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

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, November twenty eight, the year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I've never seen the show format look

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Speaker 1: like this. I've never seen the eye, Josh look like this.

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Speaker 1: Looks like I've got a little Christmas tree in my hand.

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Speaker 1: The most jam packed that we've ever had a show.

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Speaker 1: How do we get an in in under two hours?

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Speaker 1: You ask, Well, I've got to make a five hour

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Speaker 1: drive tonight, so we have no choice but to get

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Speaker 1: an ind in under two hours. But I promise you this,

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Speaker 1: we will not do it thirty minute show tonight dot

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Speaker 1: dot dot, because we will do one closer to an hour.

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Speaker 1: Now you see how I did that, because that's how

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley taught me to phrase what my future intentions are.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what I'm not gonna do, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it very open ended as to what

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Speaker 1: I am gonna do. Lincoln Riley is going to be

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Speaker 1: the next head coach at USC. I have no clue,

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Speaker 1: but we're going to talk about it anyway. Obviously, Billy

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Speaker 1: Napier is headed to Florida. That's obvious if you've been

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Speaker 1: paying attention today. If you have been paying attention, then

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Speaker 1: I guess we just broke the news for you. But

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that a whole lot too.

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Speaker 1: Michigan is headed to the Big Ten Championship game. I

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Speaker 1: was at the game yesterday, somehow got back through a snowstorm.

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Speaker 1: Well to me, a snowstorm, and I've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of takeaways, including some things that you haven't seen yet.

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Speaker 1: The playoff picture has just been hurled into abject chaos.

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Speaker 1: We were treated to a Saturday, a rivalry Saturday for

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Speaker 1: that matter, for the agis so that one goes into

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Speaker 1: history books. And now we're headed into conference championship week

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Speaker 1: and it's all right here in front of us, and

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Speaker 1: we got to talk about it tonight. So I first

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Speaker 1: want to tell you this. Our show has gone more

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Speaker 1: places because of you than you could ever know. I

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Speaker 1: it's vague. I'm just telling you. When we go to

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Speaker 1: these games, the more and more people we meet that

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Speaker 1: have more and more positive things to say about the show,

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Speaker 1: and it's because of you. So just thank you. I

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Speaker 1: know already traffic's going to be great this week. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to even doubt it. Just so thank you

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Speaker 1: in advance Thanksgiving week season, it's still in play for us.

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Speaker 1: Kick Josh. I can't stress enough, especially this time of year.

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Speaker 1: You got to make sure you're following on the social

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Speaker 1: channels because as you saw today, there's a lot that happens,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes we get our hands on some information and

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Speaker 1: if I'm forty eight hours away from the next show,

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Speaker 1: that may be where we drop it at Late Kick, Josh,

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Speaker 1: make sure you're following on Twitter. Make sure you're following

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. If you're following on Instagram and you look

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Speaker 1: at that story, that Instagram story, I think it was

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Speaker 1: the best we've ever had yesterday. I mean the access

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Speaker 1: that I got at the Ohio State and Michigan game,

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Speaker 1: the behind the scenes, the peel the curtain back aspect

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Speaker 1: that I was able to give you guys at that

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Speaker 1: game yesterday, well to the tune of about four million

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Speaker 1: views if you count the tunnel video, which got used

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Speaker 1: by every major outlet including the Daily Mail. Late Kick

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Speaker 1: made the Daily Mail. How about that? It all started

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Speaker 1: and originated from me and the Eye Josh, and just

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Speaker 1: have an access that we're afforded because we go to

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Speaker 1: these games. So thank you so much for that Renaissance Tour,

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Speaker 1: had a great trip to ann Arbor, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to discuss in a second. But now it's Conference championship

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Speaker 1: week and Director Colin, you know what that means. We

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Speaker 1: got to let the people know where we're headed Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is a great mystery. We're headed

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Speaker 1: It's Alabama, it's Georgia, it's the SEC championship game. If

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Speaker 1: it gets seeing these two play many times. The last

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Speaker 1: time BAMA was an underdog, get used to it. You'll

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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about rivalry week. Hang tight

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Speaker 1: on that. We got huge news in the coaching world today.

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, according to multiple reports, now headed to USC

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Speaker 1: It's three letters. But it's not lsu USC. This was

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Speaker 1: and when they're not okay. And that's a very important

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Speaker 1: a field goal. So it's getting close to half. And

429
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Speaker 1: then it's halftime and Ohio State's kicked a field goal.

430
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Speaker 1: I want to say, it's a one possession game at

431
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Speaker 1: this point. And so I'm up the tunnel and a

432
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,399
Speaker 1: lot of people up there is very crowded. Let me

433
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Speaker 1: know if we have that video, and so here comes

434
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 1: Ohio State. We're gonna play some sound on this. Normally

435
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 1: we don't do this. We just play it video only.

436
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 1: And you've already seen this if you've watched a lot

437
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: of the broadcast. If you haven't, here's what's happening. Colin

438
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 1: very very classically blurred out some things that you don't

439
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 1: need to see. If the kiddos are watching it home, No,

440
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 1: we're We're not just blurring out helmets there. And so

441
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,640
Speaker 1: this stuff's happening out of the purv you of even

442
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 1: the Fox cameras. I gave them permission to use it,

443
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,159
Speaker 1: but we didn't have a Fox camera up here. So

444
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 1: it's just the eye Josh, and you know a bunch

445
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 1: of officials. Here's the best part. You got equipment guys

446
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 1: getting into it. You've got officials blowing whistles. I was

447
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 1: waiting for a flag to be thrown, even though we're

448
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 1: in commercial break and it's a halftime. So this is

449
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,480
Speaker 1: all happening, and if you're in the stadium, you're unaware,

450
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 1: and if you're watching at home, you're unaware. This is

451
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 1: why we try and get the angle we do when

452
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 1: we go to games, because this is the kind of

453
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: access that we get that normally you're not going to

454
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 1: get when you're watching on TV. So that's why we

455
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: try and position ourselves where we do when we do

456
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 1: when we go to games. So this is what you

457
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 1: didn't get to see. Okay, So then and that's good, Colin,

458
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. So then we come back and the

459
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 1: broadcast is back on, it's the third quarter. With that

460
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 1: in mind, then I want you to contextualize what you

461
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 1: saw happen with that helmet being ripped off, after knowing

462
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: that's already happened up the tunnel, and then think about

463
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: what it meant to that Michigan sideline, because when you

464
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,680
Speaker 1: saw him score on three consecutive possessions coming out of

465
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: the half. That's what had precipitated all that, or at

466
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: very least that's what had led up to all that.

467
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 1: The scene was pretty surreal. So then this game turns

468
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: into a clinic on the freeze point. The freeze point

469
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 1: we talked about when we broke this game down all

470
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Speaker 1: last week. Remember what the freeze point was. The freeze

471
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 1: point was essentially the answer to the question we thought

472
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: you would find yourself asking in the latter portion of

473
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Speaker 1: this game, when we thought it would be a dogfight,

474
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,120
Speaker 1: and that question was going to be in all likelihood.

