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Speaker 1: Ed Welcome in lakeig is Live. It is Tuesday night, January,

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Speaker 1: fifth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty three when I

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Speaker 1: am college football Commissioner tailgating at a national championship game,

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Speaker 1: and whether you can do it or not will be

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Speaker 1: among the least of your concerns. I've got your back

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Speaker 1: when it comes time to go to the ballot box

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Speaker 1: in this alternate universe where we vote on such things,

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Speaker 1: make sure you have my back. We're jam packed. We're

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Speaker 1: so jam packed tonight. I know I say it all

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Speaker 1: Just a little bit extra on the side of jam

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Speaker 1: pack tonight, We've got full National Championship preview prediction. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hit it from every angle imaginable, and once you

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Speaker 1: leave here tonight you'll at least know one definitive stance

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Speaker 1: on how that game is going to turn out. Bobby

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Speaker 1: Petrino is back, a mysterious reappearance in the sec from

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Speaker 1: on Robert Petrino? Is it a good fit? What do

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Speaker 1: we think about this? Texas? A and M is the location,

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Speaker 1: by the way, If you're if you've been out to

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Speaker 1: lunch for an extended period of time. There are some

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Speaker 1: nil rumors floating around out there, the kind of rumors,

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Speaker 1: for example, that so and so was going to go

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Speaker 1: to program X, but then Program why paid him too

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Speaker 1: much money and he couldn't turn it down. Though you've

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Speaker 1: heard those sorts of rumors before, right, Sometimes they're true,

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Speaker 1: sometimes they're not. I think the latter is the case

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Speaker 1: with the person and programs that we will discuss this evening. Also,

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Speaker 1: speaking of programs, I got four, Jesse, I think four, yeah,

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Speaker 1: four of them that I think are just teetering right

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Speaker 1: football playoff contenders. I'm not talking about the futuristic twelve

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Speaker 1: team model where like half the sports on the precipice

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Speaker 1: what value and scarcity will have that day. No, I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about the modern day, current four team setup. I

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Speaker 1: think there are some programs we need to watch very closely.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in what Tumpka, Alabama, Newcastle, Indiana, Wilmington,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Midland, Texas. Thank you guys so much.

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Speaker 1: We just got some year end numbers and suffice it

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Speaker 1: to say, whatever the ceiling was on the show and

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Speaker 1: what we have in terms of potential. You broke it

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. Thank you, guys, Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Reminder, we will be live from Los Angeles Sunday,

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Speaker 1: same time. We'll just be three thousand miles further west. Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the day after the National Championship Game, we will have

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Speaker 1: an earlier show. We'll still be live from LA I'm

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Speaker 1: told it's going to be pouring down rain, but big game,

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Speaker 1: Dan and Gelby came through and they got us a cover.

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Speaker 1: So while the rest of you have to hold umbrellas

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Speaker 1: look at us, we get hooked up with Academy and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we got a tent right over

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Speaker 1: our heads. Just make sure you follow me on the socials.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be sometime early afternoon. We haven't nailed

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Speaker 1: down a specific time yet, so just stay tuned. Follow

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Speaker 1: me at Lake Kick, Josh, make sure you're tuned in.

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Speaker 1: I'm rolling out there with plenty of gift cards. I'm

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Speaker 1: just telling you, I know of you guys are going

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Speaker 1: to be out there if you see me. Now's the time,

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Speaker 1: last game of the year. Can't hold anything back now

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Speaker 1: if you've avoided it, so far, make sure you come

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Speaker 1: up to me and ask for one, because I've got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of Academy gift cards to unload. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's dive into tonight's show, National Championship Game on deck.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be there live and on a location

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California. So is Georgia, and so is

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Speaker 1: check the fine print DCU. Now, what I like to

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Speaker 1: and they're looking at TCU. The first thing they're saying is, oh,

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Speaker 1: probably saying is Gator Bowl. He's a bull Alamobile No

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Speaker 1: and they say, tell me how it happened, Well, we

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Speaker 1: realistic is this? Well? Producer Jesse early paper pop producer

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Speaker 1: Jesse walks up to me today and says, do you

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Speaker 1: The closest we've come to a twelve and a half

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Speaker 1: They went on to roll. So that's the bad news.

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Speaker 1: If you're TCU, I do have a little ray of

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Speaker 1: did it? Twenty seventeen, Pama won the title. Twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: before we dive into the preview. Okay, so that's not

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Speaker 1: the worst news in the world. How's this different from

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Speaker 1: been around all that long, welcome aboard, Thank you, please

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel. But also, we don't think there's

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Speaker 1: course you do. Everyone does. If you don't think that,

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Speaker 1: for betting the other side of this game. No, when

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Speaker 1: that George's best bet to winning this game is to

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Speaker 1: out about that, you would say to me what you

428
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 1: would probably say to me. You're not hiring him to

429
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,199
Speaker 1: be a football coach. Are you're hiring him to be

430
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 1: a scout leader. He's everything in terms of intangibles that

431
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,239
Speaker 1: those young men need. He's a great example of what

432
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: they should want to grow up to be. I get

433
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: all that, but his peewee team goes to and ten

434
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: like he sucks as a football coach. What do you

435
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,120
Speaker 1: guys want me to tell you? Well, that wouldn't make

436
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 1: much sense, nor, in my opinion, doesn't make a lot

437
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 1: of sense. When I look at Texas A and M

438
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and first in the country and points per

439
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 1: game and me knowing this guy immediately makes them better,

440
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 1: or A and M seventy ninth, the rush yards per game,

441
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 1: eighty fourth, pass yards per game, ninety third total yards

442
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: per game. Bobby Petrino makes them better, better, better, immediately

443
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: being hired. I want him to be a football coach.

444
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 1: I don't need him to be a scout leader. The minute.

445
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: If he does that, he has indiscretion off the field

446
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: that brings shame on the university. Here's what would happen.

447
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 1: He'd be fired and that'd be the end. That's the risk,

448
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: which I don't think is much of a risk. The

449
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: plus side is you immediately upgraded your personnel in terms

450
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: of your coaching staff. You immediately if play calling is

451
00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,119
Speaker 1: truly being handed over to him, upgraded on Saturday. Is

452
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,479
Speaker 1: that not the name of the game here. This is

453
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 1: not a sport that is coached by angels. It's not

454
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 1: a sport that's played by angels. Basically, I'm just rehashing

455
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: a lot of what I said when Auburn hired Hugh Freeze,

456
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: because you know my thoughts on that too. I need

457
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 1: the guy to coach football in this case, I don't

458
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: need him to be the face of my program. Even

459
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: he's not my head coach. He's gonna go sit in

460
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 1: an office. You'll rarely hear from him. You'll see him

461
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: on Saturdays, and I don't know how many play sheets

462
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: he plans on holding in his hand. But I need

463
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: him to do a better job than Jimbo Fisher's been

464
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: doing when it comes to calling plays and when it

465
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: comes to getting my team ready to play winning football,

466
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: if he can do that, I'm okay with some negative

467
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 1: headlines in his past. The reason, once again is because

468
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: of what I need him to do and the boxes

469
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 1: I need Bobby Petrino to check. He checks. Now here's

470
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: the follow up question, will it work? That I don't know?

