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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Late Kick is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night, March fifteenth. I said, Tuesday. That's tri at

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Speaker 2: I see what happened the other night. I'll explain it momentarily.

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Speaker 1: But we got basically two shows to get you tonight,

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Speaker 1: and we've got a jam packed edition of Late Kick Live.

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Speaker 1: We have got not only the SEC, but now the

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Speaker 1: SEC and the ACC. Huge things to watch. Call them

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Speaker 1: Maria's a focus. Call them questions if you want to.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that are somewhat happening

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Speaker 1: already in spring, but boy, these things, when they start

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Speaker 1: will in many ways decide these conference championship pictures or

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Speaker 1: at least the race. So we're gonna talk about a

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Speaker 1: lot of those, cause there's no sense in waiting until

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Speaker 1: August to do that. We'll hit that tonight. It's Texas

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Speaker 1: A and m Mood Tracker night. We've had a solid

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Speaker 2: To think about that.

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Speaker 1: And one of you asked about this whole Kirk kurb

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Speaker 1: a couple of thoughts on that tonight. May not go

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Speaker 1: they're watching us tonight, Jesse, Colin, they're watching us in Foley, Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the late Kenny Stabler and the current

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones Montreal, Quebec, Canada is tuned in Gray Georgia,

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Speaker 1: tuned in Las Colinas, Texas, tuned in the other night.

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Speaker 1: As you are well aware by now, we were supposed

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Speaker 1: to have Late Kick Live on Sunday and I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to tell you. Satan got involved very real

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Speaker 1: we had to postpone. That's not what I want to

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Speaker 1: by that situation. Colin and Jesse yelled at the right

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Speaker 1: people and we're back on air, but back in the day. Now,

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Speaker 1: just short story before we get into the show tonight,

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Speaker 1: Back in the day when we first started doing Late

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Speaker 1: Kick independently down in Columbus, Georgia, there was a time

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Speaker 1: where we were thrilled if we hit the twenty viewer threshold.

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Speaker 1: Twenty people watching the show at any given point was

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Speaker 1: a really big deal. Not kidding you, it was a

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Speaker 1: other night we had several hundred of you watching nothing

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Speaker 2: Where's the show?

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Speaker 1: I just woke up on Monday morning, That's when I

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Speaker 1: listened to it, or it's later Sunday night, that's when

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Speaker 1: I like to watch it. What I want to say

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Speaker 1: is I appreciate that because it's March. You know, research

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Speaker 1: but yet you are, because, as you know, we operate

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Speaker 1: our show a little differently. In our little community here,

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Speaker 1: we operate differently. It did not go unnoticed. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: when it's not there you complain. I don't get bothered

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Speaker 2: So thank you guys for all that. Let's dive into the.

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Speaker 1: Show tonight, because we got a whole lot to get

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Speaker 1: Let's look around this conference and let's talk about biggest

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Speaker 1: The quarterback rotation. That's the area of focus for me.

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Speaker 1: didn't come in and preach anything other than that. He

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Speaker 1: didn't come in and try and fool people. He didn't

435
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Speaker 1: come in and promise the world year one or year two.

436
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Speaker 1: He didn't say, give me twelve months and we have

437
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Speaker 1: this thing turned around. He knew, he did an honest assessment,

438
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Speaker 1: and then he was honest with his fan base and

439
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Speaker 1: his boosters and whatnot. They have massively relied on the portal.

440
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Speaker 1: And so now when you got that plus a couple

441
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Speaker 1: of recruiting cycles under your belt, you look at their roster.

442
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Speaker 2: It's his.

443
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 1: His team now doesn't take as long as it used to,

444
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Speaker 1: especially when you use the methods that they've used.

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Speaker 2: How do you get to eight wins?

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Speaker 1: If you talk to most Florida State fans, that eight number,

447
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,720
Speaker 1: it's a very common number. They look at it and

448
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 1: they say, if we could get eight wins out of

449
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Speaker 1: this schedule, that would no matter how we got there.

