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Speaker 1: It is Sunday, March nineteenth, year of our lower twenty

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Speaker 1: cop Josh. I don't like to do it. It's only

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Speaker 1: But I am back because the whacked out college basketball

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Speaker 1: you tonight, We've got four sleeper programs. I think at

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Speaker 1: now and give you four sleeper programs, not teams programs,

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Speaker 1: respond accordingly. Tonight they're watching us in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: You have been there, Jesse Coatesville is tuned in Shreiver, Louisiana, Augusta, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching Small programming. Note before

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Speaker 1: watching every game, that is not old miss. That can

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Speaker 1: be old miss, but that has not been old Miss.

427
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Speaker 1: They were the number three rushing offense in the country

428
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Speaker 1: last year in the country, all of them in the country.

429
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Speaker 1: They had the number six explosive play rate, so they

430
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Speaker 1: were explosive play after explosive play, but it was on

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Speaker 1: the ground. So they've shown the ability to carve you

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Speaker 1: up offensively in a number of different ways. I think

433
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Speaker 1: they're a sleeper program and the last one and I

434
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Speaker 1: don't think anyone could see where I'm going with this one. Frankly,

435
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: Iowa was way off the radar. But what if I

436
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Speaker 1: told you, What if I told you the University of

437
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Speaker 1: Arizona is a sleeper program. Not necessarily to win the

438
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Speaker 1: Pac twelve this year. As we look at the odds

439
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Speaker 1: on the screen, I think Arizona under Jetfish, I'm gonna

440
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Speaker 1: whisper so no one finds out. Just be our secret

441
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Speaker 1: sleeper program. Five wins last year not that impressive, right, Yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: Well it is when you know the over under win

443
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Speaker 1: total was two. Yes, they more than doubled up on that.

444
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Speaker 1: That is very impressive. They went and got Jaden Deloria

445
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Speaker 1: and the transfer portal at quarterback. They had the most

446
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Speaker 1: wins as a result since twenty eighteen. They were top

447
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Speaker 1: ten offensively last year in pass yards per game explosive plays.

448
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: They were top twenty in total yardage. They lacked badly

449
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Speaker 1: on defense. In terms of depth, they lacked, and they'll

450
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Speaker 1: probably lack again over there. You got to understand we're

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Speaker 1: working on different metrics. We're working on a different scale. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if Florida was dealing with the issues that Arizona was

453
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Speaker 1: dealing with, I wouldn't be calling Florida a sleeper. Arizona

454
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Speaker 1: has not done anything of note in recent history. And

455
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Speaker 1: so when I look at where they were, which was

456
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel out in the Pac twelve,

457
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Speaker 1: and then I look at the fact that they were

458
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Speaker 1: recruiting in the fifties, sixties, seventies, all of a sudden,

459
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Speaker 1: last two classes twenty two, they had two top forty

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Speaker 1: classes for Arizona. One of those was top twenty five.

461
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Speaker 1: By the way, for Arizona, it's a good sign. So

462
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech Iowa Ole, Miss Arizona. Those are my sleeper

463
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Speaker 1: programs right now. It's not an exhaustive list, so I'll

464
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Speaker 1: be sure to look down in the comments, and I

465
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Speaker 1: I guarantee you you probably submit some names that I

466
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Speaker 1: wish I would have put in there, but just we'll

467
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Speaker 1: keep an eye on them. We'll keep it. I should

468
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Speaker 1: never when we do sleep or anything, I should never

469
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Speaker 1: look at the live chat. Ever. I got a big

470
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Speaker 1: shipment the other day and from our friends at Academy

471
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Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors. It's softball related. Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 1: But I also would encourage you, guys. I don't really

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Speaker 1: care what sport it is you're out there playing. I

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Speaker 1: don't really care what activity it is you're partaking in

475
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Speaker 1: if it involves the outdoors, and in some cases even

476
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Speaker 1: if it involves the indoors. Academy Sports and Outdoors the

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Speaker 1: place to be. Well, what if I can't get there

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Speaker 1: in person, don't worry. Academy dot Com has you covered

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Speaker 1: the end. That's the only other question you could have

