1 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: All right, welcome to lay Cake Is Live. It is 2 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: Sunday night, June thirteenth, viewer of Our Lord twenty twenty one. 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: We are wall to wall. Got the accusation that last 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: show maybe a little bit too dark, maybe a little 5 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: bit too negative, and I called BS. So I went 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: back and watched it myself, and I said, you know what, 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: you guys, those of you at least too voiced, your 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: opinion may have been right. So no more, at least 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: not tonight. We got a lot of really really good 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: stuff in the show, jam packed as always. College football 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: playoff expansion spoke our piece about it the other night. 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,279 Speaker 1: So now what we need to do is, for now 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: at least accept what is inevitable and don't have to 14 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: like it necessarily or maybe you love it. But what 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk about winners and losers, 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go maybe a little bit different direction 17 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: than I think you've heard some folks go at it. 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: So far, a lot of people have talked about the 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: Big Conference, A lot of people have talked about the SEC, 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: A lot of people have talked about the G five. No, 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 1: we're gonna zoom it in a whole lot closer than that. Tonight, 22 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: We're gonna hit SEC East swing games. We did it 23 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: for the West, got really good response and feedback on that, 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: so we're gonna do it for the East and several 25 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: more divisions outside the SEC coming up. Texas on fire 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: in such a good way this weekend. They have and 27 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 1: still do as we speak, have a major recruiting weekend unfolding. 28 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: And why are we talking about it? What we're talking 29 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: about it because Texas is a big deal. But also 30 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: Arch Manning was on campus this weekend. If Texas gets 31 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: Arch Manning, that's a game changer for the next five 32 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: years of college football. Could it happen? We will discuss 33 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: also this time last year, does anyone remember where they were? 34 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: We were here, Director Colin Now, we were here, but 35 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people were very iffy. A lot of 36 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: people were wondering, Uh, oh, we got announcements here, We've 37 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: got rumors over here. We're gonna have a season. Boy, 38 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: what a favor it does us to be able to 39 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: look back in hindsight a year later. I am going 40 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: to end the show a little bit differently tonight than 41 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: I normally do. I'm going to take probably what will 42 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: be our most trafficked portion of the show, and I'm 43 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: going to push it to the end. It's not what 44 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: they teach you in YouTube school. They teach you to 45 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: lead with it. Well, no, we're going to put it 46 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: at the end because we have some more pressing matters 47 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: to talk about. But suffice it to say, I would 48 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: stick around to the end of the show tonight. We 49 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: have some things you and I have to discuss. Remember 50 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: Twitter and remember Instagram. At Late Kick, Josh, I just wish, wish, 51 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: wish that you guys were privy to our dms. You 52 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: would be shocked at who watches the show. You would 53 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: be shocked at who listens to the show. And you 54 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: know what, if you are who I'm talking about or 55 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: whoms I'm talking about, and you know, chances are if 56 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: you are famous, you know, let's just call it that. 57 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: If you're famous, then you're who I'm talking about. Just 58 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: go ahead and publicize that you watch, Go ahead and 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: publicize that you listen. Everyone would love to know that 60 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: you are a part of the Late Kick family. Here. 61 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: Let's dive into the show because I wanted to say 62 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: that basically to say thank you for giving us the 63 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: traction to even get in front of people so that 64 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: they can then consume the content and find out if 65 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: they like it or not. So thank you so much 66 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: to you guys who were here long before anyone else was. 67 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you tonight to start the 68 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,239 Speaker 1: show about the playoff, but I don't want to go 69 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: down any road of whether I like it or whether 70 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: I approve of the expansion of what I think about 71 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 1: the format. If you want to hear that last couple 72 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,519 Speaker 1: of shows, that's for you. Now that we know the 73 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: college Football Playoff is in all likelihood expanding, and we've 74 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: got a pretty good gauge on what the format's going 75 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: to be. I've looked across the college football media landscape 76 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: and I have listened to pretty much every take you 77 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: could imagine on winners and losers. A lot of people 78 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: have talked about, for example, what would the format look like? 79 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: Take this twelve team format, apply it, reverse engineer what 80 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: would last year look like? Jesse, I think, has a 81 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: graphic as to the top twelve teams from last year. 82 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: What would it have looked like? Would we have had 83 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina or a couple of G five's Coastal Carolina 84 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,839 Speaker 1: and Cincinnati in the playoff. That's all well and good. 85 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: It's my personal opinion that you can't necessarily do that 86 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: with one hundred percent certainty because as you're looking at 87 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: the graphic Jesse's showing you right now, how do we 88 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: know that people still would have voted Coastal Carolina twelve 89 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: if they knew there was a playoff spot on the 90 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: line for him. So anyway, that's just off in the ether. 91 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: We don't know. We'll never know one way or the other. 