1 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: And welcome into Latekick Extra first round. We're doing this, guys. 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: I've teased it for a couple of weeks on Latekick 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Live on YouTube, So this is audio only. This is 4 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: just me and you podcast form. There will be no 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: video version of this. Quickly, what we're doing. I'm Josh Pate. 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: I am the host of The Late Kick with Josh 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: Pate on the twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel. I 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: am also National director of Video for twenty four seven Sports. 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: You already know that. Here's what you need to know. 10 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: What we're doing here. Since we have some time, and 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: since I wanted to have more engagement with you guys, 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: is once a week for as long as we can. 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to aggregate all the best questions you send 14 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: me via email Josh pateseven zero six at gmail dot com, 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: via Twitter, both direct message and just tweeting at me 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: at Latekickjosh and also in the live YouTube chat on 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: the show, the best of the best, and we're gonna 18 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: get to as many of them as possible rapid fire 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: style here, I want to go between twenty and thirty 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: minutes and we're just going to freestyle this. This is 21 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: my favorite kind of show. It's the show that you 22 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: drive and you decide where we're going instead of me, 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: and shockingly, nine times out of ten it leads to 24 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: a more fun show. So here we go. Matthew was 25 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: on Twitter first up here, this is no particular order. 26 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: We're just going to free flow. Where do you think 27 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: the ceiling is on Kyle Trask or maybe his floor? 28 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: Big Florida fan, I like to think Dan Mullen has 29 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 1: put all the pieces together, but even after a solid 30 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: run last season, I feel like there's a big question 31 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: mark next to Kyle Trask. That was Matthew on Twitter. Matthew, 32 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't know necessarily that a 33 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: question mark is always a bad thing, right. I think 34 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: that if the goal at Florida is to compete for 35 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: the SEC Eastern Division, and if you're competing for a 36 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: division in the SEC, by default you're competing for the 37 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: SEC championship in a playoff spot, that's the standard at Florida, 38 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: and I think all our Florida Gator fans would agree 39 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: that it is. Then Yeah, there's question mark for pretty 40 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: much everyone. There's a question mark for Alabama and LSU 41 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: and Georgia and everyone else. The unique question Mark here 42 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: to me is how satisfied are you with last year? 43 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: And I'm not talking to you, Matthew, I'm talking to 44 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm talking about Kyle trask and I'm talking about Florida. 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: You know, they finished last year pretty strong, pretty darn strong. 46 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: They went to the Orange Bowl. They beat Virginia and 47 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: so that's another double digit win season. That's another New 48 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: Year's six Bowl win. They got the one the previous 49 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: year over Michigan. And that's all well and good. What's 50 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: the attitude in the offseason. There's been a lot of 51 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: confidence exuding out of Gainesville. And that's not a bad thing. 52 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: That's a good thing. Anytime Florida's been good. Florida has 53 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: never been shy and good. Florida is very brash, They're 54 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: very cocky. They're very in your face, arrogant to everyone 55 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: else but themselves. That's the attitude that they have when 56 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: they're winning. And so you hear not an exclamated version 57 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 1: of that, but you hear a little silent drum beat 58 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,399 Speaker 1: of confidence out of Gainesville these days from Kyle traskan otherwise, 59 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: and you just wonder, what's the attitude coming out of that. 60 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: Did that New year's six win. Did that give them 61 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: a taste that just made them hungry for more, or 62 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: did it tell them, Hey, we've arrived. We've arrived here 63 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: and good enough is enough, and you know, let's just 64 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: do it again. Here's why I think it's the former 65 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: and not the latter. You know it, Florida, you have 66 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: not arrived unless you've beaten Georgia. You can't be great 67 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: and lose to Georgia. You can't be a great Florida 68 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: team and lose to Georgia. That's not the way it 69 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: works down there. They know that, we know that. So 70 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: I get the sense, Matthew that the ceiling for Kyle 71 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: Trask is pretty high because of his physical tools and 72 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: because of who's coaching him. And so I really circle Florida, 73 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: Florida in the East, Texas A and M and the West. 74 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: Those are the two most interesting teams to me this year. 75 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: Those are the two teams poised to potentially do the 76 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: biggest things despite the fact that they may not be 77 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: on the national radar at the beginning of the year. 78 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. At the end of the year, that's 79 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: when you want to be on that thing. Via the 80 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: email in box now This is interesting. This