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Speaker 1: November twenty fourth year of All overd twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: So I've never taken anything away from that team. Words

428
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 1: will get twisted a lot. I never taken anything away

429
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 1: from that team. But I also wasn't giving them preferential treatment.

430
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: I was going to judge him just the same resume

431
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 1: based judgment relative to the rest of the field, and

432
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 1: if they didn't stack up, it didn't matter. If they're

433
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: a good cute story, that doesn't matter. That's just emotion.

434
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 1: You shouldn't even be judging teams. You shouldn't be judging

435
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: which conference they're from. You ought to be judging a

436
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: blind resume. Everyone else can insert the biases and or

437
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: the claims of bias, which I'll get to later, But

438
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: Indiana is in. Now. You can lose me with the

439
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: counter argument, because there is not a conference in this country,

440
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 1: including the SEC, gets to blanketly throw out claims of

441
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: their strength of schedule given what's happened over the last

442
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: twenty four to forty eight hours, and enjoy benefit of

443
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 1: the doubt. Most years you would have it. This year,

444
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: you do not so congratulations to Ohio State. I oh boy,

445
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 1: they got Michigan this weekend. Jesse, did we get an

446
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: early line on that? I mean it's fat. I know

447
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: it's over three touchdowns. Ohio State is favored to win

448
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, by the way, their minus one forty

449
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 1: five favorite, and Oregon is plus one twenty at FanDuel.

450
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 1: I know Ohio State's over three touchdown favorite. They play

451
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: that game in the shoe. I saw forecast high in

452
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 1: the low thirties, so it'll be right in line weatherwise

453
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: with what they've had in the past twenty and a half. Okay,

454
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: so not over three touchdowns. I think. I think vengeance

455
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 1: is coming Saturday. I know it's been a fun time

456
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 1: at Michigan over the past few days, because, first off,

457
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 1: you guys covered emphatically for me yesterday and I very

458
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: much appreciate it. And you got your quarterback of the future.

459
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 1: He is not playing Saturday, and we'll predict that game

460
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: later this week. Crazier, Yeah, crazier things have happened. It

461
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: is two thousand and seven, two point zero at this point,

462
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: so crazier things have happened. I don't think it's gonna

463
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: happen in that game Quick Trip is fueling the whole

464
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: New Saturday tour. We've been at that game the past

465
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 1: three years, right, Jesse Colin. Yet, so the past three years,

466
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: I've gone to the Ohio State Michigan game. And for

467
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: a youth who hails from rural Georgia, trusts me, I

468
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: never thought I would be able to go to that game.

469
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: So I've been blessed to see that the last three

470
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,679
Speaker 1: consecutive years. However, I don't think that game is going

471
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: to be competitive this year, and so I call up

472
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: our friends at Quick Trip. I say, guys, we got

473
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: to figure out a new game to go to. Right,

474
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: it's Rivalry weekend. We're gonna go to the Iron Bowl. No,

475
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: that could go either direction. It's going to be one

476
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: of the most toxic feeling environments in Iron Bowl lore

477
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,360
Speaker 1: since twenty ten. I don't want any part of that.

478
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: I'm not going to Ohio State Michigan. Where am I

479
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: going to go? Well, I'm gonna tell you where I'm

480
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: gonna go. I have telegraph this. I'll see. I'm going

481
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: to go home for Thanksgiving. First off, So we'll be

482
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: down in Georgia Wednesday and Thursday, and then we will

483
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: we'll hop on the Quick Trip Express and we will

484
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: head right out to Texas because Texas is playing Texas

485
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: A and M this Saturday with a trip to the

486
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: SEC championship game on the line. ANM is battered, they

487
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: are bruised, they are bleeding, they are limping back to

488
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: College station. And you know the only thing that changes

489
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 1: now is they get to be the home team and

490
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: Texas gets to be the one that goes on the

491
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: road in the treacherous SEC. In late November, you talk

492
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: about wounded animal mode, revery in wounded animal mode, dangerous,

493
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: very dangerous. You know, I'm high on Texas. That was

494
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: my preseason pick to win the SEC. I'm not backing

495
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: off of them, you see me, hands up, I'm not

496
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 1: backing off of them. But they got it to do

497
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: because if this year has taught us anything it is

498
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: that it is a fool's errand to think that results

499
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: just duplicate week over week. The last thing I expect

500
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: from A and M this Saturday is a carbon copy

501
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: of what I got yesterday. That's the last thing I

502
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: expect from them. So they may not beat Texas, but

503
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: it may look a little different, is all I'm saying.

504
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to getting to this one. Also, I'll

505
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: just put it out there, Okay, I just want to

506
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: put this out there. I don't care which charter jet

507
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: company it is. That's listening. I know I've spoken to

508
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: you guys from time to time. We've gone long ways

509
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: down the road of doing business with each other, but

510
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: I've never signed on the dotted line. I'm flat out

511
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: telling you I want to be at South Carolina Clemson

512
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: this Saturday at high noon, and I want to be

513
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: in College Station at seven thirty. So this is the

514
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 1: most consumed college football show in digital media. Your signage

515
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: will look very good on this set, and the traffic

516
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: would go a long way doing business with us. I'm

517
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: happy to discuss those terms. I just want to be

518
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: at those two games this Saturday, because that was very hard,

519
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: as it turns out, to choose between, and so why

520
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: should we have to choose. Let's just do both. You

521
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: know how to get in touch with me. Florida did

522
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: what they beat All miss Yes they did. Why wouldn't

523
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: we Why would we be surprised at that they're a

524
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: top twenty five team? No they're not, Josh, Well, you're right.

525
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 1: The AP does not have Florida ranked in the top

526
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: twenty five, but we have never quit Florida. JP Pol's

527
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: had him in the top twenty five for a while.

528
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: This game was good. We gave it for Chali on

529
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: the one to five Chalice rating scale, and we if

530
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: you listened to the show last week, took a fair

531
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: amount of criticism because I started to make this point

532
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: about Florida a few weeks ago. Florida with DJ Lagway,

533
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: is a top twenty five caliber team, just full stop.

534
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 1: And you either watch them and you get what I'm saying,

535
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: or you hear what I'm not saying. Because there are

536
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 1: a lot of folks out there who just like want

537
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: to hate the SEC. So if you say anything remotely

538
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: positive about an SEC member, institution gets twisted and misconstrued.

539
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: So you know, like, what I didn't say was Florida

540
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 1: belongs in the top twenty five. What I didn't say

541
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: is Florida should be mentioned anywhere near the playoff. I

542
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: didn't say any of those things because those things aren't true.

543
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: I don't feel that I actually don't care about that

544
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: at all. As it relates to yesterday's game, Ole Miss

545
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: going to Gainesville, what caliber of team are they going

546
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: to face, What caliber of challenge are they going up against?

547
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: And truthfully, it doesn't really matter what happened a few

548
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: months ago against Miami as it relates to that. That

549
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: Miami game in Week one happened, and it's on your

550
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: resume and you should have to pay for it because

551
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: you lost that game convincingly. But if DJ Lagway is

552
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: your starting quarterback now and he's healthy and he's doing

553
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: things that really know whether the quarterback in the country

554
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: is doing, then I look at you and I say,

555
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: you got forty plus blue chip players still on this team.

556
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: They haven't quit on Billy Napier. You got an alien

557
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: at quarterback. So we got ninety thousand in a swamp.