450
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Speaker 1: That would definitively leave me to believe we're on the

451
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Speaker 1: right track. You could achieve that with seven wins or

452
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Speaker 1: nine wins, but eight wins. Where do you find eight wins?

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Speaker 1: What level of play do we have to be at

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Speaker 1: to meet that eight win threshold. It's a very realistic goal.

455
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Speaker 1: I think it's attainable. You're looking at the schedule right

456
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Speaker 1: now for Florida State in twenty twenty two. If you're

457
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Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, Ducaine talked about the pronunciation there. We've

458
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Speaker 1: been doing flashcards in the newsroom there, so Ducaine to open.

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Speaker 1: They do have LSU this year to the Florida State seminoles.

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Speaker 1: But it's a workable schedule. It's an acc schedule. It's

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Speaker 1: a workable schedule.

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Speaker 2: Eight wins.

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Speaker 1: What kind of level player we're looking at. Georgia Tech's

464
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,840
Speaker 1: a program we haven't talked about in a hot minute

465
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Speaker 1: around here, so let me touch on them because it's

466
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Speaker 1: kind of the same theme at Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech

467
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Speaker 1: at the conclusion of last year, there were a lot

468
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Speaker 1: of folks who thought that there was going to be

469
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Speaker 1: complete staff overhaul, and there almost was, but not at

470
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Speaker 1: the head coaching position. So Jeff Collins is still there,

471
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Speaker 1: but he replaced I believe, yes, six of ten assistant coaches.

472
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Speaker 1: So I think it was Marcelo who pointed out in

473
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Speaker 1: the feature. Normally, when you've got that either it means

474
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Speaker 1: you've had a ton of success in year four or

475
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Speaker 1: year three, and therefore some guys got poached and you're

476
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Speaker 1: having to overhaul in year four. Rarely, though, are you

477
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Speaker 1: seeing a coach overturned that large a chunk of his

478
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Speaker 1: coaching staff in year four, Because most of the time,

479
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Speaker 1: if you're having to make that much change voluntarily, it

480
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 1: normally means just everyone got fired. But that's not the

481
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Speaker 1: case at Georgia Tech kind of a happy medium minus

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Speaker 1: the happy and so Jeff Collins has got a lot

483
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Speaker 1: to prove this year. They also lost a lot of

484
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Speaker 1: guys to the portal. The last check twelve, they've had

485
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Speaker 1: twelve guys transfer out of there. But look, that sounds

486
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: like it paints a picture of a no win situation.

487
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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's necessarily the case. I think

488
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Speaker 1: a lot of times, when you've got a formula that

489
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 1: has not worked, change is not the worst thing in

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Speaker 1: the world. So you know, I would venture to think

491
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Speaker 1: inside that building, whereas you look at these numbers and

492
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Speaker 1: you say, well, if we weren't screwed before, we are now.

493
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Speaker 1: I bet there's a little more excitement around there. You

494
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 1: don't ever relish in people losing their jobs, but it's

495
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Speaker 1: just what you've already tried one way. It doesn't really

496
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Speaker 1: make much sense to keep doing.

497
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Speaker 2: It the same way.

498
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Speaker 1: You just kind of pound your head against a wall.

499
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Speaker 1: It's not like they don't have familiar names walking around

500
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,360
Speaker 1: there either. Chip Long is the offensive coordinator there. Chris

501
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: Winki is the quarterbacks coach there. To give you an idea,

502
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: it's not like they brought in or elevated grad assistance

503
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Speaker 1: to all of a sudden major Power five assistant coaching positions.

504
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Speaker 2: The overall level of play. It's the same question as

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Speaker 2: we have at Florida State.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, you know there's new coaches in both of the

507
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Speaker 1: major Virginia schools. You got Brent Priet Virginia Tech, and

508
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Speaker 1: you've got Tony Elliott there at Virginia. This was an

509
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: unexpected head coaching change though at Virginia Tony Elliott former

510
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator there for a while at Clemson, he goes

511
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Speaker 1: to Charlottesville, Virginia.

512
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Speaker 2: He's the head coach at Virginia.

