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Speaker 1: you like to do that? Have you ever seen a

429
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Speaker 1: palm tree before? Would you like to come out here?

430
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Speaker 1: And you can do it. It's called the transfer portal.

431
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,199
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly is living his best life right now, is

432
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: a college football coach, and he's like decades into his career.

433
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: That's what I mean when I say the game has

434
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Speaker 1: come to Chip Kelly. If you just it's the opposite

435
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Speaker 1: of the strategy MEMI used to tell me. Mem said,

436
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Speaker 1: you want something, go get it. Well, I'm telling Chip Kelly,

437
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,439
Speaker 1: you want something, just sit still until it comes to you.

438
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what college football has done. You can

439
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 1: sit still or go to academy Sports and Outdoors. You

440
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,640
Speaker 1: can do whatever you want to. They have academy dot Com.

441
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 1: If you just want to sit at home, They've got

442
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: the big, bright, shiny brick and mortar stores. If you

443
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Speaker 1: want to go out and actually be social. I'm probably

444
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Speaker 1: more the former rather than the latter, but you do

445
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Speaker 1: you whatever you do. When you're gearing up this spring,

446
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: just make sure you go to Academy Sports and Outdoors.

447
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 1: I think the one thing that I've been asked more.

448
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,400
Speaker 1: Two things I've been asked, okay, number one, hunting accessories.

449
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Speaker 1: In the fall, people ask me about it a lot. Yes, yes, yes,

450
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: they got it. And then spring. I've had grill questions

451
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 1: this week because I really think that we have become

452
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 1: so intertwined with Academy that some people think I work there,

453
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: like this is my hobby, and then my nine to

454
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: five is I'm a greeter at Academy. I don't tell

455
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Speaker 1: them I'm not. For the record, so, yes, we have

456
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Speaker 1: a fine selection of all kinds of different name brand grills. Yes,

457
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Speaker 1: yes we can fit your needs. Depending on the budget,

458
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: we can fit your needs. And so it's not just

459
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Speaker 1: bats and balls over there. They got tents, they got grills,

460
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Speaker 1: they got all different kinds of things. So Academy Sports

461
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: and Outdoors they've been our partner basically forever. We think

462
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Speaker 1: they will be our partner forever. We went to lunch

463
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Speaker 1: with them last week and certainly no end inside of

464
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Speaker 1: that relationship. If anything, there is there is a sign

465
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Speaker 1: that we're even ready to take the next step, which

466
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Speaker 1: at this point would just be us doing the show

467
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Speaker 1: from Academy every night. Hoops to Knows hoops to knows

468
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Speaker 1: what's possible. In the meantime, I just humbly suggest you

469
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Speaker 1: go to Academy for all your outdoor sporting goods needs,

470
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: and in a relatively unrelated follow up like the video,

471
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Speaker 1: and subscribe to the channel. These three things I ask

472
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Speaker 1: of you today. Let's see what we should talk about here.

473
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Speaker 1: You know what's back, and it excites me to no

474
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Speaker 1: end to tell you the mood tracker is back. The

475
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Speaker 1: mood tracker is just where we take our thermometer and

476
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Speaker 1: boom safely into the fan base and then we pull

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Speaker 1: it out. And what does thermometer say. Well, it doesn't

478
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Speaker 1: give us a temperature reading. It gives us a mood reading.

479
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Speaker 1: This is not the fringe five percent on either side

480
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Speaker 1: that think you're going undefeated or you're going winless. We

481
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Speaker 1: want to know what the normal the everyday Florida fan

482
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Speaker 1: is thinking right now, because it hasn't been the most

483
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Speaker 1: fun last several months. You had the Jaden Rashata thie

484
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Speaker 1: and this has been seen nationally, by the way, a

485
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Speaker 1: lot of people nationally when they mentioned Florida football Billy

486
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: Napier right now, they're thinking, oh, that's that school that

487
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: lost down in Rashada. Oh, they've had back to back

488
00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: losing seasons, first time since seventy eight and seventy nine.

489
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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? That's the last time Florida had

490
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Speaker 1: back to back losing seasons, and they've had a bunch

491
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Speaker 1: of coaches leave. So this is a synopsis of what

492
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Speaker 1: the nation thinks about Florida. What is the mood inside

493
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: the Florida fan base. No one knows how to get

494
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Speaker 1: inside the heads of Florida fans more than me, and

495
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 1: I say that both sarcastically and realistically, because we have

496
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Speaker 1: such a love hate relationship with the Florida fanbase. By that,

497
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Speaker 1: I mean some of them think we hate them for

498
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Speaker 1: no reason, and we actually love them for many reasons.