475
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 1: Wait a second, how can this Ohio State team that

476
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: led forty nine to nothing over Michigan State, a team

477
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 1: that beat this Michigan team for that matter, How can

478
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: this team that led forty nine to nothing just seven

479
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: days ago, all of a sudden being a fight for

480
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: their lives? How could this offense seemingly grind to a halt. Well,

481
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: it didn't grind to a halt. It was limited, but

482
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 1: Michigan scored. Michigan had offensive success of their own. Firstly, Secondly,

483
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 1: the gap in this sport is almost never as wide

484
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 1: as as a scoreboard can sometimes indicate that it is.

485
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: This is not baseball. They score in threes and sevens

486
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: in this game, which means theoretically, one play can create

487
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Speaker 1: a fourteen point gap between teams, or to put a

488
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: finer point on it, and to put it in proper context,

489
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: for this comparison, one of your corners inability or one

490
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 1: of your defensive ends inability to set the edge or

491
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: to run respectively with a wide receiver could be the

492
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: difference on any one given play of fourteen points. My

493
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,679
Speaker 1: point is, if you just change one of those little things,

494
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: if you just change the concept of getting pressure on

495
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: a quarterback, forty nine to nothing becomes you trailing at

496
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: the half. That's the freeze point. But if you don't

497
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: meet it, you don't have a prayer. But Michigan did

498
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: meet the freeze point yesterday. In fact, they far exceeded

499
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Speaker 1: the freeze point. We were wondering last week metaphorically, where

500
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: were they at? Were they right around freezing? Were they

501
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: thirty degrees? Were they twenty five degrees? Were there are

502
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 1: plenty low enough? I don't know the exact number. There

503
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 1: were plenty low enough yesterday. That's the freeze point. And

504
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: that's why you can't let these results week the week

505
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: fool you into thinking some team's invincible, or you know

506
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: some team can't get up from the dead to save

507
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: their lives. There were two things that stood out to

508
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: me in addition that I just wanted to come in

509
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: on right quick. I grew up in the South Obviy,

510
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people have always talked

511
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: about Big ten weather. They've talked about football weather in

512
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: the late fall, early winter portion of the season in

513
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Speaker 1: the Big ten. They're right, They're right. Folks who talk

514
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: about Big ten weather, They're right about it. I don't

515
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: know how people function. I don't know how CJ. Strout

516
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: functioned yesterday. I just don't get it. I mean, I'm

517
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: so in awe of the ability for a kid of

518
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: any age, or a pro player of any age at

519
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: a position like quarterback, to go into a place where

520
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: it's in the upper twenties. And at some portions of

521
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: this game we had nice driving snow. I'm sure it

522
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: looked really good on TV. It was not coming down straight.

523
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: It was coming out sideways, which means, depending on the

524
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: direction you're going, it's right in your face. It was

525
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: a very, very surreal scene, but it also made me think,

526
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 1: and I had a couple of people in my ear

527
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: also kind of conveying the same message. Hey, when we

528
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: talk about Southern teams not ever coming to play in this,

529
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: this is what we mean. Do you really think that

530
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: a team that she used to sixty five degrees just

531
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: seamlessly goes up and down the field in this Well

532
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: my answer used to be yeah. My answer now is

533
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure anymore. But I also think that

534
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: weather affected the outcome of this game. Now, of course,

535
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: the old time tested retort to that is they both

536
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: had to play in the same weather. That's true. That's

537
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: just like saying, hey, COVID disproportionately impacted Penn State relative

538
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: to New Mexico last year. Well, they both had to

539
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: deal with COVID. Yeah, that doesn't mean COVID didn't disproportionately

540
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: affect one team over the other. Weather can disproportionately affect

541
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Speaker 1: one team over the other two. Ohio State wasn't as

542
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: ready for it as Michigan was. Ohio State wasn't as

543
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: built to deal with it as Michigan was. It's not

544
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: an excuse. So that's actually a credit to one coaching

545
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: staff and a question mark for another. Coaching staff that

546
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're already asking themselves. Second thing is, I

547
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: think people have been wrong about the Big House. Now,

548
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I'd never been there before, so I

549
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: had only heard the stereotype about Michigan Stadium, and the

550
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 1: stereotype had been partly due to architecture and partly due

551
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: to the nature of the crowd. It wasn't a hostile environment.

552
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: It wasn't intimidating, and of course, when I talk about architecture,

553
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Bowld design, where more noise is

554
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: released than is captured by the double decker stadiums, the

555
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: tiered stadiums. I don't know about the reputation of the

556
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: Big House because this is the first time I've been there,

557
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: and obviously I picked the right one. But my friends,

558
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: I can tell you definitively that Michigan Stadium impacted this

559
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: game yesterday, and the crowd impacted this game yesterday. I

560
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: can't remember how many false starts Ohio State had, but

561
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: even if you get past false starts, there were botched snaps.

562
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: There were all kinds of different procedural issues for Ohio State,

563
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 1: and it's not like they were unaware of what they

564
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 1: were going into. I mean, that's a testament to a

565
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: crowd and an environment that's home field advantage. And so

566
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: you can talk all you want to about the cheese

567
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: and wine crowd there and how they don't make that

568
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: place intimidating. That place had teeth yesterday, and that's all

569
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: I can go on because that's the only time I've

570
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: been there. But this was the way a turnaround had

571
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: to happen. I mean, this is an incredible story if

572
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: you really think about where Jim Harball was and where

573
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: this program was. Just one short year ago. We got

574
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: to this time of year and they had already canceled

575
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: this game, and we were talking about Jim Harbaugh. Was

576
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: he going to be out? Was he just going to

577
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,719
Speaker 1: move on to an NFL job? And they end up

578
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: offering and he accepts the reduced salary, But you know,

579
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: you got to have a turnaround. Everyone out there had

580
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: an opinion to offer Jim Harbaugh about how he should

581
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: execute a turnaround, and he stayed true to himself, and

582
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: he stayed true to the principles. He believes them. I

583
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: didn't think it'd work. I mean, I'll be totally real

584
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: with you. I never would have envisioned this. I don't

585
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: think Michigan fans would have envisioned this. But his response,

586
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: as everyone was in both years telling him what he

587
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: should do, his response was to stay the course, essentially,

588
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: and it's the way a turnaround has to happen. That

589
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: doesn't mean everyone who adheres to their principles and values

590
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: is going to succeed, because some people just aren't good enough.

591
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the jungle. But if you don't stick

592
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: to your core beliefs and principles, even if you do

593
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: temporarily succeed, it's going to be short term because you

594
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: can't fake it at this level for very, very long.

595
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: But Jim Harball didn't. That's what is so sustainable about

596
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: what they're doing right now and what you can take

597
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: comfort in knowing if you're a Michigan fan. There's nothing

598
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: popcornish or microwavish about this. There's no gimmick about it.