471
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: I can like the higher? Sure, I told you I

472
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: like the higher? Will it work? I don't know, and

473
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: you will not know. Texas A and M fans won't know.

474
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: People who cover the program won't know. You won't know

475
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: until a couple of weeks into the season. Really, Bobby

476
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: Petrino at Texas A and M, will it work? You

477
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: won't know until they struggle. You don't find out if

478
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: this is real in spring Jimbo Fisher could be dead

479
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: serious for the record about handing over play calling duties

480
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: and relinquishing control of certain aspects of his program and delegating.

481
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: It's a word we have rarely heard offensively around him.

482
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: He could be serious about all that. I go back

483
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: to the age old standby metaphor of teaching a kid

484
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,879
Speaker 1: how to drive. It's one thing if we're down in

485
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 1: the civic center parking lot after dark, and it's a

486
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: wide open parking lot and you're just doing donuts in

487
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: the ford at like fifteen miles an hour. Nobody's worried

488
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: about the kid being fourteen years old when he's doing

489
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: donuts in the parking lot at ten o'clock at night,

490
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: because there's no risk. There's no risk in spring football,

491
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: no one care. There is no instinct from Jimbo Fisher

492
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: to grab the reins. There is no risk even really

493
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: in fall camp of that happening. But when they struggle

494
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: for the first time, could be week two, could be

495
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: week six. Whenever, when they struggle, think about Texas A

496
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: and M going into the locker room down seventeen to six.

497
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: That's when the kid's no longer in the parking lot.

498
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: That's when he's out on the open road and he's

499
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: starting to drift towards the center line a little bit,

500
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: and there is an eighteen wheeler on coming. That's when

501
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: Dad's hand reaches over instinctively and grabs the wheel. That's

502
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: when you'll find out if it's real. If you really

503
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: trust the kid, you sit back and say, for better

504
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: or for worse, our lives are in his hands. If

505
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher is serious about this. That's when you'll find

506
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: out when they trail, when they're struggling, when things aren't

507
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 1: running smoothly. Does Jimbo Fisher reach over and take control

508
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: like several coaches have done before, or does he say

509
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: I hired this guy to do a job for better

510
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 1: or for worse. I'm gonna let him do it. Now

511
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: Jimbo would say it's seven times faster than I just did.

512
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: But that's when we'll find out. So I don't know

513
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: if it's gonna work. I have no clue because I

514
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: really can't get inside that guy's head. Only he can

515
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: do that. But what I do know is he hired

516
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: a guy who will have no problem looking him back

517
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: in the eye and telling him exactly what he thinks,

518
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: which is what they needed out there. This is not

519
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: a twenty seven year old hot shot coordinator who Jimbo

520
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: coached his dad thirty years ago. This is not that.

521
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: This is not a guy who will who lower his

522
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: head and look at Jimbo's feet when he starts chewing

523
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: him out. This is Bobby Petrino. That guy probably has

524
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: about as much emotional callous built up as you could

525
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: possibly have. There is nothing that's gonna come out of

526
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher's mouth that would ever make a shade of

527
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 1: red appear on Bobby Petrino's cheeks, at least more so

528
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 1: than it's already there. So I like the hire doesn't

529
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: mean it's a slam dunk. I think Texas A and

530
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: M's coaching staff got better. That should be the gold.

531
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 1: Anything else is extracurricular and quite frankly, stuff that I

532
00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 1: don't care about because it's non football related. They're watching

533
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: us in Bucks County, Pennsylvania tonight, they're watching us in Tampa, Florida.

534
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Oak Hill, West Virginia, and we

535
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: appreciate someone said, Jimbo take the wheel. We start doing

536
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: parody songs around here. That will be our first one.

537
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: So trademark, that's ours now, trademark. I got a lot

538
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: going on to talk about with the transfer portal. There's

539
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: a great deal of activity. Transfer portal Intel whispers, we

540
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: got a lot going on. Jordan Birch is in the portal.

541
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: Talked about him a couple of nights ago. That is,

542
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: the former five star defensive lineman committed to South Carolina

543
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: has played there a couple of years. Well, he's in

544
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: the portal now, As is usually the case, I have

545
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: to remind you, just because you're in the portal doesn't

546
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: mean it's to guarantee you're gonna leave. We just always

547
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: assume if you're in the portal, you're gonna leave. I

548
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: expect Jordan Birch to leave. What impact is this for

549
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: South Carolina? Well, there are two schools of thought. One

550
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: is perception. Perception. This is terrible, just like if they

551
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: lost him in recruiting, it would have been terrible. Lot.

552
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the fans have been talking

553
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: about this today. But then there's just the overall football impact.

554
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: You could call him overrated, you call him whatever you

555
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: wanted to. He has not played at the level that

556
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: he was expected to play out out of high school. Now,

557
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: that's not always the player's fault. Sometimes the industry had

558
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: him overrat him. I'm not here to assign blame. I'm

559
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: just saying they are not losing a perennial All American.

560
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: They're losing a good, solid player who probably still has

561
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: his best football ahead of him. Here's the concern. If

562
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: you're a Carolina fan. Number one, you don't have the

563
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: guy to fill his spot maybe or maybe not. And

564
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: then number two Jordan Burch goes elsewhere and does play

565
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: his best football and you're having to watch him shine

566
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: in another jersey, maybe in the SEC maybe not, who knows.

567
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, there is some Duck smoke here. There

568
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: is some Oregon smoke. Now, I myself cannot confirm that

569
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: I could if I wanted to. I just didn't reach

570
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: out today. And so interesting approach there, because if you've

571
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: noticed what Oregon's doing, they're getting pretty deep on the

572
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: defensive line. They're going out and getting a lot of players,

573
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: which begs the question, what's Jordan Birch looking for. We

574
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: do not have him on the show tonight, I cannot

575
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: ask him this question. But if he's if he's looking

576
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: for a sure fire depth chart situation out there where

577
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: he's a plug and play, I'm not totally sure Oregon

578
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: is that unless he's about to play a different caliber

579
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: of football than he has so far, because Oregon is

580
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: not the thinnest program in the world and will not

581
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: be for the next several years on the defensive line.