558
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't really think I'm playing my typical five and

559
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: five team here, Like, I don't really think that's the

560
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: resistance level that I'm gonna get. So we saw that

561
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. We said it was going to

562
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: be the case in this game, and it was. And

563
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: so people either understand that or they just say, no,

564
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: you are what your record says you are. And this

565
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: is a horrible loss for Ole miss. Well, it wasn't

566
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: a horrible loss, but it's a loss and it counts

567
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: an old Miss is out of this thing. Now. I'll

568
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: tell you the loss that's bad for all miss is

569
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: the Kentucky loss. That's the loss that's really bad. I

570
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: can stomach them going down there and taking an l

571
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: in this environment against that team. It's the Kentucky loss

572
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: that gave them no margin for error. The padlock's that here,

573
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: very simple paper pop and simple red zone. Florida was

574
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: two of two down there for fourteen points. Ole Miss

575
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: oh of three for zero points. That's what decided this game.

576
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: Florida ran it pretty well forty five times one hundred

577
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: and sixty four yards. Lagway's just doing one or two

578
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: things per game that put your jaw on the ground.

579
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: His stat line's not out of this world. He was

580
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: ten to seventeen in this game. It's never a performance

581
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: that if your box score, surfing is going to stand

582
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: out to you. But if you're scrolling through social media,

583
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: if you're not watching the game during a Florida game

584
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: with that dude playing, you're going to be scrolling, scrolling,

585
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: scrolling in the boom, you're gonna see it. He's just

586
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: doing something at a random point in the third quarter

587
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: that no other quarterback in the country is doing physically,

588
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: and he did it again yesterday, and you can't do anything,

589
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: You can't defend it. You just tip your cap and

590
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: you say, how did that? Just? Did that just happen? First?

591
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: You got to watch the replay, and then after you

592
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: watch the replay, you say, how do you defend that?

593
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: And the answer is you don't. And so that's kind

594
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: of what Ole Miss dealt with yesterday. But it was

595
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: self inflicted too for Old Miss, and that's been the

596
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: case and a lot of their losses. The way Ole

597
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: Miss a season gone is so confounding to me. Ole

598
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: Miss was a team that had struggled to get over

599
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: that big game hump, and then this year they beat

600
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: Georgia resoundingly. But it's the Kentucky's of the world, you know,

601
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: it's the Florida's of the world. As much respect as

602
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: I have for the caliber of ball Florida's playing right now,

603
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: that's still a game Old Miss has got to go win.

604
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: If you fancy yourself a playoff team, you got to

605
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: go win that game. And they don't do it, and

606
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: they play some of their worst football of the season

607
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: in the biggest moment this is November. This is when

608
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be scaling. In the Kentucky, LSU and

609
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: Florida games, ole Miss has given up fourteen sacks and

610
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: twenty five tackles for loss. That's what makes them so

611
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: hard to predict. I had one of my own friends,

612
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: one of our own, came at me because I had

613
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: Ole Miss at number two or three last week in

614
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: the JP Pole, which is a power rating, not a ranking,

615
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: and they said, man, I bet you were gret having

616
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: them up there. I don't. I don't that the model

617
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: said what it said about them. But the thing about

618
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: Old Miss is the Georgia game was real, but the

619
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: Kentucky game was real. And what I mean by that

620
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: is both of those versions of that team are out there.

621
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: It just turns out that as they got deeper into

622
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: the season, the bad version of Old Miss did not

623
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: get filtered out. It was still there. And what you

624
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: hope when you see these teams would really really like

625
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: high end potential, is they start hitting that different gear.

626
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: That's what the good ones do. Are the great ones

627
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: do that? I should say they hit a different gear

628
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: in November and it makes you say things like huh,

629
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: and I remember earlier in the season. This teamough remember

630
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: that game against so and so? Now look at him though,

631
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: that's the way they're talking about Oregon. The Wisconsin game notwithstanding,

632
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: which I think was dynamics related. I mean, Oregon struggling

633
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: as Idaho in Week one? Does anyone even remember that? Now? Know?

634
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: Because they've scaled up, they're playing their best ball at

635
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: the right time. Ole Miss just didn't do that. They

636
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: didn't figure out a way to do that. It's a shame.

637
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,719
Speaker 1: It's gut wrenching because this team was not put together

638
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: in a typical way. This was an all in twenty

639
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: twenty four approach for ole Miss. Everybody knows it. Who's

640
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: honest with themselves. They went all in, chips to the

641
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: middle of the table. They're gonna field a team next year,

642
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: it's nothing like that. But this was the one. This

643
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: needed to be the one, and it will not be

644
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: the one. And the hardest part about it is you

645
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: can go back to those three losses and you can say,

646
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: I mean, the LSU game's tough, but this Florida game,

647
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: the red zone, the turnovers, the Kentucky game didn't even

648
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: top twenty points at home. That's on us Billy Napier

649
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: is gonna finish seven and five if they beat Florida State,

650
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna go and dry on them.

651
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: If they beat Florida State this Saturday, they're gonna finish

652
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: seven and five. And that again goes to show you

653
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: me Maw's golden rule about head coaches is still in

654
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: effect today just as it's always been. Don't judge them

655
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: until the end of the year. Like a lot of

656
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: you are watching live right now, and then, by the way,

657
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: if you're watching live, please subscribe to the channel because

658
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: we do the show all year round and you subscribing

659
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: helps us do that. But a lot of you are

660
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: watching live right now. We got like eleven thousand people

661
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: watching live. Think about your opinion on BILLI Napier or

662
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: if you're listening to the replay, whatever, think about your

663
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: opinion on BILLI Napier. How much has it changed this year?

664
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: After the Miami game, it's really really bad. But then

665
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: later in the year they rebound a little bit, and

666
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: then they go to overtime against Tennessee and they almost

667
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: beat them, and then they beat LSU and now they've

668
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: beaten Ole miss and it's like been up down, up down.

669
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: It's like a Seisma graph. It's like you live in

670
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: la and it's a Seisma graph. And is that really

671
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: how I want to think about head coaches? They put

672
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: a microphone in my face three days a week. Is

673
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: that really how I want my opinion to change on coaches?

674
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,959
Speaker 1: My answer is no. So by and large, you'll notice

675
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: I don't do any hot seat talk on this show

676
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: with Napier. Earlier in the season. All I did really

677
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: with Napier was regurgitate what we were getting from big

678
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: voices down at Florida. He was done. Napier was done.

679
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: I mean that thing was sealed. And then a funny

680
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: thing happened. He kept coming to work, and that staff

681
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: kept coming to work, and most importantly, those players kept

682
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: coming to work. I was talking to an NFL scout

683
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: in week three, and that NFL scout, long time NFL scout,

684
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: said he's gonna lose that team. I mean, that team's

685
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 1: going to go in the tank. And there was every

686
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: reason to think that they did not. When we were

687
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: there in spring, I got criticized up and down because

688
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: I just said, I think they're made of the right thing.

689
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: They just haven't won enough. But I think the DNA

690
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: of that program, the guts of that program, it's what

691
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: it needs to be. Now, they just got to go win.

692
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 1: And then again this year they didn't win enough, face

693
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: the toughest schedule in the country, didn't win enough, and

694
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 1: not only did they not win, they got blown out

695
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: against Miami. They got blown out against A and m

696
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: both games at home. The program looked dead in the water,

697
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: and you just all you can do is keep chopping.

698
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: All the very very old cliches are actually old cause

699
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: they work, and Napier just knows no other way. And

700
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: now you're in a situation where a lot of people

701
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: close to the Florida program who once left him for dead,

702
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: now you got to make a decision and you better

703
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 1: fully buy in because that is your guy, like Napier

704
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: is still your guy, and the locker room is telling

705
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: you that. The performance of that team is telling you

706
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: that that quarterback. You want to see how important a

707
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: position is as to the future of a program, look elsewhere,

708
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: look around the country, and then no, you've got one.