92 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: But there is one huge winner here, and there's a 93 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: winner I think above and beyond even the SEC. I 94 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: know a lot of folks look at the SEC and 95 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: they say they're big winners because you did not put 96 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: a cap on how many teams can make it from 97 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: the same conference. And we're all speaking in hypotheticals. I 98 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: assume this is all going to be passed. And that's 99 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: all true. But that's not news to me. It's not 100 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,239 Speaker 1: news that Mike or not Mike's live now it's Greg Sinki. 101 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: It's not news to me that Greg Sinki and the 102 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: SEC are going to figure out a way to work 103 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: the system to their advantage. It wouldn't happen if the 104 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: SEC didn't put it stamp of approval on it, and 105 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: the SEC is not going to put their stamp of 106 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: approval on any system that doesn't give them a massive advantage. 107 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: So yes, as you're looking at all the guidelines that 108 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: Jesse's showing you there on the screen, Yes this is 109 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: good for the SEC. Yes, it should be good, good 110 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: for the ACC, it should be good for the Big 111 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: ten for example. Yes it should be. And I know 112 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: that on top of that, there's been a lot of 113 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: sentiment out there. Did I agree with How could you 114 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: disagree with anyone saying this is great for the G five? Yes, 115 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: it's great for the G five, but you need to 116 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: understand something G five. That's like saying car, well, what 117 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: kind of car do you drive? What portions of the 118 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: G five are we talking about? Because the Mountain West 119 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: ain't the AAC. And so this is what I want 120 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: to do. I want to ask you or anyone. I'm 121 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: looking left and right, I'm looking at administrators, I'm looking 122 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: at conference commissioners, I'm looking at television executives. Do you 123 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: have any idea what you guys are about to do? 124 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: Let me put it to you like this, does anyone 125 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: know who micah Resco is. I would venture to say 126 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: sixty percent of our audience, maybe more does not know 127 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: who micro Risco is. Well, that is the commissioner of 128 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 1: the American Athletic Conference. If micro Resco and those lobbying 129 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: on behalf of the AAC, if they are able to 130 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: pull this format off and push it through, and it 131 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: looks like they will, it's going to fundamentally change college 132 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: football to their betterment, to their supreme benefit. I'm going 133 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: to talk about that in just a second, but this 134 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: is about to go down if it happens as the 135 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: wildest one to eighty in the history of college football. 136 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: For the G five crowd, think about where they were 137 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: just a year ago. A year ago when we didn't 138 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: know if we were gonna have a season or not. 139 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: Do you remember what the talk was. I can tell 140 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: you in our industry, and in the coaching industry and 141 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: in the football industry, the talk was, if we don't 142 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: have a season, the big boys will struggle to survive. 143 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: As is, if we don't have a season, the G 144 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: five may go extinct. Vast swaths of what you know 145 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 1: as the G five of college football could be done. 146 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: They could be out of here. They can't afford to 147 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: lose a college football season. Well, then we had a season, 148 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: and all's well that ends well there, Yeah, they got 149 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 1: some financial gaps to make up, but they survived. What 150 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: if you told them then that ten months later, you're 151 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: gonna have a system on the table just inches away 152 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: from the goal line that could fundamentally alter the future 153 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: of the G five and give them at least one 154 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: guaranteed spot at every playoff table, if not more in 155 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: some years. Hats off. I don't have to approve of it, 156 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: but you gotta clap, you gotta tip your cap to 157 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: anyone able to pull that off. And so one year ago, 158 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: the G five is looking at possible extinction if we 159 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: don't have a football season, and now they're looking at 160 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: being on the verge of fundamentally changing their future. They're 161 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: guaranteed one spot in this playoff based on this format, 162 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: they may have more than one spot in a given year. 163 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: But here's the important part, and here's why the AAC 164 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: is the massive winner here above and beyond, relatively speaking, 165 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: any other conference. You're about to pump massive playoff money 166 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: into that conference every year, not to mention the increased 167 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: TV money that they're going to get from new deals 168 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: that are struck in order to broadcast this thing to 169 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: begin with. Do you guys have any idea what's about 170 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: to happen. I'm not just talking to you watching the show, 171 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: talking to folks in the packtge Well signing off on this, 172 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: and the Big Ten in portions of the ACC signing 173 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: off on this. You're about to take a conference with 174 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: programs in Dallas and Houston and New Orleans and Memphis 175 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: and Cincinnati and Orlando and Tampa and Carolina, and you're 176 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: about to pump a ton of money into him. Do 177 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: you know what that's gonna do. It's going to allow 178 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: a conference with programs in very, very much every major 179 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: portion of the South to finally invest in football to 180 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: the degree necessary to build the infrastructure to keep premier 181 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: talent at home. The only talent you've been able to 182 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: survive and be superior over them because of is now 183 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: going to have the pipeline shut off to you. If 184 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 1: you're in the northern portions of the ACC, if you're 185 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: in portions of the Big Ten and you're not in Columbus, Ohio, 186 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: if you're out west, if you're in parts of the 187 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: Big twelve. This is going to be horrible for you. 188 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: That's why I say the huge winner here is the AAC. 189 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: And if you want to zoom it into a personal level, 190 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: think about the seat Gus Mauson's in right now. Gus 191 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: Mauson is the wizard of college football. When you want 192 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: to put a face on this era, when you're looking 193 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: back twenty or thirty years from now and you're telling 194 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: the story, look at Gus Malson, all of you left, 195 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube right now, look at how 196 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: foolish this looks. He can getting knighted. The mascot handed 197 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: him the ceremonial scepter. There. Well, let me tell you 198 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: what he did. He, being Gus Malson, found a way 199 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: to beat Saban three times while he was at Auburn. 