499
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Speaker 1: And that's how the love hate relationship works. Armed and

500
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Speaker 1: ready is how I describe the mood of the Florida

501
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: fan base right now. You see, they love Florida. They know,

502
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Speaker 1: they have a keen sense of awareness when outsiders are

503
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Speaker 1: trying to come after them, especially when some outsiders, let's

504
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: say in the regional and national media, not even to

505
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Speaker 1: mention other fan bases, are using some tough times to

506
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Speaker 1: disproportionately paint a negative light over the program. The reshot

507
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: of stuff happened, losing coaches, although I would argue they

508
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: didn't lose them. I mean, going to the NFL is

509
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: not losing anyone. But that's happened. Them not recruiting quite

510
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Speaker 1: as well as people have wanted. Yeah, that's happened. It's

511
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Speaker 1: also not dire straits down there. And the back to

512
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Speaker 1: back losing seasons thing is not something Billy Napier brought

513
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Speaker 1: with him necessarily. It's a lot of what he inherited.

514
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Speaker 1: So anyway, you know, my strategy is normally to err

515
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Speaker 1: on the side of benefit of the doubt in the spring.

516
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Speaker 1: The fan base doesn't have to be that way though.

517
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Speaker 1: What I mean when I say the Florida mood is

518
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Speaker 1: armed and dangerous is these people are ready to fight

519
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Speaker 1: for Billy Napier. These people are ready to fully buy

520
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Speaker 1: in this. Folks are ready to go to war for him.

521
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: They just have to be given a reason to believe.

522
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Speaker 1: One of the great Rod Stewart songs of all time,

523
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: and I highly recommend the unplugged version. You give them

524
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Speaker 1: a reason to believe, and that's all they'll need. Just need,

525
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Speaker 1: just need the spark, just need the spark. Thought we

526
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Speaker 1: had it next year when they beat Utah, and then

527
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: the Kentucky game happened the next week and Anthony Ridgarson

528
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: had no clue where the ball was even going, and

529
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: then they started slipping and slipping and slipping and slipping away. Well,

530
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: what do they need this year? What do they need?

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Speaker 1: What is that? What is that reason to believe? Well,

532
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the first one would be sure would

533
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: help if Graham Mertz ended up fulfilling on some of

534
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: the early whispers. And there are never negative whispers in

535
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Speaker 1: the spring. So I know I've had a lot of

536
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Speaker 1: you hit me up and what do you think about

537
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: Graham Mertz? Now, Well, what I think is he's gone

538
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: for He's gone through a few practices down there in

539
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: shorts and he's looked like most quarterbacks doing shorts. Let's

540
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: give it some time. I have help the suspicion that

541
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: Graham Mertz is going to light the sec on fire.

542
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: But I'm the same person who believed in it Wisconsin

543
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: two years ago. So who knows, Maybe he'll round into

544
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: form down there. That would help. That's the first thing.

545
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: The second thing is the replacements that Billy Napier has

546
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: had to bring in, you know, the Austin Armstrongs of

547
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: the world. For example, on defense, they have to pay off.

548
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: They have to he has to hit on his coaching additions. Now,

549
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: you can either look at the defensive losses one of

550
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: two ways. You can either say, uh, oh, they lost

551
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator or you can say, ooh, they were

552
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: one hundred and second in yards per game allowed last year.

553
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: We need change defensively. I would probably, especially if I

554
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Speaker 1: were a Florida fan, choose to lean towards the latter mentality.

555
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: But really, here's what it comes down to. Okay, we're

556
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Speaker 1: talking about individualized aspects of the program. What it really

557
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: comes down to is the aggregate of the gains that

558
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: you have in the year one to year two transition

559
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: under a quality coach have to be enough to overcome

560
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: the individual losses. They have to be enough to overcome

561
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: the individual negatives. You're going to have leaks, certainly, but

562
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: if you're bailing water faster, then the water's coming in.