709
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: You've got one other folks would envy. And he's tied

710
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: to that head coach. You say, buy out money. They

711
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: have redirected, redirected over to nil. Just I personally have

712
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: got to remind myself constantly, you gotta wait until the

713
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 1: end of the season to judge these guys, because if

714
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: you and I talked in July, you would have said,

715
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: and I would have agreed with you. If Florida wins

716
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: seven games this year, that's a very successful season. They're

717
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: probably gonna win seven games. And yet the guy was

718
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: fired five times at various points this year. Crazy how

719
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: this game works. It is that emotion, that week to

720
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: week swing, once you get into the fog of the season.

721
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: I don't think sun Zoo ever called it that, but

722
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: I do. The fog of the season. It's tough. It's tough,

723
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: opinions go all over the place. All you can do

724
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: is breathe deep and pop the top on a cold Zva.

725
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 1: We're going great tonight, if that's okay with everyone. I've

726
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,439
Speaker 1: put the cream soda aside and I have temporarily gone

727
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: with greape tonight and straight from the can too. It's

728
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: straight from the can Sunday here. You'll notice that. Well,

729
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: I hope you don't notice. My eyes were a little bloodshot,

730
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: but they are. I was in Tempe Arizona. Last night

731
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: for Arizona States went over Brigham Young. What a great trip.

732
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: I'd never been there before. Have you guys been there before?

733
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: Like in the live chat, yes or no? Have you

734
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: been there before? I don't think most of you have.

735
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: Now I met a lot of folks who watch the

736
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 1: show that are out there. You need to go out there,

737
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 1: you guys, especially late in the year. It was eighty

738
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: two degrees at kickoff yesterday. Absolutely zero humidity. I mean

739
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,959
Speaker 1: I could have snapped my fingers and started a fire

740
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: on the sideline. It was so dry. It's perfect. It

741
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: was great, and it was a red letter day. It

742
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: was a red letter day in Tempe. I give it

743
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: three and a half Chaali on the one to five scale.

744
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: Twenty eight to twenty three was the final. A red

745
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: letter day is the kind of day in your life

746
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: that you look back on years later and say that,

747
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: right there was an important day like this right here.

748
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: Was an important day for Arizona State football. It was

749
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: an important day for Grammar Racini, the ad there on

750
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: the field. It was an important day for Kenny Dillingham.

751
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: It was a important day for those players, but it

752
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: was an important day for the program. I grew up in,

753
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: as I have told you many a time, very rural Georgia.

754
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: I knew about the SEC. I knew about Notre Dame,

755
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Michigan, those kinds of teams I knew about USC.

756
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: I always had a very weird fascination with Arizona State

757
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: and Texas A and M, which at the time was

758
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: not an SEC team. I used to always think, why

759
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: don't those programs win more? Who knows? Saw go on

760
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: about my business, live my life. This is my first

761
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: opportunity to really go out there. I see what they mean.

762
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: I see what I thought I meant about Arizona State

763
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: all these years. Nothing holds that place back from being

764
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 1: a winner. That place there's nothing that you need that's

765
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 1: not there, although it could be there in more abundance,

766
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: which I think will come with wins like this. But

767
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff you cannot get elsewhere that's there.

768
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: There is great weather, there's a passionate fan base. There

769
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: is talent how should I put this? Talent of all

770
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: kinds that greatly helps in recruiting. It's an amazing place.

771
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: And then you cap it off with a win from

772
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: a program that was left for dead like twenty four

773
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: months ago. It was almost like the car's going off

774
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: the cliff. Here Dillingham will take the wheel. Oh look

775
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: he swerved, he got back on the road. Hey, how

776
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: do he do that? Hey, when you've got what I

777
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: call competitive ignorance, you don't know any better. You take

778
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: over a program that's been left for dead and her

779
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: Edward just blow torches the place on his way out.

780
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: Every sanction. Imagineable's floating over your head. Now, Kenny's from here.

781
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: He'll take it. He'll ride us through the dark days.

782
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: He'll just turn on the light. He just turned on

783
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: the light. He said, Look, he's turned on the light.

784
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: They were picked next to last in the Big Twelve.

785
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: This year they are probably going to the Big Twelve

786
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: championship game and Camp Scataboo. Yesterday, twenty eight carries one

787
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven yards. Jordan Tyson, I am telling

788
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: you Brigham Young thought they had an answer for him,

789
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: and they did not. Nine catches on undred twenty five yards.

790
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: They've gone from three to nine to nine and two.

791
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you disagree with me when

792
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: I say the Big Twelve is America's college football conference.

793
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: But the reason I call it that. A lot of

794
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: you are new around here. The reason I called the

795
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: Big Twelve America's college football conference is I listen to you.

796
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: A lot of you have complained about competitive imbalance in

797
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: the sport. Although this year it looks a lot different,

798
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 1: but historically, what have you complained about. I'm describing most

799
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: of you. I know because I talk to a lot

800
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: of you. You've said, I don't like the same few

801
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: teams winning. You don't like all the roster churn. A

802
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: lot of you don't like how full the transfer portal

803
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,439
Speaker 1: is every cycle. You don't like hippo critical coaches who

804
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: preach loyalty to a program, but then a third of

805
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: them move every single year, and so you would like

806
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: there to be a more loyal adherence to what college

807
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 1: football was for you growing up. It's the Big Twelve.

808
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: That's what the Big Twelve's like, and it's so topsy turvy.

809
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: Last place can win the conference first place. Utah was

810
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: finished first, or they were picked to finish first. Utah

811
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: had the best odds to win this thing. They're not

812
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: even gonna go bowling. Kansas State was next. Oklahoma State

813
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: has no pulse. Oklahoma State was picked to finish third.

814
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: That's competitive balance, that's parody. That's any given Saturday, and

815
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: they're delivering it like every week in the Big Twelve.

816
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: And what disappoints me. I've called some of you out

817
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: privately on this. What disappoints me is you guys have

818
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: claimed you want all these things, and when I credit

819
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve and I call it America's College Football Conference,

820
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: you guys shoot it down. That's not being played at

821
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: the same level as the Big Ten. Well, who cares?

822
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: Whoever said it was? By the way, Well, that doesn't

823
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: compare it to the SEC, then don't compare it to

824
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: the SEC. Well, they're not gonna win the national championship.

825
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: They're probably not, probably not. But you know what, someone's

826
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: gonna win the Big Twelve championship. I have that on

827
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: good authority, and it's probably not going to be the

828
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: team you expected in August. And that's a beautiful thing.

829
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: Brigham Young was confident coming into this game. I don't

830
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: think people knew it, but BYU quarterback had been banged

831
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 1: up last week and they thought that he was a

832
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: lot better yesterday, and they thought they matched up. One

833
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: thing they couldn't afford is Arizona State having a fast

834
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: start and then turning the ball over. And they did

835
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: both of those things, and Arizona State took advantage of it.

836
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: And wow, what a story. It's two of the best

837
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: stories in college football going against each other yesterday. And

838
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: it was a pleasure to be able to stand on

839
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,959
Speaker 1: the sideline there and get a mild sunburn, knowing full

840
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: well the rest of my friends. We're in Columbus, Ohio freezing.

841
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: Director Colin is rolling exclusive video from the eye Josh

842
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: right now, Kenny Dillingham little suss on the late game

843
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: decision making, and I would tell him that, and I did.

844
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: But look at that. A hail Mary falls short, three

845
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: yards short, and here comes the second field storming in

846
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. Crazy scene. Most of you watched it

847
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: on TV. We are so accustomed to this. I don't

848
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: know how many field stormings this is for us, maybe

849
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 1: a million, who knows. But I'm always there in the trenches.