is probably 81 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: gonna be a fun one as a Georgia fan. I 82 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: really believe the Rose Bowl versus Oklahoma in twenty seventeen 83 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: was the best college football playoff setting I've ever seen. 84 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: But people in the South disagree with me. Have you 85 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: ever been there? And if so, do you agree? Now 86 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: he's talking about the College Football Playoffs semi final game 87 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: that they played against Oklahoma a couple of years ago. 88 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: I actually have been there. I've never been there to 89 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: cover a game. I've been there to watch a game. 90 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: And that was the two thousand and nine issue YEA 91 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: nine National Championship game, Texas versus Alabama. That's the one 92 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: Colt McCoy got hurt by the Marcel Darius head and 93 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: hashtag if Colt had been healthy and so yeah, I went. 94 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: Here's the story behind it. So at the time, I 95 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: was working in a fabric warehouse in Columbus, Georgia, and 96 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: I didn't have the means, obviously to go to a 97 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: national championship game. But the guy I worked four was 98 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: very wealthy, had his own we'll call it a fabric 99 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: empire if you will, But he knew I wanted to go, 100 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: and he did a lot of favors for me. He 101 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: helped me with tuition a time or two when I 102 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: was gonna come up short. And so he was a 103 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: much older guy, probably in his mid mid eighties at 104 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: this point, and so he slipped back there one day 105 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: and he let me know, I'm gonna take care of it. 106 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go that game, and you're gonna 107 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: stay with my brother in Brentwood. Now this was news 108 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: to me. I didn't even know that his first off, 109 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: I didn't know his brother. I came to know him, 110 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: but his brother lived in Brentwood, California. Now, listen, I've 111 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: barely been west of the Chattahoochee River at this point, 112 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: so I certainly have not been to Los Angeles. The 113 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: only LA I knew of at the time was Lower Alabama. 114 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: I kid you not, And so I go all the 115 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: way out here, we go, We're going to Los Angeles, 116 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: and so we fly in and we get met and 117 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 1: we go to Brentwood. Now, Brentwood is a very upscale 118 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: part of LA. Brentwood is where OJ Simpson lived. Brentwood 119 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: is where all of that spectacle went down. So that's 120 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: the only thing I know about Brentwood at the time. 121 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: We get taken in there. That's right off the four 122 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: or five, that's right off Sunset Boulevard. All the places, basically, 123 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: if you grew up in west central Georgia, it's all 124 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: the places you've heard in a Sheryl Crow song, but 125 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: you certainly have never witnessed with your own two eyes. 126 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: So we pull up in there. I'm probably wearing jeans 127 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: and like an old off brand Tommy Hill figure shirt. 128 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: And we get in there and this guy, his name 129 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: was Irwin. He and his wife were in their eighties. 130 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: They were lifelong Lakers fans, season ticket holders. They never 131 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: missed a game in their mid eighties, never missed a 132 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: Lakers game. It was pretty spectacular. And they were better 133 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: drivers in that traffic than I would have been, and 134 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: I was like a fifth their age. So anyway, we're 135 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: in a house that he built with his own two 136 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: hands back in the fifties. He paid I think it 137 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: was right around fifty thousand dollars to build the house. 138 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: It retailed for around fifteen million at the time that 139 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: we were out there. And so the people in the circle, 140 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: the little loop there where we were are. I can 141 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: remember John Travolta, Keefer Sutherland. This is when Ben Affleck 142 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: and Jennifer Garner were together. They were right across the 143 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: street from him. Conan O'Brien had a big place there, 144 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: but this was the same place before they had torn 145 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: down the Rockingham estate that oj Simpson had lived at. 146 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: So needless to say, we were not short on conversation. 147 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: So the next day we drive up to Pasadena, we 148 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: go to the Rose Bowl and man, Scott, I agree 149 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: with you. It's not the loudest place in the world, 150 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: but it is so postcard in field. It looks like 151 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: a screen saver. And you get, at least when I 152 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: was there, and I know when Georgia played Oklahoma. You 153 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: get what you want, which is a good game. But 154 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: you also get that sunset where there are a few 155 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: clouds in the sky enough to just kind of paint 156 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: the perfect picture. And you got the sunset over the 157 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: San Gabriel Mountains there off in the distance. Awesome setting. 