513
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Speaker 1: Now they got a huge offensive line rebuild. I mean

514
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Speaker 1: a big one. Now, I know you talk about a

515
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Speaker 1: lot of them. Oh we got to replace three starters. Yeah,

516
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Speaker 1: they'll tray places with you instantly if you offered it

517
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Speaker 1: to Virginia.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this.

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Speaker 1: So they've had twenty one kids exit via the portal,

520
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: not on the offensive line, that would be a record.

521
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Speaker 1: They've had twenty one kids total exit via the portal.

522
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Speaker 1: The offensive line has just been the position group that

523
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Speaker 1: got the most gutted. They've lost six offensive linemen in

524
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Speaker 1: one cycle. They've lost three starters. They did pick up

525
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Speaker 1: two grad transfer offensive linemen, but they won't be there

526
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Speaker 1: until the summer. So right now as they're going into spring,

527
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Speaker 1: unless something changed in the last twenty four hours, they've

528
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Speaker 1: got one offensive lineman on the roster with any experience

529
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Speaker 1: starting experience. So not the most enviable position for a

530
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Speaker 1: new coaching staff to inherit, but that is what it

531
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Speaker 1: is at Virginia. So I think a lot of people

532
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Speaker 1: from again the old fifty thousand foot spring view, they're

533
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Speaker 1: probably going to look at Virginia and anybody who ever

534
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Speaker 1: believed in Tony Elliott. They'll look and they'll say, oh,

535
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Speaker 1: Tony Elliott plus Armstrong still there the quarterback, so he

536
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Speaker 1: gets a returning starter at quarterback. Maybe they'll be a

537
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,479
Speaker 1: pop team in year one. You better have an offensive

538
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Speaker 1: line to play behind. They don't have it right now,

539
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Speaker 1: so they could be.

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Speaker 2: It could be a rough year for them unless some real, real,

541
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Speaker 2: real magic happens in development and then probably the post

542
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Speaker 2: spring transfer portal.

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Speaker 1: Two boys some interesting things to talk about still tonight,

544
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Speaker 1: and it's a good thing because they're watching us in Delanaga,

545
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: Georgia took a field trip to Delanago one year also

546
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Speaker 1: which taf falls Texas tuned in, which is apropos because

547
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Speaker 1: we're taking the Mood Tracker out to the lone Star

548
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Speaker 1: State tonight.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys being tuned in wherever you are.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the.

551
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Speaker 1: Moon Tracker rolls on tonight and we are headed to

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Speaker 1: College Station Texas, the Texas A and m Aggie's Now, I've

553
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: got I got a lot of love for Texas A

554
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: and m right now. It's a big program, so therefore

555
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: it's a big fan base. We have a large chunk

556
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Speaker 1: of our viewership.

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Speaker 2: From A and M. But that's not the reason I

558
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 2: love them at the moment. At least, it's a general reason.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I love A and M right now.

560
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Speaker 2: Two reasons.

561
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Speaker 1: Actually, they are doing the Lord's work in batting down

562
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: a couple of the big lies in college football. You know,

563
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: the big lies. We've spoken about them. They are numerous.

564
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 2: But two of the big lies are stars.

565
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 1: Are overrated and you are what your record says you are,

566
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Speaker 1: and Texas A and M's out here fighting a good fight.

567
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 1: First off, let's talk about you are what your record

568
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: says you are, which none of us believe in on

569
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Speaker 1: this show.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the big lies in college football.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a whole lot of excitement around A and M,

572
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: a whole lot of hype, but they just went eight

573
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Speaker 1: and four. How do we explain the two there's unusual

574
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: hype around Texas A and M.

575
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Speaker 2: They're not always this way.

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Speaker 1: So anyone who comes up and says, oh, A and

577
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: M's always that way, No, they haven't been. There's never

578
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Speaker 1: been this level of collective excitement hype around this program,

579
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Speaker 1: yet they just went eight and four. How do you

580
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: explain that? If you are what your record says you are. Well,

581
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: it is who you played and it's who you beat.

