1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: And just like that, we're back. I apologize already. I'll 2 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: tell you why in a second. It is another edition 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: of the Late Kick Extra podcast, Thursday morning, October seventh, 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: Thear of a Lord twenty twenty one. Yeah, I apologize 5 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: some of you. In fact, thankfully a lot of you 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: listened to every episode. You've probably already spotted the difference. 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: But if you haven't, I am recording in the morning. Now, 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: those of you who are longtime listeners know that's a 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: horrific idea for me. Number one, because I sound different 10 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: in the morning, and it's not for the better friends, 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: believe me. In number two, that means I'm recording not 12 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: in our palatial Downtown Towers studio over beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Note, 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: with all that available to me, what did I do 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: last night? I procrastinated. I ended up going home at 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: ten thirty, and here I am recording in an apartment 16 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: a few blocks away at the crack of dawn. And 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: it's just not good enough. You deserve I know you 18 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: deserve better. You know you deserve better. So I don't 19 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: know what the punishment I dole out to myself will be, 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: which is unfortunately where we're at in life, but hey, 21 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: we'll make the best of it. We got a loaded 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: mail bag this morning anyway, and I do mean this 23 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: morning for those unfamiliar. On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, we 24 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: give you a mail bag exclusive edition, and it is exclusive. 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,199 Speaker 1: You can only find it here in the podcast feed 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: if you want to hit me up Josh Pait seven 27 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: zero six at gmail dot com, or the more preferred 28 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: scenario at this point because of the status of the 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: inbox right now is at late Kickjosh Twitter, at late 30 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: Kickjosh Instagram. Hit me up there. Dms are always open. 31 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: Got a lot of compliments on the new studio the 32 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: other night. I love it. I would like to get 33 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: some new carpet in there, but otherwise I love it. 34 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: That's nippicking ninety nine percent. It's where we want it 35 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: to be. We have some few tweaks and adjustments to make. 36 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: That was our first broadcast in there the other night. 37 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: If you listen to the podcast and you don't actually 38 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: watch on YouTube, you didn't get to see all the 39 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: fancy lights and new bells and whistles and whatnot. Go 40 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: check it out four seven Sports YouTube channel. Subscribe of course, 41 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: while you're there, about to be over seventy thousand. So 42 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: what I said on the show the other night, I 43 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: want to reiterate here and even more emphatically reiterated here. 44 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: I don't know how else to put it to you. Guys, 45 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: you built that. You built that thing. When they look 46 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: and they see the numbers and they see the traffic 47 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: the show is doing on all platforms, that's the kind 48 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: of investment that we can get. So when I've told 49 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: you in this microphone dozens of times, it seems like, hey, 50 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: don't worry, things are happening behind the scenes. Hey guys, 51 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: I just want you to know you're making things happen 52 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: for us. Well, just because I don't snap my fingers 53 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: and show it to you that day doesn't mean I'm 54 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 1: making it up. That's been happening behind the scenes here 55 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: for several months. I've been periodically in there watching them 56 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: build that, and all the while I've been thinking to myself, Wow, 57 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: this show seems like it happened pretty quickly. Well it 58 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: kind of did. But what I want to make sure, 59 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: if I don't accomplish anything else on this podcast this morning, 60 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: what I got to make sure you understand is that 61 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: was directly because of you, and a lot of the 62 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: things that are coming down the road, including some of 63 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: the stuff we're being able to do right now, like 64 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: with the Renaissance Tour going on the road every weekend, 65 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: different game every weekend. That stuff's not cheap. But nobody 66 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: at CBS, even BATS and I anymore at signing those 67 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: kinds of expense reports because of you, because you make 68 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: it worth it times one hundred for them and for 69 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: me and for us and for everyone. So thank you 70 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: for that. I mean, I really appreciate it. Because it's 71 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: nice to have more reliable air conditioning in the new studio. 