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Speaker 1: asked me the end. Do they have tents, of course

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Speaker 1: they do. Do they have grills, yes they do. Do

482
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Speaker 1: they have bats and balls? Sure? Basketball? Hoop yeah, fishing

483
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Speaker 1: equipment check. They got it all. Academy Sports and Outdoors

484
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Speaker 1: makes this show free to you, and they've also got

485
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Speaker 1: everything that you could ever need. Knowing our audience like

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Speaker 1: I think I do, just in your day to day

487
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Speaker 1: life period. I mean, most of us live pretty similar lives,

488
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Speaker 1: and you would be shocked at the supply that they have,

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Speaker 1: their wide range of supplies. I challenge you, if you've

490
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Speaker 1: never been in academy, I don't care if you don't

491
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Speaker 1: buy anything. Go in there and be amazed at the selection.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we've got questions. Hope to have answers one day,

493
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Speaker 1: but right now we've just got questions. Take a little

494
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Speaker 1: slip out of the chalice. The only certainty in college

495
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Speaker 1: football right now, the chalice of choice liquids. I see you, Jesse,

496
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Speaker 1: I know what you're doing. Yeah, I'll do it. Okay,

497
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Speaker 1: I'll do it before I start this. So Jesse's put

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Speaker 1: together the survey and in return, he is asking for

499
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Speaker 1: you to like the video and subscribe to the channel. Personally,

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Speaker 1: I could take it or leave it, but Jesse needs

501
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Speaker 1: Jesse needs you, not me. I'm not producer. Jesse is

502
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Speaker 1: begging you in my ear, through my mouth. Please like

503
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Speaker 1: the video, subscribe to the channel. Good enough, Jesse, Yes, okay,

504
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Speaker 1: we move on. Have you realized how much movement has

505
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Speaker 1: gone on in the transfer portal. We've had three solid

506
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Speaker 1: shows now where we've done a ton of questions and

507
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do at least one more here and

508
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Speaker 1: I'm going to have some pretty heavy hitters. These questions

509
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Speaker 1: will go a long way in deciding this year's national

510
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Speaker 1: championship race multiple conference championship races. The first one is

511
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Speaker 1: that wide receiver room at Georgia, which wasn't anything to

512
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Speaker 1: write home about last year, but they lost ad Mitchell.

513
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Speaker 1: Ad Mitchell, if you haven't been keeping score, departed for

514
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Speaker 1: Texas now. They did not go without responding at Georgia.

515
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Speaker 1: Kirby Smart went and got raw Ra Thomas out of

516
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Speaker 1: Mississippi State. He got Dominic Lovett out of Missouri. Those

517
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Speaker 1: were they respective leading receivers on those teams last year.

518
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Speaker 1: Love It was a top ten portal guy regardless of position.

519
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Speaker 1: So they lost ad Mitchell. Also, they are replacing a

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Speaker 1: quarterback up there in Stetson Bennett. Once upon a time

521
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Speaker 1: we did not think that would be a major storyline,

522
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Speaker 1: but things changed Stetson. Bennett proved people wrong, myself included,

523
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Speaker 1: and now that is a gaping hole that you have

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Speaker 1: to fill. Carson Beck probably the guy to do it.

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Speaker 1: They've already started spring practice at Georgia. I will be

526
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Speaker 1: very interested because they are also replacing a coordinator. They

527
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Speaker 1: elevated Mike Bobo to replace Todd Monkin. So these are

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Speaker 1: not necessarily headline grappers. That's not front page news on

529
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Speaker 1: cbssports dot com. But it's a big deal if you

530
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Speaker 1: understand what we're talking about here, that's a very very

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Speaker 1: big deal down in Miami. It's not even one position,

532
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Speaker 1: although you could say line of scrimmage. I guess, but

533
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Speaker 1: they lost seventeen kids to the portal. Now, Miami fans,

534
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Speaker 1: since they're already yelling it, I'll go ahead and tell them,

535
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Speaker 1: hold on a second. I'll say it so you don't

536
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Speaker 1: have to. They were bad last year, so anytime you're bad.

