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Speaker 1: So I need to pick up the pace here Bernard

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Speaker 1: that'll always be the case. How do we not know

431
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Speaker 1: Miami isn't in the Big ten five years from now?

432
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: How do we not know Florida State hasn't moved conference.

433
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 1: It's like, we don't know any of that. So I

434
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: do know Miami is going to be all in, and

435
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: I do think it just bears repeating that when we

436
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: go back a few years ago, when Mario first got there,

437
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 1: he didn't come there from being an assistant somewhere. He

438
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: had Oregon humming and could have stayed there indefinitely, and

439
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: I got no doubt their results would have looked just

440
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: like Dan Lannings accomplishing right now, who knows, maybe better

441
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: at least they were going to be a powerhouse there.

442
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: And he came back home to Miami and it did

443
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: not click immediately. On the field. They lost to Middle

444
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: Tennessee State. Year one, they lost to Duke. But they

445
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: have improved every year. It went from Jesse check me

446
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: on this, five wins to seven wins, to ten wins,

447
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: to then ten wins again. But now they went all

448
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: the way to the National Championship Game. So I'm just

449
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: giving you regular season win totals there that won't stop.

450
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 1: Like it may not be a linear progression every single year.

451
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: I mean, eventually you can only win so many games.

452
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: But I think they're going to be in the picture

453
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: every year, and you can tell how hungry they are.

454
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 1: I mean this dairy and mensa situation. I was wondering

455
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 1: the other day, where's Miami going to go at quarterback?

456
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: They had an answer. Now, it may not be one

457
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: that the rest of the country likes. And I've got

458
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: my own issues with the way talent acquisition works right now,

459
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: but they don't write the rules down there. They're just

460
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Speaker 1: kind of operating under the current climate. So I don't

461
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Speaker 1: really fault them. As for the rest of the state, Yeah,

462
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: I got questions about the future of Florida State. I've

463
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 1: got questions about the long term viability. And I think

464
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: that's probably reflected in the fan base down there, Like

465
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Speaker 1: I like Mike Norvell so like I hope a bunch

466
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: of people, including me, are wrong about this, But it

467
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: just feels for all the world like the only reason

468
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: they maintain status quote down there, was because they couldn't

469
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Speaker 1: afford not to, and that's always a sucky reason to

470
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 1: maintain status quot because that translates to, we really don't

471
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Speaker 1: expect anything to change, but it just costs a lot

472
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Speaker 1: of money for us to get out of our current situation.

473
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Speaker 1: That's kind of twenty twenty six for Florida State, at

474
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Speaker 1: least that's what's expected by people close to the program.

475
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: Who knows miracles, miracles happened in this sport. Case in point,

476
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: last night, miracles happened in this sport. Maybe maybe FSU's

477
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: next Florida tons of variables. There. You got John summral

478
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Speaker 1: in town. I think it's fair to and realistic to

479
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: at least give him some time. So like, even if

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Speaker 1: he was a slam dunk Grand Slam higher, he's going

481
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: to be the coach that's going to lead Florida back

482
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Speaker 1: to prominence. Is that gonna happen overnight? I wouldn't expect that.

483
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: Is that going to happen in two years? I don't know.

484
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: Kurt Signety's kind of changed the expectation scale for everyone,

485
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 1: fair or not. But I do know Miami's not going anywhere,

486
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: So they are where they are. If anything, they may

487
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Speaker 1: still have a few runs to climb up the ladder.

488
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Speaker 1: So in that sense, yeah, right now, sitting where we

489
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Speaker 1: sit right now, Bernard, I feel great about Miami. I

490
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: don't feel, you know, tons of optimism whatsoever about Florida

491
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: at the moment. Although I'm all in on John Summraw,

492
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: I don't feel optimism at all about Florida State. So yeah,

493
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: in that sense, I am picking up what you're putting down.

494
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: I just think things could change in a nanosecond. How

495
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Speaker 1: do we know what the rules are going to be

496
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Speaker 1: in the sport two years from now? How do we

497
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Speaker 1: know what the structure of the sport is going to

498
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: be two years from now? There are fundamental changes. They

499
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: could come from the NCAA. They could come from the

500
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Speaker 1: conference level, They could come from the playoff, they could

501
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: come from courts that would totally change the lens through

502
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: which we view college football. So all that to say,

503
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: to be continued, I do want to remind you, guys,

504
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: we got a ton to get to. I want to

505
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Speaker 1: remind you guys over in the PAYT State store right

506
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Speaker 1: now paintstatematerial dot com. So we saw some of these

507
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Speaker 1: shirts flying off the shelves the other day. But don't worry.