72 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: It's nice for the video not to freeze in the 73 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: new studio. It's just a lot of things are nicer 74 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: in the new studio. And with that in mind, I 75 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: had to pause there to take a very very big 76 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: chug of caffeine. I'm ready to talk about something. So 77 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: a lot of you have asked, by probably the hundreds, 78 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: I would say safely by the hundreds you've asked about 79 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: LSU this week. And I did something I don't normally 80 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: do on Late Kick Live the other night, and you 81 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: probably heard it if you listened in the podcast feed. 82 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: You heard it the next morning and I got some 83 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: pushback on it, but it wasn't bad pushback. It was 84 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: just pushback in a sense of wow, I rarely hear 85 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: you talk like that. So here's the context, very very quick, 86 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: fifteen second version. I told you I think Edorjeron's going 87 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: to be fired as the head coach at LSU. That 88 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: is very noteworthy because I don't do that. Those of 89 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: you who have been with me for a long time 90 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: you know I don't do that. Those of you who 91 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: are new, quick heads up, I don't do that very often. 92 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: You don't hear a whole lot of hot seat talk 93 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: on the shows I do. Doesn't mean I never hear anything. 94 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: It just means I don't like talking about it. I 95 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: just got to be real with you. I don't like 96 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: talking about people losing their jobs, even if you're making 97 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars a year to coach a game. 98 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: I don't like talking about it. However, there are some 99 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: points we get to where it's unavoidable, which is why 100 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: you should know if you're hearing me talk about it, 101 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: it is def conten serious, and it is at LSU. 102 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: And I think ed Ojeron is going to lose his job. 103 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: In fact, I would bet a lot of money on it. 104 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: So I don't celebrate in that because I love LSU. 105 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: I'm not a journalist. The specific reason I've never labeled 106 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: myself a journalist, one of which is so I can 107 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: openly I have rooting interest. I don't have a problem 108 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: telling you I pull for LSU. I didn't grow up 109 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: in Louisiana. I didn't grow up inn LSU fan. But 110 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: the LSU people have been very good to me. It's 111 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: well documented on this program. I love LSU, love going 112 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: down there, love everything about it. So the last thing 113 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: I want to see personally and professionally is LSU suffering. 114 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: But the program is right now and they're going to 115 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: make changes now. A lot of you have asked about 116 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: the segment the other night, and you want me to 117 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: expound on what I mean, Like, how can you be 118 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: so confident because we've seen programs struggle before and then 119 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: coaches didn't get fired. And you know, for instance, Michigan 120 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: last year, A lot of you have brought up Michigan, 121 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: a lot of you have brought up Florida right now, 122 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: they're not comparable. Neither situation is comparable. I am telling 123 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: you especially with Michigan. Michigan didn't have a good year 124 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: last year. But number one, it was the COVID year, 125 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: which everyone was willing to explain away. But number two, 126 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: even if it wasn't, even if Michigan would have gone 127 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: six and six, seven and five, I don't know whether 128 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: Harball would have been fired if that happened in a 129 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: normal year. But I'm telling you, at is very worst, 130 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh has football problems at his very very worst. 131 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: In that scenario, his problems are limited to football. The 132 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: problems at LSU only begin with football. They've got what 133 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: a coaching buddy of mine would call Wednesday problems. Football 134 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: problems are the Saturday problems. You know, that's the stuff 135 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: where you see it and you could diagnose it, and 136 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: anyone who understands the game can say, Wow, their right 137 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: guard is not good enough. Wow, their safety play is 138 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: not good enough. The program's not good enough. At LSU, 139 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: the internals, the DNA, everything about it is not good enough. 140 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: At LSU. It is regressed, it's continuing to regress. It's 141 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: not sitting still. It's not just slightly moving forward. It's 142 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: moving backwards. It is getting worse. LSU as a program 143 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: will be worse tomorrow than they are today because they 144 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: have very ineffective and incompetent leadership. But you need to 145 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: understand something, And this is why I'm kicking the podcast 146 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: off with this, because I want to clarify something. When 147 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: I say LSU's culture is terrible, I am not speaking 148 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: about everybody in that athletic department. I'm not speaking about 149 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: all those players. I'm not speaking about the administrative types. 