WEBVTT - Going Bowling: Part 1 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal. I'll that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.719 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.639 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.920 for a day? Edo Steak is that whoo whoom? 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:20.680 And Dan and Tie, welcome back to the solid verbal, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.400 Boys and girls. My name is Tye Hildebrand, joining me 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.160 as always my good friend over there in snowy, snowy, 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.440 snowy New York City. Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you? 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:37.839 We're about thirty six hours post Pisman Trophy and my 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.600 my innerds my insides because I don't drink a lot 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.519 and I drink a lot. It's a struggle bus in there, Tie, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.839 it is a struggle bus to drink. Dan was on 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.800 full display on Friday evening. It turned into four and 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.120 a half four point eight drink Dan. Okay, okay, you're 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.920 pushing yourself when you get to that point. If you're 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:56.360 my body, Well. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.800 It's good to see you. It was good to see everybody. Yeah, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.080 the Pisman Trophy, Sarah only. We posted a couple of 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.520 pictures of us with the esteemed Adam Amine, who was 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.200 in attendance. It was good to see him. Fine, gentlemen, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.400 good to catch up and talk about his year and 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.880 you know what lies ahead for him. So that was fun. 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.640 A lot of other notable personalities. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.160 It was a great Pisman crowd. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.080 Thank you as always for the invite to be part 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.080 of the festivities. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.280 Of course, and congratulations to brock Riggs excuse me of 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.720 Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. Boom walking away with the hardware, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.319 the most important piece of hardware in the college football postseason. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.399 A lot of fun. So we've got a lot to 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.600 discuss here, not the least of which is the update 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.600 on our shirt giveaway contest, which many people have been 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.160 emailing in. What is the status of that? We'll talk 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:45.600 about it. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.240 No more submissions, by the way, we have way too many. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.360 We'll also talk about the status of the live show 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.520 and how ticket sales are going and what our plan 0:01:53.720 --> 0:02:09.560 is moving forward for that. So, without further ado Dan Yo. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.840 Mo bop boat boo bope. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.440 There was a football game yesterday. It was Army Navy. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:15.120 It was in the snow, so full disclosure, the solid 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.560 wife and I came up to New York with every 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.840 intention of at least considering whether we wanted to stay 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.520 in the city on Saturday throughout the day and go 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.000 see a show or do something. It's Christmas in New York. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.960 That's what people do, right. We thought about it. What 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.800 we didn't realize when we drove up on Friday afternoon 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.920 was that there was snow in the forecast for yesterday, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.960 like out of nowhere. Two to five inches was expected 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.640 in the Greater New York Eastern PA area. And we 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.280 called an audible, decided to drive home bright and early 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.960 on Saturday morning, so we got home before the bulk 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.720 of the snow hit. I'm glad we did. If you 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.960 watched the Army Navy game, you saw a little bit 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.880 of that. It was snowing pretty hard in our neck 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.200 the woods here, which made for a really cool backdrop 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.640 for a historic game between Army and Navy. Army one 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.640 fourteen thirteen. As Navy misses a forty eight yard field 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.920 goal in the snow, the kid had the leg just 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.720 went a little bit wide left fourteen thirteen, Army wins again. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.080 Yes, a combined if I have this correct, three passes. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.520 Three passes for twenty two yards. It was like a 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.720 Florida game. It was a Florida game. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.280 Navy. Unfortunately, Malcolm parry two hundred and fifty some midd 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.960 yards and a losing effort, But good for Army for 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.960 holding on and and good for Army for a camouflage 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.080 system on the fields. That was fun to watch. No, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.080 it was a cool game to watch and obviously a 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.720 unique moment and unique matchup in college football always always 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:51.880 about the coolest thing to say. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.280 A grand total of three passes for twenty two yards, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.160 but ninety five collective rushing attempts at this game, which 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.760 is not unexpected. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.480 And the first, the first I think winning for the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.800 Cadets since ninety two to ninety six. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.440 That sounds right, that sounds right. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:05.680 I'm coming all right. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:10.760 Baker Mayfield, to the surprise of nobody, wins the Heisman Trophy. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.520 It was the third time for him that he had 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.600 been a Heisman Trophy finalist. He received seven hundred and 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.719 thirty two first place votes, which I believe, if my 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.000 math is correct, that would make him the fifth most 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:31.120 all time, behind Charlie Ward and Cam Newton. So certainly 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.719 a great year for Baker he wins the Heisman Trophy. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.120 Also of note, it is the fifth time since two 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.160 thousand and nine that a Stanford player has finished as 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.720 a runner up in the Heisman Trophy. That would of 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:43.920 course be Bryce Love. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.600 Baker Mayfield did not have a bad game. Baker Mayfield was. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.719 He dominated the quarterback landscape, I would say in a 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.560 way that is not seen in modern college football. He 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.400 was so far and away the best quarterback in the 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.240 sport that it sort of became a no brainer. And 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.240 I know a lot of people have very strong and 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:08.880 important opinions about Baker Mayfield's behavior, perhaps after games, during games, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:13.960 on the sideline, whatever, But he was such an incredibly 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.080 special talent that it's a shame we won't get to 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.080 see more of him because he was not really of 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.640 this college football universes. Here we talked about him sort 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.560 of being in between college and the NFL, just in 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.920 terms of the talent and confidence that he played with 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.040 starting out with the big Ohio State when even going 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.440 back to the win against Auburn and bowl season last year. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.600 But yes, this was among the biggest recent no brainers 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.279 of a Heisman vote an any issue with the vote 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.200 at all? Did you see the top ten any sort 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.279 of things that stood out. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.920 I'm looking at it now. No, yeah, no, not in 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.760 particular the roquand Smith. I guess addition down at number 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.920 ten caught me off guardy Roquand Smith is very good. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.200 But once you get outside the top three, it sort 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.960 of turns into this mishmash of players that maybe would 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.360 Nick spects some that you would, so don't. I don't 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.159 have any hot takes as far as that goes. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.960 Yeah, if it were a much closer vote and you 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.479 start seeing four first place votes for Mackenzie Milton, three 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.040 for Rokwand Smith, who best player on arguably the best 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.800 defense in the SEC, you know there's something understandable at 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.919 that if you want to vote for the best pure 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.840 player that you see, I don't know how you can 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.719 say Rokwand Smith is better at playing linebacker than Baker 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.320 Mayfield is at quarterback. But no, this was this was 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.800 extremely easy, And yeah, poor Stanford always always coming second place. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.560 Baker Mayfield, Bryce Love, Lamar Jackson, Saquon Barkley, and Rashad 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.280 Penny round out your top five, and then Jonathan Taylor 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.400 tailback at six, which is awesome freshman by the way, Yes, 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:51.080 Mason Rudolph Mackenzie Milton from UCF, Carrie On Johnson, and 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.279 Rokwan Smith rounding out the top ten, So congratulations to 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.039 Baker Mayfield. By all accounts, he's got a bright future 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:00.920 waiting for him in the NFL. A lot of teams 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.359 are excited about him, so we'll see how he performs 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.800 at the next level. We also mentioned briefly at the 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.760 top about brock Riggs getting the Pisman Trophy, but look 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.120 up Heidelberg, a small college fifty five miles southeast of 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.080 Toledo in the northern part of Ohio. He was, I thought, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.840 a little bit emotional about winning award. He had some 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.840 family in town, some friends in town. He noted in 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.120 his acceptance speech it was his first time in New 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.400 York City, which is really cool, and definitely got a 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.360 little choked up, held it together. But you were on 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.680 stage with him. Did you hear the voice crackle? I 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.800 could hear it, yeah, a little bit. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.600 And he brought his girlfriend and offensive line coach slash 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.240 coordinator with him. His brothers showed up at the awards ceremony, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.760 and I don't know if you saw this, but there 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.080 was a watch party at Heidelberg. Yes, he was awesome, 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.400 friends and stuff like that. And as soon as our 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.720 pal Ryan Nanny announced that he won, there was like 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.280 that cool explosion thing like you see when you know 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.800 a team gets into the NCAA tournament or something. You 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.640 see that shot a lot and that was awesome to see. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:04.480 That was so cool. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.880 Mario Cristobal has officially been named the next head football 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.280 coach at Oregon. We had speculated when we did our 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:18.080 Willie Taggart Emerga Pod last week that Crystal Ball might 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.440 be the selection. Jeff Schwartz on our program seemed to 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.400 advocate for him. The locker room seemed to advocate for 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.760 him as well. Mary chris Ball is a guy who 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.960 has head coaching experience. It didn't work out so well 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.280 at the end of his tenure at FIU, but since 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.840 then he's had ample opportunity to learn and grow as 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.520 a football coach. She did some time at Alabama, obviously, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.280 had a successful stint a short stint as an assistant 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.120 at Oregon. Now he's been named the head guy, Dan, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:48.720 how do you feel? 