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Speaker 1: Change for changes is sake. Welcome in Lake. It is live.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday night, April sixth year of our Lower twenty

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Speaker 1: I've got a spotlight on several teams in this show.

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Speaker 1: We got a loaded show, loaded show. We got spotlights

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Speaker 1: on several teams. I've got some talk. Dare I say

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Speaker 1: you know, different uniforms and all. Obviously that's in reference

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Speaker 1: to what Hugh Free said earlier this week. But look,

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Speaker 1: Is that? Is that a real thing? Is college football

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Speaker 1: to figure out, but maybe I've got some reasons that

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't even think of. I don't care if you

427
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Speaker 1: hate them, and I guess I do care if you

428
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Speaker 1: love them. You all have reasons to spotlight USC this year.

429
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 1: It's a tail as old as time. But I'm gonna

430
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Speaker 1: tell you once more. As a local youth growing up

431
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Speaker 1: in the South, when Pete Carroll was on his run,

432
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,679
Speaker 1: this was the most despised program in America. I was

433
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Speaker 1: raised too, among many other things, just hate USC. They

434
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,119
Speaker 1: represented everything that was wrong with college football. You know,

435
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to you're supposed to go to school and

436
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: you're supposed to grind it out, suffer and sweat and

437
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 1: blood and everything like that, and then Saturday you can

438
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Speaker 1: have some fun. And then all of a sudden, there

439
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 1: are these jerks out on the West coast and they

440
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 1: all got sunglasses on, and there's a palm tree in

441
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Speaker 1: the background, and they're tan, and they look like they're

442
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Speaker 1: just living the best life imaginable and they're dombin dominating

443
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Speaker 1: on Saturdays. You're supposed to have one or the other.

444
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 1: You weren't supposed to have both. This was my upbringing,

445
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 1: and that was a lot of the upbringing for people

446
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Speaker 1: east of the Mississippi River watching what USC did. I

447
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Speaker 1: can't even imagine being a West coast team during that run.

448
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Speaker 1: That run, by the way, Pete Carroll, do you understand

449
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 1: from three to eight, here's what USC did. If you're

450
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Speaker 1: in college, pay attention, this is what you missed three

451
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Speaker 1: to eight. Yet that fledgling USC program you've become accustomed

452
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Speaker 1: to not caring about twelve and one, thirteen and oh,

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Speaker 1: twelve and one, eleven and two eleven and two twelve

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Speaker 1: and one. They had national championships mixed in there. They

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Speaker 1: had Heisman's mixed in there. I don't really care what

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Speaker 1: the NCAA's taken away. I understand greatness when I saw it,

457
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Speaker 1: and I also understand it could be that way again.

458
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Speaker 1: But it's up to Lincoln Riley, isn't it is Lincoln Riley?

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Speaker 1: The next peak Carroll, I really wish I didn't just

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Speaker 1: say that, because I know it's going to be it's

461
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Speaker 1: gonna be irresponsibly clipped out of context. But yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what I remember. I can tell you confidently as a

463
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Speaker 1: kid who grew up in the South, when Miami or

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Speaker 1: Southern cal have been at the top of their game,

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Speaker 1: it is viewed through a different lens nationally than every

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Speaker 1: other program, and I'm including Ohio State, Bamma, Clemson. No

467
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Speaker 1: one looks at programs with as much disdain when they're

468
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Speaker 1: rolling as they do USC and Miami. There are a

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Speaker 1: bunch of reasons for that. I don't have time to

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Speaker 1: get into, but a lot of our younger viewers the

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Speaker 1: reason I'm mentioning that is you have not lived in

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Speaker 1: that world. If you're nineteen right now, you have not

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Speaker 1: lived in a world, or at least you weren't coherent

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Speaker 1: when you were living in a world where USC was

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Speaker 1: a serious perennial title contender. Ditto for Miami. Selfishly, i'd

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Speaker 1: love for both of them to be back because I

477
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Speaker 1: know what it does. College football doesn't need it. I'll

478
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Speaker 1: talk about that later in the show, but I do

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Speaker 1: prefer it. Number One reason why this is a spotlight

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Speaker 1: team for me this year nobody has to take the

481
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Speaker 1: Pack twelve. Seriously. That is not even my opinion, that's

482
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Speaker 1: just a fact. You have been taught that the Pac

483
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Speaker 1: twelve is a non factor in the college football playoff picture.

484
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: It's been that way for several years now, and you

485
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: have had your mind trained based on results to not

486
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Speaker 1: take the Pac twelve seriously. I don't prefer the sport

487
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Speaker 1: to be that way. I prefer for there to be

488
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Speaker 1: meaningful football being played out West, even if it's on

489
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Speaker 1: at one o'clock in the morning. I want to be

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Speaker 1: invested in it now I am, but I'm a sick Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll watch any of that stuff. I don't care if

492
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Speaker 1: both of you are about to miss out on a

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Speaker 1: bowl game and it's thirteen to nine, middle of the

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Speaker 1: third quarter in Corvallis, Oregon. It's not a problem they

495
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Speaker 1: had last year, by the way, they were a double

496
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Speaker 1: digit win team. But you get my point. I don't care,

497
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Speaker 1: but I'm a hardcore. Most people are tuned out on

498
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Speaker 1: the Pac twelve. It shouldn't be that way. USC is

499
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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot to say about that, potentially changing.

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Speaker 1: They're not the only ones, but they're gonna have a

501
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Speaker 1: lot to say about that this year. It matters in

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Speaker 1: recruiting too. It matters, and Southern cal is chief among

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Speaker 1: them in keeping Southern California talent home. USC is not

504
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Speaker 1: recruit at an elite level. They're recruiting at a very

505
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Speaker 1: good level. They need to be recruiting at an elite level. Now,

506
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: what they did do in the portal last year is

507
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: signed the number one class. I think Colorado's got that

508
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Speaker 1: designation right now. They did sign the number one portal class,

509
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Speaker 1: and that is heavily baked into how we discuss recruiting

510
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Speaker 1: in the modern age. Obviously, that's the first thing. The

511
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Speaker 1: second thing is Lincoln Riley. I can have every bit

512
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Speaker 1: as much fun talking about Lincoln Riley as I can

513
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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly. Some of the same criticisms that are hurled

514
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Speaker 1: at Brian Kelly are hurled at Lincoln Riley. And basically

515
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Speaker 1: it sounds like this, you can't be a great head

516
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Speaker 1: coach if you haven't won a national championship. That's not

517
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Speaker 1: my rule, but that is the rule that some adhere to.

518
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Speaker 1: And look, you get to create your own criteria for

519
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Speaker 1: what you think constitutes greatness. And if your criteria mean

520
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: that there are two great coaches in college football, so

521
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Speaker 1: be it. If you think there are thirty of them,

522
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Speaker 1: I think you need to tighten your parameters a little bit,

523
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Speaker 1: but also so be it. I've got my own criteria.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need to have seen you win a

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Speaker 1: national championship. Knowing the variability and volatility that exists in

526
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Speaker 1: the sport and the uneven nature of the sport, I

527
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Speaker 1: don't need to see it, but if I'm trying to

528
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Speaker 1: argue in your favor, it sure would help me to

529
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Speaker 1: see it. Now. I've shared my opinion with you on

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley as it relates to winning a title. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't done it yet. Why hasn't he done it yet?

