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Speaker 1: and people just value win loss and they don't really

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Speaker 1: value strength of schedule. This was in the BCS era.

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Speaker 1: This was when human polls mattered. So he did exactly

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Speaker 1: what I would do. He played it sort of safe,

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Speaker 1: but then he also valued competition, and so he called

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Speaker 1: up Clemson and they set up that Chick fil A

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Speaker 1: kickoff game in Atlanta, and I remember being at that game.

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Speaker 1: It was an eight, and so they play there and

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Speaker 1: it was not the first neutral site game ever, but

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Speaker 1: it started this recent wave of neutral site games every year.

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Speaker 1: So I think they played Clemson in Virginia Tech back

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Speaker 1: to back years there they had a home and home

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Speaker 1: with Penn State. That's when Paterno was still there. But

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Speaker 1: pretty much every year they've played their SEC schedule and

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Speaker 1: they played one more key out of conference opponent, but

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Speaker 1: they did it at a neutral site. And the reason

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Speaker 1: was obvious to me. Nick Saban saw value in playing

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Speaker 1: football games in Atlanta because he wanted to recruit Georgia,

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Speaker 1: and he played football games in Dallas because he wanted

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Speaker 1: to recruit Texas. And so what do you want to do.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to appease a sports writer more who

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Speaker 1: says you need to play more home and homes? Or

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Speaker 1: do you want to put your team in the best

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Speaker 1: position to succeed and put yourself in the best position

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Speaker 1: to recruit? Like who are you more responsible to? Who

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Speaker 1: do you answer to? So he's done exactly what I

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Speaker 1: would do. He's accountable to That's the word I was

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Speaker 1: looking for. Accountable. He is accountable to his players, to

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Speaker 1: his administration, to himself, and to his fan base. And

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Speaker 1: he handled it the exact right way to me. Next

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Speaker 1: up is pause spec Man three. How about a gambling

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Speaker 1: podcast for this season? I started watching you for that reason.

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Speaker 1: I have my own worksheet with power rakings, and I'd

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Speaker 1: like to compare and hear others. Brad, Oh, you have

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Speaker 1: a different name. Okay, well your name is Brad. There

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Speaker 1: you go, Brad pe If we want to get specific, Brad,

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Speaker 1: all I can tell you there is Stay tuned, brother,

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Yes, I agree. It is very good content

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Speaker 1: and it will be delivered. Just stay tuned. Next up,

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Speaker 1: Andrew in the podcast review section, e Georgia offense, you

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Speaker 1: in twenty four to seven are my number one college

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Speaker 1: football source. Thank you, sir. Question with pretty much a

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Speaker 1: guaranteed elite defense, how vital is it for Georgia to

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Speaker 1: get over on their offense and get it in gear quickly? Also,

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Speaker 1: last week, you didn't think you could leave an emoji

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Speaker 1: in the podcast review section. Here you go, and he

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Speaker 1: leaves two smiles and a thumbs up. So that's one

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Speaker 1: mystery solved, Thank you, Andrew. Let's solve the other mystery.

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Speaker 1: He adds vital. We also know that Georgia can afford

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Speaker 1: a loss. They can afford a loss both in the

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Speaker 1: context of the conference and they can afford one law

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Speaker 1: in the context the college football playoffs. So they have

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Speaker 1: week three, and I think it would be very foolish

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Speaker 1: to think that Georgia in week three will be a

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Speaker 1: finished product Offensively. I also think it's foolish to believe

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Speaker 1: Georgia will be the product in week three. They are

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Speaker 1: by the time they play Florida. So what I'm willing

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Speaker 1: to say is a lot of people are going to

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Speaker 1: render a verdict on Georgia's offense. After week three, that's

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Speaker 1: when they go to Alabama. By the way, I won't

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Speaker 1: be in that camp. That'll be kind of the starting

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Speaker 1: point for me with them. But they do have exactly

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Speaker 1: as you said, a pretty good defense this year. Could

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Speaker 1: be the best in the country. I had to say that,

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Speaker 1: through a hiccup, could be the best in the country.

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Speaker 1: And that gives you a lot of space, gives you

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Speaker 1: a lot of breathing room to try and work things out.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the most intriguing things to me to

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Speaker 1: watch anywhere in the country this season is the evolution

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Speaker 1: of Georgia's offense and the evolution of the overall philosophy

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Speaker 1: that Kirby Smart's going to play with. Next up, tennessee

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Speaker 1: tar Heel podcast review section. What are your top three

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Speaker 1: favorite Office characters? Only one of them can be Michael, Dwight,

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Speaker 1: Jim or Pam. Well, that's an interesting requisite there. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go Dwight Shreut is my number one character overall

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Speaker 1: entire series, and if you've seen The Office you know

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Speaker 1: exactly what I mean. I think that was a brilliantly

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Speaker 1: played character. That is some of the best writing consistently

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Speaker 1: the best writing that I've ever seen in television since

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Speaker 1: you took all the other main ones away. My number

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Speaker 1: two character would be Hank from Security. Always thought he

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Speaker 1: should have been worked in a lot more heavily in

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Speaker 1: the stories. I mean when they're picking out the new

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Speaker 1: chairs versus the copier, for example, that scene where he

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Speaker 1: comes up there and deliberates brilliant stuff. And number three

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Speaker 1: David Wallace, I think he's the CEO. David Wallace was

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Speaker 1: really good. Here's a little fun fact before we move on.

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Speaker 1: His name's Andy Buckley. That's the actor's name. There is

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Speaker 1: a Reba McIntyre music video. I swear to you, I

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Speaker 1: am bringing you this information off the cuff. There is

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Speaker 1: a Reba McIntyre music video to the song I'd Rather

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Speaker 1: Ride Around with you. Go look up the music video.