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.280 Well? First of all, it is karma for always making 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.200 fun of words that we pronounced differently. That Oregon has 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:00.120 now hired a Mario Mario. That is that's rough for 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.600 me that I'm going to have to hear a difference 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.080 in first name opinion that's on this show whenever we 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.960 talk about him. But as for the highre itself, I 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.360 think I like it. You know, it's not overwhelming, and 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.319 I don't think you're ever going to get an overwhelming 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.320 higher short of you know, loving Chip Kelly as an 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.160 offensive coordinator and promoting him within like they did in 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.160 two thousand and nine. And it's hard to it's hard 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.760 to really justify feeling great when you're Oregon and you're 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.880 far away from the sort of masses and you're always 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.719 going to get your definite first choice. And given the circumstances, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.920 I think it's good. I think the continuity should be 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.319 pretty good. I think he's going to hold on to 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.160 a few assistants who I think acquitted themselves pretty nicely. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.280 I can't imagine Jim Levitt is going to be long 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.679 for Eugene after the Las Vegas ball. I imagine he's disappointed 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.960 and he gets to go to Florida's state and coach 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.480 with Willie Taggart. An easier job, I would say, in 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.640 terms of recruiting and the talent that will be on 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.560 hand and the opponents in the ACC. So I think 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.200 it's good. I think the players seem to love him. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:59.760 He appears to be well liked in the administration, looks 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.400 to be a steadying force. I think he should be 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.640 able to hire well assistant wise, and so it all 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.199 seems to be clicking. You know, we have to see 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.760 if he is actually able to lead teams in and 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.160 out of wins. You know, struggled with a backup quarterback 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.120 at times or the whole time during the season offensively. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.640 But I have faith given that Justin Herbert looks to 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.560 be a top three or four quarterback returning for next year, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.280 that at least in the short term, and he has 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.880 I think like a ten million dollar buyout so he 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:33.040 doesn't take off in quick succession, that that Oregon will 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.320 be in good shape. They are stocked pretty nicely. If 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.560 they can hold onto the roster, if they can sort 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.320 of take this I think Willy Taggart had them at 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.480 like number five or six recruiting class and keep them 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.440 in like the top fifteen something like that with the 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.360 early signing period and then the standard one. I think 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.400 it will be a short term. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.520 You're feeling higher, You're feeling pretty good about this, then 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:52.240 I'm encouraged. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.760 I'm not you know, I'm not blown away, but I'm encouraged. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.440 And that's that's about as much as you can hope 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.079 for given a coach bailing after one year. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:04.880 Also in the coaching world, Barry otom, Missouri's coach, got 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.679 a two year extension. I think it's notable, if only 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.920 because it was a rocky start to the season for Missouri, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.920 and then Barry otom gave that impassioned speech, right he 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.520 talked about how he's the guy to turn this program around, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.480 to build it back from the ground up, and Missouri 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:24.800 went on a bit of a run at the end 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.920 of the year. They finished I thought in impressive fashion. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.480 The offense really did spring up around Drew lock in 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.080 an impressive way, and Missouri is headed to a bowl game. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.439 They have rewarded him with two year extensions. So it 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.240 looks like Barry Odam's going to be sticking around Columbia 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.360 for at least two more seasons. Yep. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.559 We'll be interesting to see who he replaces Josh Hipel 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.600 with as offensive coordinator considering the success that Drew Locke 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.400 had and I know some people will point to the 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.840 fact that well, Missouri beat up on a bunch of 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.120 teams who were down and the defenses weren't great or 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.120 they're going through coaching changes. Ty, I think you would 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.520 agree pretty good teams beat up on teams that are 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.440 not super good. YEP. So I am totally happy if 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.199 I'm a Missouri fan with how the second half of 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.280 the year wound up after sort of looking embarrassing, you know, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.360 against Purdue early on South Carolina whatever. Good for a 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.920 zoo will be curious to see how this momentum goes 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:15.680 into next year. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.880 The only other tidbits that I have here before we 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.920 talk about our shirt contest and our live show. There 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.280 was some news on the administrative front yesterday. Christelle Conte, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.280 formerly the athletic director at TCU, has been hired for 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.200 the same position over at Texas. Christale Conte sort of 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.000 known in this world one of the superstar ads out there, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.079 so it was notable, at least for a lot of 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.920 the folks that cover college football to see him embarking 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.319 on a new challenge now leaving TCU and headed down 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:47.800 to Austin. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.600 Yeah, never forget Chrystal Conte's transition, his help to get 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.840 TCU to the Big East, which I think still reverberates 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.000 to this day. Now or joined the Big Eiast for 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.200 a hot second before joining the Big twelve. That transition 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.319 obviously went very well, helped to oversee a football program 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.640 that kept growing and growing under Gary Patterson. Managed to 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.200 hold on to Gary Patterson even though there's been I 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.800 think a bunch of interest in him throughout the years 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.880 at different places. And now, to me, that's the thing 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.960 that I'm curious about, because Gary Patterson just signs an 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.199 extension the ad leaves for Texas, which you can hardly 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.760 blame somebody for taking a jump and job like that, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.600 But now I'm legitimately curious see what TCU looks like 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.080 moving forward with some changes on top. But hey, big move, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:36.640 Texas should be in pretty good hands. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.960 Big move. Yeah, Texas has sort of been in a 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.040 state of administrative limbo ever since they got rid of 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.840 Steve Patterson that hold debacle a couple of years ago, 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.720 and an interim guy, Mike Parrin for a few years, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.960 and the intention was always to replace him with someone 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.119 on a more permanent basis. Now they're bringing over Dell Conte, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.480 so we'll see how that affects the state of the 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:02.280 Longhorns program as well. Okay, on solid verbal news front, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.880 Den two bullet points. First and foremost, the live show 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.360 tickets very quickly sold out, at least the allotment, the 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.800 first wave. Yeah, the first wave, if you will, of 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.480 tickets that I put out there for people who live 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.800 in Atlanta know they'll be in Atlanta on January sixth. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.040 That allotment went very quickly. Within a day, it all 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.640 sold out, to the point where I started pulling over 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.840 some of the tickets that I had put aside for 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.840 people who might be coming into town for media, friends, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.760 so on and so forth. I pulled more tickets over. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.120 We sold out of those as well, So damn. Suffice 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.080 to say, ticket sales have been quite strong. I would 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.320 again urge people, if you are a fan of one 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:47.920 of the four teams that are going to be in 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.640 this playoff at the end of the year, I guess 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.840 at the start of next year, and if you think 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.880 you might be coming into town if your team makes 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.440 it on through to the championship, reach out. Let us 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.760 know so that we can put some tickets to side. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.040 Trying to get a rough headcount for how many people 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.640 that might be. Some folks have emailed already. We would 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.440 encourage you if you are on the fence If you 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.000 don't know, just let us know, because if you are 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.080 in town, we'd certainly love to have you at the 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.640 live show. Otherwise, we're going to open some of those 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.800 tickets back up to the general public because there does 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.920 seem to be a lot of interest. Dan and I 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.120 have yet to figure out exactly what we're going to 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.800 do at this live show. Here's what we know, but 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.360 that is something I think you and I are pretty 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.200 good at. We'll figure that out in the meantime, though, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.640 tickets are doing really, really well. We're excited to do 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.720 the show on January sixth, so just reach out and 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:37.920 let us know your status. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.760 It will be some sort of funeral and or preview 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.880 funeral for the season preview for the National Championship game. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.680 There will be some sort of Q and a quotient. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.320 When you say funeral that puts a very dark spin 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.880 on it, Dan, Yeah, no, I know, but it's college 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.960 football and sometimes you got to put a dark spin. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.960 There'll be a certain flavor of darkness to it. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.600 Yes, there will be some darkness. We have pals of 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.680 course that you know. The full cast guys are in 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.760 Atlanta and where we hope to have a quotion of 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.960 that we're going to try to get Bill c and 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.640 Steven godfree from I learned you're not supposed to call 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.600 Pap and Tie it's papn Yeah, I don't know. In 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.000 my head I always said pappened, but podcast name played nobody. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.600 We hope that they're going to swing by if they're 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.440 in town, you know, talk to Andy Staples, Bruce Felman. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.400 We're gonna, you know, Adam a meet like We're just 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.800 we're gonna have people there, tye. If you don't like us, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.240 that's cool. We have other college football weirdos that we 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.680 think are going to pass through. And can I be 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.600 shameless for a moment. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:34.240 Absolutely. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.200 We got a couple of emails and tweets saying, Hey, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.160 I work at a brewery, like could could we bring 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.400 a keg? Can we bring cases? A bit like yes, 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.160 if you if if you work or are somehow connected 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.680 to a local Atlanta brewery and have cans because we 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.120 do need to keep the space very clean. But if 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.040 you have cans or bottles or something like that and 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.800 you would like to donate it to the cause in 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.040 a safe, responsible way, we were happy to shout out 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.400 that brand name on the show and talk about how 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:04.400 delicious your local. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.800 Beer, solid verbal at gmail dot com hit us up 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.880 and uh, I think it's something we can easily work out. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.080 We be And same goes foras Yeah, if you're connected, 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.560 if you work, if somebody wants to donate some snacks 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.439 to the cause, maybe some tots, maybe some nachos, whatever, 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.760 we would be happy time, more than thrilled to be like, hey, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.280 go get your tots at Steve's tot Emporium. Absolutely, So, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.800 what we're saying here is right now, we've secured the venue, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.480 We've got people coming to the venue. But much like 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.480 the Fast and Furious movies, Dan and I still need 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.120 to gather in a dilapidated warehouse and assemble the full 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.840 cast of characters that are going to take part in 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:42.399 this endeavor. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.240 But it will be fun. We appreciate everyone who's already 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.399 reached out to us, and I think it's gonna be 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:51.400 a full house. I'm excited. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.720 Yeah, it's gonna be a great time. So looking forward 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.480 to seeing everybody down in Atlanta. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.919 The only other news tidbit on the soliverbal front before 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.600 we get through a bowl games that we need to 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.360 discuss in fine detail here we did a shirt contest. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.840 Oh yeah, a couple of weeks ago, we've gotten emails 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.680 from people, tweets from people asking did I win? Can 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.280 you tell you did I win? I want a shirt? 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:21.600 Here's the deal. Submissions have officially been halted. No more 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.720 submissions because we've got more than we can get through anyway. Yeah, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.280 we are in the process of going through and reading 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.480 those out. We want to give each one its proper due. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.199 Dan and I need to discuss our favorites, but we 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.080 are still working our way through that. We will give 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.000 shirts out, we promise. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.240 Yeah, in the next week or so, we'll make decisions 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.119 and alert the winners real quick before we get into 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.919 the Bowl games. Can I go through the awards? You know, 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:48.840 we make a big deal of putting a lot of 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.440 our friends on the watch lists. Yes, we please give 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.160 some closure real quick. I mean, you know about Baker 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.600 Mayfield and the Heisman and brock Rigs and Pismen. But 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.919 Miga Fitzpatrick took home the Bnard for the Best Defense 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.760 of Player, James Washington, the Best Receiver junk yard Gym 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.800 no brainer, tie, nope, no brainer, and had some good competition. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.840 The Broyles Award for the Best Assistant goes to Tony 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.800 Elliott for Clemson and co oc We saw the Clemson 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.400 offense really look very good with a first year starter 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.000 in Kelly Bryant. Rokwand Smith we mentioned as the best linebacker, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.399 and so he wins the but Gus Davey, O'Brien, Baker 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.640 Mayfield best Quarterback, Doak Walker, Brice Love best running Back. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.560 The Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award to Scott Frost. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.480 I think that's a pretty suitable recipient. The lou Groza 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.480 for the best kicker goes to Matt Gay. You'll be 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.439 shocked to learn he kicks for Utah because that's who 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.720 wins kicking awards. Mark Andrews from Oklahoma rightfully wins best 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.879 tight End. Pretty good year with Fumagalli and Gasiki also finalists. 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.600 The best all around player goes to Baker Mayfield the 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.879 Negersky that was the Maxwell. The Nigersky gos to Bradley Chubb, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.520 who set all sorts of records for NCIS State at 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.880 Oliver wins the outline for best interior Lineman, which wish 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.320 he were in bigger games this year for Houston, but 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.120 such as I Saquon Barkley wins the Hornig for Versatility. 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.240 The Piseman, of course we mentioned, Michael Dixon wins the 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.320 Ray Guy for Texas, Billy Price wins the Remington Mika Fitzpatrick, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.879