508
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: Unlike in years past, we have plenty of inventory the

509
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: university collection is there, and it will not shock anyone

510
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: to learn that the Maclauchlin School of Music shirt was

511
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: the bestseller so far out of the new Pate State

512
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: University collection, mainly because I tilted the scales in my

513
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: favor by overly promoting that shirt over the other shirts,

514
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: which I also love, and I would just encourage you

515
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Speaker 1: guys to check it out springs eventually. Here. I know

516
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: you guys are loading up on cold weather gear right now,

517
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: and we got that too, But eventually it's going to

518
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: be time for the t's, so you need to tee

519
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Speaker 1: up already, and I highly encourage everyone to be wearing

520
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Speaker 1: one of these by spring. Let's move on transfer portal

521
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: just right quick here, just right quick. The transfer portal's closed, yes,

522
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of names in the transfer portal,

523
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: and just because you had to be in it, or

524
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: did you the other day, doesn't mean you had to

525
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: be out of it by the other day. Jordan Seaton,

526
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: big time former five star offensive tackle. He's leaving Colorado.

527
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: I know that because the video Colorado's staff edited tells

528
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Speaker 1: me that he's leaving, although I don't know that they

529
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Speaker 1: knew that's what they were editing. He's been at LSU.

530
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: He's been visiting down there, six five three point thirty

531
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Speaker 1: dwarf Slaine Kiffin if you haven't seen the pictures, and

532
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: Lane's not a short dude, but Jordan Seaton's a different

533
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: kind of cat. He canceled his Oregon visit. So I mean,

534
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: if you go and you look at the on three

535
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: Transfer Portal rankings right now, he's the number nine overall

536
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: player in those rankings. But in the team rankings, LSU's

537
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: got it top six class. That just means they're number six.

538
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: They got several top one hundred players. I was talking

539
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: to a GM the other day and outside of his

540
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: own team, one of the schools he had the most

541
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: to say about was LSU. Said, Hey, man, like, good

542
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: for them, rooting against them, obviously selfishly, but kind of

543
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: did more than I thought they were going to do

544
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: given what they were up against. And I don't think

545
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: they're done, and I think they'll land Jordan's Seaton. In fact,

546
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: they could land him during the show. Has anything happened Jesse? No?

547
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: All right, so far? No, Darien Mensa. A lot of

548
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: drama going down with the duke quarterback who is trying

549
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: to head to Miami. This was the Miami plan. Remember

550
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: the show the other night. I think Thursday was the

551
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: last show we did, and I said, boy, good for Miami.

552
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: They're about to play for a national championship, but I

553
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: don't know what they're going to do at quarterback next year.

554
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: Well they did, or at least they figured it out

555
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: shortly thereafter. It was probably listening to the show that

556
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: triggered them into figuring it out. And their plan was

557
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: to go and basically buy out Darien Mensa from his

558
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: Duke contract. And then lawyers got involved and Duke and

559
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: this will shock you guys. Duke looked and said, wait

560
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: a second, we already signed him to a deal. We

561
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: don't like this, and so now they're trying to enforce

562
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Speaker 1: it and they suit him. And this is about where

563
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Speaker 1: my interest in this stuff ends, because it's a big

564
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: turn off from me. We got a question later in

565
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Speaker 1: the show about what I love and hate about college

566
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: football right now. I love a lot. I hate this stuff.

567
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: Hate it now. If I were at Miami, given the

568
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: current structure, I'll probably be trying to do the same thing.

569
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Speaker 1: But I'm not, so I hate it, but it is

570
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Speaker 1: what it is. Here's the summary. It'll be a mess,

571
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: and he'll probably end up at Miami. That's the summary.

572
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: And a lot of people will be paid a lot

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Speaker 1: of money in the process, because that's really what this

574
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: entire system is built for, to fatten the pockets of lawyers.

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Speaker 1: And on a related note, congrats it's working. I like

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Speaker 1: Texas A and M's class a fair amount. Yeah, number

577
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Speaker 1: three class and the on three portal rankings currently. Several

578
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: offensive line pieces. Got to get that straightened out in

579
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: the spring, several top one hundred players. They added Isaiah Horton,

580
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: a guy that Alabama went to virtually every time they

581
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: needed a big play this year. Now, remember you got

582
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Speaker 1: two new coordinators at Texas A and M, several new faces,

583
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Speaker 1: and they're not unique to having those issues. I won't

584
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Speaker 1: call them problems. They're just things. And that's why God

585
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: invented spring football. As Memo always said, top ten recruiting too.

586
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: So they're a top ten recruiter, they are a top

587
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Speaker 1: ten portal destination. You just keep getting further and further

588
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: into the Mike Elko tenure. And Elko's another one man.

589
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: I've had him circled since the day they hired him,

590
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: really high on him, and to this point, A and

591
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: M just made the playoff, but they were one and done.

592
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: So I still think there's a lot of hesitancy to

593
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: buy into A and M. That's okay, it is a

594
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: new at Clemson. Yes, number sixteen transfer portal class right now, what, Yes,

595
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: it's happening. It's all happening. They've added ten players, mostly

596
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: on defense, and this is still a baby step, but

597
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: it's a huge step for Clemson and Dabo Swenny. And now,

598
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, like for those of us who have been

599
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: hoping that they would lean just oh, I don't know,

600
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: ten or twenty degrees this way, fingers crossed that these

601
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: guys pan out because they could unlock a whole new

602
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: world for Dabo and for Clemson. And I almost like

603
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: picture him hesitantly being dragged into this world. It doesn't

604
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: matter if it works, it works, and he'll get the

605
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: credit for it. So let's just keep an eye. Tom

606
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: Allen year two is defensive coordinator there kind of getting

607
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: more of his hand picked guys in via the portal.