850
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: Imagine being in a suite watching this. Management gets to

851
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: watch that sort of thing from the bird's eye view. No,

852
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: we're down there in the trenches taking grenades because that's

853
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: our people. That's where we always grew up. Wanting to

854
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: be No one grows up wanting to be in the suite.

855
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: You want to be on the field. So we grew

856
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: up and we got the opportunity, and so we're on

857
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: the field. And Arizona State treated us well. Joe Connley

858
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: strain the conditioning probably talk to that guy for like

859
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: a combined five hours this week and he turned that

860
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: weight room over to us two days in a row.

861
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: So we appreciate it. Man, all Right, tough segment coming up.

862
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: Tough segment, but a necessary one. A lot of you, like,

863
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: like I said, we got over eleven thousand watching live,

864
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: and I know why you're here. A lot some of

865
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: you are here because you support me. I know a

866
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: lot more of you were here because there are certain

867
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: allegations that have been hurled my way. So here we go.

868
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: What happened to the SEC this weekend? Disaster implosion? The SEC,

869
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: over the span of an afternoon sort of imploded in

870
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 1: on itself like a dying star, and a lot of us,

871
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: I have to include myself, unfortunately, who had spent a

872
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: majority of last week arguing hypothetical scenarios like idiots, had

873
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: our mouths zipped shut because a lot of it was

874
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: deemed irrelevant because when Alabama tote's a third L, they

875
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: don't look as attractive. That playoff resume, I don't look

876
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: is great for Old Miss. Once they tote a third L.

877
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: Once A and m laid into the evening at jorden

878
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: Here's Stadium after the most ridiculous rule and format in

879
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: college football was applied. Doesn't really make your argument hold

880
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: a lot of weight. And we've gotten this deep end

881
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: of the show, and a lot of you was wondering, well,

882
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: where's where's the Sarah McLaughlin special. It was in the

883
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: entire sec yesterday. Roll it, Colin, Ole Miss has everything

884
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: in front of them. We're all in for twenty twenty four.

885
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: This is it. This is our year. Collective, collective, collective,

886
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 1: third loss. Who to Georgia, nah, Kentucky, LSU and Florida Done? Bye,

887
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: next Alabama. Everything in front of them, wide open path

888
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. All we gotta do is go beat a

889
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: probably not Bowl bound Oklahoma and a lifeless Auburn and

890
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: who even knows what happened against Auburn. It's irrelevant. They're

891
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: not going to Atlanta because they couldn't even go to

892
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: Norman and score an offensive touchdown. Goodbye Alabama. Next Texas.

893
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: A and M tough on the road this year, but

894
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: they've got an opportunity to rectify in we got Texas

895
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: on deck, but we're focused on Texas. Excuse me, we're

896
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: focused on Auburn. I should have known, but I watched

897
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: it anyway, And A and M falls, not in regulation,

898
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: but in overtime, and they suffer another loss. And the

899
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: SEC's balloon just it's not all the way flat, it's

900
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 1: not all the way popped. And crazier things have happened,

901
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens this Saturday. But it was

902
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: a volcanic Saturday for the SEC. And let me tell

903
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: you something. My friends in Tennessee, my friends in Georgia.

904
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: The volcano erupted, and the only reason you didn't get

905
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: killed is cause you guys just happened to be out

906
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: of town, because everyone who was in town pretty much

907
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: died yesterday. Figuratively, of course, legally, I think we have

908
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 1: to say that. I mean, hey, don't fit. I didn't

909
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: see what U Mass was doing to Georgia for a while,

910
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: so I don't think it's done. I'm really worried. I

911
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: don't think it's done. Now. Of course, people think I

912
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: have SEC tramp stamped on my lower back, and I don't.

913
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: But what I had said about this conference is I

914
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: think it's a better conference and a deeper conference than

915
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: any conference in college football. Therefore, I think the strength

916
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: of the typical SEC schedule Missouri and Texas notwithstanding, is

917
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: to be respected a little bit more than that of

918
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: say Indiana, or even a Penn State or even a

919
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. And the reason I had gone into that

920
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: argument because a lot of people have started to do the

921
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: hypothetical of you can't let more than three teams or

922
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: four SEC teams in, and I was like, well, if

923
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: five deserve to be in, put five in. But then

924
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: when they lose, guess what happens. With more information, you

925
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: can change the tune you're singing. So you won't hear

926
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 1: me sing that tune this week? Why because things changed.

927
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: I will say this, though I do disagree that the

928
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: SEC is a bad conference this year, the SEC, to me,

929
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,919
Speaker 1: actually is still the highest caliber conference and it's still

930
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: the deepest conference. This year. The SEC's problem is they

931
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: got no elite teams. There is no twenty nineteen LSU

932
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: down here. If they were they just buzz saw the

933
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: entire conference. There is no twenty twenty Alabama. If they

934
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: were that buzz saw the entire conference. I think Oregon

935
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: and or Ohio State would fare very well in the

936
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: SEC this year. But what the SEC has is they

937
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: got no tens. They got a bunch of sevens and eights.

938
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: And what happens to a bunch of seven and eights

939
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: is they don't elevate to ten. Therefore, they are prone

940
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: to this kind of stuff happening. You can think what

941
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: you want about it, but a twenty nineteen LSU was

942
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: above the fray. Okay, once they hit their stride, they'd

943
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: go into Oklahoma and they destroy Oklahoma. Last night. They'd

944
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: do the same thing on the road at Florida. They

945
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: would have done the same thing on the road at Auburn.

946
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty Alabama would have gone on the road

947
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: to Auburn last night. They would have handled business. But

948
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: we don't have that in the SEC this year. What

949
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: we've got is we've got a bunch of pretty good

950
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: to really good teams. But when you have that, remember

951
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: what we talked about a few weeks ago, speaking generically,

952
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: great teams never play bad great teams. Worst performances are

953
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: just good, but good teams can turn in all sorts

954
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: of variety of performance. Good teams can perform great, but

955
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: good teams can perform bad. On average, they just play good.

956
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: That's why they're a good team. But the difference when

957
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: you go from having no elite teams to a bunch

958
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: of good teams is it's just going to wildly very

959
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: weak to week. Ole Miss can play like they did

960
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: agast Georgia. Ole Miss can play like they did against Florida,

961
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: and it's the same team. You just have no clue

962
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: what's coming. But the reason why I've made the argument

963
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: that I was making about more SEC teams deserving to

964
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 1: be in is because I've always given that conference benefit

965
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: of the doubt because I respect the league schedule most

966
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,720
Speaker 1: teams play. But you also have to keep in mind,

967
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: and I have all year. It's why I haven't said

968
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: SEC schedule hardly at all. The term SEC schedule doesn't

969
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: mean much of anything in the imbalanced nature of the

970
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 1: scheduling of the league. Now, you could play Missouri's schedule,

971
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: or you could play Florida's Georgia schedule. You've played Texas's

972
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: schedule and they look completely different. So the the state

973
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: of things right now is they may get as few

974
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 1: as three teams in also known as Danny Knell Christmas List,

975
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: but we do still have a week to play now.

976
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: As much as I say that, that could also mean

977
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: more chaos. That could mean Georgia tech over Georgia. You know.