599
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: That team yesterday, this team, for that matter, you've seen

600
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: all year. That's a Jim Harbaugh Michigan team. That's the

601
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: way he's always wanted it to look. They've just made

602
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: it happen this year. Supreme credit to Michigan. This is

603
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: a great experience, great environment, but it was a great

604
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: and now they got to get themselves up to go

605
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: to the Big Ten Championship game. That's right, Michigan to

606
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: the Big Ten Championship game against Iowa, and the Wolverines

607
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,239
Speaker 1: open as a ten and a half point favorite. That

608
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: game is set for Saturday. It's a late game, it's

609
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: eight eastern kickoff. It's in Indianapolis. I am told that

610
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: weather will not be an issue in the Steve Wolfong

611
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: Dome there in Indianapolis. That name is pending and it's

612
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: got my endorsement. Okay, let's move on. I mean, we've

613
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: got another major coaching search result. It's not a coaching

614
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: search anymore. Billy Napier to Florida. It's official. I am

615
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: a fan of this move because, as you know, I've

616
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: been a fan of Billy Napier. I'm also a fan

617
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: of how Florida executed this. They were very deliberate, and

618
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just because they kept things

619
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: bottled up or because they already knew the score of

620
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: the game before they ever entered the game. But this

621
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: thing went very quickly. They got rid of Mullen, they

622
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: had their in a row and they go after Napier.

623
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: I have belief because of several conversations this has been

624
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: done for a few days. So now the way this

625
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: is going to go is Billy Napier and Louisiana as

626
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: they've been like every year he's been there, they are

627
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: in the Sun Belt Conference championship game. I believe it's

628
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: this Saturday. A press conference is scheduled the following day,

629
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: So a week from today there will be an introductory

630
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: press conference where Billy Napier will be introduced as the

631
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: head coach at Florida. Now, a lot of people are

632
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: already giving you their takeaways on this, which I'm not

633
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: fully prepared to do, only because rule number one, when

634
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: you're pulling a guy up from the G five level

635
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: to the Power five level, especially a program like Florida,

636
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: you gotta wait and see what the staff looks like.

637
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: Billy Napier has got to hire a staff, and you

638
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: will have incomplete data until you know what his staff

639
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: looks like. So that's rule number one. Having said that,

640
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: when head coaches come from the G five level, I

641
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: always laugh at the flawed logic that is applied. Here.

642
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: Here's what it sounds like. Maybe you've heard this already.

643
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: Hopefully you haven't participated in it, but maybe you have.

644
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: I call it the Chris Peterson effect. A lot of

645
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: people are already applying the Chris Peterson effect. To BILLI

646
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: Napier sounds a little something like this. I don't know

647
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: if he's going to make it at Florida. I mean,

648
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: that guy's never recruited a four or five star athlete.

649
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: How's he going to do it at Florida. That guy's

650
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: never even made the playoff? How's he going to do

651
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: it at Florida? That is not the game we're talking

652
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: about here. The same folks who would never take their

653
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: prius and enter it into the Daytona five hundred, knowing

654
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: full well it would be unfair to compare a prius

655
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: to what she on a NASCAR track would look at

656
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: a guy from the GEF five level and say, he's

657
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: never done what it takes to win at Florida at

658
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: his previous stop, Why should I expect him to do

659
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: it here? Well? Here's why. Because that's not how you

660
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: judge or you measure the temperature of a coach's capability.

661
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: You don't ask what has he done relative to resources

662
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: he hasn't had you ask what has he done relative

663
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: to programs with comparable resources? So, Billy Napier, just like

664
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: Peterson out in the Mountain West back in the day,

665
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: what has he done compared to teams with comparable resources? Well,

666
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: what he's done is he's gone. What is he thirty

667
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: eight and twelve, that's his head coaching record. He's won

668
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: four division titles, He's won a conference title, that's playing

669
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: for another one this Saturday. That's the question. What has

670
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: he done relative to teams with comparable resources? He's done

671
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: very well. Florida made a really good hire here. Now

672
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: what we have to find out, as I said, what

673
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: is this staff going to look like? And then here

674
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: I'll grant you is the great unknown? How are they

675
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: going to recruit? And this was the reason ultimately that

676
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen was out of a job. How's he going

677
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: to recruit? But I will tell you this, a lot

678
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: of you have watched Napier. I mean those Sun Belt

679
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: games are on TV a lot, so a lot of

680
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: you are familiar with him and their brand of football.

681
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: There is a core, there is a nucleus to what

682
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: they do. That when you ask a Florida fan two

683
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: years from now, what is Florida foot ball? They'll be

684
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: able to tell you boom, It's just like right off

685
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: the tip of their tongue. And you couldn't always do

686
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: that with Mullin because it always felt like what Dan

687
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: Mullen was doing at Florida. It had bells, it had whistles,

688
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: it had icing on it, but it didn't have that nucleus.

689
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: Even last year when they won the East, it just

690
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: felt it felt top heavy. It never felt like it

691
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: did legs. Billy Napier's program works out legs, That's what

692
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. So it's not top heavy. It doesn't

693
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: just have popcorn muscles to it. It's got a very

694
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: very sturdy core to it. And you'll know it. You

695
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: know it for him at Louisiana and you will know

696
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: it at Florida. I'm excited about this hire. I know

697
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: a lot of the oxygen is being sucked out of

698
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: the room, rightfully so because of Lincoln Riley to Oklahoma.

699
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. And then most of the Gator

700
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: fans I've talked to today aren't. But I'm telling the

701
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: few of you who are maybe mad you're not getting

702
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: the attention you think you deserve. You don't get any

703
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: credit for winning press conferences, you don't get any credit.

704
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: You get credit for winning, and you hired a winner

705
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: to win for you. That's a good thing. That's never

706
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 1: a bad thing. Several more games to react to. I'm

707
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: looking at some of these results in front of me.

708
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you a story, Okay, So let's just

709
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: dive into this. Alabama won the Iron Bowl yesterday twenty

710
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: four to twenty two. I have probably one of the

711
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: more surreal experiences that I will ever remember for a

712
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: big game when it comes to this game. So I

713
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: have since gone back and watched the entire game. But

714
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: my experience yesterday as this game's going on, is I'm

715
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: driving through a driving snowstorm. Even by northern standards, Michigan

716
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: got hit pretty hard yesterday. So I from rural Georgia

717
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: am trying to trek back from ann Arbor to the

718
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: Detroit Airport and it is white knuckle. It is ten

719
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: and two times, and it's twenty five miles an hour

720
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: on I ninety four, which was painfully undertreated. By the way.

721
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: That's a DOT problem, but a JDP problem was I

722
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: am getting updates from the Iron bul I gave you

723
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: the initial of my mental name. There by the way,

724
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm getting updates from the Iron Bowl. And here's what happened.

