we okay, defensively, we're better.

530
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 2: We're better under Bo Polini than we were under Dave Randa,

531
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 2: and we're gonna be fine everywhere. We're just gonna be good, good, good,

532
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 2: good good. And then it was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

533
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 2: But since we've seen the fastball, and since the LSU

534
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 2: nation has seen the fastball, no one's ready to sell,

535
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 2: no one's ready to punt. We've got some off the

536
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 2: field situations that aren't really football related that I have

537
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 2: no skill in being able to speculate on. But if

538
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: we put that over in this compartment and just hope

539
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: it turns out, which is all we can do right now.

540
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: And we're talking about strictly on the field matters, everyone's

541
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 2: willing to forget about twenty twenty. I don't know a

542
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 2: person that's going to say, yeah, I know this guy

543
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 2: won us a national championship, and I know we had

544
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 2: one of the most legendary seasons in the history college football,

545
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,400
Speaker 2: But I just can't get over twenty twenty. No one's

546
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 2: saying that if everything gets riding, So you can make

547
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: the case even if we're sitting here right now, because

548
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: we don't know how the future plays out. If you're

549
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 2: trying to get yourself invested again, and you'll be in

550
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 2: this mood if you're an lsufan, if you're not already there,

551
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 2: come August, first few days of practice, you'll be looking

552
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 2: for any reason possible to remember twenty nineteen. Forget about

553
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and invest in twenty twenty one. Here's how

554
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 2: I think you do it. You just have to convince

555
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 2: yourself that twenty twenty was an anomaly, and you could

556
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 2: convince yourself that twenty twenty was doomed from the beginning.

557
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 2: So you had all the departures for the NFL Draft.

558
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: You had replacing the combination of quarterback, offensive coordinator. As

559
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 2: I look at it, I know entitled you didn't, but

560
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 2: let's be real. You replaced your offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator, and.

561
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: Then you got a bunch of talent to replace.

562
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 2: You also had a lot of off the field dynamics

563
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 2: that were just bad, and so in retrospect, I think

564
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 2: long before Mike Leach came in there and did what

565
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 2: he did in Week one, these were probably just doomed.

566
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 2: You can make that argument, and I could buy into

567
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: that having not seen twenty twenty one and beyond. So

568
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 2: all that stuff is fixable, is the point. It's fixable

569
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 2: if you got proper leadership. So in other words, what

570
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 2: we're waiting to find out is is ed orgeron the man.

571
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: If he's the man, then all the stuff that's fixable

572
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 2: will have been fixed, and for all we know, it

573
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: already has been fixed. But you got to show me

574
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: the fastball, because that's how we're going to know. Like

575
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 2: LSU winds up against UCLA. They opened, by the way

576
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 2: in Pasadena, I'm not so sure. I don't want to

577
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 2: make that trip. If California is open by then, It's

578
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 2: only eight months from now, so we'll see. But I mean,

579
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 2: if they head out to Pasadena and they put one

580
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: high and tight under Chip Kelly's chin at about ninety eight,

581
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 2: you're getting good and loose.

582
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: Looks nice.

583
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 2: We got quarterback figured out, we got oc figured out,

584
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 2: we got a younger and more energetic coaching staff. Recruiting

585
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 2: hasn't gone anywhere. I mean, recruiting's still fine. The energy

586
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: around the program is still really good. You don't get

587
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 2: a feel of inevitable doom. You feel that at some

588
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 2: programs even though it's not over, you can tell it's

589
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: all but over. That's not the feel around LSU at all.

590
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 2: That's not the feel around the fan base. The fan

591
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: base is just kind of like they just took a

592
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: shot to the chin and they've just gotten back up.

593
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 2: At about the count of seven and it's like, no,

594
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. Okay, got my wits about myself.

595
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: Now is that gonna happen again? I hope that doesn't

596
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 2: happen again. That hurt. I want the feel where I'm

597
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: the one delivering to blow like I did in twenty nineteen.

598
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 2: So right now, cautious optimism is the best we can

599
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: do at LSU. Hopefully you got a lot of elements

600
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 2: out of there that didn't need to be there, the

601
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 2: elements that do need to be there, and now you

602
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 2: bring in another very talented freshman class, you get quarterback

603
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: figured out.