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Speaker 1: And now I wrap us up with looking at the

609
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Speaker 1: bottom ten not in order. This is yet another thing

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Speaker 1: I hate about college football right now. Iowa State lost

611
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Speaker 1: Matt Campbell and lost forty four players. Not all of

612
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: them went to Iowa to Penn State. Most of the

613
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Speaker 1: core of the team went to Penn State. So forty

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Speaker 1: four out or forty four in fifty four out, So

615
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Speaker 1: they lost fifty four players forty four in. But like

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Speaker 1: you understand, it's not a one for one exchange. You're

617
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Speaker 1: losing the nucleus of your team. Most of them are

618
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Speaker 1: going with Matt Campbell. I hate it. I love it

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Speaker 1: for Penn State, but I hate it in general. Utah

620
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: same thing. Lost a ton of guys because a ton

621
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Speaker 1: of guys are there to play for Kyle Whittingham and

622
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: he's gone, so they're gone. Michigan's sitting at sixty seventh

623
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Speaker 1: right now, in North Carolina sixty fifth. I think it's

624
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: yet another part of what I hate about college football

625
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Speaker 1: right now is the way that coaching searches happen. If

626
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Speaker 1: you look at where Penn State is, look at what

627
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: Indiana just did, and look at what Penn State's doing

628
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: right now. Whether it should be this way or not,

629
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: the current concept behind hiring a coach is closely correlated

630
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Speaker 1: with how much of his roster he can bring with him.

631
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Speaker 1: So you're not really evaluating head coaches anymore as much

632
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: as you're evaluating that coach and that coach's current roster,

633
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: because in the current setup of college football, you just

634
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: bring them all with him. Don't like it, wish it

635
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: wasn't that way, but it is that way. Let's move on.

636
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Speaker 1: Oh Stuffy knows Jesse. Let me take a simple water.

637
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,800
Speaker 1: Nothing cleans out the nose quite like a simple water

638
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: from a bottle whose label we will cover because they

639
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: have not paid for us to uncover their label. Two

640
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: things that shot me on this show. No official drink

641
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: sponsor anymore and no apparel sponsor. We're not going out

642
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Speaker 1: looking for him. But if they come to us, you

643
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: knock on the door. Open door, pol We'll see crazy anyway.

644
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: This may be one of the most important segments that

645
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: this show has ever produced, because, unlike most of the

646
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: time when we're just talking to hear ourselves talk, this

647
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: could be a moment that we actually fix something. Cameron

648
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: from Louisville, Kentucky hit me up. He said, if you

649
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: could make the college football calendar in any order, with

650
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: any timeframe you wanted, what would you do Cameron, I'm

651
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: so glad you asked that question. Now, there's a lot

652
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: of talk about playoff expansion right now, right all right,

653
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: So throw up the Brett McMurphy tweet. There's so much

654
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: wrong with January. There's so much wrong with the college

655
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: football playoff number one that it exists. But that's a

656
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: long gone conversation. So the college football playoffs here, it's

657
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: here to stay. Brett McMurphy, a friend of the program,

658
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: accurately reporting yesterday that the future college football playoff national

659
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: title games over the next four years are set to

660
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: be held January twenty five, fifth, January twenty fourth, January

661
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: twenty second, and January twenty first. So if you're out

662
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: there thinking to yourself, boy, this season dragged on. Boy,

663
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: the ending of the season was anti climactic. Why in

664
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: the world are we playing a national title game this

665
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: late in January? You're not alone. But what you need

666
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: to know is the next four years, it'll be later

667
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: than it was this year, which is insane, but it's

668
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: the way it is right now. So Cameron, you didn't

669
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: ask how it is right now, You asked how I

670
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: would like it to be. Now I'm gonna do something

671
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: because I just think this is kind of the direction

672
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: we're going, so I want to get out ahead of it.

673
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: I don't want the playoff to expand any further. I'm

674
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: totally happy with twelve. I wish we could just sit

675
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: still for a little while, you know, feel it out,

676
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: see how it works out. It seems like that's not

677
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. It seems like we're gonna expand. So

678
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do, for the sake of my calendar

679
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: here is I'm just gonna assume we go to sixteen

680
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: teams in the playoff. Okay, so not that I want it,

681
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: but I just expected Cameron. Do we agree? There? Are

682
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: we good?

683
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 2: There? Okay?