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Speaker 1: Our general rule around here is it's not automatically a

538
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Speaker 1: terrible thing. If you have a bunch of folks hitting

539
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Speaker 1: the exit door. Miami's not the first place to deal

540
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Speaker 1: with this. Arkansas seeing it right now, and they won't

541
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Speaker 1: be the last. They added high quality kids from the Portal,

542
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Speaker 1: not along with a really really highly rated recruiting class,

543
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Speaker 1: but a few of them, like Javion Cohen, offensive lineman

544
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Speaker 1: out of Alabama, he was highly rated in the Portal

545
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Speaker 1: regardless of position. Matt Lee's an offensive tackle, dean defensive lineman,

546
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Speaker 1: DeVante Brown like these are all guys with a ninety

547
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Speaker 1: plus rating next to their name. That's a four star

548
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Speaker 1: or higher rating. And then you couple that with the

549
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Speaker 1: hall they just brought in in just traditional recruiting, and

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Speaker 1: you start to wonder, or at least I do. Maybe

551
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Speaker 1: my mind works different than some of you, but I

552
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Speaker 1: start to wonder. Okay, I think they're gonna improve this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Miami's gonna be what five and seven

554
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Speaker 1: I think is what the record. I don't think they're

555
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Speaker 1: gonna be a five win team, But I wonder how

556
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Speaker 1: much they could improve. And I wonder that about a

557
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Speaker 1: few of these teams. Miami's one of them, though, And

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Speaker 1: then I start to think about last year year and

559
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Speaker 1: what the problems were, And then I think about the offense.

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Speaker 1: You know, with Tyler van Dyke, it's kind of a

561
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Speaker 1: jump all over the place thing with Miami, and you

562
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Speaker 1: think about how they were either a favorite or co

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Speaker 1: favorite to win their division. Tyler Van Dyke was a

564
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Speaker 1: guy that was preseason all filling the blank team in

565
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Speaker 1: the ACC according to various publications, and it just didn't happen.

566
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Speaker 1: They had Broyle's Award winner Josh Gaddis as their offensive coordinator.

567
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Speaker 1: It never happened. It never panned out. So they've made

568
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Speaker 1: some moves, a lot of moves actually, and I don't

569
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Speaker 1: necessarily know that we should expect the immediate spark out

570
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Speaker 1: of the gate. Could be wrong there, but this is

571
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Speaker 1: going to be a year long thing to watch because

572
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Speaker 1: here's the one silver lining of only winning five games

573
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Speaker 1: is you don't have to go that far to go up.

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Speaker 1: You know, win seven games this year and it's an improvement.

575
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Speaker 1: Plus you make a Bowl game. I think it may

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Speaker 1: be in the cards though for them this year. See

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Speaker 1: I have not punted on Tyler Van Dyke and his

578
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Speaker 1: ability to be a high level quarter It's just that

579
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Speaker 1: he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,

580
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Speaker 1: and he may still be. For all I know, it

581
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Speaker 1: won't be improved. I just happened to think it's gonna

582
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Speaker 1: be a much more enviable position for him. To be

583
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Speaker 1: in this year than it was last year? What about Colorado?

584
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Speaker 1: Speaking of programs that are just totally overhauling everything, everyone's

585
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Speaker 1: got an opinion on where this is gonna go. You know,

586
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Speaker 1: a few minutes ago we started the show, and I

587
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Speaker 1: told you, or I showed you that I had warned

588
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Speaker 1: you that a lot of really really bad faith arguments

589
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: were going to be coming your way from people who

590
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Speaker 1: were comparing March madness in college football college basketball. College

591
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: football comparisons are always stupid. There's some stupid stuff being

592
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Speaker 1: said about Colorado too, and it's just started. Okay, that's

593
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Speaker 1: the crowd that hangs around the trough the entire year.

594
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Speaker 1: Imagine the casuals who only come back come fall because

595
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Speaker 1: they're going to repeat the same dumb stuff that you're

596
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Speaker 1: hearing some full season casuals talk about right now. And

597
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Speaker 1: it's stuff like Dion's overrated. They won't even make a

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Speaker 1: bowl game, Like that's supposed to be an insult to

599
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Speaker 1: a team that won one game last year. They could

600
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Speaker 1: improve four hundred percent, but because they didn't make a

601
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Speaker 1: bowl game, I told you they were overrated. But this

602
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: is about the transfer portal and questions about the transfer portal.