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Speaker 1: If you want your mind blown and you've seen The

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Speaker 1: Office before, go watch this music video. I think it

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Speaker 1: was recorded in eighteen ninety four. Go watch the video

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Speaker 1: on YouTube and check out the surprise cameo by Andy Buckley,

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Speaker 1: who went on to play David Wallace in the Office.

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Speaker 1: I've got some buddies who listen to this who are

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Speaker 1: hardcore Office fans, and I will bet you every let's

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Speaker 1: see one, two, three, six, all seventeen dollars sitting on

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Speaker 1: my nightstand right now. I would bet all seventeen of

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Speaker 1: them that they don't know that they didn't know that

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Speaker 1: piece of trivia. I don't even think Andy Buckley remembers that.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Joe in podcast review this is good right here,

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Speaker 1: Joe says I can tell Josh ghost to church because

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Speaker 1: of the way he uses metaphors. It's very similar to

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Speaker 1: how my preacher uses parables and metaphors. You are dead

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Speaker 1: on the money, my friend, I grew up in the church.

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Speaker 1: I say grew up, I mean I'm there still. But

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Speaker 1: that is exactly how I came about using metaphors as

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Speaker 1: much as I do. It wasn't my idea, it was Jesus,

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Speaker 1: and I always thought that was very effective. It's brilliant

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Speaker 1: and it's simplicity. Everyone understands metaphors. Don't overthink the room.

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Speaker 1: If you ever want to relate to an audience, or

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Speaker 1: if you ever want to relate to someone that you're

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Speaker 1: sitting at lunch with, just figure out the way to

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Speaker 1: speak metaphorically. It's such a valuable tool that it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's under taught in communication courses in college. If

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Speaker 1: you go through a communication course, you learn about speaking publicly,

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Speaker 1: you learn about the dynamics of communication, you learn about

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Speaker 1: the ninety ten rule. But no one ever talks about

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Speaker 1: metaphorical speaking. And it's very important anyway, Joe continues, Auburn

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Speaker 1: is surrounded by great teams. When Alabama's up, we recruit Georgia.

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Speaker 1: If Georgia is up, we recruit Florida, Louisiana, Texas. Same

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Speaker 1: right now. All of these states have strong teams. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you notice that I did too. I'm worried that if

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Speaker 1: we have two bad years and fire Gus, we'll be

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Speaker 1: unable to recruit these areas and float into irrelevancy like

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Speaker 1: Tennessee or Miami. Is this a legitimate fear? Is this?

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Speaker 1: Or this is the one thing that always has me

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Speaker 1: saying we should keep Gus. You could not have summed

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Speaker 1: up my thoughts on Auburn any better than I could.

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Speaker 1: This is so accurate. There are no vacuums at the

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Speaker 1: major outposts in the SEC right now. If Alabama was

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Speaker 1: vulnerable and you were on the fence about malason, okay,

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Speaker 1: because you would have an opportunity to strike same with Georgia,

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Speaker 1: or maybe if a combination of the state of Florida

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Speaker 1: and Louisiana and Texas were in flux, and you saw

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Speaker 1: this vacuum of recruiting territory that you could go take

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Speaker 1: full advantage of, and your coach was average, go ahead

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Speaker 1: and make a move, because not only then would you

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to radically improve your program, but you'd

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Speaker 1: also probably have other candidates that wanted your job because

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Speaker 1: they would see that that it managed potentially too. Right now,

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Speaker 1: everyone's good. Right now, every recruiting hot bed, as you

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Speaker 1: mentioned that Auburn has ever flourished him is filled. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean they can't recruit there. But if you're recruiting top

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Speaker 1: ten right now, as Auburn is, if you're recruiting at

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Speaker 1: a top ten caliber, even a top fifteen caliber with

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Speaker 1: the current state of affairs in the SEC, it is

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Speaker 1: a great success story, a great success story. And if

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Speaker 1: you're hanging in there and you're in the conversation as

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Speaker 1: Auburn is most every year, it is a great success story.

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Speaker 1: Gus Malzon, I want to say this slowly because some

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Speaker 1: people think I misspeak when I say this. Gus Malson,

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Speaker 1: within the context of power five coaches at top fifteen,

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Speaker 1: top twenty places, is the most underrated coach in America.

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Speaker 1: He is not winning national championships, but think about what

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Speaker 1: he's doing relative to the competition around him and relative

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Speaker 1: to what history says Auburn should be right now? What

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Speaker 1: does history say Auburn should be when Alabama is on

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Speaker 1: an unprecedented run. Alabama's in the middle of a dynasty.

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Speaker 1: This happened before, folks. We don't have to do it hypothetically.

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Speaker 1: What does history say Auburn should be. They shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: beating Bama every other year. That's not what history says.

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't be able to recruit top ten that's not

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Speaker 1: what history says. And does history even give us guidance

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Speaker 1: on what they should be? If we've got Abama dynasty

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Speaker 1: plus a Georgia team on the precipice of national championships

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Speaker 1: on LSU team that just won a national championship, what

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Speaker 1: does it say? What does history say? History says Auburn

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Speaker 1: should be a bug on a windshield right now, and

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Speaker 1: they're not. They're very competitive and you find I just

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Speaker 1: want you to find me anyone who pushes for the

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Speaker 1: males on Hot seat Talk. Not only do you have

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Speaker 1: to find me someone who can match what he's done,

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Speaker 1: you got to find me someone who can improve on

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Speaker 1: what he's done. Good luck. Next up Kyle F ninety eight. Hey, Josh,

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Speaker 1: can you describe your perfect conference realignment? Which schools do

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Speaker 1: you want to see moved around to find a better geographic, competitive,

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Speaker 1: or rivalry focused fit. I'm a Big twelve fan. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to see Arkansas, Nebraska, and Arizona join the conference. Hey,

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Speaker 1: those aren't bad ideas. I really wish West Virginia was

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Speaker 1: in the ACC. I wish Nebraska was in the Big Twelve. Still,

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Speaker 1: as for the rest, you know, it depends on how

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Speaker 1: the cards fall. How many conferences are we going to have?