563
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: That's all you need. You're not going to be a

564
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: finished product in year two. And what I respect about Napier,

565
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: and I've listened to him talk a lot down there,

566
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Speaker 1: is he he's no different. His mentality's no different than

567
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Speaker 1: the guy in Athens, than the guy in Tuscaloosa. He

568
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have quite the experience level of some of those guys,

569
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Speaker 1: but his mentality is no different. He's got a system,

570
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: got a process he believes in, doesn't particularly care what

571
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: outsiders think, and he's gonna stick to it. We have

572
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 1: seen Mike Norvel do that recently at Florida State, and

573
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: it is just now starting to pay off. Had Mike

574
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: Norvel cared what people said about him the first two years,

575
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: he never would have seen it through to year three.

576
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: If the administration cared what other folks were saying, they

577
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't have allowed Mike Norvel to make it through to

578
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Speaker 1: year three. Now I know my friend's don in Gainesville

579
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want the tallahassee the Gainesville corollary here, but

580
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: broad strokes purposes. What I mean is you gotta give

581
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: a guy time. You can't tell me how disastrous the

582
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: end of the last regime was, but then say, well,

583
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: if the other guy, the next guy didn't win in

584
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: year one, we're screwed. Now You're not Norvelle. Wasn't I

585
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: happen to think Sark in Texas will make a jump

586
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: this year, and we'll find ourselves talking about him similarly. Sark,

587
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: wasn't you just needed three years? Sometimes, even this day

588
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,479
Speaker 1: and age, you need three years. Lincoln Riley didn't need

589
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: three years. Each situation is different, apples to bowling balls.

590
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: Maybe he needs two years, maybe he needs three years.

591
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart almost lost to Nickels State his first year,

592
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Speaker 1: and that was at Georgia. That was a much more

593
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: pristine situation than any of the guys I just mentioned inherited.

594
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: So let's just give it a little time. But the

595
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: Florida mood armed and ready. You give him just an

596
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: ankling of a reason to believe, and they'll be the

597
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: Florida fans that we all know and love. They're watching

598
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: us in Indianapolis, Indiana. They're watching us in Kensington, Maryland.

599
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: And they're watching us in Valley, Alabama, home of the Rams.

600
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: One of the more underrated high school stadiums in the

601
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Speaker 1: state of Alabama that I've seen is the stadium there

602
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: at Valley. I forget the name of it, but really

603
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: really well constructed. Not the easiest place to get to,

604
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: but really well constructed. Alrighty, I think it's as good

605
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: a time as any to take a sip from the chalice,

606
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: because I am going to have to choke down what

607
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm about to have to respond to. Oh boy, I

608
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: love March Madness before I even Colin, I don't even

609
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: want this in the video. I love March Madness, love it.

610
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: I should also take this time to let you know

611
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: a lot of you have asked, are we going to

612
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: do a late kick bracket pool. Why not. We'll put

613
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: Bradley in charge of it. So yes, stay tuned, follow

614
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: on the socials at Late Kick, Josh. I'll probably over

615
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours and the Tuesday Late Kick

616
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: Extra Pod give you the details and instructions there. I

617
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: love this time of year two. What I am about

618
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: to read I do not love all right, Colin, here's

619
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: you're in. You got death, you got taxes, and you

620
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: got these insane college basketball to college football format comparisons

621
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: that hurl themselves towards us like asteroids this time of year.

622
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: Aiden chose to be the pinata this year, and Aiden

623
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: said everyone is focused on the excitement of March Madness

624
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: brackets being revealed today. I guess you still say this

625
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't work for college football though, from Frankfort, Kentucky, the

626
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: capital of Kentucky. Aiden you're not in here, so I

627
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna have to ask you a question and

628
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: answer for you. If you're asking me if I'm saying

629
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: that a sixty four team playoff wouldn't work in college football,

630
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: let me never have been more clearer than I'm about

631
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: to be. Yes, I'm telling you a sixty four team

632
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: playoff wouldn't work for college football. I know that I

633
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: am not talking to ninety eight percent of you right now,

634
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: although I think most of you would be entertained by it,

635
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: just like I am responding to this sort of thing.

636
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: This is my life. These are what some of my

637
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: dms look like. It's not just Outer Bank season four

638
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: plot suggestions of which I am buried under right now.