603
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Speaker 1: Remember what we were talking about this time last year.

604
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley had just gone to USC and he had

605
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Speaker 1: done something we had never seen before. It was the

606
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Speaker 1: first pretty much total overhaul in the portal era, and

607
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: they nearly won the Pac twelve Championship. They were in

608
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Speaker 1: the playoff hunt late in the year. Out there. Certainly

609
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Speaker 1: not what I think is in the cards for Colorado

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Speaker 1: this year, but something unexpected could happen in terms of

611
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Speaker 1: result because the overhaul they've had is that radical at

612
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Speaker 1: Colorado and they have the number one portal class in

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Speaker 1: the country. They brought in really dynamic players. Travis Hunter's

614
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Speaker 1: out there, Sure Sanders is out there. They got de moy.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy's just a random four star linebacker from Alabama high

616
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Speaker 1: four star linebacker. I don't think that you will. I

617
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Speaker 1: don't think a lot of folks have also followed the

618
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Speaker 1: staff they put together. Dion put together a really good staff,

619
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Speaker 1: which is not something that we rate in the transfer

620
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Speaker 1: portal obviously, But nobody knows how big the spark will be,

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Speaker 1: including me. I have confidence it'll be a big one.

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Speaker 1: But they go from one to eleven to what if

623
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Speaker 1: it's three and nine? If it's four and eight. They

624
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Speaker 1: got a tough schedule that will be a remarkable improvement.

625
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Speaker 1: Then anything above and beyond would be borderline miraculous. But

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Speaker 1: I keep going back to the Lincoln Riley thing, and

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Speaker 1: the more I think about it, the more I've come

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Speaker 1: to think that maybe we'll just have one of those

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Speaker 1: stories every year, to varying degrees. Maybe there will be

630
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Speaker 1: some at least one place every year where they hire

631
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Speaker 1: a new coach and that coach just goes crazy in

632
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal because they know that the leash is

633
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Speaker 1: a lot shorter and they are expected to win immediately,

634
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: and there's desperation and the portals there to use, and

635
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: they just go get this massive influx of talent and

636
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: they overturn like forty percent of their roster overnight. There

637
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: will be some version of that pretty much every year.

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Speaker 1: And it was usc last year. I think it's going

639
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Speaker 1: to be Colorado this year. And let's see how it

640
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Speaker 1: works out. And keep in mind, although they've already gotten

641
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Speaker 1: the number one portal class in the country, we are

642
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: not done, guys. We still have spring practice and then

643
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Speaker 1: the fifteen day post spring portal window, which I believe

644
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Speaker 1: Jesse check this for me, even though we won't have

645
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Speaker 1: time tonight. I think it's the first of May. I

646
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: think it's like the first fifteen days of May. So

647
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Speaker 1: it's coming right after spring. Is the point, and the

648
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: last one I wanted to talk about here is really

649
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: two teams, and this is going to be a game

650
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Speaker 1: this year that I think a lot of the country

651
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Speaker 1: will have their eyes focused on for the first time

652
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Speaker 1: in a long time, and that's Florida State Clemson. The

653
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: game happens in week four. Okay, FSU number three portal

654
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Speaker 1: class in the country. Clemson nowhere to be found by choice,

655
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: know where to be found. It is such a dichonomy

656
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: of approaches. One of them has feasted in the portal,

657
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: the other, again voluntarily, has largely abstained. I think Clemson

658
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: has one guy from the portal in this cycle, and

659
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: Florida State has got a ton of kids, and they've

660
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Speaker 1: done it every year virtually that Norvell's been there. And

661
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: here's what interests me. Florida State has these same odds

662
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Speaker 1: to win the national championship out of the acc that

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00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: Clemson does right now. So this will not be a

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Speaker 1: year for the first time in a long time where

665
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Speaker 1: we get into August, and we're looking and saying, all right,

666
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: it's Clemson and everyone else over there. Now, odds don't

667
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: mean anything other than odds, But you know that odds

668
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: have pretty much, with maybe one or two exceptions, the

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00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: odds have matched the outcome in the ACC. We did

670
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Speaker 1: a little feature the other night about different conferences and

671
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Speaker 1: how many of their teams had won playoff games. And

672
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen, I think the ACC had won six

673
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Speaker 1: playoff games, and Clemson was all six of them. And

674
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: so now we get into this world where two teams

675
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Speaker 1: with very different approaches are being looked at by Vegas

676
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: and saying, coin flip. You guys can decide. I think

677
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: they play the game at Clemson. You guys can decide.