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Speaker 1: If we go from five to four and everyone extends

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Speaker 1: to a fourteen or sixteen team structure, then I got

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Speaker 1: a lot more movement to do if we keep the classical,

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Speaker 1: you know, five power conference setup. Right now, I'd have

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Speaker 1: to think on that. That that actually sounds like a

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Speaker 1: late Cape Live segment, and so let me think on

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Speaker 1: that a little while. Here is R three in podcast

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Speaker 1: review section. How does Clemson's recent dominance of the acc

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Speaker 1: compared to Florida State in the nineties and early two thousands.

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Speaker 1: How easily can other squads catch Clemson. It's not going

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Speaker 1: to be easy, that much is for sure. As for

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Speaker 1: the nineties and two thousands, there's a lot more longevity,

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Speaker 1: obviously with what Florida State did, and there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of value in that. You know, if let's say that

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Speaker 1: I finish in the top ten every year for fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: and let's say I won two national championships, and let's

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Speaker 1: say you won two championships back to back, who's had

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Speaker 1: a more impressive run? I mean, let's say you won

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Speaker 1: three championships back to back to back, and I had

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Speaker 1: a fifteen year run where I finished top ten every

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Speaker 1: year and I won two championships. What's more impressive. I'd

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Speaker 1: say the fifteen year runs more impressive, even though I

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Speaker 1: had one fewer championships than you. And the simple reasoning

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Speaker 1: is it's hard to stay on top. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: maintain success anywhere over a long period of time, much

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Speaker 1: less if the currency that you're working with is eighteen

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Speaker 1: to twenty two year old kids, a lot of whom

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Speaker 1: come in and think the spear on the Helmet's going

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Speaker 1: to win. I don't really have to do a whole

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Speaker 1: heck of a lot. So that's no knock on Clemson.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they haven't had an opportunity to extend this, and

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Speaker 1: there's no reason to think that they won't. But as

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Speaker 1: for now, I think the default setting is you got

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Speaker 1: to say Florida States is more impressive. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: the stats I just gave out, those weren't exactly to scale.

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Speaker 1: Those were hypothetical. We're now talking about Clemson and Florida State.

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Speaker 1: But Clemson is well on their way and there is

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Speaker 1: currently nothing standing in their way in the acc to

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Speaker 1: dominating as long as they want to. Let's see I

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Speaker 1: go in the podcast review section, when can Oregon be

654
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Speaker 1: on the same level as Ohio State, Clemson, and Bama

655
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Speaker 1: when they well Pac twelve. You got to completely own

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Speaker 1: that conference. You have to make the playoff and do

657
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Speaker 1: something in the playoff. You have to continue to recruit

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Speaker 1: very well and most importantly offensively. There are several rungs

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Speaker 1: up the ladder they have to climb. Quarterback position. There

660
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Speaker 1: are several rungs up that ladder they have to climb.

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Speaker 1: They've got it to do. Think they're capable, but they've

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Speaker 1: got that to do. All right. We continue on here.

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Speaker 1: Let's go with nc ND eighty two, who for some

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Speaker 1: reason left us a three star review but left a

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Speaker 1: great question. Hopefully if I give a great answer, they

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Speaker 1: will realize that oversight. I've thought the same idea since

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Speaker 1: the playoffs started, says NCND eighty two. Go back to

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Speaker 1: the old format prebcs. Select the College Football playoff after

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Speaker 1: that adds more importance to the new year six and

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Speaker 1: would be a win win in my opinion. Example, Big

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Speaker 1: ten Pac twelve champion from the Rose Bowl Orange pits,

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Speaker 1: the ACC champion versus a large Sugar bowls SEC champ

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Speaker 1: versus at large Cotton Bowl Big twelve champ at large.

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Speaker 1: The remaining teams consist of top ten to twelve. How

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Speaker 1: would you feel about this format? How would you personally

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Speaker 1: change the field? Wouldn't mind that at all. I've always

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Speaker 1: thought that probably the best marriage of concepts is to

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Speaker 1: find a way to incorporate the current bowl structure and

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Speaker 1: then select a playoff field after that. However, from a

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Speaker 1: calendar standpoint, from a timing standpoint, if you're married to

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Speaker 1: having your national championship game the same time it always is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you would pull that off, but

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of people get paid a lot

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Speaker 1: of money to figure that out. I wouldn't mind that

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Speaker 1: at all, though, that's not something I'm against. Let's go

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Speaker 1: next up. The current conversation about allowing fans in stadiums

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Speaker 1: has been about how many fans can come in, but

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Speaker 1: there hasn't been a conversation about fans not wanting to

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Speaker 1: buy tickets. Doesn't that tell us most college football fans

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Speaker 1: are not afraid of this virus and should be able

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Speaker 1: to attend if they're comfortable. Certainly, if you feel unsafe,

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Speaker 1: stay home or sell your tickets. But how do you

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Speaker 1: feel about fans being able to decide what they want

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Speaker 1: to do? Well, in theory, I'm for pretty much any

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Speaker 1: human being being free to decide what they want to do.