639
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: Inside joke, if you know, you know, But I get

640
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Speaker 1: this a lot. I get this world of anytime something

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Speaker 1: happens in another sport that even loosely resembles what someone

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Speaker 1: has once upon a time asked for in college football,

643
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how logically bankrupted is. Someone comes and

644
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: they wag their finger at me, and they never have

645
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Speaker 1: their real name or their face and their profile by

646
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Speaker 1: the way, and they wag their finger and they say,

647
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Speaker 1: I guess I guess you say this still wouldn't work

648
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Speaker 1: in college football? Who doesn't say that? Who out there

649
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: is saying a sixty fourteen playoff would work? So are

650
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: there are some nuance to be had here? So I'll

651
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: follow you because there is a germ of a legitimate

652
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: argument in this. But first I'm gonna whale away at

653
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: the more ridiculous exterior of this argument, because even expansionists

654
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Speaker 1: don't want this. We have got a sizeable portion of

655
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Speaker 1: our audience that disagrees with me on college football playoff expansion,

656
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Speaker 1: whether they would like it or not. I don't like it.

657
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: Some of you would like it. Even those of you

658
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Speaker 1: who would like it are in unison with me in saying,

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Speaker 1: go sit by the garbage, Nathan, No one wants a

660
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Speaker 1: sixty fourteen college football playoff, like one percent of us.

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00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: One percent of us think that, and you would be

662
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Speaker 1: terrified to know what other worldviews that one percent holds.

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Speaker 1: So I welcome you, subscribe to the channel while you're here.

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Speaker 1: But the ninety nine percent of us, I think, understand

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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. You may want a twelve teamer or a

666
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Speaker 1: sixteen team, or an eight teamer, but virtually none of

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00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: you want sixty four. So then after Nathan has gone

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Speaker 1: and sat by the garbage, then some other slightly more

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Speaker 1: reasonable minded folks come over and they wave it Nathan

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Speaker 1: on the way by, and they say, yeah, Josh, but

671
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: you even say a twelve team college football playoff wouldn't work,

672
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Speaker 1: And I have to stop you. I have to do

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Speaker 1: the I never said that we had to have this

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Speaker 1: little argument amongst ourselves the other day. Remember this, I

675
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Speaker 1: never said that if we can just look at that

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00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: point in a bubble for a second, here's the bubble.

677
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Speaker 1: If we could ever look at that point in a bubble,

678
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Speaker 1: I think the twelve team college football playoff will be

679
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Speaker 1: ultra exciting, especially the first few years. It'll be ultra exciting.

680
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Speaker 1: The selection Sunday, I guess we would have one of

681
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Speaker 1: those like we do now, very exciting. None of this

682
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 1: I have ever suggested otherwise. From so then I guess

683
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Speaker 1: maybe if you just heard me say I'm not for

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Speaker 1: playoff expansion a second ago, you're saying, well, sure sounds

685
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Speaker 1: like you're for playoff expansion. No, I've just always very

686
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: simply pointed out, it's not in a vacuum, it's not

687
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: in a bubble. There's something you have to give up

688
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: to get that. So, as I promised you a month ago,

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Speaker 1: I'm not relitigating all that. But whether it would work

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Speaker 1: or not as a mechanism versus whether it works in

691
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Speaker 1: meshing with what I think is the best for the sport,

692
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: those are two different concepts. But we really always circle

693
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Speaker 1: back to this thing that the most casual amongst us

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Speaker 1: this time of year, do they understand that it's a very,

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Speaker 1: very entertaining time of year. It's the time of year

696
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Speaker 1: for college basketball, and it's entertaining, and everyone gets into it.

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00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: I mean, my sister will fill out a bracket and

698
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: she thinks Drake is some dude she was in second

699
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: grade with. So everyone gets into March madness. And therefore

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00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: some of the more casual minded folks out there take

701
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: it upon themselves to prey on the situation and leverage

702
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Speaker 1: your emotion against you, and at the perfect time, watch

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Speaker 1: and see what I tell you. Buzzer beater round one

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Speaker 1: fifteen takes down to someone's gonna go on Twitter as

705
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Speaker 1: sure as I sit here, and they're gonna say, imagine

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Speaker 1: not wanting this in college football, and I'm just gonna

707
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go punch a wall somewhere. Imagine not

708
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Speaker 1: wanting what in college football. That same person, of course,

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Speaker 1: is I mean probably already typing with their elbows and

710
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: all caps to begin with. But if I could have

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00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: a nuanced conversation with that person, I would say, imagine

712
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Speaker 1: not having this in college foot Hey, this fifteen seed

713
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: that just beat this two seed. What did you think

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00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: about them in November? What was your favorite game they

715
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Speaker 1: played in December? When did did they start to round

716
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: into form in January? Could you give me some of

717
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: the high points of their February? And the answers would

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Speaker 1: be I don't know, probably not know, and definitely know