978
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: That could mean any of a number of things. So

979
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: it could be that the SEC's few remaining, like prize eggs,

980
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: get cracked. But I think the best anti SEC argument

981
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: is one that I never even hear. And I appreciate

982
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: you guys watching, if you are listening. If you are,

983
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: please subscribe to the channel. I'm asking that a lot tonight,

984
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: but only because we have found calls to action really

985
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: work because most of you think you're subscribed, but you're not,

986
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: and it costs nothing and it's free, and it doesn't

987
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: sign you up for anything. It just helps us. I'm

988
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: gonna do you a favor. If you're actually on board

989
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: the anti SEC train and you just shout into the

990
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: ether or anytime that my name is associated with any

991
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: of these teams, I'll make your argument for you. You're not

992
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: even making the right argument most of the time. It's nonsense.

993
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: I had to block a lot of people this weekend.

994
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: I Brandon walkerd a lot of people. Never thought I'd

995
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: see the day, But I have come to realize that

996
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: there are a lot of folks who talk trash on

997
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: the internet who do not watch the show, and they

998
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: do not listen, and they cannot critically think. So maybe

999
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, after the new year, I'll unblock everybody.

1000
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: But I got no time for that right now. If

1001
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: you want to have a logic based rebuttal to that,

1002
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying that's fine. I'd actually love to do a

1003
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: whole show of that. That'd be totally fine. But if

1004
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: if you, you know, after Texas A and M loses

1005
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: to Auburn, come at me and say what happened to

1006
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: Juggernaut Texas A and M, I got nothing for you

1007
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: because I never called them that. I've called them a

1008
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: very flawed team. I've called them all flawed teams. Anyway,

1009
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: here's the argument. If you really want to make the

1010
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: anti SEC argument, what you ought to say is that's

1011
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: the trade off losing these games, having to play in

1012
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: these environments. That's the trade off to having access to

1013
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: the pipeline. Everyone talks about how South Carolina would perform

1014
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,720
Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve. Well, that's a foolish notion because

1015
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: if South Carolina were in the Big Twelve, they wouldn't

1016
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: have access to the media rights revenue share that they

1017
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: do because they're in the SEC. And also, let's be real,

1018
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: a lot of the recruits you land, you land because

1019
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: there is appeal to playing in the SEC. All of

1020
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: that's real. That's the argument you should be making. So

1021
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 1: you get to reap those benefits, you don't get to complain.

1022
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: Then when you have to compete against other teams that

1023
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 1: reap those benefits, that's the cost of doing business in

1024
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: the SEC. Have I been clear? That's the argument you

1025
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 1: ought to make, and you ought to make that argument,

1026
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,280
Speaker 1: and then it renders all of this. Let's give SEC

1027
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: teams the benefit of the doubt. You aren't what your

1028
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: record says you are. A moot, I would have a

1029
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: counter to it, but I'm saying that in a debate setting,

1030
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: that'd be how to come at someone like well, not

1031
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: like me, because I've been slandered in this whole thing,

1032
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: but someone who is blindly espousing SEC bias. That's how

1033
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: you come at them. Now, I do want to say

1034
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:41,919
Speaker 1: this as I was being slandered, and all I want

1035
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: you guys to do is feel sorry for me. That's

1036
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: all I've ever wanted I had. I don't know how

1037
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: many NFL scouts text me this weekend or come up

1038
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: to me at the game I was at and said, hey,

1039
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: we sit over here and watch. They're like steing in

1040
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 1: the rafters. They don't ever help out, they just watch.

1041
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: And they said, yeah, clearly you're right about the different

1042
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: caliber of team or roster that exists in the SEC.

1043
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 1: We see it every week like we're on the road.

1044
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: We watch it every week. We know. But I looked

1045
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 1: for myself because I just feel like you get short

1046
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: changed when you go. I will defend this point to

1047
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: the day I die. Auburn's been a bad team this year.

1048
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's been a bad team this year. Florida has been

1049
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: a bad team this year, and they got bad records

1050
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: and they don't deserve to go anywhere other than maybe

1051
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 1: a minor bowl. But as I actually had a head

1052
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: coach text me this, I wrote it down. Head coach

1053
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: not in the SEC yesterday text me and said, here's

1054
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:49,439
Speaker 1: the difference in five and five in the SEC. That

1055
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 1: roster still could have fifteen or twenty future NFL guys

1056
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: on it, and you may be playing in front of

1057
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: ninety thousand people when you face them, And that's not

1058
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: something that exists anywhere else. Now, if you're a great team,

1059
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: just go beat them into submission anyway, But you may

1060
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: not be a great team. And this year we really

1061
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: don't have many elite teams out there. We's got a

1062
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: bunch of pretty good teams. So if you're old miss

1063
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: you're pretty good, you get thrown into that mix. Well,

1064
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: then you're going and you're facing a Florida team. You

1065
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: could be playing an Auburn team, you'd be playing ol Oklahoma.

1066
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: And I found it really interesting. I had producer Jesse.

1067
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: I told them, I don't care about their record, Go

1068
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: get me the blue chip ratio for those teams, and

1069
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: I want to compare it. You know, if I go

1070
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: play the bottom of the Big Ten right now, I'm

1071
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: playing Northwestern or I'm playing I mean, who else would

1072
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: beat it? Wake Forest would be like near the bottom

1073
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: of the ACC or whatever. Auburn's near the bottom of

1074
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: the SEC, Oklahoma, Florida, those teams are near the bottom

1075
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: of the league standings. Northwestern's got seven blue chip players

1076
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: on the roster, Auburn's got forty three. Wake Forest has

1077
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: five blue chip players on the roster, Oklahoma has fifty seven.

1078
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: It doesn't change what those teams records are. All it

1079
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: means is if you catch those teams on the wrong night,

1080
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: you're playing against future Sunday players, Like you're playing against

1081
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that make you look at him

1082
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: and say, how are you five and five? It doesn't

1083
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: matter if they're five and five though, if you get

1084
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 1: them on the wrong night, If you get them on

1085
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: the wrong night, you're playing a high caliber team who's

1086
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: just been wildly inconsistent or is underachieved all year. But

1087
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: you know you get got Auburn last night is perfect example.

1088
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 1: We've watched them all year and I said, I think

1089
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: that's like a top twenty five caliber offense. They just

1090
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: can't stop turning the ball over. Well, Wila. Thenn'll turn

1091
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: the ball over last night even turnover battle and they

1092
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 1: hang forty plus on Texas A and M. So it's

1093
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: an interesting thing. I will say this, though, you've got

1094
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: what you want from me. I'm not banging the SEC

1095
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: drum anymore. Josette Conference has lost the benefit of the doubt.

1096
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: And at this point, if a three loss Alabama backs

1097
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: into the playoff, whatever, if they don't, whatever. But I'm

1098
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: not gonna be sitting there fighting for them because I

1099
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: never wanted the playoff to expect anyway. So if we're

1100
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: fighting over three lost teams that have lost a quarter

1101
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: of the games they play, if we're fighting over whether

1102
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: they get it or not, I'm gonna be almost indifferent

1103
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: towards it because they never would have had a slightest

1104
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: prayer in the four team format anyway. And I told

1105
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: myself self, when this twelve team playoff comes around, don't

1106
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: you be the fool who's arguing that number thirteen got screwed,

1107
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: because you know good and well number thirteen would have

1108
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: been an afterthought in the BCS era or an afterthought

1109
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,479
Speaker 1: in the four team era. And I do need help.

1110
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: I do need help because I cannot promise that I

1111
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: won't fall down that slippery slope college football officiating. I

1112
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: need a drink of water. Apologies to my friends at ZV.