532
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: His teams haven't been good enough? You and I agree

533
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Speaker 1: that far. I think where some of us start to

534
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: differ is some of you think he'll just always be

535
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Speaker 1: what he is, and I don't. I believe there's there's

536
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Speaker 1: a day not too far from now. It's not a

537
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Speaker 1: matter of if I think, it's a matter of when

538
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Speaker 1: he eventually does win a national championship, and whether it's

539
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, twenty twenty six the day that happens.

540
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Speaker 1: There's a huge shift in the national college football conversation

541
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Speaker 1: coming because a lot of folks have just had it

542
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Speaker 1: ingrained in their mind that among their most popular and

543
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Speaker 1: repeatable talking points about this sport is Lincoln Riley's overrated

544
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: and he'll never win a title because they don't play

545
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: good enough. Defense. When they do win a title, it'll

546
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Speaker 1: probably be because they have improved defensively, at which point

547
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: that same crowd will say, well, no, Josh, you weren't right.

548
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: I was right. The only reason he won a title

549
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: is because he made some changes and they improve defensively,

550
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Speaker 1: And for the second time in the show, that'll be

551
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Speaker 1: when I drop the pin. The entire premise of my

552
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: argument is yes, I expect that to happen. I have

553
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: this radical theory that the best in any industry start

554
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: to identify their weaknesses and move to correct them, and

555
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 1: then they reap the reward of the fruit that is

556
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Speaker 1: yielded from the change. For example, I claim to run

557
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Speaker 1: the most successful apple orchard in all of Harris County, Georgia.

558
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: You walk up and say I see oranges, and I say,

559
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: did I plant orange seeds again? Huh? And then they

560
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: look me in the eye and say, you fool, you'll

561
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: never grow apples. I go get a bunch of apple seeds.

562
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: I put him in the ground, and voila. I water

563
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: him extra aggressively, so the tree grows really quickly. And

564
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: they walk back around and they say, well, yeah, you

565
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: grew an apple tree. But that's only because you started

566
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Speaker 1: to plan a different seed and then I'm backhand him

567
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: and then I'm at the Harris County jail. That is

568
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: exactly what's gonna end up happening with Lincoln Riley. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna be Alex Grinch as his

570
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator at long haul. He says all the right

571
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: things about him, but what would he say going into spring? Hey,

572
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: Alex Rinch is on thin ice with hot blades with me.

573
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, I'm not on the hot seat.

574
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: But my defensive coordinator is We all get it. Alex

575
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: Grinch gets it. He's a big boy, he can handle it.

576
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be him long term,

577
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: but I know Lincoln Riley, or I think I know,

578
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Speaker 1: he'll get it figured out. So there's that, and then

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Speaker 1: there's another reason for the spotlight, and that is the

580
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Speaker 1: same theme as we're talking about with Texas and Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: This team here usc they're moving conferences, They're going to

582
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Speaker 1: the Big ten. Where are are they gonna slot themselves in?

583
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Speaker 1: Going to the Big ten? They're gonna be number one?

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Speaker 1: You laugh at that, obviously, because it's not you're picturing

585
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: it in the here and now. But let me bounce

586
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: a scenario off of you. Let's say Caleb Williams repeats

587
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: as Heisman Trophy winner this year, USC goes undefeated regular season,

588
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: they win the Pac twelve Championship, they go to the playoff,

589
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: they're like a seven point dog against Georgia. They win,

590
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Speaker 1: and then they go to the national championship game and

591
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Speaker 1: they beat Clemson. Then they go to the Big Ten?

592
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Speaker 1: What are you saying about them? Then? Where do they

593
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Speaker 1: fit in the Big Ten at that point? I know

594
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Speaker 1: it sounds unlikely, especially for the Lincoln Riley haters out there,

595
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: but it could happen. And so that's why I'm spotlighting them.

596
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: Same thing with Texas, same thing with ou Whatever happens

597
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: this year, that'll be the framework, that'll be the backdrop

598
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: with which they enter a new conference. We gotta slot

599
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: them in the Big Ten somewhere? Are they behind Michigan

600
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Speaker 1: and Ohio State? Are they jockeying with Penn State? Does

601
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Speaker 1: Penn State win the Big Ten and render that entire

602
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: point moot? Who knows whom's still amongst us has seen

603
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: the future? Miss Cleo doesn't even do commercials anymore, so

604
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Speaker 1: I don't know any psychics out there. I don't know

605
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Speaker 1: anyone who knows the answer to this. I know they're

606
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Speaker 1: watching us in Montgomery, Alabama. I know they're watching us

607
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: in Palm Springs, California. Dearborn, Michigan. That's where Jimmy Fallon

608
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: hit that guy hit and Run in almost famous, great movie.

609
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: Also they're watching us in Lando Lakes, Florida. Good butter

610
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Speaker 1: down there. Thank you so much. One more Spotlight Team.

611
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Speaker 1: Then I got a lot more to get to. Am

612
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Speaker 1: I going to do it to you? Well, first I'm

613
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: going to take a sip from the chalice, but yeah,

614
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it to you. Immunity. Notre Dame

615
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: spot Light Team through and through this year and pretty

616
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Speaker 1: much every year. Twenty twelve was actually I didn't mean

617
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: to say twenty twelve, but since I did, that was

618
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: a year they went to the National Title Game and

619
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: got throttled. Twenty twenty two was the ultimate CYT year

620
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: for Notre Dame. It's an acronym. If you know you know,

621
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: the first two words stand for calm your and the

622
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: T is part of your anatomy. You can do the math.

623
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Speaker 1: I say that, though, because everyone needed to calm down.

624
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: Everyone needed to calm them With Notre Dame. See, they

625
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: started h to two, the freakout campaign began and if

626
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: you freaked out hard enough, you didn't even stop to realize.

627
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: Oh they won nine of their last eleven games, including

628
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: a Bowl win, a very dramatic win against South Carolina.