158 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: And no, it's not as hostile an atmosphere as Bryant 159 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: Denny Stadium. It's not as intimidating as Tiger Stadium or 160 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: the Swamp. It's not as loud as Jordan Here but 161 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: it's awesome in its own right. It's awesome. Let's move 162 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: on Tar Hills Basketball. On Twitter asks a football question, 163 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: I'd love to know what you think about the future 164 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: of UNC football after mac Brown. Do you think what 165 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: he's created continues to grow or does it go back 166 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: to normal? I think that all depends on what we're 167 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: talking about here in terms of a tenure for mac Brown. 168 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: Are we planning on him being there three or four years, 169 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: getting something started, and then hanging him back up again. 170 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: Are we talking about him hanging around a decade? Are 171 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: we talking about him ascending after a couple of years 172 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: as a head coach to an athletic director position. And 173 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: this is nothing I've heard. I just kind of with 174 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: the way the question was worded. That's the way that 175 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: I took it. I'll tell you what he has done. 176 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: He understands how to be the CEO of a program, 177 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: He understands how to be the face of a program. 178 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 1: He markets them brilliantly. And here's what matters first and foremost. 179 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: They are recruiting their state. They're doing it very very well. 180 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: They're ranked in the top five of the twenty four 181 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: to seven Sports team rankings. Right now, and they're doing 182 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: a really good job there. And while everyone's paying attention 183 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: to Mack Brown, he's got a really good, really energetic 184 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: coaching staff put together. And here's why in all cases 185 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: recruiting rankings matter. Don't ever let anyone act like they 186 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: have this intellectual superiority over the room and tell you 187 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: they don't. They do. Trust me, brothers and sisters, they do. 188 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: But here's why it really matters for Carolina. It matters 189 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: for North Carolina because they got a quarterback currently on 190 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: their roster who's a Heisman candidate in Sam Howell. And 191 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: they got one coming in named Drake May who Bama 192 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: wanted badly. He was committed to Alabama. He de commits 193 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: from Alabama, he commits to North Carolina. When you got 194 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: quarterback figured out, of course, boring injury, anything like that. 195 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: When you've got quarterback figured out over the next four 196 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: or five years, let's say, when you got that position down, 197 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 1: then you can really do some work. So I feel 198 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: really good about their future. Aaron asks an email details 199 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: about J. T. Daniel's plans impact Felipe Franks transfer to Arkansas, 200 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: What about Derek King leaving Houston for Miami, LSU got 201 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: Jabril Cox. Which teams were most helped by the transfer portal? 202 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: For JT. Daniels, there's nothing more. Let's just start with him, 203 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: and I'm going to push him off to the side. 204 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: I've really got my eye on Tennessee. I don't know 205 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: anything definitive there. I know there's been contact so and 206 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: it's mutual the interest, so I can confirm that for you. 207 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,599 Speaker 1: But aside from that, listen, it may be all for not. 208 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: He may decide to stay at USC. I think a 209 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: lot of the pending NCAA transfer legislation is going to 210 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: have a lot to say about that. But let's look 211 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: at these others. Felipe Franks to Arkansas. I don't think 212 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: he's going to rewrite any offensive record books in the 213 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,119 Speaker 1: SEC West, but it's certainly nice to have some stability 214 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: at the position there, especially considering what the alternative would 215 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: have been. But I'll tell you the one that really 216 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: gets my attention that you brought up is Dereck King 217 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: leaving Houston for Miami. You know, Miami treaded water last 218 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: year in a season where I really thought that they 219 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: were poised not to overtake Clemson by any stretch. But 220 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: to maybe as send to that number two spot in 221 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: the ACC I don't think that would have been out 222 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility for whatever reason, and there 223 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: are several they didn't. And so now we look around 224 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: and youet a quarterback coming in who obviously adds instant 225 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: upgrades in the talent and stability departments at the most 226 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: important position on the field. And that's a place where 227 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: they sorely lacked both last year in Coral Gables. And 228 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: this is not a guy coming out of high school. Now, 229 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: I just told you recruiting rankings matter a lot, and 230 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: I really trust the evaluation and rating process when it 231 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: comes to the quarterback position these days. But nothing beats 232 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: having seen a guy do it before at the collegiate level. 233 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: Derek King's done it. This is not a guy that 234 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: we have to apply a lot of guesswork and projection with. 235 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: He's done it at Houston. We know he's got the skill. 