582
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: That's how you explain it. And then you got to

583
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: know the circumstances. You got a quarterback get knocked out,

584
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: so your reassess expectations at that point. But they played

585
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: in the SEC and they also beat Alabama, so with

586
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback they did both of those things. They

587
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Speaker 1: won eight games. It's not always just strictly you are

588
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Speaker 1: what your record says you are. There's a lot more

589
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Speaker 1: context that is included there. And then the stars don't matter, crowd.

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Speaker 1: I really want you guys to pull up a cheer,

591
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Speaker 1: make room on the front row. Let the stars don't matter, crowd,

592
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Speaker 1: have your seat for a second, because I need them

593
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Speaker 1: to see what's about to happen at Texas A and M.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to take three years. This class they

595
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 2: just brought.

596
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Speaker 1: In, don't know which ones yet, but a number of

597
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: those guys are going to be impact players as true freshmen.

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Speaker 1: Not only is it the highest rated class in A

599
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: and M history, let me remind everyone highest rated class

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Speaker 1: in recruiting history.

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Speaker 2: And we've been doing this for quite a while now.

602
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: At twenty four to seven sports, highest rated class in

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Speaker 1: all of the history of major college football recruiting. That's

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Speaker 1: why they're excited. And I know a lot of you

605
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: out there who have the defense mechanism up. You're not

606
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: an A and M fan. Maybe you're looking and you're saying, oh, yeah,

607
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: but some of those guys will transfer.

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Speaker 2: They will.

609
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Speaker 1: Can almost assure you some of the guys in this

610
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: class will transfer. Yeah, so will yours. By the way,

611
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: at your program wherever you are.

612
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Speaker 2: Some of them won't pan out.

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Speaker 1: I can promise you they won't. Some of them absolutely

614
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: will not pan out. But here's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Even after you apply both of those filters. There are

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Speaker 1: going to be some studs out of this class that

617
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: play this year, and then they're going to be one

618
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: to two dozen of them who end up doing extremely,

619
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Speaker 1: extremely big things. I don't know that I've ever used

620
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: that combination in the sentence in College station. So anyway,

621
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Speaker 1: those two things I personally appreciate because the two big

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Speaker 1: lies in college football that A and M's helping to

623
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Speaker 1: put a fire extinguisher on couldn't approve any more of

624
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Speaker 1: the work they're doing there.

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Speaker 2: Which brings me to the mood. What's the mood?

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Speaker 1: This is the mood tracker. We're taking a temperature to

627
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Speaker 1: the fan base. What's the mood? Well, I was over

628
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: on tech SAgs and I've been doing it for seventy

629
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Speaker 1: two hours now because we had our Sunday show delayed

630
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: and over at giggam twenty four to seven, and I

631
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: was asking our friends over on.

632
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 2: Both boards fill in the blank.

633
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Speaker 1: You know the drill My mood towards Texas A and

634
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: M football is what There were virtually no people that

635
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: had any kind of any kind of temperament. But yet

636
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: there's also not that collective we're over the cliff now,

637
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:23,479
Speaker 1: you know, we've jumped.

638
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 2: It's not, it's kind of it's kind of a combination.

639
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 2: It's kind of a blending of the two.

640
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,959
Speaker 1: So here's what I labeled it as the mood at

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00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: Texas A and M Right now it is blueprint euphoria.

642
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 2: This is a long suffering fan base.

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00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: You got to understand something when you talk to a

644
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: group of Texas A and M fans. They've seen a lot,

645
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: they've been around the block. They've understood heartache, they've understood underachievement.

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00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: They know how high they should have been flying a

647
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: long time ago. Well that's in the past, but they

648
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: feel like they've got the blueprint to address it now,

649
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: and they feel like they've got the guy in Jimbo

650
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: Fisher to address it now. For a program that has

651
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 1: not sniffed the college football playoff, these folks have a

652
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: pretty darn good understanding of where they are right now

653
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: in the college football playoff picture, and that is not there,

654
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: but well on their way, and that's how they kind

655
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: of view their expectations. That's the prism with which they

656
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: view their expectations. There's a ton of enthusiasm. There is

657
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: not a doubt about the overall ultimate destiny of the program.