719
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Speaker 1: because the first time most of you paid attention to

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Speaker 1: that fifteen seed was in late March when the tournament started,

721
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: because the very format of college basketball suggests that you

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Speaker 1: don't have to pay much attention until March. I have

723
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Speaker 1: never hated on college basketball, and I never will because

724
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Speaker 1: it's not the sport I cover. I'm entertained by it,

725
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Speaker 1: just like you are. I leave well enough alone. If

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Speaker 1: that is what works for college basketball, that's what works

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Speaker 1: for college basketball. I am never one of these people

728
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: who grabs my little tom Tom and starts beating on

729
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: it and saying, well, well does it Well, the NBA doesn't. Well,

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00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: college basketball doesn't. There's no logic behind it. College basketball

731
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Speaker 1: does what? College basketball plays on wood instead of grass.

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00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: College basketball is round instead of shape like football? Should

733
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Speaker 1: we should we implement those changes? It works for them?

734
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Speaker 1: Do well, Josh, we'll just talk about football. Well, the

735
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: NFL does this, Why shouldn't college football do it? Do

736
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Speaker 1: you really want to follow that through to a logical

737
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Speaker 1: conclusion and find out how dumb it is? Would you

738
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: like trades? Do you want free agency? Kind of already

739
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: had that in college football? But do you want trades?

740
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: Do you want cuts? Do you want salary cap? Like?

741
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: Should we just institute everything? Do you want a kid

742
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: to wake up one morning and Mike Gundy come in

743
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: and say, Trevor, I've got to talk to you. You

744
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: have been traded to FAU. You have until noon to

745
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: pack your bags and get on a flight. It works

746
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So yes, it is that time of year,

747
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: and yes I will be entertained right along with you.

748
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Speaker 1: I just hope that we can all be adults enough.

749
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna really go hard on the a.

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Speaker 1: There adults enough this time of year and every time

751
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Speaker 1: of year to watch what's great about one sport and

752
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: then just stop, just enjoy it for being great and

753
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: being that sport and not have to go all y'all

754
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: y'aw and ro rob rob Ron. I can't believe you

755
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: don't want this in college football. Believe it because I

756
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: don't and you don't either. You just don't know it yet.

757
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: Jet I handled it better this year than I did

758
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: last year. Last year, I just screamed, and I'm not

759
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: a yeller. We all know that my voice will leave

760
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: on a moment's notice. In fact, I'm going to take

761
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: another sit from the chalice right now. So yeah, it

762
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Speaker 1: it occurs to me as we're on the air that,

763
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: as is the case with every live show, there are

764
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: a few hundred people that are going to watch this

765
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: show and it's the first show they've ever seen, or

766
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: maybe you're listening on podcasts, it's the first show you've

767
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: ever listened to, and you may think to yourself, what

768
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: have I stumbled upon? This is called Late Kick, and

769
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: it is a year round college Football show. Obviously, we

770
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: don't talk about any other sport, and we do not

771
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: believe in the off season to the point where we

772
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Speaker 1: don't even say the word. We would like you to

773
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Speaker 1: be a part of our number here. It grows by

774
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: the week, and we would like you to be part

775
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: of it. And you don't have to pay anything. You

776
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 1: don't have to sign up for anything. You just kind

777
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: of show up when we have the show, and we

778
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: have our own university. It's called Pate State. Maybe you'll

779
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: buy a T shirt one day. We'll see going to

780
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Speaker 1: open the store again later this spring. You know what,

781
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: if you're good at that sort of thing e commerce design,

782
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: hit me up. May not go anywhere, but hit me up.

783
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Speaker 1: I have a few ideas for that. All right, We

784
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: had another question and it's about two very big names,

785
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Speaker 1: So let me hit this. I was gonna save it

786
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Speaker 1: for Tuesday, but why not, We'll throw it in now.

787
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: Sade hit me up and said, checking in from Brian, Texas.

788
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Speaker 1: Could this season be completely wide open with so many

789
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: top teams having quarterbacks weaknesses? Now, I'm not totally sure

790
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: what weakness is, but I got the impression that by

791
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: mentioning top teams and weaknesses. Sade took it to mean

792
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Speaker 1: that anyone who doesn't have a returning starter has weakness

793
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Speaker 1: at quarterback, and it may be a wide open season.

794
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't look at some of

795
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: these schools, like Georgia, who doesn't have Stetson Bennett anymore.