604
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: Hopefully the offense looks like it did.

605
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 2: A lot more in twenty nineteen than twenty twenty, and

606
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: things will be well. But if you're saying twenty twenty

607
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 2: one is the not necessarily do or die season, but

608
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: it is the show me season, I got to agree

609
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 2: with you. I think twenty twenty one for LSU could

610
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: very well be what twenty twenty was for Dan Mullen

611
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: and Florida. There were a lot of questions about Mullen.

612
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 2: He wasn't on a hot seat, but there were a

613
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: lot of questions, and he validated even in what turned

614
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 2: out to be a four lost season.

615
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird.

616
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: That Dan Mullen validated a lot of what people wanted

617
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: him to validate because they beat Georgia, they won the East,

618
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: they were prolific offensively, and they just kind of got

619
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 2: weird towards the end of the year. Well, LSU hopefully

620
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 2: not losing four games in the process, but LSU really

621
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 2: needs to get back. They need to get the fastball back.

622
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, we're also doing Michigan tonight, so

623
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 2: let's hop skip and jump our way up to an

624
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: arbor Michigan.

625
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: The Michigan Mood Tracker. Here's what it feels like to me.

626
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 2: I got some Michigan buddies, so I don't necessarily always

627
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 2: have to go to the message board and ask, Hey, how.

628
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: You feel about this? How do you feel about that?

629
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 2: Sometimes I do, but when they're all in agreement on

630
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: how they feel in the eye Josh, when I'm texting them,

631
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 2: I don't really feel the need to do that. And

632
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: the kind of feel that I've gotten from my Michigan

633
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: campadres right now is somewhere in between the plant and

634
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: the harvest.

635
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: So I guess you would call it being in growing season.

636
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 2: Like, no one, at least from who I've talked to,

637
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 2: no one feels overly jacked and overly enthusiastic about Michigan

638
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 2: football in twenty twenty one. But yet no one's burning

639
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 2: couches in an arbor anyway or either. So it's kind

640
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: of somewhere in between. You're just kind of waiting. You

641
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: think you've done everything you need to do. You've made

642
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 2: a change offensive coordinator, you've got your quarterback on campus. Now,

643
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: you've got some good young wide receiver talent coming in,

644
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 2: and you've re signed a coach. For what that's worth,

645
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: I'll talk about that in a second. You're just kind

646
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 2: of looking at the ground every day. You keep doing

647
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: your due diligence, you keep watering it dutifully, waiting for

648
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: the harvest, and so far, looking at the ground here,

649
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 2: I don't really see anything sprouting. Maybe it's like that

650
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,959
Speaker 2: Chinese bamboo, it grows like sixty feet over the next

651
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: ten weeks. Hopefully that's what Michigan football is going to

652
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: be like. But if I'm a Michigan fan, as I

653
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: like to do in these mood trackers, I'll just kind

654
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: of walk over to your side of the fence. And

655
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: I'll kind of look over the fence with you, what

656
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: more do we do? We're kind of powerless here. You know,

657
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: sometimes if the fan base hasn't properly invested, there's something

658
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: you can do, Like you can kind of activate and

659
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: mobilize yourselves, and then hopefully, in turn, the athletic department

660
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: responds and the football program responds, and you kind of

661
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: see the football program ride a tidal wave of fan

662
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: support and momentum that previously hadn't been there. I would

663
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: argue Central Florida football fits that description. Well, that's not

664
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: Michigan football. The support's been there forever. And so if

665
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 2: I'm a Michigan fan, if I'm an alum or not,

666
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 2: if I'm just.

667
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: Looking there and I'm saying, what more can we do?

668
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I'm invested.

669
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: I watch every game, I buy my season ticket, I

670
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: buy merchandising, I donate when I'm asked to. I don't

671
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: know what more I'm supposed to do. And so here'd

672
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: be my concern, to be honest with you. Maybe I'm

673
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 2: speaking out attorney here, but this would be my concern.