629
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Speaker 1: Oh they went four and two against top twenty five

630
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: competition last year. Wait a second, Wait a second. They

631
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Speaker 1: finished with nine wins in Marcus Freeman's debut campaign, which

632
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season was pretty much our barometer,

633
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: our line in the sand for what he needed to

634
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Speaker 1: get to. Some people didn't notice that, see, because there

635
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: was a there was a national freakout after they lost

636
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,479
Speaker 1: to a god awful Marshall team. I saw that. I

637
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: saw that. So that was last year. Why is this

638
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: a spotlight team this year? Well, the first thing I'm

639
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: curious about with a Notre Dame is what is this

640
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: quarterback acquisition going to do for them? Sam Hartman, he

641
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: was the number one overall portal quarterback, rewrote the record

642
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: books at Wake Forest and yeah, he's one of a

643
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: number of quarterbacks in the portal. Let me tell you something,

644
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: this portal cycle wasn't nearly as beefy as a lot

645
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: of people expected it to be. But Sam Hartman's one

646
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: of the exceptions. That's a quarterback that's going to make

647
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: instant impact this year in South Bend, Indiana. The only

648
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: question is to what degree is the impact? They were

649
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: ninety eighth in pass yards per game last year. I

650
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: can't promise you much of anything, but I can promise

651
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: you they're going to be a lot better than that

652
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: as long as he's healthy. Even if they lose Tommy

653
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: Reese as an offensive coordinator and did a national search

654
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: to promote the tight ends coach as the new coordinator,

655
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: we've a we've already gone down that road. So yeah,

656
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a new look offense there. I just

657
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: wonder what kind of precedent it sets, you know, I

658
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: don't think when the transfer portal started to become a thing,

659
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: I don't I didn't. I didn't hear many people talk

660
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: about Notre Dame as being one of the big beneficiaries

661
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: from this. I think folks thought Notre Dame was gonna

662
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: be what Clemson voluntarily has been, which is someone who

663
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: who kind of drives by the transfer portal and waves

664
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Speaker 1: at it but doesn't really use it. Well, they've used it.

665
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: And that goes along with back to back top twelve

666
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: recruiting finishes so far under Marcus Freeman. And also, you

667
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: got to remember they're a spotlight team for me because

668
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: they impact so much more of the country. This is

669
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Speaker 1: not a conference team because they're not in one period.

670
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: They play usc spotlight team. They play Ohio State this

671
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: year again in week four at home. They play Clemson

672
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: this year again in week whatever that is way down

673
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: there on November fourth, and they go to Clemson. Great

674
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: home schedule for the Tigers this year for a change.

675
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: Talked about that the other night. They normally have nothing,

676
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden they get what they

677
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: get Florida State at home in a big year, and

678
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: then they also get Notre Dame at home. So anyway,

679
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: maybe a spotlight program. Hey, maybe we'll do a Clemson

680
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: mood tracker later in this show. Marcus Freeman is another

681
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: reason why this is a spotlight team. Marcus Freeman, you

682
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: need to understand something. I don't think a lot of

683
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: people who are outside of Notre Dame circles get this.

684
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: So when Brian Kelly was at Notre Dame. They tolerated

685
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: him because he won, but they never felt like he

686
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: embraced Notre Dame. They felt like they just put up

687
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: with each other because the results were good enough. It's

688
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: like having a really, really ornery cook in the kitchen,

689
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: but the meal tastes really good, so you just you

690
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: avoid confrontation. But there's some things about him you don't like.

691
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: There's some things about you he doesn't like, but it's just, well,

692
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: we'll let it rest for now, and then the cook

693
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: left the kitchen. Marcus Freeman is everything they want a

694
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: Notre name head coach to be. Marcus Freeman chooses Notre Dame.

695
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: He is Notre name. He gets the whole Notre Dame

696
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: aura mystique. He buys into it. He just doesn't just

697
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: pay it lip service. It is very important to them

698
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: for that kind of coach to succeed in South Bend,

699
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: and that's why there's a big spotlight on them this

700
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: year because he rebounded last year and came out with

701
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: a pretty good record. There are doubters. There are people

702
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: out there trust me a lot bigger in number maybe

703
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: than even you realize, who think no, no, no, no.

704
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: That last year that was Marcus Freeman still benefiting from

705
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: a lot of the infrastructure that Brian Kelly left behind.

706
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 1: That was the Red Bull season, that was the Sugar

707
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: High season. It'll only be downhill from there. Then, there

708
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: are some other folks who say, hmm, I think we

709
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: may be recruiting just to tick hiring caliber than Brian

710
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: Kelly did. I think maybe we got a guy that's

711
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: a little more and also ingrained into the culture of

712
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I think it's only onward and upward from here.

713
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: I think we're going to be a national title contender.

714
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: And by the way, we just went out and got

715
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Speaker 1: a quarterback better than we had been playing with under

716
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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly. You see how the two camps kind of clash.

717
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: I keep looking down at this piece of paper. They're

718
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: like three things written on it, and one is that

719
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: stat I just read you ninety eighth in past yards

720
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: per game. Notre Dame's a spotlight team. I don't know

721
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: what preview magazine season holds for us, frankly, but I

722
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: don't know that I'm gonna hear a lot of Notre

723
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: Dame playoff talk. And they got a tough schedule, which

724
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 1: again is one of the big myths in college football.

725
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: And I don't even have time to get into this tonight.

726
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do it on the next show. But I

727
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: don't know where it comes from. I used to believe

728
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: in it until I actually opened a bit of research

729
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: or did a bit of research on it. This notion

730
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: that Notre Dame doesn't play tough competition is baffling to me.

731
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: It's hardly ever been in recent history. Well, Josh, they

732
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: play Navy every year. Well, yeah, they do, well, Josh,

733
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: they go they go play, they go play Army sometimes. Okay, Okay,

734
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 1: well haven't you seen I mean they play Stanford. H Yeah,

735
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: same folks saying that have an FCS team on their schedule.

736
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't care about the three worst

737
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: teams you play. I care about the five or six

738
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: best ones you play. Did you not just hear me

739
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: say they got Ohio State, Clemson, and Southern Cow on

740
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: the schedule this year? And sure enough, I'm gonna have

741
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: someone tell me, well, sure were that schedule? Anyone anyone

742
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: could what any Notre Dame plays a plenty BFNF schedule.

743
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: That's the least of my concerns about them. Spotlight team

744
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: this year Notre Dame spotlights. Do they sell them at

745
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors. I'm sure you can get a

746
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: really really strong flashlight there. If they don't just outright

747
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: sell spotlights. An Academy would have come in handy in

748
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: Lewistown Illin the other day because we got ourselves into

749
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pickle tornatically then I'll tell

750
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: you about later in the show, and we needed badly

751
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: some supplies didn't have one, and I could not hit

752
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 1: up Academy dot com because they didn't have hourly shipping

753
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: available and we had to get out of there. So

754
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: that is the first time in my life that Academy

755
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: has let me down, and that's really me letting myself

756
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: down more than an Academy. But Academy Sports and Outdoors has

757
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: you covered for basically ninety nine percent of the other

758
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: necessities you have in life. I don't think they're selling

759
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: eggs there, but so ninety eight percent of your other

760
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: needs in life. You can't get an immediate camper top

761
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: replacement for a truck or a dozen eggs at Academy,

762
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: but pretty much everything else you need they've got there.

763
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: And like I said, if you don't have one in

764
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: your hometown. We will work to change that, but in

765
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: the meantime, Academy dot com, if you have the Internet,

766
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: that's pretty much what you need. They are our exclusive

767
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: partner here. Look around. The only other logos on the

768
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: set are the college Football Playoff, which we've inexplicably just

769
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: had up here. Colin and I never even realized that.

770
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: And then we got a PAYT state thermos and that's it.