725
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: I had to I had to really really choose where

726
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: I was going to divide my attention when I saw

727
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: Bama go down and they turned the ball over, and

728
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: it's under two minutes to go, and the timeout situation

729
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: is not looking good, and quite frankly, they're not looking

730
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: like they can score if they get another shot. Anyway,

731
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: I assumed the game was over, and so I choose

732
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: to focus all my attention on the last fifteen or

733
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: twenty miles of my trip to the airport. And then

734
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: I get to the rental car terminal and my phone

735
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: blows up. My phone had blown up. I just saw

736
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: all the messages. Alabama's won the game. They won the

737
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 1: game in overtime, quadruple over to however, we're phrasing overtime now,

738
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: which is a complete disaster. And I think to myself, Okay,

739
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: I know these people aren't lying to me, and I

740
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: know the scoreboard says what it says, but I'm trying

741
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: to guess before I go and look for myself, how

742
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: would they have possibly pulled this off. And sure enough,

743
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: it took Tank Bigsby going out of bounds. It took

744
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: a ninety plus yard drive. I took Jacorey Brooks. Hey,

745
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: we've been calling for those freshman receivers for a while.

746
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: It took Jacorey Brooks making a big play. But what

747
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 1: a shocker. I mean, given the circumstances, what a shocker.

748
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 1: And consider this now, consider Alabama was eight of twenty

749
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: two on third down. Consider they had eleven penalties for

750
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty nine yards, and they still ended

751
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: up winning this thing. And I had a lot of

752
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: you text me and say, boy, I guess you were

753
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: wrong on your pick. You really thought Bama was going

754
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: to cover in this game. Yeah, the Model and I

755
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: disagreed last week the Model one. I fought the Model

756
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: and the Model one. However, when I went back and

757
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: washed it because I thought we had just whiffed. That's

758
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: what I thought. I went back and washed it. I

759
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: didn't really feel all that bad about what my thinking

760
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: was behind the pick. The point being, if you tell

761
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: me Robinson's going out, and you tell me Jamison Williams

762
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 1: going out in the first half, no, I'm not picking

763
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: Alabama to any companywhere close to covering, and in years

764
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: past that hasn't been the case. This bamit team. Last year,

765
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: you take Jalen Waddle off of it, they keep right

766
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 1: on going. Can't even tell they lost a first round talent.

767
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: You can't do that to this year's team. You cannot

768
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: take Jameis and Williams off that field, or this offense

769
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: grinds to a halt. That is their playmaking star wide receiver.

770
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: He was gone. Targeting, he's gone. And so having said that,

771
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: Bama pulls out the win. Now, what's most interesting to

772
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: me is watching Nick Saban's reaction and juxtaposing it to

773
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: the public and just the Alabama fan in general. Their

774
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: reaction the Bama fans aggravated that the game's that close,

775
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: and I get it, there's a standard there. But Nick

776
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: Saban is just like thrilled, and in the postgame press

777
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: conference he was lauding that team. He said, they fought

778
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: like I've never seen that team fight all year. I

779
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 1: think what's happened there is there a lot of folks

780
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: who are viewing Bama through the prism of just what

781
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: Bama normally is, and if you're viewing them through that

782
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: prism these results aren't good enough. I know that Saban

783
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't think is viewing them through that prism. I

784
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: think Nick Saban's viewing that team through the prism of

785
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: I know exactly what they are and what they aren't

786
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: this year. What they aren't is an elite team. What

787
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: they are not is my usual Alabama team. But what

788
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: they were yesterday was a team that found a way,

789
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: I mean, against pretty insurmountable odds, as it turned out,

790
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: to win the Iron Bowl. That's no small deal, you know.

791
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: You look at some of these programs when they have

792
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: a down year. Penn State's having a down year this year.

793
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: They're seven and five. Bama is about to go to

794
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game eleven and one. I think we

795
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: can all agree this is a down year for them.

796
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not the worst thing in the world

797
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: to be going into your rival's backyard, which has been

798
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: a house of horrors for them and winning. Now Bama's

799
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: going to Atlanta this Saturday. I have no idea how

800
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: you would put together a confident argument for them being

801
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: superior to Georgia at this point, because they're not. I

802
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: am struggling to put together our preview for Tuesday show.

803
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: Because what I try to do for the underdog is

804
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: I try and build the case of what would have

805
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: to happen for the upset. Now points spread wise, this

806
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: would not be a monumental upset. It's six and a

807
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: half is the number right now, six or six and

808
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: a half, depending on where you look. But if you've

809
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,959
Speaker 1: watched Georgia all year and you've watched Bama all year,

810
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: you understand this is a horrific matchup for Alabama. They

811
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: cannot run the ball right now. Alabama with any consistency.

812
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, I would not expect him to be available Saturday.

813
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: He has a lower extremity injury translation hamstring. I wouldn't

814
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: expect him to be able to go, and they're already

815
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: very very thin at that position to begin with. Look,

816
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: crazier things have happened. It is tough, it's tough to

817
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: paint a picture. But we will be there because crazier

818
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: things have happened. So Alabama wins twenty four to twenty two.

819
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: What about Bedlam? Oklahoma State over Oklahoma thirty seven to

820
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: thirty three. How different? Here's what I want to ask

821
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: you think about this. How different would today. Look, if

822
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: Oklahoma won this game, if OU wins, then that means

823
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: they're going to the Big Twelve championship game, which means

824
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley has another game to coach. Are we hearing

825
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: the announcement today about USC. I just wonder maybe we would,

826
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: maybe we wouldn't, or maybe they would have just delayed

827
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: a week. I don't know. That's what we can't know.

828
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: What we do know here is Oklahoma State lost the

829
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: turnover battle. They were out gained by eighty seven yards.

830
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: They went three of eleven on third down, and they won.

831
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: Here's why I'm pointing that out. Remember this team earlier

832
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: in the year. Look at that cowboy hat. Remember this

833
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: team earlier in the year when they were just barely

834
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: scooting by Tulsa and some directional school from Missouri. You

835
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: remember when they were just barely getting by and you

836
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: looked at them every week and you didn't really care. Yeah,

837
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 1: Missouri State, you didn't really care that they were winning

838
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: because you thought, to yourself, this team is so inferior,

839
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: they are such a poser as an undefeated power five

840
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: that they'll be exposed. I mean you thought like I did,

841
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: that Oklahoma State probably had a few losses on their schedule,

842
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: just somewhere down the road. I mean, if it's not

843
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: at Iowa State, it'll be West Virginia, it'll be TCU,

844
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: it'll be Texas Tech. Well, they did lose one game

845
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: and that was it. That was the end of the losing.

846
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: Now here's why I mentioned those stats yesterday. It's very

847
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: important for what is uninevitable impending college football playoff argument.

848
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 1: If Oklahoma State wins this Saturday and they are twelve

849
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: and one Big Twelve champions, the fact that they could

850
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: go three of eleven on third down against OU and

851
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: lose the turnover battle and get out gained by eighty

852
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: seven yards and still win. It means they've developed the

853
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: ability to lose their fastball, need the change up, need

854
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: the curb, and still win. Those teams that are inferior,

855
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: they cannot win unless they have their fastball. That is

856
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: a sign that Oklahoma State has improved, and I think

857
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: they've improved significantly this year. This is a developmental sport.

858
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: That's what you're supposed to do. The best teams are

859
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: supposed to get better, and that's exactly what I'm saying.

860
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State is one of the best teams, and one

861
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: of the reasons I think that is because they've gotten

862
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: a lot better. They being Oklahoma State, they open as

863
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: a six and a half point favorite against Baylor. That

864
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: number has already come down to five and a half.