674
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: My concern if I'm Michigan fan would be maybe I'm

675
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: a little bit more invested emotionally than the athletic director

676
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 2: and department and university here. That would be my concern

677
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 2: because there was a lot of staff shuffling, but that

678
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 2: was only after this weird speculation period about whether the

679
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 2: man you're seeing on your screen, Jim Harbaugh, whether he

680
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 2: was going to come back or not.

681
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: And so he re signs or signs an extension, and.

682
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: They reduce his overall salary and it's loaded with incentives,

683
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: and it just kind of felt weird. But yet we

684
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 2: replace our defensive coordinator and our safeties coach, and our

685
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: corner coach, and our quarterback coach and our offensive line coach.

686
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: That's great.

687
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 2: We had to change something that's wonderful. We wondered whether

688
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: it was going to be head coach. It's not, and

689
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 2: so instead we got kind of a lot of aesthetics.

690
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 2: What we don't want to see is deck chairs being

691
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: rearranged on the Titanic. Hopefully that's not what this is.

692
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: But here's what I'd want to know. Did anything change

693
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 2: about our DNA? Like if we're just if we don't

694
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: have the DNA, I don't care that we put on

695
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: a new shirt, a new pair of khakis pun intended

696
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: and new pair of shoes. I don't care about that.

697
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 2: We're still in here like we're still the same. So

698
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: I want to know that something in here changed. That's

699
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: pretty obvious that where Michigan's really been lacking up until

700
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: this last year, predominantly where they had been lacking was

701
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the ball. Now this year

702
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: there were multiple places both sides they were lacking. So

703
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: Don Brown's out as a result of that on defense,

704
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 2: But Josh Gaddis, you know, I'm still of the opinion

705
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: even two years in that I cannot properly grade the

706
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: Josh Gaddis higher because I think that they were so

707
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: behind the curve when it came to needing the kind

708
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 2: of personnel that Josh Gaddis needs to run the offense there.

709
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: I think it takes a couple of recruiting classes. And

710
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: so you've got JJ McCarthy, for example, which is the

711
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: most talented quarterback they'll have the moment he steps on campus, obviously,

712
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 2: And you got some young wide receiver talent. They got

713
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 2: some really really fast wide receiver talent. I haven't said

714
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 2: that about them up until now. I haven't been able

715
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: to say that about them. So, for all I know,

716
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 2: Josh Gaddis was the absolute perfect hire that I haven't

717
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 2: been able to properly grade. And so I hope that

718
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: he's been given the requisite ingredients with which to cook

719
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: and with which to operate the way he wants to.

720
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: But if you want to look at a place, you

721
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: want to look at a program that needs an inflection point.

722
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: That's something you hear in the board room all the time. No,

723
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 2: Michigan football. They need the inflection point this year because

724
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 2: I tell you, as I've said before, what the most

725
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 2: dangerous word is in sports in general, and it's apathy.

726
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: I don't think apathy has set in around the Michigan

727
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 2: program yet around the fan base, but I will say

728
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 2: I think it's a lot closer than it's ever been.

729
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 2: And that's a pretty scary thing to say about a

730
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: program as storied and a tradition as rich as Michigan football.

731
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: That's not good. And so when you got.

732
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 2: Folks sitting around and they keep taking that same garbage

733
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 2: every year and around saying well, we can't do anymore,

734
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: and our rivals down there in Columbus, Ohio like they're

735
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 2: only pulling further away we look at Alabama and all

736
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: these other major brand names that we're supposed to be,

737
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: they're only pulling further away. Like, at what point do

738
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: I just kind of relegate myself to accepting that this

739
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: is us. Well, they're not there yet, and I don't

740
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: think they want to be there, obviously, but they're not

741
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: there yet.

742
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: But every year of mediocrity.

743
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 2: Gets them a little bit closer to that point inflection

744
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: point time in twenty twenty one from Michigan. All right,

745
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 2: to end the show tonight, and we're not done yet.

746
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 2: But this is the last topic I've taken about two

747
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 2: weeks ever since. Steve Wiltfong and I were talking the

748
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: other day before we recorded one of his whip Around

749
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: videos about the changes in the needs for personnel departments

750
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: in college football.