684
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: This is worth the paper, pop. I think we had

685
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: a breakthrough today. I think we figured out how to

686
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: fix the college football playoff, how to save bowl season,

687
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: how to move the National Championship game to January first,

688
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: how to get the portal and NIL wrapped up, how

689
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: to get the portal wrapped up, and how to get

690
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: National Signing Day wrapped up all by the start of

691
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: the spring semester. Do you want to hear it? Here's

692
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: how we need to accomplish it. Step one I would

693
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: like to move week one to what week zero currently is,

694
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: so instead of that last Labor Day weekend, sometimes it's

695
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: the last weekend in August, first weekend in September, instead

696
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: of Labor Day weekend being week one. We need to

697
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: move week one to when week zero is because I

698
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: need to buy myself some room on the back end.

699
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: So we need to move the season up one week.

700
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little hot. I understand that Saturday

701
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: prior to Labor Day weekend, that's the weekend that we're

702
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: going to start Seewaiian, just a second rivalry week because

703
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: of that would be the week before Thanksgiving instead of

704
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving week. So you're Ohio State, Michigan's, You're Iron Bowls.

705
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: We're getting all of those done, and your regular season

706
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: is done the week before Thanksgiving, which leads to a

707
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: revolutionary Thanksgiving weekend. Because on that Thanksgiving weekend, it's where

708
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: step two comes into play. We're gonna have conference championship games.

709
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: We're just gonna have them Thanksgiving weekend instead of the

710
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: week after Thanksgiving, So last weekend in November instead of

711
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: first weekend in December, we're having conference championship games. Your

712
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: SEC acc Big Ten, Big twelve, all the G fives.

713
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: But you know what the conference championship games look cap

714
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: or look like. We have a big problem in this

715
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: sport right now. Bowl season has been rendered largely irrelevant

716
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: compared to what it used to be, which is ridiculous.

717
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: So I'm taking the shot panels. I'm rubbing them together

718
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: whatever that gel is between, putting them on the chest

719
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: of bowl season. Clear boom bol seasons back. Here's what

720
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: I would like to do. I'd like to take six bowls.

721
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: Don't particularly care which ones they are. Let's just call

722
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: it the Citrus Bowl and the Pop Tart Bowl, Cheese

723
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: at Bull, et cetera. And I would like to take

724
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: six bowls either that Friday after Thanksgiving or that Saturday,

725
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: you guys can choose, because we got conference championship games

726
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: to play as well. And I would like to have

727
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: a thirteenth game, essentially for a bunch of teams. I

728
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: would like to do it basically where take all the

729
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: teams that are going to play in conference championship games,

730
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: take them off the board. They're already preoccupied. But this

731
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: is what it would have looked like this year. My

732
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: Pop Tart Bowl is Oregon versus Houston. My cheese at

733
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: Bowl is Ole Miss versus Michigan. I've got a and

734
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 1: m Arizona. I've got Oklahoma USC. I've got Texas versus Utah.

735
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: I've got Notre Dame versus Vanderbilt. These are bowl games.

736
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: They are also college football playoff data points. These games

737
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: count because the day after that, on Saturday, that is

738
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: Selection Sunday, nine am. That morning after conference championship and

739
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: bowl play in weekend, that is Selection Sunday. I think

740
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 1: it would be an amazing weekend. We have taken half

741
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: a dozen bowls, and we have maintained the image of

742
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: the bowl. We have totally re engineered the meaning of

743
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: that bowl. We have totally re engineered the motivation behind

744
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 1: the team's playing in the bowls. And we've made those

745
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: six bowl games sort of semi playing games, not in

746
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: the true sense of a playing game. But those games

747
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: count because the final playoff rankings are after those games happen.

748
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: So those are final data points. And we got four

749
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: big time POWERFL conference championship games. We got all the

750
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: G five conference title games. We got another six games

751
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: that have huge playoff implications. Right there, you could play

752
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: yourself into or out of the playoff in many cases

753
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: in the Pop Tart Bowl, like Hoops amongst us doesn't

754
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: want that. Step four selection Sunday, nine am. It's an

755
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: NFL Sunday. We're not scared of the NFL around here,

756
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,439
Speaker 1: but we're also not going to be stupid and run

757
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: opposed to them. So we're gonna reveal the College Football

758
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: Playoff rankings and seedings and the bracket nine am that Sunday,

759
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: and then Step five. Round one happens a week later.

760
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: Round one of the College Football Playoff on campus is

761
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: held the first Saturday in December. Round two of the

762
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff held on campus is held the second

763
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: Saturday in December. Round three finally going to kick it

764
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: to a neutral site only because I think I have to.

765
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to. That's the third Saturday in December,

766
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: and then we break for Christmas, and our National Championship

767
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: game is held New Year's Day and we crown a

768
00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: national champion and the season's over, and Step six is

769
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: immediately after that. I don't even care in which order

770
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: you do this. You have signing Day and you have

771
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: your transfer portal window, and wrap that thing up in

772
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and then spring semester is here

773
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: and everyone can go kick their feet up and take

774
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: a little vacation, maybe have a junior day, do whatever

775
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: you want to do. That is how I wish the

776
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: calendar looked, because what we did there is we made

777
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: everyone play the same amount of games to win it all.