236 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: Do they properly harness it, utilize it? And obviously a 237 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: lot of unknown maybe elsewhere in that program, but it 238 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: is nice that we can see quarterback at least figured 239 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: out down there from a talent perspective. Now you got 240 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: a lot of other aspects. Maybe maybe not. We'll see. 241 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: I still got a lot of confidence Diaz though. James 242 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: on Twitter, I'm a lifelong Bama fan. How do you 243 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: think this season will be if we're fortunate enough to 244 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: have one, which I think we will James, James continues, 245 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: keep up the great look at it. Need to read 246 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: the last part, James, I think that this year solely 247 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 1: depends on not the quarterback position, because whatever Alabama does 248 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: at quarterback, I think it will be a strength for them. 249 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: I look at the front seven, I look at the 250 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: linebacker injuries, and I look at the defensive line lack 251 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: of depth due to injury over the last really two years, 252 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: and to me, that is what has separated them from 253 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: being able to win a couple more championships. Being right 254 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: there now. They were there two years ago, they got 255 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: boat raced by Clemson. But last year, you know, for 256 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: as great as LSU was, what if I put Tyllon 257 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 1: Moses on the field versus LSU. I don't know how 258 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: many points he's worth in that game. I know he's 259 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: worth something, though, and he alone not to mention the 260 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: other guys that were banged up or missing, That's part 261 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: of football. But I'll tell you the folks at Alabama, 262 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: James think it's more than just football. They think that 263 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: they allowed themselves to get a little antiquated. That's a 264 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: fancy word for old and outdated in the strength and 265 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: conditioning aspect. Can you think about that what had once 266 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: been revolutionary, once had once been a huge strength the 267 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,119 Speaker 1: likes of which college football had never seen. The Alabama 268 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: strength and conditioning program, Well, all of a sudden, what 269 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: they did is they overhauled the kind of athlete they 270 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: were recruiting. A generation ago, a decade ago, it was 271 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: Rolando McLean and Dante high Tower six four to two 272 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: sixty at inside linebacker. And then you fast forward ten 273 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: years and it's Dylan Moses and Rashaun Evans, and those 274 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: guys are about six' two and they're about two twenty 275 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: five to thirty two thirty. Five and that's all well 276 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: and good, man that's what you need to chase down 277 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: these mobile. Quarterbacks but the problem is they were still 278 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: getting trained like the six four to two sixty guys. 279 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: Did and that's not so good for the feet or the, 280 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: joints or the hips or the. KNEES i can't tell you, 281 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: though and this is WHY i stopped short of accusing 282 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: anyone of. ANYTHING i can't look at a guy go 283 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: down to a foot injury and, say, well it's causes 284 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: a squat. Form what wasn't? GOOD i don't know. That 285 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: they don't even know. THAT i can tell you the 286 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: cumulative effect was too much to be explained off as mere. 287 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: Coincidence AND i think that's why they made a move 288 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: that they feel is going to be very. Beneficial but 289 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: here's where we'll. Know where we'll, Know james is when 290 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: we look up in week seven whenever that, is and 291 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: we see What alabama's debt situation, is like how many 292 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: guys that started week one or starting week? Seven if 293 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: you got six or seven guys in that injury, list 294 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: then could be same, ol same Old aufan two thousand 295 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: and ninety two says which teams or rather let me 296 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: excuse that it was written in the wrong. Funt would 297 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: teams LIKE ucf be better off joining A power five 298 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: conference or going independent and constructing their entire schedule With 299 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: power five? Teams all, right let's talk about this for a. Second. 300 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: Now if this Were, xbox we could just choose one 301 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: or the, other and if it didn't work, out then 302 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: we could hit the reset. Button this is real. Life of, 303 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: course in real, life we had WHAT i called equivalent 304 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: to a volcanic eruption of conference realigned about eight or 305 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: nine years. Ago you, remember that's when every day there 306 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: was a new report on What texas was going to, 307 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: do only to See texas stay, put But West virginia 308 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: relocates to The big. Twelve they Had missouri And, TEXAS 309 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: a AND m joined THE. SEC i think this is 310 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: When colorado, moved this When utah joined The pac. Twelve 311 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: all this was in the general same, timeframe and so 312 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: a lot of people looked around when that was, done 313 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: people inside the college football. Industry none of them thought 314 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: it was. Over maybe it was settled for a. Time 315 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: and it's kind of like a. Volcano after an, eruption 316 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: it goes dormant or it goes. Extinct well we're not extinct. 