1113
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: I mean we will take a sip of the grape here,

1114
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,439
Speaker 1: but I need a full sip of water. Yes, Jesse

1115
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: we are, I'll talk about I'll tell you what I'll

1116
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: do Auburn A and M here, And of course that'll

1117
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: lead right into one of talking about Auburn fell to

1118
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: A and M last night. Actually, Auburn beat A and

1119
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: M last night. This was a game that went laid

1120
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: into the night. It's a game that saw A and

1121
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: M on the road. They lost at South Carolina on

1122
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: the road. They lose at Auburn on the road, forty

1123
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: three to forty one. A and M. Man, they've gotten

1124
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: down in these games. They trailed LSU, they trailed in

1125
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: this one. They trailed in South Carolina. They were down

1126
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: twenty one. Oh. They came back, but they end up

1127
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: losing the game. This was wildly entertaining. I gave this

1128
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: four and a half chili. I think most of you

1129
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: probably watched this game four and a half chili on

1130
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: the one to five scale from me. Peyton Thorn goes off,

1131
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: cam Coleman goes off, Darquez Hunter goes off. It was

1132
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: always there. This is the thing if you're an Auburn

1133
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: fan that's got to drive you up a wall. If

1134
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: you're Hugh Freeze, I just imagine Hugh Freeze. You're happy

1135
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: you won, and they stormed the field and you're celebrating

1136
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: and you're red faced and you're poor and sweat. But

1137
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: then at some point these coaches get in their car

1138
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: and they drive home, and you've just got to sit

1139
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: there and stare at your steering wheel and say, wait

1140
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,959
Speaker 1: a second. If we just did this tonight, that means

1141
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: we were capable of doing that technically all year. Why

1142
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: did it take so long? I don't know. I don't know,

1143
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: but I will say this, it's very promising, Okay. It

1144
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: leads a really good taste in your mouth. You couldn't

1145
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: be any more sky high going into the Iron Bowl.

1146
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: And that's all well and good. You go back and

1147
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: you look at the losses and you were minus turnovers

1148
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 1: and virtually every one of them. You end up being

1149
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: even in turnovers last night, and you got a really,

1150
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: really good win here, and you could get a great

1151
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: win this upcoming week. But you got to go into

1152
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: Tuscalusa to do it. But Texas A and m's defense

1153
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: has let them down. Man ANM's defense is supposed to

1154
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: be something they can lean on. That's got to be

1155
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: looked at. Now they've still got the SEC championship on

1156
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: their plate. They still control their destiny as to whether

1157
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: they get to Atlanta, because one of their losses is

1158
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: to noted. So there are a three loss team, but

1159
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 1: only two conference losses. But those those defensive lapses and

1160
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: then also just the early deficits. If you look in

1161
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: there in their losses, it's too much to overcome. You're

1162
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 1: asking your offense to do too much. And it's another

1163
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: classic example, man of a situation where you've got to

1164
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: be so buttoned up on the road. In the SEC

1165
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: you've got to be so buttoned up on the road

1166
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: because it is nasty, like going into Auburn. You're facing

1167
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 1: a bad team. They put ninety thousand in there anyway.

1168
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: And what always used to boggle my mind when I

1169
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: was younger and I would watch those games, I didn't

1170
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: really I was like five or six. I didn't fully

1171
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: understand the magnitude of college football. Yet I would watch

1172
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: a team whose record was bad. Let's say it's Auburn.

1173
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 1: I would watch a team whose record was bad and

1174
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 1: yet maybe not quite this was happening. They're storm in

1175
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: the field there, but like a touchdown would happen, or

1176
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: a fourth down stop on the goal line would have

1177
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: and these people are going crazy. And the little version

1178
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: of me would say, but they can't even win the

1179
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: national championship. Why are they going crazy? Because it's Auburn

1180
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: and they love it. I cannot believe I just said

1181
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: that it's part of the Auburn creed. But it is.

1182
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: And they didn't even pay me to say that. Those

1183
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: words just organically came out of my mouth. It is

1184
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing when you got a fan base that

1185
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: does not have to have the playoff tied to a

1186
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: game to invest maximum emotion into the game. I always

1187
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: appreciate it when I see it. I think we're storming

1188
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: fields a little bit too much in college football, But

1189
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: I don't have to pay the fine whatever. A and

1190
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: M gets the money, and good for them. Good for them,

1191
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: you know. I know they fall short cash wise out

1192
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: there a little uh every now and then, so that's

1193
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: good for them. But Mike Elko, it's year one, just

1194
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: like Kaylyn Debor year one. So they're learning and they're

1195
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 1: fighting cause they've got a roster that's technically good enough

1196
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: to win these games. So you should be in the

1197
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: playoff mix. But you're also simultaneously trying to cast your vision.

1198
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: I was out there. We'll be out there this Saturday.

1199
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,439
Speaker 1: I was out there a little while ago. I sat

1200
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: down with Elko for a while in his office, and

1201
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 1: I said, realistically, how much of your stuff can you

1202
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: get implemented in the first year? And it was just

1203
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: interesting to hear his answer. I won't share a lot

1204
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: of it, but it was interesting to hear his answer,

1205
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: because it's tough. Man. It's tough that spring and summer.

1206
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: If you're a fan and you're dealing without football, it

1207
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: feels like an eternity. But if you work in college football,

1208
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: that stuff goes by like that. There is no extended downtime,

1209
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: like every day is allocated and accounting for. So good

1210
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: for Auburn. Now they've got an opportunity. I think they're

1211
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: at five wins right now. I think they need to

1212
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: beat Alabama to be Bowl eligible. And you know, some

1213
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 1: people value the bowl practices you get over going to

1214
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: a bowl. Hugh Freeze's team could be radically better next year.

1215
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: This year's not over, but they could be radically better

1216
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 1: next year. And I'm sure all the preview magazines will

1217
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: pick up on that and they'll be a trendy pick

1218
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: by August. But good for them, good for them, badly

1219
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 1: needed good for them. Now now we transition, We've got

1220
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: a problem. We got a big problem in college football.

1221
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 1: The SEC's got a big problem. You know what, Colin,

1222
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: I want to slide the ZV over and start this

1223
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: segment over. We got a big problem in college football.

1224
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: Officiating's terrible. If you know me, you know I never

1225
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: complained about this stuff. I don't believe in complaining about it.

1226
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: It has gotten so egregiously bad. I have no choice

1227
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: but to be the guy who complains about this stuff.

1228
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: You remember a few weeks back, Georgia goes into Austin

1229
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: and that officiating crew just embarrasses themselves. And you remember

1230
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: that initially a call is made and then there's a

1231
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: time out on the field cause a bunch of trash

1232
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: rains down on the field, and that gives them enough

1233
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: time to watch the replay on the scoreboard. Then they

1234
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: changed the call, which was suss aff on the surface.

1235
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: And it was such an embarrassing It was so bush league,

1236
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: It was so so embarrassing. And I came on the

1237
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: show the next night and I called it out for

1238
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: what it was. It was pathetic. It should never be

1239
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: something that happens at the highest levels of college football. Truthfully,

1240
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: it's unacceptable at the middle school level, but it especially

1241
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: shouldn't be happening at the highest levels of college football.

1242
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: And then I said the next night, what's the most

1243
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: pathetic about this is you will never hear another word

1244
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 1: about it. Texas and Georgia may get some internal communication

1245
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything because you can't go back and

1246
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: redo the game, and it didn't change the outcome of

1247
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: the game per se, but it could. And it's pathetic

1248
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 1: that it happens, even if it's a fifty point blowout.

1249
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: But I said, you me, people who are responsible for

1250
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: this sport being as big as it is and as

1251
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 1: profitable as it is will never get an answer. And

1252
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: we never got an answer. And that brings me to

1253
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 1: last night because that same crew was in Norman, Oklahoma.