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Speaker 1: You got two things to worry about here. Number one

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Speaker 1: is greater public health risk. And number two, and this

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Speaker 1: is the bigger word that probably makes all other words irrelevant,

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Speaker 1: and that is the word liability. And if you've ever

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Speaker 1: been culpable, if you've ever taken on a liability, you

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Speaker 1: understand it's not a playtoy. It's not anything to joke

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Speaker 1: around about, and so anyone running, for example, stadium operations,

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Speaker 1: anyone allowing fans on campus or into a stadium, doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter what they say they're okay with. If something goes

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Speaker 1: terrible on your watch, you may be liable for it,

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Speaker 1: and that means a whole lot of money in an

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Speaker 1: already as it figures to be this year, cash strapped time.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to be liable for anything else. So

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Speaker 1: for that reason, I don't believe that's the I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that will be the overall thinking. Next up this

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Speaker 1: is s Hook Them twenty eight. Your last Podcas asked

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Speaker 1: you talked about Miami and their fans being stuck in

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Speaker 1: the past. Do you believe Texas fans are the same way.

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Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing the question is Texas back, because

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Speaker 1: no one knows yet, and I feel this may be

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Speaker 1: the best chance they've had since the late two thousands.

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Speaker 1: One more question, is Texas bought in? And is Tom Herman?

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Speaker 1: The answer? Well, Texas is bought in from a passion standpoint.

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Speaker 1: I hope they're bought in from the standpoint of understanding

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Speaker 1: when it's best to take your hands off the wheel.

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Speaker 1: And let the people who know what they're doing drive

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Speaker 1: the bus. I hope they're bought in to that degree.

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Speaker 1: Is Tom Herman the right guy? I have no clue.

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Speaker 1: I am not sold on him yet, to be bluntly

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Speaker 1: honest with you, could be, but I'm not. Right now.

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Speaker 1: I don't tend to think many Texas fans are either.

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Speaker 1: You believe in your guy. I'm not saying that, but

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Speaker 1: if anyone asked you today you had to bet fifty

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Speaker 1: percent of your life savings on whether he's going to

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Speaker 1: be there five years from now. Are a lot of

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Speaker 1: you confident in that? I don't get the sense that

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Speaker 1: you are. So it's just a remain to be seen

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Speaker 1: with Tom Herman. As for Texas, Yeah, I think in

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Speaker 1: some cases you write about that. Here's what I don't know. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't live in Texas. I'm not around Texas fans

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Speaker 1: day to day. I know that nationally, the question that

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Speaker 1: always moves the needle, the question that works good in

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Speaker 1: search engine optimization SEO. Like if I'm formatting a headline

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Speaker 1: right now to give you a little inside baseball, if

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it a Texas article. Let's say I'm writing

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Speaker 1: an article about Texas, and I get told by my boss, Hey,

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Speaker 1: if you don't write an article about Texas that gets

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Speaker 1: X number of page views today, you're going to be fired.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this happens. I'm saying if this hypothetical

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Speaker 1: were to play out, and I had one opportunity to

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Speaker 1: write an article that got clicks about Texas, you know

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Speaker 1: what I put in the headline. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: some variation or some version of is Texas Back? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's why we see that so much. Is Texas Back?

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Speaker 1: That's just like Miami and Swagger. You put Miami and

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Speaker 1: Swagger in the same headline, it's going to get a

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Speaker 1: lot of clicks. So a lot of people get lazy

753
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Speaker 1: and that's all that they fall back on, and that

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Speaker 1: gets turned into the national narrative. And all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: if you live in Tacoma, Washington, or you live in

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Speaker 1: Silver Spring, Maryland, shout out Tony, and you don't live

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Speaker 1: around Texas, you think that all anyone talks about with

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Speaker 1: Texas is are they back? Or are they back? Well,

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Speaker 1: I've never sat at a watering hole in San Angelo,

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Speaker 1: Texas and listened to how Texas folks talk about Texas

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Speaker 1: lately at least, and so I don't I get the

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Speaker 1: sense you guys don't sit around and say, are we back?

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Speaker 1: It's Texas back. I don't get the sense that you

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Speaker 1: do that. I get the sense that you're probably talking

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Speaker 1: about the track record of Chris Ash and how different

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Speaker 1: things will look this year from a philosophical standpoint than

767
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Speaker 1: they were last year, and are you healthy this year?

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Speaker 1: I get the sense that on the ground the talk

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Speaker 1: is a lot different. In fact, I know it's a

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Speaker 1: lot different. Next up, lame Lowball eleven. I don't question

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Speaker 1: the screen names, especially when you guys submit questions virtually

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Speaker 1: every week. What stadiums do you think have the most

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Speaker 1: scenic venues, including the view outside the stadium and the

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Speaker 1: stadium itself. I personally think it's Brigham Young with the

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Speaker 1: mountains surrounding Lavelle Edwards Stadium, but that's in my incredibly

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Speaker 1: biased opinion. Well, I think you may be right about

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Speaker 1: Brigham Young. Anytime I've watched a BYU game. The reason

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Speaker 1: I say Brigham Young, let me pause and give you

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Speaker 1: full disclosure. If you grew up in West central Georgia,

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Speaker 1: it is hopeless trying to pronounce byu without sounding like

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Speaker 1: you're from west central Georgia. BYU, BYU, I can't wrap

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Speaker 1: the y. I can't do it. Why by you can't

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Speaker 1: do it? It seems very unnatural. It's like running backwards. Can't

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Speaker 1: do it. And so Brigham Young it is. Brigham Young

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Speaker 1: is of course very scenic. But see, I've never been there.

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Speaker 1: I've seen the pictures on TV and they are very pretty.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the West Coast venues I haven't been to. Now.

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Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl I have been to, and that one's

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Speaker 1: right up there. That first time I went to the

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Speaker 1: Rose Bowl was for a National championship game, and that

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Speaker 1: place was like a screen saver to me. Looked incredible.

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Speaker 1: It was a great setting. You got the sunset that

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Speaker 1: you wanted, the marine layer hadn't snuck in or anything

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Speaker 1: like that, so it was great. But I have not

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Speaker 1: been to a lot of those West Coast venues, which

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Speaker 1: obviously would just litter a top ten of most scenic anything.