582
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: So we'll see about that six six seventy five big talent,

583
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: big time talent, we'll see where he lands TCUs rolling.

584
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: I know this is a shot to approximately nobody, considering

585
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: they're about to play in the National Championship Game. More

586
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: on that in just a second in terms of the

587
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: dates of such things. But they picked up Tray Sanders today,

588
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: former five star running back. He went to Bama, got

589
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: in a car wreck, almost almost lost more than just

590
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: his career. In that car wreck, Trey Sanders never fully

591
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: regained the form it would take to start at Alabama.

592
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: Trace Sanders is good enough to play football, though plenty

593
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: healthy enough. He's good enough to play football. They've also

594
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: picked up Jojo Earl from Alabama, the receiver. They've also

595
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: picked up Tommy Brockermeyer, former five star offensive tackle. TCU

596
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: loves what they see in Tuscaloosa, and apparently some of

597
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: the kids who work quite on the field enough in

598
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: Tuscalousa love what they see in Fort Worth, and how

599
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: could you not. A lot of these guys get to

600
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: go closer to home, and in the process they also

601
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: get to play for a really good program. TCU is

602
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: going to continue to do this. I continue to talk

603
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: about how there are certain pinpoints on the map where

604
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: a lot of talent resides every year. You don't even

605
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: have to know anything about college football. You know, there

606
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: are a lot of high school football players in Texas

607
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: who are good, and any given year, dozens to hundreds

608
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: of them are going to different programs. Not all the

609
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: good players in Texas stay in Texas. Some of them

610
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: go to Alabama, some of them go to USC, some

611
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: of them go to Ohio State wherever. And that means

612
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: any given cycle when it comes time for the transfer portal,

613
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of kids from Texas in the

614
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: transfer portal. Some of them may be looking to come

615
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: closer to home. Guess who just happens to be there, Like,

616
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: TCU doesn't even have to do anything particularly special. They're

617
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: just there. They just need to raise their hand and

618
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: say are you looking to come home? And the guy says, yeah,

619
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: you got anything? Yeah, yeah, we got a roster spot.

620
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: Do you want to come over here? Sure? That's how

621
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: TCU will sometimes recruit the portal Miami same way, both

622
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: of the programs in Southern California same way. So that's

623
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: just the thing about TCU is that they're really doing

624
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: a good job in the portal. Jack Besh, the receiver

625
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,719
Speaker 1: from LSU, also but I did want to touch on

626
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: this little scheduling. I would call it a snaff food,

627
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: but I don't really think the NC DOUBLEA is particularly

628
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: sorry they did it. Are you aware? As Max Olsen

629
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: pointed out on Twitter today, that the NC DOUBLEA recruiting

630
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: calendar carved out January fourth through the eighth as a

631
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: period for midyear transfers to take visits. So kids who

632
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 1: are in the portal they can take visits in this

633
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: four five day window. And that's what we're seeing right now.

634
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: This lasts until what Monday or Tuesday. I mean, this

635
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: is the day of the National Championship Game, isn't it.

636
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: So basically, if you want to take a visit and

637
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: you're a mid year enroly, you can do it right now.

638
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: Well as you're well aware. The problem is there are

639
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: a couple of teams whose seasons are not even over yet,

640
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: and they're going to California to play in a football game,

641
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: so no one's home. Like, if I'm a transfer, I'd

642
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: never leave Pate State. But if I wanted to and

643
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: I wanted to try my luck with Kirby Smart at Georgia,

644
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: I'd go over there and just knock on the door,

645
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: and guys they couldn't fit on the plane to Los

646
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: Angeles are the only ones there. If there's like a

647
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: note on the door, make yourself at home. There are

648
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: pastries in the fridge. We'll be back next week, hopefully

649
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: with a trophy. What sense does that make the answer none?

650
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: Then I do do a little bit more due diligence today.

651
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: Not only is that the case, but you got some programs,

652
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: and Georgia is one of them where they get back

653
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: from the title. They don't have time to get kids

654
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: enrolled in school, so they can't take a trip, they

655
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: can't take a visit, and also their semester is either

656
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: already started or about to start. And the drop ad

657
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: date you know, when it comes to actual academics, cause

658
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: some people do come here to play school. It's like

659
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: the week of the championship game. So if you want

660
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: to take transfers, you have to have that stuff long

661
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: since sorted out. So so let me just let me

662
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: just explain to you what's happening. The NCAA is telling

663
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: you do not tamper, you better not tamper. You better

664
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: not be reaching out to another kid when he's still

665
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: on a roster. But also we're gonna put the official

666
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: visit window when you may or may not be in town.

667
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, we know that your semester

668
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: starts the next week and you're not gonna have any

669
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: time to do anything after you get back. Don't you tamper? Though?

670
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: Like what, who made this calendar? I'll tell you who.

671
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: The same folks who put the early signing day. And

672
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: well they didn't put Christmas in December, but Christmas was

673
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: well known to be in December, and they had conference

674
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: championship games going on, and they had transfer portal open

675
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: and up and they had nil. Therefore, being at the forefront,

676
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: you had the coaching hot seat and coaches moving all

677
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: over the place. Those people are the ones who put

678
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: the official visit window for midyear enrollies in the same

679
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: week as you would be playing a national championship. Those people,

680
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: you know, those people. Anyway, I spoke my piece on that.

681
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: Next up, Sam Hartman has officially landed in South Bend, Indiana.

682
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: That was the quarterback at Wake Forest and he is

683
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: now going to be a quarterback at Notre Dame. Some

684
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: of you noticed the other day I said on the

685
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: show repeatedly they need a one year stop gap because

686
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: Tyler Butner is expected to transfer. A lot of you

687
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: heard that and you took that to mean, oh, he

688
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: must be thinking about Drew Pine, because Drew Pine already transferred.

689
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: What I met with Tyler Butner, and I did not

690
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: do a good job at all of stating it clearly.

691
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: I did not mean Tyler Butner is about to play

692
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: in the Bowl game and then throw up the deuces.

693
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: The next day I was saying, had this baked into it?