317 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: Here we're very much in just a dormant. Stage AND 318 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: i think that there's one, more at least one more 319 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: round of this stuff. Coming what does that have to 320 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: do With Central. Florida, well here's what it has to 321 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: do With Central florida And houston And memphis And East 322 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: carolina and any of these Teams cincinnati that like to 323 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: complain about getting left. Out and you know my feelings 324 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: on the. PLAYOFF i don't want to. EXPAND i don't 325 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: WANT g five teams. IN i want THE g five 326 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: to have their own. Playoff i'm not here to argue 327 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: that that's what we do on our show all the. 328 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: Time but what you should be focused on is how 329 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: do you get a seat at the. Table because you 330 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: mentioned in the question here the possibility of going. INDEPENDENT 331 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: i don't think it's financially viable at. All these are 332 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: not programs that can afford to be A Notre. DAME 333 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: A Notre dame has A Notre. Dame Notre dame has 334 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: THE nbc, Contract they have such a large, endowment they 335 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: have several decades worth of emotional and financial infrastructure built 336 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: into a massive, university a network all across the. Country 337 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: you don't have that if you're The university Of Central, 338 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: florida if You're, houston if You're, memphis you don't have. 339 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: That you are not capable of being an island unto 340 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: yourself in college. Football so you've got to be attached 341 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: to a larger. BODY a fancy word for. Conference which? 342 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: Conference how do you get a seat the head. Table, 343 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: well let's envision a scenario sometime in the next ten 344 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: years safely where we end up with four super. Conferences 345 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: let's say THE sec gobbles up a few more, teams 346 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: they go to SIXTEEN, acc Same big. Ten. SAME i 347 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: would argue that probably what we'll see Out west is 348 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: a combination of THE pac twelve and The big. Twelve 349 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: don't know what that looks. Like but whatever the, case 350 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 1: if we have expansion, AGAIN i think it's probably going 351 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: to be the final round of it for a long. 352 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: Time if You're Central, florida are you in a? Position 353 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: have you presented your case well? Enough forget about making the? 354 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: Playoff you need to be worried about leveraging everything you 355 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: can and positioning yourself to where if twenty twenty six rolls, 356 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: around if twenty twenty, four twenty twenty, nine if that 357 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: rolls around and it's time to, expand are you capable 358 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: of being accepted by THE acc or THE sec or 359 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 1: whatever we would call The leviathan out? West are you? 360 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: Capable because that's the big. Question it's not whether you 361 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: can go twelve and know and win everything by thirty 362 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: five points and try and get in the playoff as 363 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: A g. Five that's not what you need to be focused. 364 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: On you don't need to be focused on playoff. Expansion 365 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: you need to be focused on get yourself in a 366 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: Major power five conference before there are no seats. Left 367 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: AND i know WHEN i say twenty twenty, six you may, Think, 368 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: josh that's too far. Away we want immediate. Results do 369 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: you understand what you're? Asking you understand what table we're talking? 370 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: About you sitting. At There's alabama sitting over, there and 371 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: next to, them There's Ohio. State, Look oklahoma And texas 372 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: just walked. In LOOK, USC i hadn't heard from you 373 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: in a little, while but you're over. There what do 374 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: all these programs have in? Common, like how long have 375 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: they been? Around how many decades have they been? Around 376 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: in some cases over a. Century they've been. Around they've invested, 377 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: financially they've invested. Emotionally they have built, branding they have 378 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: built raw. Infrastructure they didn't do that at warp. Speed 379 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: it took a long time to. Build what those brands? 380 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: Are you complain about blue bloods all the, time yet 381 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: everyone wants to be. One, well if you had invested, 382 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: Accordingly and someone walked in new in the, neighborhood arrived 383 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: five minutes ago and demands equal, treatment what would you 384 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: say to, them because that's how they view. You you 385 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: get in a major, conference, though and things a little 386 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: bit Different lindsey via. Email most fun you've ever had 387 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: covering a? Game. LINDSAY i was excited to see this 388 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: question because the most Fun i've probably had covering a 389 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: game is gonna sound. Weird it wasn't really so much 390 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: of the game. Itself, now the game was. Fun so 391 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: back in twenty, Fifteen i'm working at a news station 392 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: down In georgia and our how SHOULD i put this, 393 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: politely our sales department dropped the ball a little, Bit. 394 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: Lindsay and the way that it works with these big 395 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: games is all that, airfare, travel, hotel food that costs. 