150 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,559 Speaker 1: I'm speaking about one guy. Which is the key point 151 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: that I want you to understand. With LSU, especially if 152 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: you're an LSU fan. You want some hope. Here's the hope. 153 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: The program has not rotted. The entire organization has not rotted. 154 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: This isn't a car with water damage and dead transmission. 155 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: And at this point you're asking yourself, well, I mean, 156 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: why would I even pay to fix it. Let's just 157 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: go get a new one that's not LSU. LSU's got 158 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: four flat tires on it, so you can't drive it. 159 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: It looks terrible on the Interstate around the other cars. 160 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: But yet you can change tires. And once you change 161 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: the tires, here's the thing about the car. If you 162 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: put them on the right way, you tighten the lug nuts, 163 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: and you inflate it properly, it'll run exactly the way 164 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: it's supposed to immediately. That's what LSU football will be when, 165 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,559 Speaker 1: not if, but when they eventually make a new hire 166 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: down there. They've got everything else largely constructed the way 167 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: it needs to be constructed. They've got some good people 168 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: down there running that organization. And I want to tell 169 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: you something else. I think they've got a good locker 170 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: room I don't think they've got a good locker room 171 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: culture at all. I think they've got a great combination 172 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: of administration and players down there. Think about that. Normally, 173 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,679 Speaker 1: when you have incompetent leadership, then the attitude therefore reflects 174 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: the leadership, and then everyone else kind of follows the 175 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: leader and you have a terrible culture top to bottom. 176 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: That's not the case. There is a detachment between the 177 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: head coach and the organization there almost to the point 178 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: that there is no following. And so if you look 179 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: at the LSU roster, if you look at the LSU players, 180 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: if you look at a lot of the administration, there 181 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: is no other bad headline that comes out of there. 182 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: Where are the massive amounts of disciplinary issues, Where are 183 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: the massive amounts of off field arrests and whatnot that 184 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: you would typically see with a program that's spun out 185 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: of control, you don't have it with LSU. In fact, 186 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: i've taught myself into probably doing a segment on this tonight. 187 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: You don't have that with LSU. So my point is 188 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: it's sort of turnkey. This is going to be an 189 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: extremely coveted job because anyone who understands the whole picture 190 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: will look at it and say, wait a second. We 191 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: expected to walk in here and look at a situation 192 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: that screamed, all right, we got to torch this field 193 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: and start all over. Well, that's not what I see. 194 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: I see a lot of good people here. I see 195 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: an administration that's ready to get to work. But I 196 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: also I see all the pieces I would think I 197 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: need to build and put in place, they're kind of 198 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: already here. When the new coaching staff comes in, I'm 199 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: telling you, there's not going to be like a top 200 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: to bottom flush button or dump button hit on that program. 201 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: The administration and the program's going to hit the dump 202 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: button and the flush button, and there's going to be 203 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: one entity largely that's taken out of there. And I 204 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: think the rest will thrive. I fully believe that. I 205 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: fully believe LSU will be ready to win immediately when 206 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: whoever comes in ends up coming in. But I wanted 207 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: to clarify that because, yeah, if I'm talking about it, 208 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: I feel strongly about it, and I feel strongly about 209 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: it because I'm watching a program that should not be 210 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: in the situation and state they're in. Be in the 211 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: situation and state they're in because of ineffective leadership ed 212 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: ozeron in twenty nineteen, I thought was the best story 213 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: in several years in college football. I talked about it 214 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: at length. I was independent at the time. I talked 215 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: about it at length. I've had some people, I don't 216 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: know what your motivation would be for doing this, but 217 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: I've had some people come maybe at me at the 218 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: very least to me recently and say, oh, you were 219 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: all about seeing ed Orsarn's praises in twenty nineteen. Where 220 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: are you at now? I'm watching the games. That's where 221 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: I'm at. Where else would you be? What was I 222 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: supposed to criticize him in twenty nineteen? That was a 223 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: great story. In twenty nineteen, they pressed all the right buttons. 