694
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: So it's long been thought that Sam Hartman is going

695
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: to transfer to Notre Dame. It's just official now. He

696
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: made it official today. What I think is going to

697
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: happen is they will have a spirited battle in the

698
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: spring for the QB one job. I think it will

699
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: become very apparent, very quickly that Sam Hartman is going

700
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback there, and that is when

701
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: yours truly expects a potential transfer from Tyler Butner. So

702
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: that's how I think that's going to play out. That's

703
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: what I meant. What it sounded like was something totally different. Anyway,

704
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: Sam Hartman at Notre Dame. They need him, They need

705
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: a one year guy. Because I won't say they have

706
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: it for sure taken care of in the future. There

707
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: are no certainties in this life. But I think they

708
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: feel comfortable twenty twenty four and beyond at quarterback. They

709
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable about twenty twenty three. Oh, except that

710
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: now they do. Let's check in on Colorado for just

711
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: a second. We made a lot of noise about Dion

712
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: Sanders going to Boulder. We haven't talked about him in

713
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, mainly cause you asked us to stop,

714
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: even though you kept clicking on the videos. Checking back

715
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: in on Colorado. They have the number two portal class

716
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: in the country. Travis Hunter did indeed transfer there, Shadirra

717
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: Sanders did indeed transfer there. But they've got you know what,

718
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: before I tell you, if you haven't checked this in

719
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: the last week or two, how many players do you

720
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: think Colorado has added from the portal now? As a

721
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,919
Speaker 1: frame of reference, USC last year had twenty. Colorado's already

722
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: got seventeen. They're not done. I do not think they're done,

723
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: and they've added several guys who obviously will be immediately

724
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: impacting the starting lineup there seventeen. Jesse, what do you

725
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: think we should put the over under at you think

726
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: we should go twenty and a half? Would that be

727
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: fair twenty one? Jesse wants to go twenty one. I

728
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: don't want a thread of a push, but I guess

729
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: since Jesse calls the shots, here will go twenty one. Colin,

730
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: I don't know if you endorse that, but twenty one

731
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: it is okay. Well, I can't go that, that's a violation.

732
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: FSU has the number one portal class in the country,

733
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: right ahead of Colorado, and the average player rating that

734
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: they've taken out of the portal is ninety one point

735
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: three eight good players. In other words, they have four

736
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: out of the top twenty six, and among those players,

737
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: Jaheim bel the top tight end in the country. They've

738
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: gotten him out of the portal. They've got the number

739
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: two corner out of the portal, number two offensive tackle

740
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: out of the portal, top defensive lineman out of the portal,

741
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: the kid from Western Michigan. So they are spanning the

742
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: globe far and wide to find players that will be

743
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: integral pieces on maybe a preseason ACC championship contender. I

744
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: don't think there's much risk in saying that absolutely there'll

745
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: be a preseason ACC championship contender number one and number

746
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: two in the portal rankings right now, FSU and Colorado,

747
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: remember got the title game coming up Monday night. It

748
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: is expected that we will probably see some departures from

749
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: maybe even those programs, But after that we'll have the

750
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: full picture. Every one season will be over and so

751
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: there will be nothing left. There'll be no other time

752
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: to wait, nor the reason to wait. So anyone else

753
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: who's going in the portal in this early window will

754
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: be doing it shortly after Monday night at the latest,

755
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: shortly after Monday night. We were speaking earlier today about

756
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: who's next. It wasn't Felcher doing his Goldberg impression. It

757
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: was just an honest and reflowing discussion about which of

758
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: these programs out there could be next. So Colin, here's

759
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: a better riendpoint for you. Georgia tcui're playing for the

760
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: national championship. You had Michigan and Ohio State in the playoff.

761
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: Who could be next? I'm not necessarily saying teams that

762
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: have never made the playoff, but teams that have been

763
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: out of the picture. We had a Twitter question about

764
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: this and it got us talking earlier today about who

765
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: could be next? So just frame it up in your

766
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: own mind. Maybe they've been to the playoff, but they've

767
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: been down. Who that's not currently in that playoff picture

768
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: will be next? Because I came up with four names

769
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 1: pretty off the top of my head, and the first

770
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: one's Penn State. I had Jesse sitting across from me,

771
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: so it certainly didn't hurt their matters at all. There

772
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: are many facets of the program I think that are

773
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction. So as much as I

774
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: love Sean Clifford, quarterbacks trending in the right direction. Here, imagine,

775
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: if you will, a world where you have a guy

776
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: who's capable of playing every week like Sean Clifford, just

777
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: playing in the Rose Bowl. What a world that would be. Well.

778
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: Drew Aller, I believe, and many believe, has the capability

779
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: to be that kind of player. Check at quarterback. Certainly

780
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: they have recruited very well, and you've already seen the

781
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: fruits of that payoff. At the running back position. Trending

782
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: up check, offensive line had been a weakness a year

783
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: or two. Trending up check, tight end, they'll be good there. Check.

784
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: And then when we flip over to the defensive side

785
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: of the ball. I got Manny Diaz. You see what

786
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: he did this year, and they will continue, I think,

787
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: to trend in the right direction there. I also think

788
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna add one or two more guys at receiver

789
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: from the portal. The foundation is laid, they keep on

790
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: adding thin layer after a thin layer. And the reason

791
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: I say thin is because they have not gone from

792
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: being average to just exploding into the playoff picture overnight.

793
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: That's not the way it's happening there. But what is

794
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: happening is it's slowly but surely. You know, you got

795
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: the you got the stovetop on, but it's not on

796
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: full blast, so it's just taking the pot of water

797
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: a little bit longer to heat up. But the thing

798
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: about the little the little frog, ear Muff's kids, this

799
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: is gonna be graphic. When you take the little frog,

800
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use the chalice here, and you drop the

801
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: frog in room temperature liquid and then you heat it up.

802
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: That frog doesn't realize it's being boiled to death. Now,

803
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: if I had it at two twelve already and I

804
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: dropped the frog in, he just jumps right back out. Well,

805
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: Penn State is the first pot of water. They're the

806
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: pot of water that was like room temperature, and they're

807
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: slowly heating up and they're going to come to a

808
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: boil and it's gonna sneak up on you. They're gonna

809
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: make the playoff eventually, and you're gonna be surprised, and

810
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: I just don't think you should because the indicators are there.

811
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: Right now, Let's go to Eugene, Oregon right quick. I

812
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: am naming Oregon over USC on the West coast. I

813
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: am doing that because as much as I love Lincoln

814
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: Riley and USC, they're doing something at Oregon. I've still

815
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: got to see him do at USC, and that is

816
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: loading up on defense with a head coach that has

817
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: a proven track record defensive, and they're doing it in

818
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: a big way. And so when I'm looking forward, I'm

819
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: asking myself, Hey, what do I think about the staff

820
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: out there? I like the staff out there. I'm not

821
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: just talking about Landing. I'm talking about the guys he

822
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: has under him, and I'm talking about the pedigrees they

823
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: have on the field and off the field. It's not

824
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: a regional staff. Now, there's nothing wrong with having a

825
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: regional staff, but the further west you go, the more

826
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: I prefer you to have a group of guys who

827
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: have been all around the country number one, because that's

828
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: the way you have to recruit, and especially in the Northwest,

829
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: that's the way you have to recruit. Well, they've got him.