796
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call Georgia having weakness at quarterback. I don't

797
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: think Alabama, once we see a quarterback move on, I

798
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: don't view them as having weakness at quarterback. Ohio State,

799
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Speaker 1: I mean we're watching Bryce Young as CJ. Stroud move

800
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Speaker 1: on from those two schools I just mentioned. I don't

801
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: think they're necessarily looking at a weakness. In fact, I

802
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: think there are some places out there where you're going

803
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: to multi year starter returning that would love to have

804
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: Devin Brown, and they would love to have Jalen Miller,

805
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: and they would love to have these guy Ty Simpson

806
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: fighting Kyle McCord fighting for their start and job. That's

807
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: not weakness. Weaknesses have no options. See that's why we

808
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: get to this time of year and a lot of

809
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: folks out there want to call something a quarterback controversy.

810
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Speaker 1: The only controversy is when you don't have one. It's

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Speaker 1: not controversial to have competition. That's what it is. It's

812
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: just competition. And we got into this big to do

813
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Speaker 1: the other day talking about Texas and talking about how

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Speaker 1: Sark called it a competition at quarterback, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of you said, it's not a competition. We already know

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Speaker 1: who's going to start. And I said, even if you

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00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: do know that, which you don't, you just think it.

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Speaker 1: I think it along with you. I think quinn Ewers

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Speaker 1: is going to start. I would lean ninety percent to

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Speaker 1: him being the starter. That doesn't mean there's no competition.

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Speaker 1: A competition doesn't end when you name a starter. It's

822
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Speaker 1: just a daily thing. If you want to call the

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00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: battle over, if you want to call the race for

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Speaker 1: number one over, you could temporarily say that wants a

825
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: starter's name. There is no end to competition. Ever, that

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Speaker 1: just means if your competition has ended, you have ended.

827
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Speaker 1: You have ceased to grow as a player or a coach.

828
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 1: So that's this whole soapbox. But back to the main point,

829
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Speaker 1: the main topic, the main question. I don't necessarily know that.

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00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: That's the way I would look at that. Now. Now

831
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Speaker 1: say it said, will this year be wide open? Hey,

832
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: we saw a wide open year a couple of years ago,

833
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: and there was experience at a lot of places with quarterbacks,

834
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Speaker 1: so certainly I don't expect all these teams to have

835
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Speaker 1: Heisman caliber quarterback play Ohio State, Bama. Clemson's got a

836
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: new quarterback and a new OC. Although we know a

837
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: whole lot more about their quarterback, Georgia Carson Beck, it's

838
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: been a little while since we saw that many of

839
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Speaker 1: them having to replace a quarterback at the same time,

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Speaker 1: So it's no guarantee, and one of them is probably

841
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: gonna end up struggling and disappointing, falling short of expectation.

842
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: But just as sure as I say that, there's probably

843
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: another one or two out of that group that are

844
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 1: going to be in the playoff come season's end. And

845
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Speaker 1: it turns out they weren't weak at quarterback. Jesse as

846
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: having Colin run Penn State b role forcing me to

847
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: talk about Drew Aller. Why not let's throw Penn State

848
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 1: in the mix? Are they weak at quarterback? Because Sean

849
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: Clifford has moved on. I can't remember which retirement home

850
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: he checked into, but it's Drew Aller's time now. Is

851
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: he a weakness just because he hasn't started games. He

852
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: could end up being better. They can improve some of

853
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: these places, not necessarily suggesting that Bama or Ohio State

854
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 1: will immediately improve over Heisman caliber quarterbacks, but Penn State could.

855
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: They absolutely could. So yeah, it could be wide open.

856
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: Sure it could be. I don't think it's gonna be

857
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: because quarterbacks a weakness at the major programs. I just

858
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: think the sport's even out a little bit over the

859
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: last few years. That would be my take on it. Colin.

860
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: Did we have that question about the Bama and Ohio

861
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: State thing while we were on air? Yeah? Okay, so

862
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: we got that one. So you know what. The Lake

863
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: Extra podcast is coming Tuesday and I'll get to tons

864
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: more of your questions. But I did want to knock

865
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: a couple of these down since we do have a

866
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: little time here. Take one more sip out of the chalice. Hmm,

867
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: leave this Upcolin, I forgot to tell you. Let me see,

868
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: this is gonna be very unprofessional. Let me see if

869
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: I can look this up right quick. So the chalice

870
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: is supremacy for those of you who are new around here,

871
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: it's what I have in my hand here. It's got

872
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: the paint state logo on it. They're not for sale.