200 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: He leveraged Auburn up against a wall and got massive 201 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: money from them guaranteed after the twenty seventeen year. Thus 202 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: they had to pay him a huge buyout when they 203 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: eventually fired him. And then the UCF job opens at 204 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: the most opportune time imaginable. No one saw it coming. 205 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: Gus Mauson lands the best G five job for my 206 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: money that there is and then fifteen minutes later you 207 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: get word, Oh, by the way, not only do you 208 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: get to live in Orlando and remove yourself and rid 209 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: yourself from all that pressure in the SEC and still 210 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: get paid really good money plus your buyout money, and 211 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: be year round and be surrounded by recruits that you 212 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: don't have Nick Saban breathing down your neck for not 213 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: only do you get all that, we're gonna change the 214 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: entire playoff format to where you're gonna have a spot 215 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: in the playoff. Now we're gonna have twelve spots. You 216 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: gotta win the conference. You're gonna be able to get in. 217 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: Maybe even if you don't win it, you're gonna be 218 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: able to get in. Gus Malzan is probably the biggest 219 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: beneficiary of this entire thing and the conference that he 220 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: coaches in that being, of course, the American Athletic Conference, 221 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: well above and beyond relatively speaking, any other conference in America, 222 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: is the huge winner here. They are going to overtake 223 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: the PAC twelve in time if this goes through. I 224 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: don't see any way around that. You cannot have that 225 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: many programs in the middle of big time recruiting markets 226 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: in the South finally able to get adequate enough money 227 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 1: pumped into their programs and into their conference to invest 228 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: in football. You're not gonna have all that happen and 229 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: then not keep talent home. You already have seen a 230 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: sneak peak of what this looks like with Billy Napier 231 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: at Louisiana when they went to play Iowa State last year. 232 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: You watch, and Iowa State as a favorite, lost, but 233 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: it didn't look like an upset. If you didn't know 234 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: the points spread on the game, you'd think Louisiana was 235 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: just the superior team. They look like the better roster. Well, 236 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: that's cause those rosters are a lot more comparable than 237 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: anyone wants to believe in the Big twelve. You got 238 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: a program up there in ames Iowa, you got one 239 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: down in Louisiana. You want talent from the South, you've 240 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: got to fly fifteen hundred miles. Ifewer of Bat Campbell, 241 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: you just got to throw a rock out your back Windo, 242 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: if you're Billy Napier. The only thing that has ever 243 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: kept those programs from being able to ascend and that 244 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: conference from being able to ascend to what they call 245 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: power six level, I just call it flat out power 246 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: five level they may overtake some of these folks in 247 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: the Power five is they haven't had the finances in order, 248 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: and that is a fancy way to say they ain't 249 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: have the money. They're about to have the money. Then 250 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: they're gonna have the talent, and they're gonna have the facilities, 251 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: and they got all that money they need in the 252 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: future to be what you are now. I don't think 253 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: anyone has a clue what they're signing off on. I 254 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: am stunned that you guys are letting Mikero Riscoe and 255 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: the for example, pull this off. But I'm kind of 256 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: sitting over here as a bystander because, hey, you know, 257 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: it's easier for me. I'm parked in Nashville. It's a 258 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: lot easier for me to go cover Memphis than it 259 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: is Oregon State. So my hat's off to them. If 260 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: they can pull this off, that's one of the biggest 261 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: coups or coops in the history of college football. Let 262 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: us move on because we have a little ways to 263 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: go before we have to talk about that in finality, 264 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: But the SEC Eastern Division is very interesting this upcoming year. 265 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: George is not wearing the crown, well, at least they weren't. 266 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: At the end of last year, it was Florida. And 267 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: yet why do I believe, along with many others, that 268 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: they really never took the division by the throat. It's 269 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: such a weird thing. As I've said many times, we 270 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: were sitting here last year. If I were to tell 271 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: you Florida's going to beat Georgia this year, Florida's going 272 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: to have a Heisman finalist this year, Florida's going to 273 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: win the East this year, you would have thought, my goodness, 274 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: the SEC East has been turned on its ear finally, 275 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: Florida and Dan Mullen, they've ascended to the top, and 276 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel like that for a number of 277 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,599 Speaker 1: number of reasons. But I want to talk about the 278 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: swing games in the division this year because game does 279 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: not always mean biggest game. Swing game essentially is what 280 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: we use to get to the end of the year 281 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: and we look back and we say, circle the game 282 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: that really determined how the rest of the season turned out. 283 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,719 Speaker 1: And so let's go down the list here, start with Georgia. 