778
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is not even immune from this. If Notre

779
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: Dame wants to win a title, Notre Dame is going

780
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: to have to play seventeen games. Everyone's playing seventeen to

781
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: win it all. You got two rounds of on campus

782
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: playoff games. The bowl games are enhanced in many different ways,

783
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: and you totally resurrect the spirit of bowl season because

784
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: you maximize the relevance of six of those bowls and

785
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: you totally reconfigure the importance of them. I think that

786
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: would be an amazing spectacle. The one thing I don't

787
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: know is how we take care of Army Navy. That's

788
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: something that we've got to figure out. The Other thing

789
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: I don't know is that Thanksgiving weekend, when we're having

790
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: conference championship games, we're also having those six big time

791
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: sort of quasi play in bowl games. Is which of

792
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: them do you have on Friday, and which of them

793
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: do you have on Saturday. We debated this today. Theoretically

794
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 1: you should be rewarded playing in those conference title games.

795
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: Do you want to have them Friday everyone's playing on

796
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: short rest, but then they get extended rest leading into

797
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: the playoff, whereas the other Bowl games happen on Saturday.

798
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: Or do we want to invert that? Still some things

799
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: to be worked out. I understand. Also, if we play

800
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: these games on subsequent Saturdays in December, you're gonna have

801
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: to figure it out with the NFL. You're just gonna

802
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: have to. Someone's got to walk in the room that

803
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 1: has the stones and the relationships and the know how

804
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: to understand, Hey, here's a bold strategy. If you have

805
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: to pay the NFL to have the spot, sometimes that's

806
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. But I love this. I

807
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: think this could work, which is of course why I

808
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: highly doubt that it gets any real traction. But we're

809
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: trying around here, We're at the very least trying. Let's

810
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: move on. I got a lot to say about this,

811
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: as you can tell by the piece of paper in

812
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: my hand that has so many notes on it. William

813
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 1: from Charleston, West Virginia clear the throat for this one.

814
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: Everyone is saying the Big Ten is now the king

815
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: after it's one, it's third straight title. But I want

816
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: Josh Pate to look into his crystal ball and tell

817
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: me if the same will be true five years from now,

818
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: or if the SEC can take back the throne. I

819
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: would ask you this, William. I would ask you if

820
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: ole Miss would have hung on to beat Miami and

821
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: ole Miss won the national title last night, would you

822
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: feel any different about the overall state of these two conferences?

823
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: Because I would. I would still feel like the Big

824
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: Ten superior right now. I say that to say I

825
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: don't put as much stock in like these these one

826
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: off situations. I think it's a big cumulative situation that

827
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: exists right now. We talked about it on the show

828
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: a lot. So as I sit here right now, five

829
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: years from now, my blind guess is the Big Ten

830
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: is still superior, only because I don't know what would

831
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: fundamentally change, Like the the talent flow is not going

832
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: to stop becoming dispersed further around the country. The Big

833
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: Ten is not going to have less room in their

834
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: pocket book with which to operate. So I don't I

835
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: don't know, like short of the SEC finding a new angle,

836
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: you know their old angle used to be, We'll just

837
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: get all the best players. What is the new angle?

838
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: If they find one, then absolutely they can reclaim their

839
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: death grip on the sport. I just don't know that

840
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: that's realistic. Now. What I do think is more realistic

841
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 1: is just probably not the gap between the Big ten

842
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: and the SEC cumulatively that it's made out to be.

843
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: It's just I know what that headline says. That headline

844
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: says three different national champs last three years. I get

845
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: all that I'm saying. That probably means there's separation, just

846
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 1: not a ton of separation, which means like randomly the

847
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: SEC could have three of the final four teams in

848
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: the country next year. Well, what does that mean the

849
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: whole world changed? Or does it mean a different year

850
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: produced a different result. You know that's boring because then

851
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: you start talking about percentages and statistics and likelihood and

852
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: all that. Who wants to get bogged down in math? No, No,

853
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: we want headlines, we want narratives, We need clicks. But

854
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: this morning I was asked this on Get Up and

855
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: I went pretty in depth on it, and some guy

856
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: hit me on Twitter and said, oh, look at this man.

857
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: He refuses to say the Big Ten is the best

858
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: conference college football right now, to which I replied, the

859
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,439
Speaker 1: Big Ten's the best conference of college football right now.

860
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: It's not like it's difficult to say when I throw

861
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of word salad out there. Number one, salad

862
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: is not the worst thing to be eaten in January.

863
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: And secondly, it's usually because I think there's a lot

864
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: more nuance to the equation than let's go look at

865
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: bull records and listen who won the national title this year. Humbly,

866
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: that's the way I look at it. So I think

867
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: the Big Ten has a coaching slash staffing edge cumulatively

868
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: on the SEC right now. I think the SEC probably

869
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: still has a talent edge or an athletic edge top

870
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: to bottom, but it's far less than it used to be.