678
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: Maybe that Week four game will decide it. Maybe we'll

679
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: be there. We haven't even named the tour this fall,

680
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: but maybe we'll be there. Jesse has confirmed via teleprompter

681
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: that fifteen day window for the portal being opened does

682
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,479
Speaker 1: indeed begin on May first. Hey, we got a use

683
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: for the We got a use for the teleprompter. After all,

684
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: that thing collects dust. When our show's in the studio,

685
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: they are watching us in parsipony New Jersey. Good people

686
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: in Parsipany. Great people they're watching us in Palm Coast,

687
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: Florida and Morristown, Tennessee. Thank you so much for being too.

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00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: I think one of the most cripplingly disappointing things that

689
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: is when we get a city in Georgia where I'm from,

690
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: it's checking in and I mispronounced the name. It happens

691
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: more often than I'm comfortable with, like McDonagh Georgia, McDonagh Georgia,

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Speaker 1: McDonald kro Cairo. It's a tough it's a tough world

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Speaker 1: to live in. Here. Mood Tracker time. I got two

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Speaker 1: things to hit for you right here. I got a

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Speaker 1: mood tracker. The mood tracker is one of our most

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Speaker 1: popular segments. The mood tracker is when we just we

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Speaker 1: take the temperature of the fan base and we cut

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Speaker 1: off the extreme ten percent on either side of positive negative,

699
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: and we just want to know what the fan base

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Speaker 1: is thinking. And at Georgia right now, I've got the

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00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: current mood for the fan base as sorry, not sorry,

702
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: which may be confusing because you're thinking, well, shouldn't the

703
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: mood just be jubilation? Shouldn't they just be turning cartwheels.

704
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 1: They've won back to back national championships, and they are

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Speaker 1: doing that. They absolutely are. You cannot go very many

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Speaker 1: places in that state. You can't get off an exit

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Speaker 1: off seventy five or eighty five or even oneint eighty

708
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: five down near Columbus without seeing those flags all over

709
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Speaker 1: the place. Not that they weren't already there before, but

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00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: they are especially prominently featured now. So the state is

711
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: totally drunk on these past two seasons. Having said that, sorry,

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00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: not sorry? What could I mean by that? What do

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00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: you think I mean by that? Georgia fans? It's your mood?

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Speaker 1: How do you feel right now about your program? You

715
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: feel ecstatic? What do you feel about the world around

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Speaker 1: your program? Some of you know where I'm going with this.

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00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: There's this really interesting dynamic right now that exists around

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Speaker 1: Georgia Athletics Georgia football. But before I talk about that,

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Speaker 1: I want to take you back to last year. This

720
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: time last year, Georgia was coming off a national championship,

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Speaker 1: much as they are right now, and a couple of

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00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: things happened that I think benefited Kirby Smart. One is

723
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: they lost a ton of talent and the benefit there

724
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: was his team was so new, his starters were so

725
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: green in terms of success. I don't think they ever

726
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: felt like they had accomplished anything. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: they ever allow complacency to set in because the lineup

728
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: looked so new. But there was another thing that was happening.