284 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm not making it the Clemson game. Why not the 285 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: Clemson game will because even if they win by thirty 286 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: or lose by thirty in Week one against Clemson. Everything 287 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: they want to accomplish is still on the table. Georgia's 288 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: got a strong enough schedule that if they went out, 289 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: they'll be in the playoff. They can win the division, 290 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: they can win the conference. So I think their biggest 291 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: circle game is Florida and it's Week nine. The East 292 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: could be on the line there, but obviously it's a 293 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: rivalry game and there's a lot of get back to 294 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: be had there too. This was a game where Georgia 295 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: kind of got embarrassed in a lot of ways last year. 296 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: This was pre JT Daniels. JT Daniels has not had 297 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: a crack at Florida. This was still the hashtag Stetson 298 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: Bennett era last year. Georgia is going to be a 299 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: double digit favorite the rest of the way after they 300 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: I think we're looking, yeah, we're looking at their schedule 301 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: right now. So they played Florida there, it's the day 302 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: before Halloween. Well then you got Moss and you got Tennessee, 303 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: and you've got Charleston Southern, you got Georgia Tech. I 304 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: don't care if they're on the roador at home. George 305 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: is a double digit favorite the rest of the way. 306 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: So by this time, obviously we know about both offenses. 307 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: Georgia Florida. That is at least for the Bulldogs, that's 308 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: their big swing game of the year to me, and 309 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: you could also call it their biggest game of the year, 310 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: especially in conference. How about Florida, because to me, the 311 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: Georgia game is not Florida's swing game. This is how 312 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: this game gets played. Florida's got Alabama in Week three, 313 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: but I don't think that's the swing game either, because again, 314 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: they could lose to Alabama and still have every one 315 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: of their goals on the table. But it lets us 316 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: know where Florida is. You're a Florida fan, we watch 317 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: that Alabama game for better or for worse. We're gonna 318 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: know where we are. And then it's time to go 319 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: to work and then we sort of gear up to 320 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: get into the rest of that conference slate. But they 321 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: go to LSU in Week seven. Florida at LSU, that's 322 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: the Gators big swing game, because you're gonna know after 323 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: this game what that Florida Georgia game is gonna be, 324 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: at least for Dan Mullen's team, is it gonna be 325 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: for the East Because They've already had two losable, very 326 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: losable games, plus a couple of more by this point, 327 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: So it could be that Florida is dead even with Georgia. 328 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: It could be their two games in the standings behind 329 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: Georgia by this point. Massive revenge angle. Though, Florida at 330 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: LSU Massive revenge angle. I think we all remember what happened, 331 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: albeit in the fog last year. I think we all remember, 332 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: and it's the first time we're really going to see 333 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: Emery Jones and this offense go on the road in 334 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: a truly elite, top end, hostile environment. How about the 335 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: Tennessee volunteers. There's going to be a pivotal point in 336 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: the season. The game I selected here, I think it's 337 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: South Carolina at Tennessee. That game is in Week six, 338 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: It's coming off a back to back road stretch, and 339 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: then Tennessee is going to be an underdog in their 340 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: next four games. They're gonna have to have a couple 341 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: where they just find a way to win. I know 342 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: that's so cliche, but they got to do that in 343 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: games like this. This has been a situation, This has 344 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: been a matchup where these programs and this year's going 345 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: to be no different or in very similar territory. They 346 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: both have first year staves. Tennessee's got the home field 347 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: in this, but you're either gonna have a shot of 348 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: adrenaline here that you can ride into tougher games, or 349 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: it's gonna be the beginning of a descent, and you're 350 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: kind of resigning yourself with the fact that we're gonna 351 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: have to gonna have to focus on an early signing date. 352 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: That's the next really really big circle date here for us, 353 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: because it looks like after this game may be headed 354 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: off the rails because you've got a bunch of tough 355 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: games even after that one. So the South Carolina game 356 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: is the circle game for Tennessee. Now, as for Kentucky, 357 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: I picked the game at Mississippi State in week nine. 358 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: Kentucky's offense, there's a lot of overturned there, a lot 359 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: of intrigue and mystery about Kentucky right now. Well, it 360 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: will be what it will be by week nine. They're 361 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: coming off a buye here, but before that buye, Kentucky 362 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: will have gone through a stretch that includes Florida, LSU 363 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: and at Georgia, and that's tough. They will not be 364 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: expected to win any of those, all those scheduling dynamics 365 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: favor Kentucky and all of them, I don't know if 366 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: it favors them to play them all back to back 367 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: to back. But then they go into a bye So 368 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: then they come out of that buy they go on 369 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: the road and they catch Mississippi State coming off a 370 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: road game themselves, and this is the kind of reset 371 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: button that you may need for your season at that point. 