830
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: They've got him all throughout that building. They are taking

831
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 1: an approach that is a lot more balanced in nature.

832
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: There's no one walking the building in there who says

833
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 1: we'll just outscore him every week. That's not the approach there. However,

834
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: they can score on you. One of the most important

835
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: recruitments that's happened right under your nose has been bo

836
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: Nick's coming back. Like, I think Oregon's in position to

837
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: potentially be a playoff team next year, or at very

838
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: least they'll be in that conversation because I don't think

839
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: bo Nicks has maximized his potential yet. He just had

840
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: a really good year. I think he came back because

841
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: he believes he's capable of having a better year, and

842
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: I if he does believe that, agree with him. So

843
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: I've got Oregon there, and I know they love to

844
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: hear that. At Washington Boy, they love to be ignored.

845
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: And I'm going to do you guys a favor. It's

846
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: not that I don't see you. I just know you

847
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: would prefer me not to list you there, and so

848
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm doing you a solid and I'm not gonna list

849
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: wash it. How about that Texas? What am I doing?

850
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,479
Speaker 1: What am I doing? I look at Texas? Oh sorry, Colin,

851
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: I look at Texas. And you know this made sense

852
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: when I wrote it earlier. So I'm gonna go ahead

853
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: with this. But you know that I've had I've had

854
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: my fair share of disagreements with the old model here

855
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: when it came to picking Texas and trying to judge Texas.

856
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: Texas and North Carolina were the two toughest programs for

857
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: US as a show to get a read on. I

858
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: feel like truly we affected the outcome of Texas and

859
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: North Carolina games, meaning anytime we picked them to cover,

860
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: they didn't cover. And I truly feel like if we

861
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: would have picked them not to cover, it would have

862
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: changed the outcome of the game. That's how snake bit we were.

863
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: And therefore it doesn't make a whole lot of sense

864
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: for me to mention Texas here, but I'm going to

865
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: because on the surface, on this slightly abused piece of

866
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 1: paper here, I five and seven becoming eight and four.

867
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: I do see It's granted it's just two years, but

868
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: I do see things trending up. I think line of

869
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: scrimmage recruiting has been handled very well here. Quarterback, one

870
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: way or the other is going to be a strength

871
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: form because if it's not coin Ye or as you

872
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: got arts Manny coming in the door. So quarterback is

873
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: not a question mark for me here. Not everyone explodes overnight. Okay,

874
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 1: it would be great if you hired start and year

875
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: one or even year two they were eleven and one

876
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: playing for a big twelve championship. That would have been great.

877
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: It didn't happen, just like it didn't happen for the

878
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: next team I'm gonna talk about in the second. It

879
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: didn't happen overnight, that doesn't mean it can't happen. It

880
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: didn't happen for Dablos Swiney overnight. Special things eventually ended

881
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: up happening there. Well, I think that this Texas group

882
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: is going through and has gone through, some things that

883
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: are going to be beneficial in the future. Because when

884
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: you just ask yourself what ingredients are needed to be

885
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: a playoff contender, we're not talking about just outright win

886
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: a championship. We're talking about being a playoff contender and

887
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: potentially making it into that playoff at four team field.

888
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: Out of the teams that haven't been there, where is

889
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: a better set of ingredients And clearly what we're talking

890
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: about there is an adequate talent roster and not having

891
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: big question marks at quarterback and just having dynamic, skilled players,

892
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage being developed. It's not where it needs

893
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: to be. That's not what the segment's about. I think

894
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: it will eventually be there. And you're great unknown here obviously,

895
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: as Steve Sarkisian himself, and I don't have a problem

896
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 1: if you list that is the reason you don't buy

897
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: into this. I just you can't be proven until you

898
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: prove yourself. Like at one point, everyone was unproven until

899
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: they proved themselves. So maybe it's in the cards. Maybe

900
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: FSU is the other team. FSU did not did not

901
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: do what I think a lot of folks wanted them

902
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: to do. And you will not see record of this

903
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: because they've made sure. These people have made sure to

904
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: eat the records of calling for Mike Norvel to be fired.

905
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: But you're out there, you are out there, and it

906
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: was not all that long ago, because he hasn't been

907
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: there but three years. Persistence and patience is paying off here.

908
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: A whole lot of peas paying off in Tallahassee. And

909
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: I think early on they went hard in the portal,

910
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: and I think some people mistook Mike Norvel in Florida

911
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: State going hard in the portal initially as evidence they

912
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: just plan on trying to hot shot their way to

913
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: an ACC championship. Hot shotting mean cutting all the corners,

914
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: microwave over oven sugar, high over sustainable energy. That's not

915
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: what they did. They through sheer means of necessity, did

916
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: lean on the portal and they're still doing it. That

917
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they weren't building the program the right way.

918
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: They absolutely were. You know, when when you look at

919
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: some guys we go to the gym every day, there's

920
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: some guys in there with really us of upper bodies,

921
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: but you could index finger press them onto their back

922
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: because they don't ever touch legs. Mike Norvell does legs.

923
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: This program does legs multiple times a week. They've got

924
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: a sturdy foundation. They couldn't build it overnight, but they

925
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: finally have a sturdy foundation, and then you start to

926
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: get into the more particular nuances of the program. And

927
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, hey, Jordan Travis is back next year. We

928
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: are still a very attractive destination in the portal number

929
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: one portal class in the country right now as a

930
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: matter of fact. And the other thing is that there's

931
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: a lot of uncertainty elsewhere in the state of Florida,

932
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: and that does nothing but help them. And I guess

933
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: there's yet another end here. Who can they not beat

934
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: in the ACC. I mentioned this the other day and

935
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: it was a good point. I'm surprised I didn't clip it.

936
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: Every now and then do I stumble onto one of

937
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: these what are you used to in the ACC? What

938
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: am I used to? I am used to open up

939
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: a preview magazine or arriving in August and looking at

940
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: an odds sheet and it's Clemson and then ten Miles

941
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: and then everyone else jumbled together. But it's basically Clemsons

942
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: to use. And that's even what the odds look like

943
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: coming into this year. And that's actually how the conference

944
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: played out again this year. I don't foresee the conference

945
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: playing out like that next year. I don't foresee the

946
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: conference looking like that at the outset next year. Now,

947
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: Clemson sure enough will still be your odds on favorite.

948
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: There won't be a massive gap. And if you're a

949
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: Florida State fan or you're just observing the program, no

950
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: longer are you looking at that schedule and going one, two, three. Okay,

951
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: so there's three sure losses and then there's two or

952
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 1: three question mark games. Maybe they win seven, maybe eight.