1254
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: Bama's down three possessions, it's early fourth quarter. They're driving

1255
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 1: and Ryan Williams, I want you to look at him. There,

1256
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: he's this wide receiver here in the middle. You and

1257
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: I look at that, and we see a normal formation.

1258
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: But my guy off the screen to the bottom apparently

1259
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 1: saw him covered up. And so this play is allowed

1260
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: to unfold and it's fourth down and three. You can

1261
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: see the scores twenty four to three. It's fourth and three,

1262
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: probably a last gasp for Alabama here and Milrow just

1263
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: on corks a forty yard bomb to the end zone.

1264
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 1: Ryan Williams catches at one of the best plays I've

1265
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: seen all year, and that thing's called back for illegal touching.

1266
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: That's a loss of noun. Ball changes possession to Oklahoma.

1267
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: Kaylin de Bore looks like he's gonna shift someone in

1268
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: the neck. You will get no answer for it. It's

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Speaker 1: inexplicable to happen at the lowest levels of football. This

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Speaker 1: is the SEC. It is a multi billion dollar enterprise.

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Speaker 1: College football in and of itself is a multi billion

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Speaker 1: dollar enterprise. You got guys working part time who aren't

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Speaker 1: even held to the same standard nationally. One place does

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Speaker 1: it one way, another place does it their way, and

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Speaker 1: even if they did, you never get an answer. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna go to work tomorrow and you're gonna be held

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Speaker 1: accountable for doing your job, and if you don't do

1278
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: it good enough, you're either gonna be called out publicly

1279
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Speaker 1: or you may get fired. These dudes go turn in

1280
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: a terrible performance they humiliate themselves. The conference ought to

1281
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: be embarrassed, but apparently they aren't enough, And so you

1282
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 1: got to leave it up to them to be embarrassed,

1283
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: I guess for themselves, because you're never gonna get them.

1284
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: You're never gonna hear from the publicly because god forbid,

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Speaker 1: we actually make coaches talk to the media. Oh we

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01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: do that, don't we. Well, we certainly have got to

1287
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Speaker 1: protect players from the media. They're just nineteen years old. No,

1288
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: they talk to them as well. No, the only ones

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01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: that don't have to answer for themselves are the ones

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01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: who were charged with enforcing the rules, the very officiating mechanism,

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01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: the enforcement mechanism on the game. Those are the guys,

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01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:58,479
Speaker 1: the guys who actually make the calls, who are never

1293
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: tasked with answering for it. You don't even get a

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01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 1: blanket pool report on most of this stuff. It's so

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01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: pathetic it ought not be accepted. And again, remember that

1296
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: this is not the olden days. This is not the

1297
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: olden days where you go work at your dad's fertilizer

1298
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 1: plant Monday through Thursday and I'm gonna go call the

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01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: Alabama A and M game Saturday. This is the SEC

1300
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, and that's the best they can do.

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01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: It's not the best they can do. It's just what

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01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: they're willing to do right now because no one really

1303
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: calls them on it. Like I give Fowler and Herbstreet

1304
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: a lot of credit last night. They're rules expert on

1305
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: the broadcast, I think pointed it out. But if we're

1306
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 1: being real with each other, that network is in bed

1307
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:43,679
Speaker 1: with the conference. They have an exclusive media rights deal.

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01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: I don't even blame those guys. They're not gonna go

1309
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: after the throat of those officials. And it's not even

1310
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 1: the officials I have a problem with. I got supreme

1311
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: respect for people who officiate this game. Major league umpires,

1312
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 1: I got supreme respect for him. It's not even that.

1313
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: It's not shouldn't be up to them. It should be

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01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: up to the people they answer to. It is Greg

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01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 1: Sank at the SEC league office, it's Tony Petiti at

1316
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: the Big ten league office, who ought to have long

1317
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,520
Speaker 1: ago looked at their product and said, this is twenty

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01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: twenty four. We just cashed a check with how many

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01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: zeros on the end. This starts with a B, This

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Speaker 1: has billions. It may be time for full time officials,

1321
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 1: it may be time to nationalize officiating, where we have

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01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: the same standard across the board and me as a

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01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: paying customer at home, you know, the ones ultimately responsible

1324
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: for how much money you get to make and how

1325
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: profitable that league is because of my viewership habits and

1326
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: my attendance therefore ticket sales. How about I get an

1327
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: answer every now and then? You know I'm the entire

1328
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: reason you're here. How about I get an answer every

1329
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: now and then. Now all you get is threatened. If

1330
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: you're a coach, you better not speak out against us.

1331
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: Can't do that now. Now you can get hung up

1332
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,759
Speaker 1: in town square, you can get called out. That doesn't matter.

1333
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 1: But officials now, they better not deal with that from you.

1334
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: They better not, even though you could lose your job

1335
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: because of their bad calls, They better not deal with

1336
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: that from you. How are we here? How is this

1337
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 1: where it is? In twenty twenty four? You have got

1338
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: a billion dollar industry and still the same nickel and

1339
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: diamondforcement arm that you've always had. I will say again,

1340
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 1: I am not calling into question individual officials. I am

1341
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:30,759
Speaker 1: calling into question the unwillingness for the people you answer

1342
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: to to put you in a better position. I'll share

1343
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,840
Speaker 1: something with you, because we're far enough away from it now.

1344
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 1: I've had two white hats on two different crews come

1345
01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: up to me at games before games, and I've gone

1346
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 1: in pretty hard on officiating this year, So you would

1347
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 1: think those guys would be pissed they thanked me, because

1348
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: the tone I take on this is I don't put

1349
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: it on them. Those guys have got an incredibly hard

1350
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: job to do. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they

1351
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: get it wrong. Understand this last night, as egregious as

1352
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 1: it was, that guy has no recourse because it's not reviewable.

1353
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: There's no recourse. It's clear as day. The guy's not

1354
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: covered up. He has no recourse. He can't do anything

1355
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: about it. They're put in a very very compromised position

1356
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:21,440
Speaker 1: because the mechanisms aren't there as they should be, the

1357
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 1: method of training and the different clinicians that work some

1358
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: of these circuits that you have to go to to

1359
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: get accredited to work your way up the ladder, like

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Speaker 1: the way that works would boggle your mind. Actually, if

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Speaker 1: you're familiar with inefficiency of any kind, then it wouldn't

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01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: boggle your mind. You would look at it and you'd say,

1363
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 1: of course, makes perfect sense. That is officiating in college

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01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: football right now. So you got good officials, you got

1365
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 1: bad officials. I don't even put it on those guys.

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01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: They're not the ones making the rules. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: enforce it as best they can. I don't ever hurl

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Speaker 1: allegations of shadiness their way, because I don't believe that.

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01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 1: I've got no evidence of that. But I will tell

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Speaker 1: you this, if you're at the league office, in the

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Speaker 1: SEC or the Big twelve, or the ACC or the

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Speaker 1: Big ten, you've got some stuff happening in your games

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Speaker 1: that is so egregious that when it happens, how can

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Speaker 1: to something underhanded. I watched that garbage go down at

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma last night, and there is there are very few

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Speaker 1: You never heard me talk like that. I don't talk

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Speaker 1: like that. But you look at this freeze frame right here,

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Speaker 1: and you tell me Ryan Williams there looks covered up.

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Speaker 1: The guy standing five yards from it and throws the

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Speaker 1: State got by Minnesota yesterday twenty six to twenty five.