865
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: More on that game a little bit later. LSU beat

866
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: Texas A and M yesterday twenty seven to twenty four.

867
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: I've got a padlock stat this is going to be

868
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 1: short and sweep. It is fifty four. Those were every

869
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: single yard that Texas A and M got on the

870
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: ground rushing. That's good for one point nine yards per carry.

871
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: This was the facet of the game that I was

872
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: uncertain about, and they could not control the line of

873
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: scrimmage to the degree they needed to, and as a result,

874
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: they get beat by LSU. These teams were combined eight

875
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: of thirty one on third down, so it was not

876
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: exactly an offensive clinic, but LSU did enough to win.

877
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: Here here are two things that stood out to me

878
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: because we're looking kind of towards the future, and that's

879
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: the lens with which you choose to look at these

880
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: games through and M ended up being a different team

881
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 1: on the road this year, and that's been a problem

882
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: at times for Jimbo Fisher there. In fact, it's been

883
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: a problem it's whole time there, and it cropped up

884
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: again this year. But the second thing is LSU. When

885
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: they pulled the trigger on Edwor's ran, there were a

886
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: lot of folks who thought this team's going completely in

887
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: the tank. That's not what happened. They ended up playing

888
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: their best football because it was like pulling a plug

889
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: and all this pressure was built up and it just exhales.

890
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: The program collectively exhaled, and then they just went and

891
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: they played had fun, I guess you could say, and

892
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: they won some games, they almost beat Bama. They played

893
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: their best football, and I wonder if that's not something

894
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: you may see in the future. Now, this was a

895
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: pretty unique circumstance, I'll grant you that. But it also

896
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: allowed ed Orzeron to go out of town on a

897
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 1: high note. And if he handles himself the right way.

898
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: I think you know as well as I do. Right now,

899
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: you can still have a sour taste in your mouth

900
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 1: about ed Orzron. Ten years from now, they're not gonna

901
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: remember how it ended. Ed Orzroon when he comes to town,

902
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: will be the guy who took us to the highest

903
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: of highs in twenty nineteen. That's it. That's all. That's

904
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: how history remembers championship coaches unless they royally screw it up.

905
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: And edors Aron screwed it up enough to get fired.

906
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: I don't think he screwed up his legacy. That is pending.

907
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: Nothing off the field transpiring that may be under investigation

908
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: right now, which we cannot have any guided information on.

909
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: So ed Orzeron goes out on a high note. This

910
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: was a bad ending to a season for Texas A

911
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: and M. Texas A and M, you can't make sense

912
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: of the SEC this year. A and M ends up

913
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: losing four games. One of them is not Alabama makes

914
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: sense of that because I can't. The last game I

915
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: wanted to touch on very briefly, and by the way,

916
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys who are tuned in. I got

917
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: a message for you in a second. Michigan State beat

918
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: Penn State thirty to twenty seven yesterday. I don't want

919
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: you to overlook this game. It was probably off your

920
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: radar because there wasn't a trip to a conference championship

921
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: on the line, wasn't playoff ramification on the line. But

922
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: don't overlook this. Remember mel Tucker got that big contract

923
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: extension and then they got skull drug by Ohio State,

924
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: and a lot of people said, oh man, they paid

925
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: him too early, they at that contract too early. Well, okay,

926
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: if you want to think that, you can think that.

927
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you what they did yesterday

928
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: is not easy. For that matter, what Oregon did yesterday

929
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: against Oregon State, it's not easy. When you get pasted

930
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: and in the process you lose your postseason aspirations as

931
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: they were presently defined the playoff in other words, and

932
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: you get right back off the deck the following week.

933
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: That shows you got some resiliency, you got some pride

934
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: about yourself, but you also have a culture that you

935
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: are bathed in as being in that program that's about

936
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: more than external stuff. That's mel Tucker. He preaches it

937
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: all the time, but a lot of guys preach it.

938
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: Are you about it? Well, you get beat fifty six

939
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: to seven, and you get back up off the deck

940
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: and you win at home thirty twenty seven yesterday, that's

941
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: a big deal. Don't forget that. It may not matter

942
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: to you this year. You may not care about the

943
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: difference between ten and two or nine and three. It's

944
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: just a good year from Michigan State, really good year actually.

945
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: But down the road they're going to be in more

946
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: consequential games, postseason games. And you may be thinking to yourself, boy,

947
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: I can't choose either way on this matchup. What's an

948
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: intangible Where's an unforeseen, unquantifiable edge. That kind of stuff matters.

949
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: I can't give you a proper numerical value on it.

950
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you it matters. It mattered yesterday. So

951
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: Penn State on the other side of this coin, they

952
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,479
Speaker 1: started five and oh, boy, that's a long time ago.

953
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: They started five and oh they finished seven and five.

954
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: How about this, it's a little Nebraska theme. Penn State's

955
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 1: losses three points, two points, nine points, four points, three points.

956
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: Penn State lost five games by a combined twenty one points.

957
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: At least, that's what stats in the vote tells me.

958
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: How do we judge where Penn State is headed? I

959
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: got mixed feelings on it. I mean, the margins and

960
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: the recommittal to James Franklin, it tells me they're not

961
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: far off. Got a really good quarterback coming in, a

962
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: really good class coming in. Maybe that's the spark. I

963
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: mean This isn't a program. I don't feel that has

964
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: lost his way or its way. I just there is

965
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: a spark, there's that that's needed. And it wasn't quarterback yesterday.

966
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Clifford played well yesterday. They could not run

967
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: the ball. There is a level of execution and physicality

968
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. Offensively, they've got to get back. Okay,

969
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: So that's stuff that you work on for the upcoming year.

970
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: But don't overlook that deal with Michigan State. To me,

971
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: that's a very big deal. I want to remind you

972
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: of something. Those of you who are watching live right now,

973
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. I'm about to give you, guys

974
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: two early best bets. I need you to do me

975
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: one favor. That's it. I need you to subscribe to

976
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: the channel while you're here. And that's all. Normally when

977
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: we ask when we have these big audiences like we

978
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: have right now, got a little over five thousand people

979
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: watching live, it boosts us and then the next day

980
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: the traffic goes up because YouTube says, where did this

981
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: insurgence of subscriptions come from last night? They must be

982
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: doing something right, So make those people think we're doing

983
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: something right. It's free, no one spams you, and nothing

984
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,080
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985
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel. Our audience seventy nine percent of

986
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: you were unsubscribed. So you come in the back door

987
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,160
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988
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990
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask for anything else right now.

991
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: I'll stay tuned. I'm ask you for something else down

992
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: the road. The LSU coaching search, to some has gone

993
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: back to square one. Now I don't think that's reality,

994
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: but let's talk about where the LSU coaching search is.

995
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: Some people are learning lessons the hard way in our industry.

996
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: Now I've had a philosophy on this, and fortunately I

997
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: have not had to learn it the hard way, but

998
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,439
Speaker 1: I've watched some other people learned the hard way. This

999
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: is the time of year. You got to really be careful,

1000
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: and you gotta be not too proud to just sit

1001
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: back and say I don't know, Like I didn't know

1002
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: if Lincoln Riley was going to LSU. I heard the rumors.