396 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: Money and in THE tv, world the way that new 397 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: stations justify paying that money to send you out to 398 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: cover a game In, Glendale, arizona for, example that's Where 399 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Clemson alabama was round one in The National. Championship the 400 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: way they justify that is they're going to have to 401 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: sell enough advertising to cover the call and hopefully then 402 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: some that's what they call. Profit, well our sales apartment 403 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: didn't do. That So i'm credential to go to the. 404 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: Game i'm ready to go to the. GAME i find 405 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: out they're not going to be able to cover my, 406 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: expenses so you know, What i'll just go. ANYWAY i, 407 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: mean this credential loan's worth its weight in. Gold i'm 408 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: not going to let it go. Unused SO i don't 409 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: fly Into phoenix because it cost a norm and a 410 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: leg to fly in. There SO i fly Into San. 411 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: Diego it's about six hours away if you drive the speed, 412 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: limit WHICH i found out you don't have to in 413 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: the Desert. SOUTHWEST i fly in The San, diego, beautiful beautiful, 414 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: city been there a couple of, times AND i rent 415 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: a car AND i drive clear across the desert all by, 416 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: myself and that was an, awesome awesome. EXPERIENCE i don't 417 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: know if what is that called an ecosystem TANY i 418 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,959 Speaker 1: Know tony's listening to, this editing this, down trying to 419 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,239 Speaker 1: make it sound halfway decent on. Ecosystem if it is, 420 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: that the Desert southwest could be my favorite. Ecosystem i'm 421 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: a big train. NERD i always like trains growing UP 422 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: i always loved watching garbage trucks and, trains kid you. 423 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: Not and The burlington in The Santa fe line runs 424 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: right out through the. Desert you run right alongside it 425 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: on the interstate, there and those trains are running seventy 426 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: miles an hour out through the. Desert and you pull 427 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: over and you look as far as the eye can 428 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: see on the. Horizon you have no. Clue it's like 429 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: in The Forrest gump scene Where forcet gumps jogging across the, 430 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 1: country and he, SAYS i couldn't tell where heaven ended 431 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: and The earth began if you pull over at the right, 432 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: time right around sunset or sunrise out, there and you 433 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: just look off in the distance for a little. While 434 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: it's not too far from the way he described it really. 435 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: Incredible just looks like a, painting looks like you should 436 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: frame it and hang it in your. Office that's how 437 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: awesome it. Was and so we go to the. Game 438 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: alabama Beats, clemson they win their national, championship AND i 439 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 1: have a six am flight out Of San diego the next. 440 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: Morning SO i Leave, glendale great host, city. Awesome stayed In. 441 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: Scottsdale just, man everything out there looks like a. Postcard 442 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: drive all night going one fifteen or one. TWENTY i 443 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: don't THINK i saw a cop the entire time outside 444 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: of security on the, sideline and there are no cars, 445 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: anywhere and no gass. Either by the, way, Kids so 446 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: if you venture out To, phoenix vent you're out to the, 447 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: desert get your gas ahead of. Time and drove all 448 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: night to get To San diego and slept on the 449 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: plane on the way. Home but that was a really 450 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: really fun. Trip No, shenanigan's no, debauchery, LINDSAY i hate 451 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: to burst the bubble if you expect it, otherwise just good, 452 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: clean one hundred and twenty mile an, hour fun t shirt. 453 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: Idea let's wrap it up here With. Colin So colin 454 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: in an, email actually got a couple of you know. 455 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: What never, mind we're not wrapping it up. YET i 456 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: got a couple. More colin. Says growing, up it was 457 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: a tradition That Georgia southern would Play georgia every four. 458 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: Years what's the deal? Now Is georgia terrified Because Georgia 459 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 1: southern took them to? Overtime or is it because they're 460 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: AN fbs team now and they might have to agree 461 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: to a home and. Home this is pretty, Basic. COLIN 462 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: i won't spend a ton of time on this, one 463 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: BUT i appreciate the. Question it's just a simple risk 464 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: reward scenario for The power five teams. HERE i know 465 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: what yesteryear. INCLUDED i watch those games just like you. 466 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: Did but you KNOW i Cover WHEN i was down In, 467 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: GEORGIA i Covered alabama And auburn And georgia a whole. 