771
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: And we don't need to have any other logo or

772
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: brand up here because Academy takes care of us wholesale

773
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: and they will take care of you too. Thank you

774
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: so much to Academy. All right, it will bring me

775
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,959
Speaker 1: great pleasure to talk to you over the next few

776
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: minutes about something that's been close to my heart for

777
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: a long time. Take a sip from the chalice. This

778
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: is going to be celebratory in nature. Let's see how

779
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 1: many times, probably a million, a million or so times

780
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: I've set behind this microphone and I have banged the

781
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: drum because we're a percussion show. We got about twelve

782
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: or so drums we bang, and one of them has

783
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: been why don't we change the format of spring games,

784
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: or at least give the option to That's an important word.

785
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: Probably the most important word over the next five minutes

786
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: on this show is option. There is no way I

787
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: was letting this go. I was never letting this go

788
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: because I know it makes sense. There are some ideas

789
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: I have that are controversial, some ideas I have. There

790
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: truly are multiple ways to skin the cat, and therefore

791
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: there's no right or wrong. And technically, I guess on

792
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: this there's not a right or wrong, but there is

793
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: a more sound way. I'm not a guy who just

794
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: loves change for change's sake, but I am a guy

795
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: who if I see an obvious, logical, progressive step that

796
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: we can take to better something, I'm all for it

797
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna leave it alone. Spring games have

798
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: long needed an alteration. You have long needed the opportunity

799
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: to well, you know what, don't listen to me. I'm

800
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: gonna let Hugh Freeze tell you himself. Colin, let's roll it.

801
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 2: The solution is allow us to scrimmage somebody on a day,

802
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 2: another team, and I think everybody would get out of

803
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 2: it exactly what they want. And if everybody's doing that,

804
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: people will come see that, and.

805
00:40:58,280 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: You're decreasing your in.

806
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: Possibilities by fifty percent, and coaches are smart enough to control.

807
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 2: We're not going to hit each other's quarterbacks. We practice

808
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 2: that way. And if you want to put a blue

809
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 2: jersey or a different jersey on somebody that don't take

810
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 2: to the ground, we can do that. And I just

811
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 2: think it would be great for the sport. I think

812
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: it would be awesome. NFL gets to scrimmage against others,

813
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 2: high schools get to scrimmage against each others, and I

814
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: just for the life of me, I don't understand why

815
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 2: we haven't gotten to that point where we can pull

816
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 2: that off.

817
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, me either, Coach me either. So you know you've

818
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: heard me state basically the same opinion many many times

819
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: on this show Crickets. So maybe now that college football

820
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: coaches head coaches are banging the drama along with us,

821
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: like the Miami sound machine got multiple percussion of stuff here,

822
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: maybe finally we'll get some action on this. There's no downside.

823
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: And the reason I know there's no downside, it's cause

824
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: of that key. I told you to remember option, option, option,

825
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: not the offense, the concept that you have choices. It

826
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: should be optional. So I went to Twitter today, so

827
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: I knew we were going to talk about this, and

828
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: I knew this happened a couple of days ago and

829
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: I was stormchasing. So I have not talked to you

830
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 1: about this yet, but I'm going to talk to you

831
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: about it now. I went to Twitter and I said,

832
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: have I missed it? Has there been anybody present an

833
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: opposing viewpoint on this? Or is everyone just in favor

834
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: of it? Now? What I said, my exact words were,

835
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: is anyone actually against having the option to schedule other

836
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: teams for spring games? If so, why I had some

837
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: people say they don't want it, but no one gave

838
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: me a legitimate pushback on having the option to have it.

839
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: You've got the option to eat spaghetti every night of

840
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: your life until you pass away at forty five from

841
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: heart failure. I can say I wouldn't do that if

842
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: I were you. I'm not taking away your option to

843
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: eat pasquetti every night. Yes, that's the right way to

844
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: pronounce it, at least where I'm from. Give them the option.

845
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: It's all Hugh Freeze is talking about. It's all anyone's

846
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: talking about. Give them the option. I had some folks say, oh,

847
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: what about injuries? Josh well by my math you'd have

848
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: eleven of your guys on the field at one time

849
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: instead of twenty two, So that shoots down the notion

850
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: of injuries being an increased risk. Now you're just just

851
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 1: a scare tactic, and quite frankly, a dumb one that

852
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: you just haven't thought through. Remember the rule around here,

853
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: smart people can say dumb things. Dumb people rarely say

854
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: smart things. Anyone that is fearing the risk of injury

855
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: as being a key reason why we shouldn't be scheduled

856
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,720
Speaker 1: in other teams, it's just smart people saying dumb things.

857
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: Think it through. What is more risky having twenty two

858
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 1: of your players on the field at one time or eleven.

859
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: I ran the numbers and it turned out exactly how

860
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: you think it would. So this is not change for

861
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: change to sake this. This is like legitimately improving the

862
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: nature of the game. What business are we in? What

863
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 1: business is Hugh Freeze in? It's not the football business.

864
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: It's the entertainment business. Surprisingly, I've had arguments about this too.

865
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: It's I know the game is football. I also know

866
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze is paid what he's paid because people are

867
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: entertained by it. So he's not in the coaching profession.

868
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: True enough, his job title is coach, but he is

869
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: a coach in the entertainment industry. I talk in a

870
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,760
Speaker 1: microphone in the entertainment industry. We have two totally different jobs.

871
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 1: And mine wouldn't exist without his, and his would exist

872
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: without mine. But it's all part of the entertainment industry.

873
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: I say that for one of a number of benefits

874
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: this would provide. It provides a spectacle and an event

875
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 1: for fans, the lifeblood of your sport and your existence.

876
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: There's a reason they have ninety thousand of them in

877
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: stadiums and multiple millions of them watching around the country

878
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: every sing Saturday in the fall. And there's a reason

879
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: that you were in palatial facilities. It's because there's a

880
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: lot of money in this thing, because a lot of

881
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: people care about it. Ultimately, you got to give them

882
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: what they want, especially when it makes sense. It makes

883
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: sense to do this. Number two. The other lifeblood of

884
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: this sport, then ear Muff's kids. If you want to

885
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: live in a utopia is money. Money is a really

886
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: big factor in all this. If I'm running ESPN or

887
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: CBS or Fox and I want inventory, and I listen

888
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: to someone present the idea that hey, maybe we'll turn

889
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: spring games into kind of real games. I'm asking where

890
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: I sign and not only that, I'm asking what do

891
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: you need from me? I'm willing to subsidize it, which

892
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: leads me to my third point. You're not gonna see

893
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: Clumson versus Georgia in a spring game. What you may

894
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: very well see, though, is Georgia versus Georgia State in

895
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: a spring game. If you freeze later in that sound bite,

896
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: we didn't play it. He advocated for Auburn playing Troy

897
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: or Alabama playing uab You're not seeing that in the

898
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 1: regular season. Anyone who understands the politics in the state

899
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: of Alabama knows why you're not going to see that

900
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: in the regular season. But you will see him play Furman.