224 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: They brought in all the right transfers, they brought in, 225 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: all the right assistant coaches. You deserve credit. Are we 226 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: living in a world where you get credit your entire 227 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: life or blame your entire life? Is what world we're 228 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: living in? I have no clue where that world is. 229 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: If kid brings home always on a report card, you 230 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: praise him. Then if the kid goes and breaks into 231 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: the bus barn and steals a school bus the next week, 232 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: and then once he gets out of juvie he starts 233 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: knocking off can venience stores, what do you keep praising 234 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: him just because he got all a's a month or 235 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: two ago. That's a distant memory. Twenty nineteen. I don't 236 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: know how to say this without saying as special as 237 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: it was, that's not at the forefront of anyone's mind anymore, 238 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: nor should it be. This is a bottom line business. 239 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: This is a results oriented business. At the end of 240 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: the day. You don't get to rest on laurels. If 241 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: you want to rest on laurels, forfeit your paycheck. If 242 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: you want to rest on laurels, step aside and be 243 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: a figurehead and just be someone they parade around Tiger Stadium. 244 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: But let someone else be the head coach let someone 245 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: else run the program. Well, obviously that's not the dynamic. 246 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: Edwars runs the head coach there, and since he's the 247 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: head coach, it's a continuum. This sport does not sit still. 248 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: Time does not sit still, and so you don't get 249 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: to rest on that. So I think changes are coming. 250 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: I don't need to beat the dead horse anymore, but 251 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: I think changes are coming. The LSU folks deserve it, 252 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: and I think they will knock the hire out of 253 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: the park. I think they will have their choice of 254 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: almost anyone they want, including some candidates that maybe you 255 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: would be shocked to know are available. I'm not talking 256 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: about Nick Saban, so save that. But otherwise there're gonna 257 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: be some very big candidates that you think are secured 258 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: jobs that are gonna look at the LSU job and 259 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: if they have a shot to take it, they're gonna 260 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: take it. That is a once in a generation type opportunity. 261 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: LSU is viewed in the coaching community as a top 262 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: five job, minimum perhaps even top three, and so that's 263 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: what we're going to be looking at. It's a terrible time, 264 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: in this very moment to have to be an LSU 265 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: fan watching it, but in the midterm, not even the 266 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: long term. In the midterm, it's about to be a 267 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: very good time again to be an LSU fan. Next 268 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 1: up is John. John said, Hey, have you ever been 269 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,719 Speaker 1: to a Tennessee game? I feel like a year or 270 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: so ago you mentioned that you had not been. If 271 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: you haven't been, what is your preconceived perception of the 272 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: environment there. Ps I'm currently listening to the episode where 273 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: you broke down the games you've been to this year. John, 274 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 1: I have been there. I've covered a Tennessee game. Actually, 275 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: here's the problem. They lost forty two to nothing to 276 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: Georgia the day I was there. Now I've seen Tennessee 277 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: on the road. It feels like ten times. But for 278 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: whatever reason, well I can tell you the reason. But 279 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I have only been to that one 280 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: game at Nieland in a professional capacity, and I will 281 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: say this. I remember the environment was pretty incredible. I 282 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,559 Speaker 1: didn't like the speakers and the sound on the field. 283 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: Didn't like that. I also didn't like the trash cans 284 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: on the sideline. So that's a bygone era. I think 285 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: we all understand that I did like the environment. It 286 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: was so obvious, how hungry and passionate the fan base was. 287 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: But I told you I know the reason, Well, the 288 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: reason I haven't been up there for big games is 289 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: just because of that, there have not been big games there. 290 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: I go to the biggest game in the country, or 291 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: at least one of the top two or three biggest 292 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 1: games in the country, depending on your perspective, every weekend. 293 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: That is a blessing, but it's also been a curse 294 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: for Tennessee because I don't get to go there, because 295 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: I cannot rightly look at any schedule the past several 296 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: years and say, yep, biggest game of the weekend happening 297 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: at Nieland Stadium. Boy, I want that to be different. 