953
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 1: That's not the way it's gonna go there anymore. You're

954
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: gonna look at the schedule and you're gonna say, Wow,

955
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: they actually could win every one of these games. They'll

956
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: be capable of winning every one of these games. You

957
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: may not call me twelve and zero, but they can

958
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: win all of these games. There will not be the

959
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: automatic x's on the schedule because they're good enough now,

960
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: but you don't talk about them like that. Now. We've

961
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: got plenty of time to do this. But there is

962
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: going to be a ton of momentum behind people calling

963
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: FSU their dark horse next year or maybe just out

964
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: in the open favorite to win the ACC. I have

965
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: no clue where I'm gonna land, because me Ma told

966
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: me never make September picks in January, but it could

967
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: happen next up. There's there's some drama that we have

968
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 1: to address. Okay, so I want you to do me

969
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: a favor right quick. I want you to, if you

970
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: have not already, click the thumbs up button and subscribe

971
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: to the channel. That's not the drama, That's just what

972
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: I want you to do. Okay. Tate hit us up

973
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: and said, could you discuss this whole Caden Procter situation

974
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: on your show? I'm checking in from Tallahassee, Florida. Well,

975
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: thank you, Tate, and absolutely I can now Caden Proctor.

976
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: If you're listening and you don't really follow recruiting a

977
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: whole lot, you may think, oh, this is a recruiting segment.

978
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: I'm tuning out. No, No, it's a lot more than that.

979
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: So just stick with me for a second or two.

980
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: Here Who is Caden Proctor? For those of you who

981
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: may be tuned out on recruiting, I'll tell you who.

982
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: Caden Proctor is an animal in the best of ways.

983
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: He is six seven, three hundred and thirty pounds. He's

984
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle, top rated ot in the country from

985
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: Des Moines, Iowa. Was committed to Iowa for a long

986
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: time until Nick Saban decided he wanted him and he

987
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: flipped to Alabama on signing day a couple of days

988
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 1: before signing day, and all's well, that ends well, right,

989
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: Not so fast, rumors have surfaced, Allegations have surfaced. Now

990
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you take a wild guess at what

991
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: those rumors sounded like. Are you thinking something along the

992
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 1: lines of, there's Nick Saban dropping another bag, there's Bama

993
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: coming in and buying another player, which is one of

994
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: my favorite allegations because it's rarely as it seems, and

995
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: even if it was in twenty twenty three, it's kind

996
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: of sort of legal. But be that as it may.

997
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: Let us dive in because I reference this just without

998
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 1: naming that kid's name. Three weeks ago, three weeks ago

999
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: on this show, I did a segment. It took off,

1000
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: but I kept the names anonymous. Caden Proctor was absolutely

1001
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: the player I was talking about. And I told you

1002
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: some big dogs are going to flip some players late,

1003
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: and you're gonna think it's because of NIL. And I'm

1004
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: telling you because in some cases I knew the numbers

1005
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: associated with the NIL offers. Some players are going to

1006
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,439
Speaker 1: go to big programs and take less money than they're

1007
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: being offered by other programs. I told you that three

1008
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Do you remember that? Okay, Well, now that

1009
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: it's out in the open, I'm telling you Caden Proctor

1010
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: was one of them, but not a lot of you.

1011
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: Some of you didn't believe that, and some of you

1012
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: still don't believe it about Caden Proctor. And so the

1013
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: allegation has been floating out there. Have not addressed it

1014
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: on the show until now. The allegation's been out there

1015
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: that oh, Bamiti just out bid Iowa. And here's the thing.

1016
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: If you're a player and someone is alleging something about

1017
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: you that's not true. In other words, you're just kind

1018
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: of a hired gun. You're a mercenary. You just went

1019
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: to the highest bidder. Kind of make you mad, wouldn't it,

1020
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: especially if it's not true. Now, if it's true, it's whatever,

1021
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: good for you. But if it's not true, wouldn't you

1022
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: want to set the record straight. Well, Caden Proctor did

1023
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,399
Speaker 1: set the record straight. And so this is a quote.

1024
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 1: It's a few days old now, but it resurfaced today.

1025
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: Here's the quote from Caden Proctor. I don't want to

1026
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: come into the school and everyone thinks that I'm one

1027
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 1: of the best players. They're already. I want to grow,

1028
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: and that's not how I grow. I got to get

1029
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: hit in the mouth before I can grow. Jesse, do

1030
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: we have the other quote, the quote just about the

1031
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: offer itself? Because if we don't, I will just pull

1032
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: this bad boy up right here. Okay, well, I am

1033
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: going to pull my own personal account up and I'm

1034
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,399
Speaker 1: going to read you verbatim what was said quote from

1035
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: Caden Proctor. When these stories come out, I hope they

1036
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: understand it wasn't about niow money because I'm not getting

1037
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 1: as much money as IWA would have paid Mente. Now,

1038
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: I love that for two reasons. Number one, I actually

1039
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: know it to be true. But the second reason was

1040
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: I knew what the reaction was going to be. Almost

1041
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: no one out there who was alleging that Bama just

1042
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: came in with a bigger offer backed off of their allegation.

1043
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: You have got anonymous sourcing on Twitter, on your local

1044
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: message board, some dude who called into a talk radio

1045
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: station and they've convinced you of one thing. The player

1046
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: himself comes out voluntarily and says, no, that's not the

1047
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: way it happened, And no later was that said. Then

1048
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: I saw people calling that kid a liar, like you've

1049
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: got a better source than the player himself. I'm not

1050
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: saying a player is technically incapable of lying. I'm just

1051
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 1: saying I highly doubt you've got a source better than him,

1052
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: or closer to the situation than him, in a situation

1053
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,760
Speaker 1: where it wouldn't matter if you did get out bid anyway.

1054
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: So a lot of folks around Iowa were mad because

1055
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: they felt like they got misled. Okay, if you're an

1056
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: eywall talk, I want to make sure that I stress

1057
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm not hating on you. I'm not trying to dunk

1058
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: on you. I'm not making fun of you. I got

1059
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: plenty of respect for the Iowa program, especially when it

1060
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: comes to developing that position. It's a kid from your backyard,

1061
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: I'd be salty just like you are. And you feel

1062
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: like your staff may have been misled, and you're mad

1063
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: that he stay committed to the last minute. So there

1064
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: are several legitimate reasons why you're less than thrilled about this.