901
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: You will see him play ut Chattanooga to the delight

902
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: of nobody. Benefit Number three here is we get to

903
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: take that trash FCS weekend that you cram down people's

904
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: throats in the fall and force people to pay season

905
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: ticket prices for and we can move it to the spring,

906
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: and your TV partner has every motivation to subsidize the game,

907
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: or in other words, pay that FCS opponent to come

908
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: to Bryant Dennys Stadium or Jorden Harris Stadium and take

909
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: home their paycheck just like they would in the fall,

910
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: and create something that doesn't exist. You see, you got

911
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: twelve weeks in the fall, and there are going to

912
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: be games on them no matter what. If I can

913
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: remove a subpar product from one of those twelve dates

914
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: in the fall and also simultaneously create a new event

915
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: in with that same team paying them so they benefit

916
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: the same way you are filling your stadium to varying degrees.

917
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: You've got concessions, you've got gate revenue, you've got a

918
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: TV partner cutting you at check. The TV partner is

919
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: also probably happy to pay seven one hundred and fifty

920
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to your FCS. Tomato can to come into town.

921
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: All due respect to tomatoes and FCS programs, but we

922
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: get what it's about here, or at least I think

923
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: we get what it's about. It lessens the amount of

924
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 1: unpalatable FCS versus Power five games in the fall. We're

925
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: looking right now on our screen. If you're listening on podcast,

926
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: let me tell you the dark, dark truth. There are

927
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: fifty five FCS versus Power five matchups this fall. It's unacceptable,

928
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: and yet if I were an athletic director, I do it.

929
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: I do it because it's a free win, or at

930
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: least most times it is. There's nothing in the rules

931
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: against it, and other folks are doing it, So why

932
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 1: should Why should I unf fairly hamstring my program and

933
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: force us to play tougher competition. Hey, just give the

934
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: spring game option and then heavily penalized folks who still

935
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: schedule FCS competition in the fall. A lot of benefits there, right,

936
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: So in the nature of fairness, because we're nothing if

937
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: not fair around here. I wanted to know what problems

938
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: people could have with this, because it sounds like a

939
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: win win win to me, And I asked you, therefore,

940
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: who has a problem with this? Who thinks And remember

941
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,439
Speaker 1: how I worded this for the second time, is there

942
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: anyone against having the option to schedule real teams for

943
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: spring games? I got not one bit of feedback that

944
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: was valid, because any of the negatives I got back

945
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: were just people telling me it's their preference that their

946
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: school doesn't play another team in a spring game. That's cool,

947
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 1: Like here were some reasons I got elite teams benefit

948
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: more from inter squatting because elite teams the Alabama would

949
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: benefit more from their players playing against their own players

950
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: rather than playing against Troy higher level competition. Cool, exercise

951
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: your option not to have one. We may show too

952
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: much whatever the world. That means, Fine, don't have one.

953
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: We may get upset beta mentality. Fine, don't have one. Well,

954
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: smaller schools don't want to risk the injury. This is

955
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: my favorite. Those smaller schools sure don't have a problem

956
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: cashing that check and feeding those players to the Wolves

957
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: in the fall. This is totally irrelevant to the decision making.

958
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: Once those kids signed the waiver and once they put

959
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: on that where should I go? Because I've already used

960
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: ut Chattanooga. Once they put on that jersey, all bets

961
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: are off. Speaking of betting, I don't know if you'd

962
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: be able to in a spring game. Yeah. If you

963
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: don't like that, though, don't schedule one spring games. This

964
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: is another bit of feedback I got spring games. Those

965
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: are for depth building and development, not for fans. Actually,

966
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: the least amount of depth building and development happens in

967
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: the Spring game. If you want to see real development

968
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: and depth building happen, Actually, you can't if I could

969
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: take you with me to some of these practices that

970
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: sometimes we get to attend, We'll attend a couple of

971
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: them next week actually, and you could watch what happens

972
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: every day yet practice, you would realize there's scrimmage in

973
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: every day for at least portions of those practices. They're

974
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: going good on good, or one versus two, two versus

975
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: one every single day. The spring game does not resemble

976
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: what real football looks like. The jerseys are there, it

977
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: is eleven on eleven, the field dimensions are the same.

978
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: Otherwise you want to see real scrimmage action, you can't.

979
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: They're not gonna show it to you. And I'm not

980
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: sure how many people would sign up to exercise the

981
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: option to have a real spring game. I just want

982
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: it to be a possibility. Here's the way this will happen,

983
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 1: by the way, said that really quick. Here's the way

984
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: this would happen if I don't know how it becomes legal, actually,

985
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: but if it became legal, if it became the law

986
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: of the land that you could do this, about ten

987
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: programs would do it the first year, about sixty of

988
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: them would do it the next year, and then it

989
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: would be the norm and it would be a huge

990
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: recruiting event, more so than it already is. It would

991
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: be like a second homecoming. And then you'd be asked

992
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 1: if you weren't doing it, why aren't we doing this?

993
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: And none of these reasons would be valid. So there's

994
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: also there's another one here. There was another reason someone

995
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: gave me for not doing this. This one's valid. It's

996
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: just part of the risk reward. If I'm a smaller

997
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: school and I'm going to go play pat State in

998
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: their spring game, and I'm going to get paid money

999
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: to go do it, the risk is those folks over

1000
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: at Peyt State may see a couple of players on

1001
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: my roster that could start for them. We got a

1002
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: post spring portal window, you know. And so one of

1003
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: the risks for those FCS teams is they come in

1004
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: and they push back on you a little bit harder

1005
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: than you thought they would. So much so that man

1006
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: that slot receiver had what nine catches for one twenty

1007
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: eight and two touchdowns against us. We've got a weakness

1008
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: where slot receiver, Hey, catch him in the parking lot,

1009
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: get in his DMS, tell him we may have a

1010
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: space for him here. That is a risk. It's already

1011
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: a risk though. Quite frankly, I don't think any of

1012
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: your players are being discovered in the spring game. And

1013
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: if they do, that's why it's called risk reward. You're

1014
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: cashing a major paycheck if you lose a player to

1015
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: the big boys. It's up to you to measure it.

1016
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you it has to be one way

1017
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: or the other. It can be either or you can

1018
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: choose to exercise the option or not the option. It

1019
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: makes no sense not to have the option. That's all

1020
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's all I've ever said. Next question, run

1021
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: a good role here. We've got still got some more

1022
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: to go. I mean, I hate to tell you, but

1023
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: if you're out there hoping for a season, it's not

1024
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: on this show. Speaking of this show, please remember you

1025
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: haven't already to subscribe to the channel and like the video,

1026
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: because about a fifth of you have right now now.

1027
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to go on a hunger strike, but

1028
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be hard because this is the only food

1029
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 1: I have available to me, so it would not be hard.