658
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: Every one of them expect to get there, and most

659
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: of them expect to eventually win a national championship. They

660
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: don't have their chips all in on twenty twenty two,

661
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: though they expect improvement. They expect they expect some tangible

662
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: progress to be made in certain areas like, for example,

663
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: being able to do better down the field on third

664
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: down and in just stretching the field in general wide

665
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: receiver position. They expect to see an infusion of this

666
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: young talent. They expect to improve at quarterback and build

667
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: depth there so that they can stay healthy, and even

668
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: if they don't, they don't have to watch their entire

669
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: season go off. The rails get better along both lines

670
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. See that defensive line class start to get

671
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: their roots planted there. Yeah, yeah, well they want to

672
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: see all that. That doesn't automatically mean eleven and one

673
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: in a playoff trip or a trip to Atlanta for

674
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: the SEC title game. If it turns out that way, great,

675
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: But the mood around Texas A and M does not

676
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: revolve around.

677
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: What are we going to do this year? It's what

678
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: are we going to do over the next decade.

679
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: It's not a lightning and a bottle approach at Texas

680
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: A and M. Right now, That's what I'm trying to

681
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: tell you. They are a lot more of the mindset

682
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: of trying to build a mansion than a bouncy castle.

683
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: Some programs have to build up two or three years

684
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: just to try and pop one year.

685
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 2: That's not the model here.

686
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: The model here is that they have invested maximum in

687
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: facilities and resources. In general, they are a maximum investor

688
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: in recruiting and so now they're not building towards a year.

689
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 2: At Texas A and M.

690
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: They're building towards several years, hopefully consecutively down the road.

691
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: This is not the approach to Texas A and M.

692
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: It's not a year, it's the next several years. And

693
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of the mood right now. So they believe

694
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: in the blueprint. They are euphoric about the blueprint, and

695
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: they're euphoric about finally haven't. As they see it, the

696
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: right guy and Jimbo Fisher has hired a great staff

697
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: and they're not making excuses. In fact, they're pretty big

698
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: chested about it. They're very boisterous about it. But it's

699
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: a confidence thing. They appreciate that, and they really don't

700
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: care that you don't appreciate it. It's kind of the same

701
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: way we've talked for a while now about their game

702
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: day traditions and their traditions at A and M.

703
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 2: In general. I love going out there because you know.

704
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: All the aggie fans will tell you, look, we know

705
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: we get made fun of. But now that you're here,

706
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: and I love going out there, so I appreciate it.

707
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: So once they see you appreciate it, they'll let you

708
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: in on the secret. And the secret is, hey, if

709
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: you're in this thing, it makes perfect sense, and if

710
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: you're not of it, you'll never understand it anyway.

711
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: So we don't really worry about all that.

712
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: So I go to A and M and I, you know,

713
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: I talk about how great it is, and then I'll

714
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: have people tell me, oh, it's this, it's that.

715
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: It's your opinion. I got mine. I happen to love

716
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 2: it out there.

717
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: Maybe it has something to do with the fact that

718
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: it's always sold out in about seventy degrees when I

719
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: go out there. So, however, you guys do that, keep

720
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: it up. But it's not about a year. It's not

721
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: about oh, could we build towards twenty twenty four, twenty five,

722
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: or could we we got to make it happen this

723
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: year in twenty two. It's not that they are building

724
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: a very, very sustainable, long term run type of program there.

725
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 2: So blueprint euphoria.

726
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: That's what I arrived at as the mood right now

727
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: for Texas and M. How about the fact that they're

728
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: watching us in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada tonight. A lot of

729
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: these a lot of these towns. I gotta be honest

730
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: with you. I grew up watching pro wrestling, so I

731
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: remember towns like Vancouver, and Calgary and Toronto and Montreal

732
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: and Hamilton. I remember them from pay per views. I

733
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: think Breakdown ninety eight, Jesse. Breakdown ninety eight was probably

734
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: in Hamilton. So there you go, Hamilton, Georgia, about ten

735
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: minutes north before I grew up at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

736
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Speaker 1: They're watching us there Tullahoma, Tennessee. They're tuned in Denver, Colorado,

737
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: tuned in. Thank you guys so much for that. So

738
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Speaker 1: I want to wrap it up with a question tonight

739
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: that one of you had three days ago and we're

740
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: just now being able to.