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Speaker 1: And so until I get to go out west more often,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I can really in good faith finish

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Speaker 1: that list. All right. YouTube comment section. This is from Greg,

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Speaker 1: who I think may have misunderstood me on our previous show,

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Speaker 1: Greg says, so you think if Auburn loses to North Carolina, LSU, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: and Alabama, Gus isn't going to be on the hot seat.

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Speaker 1: I never said that. Someone asked me the other night

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Speaker 1: about hot seat and I did a segment on coaches

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Speaker 1: that were and weren't on the hot seat perceptionally, and

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Speaker 1: I said, Malzon's not on it. Well that's now if

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Speaker 1: we fast forward a year, anything could happen. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming if he goes eight and four, things wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be very comfortable for him. But he hasn't gone eight

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Speaker 1: and four, and chances are they're not going to lose

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Speaker 1: all four of those games. We'll see, but chances are

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Speaker 1: they're not going to lose all four. So Greg, we

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Speaker 1: will revisit this in December. Isaac. If the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: season is completely canceled, how do you anticipate it will

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Speaker 1: impact rosters? Will fewer players be drafted? Will scholarship limits

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Speaker 1: be increased? Is eligibility extended? Isaac? We've had calls here

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Speaker 1: internally this week about that. It's a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: I don't know, and that's not a run around people

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Speaker 1: in decision making positions, don't know. It's one of those

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Speaker 1: disaster scenarios that a lot of people just haven't They

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Speaker 1: haven't summoned the courage to even broach those topics yet

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Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, no, they just it's one

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Speaker 1: of the break glass in case sort of scenarios, and

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Speaker 1: no one wants to even structure what's under the glass.

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Speaker 1: They don't even want to figure it out. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: we never have to. Chris Youtobe, I'd like to hear

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Speaker 1: your take. Oh, actually, where he got to that one?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris. Jared on YouTube, you joke about people

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Speaker 1: not asking questions about teams like Nebraska, So I got

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Speaker 1: a Nebraska question. Good for you, Jared, because I had

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Speaker 1: another person two of them actually pop in the comment

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Speaker 1: section this week and accuse us of talking too much

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Speaker 1: about the top teams. As I tell you, guys, and

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Speaker 1: I continue to tell you, it is your show. It

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Speaker 1: is not my show. I have not written a single

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Speaker 1: one of these questions. It's all you. If you want

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Speaker 1: to talk Nebraska, or if you want to talk any team,

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Speaker 1: submit a question about that team, as Jared did, what

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Speaker 1: kind of year do you think Adrian Martinez will have?

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Speaker 1: This year. That's the quarterback in Nebraska. He's excited many

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Speaker 1: people the second half of his freshman year, but left

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00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: many wanting more in his sophomore campaign. Now, obviously that

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Speaker 1: was due to injury. If you guys didn't watch Nebraska

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Speaker 1: his freshman year, in which coincided with Scott Frost's first year,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of optimism, and then last year it

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Speaker 1: was sort of erased. Any opportunity was erased with injury,

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Speaker 1: and so it was a very subpar twenty nineteen twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty in turn leads to not many people expecting much

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Speaker 1: from them. But they've got a lot of pieces back. Now,

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Speaker 1: how valuable those pieces are, how far you can go

851
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: with those pieces remains to be seen. How good you

852
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: are at quarterback now remains to be seen. But I'll

853
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: tell you, if you wanted a real, real dark horse team,

854
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: if you wanted a team that no one's going to

855
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: pick in their top fifteen, but if you wanted a

856
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: team that has an opportunity to be there mid season,

857
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: take a long look at Nebraska. If Nebraska is healthy

858
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: at quarterback, and if things start to just click there

859
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: starts to just be synergy within that program. Simply because

860
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: the staff's been there three years now, a critical mass

861
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: of the staff. I think we've got some new coordinator

862
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: pieces there. But look at that in combination with Nebraska's schedule.

863
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: Nebraska's schedule is extremely back heavy, So I don't think

864
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: they're going on a run to a playoff or anything

865
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: like that. But it could be that that's the team

866
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: that wins a lot of close games early and they

867
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: get to the midpoint of the season and all of

868
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: a sudden, everyone's looking around saying, how in the world's

869
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: in Nebraska ranked fourteenth? Where did this come from? Just

870
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: take a look at Nebraska G Town nineteen eighty three

871
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: on YouTube. What's the most vicious hit you've ever seen

872
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: in person? This was to me the twenty sixteen season.

873
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: It was Texas A and m at Alabama. A lot

874
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: of these questions, like when people ask what's the best

875
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: blank that you've ever seen in person? A lot of

876
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: my answers are Alabama, And it makes it sound like

877
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: I have like crimson tied cheek stickers on my EyeBlack

878
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: right now, I guess they would be called EyeBlack stickers.

879
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: I always used real EyeBlack. I didn't believe in the stickers. Well,

880
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: my answers are all Alabama, not because of that, but

881
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: because in the time I've been covering college football, my

882
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 1: job was to be at the biggest game every week

883
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: in the South, especially, and it's always an Alabama game.

884
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: So all my experience is Alabama or someone playing Alabama

885
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: pretty much. And in turn, my answer to this question

886
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: is twenty sixteen, it was A and M at Alabama.

887
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: Speeding Oil was the returner kickoff returner for Texas. A

888
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: and M. Mac Wilson, who was a five star linebacker,

889
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: was a true freshman, and he hit Speeding Oil so

890
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: hard on a kickoff return that it sent off a

891
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: concussion like you would feel off a shotgun blast. It

892
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 1: sent off a concussion. I was probably standing about fifteen

893
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: yards away, maybe twenty yards away. It's one of the

894
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: only times in a packed stadium. It's one of the

895
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 1: only times I've ever felt the concussion off a hit.