871
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: I also think, in the aggregate of the whole thing,

872
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: the talent edge is being rendered irrelevant because they used

873
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: to have such a bigger talent edge that they got

874
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: lazy and several other practices that the Big Ten was

875
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: never lazy in, and so that gap is more than

876
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: made up for because of that. But again it's so overarching,

877
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: it's so fifty thousand foot. Does the fact that Illinois

878
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: is better than South Carolina right now impact what Texas

879
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: could be capable of doing in the playoff next year? No,

880
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: just like how good Georgia was in years past didn't

881
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: adversely impact what Ohio State could do unless they literally

882
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: met in a game, which they did. So I don't know.

883
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: I do think that that's not going anywhere for obvious reasons.

884
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: I do also think the fundamental construct of these conferences

885
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: could change. I have no reason to believe that we're

886
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: done with conference expansion. So we just saw this, like

887
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: we just saw Oregon and USC added to the Big Ten.

888
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: We just saw OU in Texas in the last few

889
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: years added to the SEC. Who knows if that's done

890
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: or not. I don't know. I do think that it

891
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: very much reminds me of the old school WCWWWF made

892
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: this comparison the other day. College football is added era,

893
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: if you will. And what you don't know is if

894
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: there's just continuous, you know, jockeying back and forth, or

895
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 1: if one of them has just permanently claimed the throne

896
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: and the other is going to be, you know, left

897
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: to run half empty arenas. I don't know. I don't

898
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: expect half empty buildings in the SEC anytime soon. But

899
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: you get my point there. Academy Sports and Outdoors littered

900
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: all throughout the conference footprint of both the Big Ten

901
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: and the SEC. And they've got what you need for

902
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: winter sports. They've got what you need for spring sports.

903
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 1: They've got what you need if you just randomly want

904
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: to have a barbecue this Saturday. They've got what you

905
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: need if you want some big league chew in your

906
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: back pocket you feel like going fishing, going kayaking, going biking.

907
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, They've got you hooked up. Academy Sports

908
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: and Outdoors has been a partner of ours for a

909
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: long time. Academy dot com fully functional if you can't

910
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: get there in person, And we appreciate them. They've been

911
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: a really, really fun partartner to be in business with

912
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: for quite a while. Appreciate you guys watching live. Hey,

913
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: show's not going anywhere. We do the show year round.

914
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: I just kind of have to remind you every now

915
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: and then. Some people think when the season's over, there's

916
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: something called the what is it? Jesse off season? Yeah,

917
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: I've never heard of her, don't know her around here.

918
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: So we just keep on going because college football keeps

919
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 1: on going. We had a really interesting question earlier today.

920
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: Paul from Guthrie, Oklahoma, said, I know you've been a

921
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: bit more negative lately about the sport. I know that's

922
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 1: just the circumstances. But what do you love about the sport?

923
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: And what do you hate and what do you wish

924
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: could change? Paul, have I been negative? Sometimes it gets

925
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: that way, I don't realize it. Well, if I've been negative,

926
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: let me answer your question by telling you what I love. First.

927
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: I love Saturdays in the fall more so than anything

928
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: in sports. I love Saturdays in the fall and everything

929
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: that entails. Saturdays in the fall are the pinnacle of

930
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: college football. Not the playoff, not the national championship, Saturdays

931
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: in the fall. There have probably been many of you

932
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: who have been feeling a certain type of way watching

933
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,919
Speaker 1: the playoffs and you can't even explain it. Well, I'll

934
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: explain it. If you're feeling what I think you're feeling.

935
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: You're watching the college football playoffs and you're excited for it,

936
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: and you know there are big ramifications and big implications

937
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: on the line. There's a championship on the line, and

938
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: you're watching the games and it's very entertaining, but you're

939
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: left feeling like you kind of are only seventy five

940
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: percent fulfilled or eighty percent fulfilled. And it doesn't make

941
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: any sense because when you watch NFL playoff games, it

942
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: is the absolute height and pinnacle of the sport in

943
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: any given year, and then the wildcard round is superseded

944
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: by the Divisional round and then conference Championship round, and

945
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: then you got the super Bowl and that's where it culminates,

946
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: and that's the top of the mountain. Everyone gets that,

947
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: and you're wondering, why don't I feel that way with

948
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: college football? I still like it. Indiana and Miami was

949
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: a great game last night. I still like it. But

950
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, just there's a little hollow news to it.

951
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: The reason you're feeling that way is because college football

952
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: is different from any other sport, including the NFL, and

953
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,280
Speaker 1: that's because the regular season is the pinnacle of college football.

954
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: A lot of people try and fight this. I don't

955
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 1: know why. Why would you shy away from four months

956
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: being the pinnacle instead of a few weeks being the pinnacle.