1003
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 1: But what I do know, and I'll emphasize this again,

1004
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: is there are very few people who I implicitly trust

1005
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: in coaching searches, and none of them had said Lincoln

1006
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 1: Riley to LA. In fact, they had said the opposite.

1007
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: Now here's why you got to be careful this time

1008
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: of year in coaching searches and recruiting. Those are the

1009
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: only times of year where your best sources have incentive

1010
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: to lie to you and mislead you. You may ask, well,

1011
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,280
Speaker 1: why would you do that? Well, I mean it's obvious.

1012
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: I mean if you're Lincoln Riley, if you're Scott Woodward,

1013
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 1: or maybe you're an agent. There are all kinds of

1014
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: different reasons you want to manipulate the market through information,

1015
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: and when you find folks with microphones, that's how you

1016
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: do that. It was happening with me. I'm not outing

1017
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: anyone because I like these folks. But the bottom line

1018
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,879
Speaker 1: is there are some folks will ulterior motives who reach

1019
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: out to you this time of year and they feed

1020
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: you bs hoping you'll run with it. I got fed

1021
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: the same thing. A lot of these other folks were

1022
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: getting fed, probably from the same people. The difference is

1023
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: we didn't run with it, and so because we didn't

1024
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 1: run with it. It may make you look like you're

1025
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: in the dark. Yeah, we are in the dark. We

1026
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: have that in common with these folks who were reporting

1027
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley to LSU. It's what I'm saying. Everyone's in

1028
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: the dark. And you want to know why, because this

1029
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: coaching search is being handled effectively contrary to popular belief today,

1030
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: because there's a notion out there because a lot of

1031
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: folks did run with this Lincoln Riley to LSU stuff

1032
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: that LSU must have whiffed on Lincoln Riley. I can

1033
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: tell you I don't believe that's true. I do not

1034
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 1: believe now that all this is out in the open,

1035
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: I don't believe that Lincoln Riley and LSU were anywhere

1036
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: close to ever happening. I don't believe that maybe he'll

1037
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: write a tell all book one day and we'll hear otherwise.

1038
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: But here's the important note. For mutual reasons. Obviously, Lincoln

1039
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: Riley is not at LSU right now. But here's what

1040
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: that means. What that means because it was mutual, and

1041
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: I want to stress that no one blew off the

1042
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: other one. If that is the case, and I believe

1043
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: to be the case, LSU is not in scramble mode,

1044
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 1: and let me kind of restate that. Okay, I want

1045
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: to tee this up. LSU did not go after Lincoln

1046
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: Riley nearly as hard as you were led to believe.

1047
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley was not nearly as interested in LSU as

1048
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: you were led to believe. But because a lot of

1049
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: people believed it, and Lincoln Riley is now going to

1050
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,760
Speaker 1: be the head coach at USC, there's this widely held

1051
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: perception that is false, but it's perception nonetheless that LSU

1052
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: must be in scramble mode today. LSU is not in

1053
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: scramble mode today, or if they are, they have no

1054
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: reason to be because of Lincoln Riley. And if that's

1055
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: the case, then that means there's no reason to be

1056
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: panicking because I can guarantee you the folks inside Scott

1057
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: Woodward's office on Office of one really are probably looking

1058
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: around saying, what's all What is that noise outside our window?

1059
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: Is that a torch? Does that guy have a pitchfork

1060
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: in his hand? There's no reason to go torch and

1061
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 1: pitchfork here, guys. They're not in scramble mode because Riley

1062
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: was never their number one. That wasn't how this was happening.

1063
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: Now that leaves a very interesting blank to fill. You

1064
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: may ask yourself, you know who is going to be

1065
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: the head coach there, and this is what has a

1066
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: lot of people aggravated, and on the surface, I get it.

1067
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: You may ask yourself, Okay, if Lincoln Riley wasn't going

1068
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: to LSU, or LSU wasn't pursuing Lincoln Riley hard, then

1069
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: why did no one shoot these rumors down? Well, I'll

1070
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: tell you why. It's not all that hard to figure out.

1071
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: It was cover. Lincoln Riley had no incentive to shoot

1072
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: the rumors down because he knew he was going to USC.

1073
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: The longer that y'all over here talking about LSU, they

1074
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: can work their magic over here with USC. USC loved it,

1075
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley loved it. Scott Woodward, if he has things

1076
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: operating the way he wants, he doesn't mind if you're

1077
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: talking about Lincoln Riley either. He knows it's not reality.

1078
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: The guy he's actually going after knows it's not reality.

1079
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: And for all you know, you'll be making your own

1080
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: splash grand slam higher over the next forty eight hours

1081
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,479
Speaker 1: or maybe the next week to ten days. That makes

1082
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: you think, Boy, had I not focused so much on

1083
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley and been chasing ghost over here, maybe I

1084
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: would have spent more time focusing on that guy's name.

1085
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: Who is that guy? And is it already a guy

1086
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: who is in place? And they're verbal agreements behind the scenes.

1087
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: We don't know. That's not a bad thing. Sometimes you

1088
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: come to these videos and you want this list and

1089
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 1: you want some super secret insider information. No, the best

1090
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: thing to hear in these videos is no one knows,

1091
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: because I can assure you I kick the tires a

1092
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: confident amount. I kick the tires before I talk about

1093
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: this stuff. They don't know. They don't know. People inside

1094
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: the program don't know. The boosters don't know, and if

1095
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: they do, claim they know, they're lying to you. This

1096
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: coaching search is not being bungled. It's not being run ineffectively.

1097
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: If it were being run in effectively, everyone would know. No, no, no, no.

1098
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: The rumor mill is being run in effectively. I think

1099
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: the coaching search at LSU is fine. What you probably

1100
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: know by process of reason and basic logic and deduction

1101
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: skills is he's either after an NFL guy or the

1102
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: guy he's after still has a consequential game or two ahead.

1103
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: Now you can ask yourself who fits that description. Does

1104
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: Mario Christabaul fit that description? Sure it does. Does Matt

1105
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: Rule fit that description? Sure it does. These are not guesses.

1106
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: These are random names I'm throwing out there. But when

1107
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: there is a lack of tangible information, when there is

1108
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: a lack of credible information in the marketplace, there's a

1109
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: vacuum and sometimes one person says something, i e. Lincoln

1110
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: Riley to LSU, and because there's an absence of real counterinformation,

1111
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: everyone just runs with that. And because everyone's running with it,

1112
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: you hear it from fourteen different places, and you assume

1113
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: those fourteen different people have fourteen different sources on this,

1114
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: and there's too much smoke for it not to be true.

1115
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: Just because a lot of people are saying something doesn't

1116
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: mean they're smoke. That's not smoke at all. It's an

1117
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: echo chamber. That's what the Lincoln Riley to LSU stuff was.