896
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 1: I'm not a scientist. I don't understand how sound waves

897
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: and all that stuff work. I don't get how that happens,

898
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 1: but I know I felt it, and so Speeding Oil.

899
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the replay on TV. I

900
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: think it bent his face mask inward. It looked like

901
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 1: his face mask actually flexed. This is you can YouTube

902
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: probably Mac Wilson's speedy oil hit. It's the only one

903
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: that's gonna pop up. But to his credit, he got

904
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: he got up and he went to the sideline. Now

905
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: he was down on the sideline because I've stood there

906
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: and watched him. But the TV cameras didn't catch that.

907
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: So good for speeding, no oil, because a lot of

908
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 1: men have stayed down on hits not nearly as vicious

909
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: as that one. Jeffrey, do you see NFL helmets with

910
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: the built in mask to help protect the athletes from COVID?

911
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: Have you seen those mock ups? And if so, do

912
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: you think the NCAA will model those helmets? They may.

913
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: To me, it's all pointless, like they may. I was

914
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: reading an article yesterday about measures that could be taken

915
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: in games, and some of this stuff is so ridiculous

916
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 1: to me. It's not ridiculous to want to be safe.

917
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: It's not ridiculous to want to stop the spread of

918
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: a disease. We're not playing ultimate frisbee, guys, We're playing

919
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: football here. You are touching someone, you are on your

920
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,720
Speaker 1: in piles, you're standing next to someone, you were handing

921
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: an object that was just in your hands to someone

922
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: else to hold in their hands. And we're talking about

923
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: taking measures like putting masks in helmets. Another measure I

924
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: saw is requiring players to put on a mask on

925
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,479
Speaker 1: a sideline as soon as they take their helmet off

926
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: and space themselves out on the sideline. Like, what is

927
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: this accomplishing? You talk about rearranging deck chairs on a Titanic.

928
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: If you feel the sport is not safe enough to play,

929
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: you just don't play it. How are you about to

930
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: play something if if it's from a liability standpoint, and

931
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: then I get it, that's got to be all that's

932
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 1: in play or maybe perception, because making football a safe

933
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: sport to play from an infectious disease standpoint, you either

934
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: play it or you don't. I don't care what the

935
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 1: helmet looks like. But having said that, yeah, I could

936
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: see it. Jeffrey monstro Town on YouTube. What steps does

937
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 1: Bonix need to take to improve? That's the quarterback at Auburn.

938
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: I think he might need to show more mobility with

939
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: the departure of most of his offensive line. Yeah, I

940
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: could agree with you. Empty but I think consistency, and

941
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 1: that's in all facets of his game is what needs

942
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: to improve. He's shown flashes. I mean I was at

943
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: their state championship game against who did they play? I

944
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: can't even remember who they played now, but I watched

945
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: him in the state championship game when he was in

946
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: Alabama and man stud I was sold on him that day.

947
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: And then I watched him in Auburn's spring game as

948
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: a true freshman and everyone was Joey Gatewood. Joey Gatewood,

949
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: I said, that kid's the one that's going to start,

950
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: and sure enough, he ends up starting. Now, he was inconsistent,

951
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: as a lot of true freshmen are got to have

952
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: a quicker release, better pocket awareness. Think about the Florida game.

953
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: If those of you who are listening remember the Auburn

954
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: Florida game last year, it was rough. Accuracy has been

955
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: an issue. That's not all on him. But as you said,

956
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: they lose a lot of pieces in the offensive line.

957
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: They get a new piece at offensive coordinated with Chad Morris,

958
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: and that's the hope that a lot of people have

959
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: there is their passing game will be elevated to a

960
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: different level than it's ever been under Males on and

961
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: that's what I wait to see. Will on YouTube. Who's

962
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: your number one quarterback this decade? What are you basing

963
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: it off of all time grete one season results like

964
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: Burrow and Cam or multiple great seasons like Mariota or Mayfield.

965
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: I'll probably lean towards the one year, Like I want

966
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: to know, what were you at your best? So Joe

967
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: Burrow is there? Cam's there to a tongue of Ilo

968
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,240
Speaker 1: is one of the best I've ever seen at his best.

969
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: Sadly we didn't get seen at his best enough, but

970
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: at his best, in fact, at his best. I don't

971
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: think I saw a quarterback in person better than Tua

972
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: and I saw Lawrence. I saw all these guys in person.

973
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: We didn't get seen at his best enough, but Joe Burrow. Yeah. Man,

974
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: My answer, all things considered, probably is Joe Burrow here

975
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: in tangibles and tangibles and tangibles. So incredible to watch

976
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: that guy, especially considering I had just watched him the

977
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 1: season before get shut out at home versus Alabama. Incredible transformation.

978
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: Lee on Twitter, Actually we already got to that one too, Lee.

979
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: See this is what happens you record on the fly Toddy,

980
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 1: don't edit that out. You get the mistakes, you get everything.

981
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: Lee on Twitter, it seems to me I just read

982
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 1: two questions back to fact Tony. You know what. You

983
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: can edit that out if you want to, but I

984
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: leave it up to your discretion. All right, David, I

985
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: know we haven't asked this question. David on Twitter, you've

986
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: talked on your show about how LSU has surpassed Alabama

987
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: in sports technology. To preface, I said they passed them

988
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: recently in the field of sports science and technology. Yes, Continuing,

989
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: you've also talked about how Nick Saban himself has admitted

990
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: they had grown stagnant in that part of their program.

991
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: Scott Cochrane was with them for thirteen years. He was

992
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: the only guy that stuck with Saban in that rotating

993
00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: door of coaches, even if their parting ways was based

994
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: on an effort to improve their conditioning and strengthening program.