372 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: And if they win, If Kentucky wins, what they have 373 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,239 Speaker 1: the rest of the way is Tennessee at Vanderbilt, New 374 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: Mexico State at Louisville. All of those are winnable games. 375 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: So it could be one of those take your lumps 376 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: early or in a perfect world, just win all your games. 377 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: But even if they take a couple of lumps, they 378 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: set themselves up, but they win at Mississippi State to 379 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: really cruise and get some big wins through that backstretch 380 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: of their schedule, and you never know. I mean, you 381 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: could be looking at a nine win Kentucky, or you 382 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 1: could be looking at a six win Kentucky. That's going 383 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: to be the swing game. That's the definition of a 384 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: swing game, South Carolina. I picked the Kentucky game Kentucky 385 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: at South Carolina in Week four. This is all about 386 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: not letting Georgia beat you twice. They got a trip 387 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: I think, to Georgia the week before, and they're going 388 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 1: to be a heavy, heavy underdog there and I don't 389 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: expect them to win that game. But what you can't 390 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: be doing is having the residue of that game linger 391 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: against Kentucky. I think this is going to be a situation, 392 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: by the way, where Carolina fans South Carolina fans. I've 393 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: gotten a lot of feedback on that. So South Carolina fans, 394 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: I think you guys be a little uncomfortable if you 395 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: knew what the point spread to beyond this game today, 396 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: we would make it internally Kentucky minus seven and a 397 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: half at Williams Brice Stadium, no less. And I reached 398 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 1: out to an odds maker, buddy, and they actually said eight. 399 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: So let it have it even fatter than we would. 400 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: That shouldn't make you comfortable if you're a South Carolina fan, 401 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: because there's no reason for that to be the case 402 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: home or road, to be an eight point dog against Kentucky. 403 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: But that's where they are right now. Well, that's why 404 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: this is a swing game. Win this game. I mean, 405 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,479 Speaker 1: that's the definition of a swing game. They're gonna need 406 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: a couple of gut checks this year if they're going 407 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: to hit any kind of reasonable win total. This is 408 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: gonna be one of those gut check games because you 409 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: don't plan on it happening against the likes of Georgia 410 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: or Florida, and so you got to get it done here. 411 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: How about Missouri, This game against Tennessee this year is 412 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: their swing game. For me, it's in Week five. This 413 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: was the most disappointing game Missouri had last year was 414 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: their game on the road at Tennessee. It was easily 415 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: my disappointing moment for them because we were on Missouri 416 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: in that game. Last year. Missouri has Kentucky in Week two. 417 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: Then they kind of go off the conference radar and 418 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: they don't re emerge until Week five when Tennessee comes 419 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: into town, and it could be part of a five 420 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: and one or a six and oh start. They've got 421 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: some winnable games. I think they got a game against 422 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: Boston College and the out of conference, but they've got 423 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: some very workable games early on. There is no game 424 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: that you're gonna pencil in as an automatic loss for them. 425 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: And so if they win this game again, could be 426 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: part of a five and one six and oh start in. 427 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: At that point you start to qualify for early season 428 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: Surprise of the year kind of status. Big swing game here, 429 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: it's one that I really thought they'd performed veteran last year. 430 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: I didn't think they had quarterback figured out until the 431 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: latter portion of that Tennessee game. Should have it figured 432 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: out this year. And lastly, Vanderbilt, I just picked Tennessee. 433 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: It's the last game of the season. It's gonna be 434 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: one where clark Lee and his staff excuse me, Barton 435 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: Simmons and Clark Lee and his staff decide to just 436 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: toss every grenade they have left in the tank. And 437 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: if they win it, that's a super Bowl win. Even 438 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: if it's against a beleaguered Tennessee, that would be a 439 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: super Bowl win for Vanderbilt. And so as you look 440 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,719 Speaker 1: up and down the list, Jesse's showing you in totality, 441 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: we got Georgia, Florida, I got Florida at LSU. We 442 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: got a bunch of big games here. Some of them 443 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 1: overlap with these teams' biggest games of the year, but 444 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: some of them may be a little bit off the radar, 445 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: thus the title swing game. All right, let's move it on, 446 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: because we've been talking for like a month about how 447 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: big this month of June is for a lot of programs, 448 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: and Texas is no different. Remember we warned you about 449 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: three months ago that we didn't speak the word off 450 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: season around here because there wasn't going to be one. 451 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: But even if you weren't on board with that, you 452 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: needed to, especially if you work in this industry. There 453 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: will be no vacation time. That's what we told you 454 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: three months ago, and people are finding out about it now. 455 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: June is no beach season, especially if you're working for 456 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, Horns twenty four to seven. Right now, 457 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: those folks Mike Roach and Nick Harris. If it's possible 458 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: to work twenty five hour days, those guys have been 459 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: doing it this weekend. It has been a massive recruiting 460 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 1: weekend in Austin, Texas. And I tell you this and 461 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: I need you to be locked in on it, even 462 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: if you're not a Texas fan, because this is one 463 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: of those classic keystone ripple effect type situations. It's why 464 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,640 