1065
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: If you're an Iowa fan, I am not directing this

1066
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: at you. Guys. There are a lot of other folks

1067
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: out there who are totally agnostic, couldn't care less about

1068
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: either program. They just want to be heard, and those

1069
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: folks are the ones that I want to speak to

1070
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: for just a second. I got about ten of you

1071
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,959
Speaker 1: I have been going back and forth with, and there

1072
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: is a sizeable group still out there that claims there's

1073
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: no way this kid just flat out picked Alabama even

1074
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: for less money. It has to be that Nick Saban

1075
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: came in and Alabama dropped it back. And that's the

1076
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: only way that an offensive tackle chooses to go to

1077
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: Alabama over Iowa. And I told you last week, and

1078
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 1: I told you two weeks ago this was gonna happen.

1079
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: Kids were going to roll with the program like Alabama,

1080
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: and they were going to take less upfront money to

1081
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: do it, and people were not going to be able

1082
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: to accept it. And it happened. In this case. I

1083
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 1: know the details behind the scenes, it happened. The kid

1084
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,720
Speaker 1: flat out took less money, and a lot of folks

1085
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 1: don't believe it. I just ask you, has anyone thought

1086
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 1: this through for more than two seconds? Can we please

1087
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: think this It doesn't even have to be critically because

1088
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 1: this is pretty much common sense. A five star offensive

1089
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: tackle chose to go to Alabama, and I got like

1090
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: one hundred folks in my DMS telling me there's no

1091
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: way that happens unless they bought him. What in the

1092
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: world are we talking about right now? So basically, it

1093
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: is beyond the realm of comprehension that a kid could

1094
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: look at the greatest head coach of all time, running

1095
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 1: the greatest dynasty in the history of this sport, an

1096
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: apex program who has mastered the art of developing his

1097
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: position to the tune that I kid, you not, we

1098
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: had to look it up. Bama has set seven offensive

1099
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: tackles to the first round since two thousand and nine,

1100
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: the entire Big twelve has only sent five. Bama sent

1101
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: seven offensive tackles to the first round. The entire ACC

1102
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: has only sent six. The entire Big ten has only

1103
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: sent ten of them. That's including Iowa, which has done

1104
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: a good job. They've sent four of them. But Bama

1105
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: has outdone entire conferences in developing this kid's position into

1106
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: becoming a multi millionaire. There's no way that kid can

1107
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: want to go to Bama though, unless they bought him. No, no, no, no.

1108
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: Even in a world where nil is fully legal, programs

1109
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: that are capable of doing this for the back end

1110
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: of your college career. They don't have to pay as

1111
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 1: much on the front end, they don't have to outbid

1112
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: everyone on the front end. And here's the other part

1113
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,760
Speaker 1: of this that's gonna take a little while to grasp.

1114
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: Geography doesn't mean what it used to mean in recruiting

1115
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: this kids from Des Moines, Iowa. And that was why

1116
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: there was a close tied to Iowa. And that's why

1117
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: i was at the forefront of this conversation. The thing

1118
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: about it is, that's the only reason Iowa was at

1119
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: the forefront of this conversation. If he was from Prescott, Arizona,

1120
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: if he was from Tampa, Florida, if he was from Chesapeake, Virginia,

1121
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: Bama would have still been in the conversation because they

1122
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: recruit nationally. Iowa would not have been. And I'm not

1123
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: knocking kids from Iowa for going to Iowa. What I

1124
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: am trying to get across to you is an eighteen

1125
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: year old does not look at ties to home like

1126
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: a fifty eight year old does. You were born and

1127
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: you grew up in a generation where home meant a

1128
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: whole heck of a lot more than it does to them,

1129
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,439
Speaker 1: for better or for worse. And it's because of this.

1130
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: It's just because of technology. Technology makes the world really small,

1131
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: and it makes you feel like Arizona is next door

1132
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: to New York because you can well you can get

1133
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: there really quick, but you communicate with people there every day.

1134
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: You didn't do that thirty or forty years ago, and

1135
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: so it's nothing for a kid to leave home now,

1136
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: it's nothing at all for that to happen. I hope

1137
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: it makes sense because it's not going to be the

1138
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: last time you see this, and I think it's probably

1139
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: gonna be an exercise we have to repeat over and

1140
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: over again of some major program came in late a

1141
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: kid flipped, and you get mad because you think the

1142
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: only reason that happened is because they just have more

1143
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: money than me. That's not the only deciding factor. In fact,

1144
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: there are a lot of default situations out there where

1145
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: you'd get smoked in a recruitment head up and you're

1146
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: going to have to outbid big time the big dog program.

1147
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: It's the inverse of the way you think it happens.

1148
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: You think the big dog program comes in and they

1149
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: outbid you. It's not that at all. You're gonna have

1150
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: to double up their offer. Because all things equal, that

1151
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: kid's getting way more going to play for them than

1152
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: he is for you. So you got to sweeten the pot,

1153
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: not them. They Alabama doesn't have to sweeten the pot

1154
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: to get an offensive tackle. Are you crazy? You have

1155
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: to sweeten the pot even Iowa, and Iowa next to

1156
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: Bama's been as good as anyone at developing that position.

1157
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: Even Iowa for an instate kid has to do that. Finally,

1158
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: tonight we have to revisit bold predictions, and tonight we're

1159
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: going a few places that I had forgotten we went

1160
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: in August. In August, I asked you give me your

1161
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: bold predictions, anything you'd be willing to bet your own

1162
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: money on. Here are five predictions that you guys gave me.

1163
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: Take a look at who hit and who missed. First. Up,

1164
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: this one I had to check for sure, but Chris

1165
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,439
Speaker 1: nailed it. Chris said, FSU will win three of four

1166
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: games between LSU, Miami, Clemson and Florida. FSU is going

1167
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: to go three of four at least this hit. And

1168
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what had me concerned. They opened against LSU,

1169
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: and if they lost that game, they they're gonna have

1170
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: to go three and other the rest of the way.

1171
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: To make Chris's prediction hit, and I don't want you

1172
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: to think about FSU now. I don't want you to

1173
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: think about number thirteen bowl winner ten to win FSU. No,

1174
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: go back to August. Remember in August when this program,

1175
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: the biggest question around them was going to be are

1176
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: they gonna win at least seven games? You know, are

1177
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna improve, We're gonna make a bowl. That was

1178
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: the kind of conversation around FSU in the preseason. And

1179
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: also Clemson had one of the three or four best

1180
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: odds to win the national title. LSU was a favorite

1181
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: against FSU. Miami was a favorite to win their division

1182
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: in the ACC. So those games didn't look winnable at all. Well,

1183
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they became a lot more winnable.

1184
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: They won the first win against LSU, they played a

1185
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: close game against Clemson, but then they took it to

1186
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: Miami and they beat Florida the night after Thanksgiving. They

1187
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: go three or four. Good call, Chris, very good call.