468 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: Lot and these were questions we used to always. Get 469 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 1: why Won't alabama play Uab why Want auburn Play? Troy 470 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: why Want georgia Play Georgia? Southern it's a risk reward, thing, 471 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: Really it's that. Simple it's the guys at big institutions 472 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: look at those smaller schools and, say, well we don't 473 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: need to play you. OBVIOUSLY i know you want to 474 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: play us for obvious. Reasons what does it gain us 475 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: to play? You? Now the response, is, well we keep 476 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: money in the. State they don't. Care i'm just telling 477 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: you just to be. Blunt i've talked to people about 478 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: this before off the. Record they really don't. Care they 479 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 1: don't view you as hurting for. Money no one views 480 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: anyone as hurting from. Money to the point where we 481 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: have to play you as a charity, case and they 482 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: would much rather call Up akron than call Up Georgia. 483 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: Southern know when those guys are walking in there with 484 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: their hair on fire and it's their Super, bowl and 485 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: to be honest with, you they don't feel like dealing with. 486 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: It they don't feel like dealing with. It craig was 487 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: in the YouTube chat the other Night Late Kick live 488 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: airs by the way Every sunday And thursday night eight 489 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: eastern Seventh central on the twenty four Seven sports YouTube. 490 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: Channel why Would alabama Keep Pete golding after that disaster 491 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 1: of a season last? Year look how many first round 492 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: picks we just let go to waste and we didn't 493 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: even win the. Division, Now, CRAIG i know that you're. 494 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: Aggravated let's remember who won the national. Championship that's the 495 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: only reason you didn't win your. Division know you're taking 496 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: no solace whatsoever right. Now let's also remember the injury 497 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: situation that Plagued. Alabama was a defensive one at quarterback 498 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: later on, obviously but to a tongue Of ilowa played AGAINST. Lsu, 499 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: CRAIG i think when it comes To Pete golding and 500 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: for those unaware that's The alabama defensive. Coordinator it was 501 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: in his first year as a defensive coordinator last. Year, 502 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: listen at the end of the, SEASON i was here 503 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: in the same whispers that you probably. Were but at 504 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: the end of the, DAY i tried not to say 505 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: that more than one time a. Show at the end 506 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: of the, day though there goes. THREE i really think 507 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: that we got to consider who's making the decisions up 508 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: there In. Tuscaloosa and who's making the decisions is a 509 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: guy Named Nick, saban Who i've been told as many 510 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: times and more THAN i can, count don't ever question 511 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: him on evaluating a, prospect and don't ever question him 512 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: on evaluating personnel on his. Staff THAT i mean he's. 513 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: Perfect he's not, perfect no one. Is and he'll make 514 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: the occasional aeron judgment just like the rest of, us 515 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: probably less. Frequently But Nick saban can pick one guy 516 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: In america to coordinate his, defense AND i can tell 517 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: you there's a line out the door of people wanting 518 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 1: to do. It and he took healthy inventory after the 519 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season and looked at the, result which was 520 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: far below, standard and he obviously looked around at the other, 521 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: circumstances whether it be injury or whatever the case may, 522 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: be and said this was Not Pete golding's. Fault that's 523 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: the only CONCLUSION i can arrive. At Craig katie On, 524 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: twitter what is the next team to make a big 525 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: splash and get people's? Attention easy answer for, Me, KATIE 526 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: i believe it Is Georgia. Tech talk to you If 527 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: collins did an interview with him for about twenty minutes 528 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: earlier this week that's available on the twenty four Seven 529 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: sports YouTube, channel a part of Our Social distance. SERIES 530 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: i believe this for a number of. Reasons i've talked 531 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: about this, before but just, briefly consider. This tell me 532 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: how insane this. Is there is a. City what IF 533 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: i told you AT espn thirty for, thirty let's just start. 534 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: It what IF i told, you but what for? Real 535 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: what IF i told you there was a city in 536 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: one of the hottest recruiting beds In america and right 537 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: smack dab in the middle of, that there was this 538 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: city and it branded itself appropriately so the capital of college. 539 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: Football The College Football hall Of fame is, there THE 540 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: Sec championship is, there tons of recruits there as far 541 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: as the eye can. See it is the intersection of 542 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 1: THE sec and THE. Acc and what IF i told 543 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,959 Speaker 1: you there was A power five program in the middle 544 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: downtown of that city and no one even cared in 545 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: the city because That's Georgia. Tech that's What Georgia tech's 546 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: been Under Paul. Johnson there's no excuse for. It Jeff 547 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: collins walked in, there AND i loved listening to him 548 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: on his press conference the day he got. Hired but 549 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: a press, conference those are. Words that's not how you 550 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: win football. Games shortly, thereafter when he was making his 551 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: rounds to The georgia high schools and surrounding high schools 552 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: WHERE i was at the, time AND i started to 553 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: talk to high school coaches who were beaming about, him 554 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,959 Speaker 1: telling me, unequivocally this dude is the real. Deal watch and. 555 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: SEE i took. Note and then here's what really was 556 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: the clincher for, me WHEN i heard him talk About. 