1030
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: Look at this upside down, frownie face. Be glad. If

1031
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: you're on podcasts today and you can't see the visual,

1032
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: it would just disappoint you. This used to be a

1033
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: great country. I don't know when we made the turn,

1034
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: but it was somewhere around five thirty pm today when

1035
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 1: they made whatever this is. It's not grilled cheese, whatever

1036
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: that is. I got a question from Blake on Twitter

1037
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: today from Mesquite, Texas born and raised. He said, do

1038
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: you agree college football needs Texas to be good for

1039
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: the sport overall to be great. No, I don't, but

1040
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: that would make a terrible segment. So I'm going to

1041
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: give you a few reasons why I have a personal preference.

1042
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: I sure do. I want Texas to be really good.

1043
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: I am I'm an elitist. I like the blue blood

1044
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: programs to be good. Sorry sue me, but there is

1045
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: a sense of self importance that some of us at

1046
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 1: the college football table have sometimes and it leads to

1047
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,919
Speaker 1: statements like that one. Blake, thank you for the question.

1048
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. But it leads to statements sometimes and

1049
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: they sound a little something like this. Tell me if

1050
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: you've heard this before. College football can't be great unless

1051
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: Texas is great. College football needs Florida State to be good.

1052
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: College football is only good when Alabama's good. None of

1053
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 1: that's true. None of it's ever been true, none of

1054
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: it ever will be true. Let me tell you what

1055
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: college football's done, especially over the last twenty years. It's

1056
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 1: exploded every metric imaginable sum including the ones you've never

1057
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: even heard of through the roof. Could you name me

1058
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,399
Speaker 1: a single program that has sustained greatness for the last

1059
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: twenty years, because I can't. Even Bama was on probation

1060
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: before Saban got there. Texas has wildly fluctuated. Southern cal

1061
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: feels like they fell off the face of the earth

1062
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: for a little while. There are several of the major

1063
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: brands in college football that have two varying degrees, been

1064
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: either good or irrelevant at best and at worst. Over

1065
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: that period, college football has been fine. I mean, Miami

1066
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: has not been elite since high def television became a thing.

1067
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: And there are folks probably telling you, hey man, college

1068
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: football needs Miami to be good. No college football would

1069
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 1: prefer Miami to be good. They prefer Texas to be good.

1070
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: College football goes right on ticking. It goes right on

1071
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: about its business just fine, whether Texas is twelve and

1072
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: OHO or zero to twelve and dido. For any other

1073
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: individual programming or program Speaking of programming, I know what

1074
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: the comment section is about to do. Sometimes, if I

1075
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: have the instinct like that or the intuition, I try

1076
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: and get ahead of the comment section, which is bad

1077
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: because we actually want more comments, so I may want

1078
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: to change that strategy. But anyway, the comment section is

1079
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: going to have someone who feigns an intellec actual superiority

1080
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: to the rest of us mere mortals, and they're gonna say, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1081
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: But you don't get what it's really about. Josh, what

1082
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: about the ratings? What about the revenue? And I just

1083
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: told you both are fine, But if I wanted to

1084
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: entertain this nonsense? Do you know how to interpret ratings?

1085
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 1: I know they tweet them out sometimes and you see,

1086
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: for instance, the women's National Championship the other day did

1087
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: bonkers numbers. But do you really know how to get

1088
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: into the weeds. Do you know the difference between a

1089
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: meter and a non metered market? Do you know quarterlies

1090
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: versus hour leies? Do you do you have any idea

1091
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: of year over year and decade over decade comps? Do

1092
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: you know how the ad sales infrastructure works and how

1093
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: much has already been sold against an event before the

1094
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: rating ever comes in. Yes, no, maybe, probably No, it

1095
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: doesn't impact you. You shouldn't know those things. You're a

1096
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: nerd if you do, guilty, I'm the nerd who actually

1097
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: dives into that stuff. Trust me when I tell you

1098
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,879
Speaker 1: it should be none of your business. Voluntarily, you should

1099
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: make it none of your business. Treat that stuff the

1100
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: same way you would people gossiping about you. Just make

1101
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: it none of your business. It doesn't matter. It doesn't

1102
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: matter to you. The product is the product. Here's what

1103
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: college football needs. College football doesn't need any one team

1104
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: to be good to be great, college football needs Saturday

1105
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: to be king. That's what it needs. It needs Saturday

1106
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: to be the nucleus of the sport. And as long

1107
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: as that's the case, college football is going to be fine.

1108
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: It's why a lot of folks who share the belief

1109
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: I do, find it less than desirable the direction that

1110
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: some of the powers that be try and take the

1111
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: sport sometimes because they try and take it a direction

1112
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: where Saturday is not the nucleus. The Playoff is the

1113
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: nucleus of it, and Saturday it's just kind of something

1114
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 1: we do in the meantime. It kind of orbits around

1115
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: the postseason. That's not college football. And if it ever

1116
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 1: does become that, you know what you've gotten. All of

1117
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: a sudden, you do have a brand that the overall

1118
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: sport needs, and it's hold on Colin, keep this shot.

1119
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: The brand is this thing right here, And if you're

1120
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: listening on POD, I'm holding up the college football playoff Thermos.

1121
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: And once the sport becomes about that, it's not really

1122
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: the sport you know and love anymore. Even as even

1123
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: if some of you are supporting that expansion, I'm not

1124
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: telling you expansion's going to ruin college football. I am

1125
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: telling you, as long as you maintain the proper priority structure,

1126
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: then we never get into that world where one brand

1127
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: has to be great for the sport to be great.

1128
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: So Tyler, I hope for your sake out there in Mesquite,

1129
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: Texas great people and Mesquite, I hope for your sake

1130
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: that year three under Sark is a big year because,

1131
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: like I told you, I got personal preferences, and I

1132
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: certainly do think it does benefit the sport when you

1133
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: get a playoff where you got some of those big names,

1134
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: like can you imagine the first time Texas makes the playoff?

1135
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the first time Southern cow makes the

1136
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: play off, that han't been there, right, No, I mean

1137
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: think about that. I'm trying to fit Penn State the

1138
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: first time they make the playoff Miami, if they make

1139
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: the playoff, Florida State has been there, but it feels

1140
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 1: like a long time ago because it was. Yeah. Yeah,

1141
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 1: it's great, it's wonderful. It's not necessary, not necessary, believe

1142
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: it or not. There's some folks out there who love

1143
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: the TCU stories. Don't necessarily love sixty five to seven,

1144
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: but they love the TCU story. In the meanwhile, there's

1145
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,959
Speaker 1: there's room for all. There's room for everyone at that table.