Speaker 1: we choose these kinds of segments to do. Even though 465 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: it focuses on one team, it has to do with 466 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: every one of you. I go over to Horns twenty 467 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: four to seven the other day, and as of a 468 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: couple hours ago before I came on air, they had 469 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: a thirty four page deep thread on that message board 470 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 1: just about this weekend's official visitors and unofficial visitors. Huge 471 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: weekend for Texas. So how does this impact an Arizona 472 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: State fan? How does this impact an Auburn fan? Arch 473 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: Manning's on campus. That's how it impacts all of you. 474 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: So arch Manning is the headliner there, certainly not the 475 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: well there you see so Jesse's showing you pictures, it's 476 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: arch man and a cast of seemingly thousands. It's been 477 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: a really big weekend, name after name after name. They're 478 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: gonna have another big one next weekend. And so this 479 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: is not unique to Texas because this is going on 480 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: at a lot of major programs. But a lot of 481 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: those other programs don't have a first year's staff in 482 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 1: the house they do at Texas. Right now, I'm gonna 483 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: tell you why. That's, aside from the obvious, really important. 484 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: In just a second, arch Manning for the fourteen of 485 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,479 Speaker 1: you who don't know who I'm talking about. Yeah, it 486 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: is him by that last name, so number one quarterback 487 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty three recruiting cycle. You saw him 488 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: on the Texas gear. There were rumors of him at 489 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: the baseball game, then those got confirmed, and then there 490 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: was rumor Sam Allinger hanging out with arch Manning at 491 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: the baseball game, and as far as I can tell, 492 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: those got confirmed too. So how big was this weekend? Well, 493 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: not only was arch Manning in town, but arch Manning 494 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: did something that is a hallmark of many a program 495 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 1: that is on the way back up and recruiting. He 496 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: had pictures of him taken with fans at an airport. 497 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: That sounds weird and if you are a European soccer fan, 498 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: you just having to be tuned in for whatever reason 499 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: because you came to the wrong YouTube channel. That makes 500 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: no sense to you. Let me tell you something. You 501 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: have got to get big enough talent in town that 502 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: it is such a huge deal that hasn't been happening 503 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: in months past, that people at the airport, even Austin 504 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: International Airport, are taken aback by it enough to where 505 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: they got to be snapping pictures and that was happening. 506 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: There was actually a poster on Porns twenty four to 507 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: seven that snaps a picture, and that's valuable. I'd save 508 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: that for an NFT down the road, because if arch 509 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: Manning does commit to Texas, that's worth something. That's worth something, 510 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: So you can take that advice for free. There's a 511 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: big question that everyone's going to ask, can Texas land 512 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: arch Manning? Well, the short answer is yeah, absolutely they 513 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: can land him. You know how much Texas has going 514 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: for it, not the least of which is the brand 515 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: new head coach in the house that just put on 516 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: a clinic to end all clinics at the University of Alabama. Well, 517 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,719 Speaker 1: how did he do that, Josh? Well, he had a 518 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: cupboard full of talent quarterback and wide receiver. Well, he 519 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: had the kind of quarterback he's trying to recruit now 520 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: in arch Manning. So this is flying. Weeks one and 521 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: week's two are gonna be so huge for Texas this 522 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 1: year because Alabama's in it for arch Manning. There's no 523 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: guesswork about what Alabama is under Nick Saban. We've long 524 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: since known they're legitimate. There's no guess work about Clemson. 525 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 1: We've long since known what they are under Dabos Swinning. 526 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: We don't know what Texas is and the Manning family 527 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: does not know what Texas is under Steve Sarkesian. And 528 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: this is not a situation I don't think at least 529 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: where you're gonna get a guy to buy into pure vision. 530 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: Vision is great, and I'm told they did as good 531 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: a job as they possibly could this weekend selling that vision. 532 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 1: I think they hit a home run. I think they 533 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: are squarely in the mix for Arch Manning. But eventually 534 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to have something tangible, because there's gonna 535 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: be too much tangible result to be seen from Alabama 536 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: and the likes of Clemson that Texas has got to 537 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: get it done. They got to show you something in 538 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: weeks one and two, because if you are to come 539 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,719 Speaker 1: out of summer on this massive recruiting hype wave and 540 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: this you start to show product on the field earlier 541 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: than anyone expected. That starts a snowball effect. That's how 542 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 1: you really start to take off in recruiting, even in 543 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: year one under a new staff, and that's how incredible 544 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: things can happen. If they stumble, that doesn't mean they 545 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 1: can't evictually get it on track. But I'm talking about 546 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: this class, in the twenty twenty three class. If you 547 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: really want to instantly have bang and recruiting, Week one 548 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: against Louisiana that's going to be a spotlight game for 549 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: most of the country, and then week two at Arkansas 550 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: that's going to be a spotlight game for a lot 551 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: of the country. They got to get it done there 552 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: cause a lot of guys like arch Manning, even if 553 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: they want to go to Texas, even if they're enamored 554 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: with playing for Steve Sarkesian, you don't have to show 555 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: them national championship wins, but you gotta show them evidence. 