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Speaker 2: Season long game deadline eleven fifty nine a m before

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Speaker 2: Week one kicks off Eastern Time. Correct.

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Speaker 1: we send out every Friday. Correct. Three things to know

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Speaker 1: this Friday. An alliance. Three of college football's titans have

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Speaker 1: aligned to dominate in twenty twenty one and beyond. Also

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Speaker 1: teams around the country naming their starting quarterbacks and a

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Speaker 1: COVID CounterPunch schools taking a more aggressive stand against the virus.

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Speaker 1: But we start with the alliance. Dan, the Big Ten,

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Speaker 1: ACC and PAC twelve have officially announced an alliance to

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Speaker 1: quote stabilize the current college football environment. What do we

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Speaker 1: know about the alliance and what does it mean?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what we know. I don't think the

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Speaker 2: Commissioner is involved. So of the ACC, Big Ten and

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Speaker 2: PAC twelve, George, Jim and Kevin, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: they fully know. But it's basically not a response to

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Speaker 2: the SEC. But it's really a response to the SEC

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Speaker 2: in very clear ways, adding Texas and Oklahoma in the

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Speaker 2: near term. And it's just a matter of the three

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Speaker 2: of them and those three conferences agreeing to not create

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Speaker 2: super conferences next to the SEC and to get on

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Speaker 2: the same page when it comes to perhaps voting on

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Speaker 2: things like an expanded playoff and future playoff deals and

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Speaker 2: postseason and scheduling and everything that's going to come with

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Speaker 2: college football in the near or long term. But they

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Speaker 2: didn't sign anything. No, they looked in each other eyes

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Speaker 2: and there was some quote about if you need to

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Speaker 2: put it down on paper, then maybe you don't believe

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Speaker 2: in what you're doing or something, which I disagree with. Ty,

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure your mortgage is down on paper, right.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't a handshake deal. No, No, I didn't think so.

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Speaker 2: So basically what it was announced as is a preservation element,

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Speaker 2: but without saying directly, it's because the SEC is adding

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Speaker 2: to college football titan programs, not necessarily winning programs, but

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Speaker 2: Titan programs in Texas and Oklahoma, and that the ACC Commissioner,

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Speaker 2: PAC twelve commissioner, Big ten commissioner don't necessarily believe that

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Speaker 2: the SEC is acting in the best interest of the

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Speaker 2: sport as a whole. But it was also dressed up

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Speaker 2: as academics are more important to us than they are

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Speaker 2: in the SEC. This is their implication to me, not

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Speaker 2: my implication, And that scheduling is going to be very

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Speaker 2: very specific to how we're going to operate, but we're

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Speaker 2: honoring the existing schedules, so it's not like we're having

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Speaker 2: all sorts of crazy crossover septembers. So it was very vague.

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Speaker 2: Nothing is official, nothing was especially specific, but it was

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Speaker 2: meant to to sort of exhibit a show of solidarity

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Speaker 2: away from the SEC or something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It was very unclear. When things aren't specific and they're

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Speaker 2: not on paper, it's hard to take them fully seriously.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a brushback pitch at the SEC. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I think that was the sole intention of it. Kevin

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Speaker 1: is a reaction to Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC,

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Speaker 1: but and you know my stance, everything the butt is BS.

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Speaker 1: I think to be totally candid, you have to evaluate

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the landscape of college athletics. This

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Speaker 1: is a year for seismic shifts. I think it's really

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Speaker 1: important to make sure that you're aware of all these

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Speaker 1: things that are going on. And blah blah, blah, blah blah.