557 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: Atlanta he understands how they should Brand Georgia tech football 558 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: and it Is. Atlanta they should be. Synonymous there's no 559 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: reason That Georgia tech should be irrelevant in the city Of. 560 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: Atlanta there's no Reason auburn football And alabama football should 561 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: matter more In atlanta Than Georgia, tech much less The 562 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: university Of georgia that's not even. Comparable but think about, 563 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 1: That auburn football moving the needle more In atlanta Than 564 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: Georgia tech. FOOTBALL i think that's going to. Change it's 565 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: not Cause auburn's going, anywhere BUT i think it's Because 566 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: Georgia tech is very much on the Com AND i 567 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,719 Speaker 1: also think that a lot of what people view as 568 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: a hurdle for, them the academic side of, THINGS i 569 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 1: think they view it as an. OPPORTUNITY i do. Too 570 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: it is so overblown how you can't win if you've 571 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 1: got high academic standards. Garbage of course they. Can you 572 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: don't sign one hundred guys a. Year you signed twenty 573 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: five a. Year and if you don't think that they're 574 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: twenty five or well more than, this but at least 575 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: twenty five guys fully capable of playing championship caliber football 576 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: and obtaining a pretty high level degree In america per, 577 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: year then you have vastly. UNDERESTIMATED i think the caliber 578 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: of young man who's coming out of your local high. 579 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: School that's just. ME i was about to go record earlier, 580 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: today AND i did record, it and we didn't capture any. 581 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: Audio this is the second recording of this. Show by 582 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: the Way i'm doing. It you know, WHAT i don't 583 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: even want to tell you the current. Situation it would 584 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: just make you feel sorry for, me And i'm not 585 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: looking for. Sympathy But tarik sent me an email right 586 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: as we were about to go in the, studio and 587 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: SO i told, Him, Hey i'm gonna fitch you. In 588 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: you email me at just the right. Time so this 589 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: is how we'll wrap it. Up what are your thoughts 590 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: Of Mike locksley what he's doing At. Maryland he's recruiting 591 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: THE dc area hard is that another potential team on the, 592 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: rise assuming that they keep the recruiting. UP i don't 593 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: have an ounce worth of concern about recruiting From maryland 594 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: TO wee never have never as long As Mike loxley's, 595 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: THERE i never, have never. Will he's been up. THERE 596 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: i think this will be his second year. Now and 597 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: it's it's solely it's a two. Parter so the first 598 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: part is his coaching. Staff i'm wait and see ON 599 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: i JUST i got to see how they are when 600 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: they got a good enough roster first, Off so let's 601 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: get a good enough roster on. Campus how are they 602 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: how are they as a game day? Staff that's the second. 603 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: Thing the third thing is this though this it In Georgia, 604 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: tech this is Not North, Carolina, miami all those PROGRAMS 605 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: i feel like could make leaps and bounds very quickly 606 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: because of the conference there. In maryland's not in THE. 607 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: Acc maryland's in The Big, ten and So maryland's got 608 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: a different deck that they got to play. With you've 609 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: Got michigan come into. Town you Got Ohio, state you 610 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: Got Penn. State they got one of those in THE. 611 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: Acc you got quite a few of them in The Big. 612 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: Ten But i've got confidence In Michael. LOXLEY i think 613 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: that this is one, guy AND i look around the, 614 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: LANDSCAPE i see quite a. Few it's a guy who 615 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: failed as a head coach. Before and of, course you 616 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: know in college, football if you fail one, time people 617 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: write you off, forever like no one's ever learned lessons 618 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: from bad decisions and failure before and gone on to 619 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: succeed only like every billionaire there is in. Existence BUT 620 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: i Love Mike loxley as a. Guy his, story his personal. 621 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: Story if you don't know what he's been. Through there 622 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: is no more deserving coach In america to finally get 623 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: another shot than. Him talk about. Tragedy, now there are a 624 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: lot of folks had calling themselves having a bad day 625 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: listening to. This who would end up really rethinking that 626 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: perspective if you just go do some research On Michae 627 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: loxley and what he and his family have gone. Through, Okay, 628 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: so to be, HONEST i don't even know how long we, 629 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: went but this is what we're going to try and. 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