751
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: So I'll give a word of caution here.

752
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: I would always caution you when you hear about the

753
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 2: landscape of college football changing, don't always assume it's going

754
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 2: to be bad. I know a lot of times anything

755
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 2: something looks like it's about to change. Those of us

756
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 2: who have watched college football for a long time, and

757
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: those of you who have watched maybe for a lot

758
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: longer than me, you just assume it's for the worst, okay, And.

759
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes change is okay. Sometimes change is good.

760
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: Change is never always bad, change is not always.

761
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: For the better. There's a healthy mixture of both here.

762
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 2: So the transfer portal, for example, that is the talk

763
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 2: of college football behind the scenes right now, and the

764
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: debate is over. It's the point I want to make

765
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: to get into this. The debate about how the transfer

766
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 2: portal should be handled and what should be legal and

767
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 2: what should not be allowed. That stuff's over. Like if

768
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 2: you're still internally as a coach now, if you're still

769
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: debating that stuff, you're ten steps behind the competition. Dan

770
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: Mullen is on your screen right now, if you're watching

771
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 2: on YouTube college showing you Dan Mullen. We just talked

772
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: about them landing Eric Gilbert, Like these programs aren't waiting

773
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 2: around anymore, truth be told. Some of them wish the

774
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: transfer portal didn't exist, but it does. It's a necessary

775
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 2: evil if you don't like it. It's a golden opportunity if

776
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 2: you do like it, but you gotta leverage it properly

777
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 2: or else you are going to be a dinosaur in

778
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: the next five years. So the personnel structure inside your

779
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 2: favorite college football program and the staff structure. This is

780
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 2: the talk behind the scenes in the world of college football.

781
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 2: This affects you as a fan indirectly, no matter who

782
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 2: you pull for, and it's also creating new pathways into

783
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 2: the world of college football. You see a lot of

784
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 2: you when I do these zoom consultations. You say, you

785
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 2: know what I'd want to do. I don't even want

786
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: to work in media. I want to work inside college football.

787
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 2: And you get the sense sometimes that well, since I've

788
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 2: never been a football coach or I've never been a

789
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 2: football player, I can't be in that world.

790
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can listen.

791
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: Some graphics design folks are getting paid six figures now

792
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: to work in these athletic departments. So the next wave,

793
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: the next influx of talent is going to come in

794
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 2: the areas that I'm about to talk about, because there

795
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 2: are new requirements in college football programs now.

796
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: That didn't exist five year years ago.

797
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 2: So, like I wrote down the old school structure, let's

798
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: go to two thousand and five or twenty ten, even

799
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: as recently as probably twenty fifteen. The old school structure.

800
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 2: You've got your coaching staff, you got your strength and

801
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: conditioning staff, you got your nutrition specialist, you got your

802
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 2: sports medicine department, your doctors, you've got academic advisors, you've

803
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 2: got your compliance team, which kind of is a vestige

804
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: of the athletic department, but that's who you would have.

805
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: Then in your scouting departments, you'd have your high school scouts.

806
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 2: That's recruiting traditional recruiting. You would have Juco scouts to

807
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: know the Jewco scene out there, and that's more of

808
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: you know, sprinkles on top of your recruiting class.

809
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: Well, that's about it.

810
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 2: Now, guess what you have to have now You got

811
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 2: to have a director of scouting for FBS and fcs.

812
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: In other words, the kids who are already in college,

813
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: you continue to scout them because any given year, like

814
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 2: fifteen percent of them may go in the transfer portal.

815
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 2: And then, and this is where uncle Wilfong the other

816
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: day brought up another really good point. You need to

817
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 2: have a director of acquisition. It's almost like a talent

818
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 2: acquisition specialist. And this person's role would really be twofold.

819
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: Number one, it would sort of be recruiting the portal.