298 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: I mean, believe me, believe you me. I want that 299 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: to be so much different. I think I may have 300 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: told this story before. It's a very short story, all 301 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: that special, but I'll tell it anyway. The first day 302 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: I was ever, at twenty four to seven, I walked 303 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: into our office. This was even pre COVID, even though 304 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: it's not that long ago. Boy, it's funny how time works, 305 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: because this feels like it wasn't that long ago. Yet 306 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: I feel like COVID is entering its fifteenth or twentieth 307 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: year of existence. So anyway, I walk in there first day, 308 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: I get onboarded, get the HR stuff out of the way. 309 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: Good touch, bad touch. You can't make jokes, period because 310 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: everything is offensive now. So we get all that out 311 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: of the way. And then I am talking to one 312 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: of our folks there, and he was just kind of asking, hey, 313 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: what is your perception of this space? What is your 314 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: perception of college football? Because a lot of them had 315 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: never met me face to face, and so we were 316 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: talking about different programs, and this is on the heels 317 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: of the aforementioned LSU twenty nineteen run, and so he 318 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: was saying, look at our traffic patterns, Like what fan 319 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: base out there do you think is ready to just explode? 320 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: I said, Tennessee. I didn't even let him finish the sentence. Said, 321 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: if you had a twenty nineteen LSU thing happened with Tennessee, 322 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: you cannot even imagine what that fan base would be, 323 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: and you cannot even imagine the traffic and how much 324 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: Tennessee football will explode. I've got a feeling like I've 325 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: got a perception internally of Tennessee athletics, but specifically Tennessee 326 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: football that's just a little bit different than the outside 327 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: world does. The outside world, in some more radical cases, 328 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: looks at Tennessee football and they see it as part 329 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: of an era in the past that used to be 330 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: able to be competitive but can't be at all. I 331 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: don't even remotely believe that. Like, I've dismissed that totally. 332 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: Please remember, there was a time people were saying that 333 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: about Alabama too. There was a time where folks believe, yeah, 334 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: back in the days of Bear Bryant, with the occasional 335 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: gene Stallings coming along, yeah, you could do those sorts 336 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: of things. But the game has shifted, and now the 337 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: resources are more allocated nationally, and you know, now we 338 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: got USC on top of the sport, and you got 339 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: Ohio's stay and you got Miami. Alabama's days of being 340 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: able to actually compete at the highest levels have come 341 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: to an end. If you're fifteen years old, this sounds 342 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: like I'm speaking Portuguese, kiddo. It happened. It happened not 343 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: that long ago. I'm talking about this millennium, post two thousand, 344 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: post y two k people actually believe that about Alabama. 345 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: What did they do? They did one thing, but in 346 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: the one thing. They did everything. They got the ride higher, 347 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: they got Nick Saban. So now the reaction is probably Okay, 348 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: well there isn't another Nick Saban out there. Well you're 349 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: probably right about that, But I got news for you. 350 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: Nick Saban's not the only guy over the past fifteen 351 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: years to win a national championship. That's the first thing. 352 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: The second thing is Nick Saban's not going to be 353 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: around forever. So you're approaching, hopefully not rapidly because I 354 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: love Nick Saban, but you're approaching a period in college 355 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: football that will be the ps era, the post Saban era, 356 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: and so at that point, you don't have to be 357 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: Nick Saban to be at the top of the sport 358 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: because Nick Saban won't be there anymore. So I mean, 359 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: this is not a Josh Hipel hate fest. Maybe he 360 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: is the guy. I'm saying, whoever the head coach at 361 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: Tennessee is hopefully he's the right guy, because if he is, 362 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: then we get back to the question here. That will mean, Yeah, 363 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: Neiland Stadium is going to be a destination two or 364 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: three times a season. Perhaps I want that to be 365 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: the case. I want it to be the case because 366 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: I love the brand, like I love the energy, I 367 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: love the culture of the Tennessee program. But unlike LSU, 368 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: for this generation, this generation anywhere, if you're like eighteen 369 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: to twenty five years old, you have not experienced Tennessee football. 