1118
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,720
Speaker 1: It was an echo chamber. And so if an echo

1119
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: chamber exists because there's a lack of credible information, then

1120
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: guess what reality is? Reality is something could becoming totally

1121
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: out of left field. You could get a name you

1122
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: never would have imagined, because if there is a lack

1123
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,760
Speaker 1: of information, it's because things have been ratcheted up really

1124
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: really tight and there is no leak. And when there's

1125
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: no leak, it means anything could be happening behind that

1126
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: closed door. I love it that way. I mean, it's

1127
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: fun to me, and it should be fun to an

1128
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: LSU fan only because that's how you get the best outcome.

1129
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: I know it may not be fun because you want

1130
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: an update every five minutes. That's how you get the

1131
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: best outcome. So I'm looking forward to seeing where this

1132
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: thing goes, because the longer it goes, the more likely

1133
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,280
Speaker 1: it is that the guy you're ultimately going to hire

1134
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: is still playing consequential football, whether it be conference title playoffs,

1135
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: they're still in consequential situations, so they can't be peeled away.

1136
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: Yet that's never a bad thing. I mean, can you

1137
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 1: look around the landscape and realize how many home runs

1138
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: there would be that are still in that situation. I

1139
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: don't think we're talking about saving or smart but outside

1140
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: of that, there's some big time names out there, and

1141
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:57,280
Speaker 1: LSU's got big time resources to offer. Okay, so obviously

1142
00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:58,720
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that a lot this week.

1143
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to the playoff picture for just a second,

1144
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,919
Speaker 1: because the rankings are going to be released Tuesday night.

1145
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 1: There're gonna be a couple of very very notable bullet

1146
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: points there. First things first, let's talk about what we

1147
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: learned yesterday. For sure, for sure, we know that Ohio

1148
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: State is out of this thing. Jesse is showing you

1149
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: the top ten from last week. We know Ohio State

1150
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: number two. They're gonna fall. They're going to be out

1151
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: of this. They're not going to the Big Ten title game.

1152
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: No shot for the Buckeyes. We know that Oklahoma is out.

1153
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of a shot the Sooners had,

1154
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: but they lost again. No Big twelve title, they're gonna

1155
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: be out. Outside of that, there's still a lot that's undecided.

1156
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: But what I've told you at nauseum since August is

1157
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: I have told you that I thought if since he

1158
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: won all their games, they're gonna be in. Why did

1159
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: I think that? Because I thought Domino's were gonna fall,

1160
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: the Redwoods were going to be chopped down this year

1161
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: and lo and behold. Even as late as leading into

1162
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: conference championship weekend, we got Ohio State falling, Bama almost

1163
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: fell again. One of them between Bama and Georgia is

1164
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: going to lose this Saturday. Point being there were going

1165
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: to be plenty of dominoes to fall and they have.

1166
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: The third takeaway is because of that, Cincinnati is in

1167
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 1: prime position. Cincinnati now pretty much controls their own fate.

1168
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: If they win Saturday against Houston, guess what's going to happen.

1169
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,959
Speaker 1: They're going to go to the playoff as the first

1170
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: ever G five team to do so. And it is

1171
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: going to fulfill the prophecy that was uttered on this show,

1172
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: to the chagrin of many some people just out right

1173
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: hated on it in the preseason, not to be confused

1174
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: with the offseason. So Cincinnati was number four last week,

1175
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: they're moving up. Michigan's going to be the number two

1176
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: team in the country. More on Michigan in the second,

1177
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: but just how weird I think. Let me say that,

1178
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: I think Michigan's going to be the number two team

1179
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: in the country. The top four, it's going to be

1180
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: some order of Georgia and Michigan and Bama and Cincinnati.

1181
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, just as I said last night

1182
00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,919
Speaker 1: on Twitter, the casuals out there the casualsngs us lied

1183
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: to you. They always do. The casuals lie to you.

1184
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: Please don't let it happen. The casuals fool you. Wants

1185
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: shame on you, but fool you twice. Strike three. According

1186
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 1: to Michael Scott, the casuals told you that the only

1187
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: way you could ever get that precious parody, the only

1188
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: way that that glass ceiling could be broken and the

1189
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: G five can make it in the playoff, or some

1190
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: new blood could make it in the playoff. The only

1191
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: way you could ever hold Bama or Clemson out of

1192
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: this thing, or Ohio State was how to expand the playoff.

1193
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: And their message was, I guess we can't hold them out,

1194
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: but what we can do is we can pull more

1195
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: seats to the table. You know, we can't throw a strike,

1196
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: so let's have the umpire widen the strike zone. No,

1197
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: you just improve your accuracy. That's what you do. And

1198
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: so a lot of programs out there have improved their accuracy.

1199
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,959
Speaker 1: A lot of programs like Cincinnati have continued to get better.

1200
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, they've continued to get better, and all of

1201
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: a sudden we had something strange happen. Clemson didn't just

1202
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: stay at forty five thousand feet forever. Bama didn't stay

1203
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: a forty five thousand feet forever. Georgia is undefeated right

1204
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: now and the overwhelming number one team in the country.

1205
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: Georgia hasn't won a national title in four decades, So

1206
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: before anyone starts to tell me, George is more the

1207
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: same old, same old, no they're not. What are you

1208
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: talking about, No, they're not. There's plenty of new blood

1209
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: out there. And guess what. The parameters of this year's

1210
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: playoff are four still the same as it's been since

1211
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: its inception. They lied to you, and it's always been alive.

1212
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: The structure of the playoff has never been what has

1213
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: sucked the parody out of this sport. What has sucked

1214
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: the parody out of the sport is a combination of

1215
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: very bad hires, lack of proper investment, and some programs

1216
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: being all in. Bama's one of them, Clemson's been one

1217
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: of Ohio State's been one of them. But you know what,

1218
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: nothing lasts forever, and nothing stays the same forever. There

1219
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: is no constant. Everything's always adjusting. Folks in the Big

1220
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: Twelve have been adjusting to Oklahoma. Folks in the acc

1221
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: have been adjusted to klem folks in the SEC here

1222
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: always of justin Alabama, Ditto in the Big Ten with

1223
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: Ohio State, and now all of a sudden, I'm looking

1224
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: at Michigan. Do you realize if Bama were to upset

1225
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: Georgia next week, there is a shot Michigan could be

1226
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: the number one seed. It would probably be Bama. Michigan

1227
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: could be the number one seed. So there's all kinds

1228
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: of different things that we can argue about here, But

1229
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: the biggest argument that I clearly think is on the

1230
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,479
Speaker 1: horizon is how are we going to handle Notre Dame.

1231
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: Notre Dame season is done. They're done, so no conference championship.

1232
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: They're done. Now, I've always believed and I've argued with

1233
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: a lot of you about this. It takes me a

1234
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: while to give you my stance on Notre Dame. It

1235
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: takes a while. Most of you are either they're always overrated,

1236
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: they need to join a conference, or I'm not like

1237
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: that because I don't think Notre Dame has been overrated.

1238
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: I think they've been absolutely properly rated over the last

1239
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: several years. A lot of you scream, well, how can

1240
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: you say that they've been getting blown out. They've been

1241
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: getting beaten by teams ranked higher than them, they haven't

1242
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 1: been getting beaten by teams rated lower than them. That's

1243
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: the very definition of being properly rated, not overrated. You

1244
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: think anyone else would have fared better against Clemson or Alabama?