1146
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: It's my point. I think we're deep enough in the show. Now, Yeah,

1147
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: we're deep enough in the show. This is what I

1148
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: do sometimes, if I have a story to tell you,

1149
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: I don't lead the show with it because I know

1150
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: the nature of our audience retention and I know the

1151
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: average show the average viewer watches our show a whole

1152
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: lot longer than any other show out there. And thank

1153
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: you for that. Boy, that means a lot that we

1154
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: get to take that stat and just hold it over

1155
00:59:55,760 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: management's head, and so thank you for that. But I

1156
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: also know what our p one listeners and viewers do

1157
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: they watched the whole show. They listened to the whole show,

1158
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: and they care about everything in the show. So really

1159
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: extra special, thank you to you guys. So I get

1160
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: a little deeper in the show, and if I want

1161
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: to get a little loose with it, this is where

1162
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 1: I get a little loose with it. And I can

1163
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: tell you a story about what happened the other day,

1164
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: because I had probably about fifty eight million DMS rough

1165
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: estimate asking me to tell you what happened the other day. So,

1166
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: as you know, I go stormchasing in the spring. We

1167
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: did it the other day. We went on Tuesday, actually

1168
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: Monday night, I drove to Columbia, Missouri, and stayed in

1169
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: Columbia shot out Tigers. I got there at like midnight,

1170
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: so I didn't go by the offices over there, I

1171
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: didn't go buy the facility. And then I made my

1172
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: way up to Iowa City, Iowa. The next morning. Yeah,

1173
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: I drove. I'm not management, come on now, I don't

1174
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: have that net Jets card. And so I drove up

1175
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: there in the most blue collar mentality possible, because that's

1176
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: how we roll. I was in Iowa City and then

1177
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: storms started to fire, and we went down to Mount Pleasant, Iowa,

1178
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: and it was still not working out, and then all

1179
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: of a sudden, two cells start to fire, and we

1180
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: got to make a decision. We're either going to go

1181
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: back west or we're gonna just haul it east. And

1182
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: we hauled it east into Illinois and we got to

1183
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: the town of Lewistown and we got there about the

1184
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: time and eventually F three tornado got there and we

1185
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: went through a hail corps to get there. It was

1186
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: very HP, it was very high precipitation. It was the

1187
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: antithesis of last week where we had not a lot

1188
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: of rain and these picturesque supercells down in Arkansas. Hey,

1189
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: you deal with what you deal with. So Colin roll

1190
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 1: that video I showed you. So if you're watching, hey,

1191
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: this is going through a hail corps. This is going

1192
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: through high precipitation to get to a tornado. Now we

1193
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: got it pinged on radar, We got multiple products there,

1194
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: so you see, it's as safe as it kind of

1195
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 1: can be. This is not safe at all. More on

1196
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: that in a second. So, anyway, we are going through

1197
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: some very treacherous terrain. We know we've got that we've

1198
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: got that thing pinged in front of us, and we're

1199
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: about two minutes late. And colin the second video, if

1200
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: you can roll it, we come up in Lewistown tornado.

1201
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: Actually you can still see the tornado in the distance,

1202
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: you just can't make it out. It has come through

1203
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: here about two minutes. It's an e F three tornado

1204
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: at that point, off in the distance, and this car

1205
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: has just been rolled that we're coming up on. And

1206
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: at this point you got to go see if everyone's okay,

1207
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: because there's someone in that car by the way. They

1208
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: were okay, they were unharmed. And that cop car off

1209
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: in the distance, that police officer got caught in it,

1210
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: so we had to go check on him. There was

1211
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: a chaser car just off camera to the right that

1212
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: had power lines wrapped around it, which brings me to

1213
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway. Kids, You gotta be careful with power lines.

1214
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: You got to be extra careful when they're down all

1215
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: over the road. We were not, as it were. Frankie's

1216
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: in the in the driver's seat there. Shout out to

1217
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: Frankie up there in northwest Arkansas and Zach as well.

1218
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: So we are going about thirty miles an hour because

1219
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: there are houses that have been hit by this thing.

1220
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: So the first thing you do is you shift into

1221
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: search and rescue mode. You got to go make sure

1222
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: that you're not dealing with serious injuries. Thankfully we weren't

1223
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: because it was a pretty sparsely populated area. So a

1224
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: few houses got hit, we check on them. A few

1225
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 1: cars got rolled and hit, and we check on them.

1226
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: They're good. Problem is we weren't. So we're going about

1227
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: thirty miles an hour, probably twenty miles an hour. We're

1228
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: not going that fast because there are power poles and

1229
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: power lines and debris all over the place. One of

1230
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: the power lines was not all the way on the ground.

1231
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: It was about windshield height, fully tensioned over the road,

1232
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: and we didn't see it because it was too late.

1233
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: When we finally saw it, it was dusk, it's not really

1234
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: illuminated out there, and that power line hits the front

1235
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: of that truck and it takes one of the mounted lights,

1236
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: throws it into the windshield, shatters the windshield right in

1237
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: front of me. It's lucky I'm still even here. That

1238
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 1: wasn't the worst part, though, the worst part is then

1239
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: that power line goes up over the truck as we're

1240
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: going under it, and it rips the camper top clean off.

1241
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: The truck, just shreds the attachments and throws it on

1242
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: the ground and we didn't even know it. So we

1243
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: go about another half mile down the road, and once

1244
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: we've checked to the point where the road was impassable

1245
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: and we couldn't go any further, we get out and

1246
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's no back on the truck anymore.

1247
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: And it was one of those classic you got full

1248
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: coverage on that truck liability. Homely, we had to go

1249
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: back and find the top. Miraculously none of the glass shattered.

1250
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: But from there, man, we had to go up hour

1251
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 1: up the road. This is where I told you I

1252
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: needed academy. We had to go get some sea clamps

1253
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 1: from Walmart and there was not one out in the

1254
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,919
Speaker 1: middle of a field in Illinois. So then we kick

1255
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: it back over to Mount Pleasant. That was another hour drive,

1256
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: and I drove straight shot from Iowa in the middle

1257
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: of the night all the way back to Nashville, and

1258
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: I came into work yesterday on no sleep. Am I

1259
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: a hero? I can't say for sure, but yes I am.

1260
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: But that was a wild time up there in Illinois,

1261
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: first time ever chasing in Illinois, and while the experience

1262
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: wasn't overall pleasurable, maybe I'll be back, We'll see, But

1263
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: that was I was a e F three tornado just

1264
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: up the road in Bryant, Illinois. Hey, I got to

1265
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: tell you something which I didn't think about. I need

1266
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 1: to be responsible with this. A lot of you were

1267
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: asking me, Hey, Hey, should I go stormchasing? What should

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01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: I do? Don't? Don't do it. Don't do it ever,

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Speaker 1: and if you do, make it about five years from

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01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: now when you've properly studied up and you understand what

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01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: you're doing. Those are a lot of folks out there

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01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: getting themselves in know a lot of trouble right now.

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01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: It's kind of it's been a plague the past two

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01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: chases I've been on. You got some folks that are

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01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: you risking getting yourself killed? That's what you're doing. And

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01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 1: it's happened before, it will happen again. And so there's

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01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: a purpose why people are out there, and there is

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01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: a way to do it, and it's not learned overnight.

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Speaker 1: So that's my advice. Don't do it there. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's move on Clemson mood tracker time sound the alarms.

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01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: The mood tracker is here for Clemson. Quick quick question?