370 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: You really haven't. You know that Tennessee football exists, but 371 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: you have not experienced it. To you, it's no different 372 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: than Virginia football. To you, it's Texas Tech football. Like 373 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: you just think of Tennessee and it's just another program 374 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 1: out there. No, Tennessee is so much more than that. Well, 375 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: let me rephrase, it has the potential to be so 376 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: much more than that. I don't blame you for thinking 377 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: that way. You can only go on what you've seen, 378 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: but it can be so much more. Next up, Stacey said, 379 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: are you a hot weather guy or a cold weather guy? Well, 380 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: Stacey is a It's I clear my throat because I'm 381 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: irresponsibly recording in the morning on caffeine. Here, all right, 382 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: we should be good to answer this question. Stacy, this 383 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: has changed. The reason I laughed when you asked is 384 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: because my opinion has changed on this in probably the 385 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: past five or so years, I would say. And also 386 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: I was talking to a buddy about this actual thing, 387 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: probably within the last forty eight hours. I would say, yeah, 388 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. I grew up in west 389 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,919 Speaker 1: central Georgia. You cannot really understand unless you're from that 390 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: part of the country how rare it is to see snow, 391 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: and how jacked kids get to see snow or just 392 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: hear the word snow said on an eight day forecast. 393 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: It's a really big deal. I cannot emphasize that enough. 394 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 1: If you live in Moline, Illinois, this makes no sense 395 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: to you. In Harris County, Georgia, and forts in Georgia 396 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: it does make sense. And so we would get freaked 397 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: out of our minds the once every several years maybe 398 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: that we were gonna stand a chance of getting a 399 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: significant snow event. By significant, I mean anything measurable. So 400 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,959 Speaker 1: I grew up longing for cold weather. I was fascinated 401 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: by the Weather Channel because I could watch the Weather 402 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: Channel and I could look at places where snow was 403 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: the norm. This is also how I knew all of 404 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 1: my state capitals in kindergarten. True story Sherwood Elementary School, 405 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: Phoenix City, Alabama. Yes, I went to school out of district, 406 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: even out of state, for logistical reasons. Translation, I had 407 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: to stay at my grandma's house until my parents got 408 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: off work every day, so it was more convenient there. 409 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: Please don't tell anyone. I don't want to have I 410 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: don't want to have my elementary school diploma snatched from 411 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: me this late in the game. But anyway, I got 412 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: the principal called down to our kindergarten classroom because he 413 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: was basically calling BS. Is what he was doing, if 414 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 1: we're being real. He was calling BS on the fact 415 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: that a kindergarten kid knew all fifty states and capitals. 416 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: But I rattled them off. Boom boom boom, boom boom. 417 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: I didn't even get any money from that guy. He 418 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: just said wow. I think he got a little threatened, 419 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: and then he walked out because he didn't know what Montpellier, 420 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: Vermont was. Well, I did, your boy? Did? I knew 421 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: all about per South Dakota and Frankfort, Kentucky, But he didn't. 422 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 1: And so anyway, I loved Okay. So then I don't 423 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: know what happened Stacy. But about five years ago I 424 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: decided I hate cold weather. Now I hate it. I 425 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 1: am basically a snowbird. I have turned into the sixty 426 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: five year old couple who say, forget this, We've lived 427 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: in Johnstown, Pennsylvania long enough, We're going to live in Sarasota, 428 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: Florida for the winter. Well, I don't have the financial 429 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: means to do that quite yet. I hope to have 430 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: it one day, because you better believe I will not 431 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: leave the state of Florida. I may even go to 432 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. I don't want it to be below eighty 433 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: ever again in my life if I can help it. 434 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: And so I don't know what caused that. I really don't, Stacy. 435 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: It's been a radical change. There was no in between 436 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: period either. There was never a period of eh, I'm 437 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: good either way. It was either ice box or it 438 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: was microwave. But hmm, well, now that I think about it, 439 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: I also eat oatmeal for breakfast every morning. So the 440 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: more I speak my truth out loud, I'm getting a 441 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: little uncomfortable with things. Oatmeal in the morning, can't stank 442 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: cold weather, don't want it below My teeth just fell out. Yeah, 443 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: that's not a good thing at all. Okay, let's toss 444 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: to an ad break. I've got a mentally regroup and 445 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: we're back and I needed that. Thank you. At my 446 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: most vulnerable. You were willing to sit through an ad break, 447 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: So now I'm ready to push on through the rest 448 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: of this podcast. Au Warden hit me the other day 449 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Actually I never got to this. He said, 450 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: despite the record, can how well Scott Frost has Nebraska 451 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: playing be good enough to give him another year? Yes, 452 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,239 Speaker 1: it absolutely can. I don't think Scott Frost is going 453 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: to be fired. I've never thought that. I know some 454 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: people have. I never thought that. But you say, despite 455 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: the record, I don't know if people realize the situation 456 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 1: Nebraska's in. They're three and two right now, and they 457 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 1: have a situation coming up this weekend where it's probably 458 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 1: the sneakiest big time game on the slate. It's being 459 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: overlooked because we've got a lot of huge matchups out there. 