729
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Speaker 1: And the other thing was there was ten kinds of

730
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Speaker 1: chaos happening off the field, not at Georgia. In college football,

731
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: there was all kinds of stuff happening with playoff expansion

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Speaker 1: and realignment, and not to mention, you had coaches on

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Speaker 1: the move, the Brian Harson saga. Remember that there was

734
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Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff that was happening that distracted everyone

735
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: and took everyone's attention. And so even on this show,

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Speaker 1: we spent probably the least amount of time talking about

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00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: a national champion as we ever have. Georgia folks think

738
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: it was because I wanted to neglect them, which it

739
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: makes about less sense than anything I've ever heard accused

740
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: against us. But the reason was the same reason a

741
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: bunch of other folks didn't talk about. There was too

742
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: much other stuff to talk about. Now, Kirby Smart took that,

743
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 1: harnessed it and realized, if I don't have a bunch

744
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: of folks heeping praise on my guys and the guys

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Speaker 1: I'm going to war with this fault in a lot

746
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: of cases are new. We can avoid a lot of

747
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: the complacency issues that normally set in, and they did.

748
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: You couldn't spot a Nichols difference between the desperation and

749
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: hunger this year's team played with and last year's team

750
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: played with. That is rare, rare stuff. So now we're

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Speaker 1: coming off a second national championship in as many years,

752
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: and lo and behold, there have been some things that

753
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: have happened off the field that involve Jalen Carter that

754
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: have caught a lot of attention nationally. I'm totally separating

755
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: the incident that happened with Jalen Carter's involvement in the

756
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: incident and the way that's been discussed, So understand that

757
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: from the outset, the way particularly that some local media

758
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: outlets in the state, the AJAC, is what I'm talking about.

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00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: The way the AJAC, which is the Atlanta Journal Constitution,

760
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: has covered Georgia athletics over the past two months, has

761
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: been borderline weird to me in how out of touch

762
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: it's been I'm all for holding the powerful accountable, all

763
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: for it. There is there is absolutely a role in

764
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: hard nos journalism, in politics, in athletics, if it's done

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Speaker 1: the right way. I don't particularly think the AJAC has

766
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: gone about it the right way. I said on Twitter

767
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: the other day, the AJAC covers Georgia football like they're

768
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: running against each other in an election. It is the

769
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: wildest thing. There are the They're the most whacked out

770
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Speaker 1: opinion columns that have been put out by that outlet

771
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: in regards to Georgia and Kirby Smart and how he

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00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: runs his program in the last month or so that

773
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen. So you may make many accusations against Georgia,

774
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: but one you'll never make is, boy, they really get

775
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: babied by the media down there, don't they. It's just

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00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: it's the weirdest thing. And so he's spent this spring,

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00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart has spent this spring fighting back accusations of

778
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Speaker 1: culture issues. And they don't have their act together over there,

779
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: and they're losing control of the program. He's the one

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00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: who is the front facing member of the organization that

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00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: walks to the microphone. You don't think those players don't

782
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: hear that. You don't think that isn't taken personal in

783
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: that locker room. You don't think that fan base doesn't

784
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 1: take that personal. Now there is a response here, I'll

785
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: go ahead and make it for you, since there's no

786
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: one in the room, Josh, that pales in comparison to

787
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: a situation where two people lost their lives. It sure does,

788
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: it sure does. So that's why again I'm gonna say,

789
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: I'm totally separating what happens now moving forward, and what

790
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,240
Speaker 1: happens in relation to Georgia Football's role and Kirby's Smart's

791
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: role in that versus that itself, versus how serious and

792
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: dire the consequences were with what happened itself, because the

793
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: fact is, terrible things happen. Sometimes isolated terrible incidents can happen.

794
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: I told you the other day when this whole culture

795
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: issue nonsense was being disseminated by certain media outlets towards

796
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: Georgia football, where they got a culture issue. No they don't.

797
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: They got some kids that have done some stupid stuff.

798
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,919
Speaker 1: And I said then, and I'll say again, the way

799
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: you can spot the ones with culture issues is programs

800
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: with culture issues don't have good years. Programs with good

801
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: culture sometimes have bad weeks, they have bad days, but

802
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: the ones with bad culture, it's impossible for them to

803
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: grow something that is long term and sustainably good. Georgia

804
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: has done those things, they continue to do those They're

805
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, and so I've dismissed that, but the

806
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: fan base hasn't. And so Kirby Smart has again gotten

807
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: someone to fuel his program. It turns out that that

808
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: entity was right down the road in Atlanta, Georgia. He

809
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: has gotten someone to fuel his program. He has gotten

810
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: someone to convince players inside those walls that the entire