820
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: But number two, it would be keeping your current roster

821
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: either happy or intact or satisfied, whatever you want to

822
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: call it, making sure that they're on top of any

823
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 2: kind of kind of interwoven problems that may be bubbling

824
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 2: just below the surface that could end up with a

825
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: disgruntled player in the transfer portal. You got to be

826
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: on top of that. You just don't have time. If

827
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 2: you're a coordinator, you don't have time. If you're a

828
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 2: head coach to every single week be doing a full

829
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 2: autopsy of every single scholarship player you have while also

830
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: getting ready to play Texas A and M on Saturday.

831
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: You don't have time for that. And so if you wait.

832
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: For someone hitting the portal to know them and talk

833
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 2: to them, you're done. You can't wait until that happens

834
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: because too many of your opponents too much, your competition

835
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 2: isn't doing that anymore. And if you don't have the

836
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 2: creative and psychological aspects of attracting and keeping that talent mastered,

837
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,479
Speaker 2: you're also done. You're gonna be a ghost, You're gonna

838
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 2: be a dinosaur five years from now. And these are

839
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 2: abilities you didn't even need to have five or ten

840
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: years ago.

841
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: You gotta have it now.

842
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 2: It's okay to be reactionary like a lot of these

843
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 2: coaches look around and they don't want to be the

844
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: first to try something, but they don't want to be

845
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 2: the fifth either. They want to let someone else be

846
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 2: the tasa dammy, And if that works, okay, let's implement

847
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 2: what they're doing. That's okay. It's okay to be reactionary.

848
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: You can make a living and you can make a

849
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 2: good living being reactionary. But what you really want is

850
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 2: you want a head coach or you want leadership in

851
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 2: place along with your head coach that are instinctive enough

852
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 2: to be at the forefront, to be at the cutting edge,

853
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 2: be doing, for example, what Dan Mullen and Florida have

854
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: been able to do with transfer portal.

855
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: You're gonna need to do that every year. Okay.

856
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: The same programs that benefit in an elite manner on

857
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: the recruiting trail theoretically should be the same programs that

858
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: could dominate the transfer portal if they needed to. It's

859
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 2: not always gonna be that way, though, because theoretically, if

860
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 2: you recruit at a high level and you're maintaining from

861
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 2: an acquisition standpoint, your roster, you may not need to

862
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: dip into the transfer portal. So what you're capable of

863
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 2: doing versus what you need to do every year. May

864
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 2: not always marry up, but you'd a lot rather be

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Speaker 2: able to do something you don't need to do than

866
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Speaker 2: not be able to do something you do need to do.

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Speaker 2: So think about everything I just said and then combine

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Speaker 2: it with what's coming, because the next next wave is name,

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00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 2: image and likeness. Now that's something that's speaking of Florida,

870
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Speaker 2: major programs all over the place, Florida. Most recently, I

871
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Speaker 2: was reading about everyone's positioning themselves. Everyone wants to be

872
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Speaker 2: at the cutting edge of name, image and likeness. But

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking about the future of a head coach in

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Speaker 2: college football. The future head coaches in college football will

875
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Speaker 2: be more CEO in nature than they've ever been. You've

876
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 2: always called coaches that, and they are because even right now,

877
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Speaker 2: or even five or ten years ago or twenty years ago,

878
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Speaker 2: you're running a major organization. There is a vast imageority

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Speaker 2: of your day to day, week to week, month to month,

880
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 2: year to your schedule that you're doing things that have

881
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 2: nothing to do directly with the game of football. But

882
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Speaker 2: yet you are a leader of a football organization, and

883
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Speaker 2: so you have to do it. But here's what I

884
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 2: think you have to be a master of so many

885
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: of these things that are football related, but their secondary

886
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: in nature, like acquisition, like the transfer portal, like name,

887
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: image and likeness. If you think about what a future

888
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 2: head coach could be, I guarantee you there's coming a

889
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 2: day in college football where there are going to be

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Speaker 2: head coaches that are top ten head coaches that are

891
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: winning ten games a year, that are probably CEE to

892
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: C plus at best. If you were to get them

893
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: on a grease board when it comes to football minds,

894
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 2: they would be viewed as very average. But yet they're

895
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Speaker 2: exceptional leaders and they understand how to run the entire organization,

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Speaker 2: and at that point, a college football organization will dwarf

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five what a college football organization was

898
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Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, to the point where you could have

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Speaker 2: some names that are viewed as elite head coaches five

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Speaker 2: or ten years from now that never would have gotten

901
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 2: a shot, and you know what to be a head

902
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Speaker 2: coach five or ten years earlier. That's how the sport's evolving.