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Speaker 1: What he's saying is it's not in response to Texas

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Speaker 1: An idea was proposed to me yesterday by a good

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Speaker 1: friend of mine. Why don't they get together and form

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Speaker 1: it and own week zero. Now, if you own week

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Speaker 2: Do you think that's a long term solution though, I

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Speaker 2: I think that's more treating a symptom of not being

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Speaker 2: ahead with regard to attention, and so you get more attention. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: Texas and Oklahoma left because they left the Big Twelve

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Speaker 2: because they didn't believe in Big Twelve leadership's ability to

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Speaker 2: And so now we have these commissioners trying to reassure

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Speaker 2: more than other schools. So what Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: elements to the ACC as well that don't necessarily exist

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Speaker 2: so I think there's an element of that. We heard

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Speaker 2: the PAC twelve commissioner George Clavicle, I'm just going with

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Speaker 2: that early on talk about well, wait, why are we

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Speaker 2: expansion and perhaps coming up with something that is less

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Speaker 2: advantageous to the SEC. There are all sorts of elements

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Speaker 1: The Big Twelve was not there, And I think concurrent

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Speaker 1: knock on effect from this. What's interesting though, because nothing's

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Speaker 1: bad first act of this alliance. But there's nothing specific

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Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that why there's nothing signed? But like, we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think I think The only reason you

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Speaker 1: sort of show of force to signify that they're not

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Speaker 1: there are very few big brands out there if you're

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma are going to the SEC, We'll we'll see what

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Speaker 1: it yields. I remain optimistic. I think it's a great storyline,

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Speaker 1: although it's really hard to say at this point with

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Speaker 1: nothing formal, what it's actually going to mean moving forward. Right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I maintain that micro conferences a big zag, a

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Speaker 2: big zag from Dan's brain are the wave of the future,

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, I don't think that's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: I mean that sort of falls under the POD discussion

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Speaker 2: same page in terms of how much they've invested, both

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Speaker 2: in terms of actual money and sweat money, whatever sweat

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Speaker 2: equity that there is. There is an advantage in scheduling

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Speaker 2: if you're going to have some sort of alliance and

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Speaker 2: it's going to be a meaningful alliance, if not short

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Speaker 2: of a super conference, your ability to bundle and sell

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Speaker 2: going to get new, huge matchups. I understand that element.

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Speaker 2: So I am I'm sort of cautiously pessimistic. I think

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Speaker 2: because the way college football has gone, there are certain powers,

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Speaker 1: Elsewhere in college football, Dan, Yeah, some prominent schools have

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Speaker 1: named their starting quarterbacks for Week one or week zero,

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Speaker 1: whatever it amounts to Ohio State officially going with CJ. Stroud.

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Speaker 1: Cad McNamara over Texas Tech transfer Alan Bowman, British comedy

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Speaker 1: legend Alan Bowman. Yeah, Texas A and M made it official.

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Speaker 1: They're going with red shirt freshman Haines King. Baylor going

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Speaker 1: to going back to Hunter Johnson. There you have the

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Speaker 1: Peyton Ramsey interruption. Great band, great jam band continue, Illinois

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Speaker 1: continuing on with Brandon Peters in the new Brett Bielma regime,

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Speaker 1: and Dino Baber's at Syracuse says he needs more time

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Speaker 1: going with a two quarterback system to start, Tommy DeVito

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Speaker 1: and Mississippi State transfer Garrett Schrader Dan any.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts, Yeah, I have a few. The Ohio State quarterback

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Speaker 2: room is fascinating both this year and beyond with Quinn

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Speaker 2: of generational talent. That's what he's looked at. With his

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Speaker 2: has come in. And so you have Kyle McCord, and

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Speaker 2: Kyle McCord I believe is a true freshman, c J. Stroud,

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Speaker 2: beat out for this. So what will be interesting is

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Speaker 2: where the dominoes fall in terms of transfers, in terms

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Speaker 2: what it looks like in a year, and what it

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Speaker 2: looks like long term, just because there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: sure Ohio State has guys lined up beyond as well,

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Speaker 2: So that's fascinating to me. Kate McNamara, I think was

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Speaker 2: or a recent negative COVID test. You know, California has

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Speaker 2: So that might not be applicable to UCLA I Kid,

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Speaker 2: expect more of these news items to trickle out. Ohio

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Speaker 2: We've heard, you know, Jay Insley, the governor of Washington,

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Speaker 2: all state employees. It wasn't clear moving forward, and so

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Speaker 2: it's going to be something that is going to be

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Speaker 2: a story all season long in terms of what stadiums

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Speaker 2: seen the forfeiture stories where if a team can't meet

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Speaker 2: the minimum requirements to play in terms of roster availability,

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Speaker 2: it will not be rischeduled that team, and the SEC

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Speaker 2: has even talked about financial penalties if a school can't play,

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Speaker 2: if a team can't play, that team forfeits. It's just

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Speaker 2: that that's the outcome of the cancelation. So that's where

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Speaker 2: we are. I expect more stories as I'm sure you

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Speaker 2: school protocols, and yeah, LSU and the Oregon schools in

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Speaker 2: Ohio State were among the first to make those announcements.