1188
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: He hits. I called that an eight. I thought it

1189
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 1: was pretty bold, but it hit next up. I called

1190
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: this one in eight as well. College football playoff conversation

1191
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: here from Dylan. He said this year's college football playoff

1192
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: will be one hundred percent Big ten and SEC. He

1193
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: came close. He came very close. In fact, here's how

1194
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: close he came. Here is the top six going into

1195
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: the playoff. Georgia, Michigan, TCU, Ohio State, Bama Tennessee. Five

1196
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: of the top six were SEC and Big ten. There

1197
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: was that one little fly in the ointment, as our

1198
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: buddy Tim Branda would say, and that is TCU there

1199
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: at number three. How many parties can you crash in

1200
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: one calendar year, Sonny Dykes. And so we had a

1201
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,439
Speaker 1: couple of Big ten teams, we had a one SEC team,

1202
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: but we did get a third conference in there. I

1203
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: called this an eight And the reason I had a

1204
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: problem with it was the four candidates there. If we're

1205
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: going to have two Big ten and two SEC, you're

1206
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, Ohio State, Michigan, Bama, Georgia, that's the

1207
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: four right. Well, the problem was Ohio State and Michigan

1208
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: play each other really late in the year. It turns

1209
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: out that happened and both of them still made it.

1210
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: But then also if Bama Georgia play, it's going to

1211
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: be in the SEC title. So you've got like two

1212
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: situations there where someone's got to take a loss at

1213
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: the very end of the year in two cases and

1214
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: still make it in things were just going to have

1215
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: to fall too perfectly. Still almost happened, but not quite.

1216
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: Next up, we got a Clemson prediction here from Katie's

1217
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: She said kid Klubnik will start over dj Uyangla Lay

1218
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 1: at least once this year. She's called Katie's stats on

1219
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: the streets. I believe, so this didn't happen. Should it

1220
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: have happened? I guess is another game that we could

1221
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: play now. Kid Clubnick got in plenty of games, but

1222
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: he never started one, at least we don't think he did.

1223
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,439
Speaker 1: I don't think he did. He did not start one.

1224
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: And the caveat here was it has to be for

1225
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: playing reasons. It cannot be for health related reasons. He

1226
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: did come in several times, did not start one. I

1227
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: guess the follow up question, and I think I know

1228
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone's answer. Should he have started a game

1229
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,479
Speaker 1: minimum one game? My answer is yes. I rarely question

1230
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: decisions like that, but my answer is yes, he should have.

1231
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: He will be the starter of this coming year, and

1232
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: so will DJ. Probably it'll just be in Corvallis, Oregon.

1233
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 1: Next up, we got a TCU prediction record amount of

1234
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 1: TCU content in the show tonight. I called this one

1235
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: a seven, and the prediction was TCU plays in the

1236
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 1: Big twelve Championship game. Jesse, out of curiosity, do we

1237
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: have the preseason Big twelve odds? By chance we do

1238
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: not have them. Okay, I know TCU is not the

1239
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: top two. I do know that this hit though, And

1240
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: the thing about it is it didn't sneak up on you.

1241
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 1: It didn't come out of nowhere. They they clinched a

1242
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: spot as a matter of fact, in week ten they

1243
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: played Texas or it was like November. It wasn't even

1244
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 1: week ten, was it around week ten? They clinched with

1245
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: three games to go. They clinched a spot in the

1246
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: Big twelve championship game after the win against Texas. So

1247
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: not only did this hit, it hit as comfortably as

1248
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 1: it could possibly hit. And again, TCU was not one

1249
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: of the top two favorites in the Big Twelve coming

1250
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: into the year. That's pretty much the way the Big

1251
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: Twelve has played out less several years. And lastly, this

1252
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: one you got really creative on and yet it easily

1253
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: hit how about Texas, Oklahoma and Texas. A and M.

1254
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: Dean predicted Longhorns, Sooner's aggies, and they will all fail

1255
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: to reach ten wins, and it hit, and it hit easily. Obviously.

1256
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: The closest out of those three that we got was Texas.

1257
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: Texas went eight and four, Oklahoma went six and six,

1258
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: and M went five and seven. I had what I

1259
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: called the red River conundrum, which they'll probably end up

1260
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: trying to name that rivalry down the road when someone

1261
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: else becomes offended by something. So the red River conundrum

1262
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: to me was simply, if we're saying none of these

1263
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: teams is gonna win ten games, I know, oh you

1264
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 1: and Texas play one of them's got to win. And

1265
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: I preseason they were the one and two I think

1266
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: in the Big twelve in terms of odds, So I

1267
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: thought the winner of that game got one of their

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Speaker 1: toughest games out of the way and they will have

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Speaker 1: an otherwise manageable schedule. I just thought someone was gonna

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Speaker 1: win ten games, and not even A and M got

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Speaker 1: halfway there. Appreciated guys Oklahoma just a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than halfway there. And Texas, try as they might, they

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Speaker 1: couldn't even get there, and they beat oh you forty

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Speaker 1: nine to nothing and still couldn't get there. So we

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Speaker 1: had a mixed bag in the prediction category. But I

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Speaker 1: appreciate the exercise. Nonetheless, I remember I remembered at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the show to remind you our show is

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Speaker 1: going to be early on Tuesday, the night after the

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Speaker 1: title game. But Sunday, which is our next show, will

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Speaker 1: be live from la normal time. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much you pay attention to the weather, but just biblical

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Speaker 1: by California standards, biblical flooding happening on the West coast.

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Speaker 1: So after all the excitement from people like me who

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Speaker 1: are tired of freezing in Tennessee, you go to the

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Speaker 1: West coast and it turns out there's gonna be better

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Speaker 1: weather in Nashville or Cleveland, for that matter, then there

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Speaker 1: will be in southern California next week. I know you

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Speaker 1: guys are upset they won't let you tailgate in the

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Speaker 1: parking lot out there at SOFI Stadium. A horrendous decision making,

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Speaker 1: by the way, but they won't let you tailgate. It

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Speaker 1: may not matter because you may have needed a canoe

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Speaker 1: to do it. Anyway, So I guess that that's one

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Speaker 1: right spot. Nevertheless, we'll see you guys out there. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of you will be out there. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of our Southern California brethren. We'll just

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Speaker 1: neandero because you can. I'll look forward and seeing you.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you stop buy and say hello. We'll got

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Speaker 1: two live shows from just outside of Sequest Stadium until

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. I appreciate you guys so much for direct

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Speaker 1: call for producer Jesse. I'm Josh Bate. Take care, I

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Speaker 1: have a great president. Your evening and Godess