460 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: But you know, Michigan is at Nebraska Saturday, and I 461 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: know I talked about this a lot the other night. 462 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 1: I'm not going to rehash all of it, but Michigan's 463 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: a three point FAI or thereabouts. The line may have 464 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: moved overnight, so Michigan is not a huge favorite there, 465 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: even though they're undefeated. But look in our JP pole, 466 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: in our power rankings. We actually think Nebraska is a 467 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: top twenty five team in power ratings. I don't even 468 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: know if the AP has them ranked. I have not checked. 469 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: I don't really care, and I'm serious about that, but yeah, 470 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: I think Nebraska is doing fine. It may just be 471 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: that it took them a little while longer to click. 472 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: Here's something that you probably have not thought about lately. 473 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 1: That is a reality. COVID is a reality. And you think, 474 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: what do you mean by that, Well, it's a very 475 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: broad phrase. Let me nail it down for you. Last year, 476 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: everyone knew that COVID and the COVID protocols they were 477 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: at the forefront of impacting the sport. Some teams were 478 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: being able to practice, some teams had full stadiums and 479 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: partially full stadiums, and some teams didn't, and some players 480 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: opted out blah blah blah. So everyone remembers that, but 481 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 1: then we forgot about it because now we have what 482 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: looks like a normal season. If you just showed up 483 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: today on Earth, you would look at this season and 484 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 1: you would say, Yep, that looks normal. It looks exactly 485 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: like the tape I'm watching from twenty fourteen or two 486 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: thousand and eight. But it's not all normal behind the scenes. 487 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: It's not because what happened last year, especially if you 488 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: reside in a conference light the Big ten, and doubly 489 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: especially if you were trying to build a program in 490 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: a conference light the Big ten, you got put behind 491 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: the eight ball through no fault of your own, by 492 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: your own conferences in aptitude. At the very very top, 493 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: you got put behind the eight ball. Well when you 494 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: had time taken away from you, you had development taken 495 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: away from you. Now you think that just impacts last year, 496 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: but it doesn't. It impacts this year too. Several coaches 497 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: are talking about this behind the scenes, and not even 498 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 1: just about their teams. They can see it on film 499 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: for other teams where younger players or maybe less experienced 500 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: players did not develop to the degree they would have 501 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: had they had a full twenty twenty and it has 502 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: an impact, a residual effect, if you will, on twenty 503 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: twenty one. And so what you're looking at right now, 504 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 1: what you should look for at this point moving forward, 505 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: is which teams started off twenty twenty one very poorly 506 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: and under an achieved and had some youth and inexperience 507 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: on the rosters that maybe suffered from a lack of 508 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,719 Speaker 1: full developmental impact last year, and which of those teams 509 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: is starting to hit a stride in the middle of 510 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I'm not telling you just definitively Nebraska 511 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: is that. I'm telling you that's what could be happening there. 512 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: And so if that is happening, then that means Scott 513 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: Frost was never really the problem. It could be that 514 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: an external factor was the problem. Or maybe Scott Frost 515 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: hasn't been the perfect coach so far, but he's been 516 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: far from a disaster the likes of which he's been 517 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: painted as in some corners of the college football ecosystem. 