957
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: It's great if you sort of train yourself on how

958
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: to look at this. College football has something that no

959
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: other American sport or sport on this planet has. And

960
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: that is State College Pennsylvania. And that's Eugene, Oregon. And

961
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: that's Champagne, Illinois, and that's Gainesville, Florida. On a Saturday

962
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: in the fall. That is theater come to life. It's unbelievable.

963
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: If you've never experienced it. I can't explain it in words.

964
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: You have to experience it. Your eyes, your smell, all

965
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 1: the senses, all the senses are involved on a Saturday

966
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: in the fall. Unbelievable. Rivalries. I love rivalries. Rivalries are

967
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of this sport to me, as well, Saturdays

968
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: in the fall, rivalries during the season. I'm very, very,

969
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 1: very old school in how I think about this stuff.

970
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: Like I value the outcomes of rivalry games more than

971
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: I do what you do in the playoff. Now, I'm

972
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: in the minority on that, and I will grant you that.

973
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: But I'm just sharing to you my college football worldview.

974
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: Like to me, last year's Ohio State National championship. I

975
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: look at and I always remember that you lost the

976
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: Michigan game. You got the trophy, you got the banner,

977
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: you deserve it because that's the construct of the sport.

978
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: But to me, like if I'm Ohio State, I am

979
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: not fulfilled fully there because I don't have the Michigan

980
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: win to go along with it. Conversely, this year I

981
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: won the Michigan game. The fact that I didn't go

982
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: on to beat Miami does not under that any less

983
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: significant to me. So rivalries are their own season in

984
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: college football to me. Some of the stuff I hate.

985
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: I hate the way the transfer portal works. I don't

986
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: like talking about it on the show. You've probably picked

987
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: up on that. I do talk about it because there

988
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: is massive interest in it. So I mean, it would

989
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: be like a dereliction of duty from me not to

990
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: cover it, because all I try to do is build

991
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: a show around what you guys tell me you care about.

992
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,959
Speaker 1: But the portal, if I never had to talk about

993
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: it again, I'd be totally fine with it. It's not

994
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: the concept of the portal. It's not the concept that

995
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: players can move if they want to. It's the frequency

996
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: with which it happens. It's how many bad actors are

997
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: involved in it. It's how many kids you can see

998
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 1: making terrible, horrifically bad decisions getting horrifically bad advice. And

999
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: technically they're adults, and you got a lot of people

1000
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: out there bitter towards the whole thing. So they look

1001
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: at a kid getting hung out to dry and say,

1002
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: good good. I don't feel that way. I don't feel

1003
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: that way because I was once upon a time twenty

1004
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: years old, and I'm pretty sure I would have listened

1005
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: to the adults in the room telling me to do

1006
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: something as well, because you know, I was stupid enough

1007
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: to think they had my best interest at heart at

1008
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: twenty years old. Boy did I learn? So Yeah, I

1009
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 1: hate the whole vibe around the portal right now. I

1010
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: love the root system of college football traditions. I love that.

1011
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: I love when I go to a Michigan game, I

1012
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: see a family tailgating at the exact same patch of

1013
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:35,439
Speaker 1: land that their parents tailgated at that their grandparents tailgated at.

1014
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: Love that they're about to walk in the Big House

1015
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: and it's one of the biggest buildings on planet Earth,

1016
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: and they're going to chant some of the same things

1017
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 1: and enjoy some of the same in game traditions and

1018
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: game day traditions that their parents enjoyed that their grandparents enjoyed.

1019
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 1: I love what the colors maize and blue mean. I

1020
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: love the feeling you get like when you get off

1021
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: on that exit and you drive down those same streets

1022
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: you've driven down a million times. Sometimes you get there

1023
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: on a Friday, and there's nothing like breathing in a

1024
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: campus on a Friday, right on the eve of a

1025
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 1: big game on a Saturday. That is the root system

1026
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 1: of tradition in college football. I love it. I will

1027
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 1: again repeat, this is the sport for me because there's

1028
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: nothing else like that. I know, you guys get after

1029
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: it in the parking lot in Philadelphia before an Eagles game.

1030
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: There's nothing remotely comparable to that and what it's like

1031
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: at a Penn State game, and some of you experience both,

1032
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: so you know, goodwill what I'm talking about. I let's

1033
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,720
Speaker 1: talk about something else. I hate. I hate the drive

1034
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: by leadership that treats college football like it's just a

1035
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: line item. I hate that. I hate it because that

1036
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: is not what the sport is to me. In some cases,

1037
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: what's best for the sport would make the sport a

1038
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: little bit less money, And once upon a time we

1039
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: were kind of okay with that. Certain places, they're still

1040
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: okay with that, I've always been quick to give credit

1041
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame in Michigan a few other places, where

1042
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:12,439
Speaker 1: as an example, they have chosen to forego plastering advertising

1043
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: signage all over their venues, not because it wouldn't make

1044
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: the money, it would make a money, but they've looked

1045
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: at the relative pristine appearance of their venues and they've said,

1046
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: you know, that matters to us more than make an

1047
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: extra money, because we don't need it. We're already loaded,

1048
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: so let's put our foot down there. That kind of

1049
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: attitude doesn't exist nearly enough. You know who else figured

1050
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: that out? The Rose Bowl. When I was growing up

1051
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: in Georgia, everyone would say the Rose Bulls getting in

1052
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 1: the way of progress. And it wasn't until years later

1053
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: when I defined sort of my college football worldview and

1054
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: what I loved and didn't like and what I value,

1055
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: that I realized, wait a second, my value system is

1056
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: directly in line with the Rose Bowls. The Rose Bowl

1057
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: define their value system and they are adhering to tradition

1058
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: and they couldn't care less who has a problem with it.