903
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: Now.

904
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Speaker 2: You can tell me whether you think that's good or bad.

905
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 2: I always welcome your feedback in the comment section, because

906
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, I don't have a full

907
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 2: grasp on how I feel about that.

908
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.

909
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: If it's going to happen, especially if you are in

910
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: this world, your opinion is irrelevant.

911
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: You got to either adapt or die, two options.

912
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 2: There There is no in between, because in between, by default,

913
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Speaker 2: is you dying. So that's really really fascinating. This is

914
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Speaker 2: not the last time we're talking about this this offseason,

915
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: because this is something that if you get coaches off

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Speaker 2: the record, they don't want to talk about it on

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Speaker 2: the record. But when you talk to coaches, assistants and

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Speaker 2: head coaches off.

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Speaker 1: The record, they will.

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Speaker 2: They'll put their coffee down and they will unbutton their

921
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Speaker 2: belt buckle and they'll juste lean back and they'll start going.

922
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Speaker 2: Everybody's got to take on this stuff. Everybody gets very

923
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Speaker 2: illustrated and colorful on this stuff.

924
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: One's got ideas.

925
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Speaker 2: But yet then they'll say, but hey, man, like it

926
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Speaker 2: is what it is, we got to do it, and

927
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Speaker 2: so here's what we're doing. Don't tell anyone, so our

928
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Speaker 2: lips are sealed. My lips are not sealed on this.

929
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Speaker 2: Though I appreciate you guys giving us a lot of

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Speaker 2: traction on the channel. We have got a Signing Day

931
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Speaker 2: show coming up Wednesday, So here's the schedule for this week.

932
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Speaker 2: National Signing Day is Wednesday. Uncle Steve Wilfong and I

933
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Speaker 2: will be in studio and we will do a full

934
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Speaker 2: three hour live show on Wednesday mornings. So make sure

935
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Speaker 2: you're subscribed here. Make sure you click the bell for notifications.

936
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Speaker 2: Some of you were watching the five Star reveal show

937
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 2: the other day and noted that we accidentally went live

938
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Speaker 2: like an hour early, so you got to see a

939
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Speaker 2: very classy sound check from me, and then you watched

940
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Speaker 2: me randomly talk to myself as I went over notes

941
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Speaker 2: for like fifteen minutes, just stirring television, if you will.

942
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Speaker 2: So hopefully we don't do that Wednesday, but we will

943
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Speaker 2: do a live show. We'll have a lot of commitments

944
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Speaker 2: on air. We're gonna have a lot of back and forth.

945
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Speaker 2: Willfong is like KINDI is kind of like a computer

946
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 2: that also has a heart and a soul and a

947
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Speaker 2: mouth and vocal chords, and so it's really nice because

948
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Speaker 2: you just reach over there and you say give me

949
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 2: four and a half minutes on Purdue Signing Class, and

950
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: it it will Fong. It just starts talking until you

951
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: tell it. Okay, don't talk anymore. We're moving on.

952
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: Now.

953
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 2: That's enough on Purdue. So it's a really easy job

954
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: for me. Can't believe they're gonna pay me to do that,

955
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Speaker 2: but I appreciate that they will, so hope.

956
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Speaker 1: That you'll join us.

957
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: Make sure you subscribe and follow me on Twitter at

958
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: late Kick Josh, and remember.

959
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Speaker 1: The call to action on the front end.

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Speaker 2: Any of you who are active in the Nashville Men's

961
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Speaker 2: softball seed and need you in my inbox Josh paid

962
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Speaker 2: seven zero six at gmail dot com because I'm new

963
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,439
Speaker 2: to the neighborhood and i need to know the deal

964
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Speaker 2: up here. So until next time for director Colin and

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Speaker 2: producer Jordan on the podcast that I'm Josh Pate, thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for watching. Have a great start to your

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Speaker 2: week at God bless