811
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: world is against them, and it would shock me if

812
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: they didn't play with the same fire this fall that

813
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: they always have. And all the while, that fan base

814
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: looks around and they listen to folks say, you know,

815
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: if Jamison Williams would have been healthy in twenty twenty one,

816
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: you guys wouldn't have won that title. Well, if Ohio

817
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: State makes a field goal, you don't even play for

818
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: the title last year. And they look at him and

819
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: they say exactly what they should say, which is sorry,

820
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: not sorry. I'm sorry, I am not sorry. It's Vince

821
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: Vaughan wedding crashers level stuff. Sorry, I'm not sorry. I

822
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: don't want you to say what he said next. But

823
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: Georgia football top of the sport right now. Don't be

824
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: apologizing if you're a fan, don't be apologizing for anything. Okay,

825
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: got one more thing I wanted to hit tonight. It's

826
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: about faith and Texas football. I hope Tray Scott's watching somewhere.

827
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: So I got a question that I'll just put it up.

828
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you what it was like.

829
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Speaker 1: Jimmy from Odessa, Texas asked, can you tell me why

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Speaker 1: I should have any faith in Steve's Sarkisian when he

831
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: has not proven he can win? Jimmy, we need to

832
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: talk about faith for a second. Faith is not waiting

833
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: for something tangible to be presented to you and then saying, Okay,

834
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: I believe in this thing now. That's not faith. Faith

835
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: is believing in something before you have seen it. Faith,

836
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: for instance, earlier today, was something that I falsely had

837
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: when a certain I don't want to throw him under

838
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: the bus, but I'm very attempted to a certain ride

839
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,959
Speaker 1: sharing service that also delivers food in the Greater Nashville area.

840
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: I hope I haven't been specific enough was to deliver

841
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: our lunch order. I had faith that they would remember

842
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: Bradley's sesame chicken. They did not, so my faith was

843
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: not realized. And I will henceforth and never put faith

844
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: in them again. I will always second guess them. And look,

845
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: maybe a lot of you want to put faith in

846
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisian at Texas. Maybe he just hasn't shown you enough.

847
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: And that goes back to the old chicken egg thing

848
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: that I just talked about for a second. There's reason

849
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: if you doubt Steve Sarkisian. Certainly the model doesn't. The

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Speaker 1: model would like Texas minus three and a half against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs if they played tomorrow. But the model is

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Speaker 1: dumb when it comes to Texas. We've already established that

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Speaker 1: the model is not to be trusted. I have no

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Speaker 1: faith in the model when it comes to Texas. But

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Speaker 1: I kind of think I do have a little faith

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Speaker 1: in Sart. But if you don't, and you tell me,

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Speaker 1: Josh he's two and seven versus top twenty five teams

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Speaker 1: in his time in Austin, I've just got to sit

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Speaker 1: back and nod my head. And then if you continue,

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Speaker 1: even though I didn't ask you to, and you say, Josh,

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Speaker 1: he is one in seven in games decided by one possession,

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Speaker 1: one and seven in games decided by eight points or fewer.

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Speaker 1: I again have to sit back and go it's not

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Speaker 1: a bad point. Are you done? Okay, okay, you're done.

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Speaker 1: Let me make my points. I know it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: great so far. Albeit he did improve last year over

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00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: year one. That is the definition of progress. But seven

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Speaker 1: to five not good enough for you. I get it.

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Speaker 1: So here's what gives me faith? And I would humbly suggest, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: what should give you a little faith or at least

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Speaker 1: some hope in things turning around. I still think he's

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Speaker 1: a brilliant tactician. I think he is one of the

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Speaker 1: very best play callers and best designers of offensive football

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00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: in our game today. Nothing's changed in my opinion there.

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00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: I think he's got a very talented roster, and not

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Speaker 1: the same kind of shallow talent that Texas had before

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Speaker 1: he got there. They've built from the inside out. They

878
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Speaker 1: have also hit the portal really well. That receiver corp

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00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 1: this year. If they get what they should get at quarterback,

880
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: that receiver court could be disgusting. Xavier Worthy you want

881
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: a dark horse in the Heisman conversation at a non

882
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: traditional position? Is Xavier Worthy my DeVante Smith of twenty

883
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: twenty three. That's lofty. I don't want to do that

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Speaker 1: to him, but I'll do it anyway. Xavier Worthy with

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00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: a non broken hand. What could we get from him?