741
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: Get to it. I'll wait for the graphic. There we go. Okay,

742
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: here we go. Colm.

743
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: So there's a lot going on in media right now.

744
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: Troy Hatman getting about eighteen to five a year to

745
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: go to ESPN, Joe Buck around fourteen to fifteen million

746
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: a year, a lot of big moves.

747
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 2: You know what.

748
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: Our buddy Kirkurbstreet's on the move too, one of you

749
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: asked RJ. Neil actually asked, kirkerb Street doing double duty

750
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: now for Amazon and ESPN, what are your thoughts on that?

751
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 2: Now? In case you miss this, and a lot of

752
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: you may have.

753
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: Andrew Marshan with The New York Post was the first

754
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: to break this story about a week ago.

755
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 2: Now, so it appears.

756
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that Amazon's put out an official release,

757
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: but according to Andrew marsh On of The New York Post,

758
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: kirkurb Street's going to do the Thursday night NFL package

759
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: for Amazon. Side note, Amazon is going to have Thursday

760
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: Night Football, So kirkirk Street doing the Thursday night lead

761
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: analyst position for Amazon. Now, the first thing that probably

762
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: pops in your mind is he's leaving college football.

763
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 2: No, doesn't appear that way.

764
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: It appears, according to the report that he will still

765
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: fulfill all of his college football duties that I assume

766
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: is game day and the Saturday night game on ABC.

767
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: A lot of work, even if you got the PJ

768
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: got the old private jet, it's a lot of work.

769
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: Probably cut out to do it, though, you know, if

770
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: we know Kirk Ckurbstreet like we all think we do

771
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: by this point, yeah, I think he's cut out to

772
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: do it. But this is an interesting question because then

773
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: we got a lot of follow ups on this. I

774
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 1: picked one question, but like ten of you asked about this,

775
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: a lot of you just want to know. Well, Number one,

776
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: everyone always wants to know how much money someone's making,

777
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: and fortunately for you, I have some intel on this.

778
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: Approximately a bazillion dollars. That's how much Herbstreet signed with

779
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: Amazon for. So congratulations there. Next question that a lot

780
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: of you have is why in the world is the

781
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: talent in the booth being paid, in some cases more

782
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: than the talent on the field. This is where you

783
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: get a lot of folks into pretty heated arguments. So

784
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you a little bit of

785
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: behind the scenes media look and not necessarily even my

786
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: opinion on this. My opinion is good for kirkurve Street.

787
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: Everybody go get as much money as you can. That's

788
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: my opinion on it. Don't forget where you came from.

789
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: I guess would be my follow up. But secondly, you

790
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: got to understand the evolution. Think about the way that you.

791
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: Watch college football or watch the NFL.

792
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: You have watched it forever on CBS or NBC or Fox,

793
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: and because you've always known you have to go to

794
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: those legacy media outlets to consume those big sporting products

795
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: like the NFL, it's never been necessary for them to

796
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: have big names in the booth, recognizable names.

797
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: They've had them, but they weren't.

798
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: Necessary because you're going to watch Steelers Bengals, even if

799
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: you have to watch it on mute. Some of you

800
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: watch the game on mute anyway. Some of you do

801
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: not care for the broadcast experience during a game, that's

802
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: your prerogative. The data shows vast majority of you do

803
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: listen to the broadcast feed and so therefore, for a

804
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: long time you had one approach. Well, now you have

805
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: non legacy entities entering the equation. You're Amazon's for example,

806
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: they won't be the last, they're just the one there. Now,

807
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: Netflix could be there, of course, YouTube TV there well. Anyway,

808
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: those are not places that you have been trained to go.

809
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: And so what do they have to do. They have

810
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: to attract you there now having the product itself if

811
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: it's if it's desirable enough, people will go find it.