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Speaker 1: That game had the same kind of vibe as Ole

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Speaker 1: interest of full disclosure, last week on Thursday, we talked

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Speaker 1: about that game. You remember, I told you Minnesota might

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Speaker 1: two plays away from being eight and two, which does

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Speaker 1: not make them an eight and two team, but it

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01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:00,760
Speaker 1: stands to reason Penn State may it more of a

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Speaker 1: challenge here than your typical six and four caliber team,

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Speaker 1: and they did so. The public saw Penn State as

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Speaker 1: a double digit favorite go on the road and have

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Speaker 1: to squeak by by a point. I think it's a

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01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: good win for him because I viewed the dynamics of

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Speaker 1: the game a little bit differently, and they overcame Special

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Speaker 1: Team's miscues. They were bad on third down, they got

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Speaker 1: down ten to nothing early. This is a game Penn

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01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: State should have lost, like they're supposed to lose that game,

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Speaker 1: and they found a way. I feel the same way

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01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: about the USC game earlier this year. You can either

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Speaker 1: look at that and say, oh, us, he's barely above

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Speaker 1: five hundred. Now, that wasn't a good win. Yeah it was. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it was because the team that Penn State played that

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01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 1: day played him at a pretty high level. At least

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Speaker 1: that's what my eyes saw. Drew Aler played good in

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Speaker 1: this game. Drawlers had a couple of games, ironically, that

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Speaker 1: USC game and this one here run game didn't do

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Speaker 1: a whole lot and he had to come through and

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01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 1: he was twenty one of twenty eight, two forty four

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Speaker 1: and two touchdowns yesterday. Maybe Penn State has a different gear.

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Speaker 1: You can't prove that against Minnesota. I get that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to not trying to claim anything more than

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Speaker 1: what I'm claiming here, but this was not bad. I

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Speaker 1: don't think negatively about this at all. This is a

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Speaker 1: good win the ACC. There it is SMU. They win,

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Speaker 1: They're headed to the ACC Championship game. Miami still needs

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Speaker 1: to beat Syracuse, but if they do, they'll head to

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Speaker 1: the ACC Championship game. And the big question now that

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Speaker 1: we had all the SEC chaos yesterday is could both

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Speaker 1: of them get in? Yes, yes they could, but we

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Speaker 1: still got a conference championship to play for there. I

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I still can't shake the idea

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Speaker 1: that a team like Miami with a quarterback like that

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Speaker 1: could be the one that gets hot. I think it's

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Speaker 1: pretty inevitable now that at least one team that is

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01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: so obviously flawed is going to make a run in

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Speaker 1: the playoff, and it's not necessarily the one you expect.

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01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: So like Miami can be that team. Tennessee could be

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01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: that team. Penn State could be that team. I'm just

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01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:14,960
Speaker 1: talking about Miami at the moment. Kansas is rolling. Kansas

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01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 1: is one of the best. They're one of the best

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Speaker 1: twenty five teams in the country right now. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Kansas is just like Florida at Kansas is playing at

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: a level right now that is a top twenty five level.

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01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: Even though their record is below five hundred, that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Ask Colorado how much it mattered yesterday that Kansas was

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Speaker 1: four and six. Did you see them? Did you see

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01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: Kansas against Brigham Young? Did you see Kansas against Iowa State?

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Speaker 1: Do you really think that team has been playing three

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Speaker 1: and six or four and six caliber football? No, Jalen

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01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: Daniels has figured it out. That new offensive system or

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01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: that new offensive staff has figured it out. There, Padlock staff.

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Speaker 1: Just one week after Colorado held Utah to thirty one

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Speaker 1: yards rushing, Kansas just put a three on the front

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Speaker 1: of that. They had three hundred and thirty one yards

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Speaker 1: rushing to Colorado's forty two. Devin Neil listen to this.

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01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:12,600
Speaker 1: Devin Neil, the tailback for Kansas, had two hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty seven total yards, four touchdowns. He had forty one touches.

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01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 1: We had to go back a couple of years to

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01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: an Illinois game to find someone with more touches in

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01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 1: a game that's Derrick Henry's stuff. Devin Neil went off.

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01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 1: Iowa State and Arizona State have the upper hand as

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01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: best we can tell in this whole Big Twelve race. Now,

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01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:36,559
Speaker 1: Colorado losing had a lot of people scoreboard watching at

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01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: sun Devil Stadium yesterday as that was going on who

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01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. There's like a nine way tiebreaker scenario

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01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve that ultimately comes down to JP

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01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: poll and coin flip. I think fun league to watch

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01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: Texas beat Kentucky. This game didn't catch any eyeballs. I'm

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01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 1: noticing something about Texas. Though they out rushed Kentucky two

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01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 1: fifty to twenty one, the defense helth Kentucky to two

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Speaker 1: of twelve on third down two hundred and thirty two

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01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 1: total yards. Texas had six sacks, they had eleven tackles

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01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: for loss. They're playing a caliber of football that's sustainable,

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01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:16,120
Speaker 1: That brand is sustainable. They can do that every week.

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01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter that they don't hang fifty. But

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01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 1: if they can hang low thirties but do that sustainably defensively,

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01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 1: Texas can win a national title. But Texas can also

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01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 1: lose this Saturday to Texas A and M. Because that gear,

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01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:33,440
Speaker 1: that offensive gear is not quite there. But the totality

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01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: of that team's good enough. So I respect the way

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Speaker 1: they're going about it. Also, Quinn Ewers was reported to

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Speaker 1: we have gotten an MRI on his ankle. Looks like

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Speaker 1: he's all good. Kind of precautionary as it looks right now,

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01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: so we expect him to be good to go for

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01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M this Saturday. Will be at

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01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:53,840
Speaker 1: that game seven thirty, six thirty local kick. I guess

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01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,840
Speaker 1: they're in college station under the lights. Could be the

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01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 1: environment of the year in college football. I don't think

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Speaker 1: America's fully prepared for what Texas versus Texas A and

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Speaker 1: M looks like. Kids, if you're twelve years old, you're

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Speaker 1: football fan. Dad may not want you watching this one.

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01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:15,320
Speaker 1: This could be a put the women and children to

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Speaker 1: bed special. But watch anyway, just sneak away to watch anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's great. Notre Dame a splattered army, not the entire army,

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Speaker 1: but just the football team. Forty nine to fourteen. Notre

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01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 1: Dame took all the oxygen out of this thing early

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01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: their first five drives. I think I saw that four

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Speaker 1: army two just done. They've held They've held the opponent

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Speaker 1: to fourteen or less than six straight games. So the

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Speaker 1: million dollar question right now, is Notre name for real

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01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,680
Speaker 1: as a national title contender. Most of you say, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, because it's twenty twenty four slash

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01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven all over again. I just look

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01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:01,720
Speaker 1: at this lineup of teams. They've done that against Stanford,

1550
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:06,759
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech without their starter, Navy, FSU, Virginia, and Army.

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Speaker 1: If you're skeptical about a team's chances of proving themselves

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01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: to you against that slate, especially after they lost to

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Speaker 1: Northern Illinois, I get it. I get it. But here's

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Speaker 1: what else I get. There's not an elite team out there.

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01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 1: So if there's not one, that's the kind of year

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01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 1: where a Notre Dame can make a little more noise

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Speaker 1: than they normally would. Every other year Notre Dame's gone

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs of the national title game, there's been

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Speaker 1: at least one elite team in their way. Maybe there

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01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:40,759
Speaker 1: won't be this year, and maybe it still won't matter.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying I don't know anything, like we

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01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: don't know anything. Notre Dame goes to USC this weekend.

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Speaker 1: They are a six and a half point favorite on

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Speaker 1: the road in La Lincoln. Riley's got himself a new

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Speaker 1: quarterback out there us. He's playing pretty good defense. Can

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Speaker 1: they score enough? We will see? All right, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go get some sleep because I didn't get home

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