518 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: So yes, I think Nebraska's fine. I don't think it's 519 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: a disaster if they lose this weekend. But if they 520 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: do win this weekend, Nebraska and Scott Frost are going 521 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: to go from toss them on the scrap heap to hey, 522 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: bring them back over here. Let's polish them up, Let's 523 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,719 Speaker 1: dust them off a little bit. Let's see if this 524 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: will fit on our college football mantle. Maybe a Nebraska 525 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: piece does look good in here, after all. Let me 526 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: hit Dylan next. Dylan asked a question I've seen a 527 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: few of you ask this week, he said, assuming both 528 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: teams run the table, which one finishes ranked higher, Cincinnati 529 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: or Brigham Young. The answer here, if you go by 530 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: what you would assume would be the pure strength of 531 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: schedule rating, the answer will probably be Brigham Young. That 532 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: is not my answer. My answer is unequivocally Cincinnati, because 533 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: that playoff committee, even though they're not supposed to, I'm 534 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: telling you right now, will be rewarding Cincinnati for more 535 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: than just twenty twenty one. Now, having said that, let 536 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: me tell you it's not going to be an issue. 537 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: Brigham Young's not going to go undefeated. My guess is 538 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: they're going to have two losses minimum. But if they 539 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: were to prove me wrong has happened before, then you 540 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: look at their schedule. They will have had wins over Utah, 541 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: Arizona State, they play Boise Saturday, they go to Baylor, 542 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: they go to Washington State, they play Virginia at home, 543 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: they go to Southern cal to end the year. It's 544 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a legitimate schedule. Like we're talking about 545 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 1: giving Cincinnati credit for playing two Power five teams on 546 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: the road, Indiana and Notre Dame. Well, Brigham Young will 547 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: have pulled that off too. And also Brigham Young essentially 548 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: has a Notre Dame schedule their independence, so they play 549 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: all over the place. I mean, this is a Notre 550 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: Dame schedule, and so if Notre Dame were to go 551 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: undefeed it, there's no question where they would be. If 552 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: Brigham Young went undefeated, there would be no question. To me, 553 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: there would be no question that they should be in. 554 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: Even though people think I hate Brigham Young, I don't 555 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: hate trying to pronounce the why. It's been well established here, 556 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 1: but I don't hate Brigham Young. B YU. I don't 557 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: hate Brigham Young, but I don't think they're going to 558 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: go unefeed it either. I question whether Cincinnati's going to 559 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: but I think that if they do that, A, they 560 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: have a more likely chance of doing it, and B 561 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: I think that they would be in c Yes, we're 562 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: going that deep in the alphabet. Been doing some homework 563 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: and I'm told D, E and F or after that. 564 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: But we're just going to see. See there's a game 565 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: at the end of the season. It's in November, like 566 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: mid November, I think, and it is Cincinnati welcoming in 567 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: Southern Methodist. Southern Methodist is undefeated too. You know, SMU 568 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: is still undefeated. We've got a couple of five and 569 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,959 Speaker 1: o's in the AAC. Just keep an eye on that. 570 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: Every year, especially in November, there come one or two 571 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: games where all of a sudden, a bright spotlights on 572 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 1: them and you say to yourself, wait a second, I'm 573 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: going back to my preview magazine where I circled all 574 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: the big games in July. I didn't circle this game. 575 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: I didn't know this was going to be a big game. 576 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: But then you look at that same list on that 577 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: same date, for that day in mid November, and you 578 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: have circled several games that don't matter. You got a 579 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: five lost team and a game circled. It's because it's unpredictable. 580 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: That's why they play the games. So yes, I think 581 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: Cincinnati would make it in over Brigham Young. I don't 582 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: know that they should, but I think they would. But 583 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: I don't think it will be anything more than a 584 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: moot point, because I do think Brigham Young is gonna 585 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: lose a couple of games. But let's not gloss this 586 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: over because I just spoke matter of factly, let's not 587 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 1: loss over a ton of credit that should be delivered 588 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: to bring him young Ton of credit. They just lost 589 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: a first round draft pick at quarterback, and they're rolling 590 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: merrily along in the fashion that like Alabama would do. Now, 591 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: they're not winning with the margins that Alabama would, but 592 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: they don't have the talent to the degree that Alabama 593 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,239 Speaker 1: does either. And they already here. Here's what they've done 594 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: so far. They beat Arizona twenty four to sixteen. They 595 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: beat Utah twenty six to seventeen. Then they beat Arizona 596 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: State twenty seven to seventeen. They took care of USF. 597 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: They took care at Utah State. And the funny thing 598 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: is all these scores look identical. 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