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01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: Whereas Clemson right now? Not on the map, Although that's

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01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,240
Speaker 1: a good test too. I would just ask you where's

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01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: Clemson as a program as we do the mood tracker,

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01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 1: and I explain to you how the fan base feels,

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01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 1: or at least I try and guess how the fan

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01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: base feels. Where's Clemson? Classic consequence of success here, because

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01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 1: Clemson is being viewed as down or off pace or fading,

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01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: and the reality is they have won double digit games

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01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: every year since twenty eleven. They have been the ACC

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01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: champion seven of the last eight years, including this last one.

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01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: Does that sound like a down program to you? Only

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01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: answer yes if you understand that you have ended up

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01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: recalibrating your own perception of that program and you have

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01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 1: vaulted the expectations into a stratosphere. That's really unfair. Now

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01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: people have done it with Bama. Now Saban has still

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01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: continued to knock down championships. But it's unrealistic to expect

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01:06:57,200 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: a program to just perennially provide you that kind of

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01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: level of play. So Clemson's not down. Clemson may have

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01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: temporarily had a cramp in their toe and took their

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01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: foot off the accelerator. They're not down. They haven't ground

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01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: to a halt, which kind of brings me to a

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01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: point I wanted to make because I was thinking about

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01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: what to make the mood, so I ended up making

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01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: the mood cleaning the cosmetics. Programs can have messes of

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01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: all different variety. Programs can have problems of all different varieties.

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01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: Some of them obviously are more serious than others. Imagine

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01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: you go into interview for a job, right and you

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01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: sit down and you do your interview, and then you

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01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: don't get the job, and the recruiter calls you back

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01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: and says, hey, you nailed the interview. They just they're

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01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: really high on attention to detail. And it turns out

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01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: your shirt was the buttons were misaligned. That's scenario A.

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01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:51,439
Speaker 1: Scenario B, the recruiter calls and says, hey, you didn't

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01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 1: tell me you had thirty seven HR violations and appending

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01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: sexual harassment complaint from your last place of employment. That's

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01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: what cost you the job. One of these problems are

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01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: a little more serious than the other. Clemson has just

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01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: got misalign buttons right now, it's cosmetic. These things are fixable.

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01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: The tires flat, the engine is not broken. And so

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01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: I think that Clemson fans feel that way, and if

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01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 1: that's the way they feel, I would share that sentiment.

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01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: But that also means we need to do a healthy

1324
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: look at what Daboswiney just did. This time last year.

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01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: I was a little bit critical of him, and I

1326
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: was critical of him because they had to replace two

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01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: coordinators and I just didn't like what he did, just

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01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,560
Speaker 1: point blank. I didn't like that he had the opportunity

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01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,160
Speaker 1: to conduct a national search and his philosophy was I

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 1: want to promote from within, and he did that. And

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01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with promoting from within sometimes you have

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01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 1: great candidates. I didn't feel like he had great candidates

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01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: and he promoted from within and it didn't work out.

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01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: Now as much criticism as he as it turns out,

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01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: deserved for that, he deserves a lot of credit for

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01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: hitting the dump button after one year. I think the

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01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: same thing about Mario hiring Gaddis down at Miami. You

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01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 1: make a bad decision, you understand. I don't think some

1339
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 1: people understand how hard that is to do, because see,

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01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 1: you want to preach patience, and also you put your

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01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: stamp of approval on him. So really it's not Dabo's

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01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: swinny telling Brandon Street or he's a failure. It's Dabbo

1343
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 1: looking in the mirror saying I failed, because this guy

1344
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: is no different than he was when I elevated him.

1345
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 1: I'm the one who screwed up. It's your job to

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01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: do that. It's not easy to do that, doesn't matter

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01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: how many millions of dollars they pay you. It's not

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01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 1: easy to admit. Man, I screwed it up that spectacularly

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01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: in one year. Five years down the road, Okay, one year,

1350
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,519
Speaker 1: that's tough. But he did it. As much criticism as

1351
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: you wanted to throw at him, myself included, you got

1352
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: to throw some praise his way because not only did

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01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: he hit the dump button on a failed experiment, he

1354
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 1: more than made up for it. He went and got

1355
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: Garrett Riley and that was the highest profile name in

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01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: the coordination market. Garrett Riley was the highest profile Canada

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01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: available out there. Top ten scoring offensive TCU last year.

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01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: Former quarterback, thirty three years old. I won the Broyles

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01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 1: Award last year. Now I don't want to sit here

1360
01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: and tell you that all Broyles Award winners are created

1361
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: equal cause someone's gonna tell me, hey, guess who won

1362
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: it the year before bost Glattles. So I get it.

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01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,719
Speaker 1: This is a good resume. I think this will work out.

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01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: Unlike last year when I had a bunch of coaches

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01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: hitting me up saying Gaddis is not going to work

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01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: out at Miami, I haven't had one hit me up

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01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,679
Speaker 1: and say Garrett Riley fraud imposter, it won't work out.

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01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 1: So I got a little more confidence in this higher.

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01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:42,679
Speaker 1: Kay Klubnick is one of the reasons I have confidence

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01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: because that's the eighth highest rated signee they've ever had there,

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01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: and it may be he may end up being one

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Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks they've ever signed. They've had some

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01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: good ones, some really good ones. One of the five

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01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 1: stars they signed just moved on because this other five

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01:10:56,280 --> 01:11:01,480
Speaker 1: star they have is that good consequences of success. Notwithstanding

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01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 1: Clemson is just they're fixing the cosmetics right now. They

1377
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: just put on a shade too dark and they gotta

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01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: wipe it off, and Hoops amongst us hasn't been there before.

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01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 1: I'm a Maybelline natural beige guy myself, But maybe they're

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01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: caramel beige or carmel beige. There's a direct correlation between

1381
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: people who say carmel and people who say tournament. Now,

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01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into it, but at Harris

1383
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: County High School it's just good old fashioned tournaments. Clemson

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay, Now, that's easy to say. Are

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01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:36,600
Speaker 1: they gonna be great? That's the more difficult thing. Are

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01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: they gonna be in the Are gonna be in the

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01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,719
Speaker 1: championship hunt this year? Or is it just a good,

1388
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: solid ten and two effort. Both are acceptable, but only

1389
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: one ends up getting talked about ten years down the road.

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01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: We have just done a seventy one minute show in

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01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: the middle of April. They said it couldn't be done,

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01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: but they don't know us, do they. I will be

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01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 1: headed to Georgia in about twenty men, so I'm on

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01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: the way home tonight. We will not have a show

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01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: this Sunday. It is Easter Sunday, so I will be

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01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:09,719
Speaker 1: down there doing my Easter thing. And then Tuesday, stay

1397
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:12,400
Speaker 1: tuned to the socials. I know we're gonna have a

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01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: show next Thursday. Okay, we know that, but there could

1399
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: be some shenanigans going on in a good way next Tuesday,

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01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 1: So just to keep an eye at Late Kick Josh,

1401
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram. For a number of reasons, this is

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01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:26,720
Speaker 1: just one for director column for producer Jesse. I'm Josh Pate.

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Speaker 1: Take care, have a great weekend yourselves, and God bless