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Speaker 1: It will continue to be a story. As we saw

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, these things tend to change quickly at

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Speaker 1: a moment's notice. College football almost happened last year and

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Speaker 1: then suddenly it was back on. So if history recent

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Speaker 1: history is any guide and any indication as to what's

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Speaker 1: to come, this could be a policy that is either

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Speaker 1: enacted or totally revoked at some point. We'll just have

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Speaker 1: to wait and see how things shake out here as

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Speaker 1: we head into the fall season and what numbers look

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Speaker 1: like around the country. Correct, speaking of what things look like, Dan,

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Speaker 1: you've been taking a look at infractions at penalties. Let's

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Speaker 1: do the dance scan.

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Speaker 2: It's been a few days now, but Scott Frost and

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Speaker 2: a Nebraska program under a bit of a microscope for

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Speaker 2: not adhering to COVID protocols reportedly organizing strength sessions away

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Speaker 2: from campus last year when they were not supposed to

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Speaker 2: be doing things as collective team units with regard to

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Speaker 2: training for certain amounts of time, and then also for

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Speaker 2: the use of analysts in on field coaching roles, which

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Speaker 2: is not allowed. Analysts are sort of behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: cutting tape and strategizing stuff, not on field coaches, which

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Speaker 2: goes against the NCAA, And they're upper limits for the

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Speaker 2: number of permissible coaches, including the head coaches in on

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Speaker 2: field roles. So look, it's not that type of thing

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Speaker 2: is very minor to me.

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Speaker 1: See. That's and that was my takeaway too. My takeaway

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Speaker 1: in reading about it was more, okay, who's got a

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Speaker 1: vendetta Againstcott Frost? Unless oh my god, I can't believe

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Speaker 1: he did this. Now he should know better. He's in

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Speaker 1: charge of the program assistants. On this level, analysts are

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Speaker 1: not allowed to have direct contact with players. They have

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Speaker 1: to go through the actual coaches. So he basically had

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Speaker 1: a guy running special teams who was an analyst, and

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Speaker 1: there's apparently video footage of it, for whatever that's worth.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously conducting practices outside of whatever the protocol was.

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Speaker 1: Last year when the pandemic was still raging. You know,

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Speaker 1: these are things that need to be dealt with. Everybody

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Speaker 1: has to buy about the same rules. Scott Froust shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be above that. But in the grand scheme to me,

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Speaker 1: these seem relatively minor and not the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: that should submarine a program. Perhaps it's a distraction now

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Speaker 1: as we head into a pivotal year for Scott Frost

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Speaker 1: one that he needs to really succeed and do better.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you could definitely

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Speaker 1: do worse. Yeah, well, the COVID stuff I think is

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Speaker 1: more serious. I don't think that's specifically minor, just because

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Speaker 1: the outcome wasn't disastrous. Obviously, skirting the rules around public

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Speaker 1: health it is not an amazing precedent to set as

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Speaker 1: a head coach, So I can understand the frustration. I

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Speaker 1: imagine the calls came from inside the house. It would

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Speaker 1: be my guess with this situation. So the other, the

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Speaker 1: other big Dan Scan, I hate my branding of everything.

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Speaker 1: The other big, the other big blotder item is Arizona

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Speaker 1: State remains under investigation. There are now I believe two

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Speaker 1: or three assistants on indefinite leave, suspension from the team

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Speaker 1: and something to follow moving forward. Hard to imagine if

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Speaker 1: everything that is alleged is true and that Herm Edwards

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Speaker 1: had knowledge of it.