873
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: We've never sold a single one, although there is a

874
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: growing black market for them by the day. A guy

875
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: hit me up. I'm not going to give you his name.

876
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: I am going to do my best to withhold certain

877
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 1: personal details here. I am reading straight from my DMS.

878
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: Right now, A guy hits me up. He is a

879
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: swim coach and a pe teacher. He says, I'm being

880
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: called a hero locally. I enter school for practice. I

881
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: hear someone yell call nine to one one little girls drowning.

882
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: I ran as fast as I could and found the

883
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: little girl not breathing, no pulse. This is a real story.

884
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: By the way, I perform CPR and managed to revive her.

885
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: She went home from the hospital that night. She's completely

886
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: I've been honored by the school board with a proclamation.

887
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: City Hall has invited me to their meeting on Tuesday

888
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: for another honor. The truth is, though, the only honor

889
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: I want is a chalice of supremacy. Do I qualify?

890
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: This is another peak into the mind blowing world that

891
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: is my personal DMS. Chalice is on the way. The

892
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: general rule of thumb is if you get our show,

893
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 1: some public notoriety, we will send you a chalice. But also,

894
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: if you save a life, just a new rule I'm

895
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: inventing on the fly. If you can prove you save

896
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: a life, we'll probably send you a chalice. So well done,

897
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: James saved the life there and you get a chalice

898
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 1: in return and a proclamation at city hall. Okay, question

899
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: from Doug and Mobile. Who will win another title? First?

900
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: Bama or Ohio State. You talk about a no win.

901
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: Answer for me here, Alabama is my answer, and it's

902
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: because I have seen Nick Saban win a national championship

903
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: as a head coach, and I haven't see Ryan Day

904
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: do it. And that's the long and short of it.

905
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: Bama's recruited a little bit, they got a little better

906
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: track record. I fully believe in Ohio State, but the

907
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: problem is I have I just have proof of performance

908
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: with Nick Saban. It's really that simple. I don't doubt

909
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: Ohio State now. So I'm gonna ride the fence as

910
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: hard as I can here, but even I'm gonna have

911
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 1: trouble balancing. The thing that this makes me think about

912
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: is this conversation that we are training headlong towards. I've

913
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: already heard it pop up with both of them. Now

914
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it with Ohio State. But here's what the

915
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: conversation sounds like. Stop me if you've heard this already,

916
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: Stop yourself if you said it already, something like this. Boy,

917
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: if Bama doesn't win a title in twenty twenty three,

918
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 1: that sab and run may be over. Can't imagine how

919
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: insane that is. Boy, If Ohio State doesn't win at

920
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,919
Speaker 1: all in twenty twenty three, that run may be over.

921
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: Now with Ohio State it sounds a little different. That's

922
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: why I'm almost kind of gonna reserve it and compartmentalize

923
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 1: and talk about it in a second, because with Ohio

924
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: State you may be saying if they don't beat Michigan

925
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: again or if they don't win the Big Ten. But

926
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: with Bama, let me tell you exactly what will happen.

927
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: If Alabama doesn't win a national title in twenty twenty three,

928
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: they'll be right back in the mix in twenty twenty four.

929
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: The end. If they don't win one this year, what

930
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: will have happened is they just didn't win a title

931
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: this year. It's it's this insane standard that no one

932
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: else is held to, No one. Ohio State has won

933
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: one championship in some of your lifetimes. They won one

934
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: in the early two thousands. Some of you aren't even

935
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: old enough to remember it. So they won it in

936
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. They haven't won another one, and Ohio State

937
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: rightly is viewed as one of the premier programs in

938
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: the sport. Think about Clemson. Clemson won a title in

939
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen on what some would call an illegal pick

940
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: play with one second to go. I was right there

941
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: on the field in Tampa, Florida. They blew Bama out

942
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, So they won one on the last second.

943
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: They won another one convincingly. They they're not there every year,

944
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: Like who's saying this? People who are saying it are

945
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: people who have allowed their subconscious to morph into holding

946
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: Alabama to an Alabama standard instead of just a regular

947
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: college football standard by college football standards. Bama's still at

948
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: the top of the heap. And if you want to

949
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: argue with me, Georgia, is you want to argue with

950
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: me someone else, Obama's right there near the top of

951
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: the heap, whatever semantics. So that's the saban piece of

952
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: it with Ohio State a little bit different tenor because

953
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: of how the last two Michigan games have ended. I

954
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: think nationally, most folks remember the last thing they saw,

955
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: and that was Ohio States kicker missing a field goal

956
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: that would have sent them in the national championship game.