886
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: Jordan Whittington, Jordan Winnington is as old as my dad.

887
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: He's still playing at Texas. Ad Mitchell wants a Georgia

888
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: bulldog catching big balls in big games. He's at Texas now,

889
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: Isaiah and Nayer. That's the kid from Wyoming who came in.

890
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like when anyone comes in from Wyoming.

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00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: And then he got hurting in fall camp last year.

892
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: We didn't get to see him. All those guys are there,

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00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: all of them are there, and so we've got all

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00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: that going for us. I think they got good people

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Speaker 1: in the building and he's he has acquired a lot

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Speaker 1: of talent at quarterback. Now we'll see which one it

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Speaker 1: ultimately ends up being ninety nine percent chances Quinn yours.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that I keep reminding you is the

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Speaker 1: year three principal. We've just witnessed it with Mike Norvel

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00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: I will continue to hammer this home. Mike Norvell year one,

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00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 1: who year two? Year three? Hmmm, well what happened If

902
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: we punted on him after year two at Florida State,

903
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Speaker 1: we never would have seen what happened last year. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, it's for the record, some people still

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Speaker 1: doubt him now. Some people. Every time I speak glowingly

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Speaker 1: of Mike Norvel, they say, well, he lost to all

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Speaker 1: the ranked teams he played last year. What am I

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00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 1: supposed to say to that? By the way, I tell

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Speaker 1: you accurately that they were a ten win team. Jesse

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00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,760
Speaker 1: with the Bowl game? Weren't they a ten win team? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I tell you, good for Mike Norvell, good for Florida State.

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Speaker 1: They won ten games. This is indisputable. This is the

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Speaker 1: sky is blue, this is water is wet. And then

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Speaker 1: someone comes at me and says, well, they lost to

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Speaker 1: the rank teams they played. They lost three games and

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Speaker 1: row the middle of the season. That's why I didn't

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Speaker 1: say they went undefeated. I don't even know how to

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Speaker 1: respond to that sometimes. So yeah, year three for sark here,

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Speaker 1: I am not gonna have the kind of blind confidence

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Speaker 1: in them that the model does. But I will have

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Speaker 1: confidence in them. They open against food Rice comes to

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Speaker 1: town on the second of September. I predict them to

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Speaker 1: win that game. Then they go to Alabama. Oh, Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Nahir gets to play a Wyoming in Week three, and

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Speaker 1: then you've got Big Twelve play. So we'll let it

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Speaker 1: be what it be. As me and Moll would say,

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Speaker 1: this is the last year. Make it count Texas last

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Speaker 1: year in the Big Twelve. I think that they'll be okay.

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Speaker 1: I think Sark will be okay. Now what I did

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Speaker 1: not just say there, which some people heard. What I

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Speaker 1: did not say is well, Ark will just win a

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Speaker 1: title within two years. There is a lot of room

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Speaker 1: between seven wins and national title. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: outrageous to claim that Texas may float somewhere in between there.

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Speaker 1: Oh by the way, twenty twenty three college football playoff

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Speaker 1: title odds amongst Big twelve teams, Who do you think

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Speaker 1: is favored overwhelmingly? Who do you think the favorite is

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Speaker 1: in the Big twelve? If anyone were to win a

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Speaker 1: national title, that would be Texas. I appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: watching the show tonight. Remember Tuesday night, Tuesday Night, we

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Speaker 1: will be live. It's not just garbage. Day in Forts

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Speaker 1: in Georgia. Tuesday is also the date we will have

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Speaker 1: a live show right here on this YouTube channel, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll have the Late Kick Extra pod on Thursday. Also,

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Speaker 1: there is some high stakes ping pong going down in

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Speaker 1: this office this week, and I will probably have news

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Speaker 1: on that front the next time we speak until them.

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Speaker 1: For producer Jesse, for director Colin, I'm Josh Fate take here.

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Speaker 1: Have a great start to your week and God bless