1245
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: Put them in there. They all stuff for the same faith.

1246
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: You see Michigan State a few years ago against Bama.

1247
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: They all suffer the same faith. Just cause Oklahoma's losing

1248
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: is the best two or three teams in the country

1249
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: and they're ranked fourth, doesn't make them overrated. But also

1250
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs that Notre Dame has made. I have agreed

1251
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: they should have been in. I have baked into that

1252
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: opinion the idea that they aren't in a conference. But

1253
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: I've also said so far this year, as the dominoes

1254
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: have kind of been setting up, this could be the

1255
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: year that not being in a conference was going to

1256
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: cost Notre Dame. Well, let's see how this plays out now,

1257
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: because with the chaos around it, it could be that

1258
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,439
Speaker 1: not being in a conference once again doesn't hurt Notre Dame.

1259
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it helps them. Maybe it

1260
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt them. But the argument that is coming is

1261
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: how do we measure a you know, a potentially twelve

1262
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: to one Oklahoma State as a big twelve chance against

1263
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I'm putting Oklahoma State in. To me, the

1264
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: bigger argument would be, you know you're close, but no

1265
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: cigar two loss Alabama against Notre Dame because there are

1266
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: two teams without a conference championship and at that point

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Speaker 1: you got to tell me is it just one loss

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Speaker 1: versus two losses? Because you know what the counter argument is.

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Speaker 1: The counter argument is, well, if that's going to be

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Speaker 1: the case, then why don't we just freeze everyone's record

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Speaker 1: the week before conference championship Saturday? You know, because you

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Speaker 1: may say to Notre Dame, well, it's not fair that

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Speaker 1: not playing in a conference championship game is held against them.

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Speaker 1: Well it's not fair in that case that playing in

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Speaker 1: one is held against Alabama. You know. So if I

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Speaker 1: were to be on the Obama side of things, I'd say,

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Speaker 1: why don't you just, for the sake of a comparison

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Speaker 1: against Notre Dame consider us an eleven and one team too,

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Speaker 1: because that's where Obama is right now before their conference

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Speaker 1: title game. Eleven and one. That's an age old argument

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Speaker 1: I'm just reteeing it up for you. But I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing to take away from this as we

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Speaker 1: head into Tuesday is the idea that since it controls

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Speaker 1: their own destiny, they're going to be in this thing

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Speaker 1: if they win. Now, the next big question is what

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Speaker 1: happens if Cincinnati loses in the AAC Championship game, which,

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Speaker 1: for the record, is against Houston, and for the double record,

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Speaker 1: since he is about a ten to a ten and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorite, not overwhelmingly insurmountable odds for the Cougars.

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Speaker 1: So let's see how that plays out. Because we still

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Speaker 1: have we still have potential chaos. Michigan plays Iowa. For

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Speaker 1: all the folks out there expecting a blowout, I would

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Speaker 1: encourage you to put your money behind it. Michigan's a

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Speaker 1: ten and a half point favorite. Two. So you got

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Speaker 1: Michigan favored by about ten, Cincinnati favorite by about ten.

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Speaker 1: You got Georgia Bama playing each other. You got Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: State five and a half point favorite against Baylor. There

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Speaker 1: could still be some chaos this Saturday. It's conference championship Saturday. Man,

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Speaker 1: anything can happen. I want to wrap it up with this.

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Speaker 1: I've got two best bets for you coming into this week.

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Speaker 1: The model is completely sideways on Baylor Oklahoma State. It

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Speaker 1: thinks the wrong team is favored. We are not getting

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Speaker 1: the best of numbers here. We could have gotten six

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Speaker 1: and a half earlier. I don't really care. We are

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Speaker 1: taking Baylor plus five and a half as one of

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Speaker 1: our best bets. And also the listen, I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: this slowly for you. The model thinks the wrong team

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Speaker 1: is favored in Oregon versus Utah. Utah smashed Oregon two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, two weeks ago, fourteen days. It was within

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Speaker 1: this calendar month. The model thinks Organ's gonna win out

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Speaker 1: right Saturday. For Friday. I think the game's Friday. It's

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Speaker 1: a neutral site game, it's in Vegas. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: orgon plus three. I'll probably put a little bit on

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Speaker 1: the money line for both of these games. So those

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Speaker 1: are the two early best bets. Obviously it's a condensed

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Speaker 1: slate this week. We won't have as many games, but

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Speaker 1: Baylor plus five and a half Oregon plus three, those

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Speaker 1: are our early moves. Let me say hi to the

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Speaker 1: live chat right quick as has become tradition. Really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys being tuned dim. Make sure as I copy

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Speaker 1: and pasted there, make sure you're following on Twitter. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I cannot even guess what's going to happen in the

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Speaker 1: next hour there. I'm looking at my phone right now.

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Speaker 1: One there are two people on the screen of this

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Speaker 1: phone right now that you would widely recognize. And it's

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Speaker 1: a constant back and forth about information about coaching, searches, recruiting.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of recruiting on here. All kinds of

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Speaker 1: stuff's happening right now behind the scenes. I am trying

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Speaker 1: my best to filter out the bs from the reality.

1330
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Speaker 1: But when we know stuff, not going to sit on it,

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Speaker 1: put it out there, and there's of course a lot

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Speaker 1: of reaction we had to and I love going back

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Speaker 1: and forth with you guys on this stuff. So make

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Speaker 1: sure you're following Twitter and Instagram. At late kick, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I've got a long drive ahead of me tonight, so

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get on the road. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much again, a lot of you met a lot of

1338
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Speaker 1: you for the first time yesterday. I met a lot

1339
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Speaker 1: of people on the staff at Michigan for the first

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Speaker 1: time yesterday. Thank you so much for making the show

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Speaker 1: what it has become. There are some ideas we have

1342
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Speaker 1: that are going to blow the show up even more

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Speaker 1: that are down the road, but just as of the

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Speaker 1: here and now, thank you so much for that. It's

1345
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Speaker 1: been a blast. We've been on the road thirteen weeks

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Speaker 1: in a row. It's going to be fourteen this week

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Speaker 1: with the SEC Championship game. Looking forward to seeing you

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Speaker 1: guys there. Subscribe if you haven't all ready to the channel,

1349
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: and if you want a little added bonus for us,

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Speaker 1: I guess go find the podcast and give us a

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Speaker 1: five star review. On this Tuesday's Late Kick Extra podcast,

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Speaker 1: I will have the full behind the scenes story with

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Speaker 1: several things I haven't revealed on the show about our

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Speaker 1: trip to ann Arbor this past week. It was one

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Speaker 1: for the ages. It was a fun one, really fun one,

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Speaker 1: very notable, very historic in nature. So thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I got to get out of here for director Colin,

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Speaker 1: producer Jesse. I'm Josh Paate. This has been the Late Kick.

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Speaker 1: See you back here, same time Tuesday night. Until then,

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Speaker 1: have a great week and Goblets