812
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: And we all know that, I mean every metric in

813
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: our industry shows that. But it helps to have attractive

814
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: names attached to your product, especially if you are a

815
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: non legacy outlet or an entity like Amazon, and so

816
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: that's why they're willing to do that. Also, I don't

817
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: know if you've noticed, but it's Amazon, So there weren't

818
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: a lot of money. They have it to throw around.

819
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: We just broke the news that Herberstreet's making a bazillion dollars.

820
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: Even that is still only a small sliver of the

821
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: Amazon pie. They're doing it because they can, and they're

822
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: doing it because it's very smart business. But I think

823
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: it's crazy to look at and I think it's sending

824
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: kind of a reverberation throughout that industry. Makes people like

825
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: me wonder why I never got in the booth or

826
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: try it out. I did Columbus Lions games for a while,

827
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: so if anyone's listening, I don't even.

828
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 2: Require a bazilion.

829
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: I'll take half that, right, you know what, The philanthropic

830
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: side of me is even willing to take a quarter

831
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: of that to go do games in the booth. But

832
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: real talk here, you know, it's an evolution. Now, you've

833
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: never seen guys make anywhere close to that much, Which

834
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: brings you back to a guy in kirkurb Street who

835
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: you've always viewed as a college football lifer.

836
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine when this offer was put

837
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 2: on his play.

838
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: There were rumors, there have been there are always rumors

839
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: about what everyone's going to do next. But you know,

840
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: you would always hear things about kirkurb Street and other names,

841
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe that Monday night football spot or

842
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: maybe an NFL spot, and he's done some NFL games.

843
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 2: This wouldn't be a first for him. But how do

844
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: you say no to this?

845
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: Who in the world when there I dare anyone to

846
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: tell me that's say no to this. You're talking about

847
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: generationally life changing money. Just doing it for six months

848
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: or five months for one time for all I know,

849
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: he'll do it for the next decade.

850
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 2: But man, you do this. Once you spend that wheel, once.

851
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: You have you have lined your pockets and the pockets

852
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: of your grandchildren great grandchild for a long time to come.

853
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 2: So congratulations there.

854
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the last big name from the

855
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: traditionally college type landscape that is going to test the

856
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: waters of the NFL. That's kind of the way it

857
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: is now. Now, I'll tell you what else is interesting.

858
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: This new concept of it used to be that a

859
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 1: guy worked for a company. Well, now you're seeing guys

860
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: where one blazer with a logo on it for one

861
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: week and then and then the next night they're on

862
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: another network.

863
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 2: That's another interesting concept.

864
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: When you mix TV and digital, when you mix TV

865
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: and streaming, Just telling you the contracts the way they're

866
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: written in our industry, the language is being updated.

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Speaker 2: In fact, their lawyer's working on that as we speak.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't used to speak.

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Speaker 1: You had to guard against your guys going and doing

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Speaker 1: work for other networks. Well, now, what in the world

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Speaker 1: was Amazon five years ago, ten years ago, and wasn't

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Speaker 1: anywhere that you're on air talent was ever going to

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Speaker 1: do an NFL game?

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Speaker 2: A lot of interesting.

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Speaker 1: Times that we're in right now. But that's my thought there.

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Speaker 1: Good for Kirkirkstreet's that's my stance on that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for watching. It's a Tuesday night show.

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Speaker 1: We obviously don't do Tuesday night shows in the off

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Speaker 1: season very often, but we had to do it tonight

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Speaker 1: because we owe you one.

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Speaker 2: So thank you so much for this.

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Speaker 1: Remember, whether you're watching on YouTube or whether you're listening

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Speaker 2: Us right now is subscribing. You're already listening and watching,

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Speaker 2: so it's not a huge ask.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe as you do, and then a five star review

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for direct Colin, for producer Jesse,

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Speaker 1: for our production executives here. Thank you for making time

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night or maybe a Wednesday morning, wherever

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Speaker 1: you are.

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Speaker 2: I'm Josh Pate. Take care. We'll see you again Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: Until then, God bless