957
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: I think Ohio State fans probably remember the Michigan game

958
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: more so than that. I think in time, that's what

959
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: the nation will remember. I don't blame you. I've been

960
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: at the last two Ohio State Michigan games. Somber as

961
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 1: somber could be, around that Buckeye team, around that Buckeye program,

962
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: and unlike two years ago when they went into ann Arbor,

963
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: and as I've said before, it was just a perfect

964
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: confluence of events where you could explain it away as

965
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: we just we weren't the better team today. We came

966
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: up here, we played in the snow. They wanted it more,

967
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: their backs were against the wall, they were in wounded

968
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: animal mode. However you wanted to explain it to yourself,

969
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: it's understandable if you viewed that twenty twenty one game

970
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: like that. But the twenty twenty two blow was a

971
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: whole lot harsher. The twenty twenty one that was a

972
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: gut punch twenty twenty two was like an uppercut that

973
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: caught you square on the jaw and you fly up

974
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: in the air and flat back bump on the ground

975
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: and you see stars just looking at the ceiling wondering

976
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: what happened. You get them in Ohio Stadium. You've got

977
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: everybody that you need there. You've recruited better than them.

978
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: You have got picture perfect weather. Remember early in the week,

979
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: the weather forecast looked bleak, and then all of a sudden,

980
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: it's in the fifth it's sunny. You got that fast

981
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: track everything setting up for Ohio State to atone for

982
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: what happened last year, because that's all the entire year

983
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: had revolved around. And they held Michigan in like one

984
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: yard rushing per rush offensively in the first half, and

985
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: Michigan still runs away in the second half. That no

986
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: one expected. That no one could explain. There was no

987
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: excuse for it. It's just you're totally confused. And I

988
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: told you the story the other day about what it

989
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: was like being in the stadium after it had emptied out.

990
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: We were doing our post game stuff, and some of

991
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: those players came back down the tunnel after they were

992
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: leaving to go back to their dorms. Just man, I

993
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: don't like seeing that stuff. So they were just sitting

994
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: in the stand, seniors, never gonna play again, never gonna

995
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: wear that uniform again. So if Ryan Day doesn't get

996
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 1: it done this year and they don't beat Michigan again

997
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: this year, I'm not one that's ever gonna sit here

998
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: and say the guy should lose his job because of that.

999
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: But I'm not an Ohio State fan. It's not my program,

1000
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: it's your program. And so if you feel that way,

1001
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: I know what your argument is. Your argument is, it

1002
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how many wins we get against Indiana, it

1003
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how many times we beat Maryland or Perdue.

1004
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: You're here to beat Michigan, win the Big Ten, and

1005
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: compete for national championships. And if he's zero for three

1006
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: in the last three years doing that and has never

1007
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: checked all the boxes a single time, how do we

1008
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: know he was who we thought he was. It's not

1009
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: the craziest bit of logic in the world. I think

1010
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: it's a standard that's a little bit too high. But

1011
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: I understand the retort to that, this is Ohio State.

1012
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: You don't need to be here. If you don't understand

1013
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 1: high standards. So you see, I don't need anyone else

1014
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: in here. I can just debate myself, hold both sides

1015
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: of the debate, and be totally fine with it. My

1016
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: answer is Alabama. I think Alabama probably statistically stands a

1017
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: better chance of winning one before Ohio State. But Ohio

1018
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: State's got a little bit bigger fish to fry before.

1019
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: They're talking about a national championship, whereas Bama is just

1020
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: Georgia and the title, Georgia and the title. And is

1021
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: that our friends down in Baton Rouge saying what about us?

1022
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: Is that our friends in Knoxville saying what about us? Oh?

1023
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,439
Speaker 1: We're only like eight months away? Isn't it? Great? Good

1024
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: show tonight. Appreciate you guys for those of you who

1025
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: care about my well being. Yes, the second round of

1026
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: the Office Ping Pong tournament will commence tomorrow, and I

1027
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil anything, and I don't want to

1028
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: jinx anything, but I'm sort of on a collision course

1029
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: with management right now. That's where I want to leave it.

1030
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: The producer Jesse for director Colin, I'm Josh Bate. Take care,

1031
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: have a great start to your week, and God bless