995
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: You lose a part of your locker room and a

996
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: big part of Saban in Alabama's philosophy. Let me pause

997
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: there now, Remember Scott Cochrane chose to leave there. He

998
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: didn't get fired, he didn't get pushed out the door.

999
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: He chose to leave having said that, I can tell

1000
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:23,280
Speaker 1: you whereas it was a huge headline nationally, internally, people

1001
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: at Alabama weren't all that upset, not because he's a

1002
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: bad person, but because they knew change was needed and

1003
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: they were going to I've talked to Nick Saban himself

1004
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: about this a month and a half ago. I mean,

1005
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: he sat there and he flatly said, whether whether Scott

1006
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: Cochran left or not, we were changing things. We were

1007
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 1: going in a different direction. And now if he was

1008
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 1: here or not, we were going in a different direction.

1009
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: So just remember, let's properly contextualize all this. All right,

1010
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: we continue, we're talking about a guy who smashed their

1011
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: second place trophy from the twenty seventeen season. Also, if

1012
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: they're trying to implement a program more advanced than Cochrane's,

1013
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: won't it take a few seasons to get back to

1014
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,399
Speaker 1: the top, especially during a pandemic. No, David, I don't

1015
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: believe it will at all. I don't believe. I believe

1016
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: they're more advanced now today than they were under Cochran.

1017
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: I fully believe that that's not me experiencing the program,

1018
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: that's me talking to people there. I'm very careful here

1019
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: because This is not men as disrespect to Scott Cochran.

1020
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: Cochrane was a godsend for them at one point, and

1021
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: he they set the standard for what strength and conditioning

1022
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,439
Speaker 1: was in the modern age of college football. The only

1023
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: difference between that aspect of the Alabama program and their defense,

1024
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: for instance, is their defense continue to evolve. After Nick

1025
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: Marshall and Johnny Manziel made them look foolish, they evolved defensively.

1026
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: Their strength and conditioning never evolved. It was the same

1027
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty as it was in twenty ten. That's

1028
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: a problem, and so they had to change it and

1029
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: they have, and a lot of the sports technology and

1030
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: sports science aspects they brought in speed training. It's already

1031
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: night and day different. They haven't even opened camp, and

1032
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: people in Tuscaloosa, to a man rave about the jumps

1033
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: that they've made. It's almost like having ridden a tricycle

1034
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: and then someone gives you a bike like that trick

1035
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: was great for a long time, but then you realize

1036
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: this is what a bike feels like. Wow. So no, David,

1037
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: I don't think so at all. If you didn't have

1038
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,439
Speaker 1: the athletes, that's what would take a long time. They've

1039
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: got the athletes. Matthew on Twitter, How did Chris Peterson

1040
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: make Boise State become a powerhouse and compete with the

1041
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: big boys? What are Memphis, Cincinnati and UCF doing right

1042
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: now that set them apart from Houston and SMU in

1043
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: East Carolina. Obviously, schools like Boise can't recruit at a

1044
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: high level. So I was just wondering what they did

1045
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: to compete and win at a high level. Well, it's

1046
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: just that it's the last things you said. What it

1047
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: takes to compete and win at a high level. All

1048
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: the boring stuff, you know, like a razor sharp focus

1049
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: on process over result, having a process oriented mentality, grinding

1050
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: day to day, having incremental improvements day to day over

1051
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,919
Speaker 1: a broad spectrum of different facets of your program. Again,

1052
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: like I said, all the boring stuff, it's not headline, Graby,

1053
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: But when you do those things consistently, you find that

1054
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of people can execute that. So

1055
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: just as a result of doing the basic things consistently effectively,

1056
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: you end up having incremental improvements over your competition, and

1057
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: they add up and all of a sudden you're beating

1058
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: someone sixty three to twenty and you're saying, Wow, they

1059
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: had the same amount of money to spend on coaching

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Speaker 1: staff as we do. They have the same amount of

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Speaker 1: scholarships we do. Why are we so much better? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not that on any one given day you're that

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Speaker 1: much better. It's that you were just a little bit

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Speaker 1: better every day and it added up to that. That's

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Speaker 1: what Chris Peterson did it Boise, and he did it

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Speaker 1: at a disadvantage. He was in a conference, for example,

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Speaker 1: with Fresno State. Where do you think it's easier to

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Speaker 1: recruit Boise, Idaho or Fresno, California? And yet he overcame

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Speaker 1: a lot of that. So I was so impressed with

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Speaker 1: Chris Peterson. Jonathan on Twitter, I don't think that Herman

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Speaker 1: and Texas recruit well nationally. Can Texas win only recruiting

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Speaker 1: the state of Texas like they have been or do

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Speaker 1: we need to branch out to compete with the Clemsons

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Speaker 1: and Alabamas of the world. Interesting conversation to be had here.

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Speaker 1: There's always this talk about Texas players. There's always this

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Speaker 1: talk about are they more maxed out on average than

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Speaker 1: players from other regions? But I don't even think it's

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Speaker 1: about that so much. I think it's just about this.

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Speaker 1: Texas is not a national recruiting brand cause they've never

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Speaker 1: had to be, and they've never had to be for

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Speaker 1: obvious reasons. The state's loaded, and so you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not an apples to apples comparison. Clemson has to leave

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Speaker 1: the state of South Carolina because they don't have forty

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Speaker 1: two four star or higher rated players in the Palmetto

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Speaker 1: State every year, same for Alabama. Texas does. And so

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Speaker 1: what kind of athlete do you want and what kind

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00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: of athlete do you think you have in your backyard?