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Speaker 2: The sort of that feels like a lack of institutional

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Speaker 2: control and I could not imagine if that sort of

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Speaker 2: thing is tied to him. He will be long for Tempe.

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Speaker 2: But we shall see. Arizona State, especially in your brain,

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Speaker 2: highly regarded this fall. So a lot of pressure now

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Speaker 2: both on and off the field for the Sun Devils.

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Speaker 2: And we're always scanning here at Dan Scan HQ.

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Speaker 1: make your picks and bets in time for Week zero,

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Speaker 1: seventy eight percent of the money coming in on Illinois

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Speaker 1: plus six and a half plus seven at home, opening

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Speaker 1: up the college football slate in Week zero against Nebraska. Nebraska,

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Speaker 1: of course trying to avenge an eighteen point loss from

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Speaker 1: a year ago, but the ALIONI getting most of the

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Speaker 1: action as Brett Bielma steps foot in Champagne. We've also

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Speaker 1: got sixty three percent of the money coming in on

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Speaker 1: the UCLA Bruins. That line has inflated up to minus eighteen.

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Speaker 1: They are hosting the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors at home in

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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. Eighteen's a big number, but sixty three

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Speaker 1: percent of the money still coming in on the Bruins,

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Speaker 1: and finally, a whopping eighty four percent of the money

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Speaker 1: coming in on the UTEP Miners Dan they are favored

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Speaker 1: by nine and a half nine and a half on

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Speaker 1: the road against New Mexico State.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ty, I don't know how many games this

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Speaker 2: weekend I'll be watching besides maybe those top two, but

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Speaker 2: I know that we have sunny days ahead that you're

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Speaker 2: going to tell me about with our I don't know,

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Speaker 2: I'm making this up. The Elite four KU Super Doppler.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The Dennis Dodd plur whatever you want to Cass DoD plur.

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Speaker 1: Relatively calm weather weekend across the country. The country, of course,

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Speaker 1: still recoiling DAN from two tropical events in the span

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Speaker 1: of a week. Mostly sunny skies across most of the

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Speaker 1: lower forty eight. The heat will remain, though. Folks in

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Speaker 1: the upper plains such as yourself and in the Northeast

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Speaker 1: like over here, begging for some relief from the humidity

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Speaker 1: just not gonna get it this weekend. Highs in the

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Speaker 1: low nineties out in your neck of the woods and Champagne,

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Speaker 1: but the mugginess gonna make it feel well over one hundred,

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Speaker 1: not as sticky, but just as hot. In New Mexico

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Speaker 1: and northern California. For the other college football action, as always,

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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl steals the show, Dan, low nineties, no

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Speaker 1: human just college football, heaven, smooth sailing.

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Speaker 2: You're right, and my only recommendation for you for I

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Speaker 2: have two of these schools in California is at San

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Speaker 2: Jose State. If you're attending the San Jose State Southern Utah,

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Speaker 2: that's who they're playing. Mexico Bakery for a giant Torta

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Speaker 2: over there on Telegraph Road. And then if you are

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Speaker 2: going to the Hawaii UCLA matchup, I would head over

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Speaker 2: to Glendale right next to Pasadena for Mini Kebob Mini Kebab.

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Speaker 2: It's mini because it's a very small, shack like setting.

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Speaker 2: It is truly truly incredible Middle Eastern Armenian food. Wonderful place,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: And that does it for WSV News Radio for this Friday.

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Speaker 1: previewing for the college football season. And don't forget to

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Speaker 2: All other things, really everything else, all things everything else

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Speaker 2: there was. Yeah, I loved it. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: we hope you will play along with us this season.

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Speaker 1: Wink wink, nudge, nudge.

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Speaker 2: That's all I have. Thank you very much for this broadcast. Hi,

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Speaker 2: the sounds were incredible and I thought this one was

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Speaker 2: a banger.

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Speaker 1: Well done for that guy over there, my good friend

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Speaker 1: Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie Hildebrand. Enjoy the first week

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Speaker 1: of college football. Until next times, stay solid, please,