556 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: You got to show them reason to buy into the 557 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: vision that you're pitching. It's felt different in Texas this weekend, though, 558 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: you guys feel it if you're in Austin, I know 559 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: good and well you do. I've felt it over here 560 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: in Nashville. I got enough Texas buddies that I talk 561 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: to that have calibrated my ability to feel out the 562 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: Texas fan base that when I saw my eye Josh 563 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: light up all weekend, I know this wasn't normal. This 564 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 1: has not been normal, even for the Tom Herman era. 565 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: See a lot of folks will come to you and say, oh, 566 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: they've always had talent. I quite like this. They hadn't, 567 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: and even if they did, they didn't develop it. So 568 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: you got a new cast in the house, and you've 569 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: got an elite recruiting weekend, and you've got a staff 570 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 1: that runs around talking about being all gas no brakes. Well, 571 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything more than wording on the back 572 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: of the cereal box until they show it to you. 573 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 1: And that's what they've been. I don't know if those 574 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: guys have slept very much recently, but here's how you 575 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: know Texas recruiting is trending in the right direction. Other 576 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: fan bases are speaking up and they're saying, oh, really, 577 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna win a championship with unofficial visits and official visits. 578 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: No they're not. It's true. They didn't land fifteen or 579 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: twenty of these kids this weekend. They didn't land arch Manning. 580 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: They got closer to it, certainly than they were this 581 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: time last week. How do you think you build elite 582 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: classes though? How you think Ohio State Lands kids? You 583 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: think they just call them up and say would you 584 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: like to commit? No, they go through the recruiting hype waves, 585 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: just like Texas is right now. So I've seen some 586 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: recruiting hype waves flame out. That's true enough. But I've 587 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: never seen, at least to date, any program build themselves 588 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: to an elite level without recruiting hype that eventually validates 589 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: itself in the form of commitments. So Texas is in 590 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: the process of that, the early stages of that process. 591 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,439 Speaker 1: But I am over here, at least for the interests 592 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: of my Texas buddies. I'll waive that bern Orange pomp 593 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: pom because a good Texas is good for Lake Kick. 594 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: And I want to wrap up this show. I want 595 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: to kind of take time to settle myself down because 596 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm lovely get worked up talking about this stuff. You 597 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: have heard me say about a dozen times over the 598 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: past I don't know, month, month and a half. I 599 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: think a renaissance season is coming for college football. There 600 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: have been a lot of negatives to focus on lately, 601 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: transfer portal. Everyone's been out of shape about it. I've 602 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: been been out of shape with the playoff situation, and 603 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: some of you guys pointed that out and you said, man, 604 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: you seem mad the other day mad. But yeah, the 605 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: show took on a little bit of a negative tone, 606 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: and I don't like that. You guys were right. So 607 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: what I wanted to do is end the show tonight 608 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 1: as upbeat as I possibly could. And I don't think 609 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: there's a person that's taking time to watch this show 610 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: that will dislike what I'm about to say. There are 611 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: a lot of factors coming together to create a college 612 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: football season this fall unlike any that we've ever seen. 613 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: But to understand what the future holds, I think we 614 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: got to remember what history included. It's been less than 615 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: a year. It's been about ten months ago. I was 616 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: going back and watching some of our videos today. Do 617 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,360 Speaker 1: you remember how dark it got there for a little while? 618 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: And I'm speaking strictly in terms of college football. Nothing 619 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: else a lot of us had tragedy in our lives 620 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: outside of football. Is the College Football show. So that's 621 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: all we're talking about here. But about a year ago 622 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: next month, it'll be a year next month. That's when 623 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: we started to hear the drip drip that became a 624 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: steady stream of we may not have a season. You 625 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: remember the Big Ten famously released their season schedule and 626 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: then canceled their season six days later, and then there 627 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: was what eight days of silence, Colin. I mean, we 628 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: did two or three shows where we didn't have so 629 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: much as a statement from Kevin Warren in the Big Ten, 630 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 1: and in their release when they canceled the season, they 631 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: told you, I remember the two words as clear as day. 632 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: It's abundantly clear that we cannot go on and this 633 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: is final, This will not be revisited. Then eight days later, 634 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: because the parents up there wouldn't shut up, and the 635 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: players wouldn't shut up, and the coaches and some administrators 636 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: would not shut up, they try and feed you some 637 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: bs about myocarditis. Basically, they thought you were stupid enough 638 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,959 Speaker 1: to where they could come to you and present a 639 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: disease that has been known within the medical community for decades, 640 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: as if it's something that they just discovered within a 641 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: bureaucratic meeting amongst Big Ten officials. Oh, in the past week, Hey, 642 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: look at this word that none of you have probably 643 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: heard of. Well, doctors had heard of it, and we 644 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: had two of them reach out to us and say, hey, 645 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: you know this myocarditis thing. The Big Ten is trying 646 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: to build it entire argument on it's crap, at least 647 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: within the framework of how they're presenting it. It's crap. 648 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: And so coaches in the Big Ten pushed back, some 649 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: of them, players wall to wall, pushed back. Parents gathered 650 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: outside the Big ten league offices. They never accepted it, 651 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: and they deserve a lot of credit for it. A 652 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: lot of you didn't accept it. You deserve a lot 653 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: of credit for it. And even with that barrage of 654 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: doomsday articles that were parroted essentially from mouthpieces for the 655 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: Big Ten masquerading as journalist, no one up there accepted it, 656 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: to the point where eventually, when the SEC didn't blink 657 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: and the ACC didn't blink, and the Big twelve didn't blink, 658 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: the Big Ten did blink. Because that's what happens to 659 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: arguments that don't really have a leg to stand on. 660 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: When you shine a light on it, That's kind of 661 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: what a cockroach does. It's very brave in the dark, 662 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: but when you shine a light on it, all of 663 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: a sudden, that cockroach responds very, very differently. There was 664 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: no substance to it, and so then that's the history. 665 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: We almost didn't have a season last year. It's what 666 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you. We were that close in 667 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: portions of this country, they're not having a season. Never 668 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: forget a lot of nameless people. You know the name 669 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: Kevin Warren, you know a lot of these Big Ten presidents. 670 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: You don't know the names of the people who were 671 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: working fifteen or sixteen hour days in behind the scenes 672 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: methodology at places like Ohio State or Alabama or UCLA 673 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: to make sure that we could responsibly have a season. See, 674 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: those folks are nameless, but there were a lot of 675 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: people pulling a lot of weight, a lot more so 676 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: than their paycheck and their contract deemed they needed to 677 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: to be able to make sure we could have a season. 678 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: Don't ever forget those folks, And don't ever forget the 679 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: folks that stood up, especially in the Big Ten, that 680 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: stood up and said no, which is not accepting it. No, 681 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: you haven't given us reason enough. So no. That's the 682 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: history though. So now we come back to this fall. 683 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: This fall is going to be incredible. I think we're 684 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: going to have a renaissance here in college football. There 685 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: is no form of American entertainment that is more suited 686 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: and better pass to explode back onto the scenes than sports. 687 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: And I think college football is right at the center 688 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: of all that you had fifteen months in some portions 689 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: of the country of isolation. You had an election year, 690 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: you had a ton of divisiveness, You had COVID to 691 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: deal with some of us lost family members, and you 692 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: didn't have what's normally there to pull it all together. 693 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: In the fall. When they take the movie theater experience 694 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: away from you, you just went to Netflix. When they 695 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: took the stadiums away from you and closed them up 696 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: and threw away the key, you had no recourse. Where 697 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: else are you going to go to duplicate the kind 698 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: of environment that Jesse's showing you right here and right now. 699 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: But eighty five days from now that is history. And 700 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: eighty five days from now, whether it's Lane Stadium in 701 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: Blacksburg on a Friday night against North Carolina, whether it's 702 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: Charlotte where it's Clemson and Georgia, whether it's down in 703 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: the Swamp in Week three when Alabama comes in there, 704 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: whether it's Week two, Oregon at Ohio State in front 705 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: of one hundred thousand people. Look at the women's College 706 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: World Series. Look at what the environments have been like 707 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: for these college baseball regionals. Talk to people on the ground. 708 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: It's above and beyond anything they've ever seen. People are 709 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: so thirsty to get back to sports. People want to 710 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: come together, despite what you may see on platforms and 711 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: what you may hear some people tell you on cable news, 712 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: people long for it. They long to be able to 713 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: meet around a campfire. Campfire in our case is college football. 714 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: It's this fault. You got new quarterbacks at major programs 715 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: that could upend the apple cart that you've been used 716 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,479 Speaker 1: to for a few years. You've got several programs on 717 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: the cusp of breaking into elite status. You've got coaches 718 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: under pressure, you got other coaching staffs ready to break through. 719 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: You got millions of people coast to coast that are 720 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: ready to unify around something that used to be there, 721 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 1: and then it was taken away from us for a year, 722 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: and now we're about to get it back. College football 723 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one will be a renaissance season, and 724 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: college football in twenty twenty one will be unlike anything 725 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: you've ever seen. You won't have to wait long. You'll 726 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: see it right there in week one. So that's how 727 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to leave the show tonight a little bit 728 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: different than we did the other night. Thank you so 729 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: much for joining us Thank you so much for watching 730 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,879 Speaker 1: the videos. Even during the offseason. We have not seen 731 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: the dip in traffic that you would expect us to 732 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: see because we don't really do the ass and you 733 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: guys don't either. Thank you so much for that. Like 734 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: the videos if you're on YouTube, five star reviews for 735 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: the podcast. If you're listening there for director Emeritus Colin 736 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: Jesse and crew done a phenomenal job in Connecticut. I'm 737 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: Josh Pate. Hack yourselves a great start to the week. 738 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: And God Books