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00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: Like do you think you have enough offensive and defensive

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Speaker 1: linemen in the state of Texas? Is it mainly perimeter

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Speaker 1: skills state? Like what is it pumping out? And so

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Speaker 1: I always think it's advantageous to extend your brand knowing

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Speaker 1: they're in any given cycle. Maybe you don't have to

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Speaker 1: go into the tide water of Virginia, maybe you don't

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Speaker 1: have to go into southern California, but just know that

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Speaker 1: you can. Now it's obvious why they haven't, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's important to know that you can. Chris

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Ohio State every year is mentioned as one

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Speaker 1: of the big dogs. You're in year out, but they've

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Speaker 1: only won two titles in since two thousand. With the

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Speaker 1: way they recruit every year and the development evident by

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Speaker 1: the NFL draft every year, have they underachieved? I get

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Speaker 1: that winning a title is hard, but from all the

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Speaker 1: guys they recruit and all the guys they into the NFL,

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Speaker 1: only two in twenty years. I paraphrased a little bit there.

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Speaker 1: Here is the way I would answer this, Chris. If

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Speaker 1: you took one team out of the sport, remove Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Let's pretend Alabama went eight and four every year over

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Speaker 1: the past decade and a half. How differently would you

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Speaker 1: view Ohio States two titles and twenty years. You would

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Speaker 1: think it's pretty good. You think it's right on par

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Speaker 1: with what you would expect because you would still remember

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Speaker 1: it's extremely hard to win a championship, extremely hard. It's

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Speaker 1: just that someone came along and made it look too easy.

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Speaker 1: Alabama has made it look too easy. Alabama's won five

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Speaker 1: of them under Nick Saban in thirteen years. I think

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Speaker 1: that's how long he's been there, And it's not that easy.

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Speaker 1: So it's like talking about the Braves in the World Series,

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Speaker 1: like they won fourteen division titles. They won one World

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Speaker 1: Series title. Well, you only think that's bad because of

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Speaker 1: what the Yankees were able to do. So remove what

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Speaker 1: the Yankees did and then think about the Braves, and

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Speaker 1: it's pretty good. It's hard to win a World Series.

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Speaker 1: But then you have a team winning three in a row,

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Speaker 1: four out of five or whatever they did, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, No, Man, one's not so good anymore.

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Speaker 1: So I get the centiment both ways, but No. Two

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Speaker 1: in twenty years is winning a title every decade on

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Speaker 1: average is still pretty good. And they're there every year.

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Speaker 1: It's not like they win one and then collapse. Like

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Speaker 1: let's use another baseball analogy, like the Marlins used to do.

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Speaker 1: They'd win a World Series total collapse, build build, bild

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Speaker 1: won a World Series totally collapse. That's not Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: Let's go with Austin on Twitter. In twenty sixteen, Tennessee

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Speaker 1: went five and oh they beat Florida and Georgia went

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Speaker 1: on to almost beat a and M had six turnovers

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Speaker 1: after that, straight downhill. In your opinion, what went wrong?

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Speaker 1: How do you beat Florida and Georgia and not go

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta. I think we talked about this about a

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Speaker 1: month ago, but it's the most fascinating. If I could

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Speaker 1: do a documentary on one team, if I could get

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01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: everyone on the record, and I could have the layers

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Speaker 1: totally peeled back, curtain opened, you could see everything about

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Speaker 1: the team. Twenty sixteen Tennessee, that's the one I want.

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Speaker 1: I want to see that one that was so fascinating.

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Speaker 1: I was there for all those games, and I was

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Speaker 1: there for that Georgia game. I told that story about

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Speaker 1: a month ago. I ended up in their locker room

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Speaker 1: because I was wearing an orange polo that day. I

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Speaker 1: was on the field covering the game, and it was

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Speaker 1: such a wild scene. But how do you do it?

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Speaker 1: You do it because you have about three months worth

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01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: of gas in a tank that requires four months. That's

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Speaker 1: how I mean. Imagine your cruising along the interstate. Everything

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Speaker 1: feels great, and then you run out of gas. What happens, Well,

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Speaker 1: you come to a stop. That's what Tennessee did. They

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Speaker 1: had enough gas to get through Georgia, to get through Florida,

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Speaker 1: and then they ran out of gas. And not only

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Speaker 1: did they lose in College Station, they got obliterated by Alabama.

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Speaker 1: They lost to South Carolina, and so yeah, when you

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Speaker 1: run out of gas. When you run out of gas,

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01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 1: someone on a scooter can fly past you. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of what Tennessee ended up doing that year. Good stuff.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's going to wrap us up for this week.

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Speaker 1: There may be some spillover. I think there are a

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Speaker 1: couple that I didn't get to. If I didn't get

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Speaker 1: to them, it's not that I'm ignoring them. I pull

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Speaker 1: a couple of questions out sometimes to use on Late

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Speaker 1: Kick Live. And sometimes I'll pull one out like a

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Speaker 1: John Swafford acc question. I saw one in here that's

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Speaker 1: something I'm working on for something in the future, so

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Speaker 1: I leave it out. And sometimes I correspond with you guys,

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Speaker 1: and I tell you they don't be mad. I'm not

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Speaker 1: answering because of this. But even if I don't, I

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Speaker 1: see every one of them, so I appreciate keep submitting them,

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Speaker 1: and we are going to do this every Wednesday, obviously,

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Speaker 1: So give us those five star reviews. I don't beg,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just pretend I'm begging. Do what you would

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Speaker 1: do if I were begging, But don't make me beg.

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Speaker 1: Five star reviews and the podcast reviews, those are really

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01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 1: really great. We really appreciate those. We do Late Kick

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01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: Live on the twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel

1182
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: every Thursday night and Sunday night, eight eastern seventh Central.

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01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: You can also follow me on Twitter at late kick Josh.

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Speaker 1: Some of you have, that's another just a simple request

1185
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: a follow on Twitter. That's all I ask at late

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Speaker 1: Kick Josh. Thanks for listening you guys, have a great week.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again, same time next week