1059
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: They're going to be New Year's Day and they're going

1060
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: to have that sunset over the mountains there in the

1061
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: second half, and they're gonna have the Rose Parade, and

1062
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna have all the pageantry and the tradition that's

1063
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: always been associated with that thing, and they're going to

1064
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: take themselves very seriously because it's tradition that deserves to

1065
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: be taken seriously. And if you don't like it, like

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00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: all due respect, piss off. We'll have the game with you,

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00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: we'll have the game without you, and we'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: That attitude used to be very prevalent in college football.

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00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: What I hate is the sort of drive by leadership,

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00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: the people who somehow, some way got their hands on

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00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: the wheel of the decision making apparatus of college football,

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00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: and they make decisions like they're not going to be

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00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 1: here in five years to reap the consequences of it.

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Speaker 1: That I don't like. I don't like that. You know,

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00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: when we hear proposals about conference realignment, when we hear

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00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: proposals about playoff expansion, and when we hear proposals that

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00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: would introduce fundamental change of the game, two of the

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00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: words you never hear out of any quote unquote leader's

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00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: mouth is fan and player, because they couldn't care less

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00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: how it affects fans or players. You ever notice that,

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00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: If you ever wonder who has the best interest of

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00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: the sport at heart when they're making decisions, just check

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00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: out frequently they mentioned fans and players. You'll find out

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00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: pretty quick. You'll separate them pretty quick. One more thing

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Speaker 1: I hate, since we're trying to balance this out bad

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Speaker 1: faith arguments. There are a lot of these out there.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it comes from people who benefit from the current

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Speaker 1: chaotic landscape of college football. I mean, there's some legal

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00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: types out there that I couldn't care less about because

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00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: they make arguments that they know are in bad faith,

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00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: and it's in the nature of a lawyer to understand

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00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 1: they're speaking a language. The language of Legalese is a

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00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: language most of us do not understand. And when you

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00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: speak a language most people don't understand. The thing you

1095
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: come to realize is you can say pretty much anything

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01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: you want and you'll confuse it. You'll confuse everyone else

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Speaker 1: who doesn't speak the language. This is how politicians have

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01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: thrived for a long time. But this is how legal

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Speaker 1: types have thrived in an open environment like this right

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01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: now for a long time. So if it's in your

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01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: best interest if it's in your best financial interest, especially

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Speaker 1: for the chaos to continue. Frankly, I don't really care

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01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: what you have to say about what's best for college football,

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01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: because you and I probably don't agree on that. But

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01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: then on the other side, you know, we probably got

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01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: a lot of probably got a lot of administrative types

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01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: over there clapping. Good for you. Get after them, buddy.

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Speaker 1: You're just as complicit on the flip side of the

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01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: coin of the bad faith arguments, because you and your

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01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: lack of foresight created the climate that the chaos could

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01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 1: exist in. And then you make a lot of bad

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Speaker 1: faith arguments like what, we can't afford to pay players anything, Well,

1113
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: how'd that work out? And now it's we can't afford

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01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: to make him employee. Well, can you not afford it?

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01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 1: Or can you not afford it? Those are two different things.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even taking a stance on that necessarily. I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying there are a lot of bad faith arguments.

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Speaker 1: So those are some things I love and hate about

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Speaker 1: college football. Next up, how about this fresh off the presses.

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Speaker 1: Right as the confetti rained down last night in hard

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Speaker 1: Rock Stadium, Richard from Marquette, Michigan hit us up. He said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I saw FanDuel dropped the early twenty twenty six college

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Speaker 1: football playoff odds. Did anything stand out to you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at this on the flight home last night.

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Speaker 1: Several things stood out to me. Firstly, with all this

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Speaker 1: talk about the SEC drought, the odds are reflecting that now.

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Speaker 1: So it's one thing for the SEC to not finish

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Speaker 1: in the top three or top four or whatever. But

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Speaker 1: for a long time, even if that was the end

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Speaker 1: of the story, if you rewind to the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the story, the SEC littered the top of the odds board.

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01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,080
Speaker 1: There is no SEC team in the top three of

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Speaker 1: the odds to win next year's national championship as Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Indiana, and then Texas is there, Georgia, lsu A,

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Speaker 1: and M. So there's still four of them in the

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Speaker 1: top ten. Used to be like six or seven of

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Speaker 1: them in the top ten and several of them in

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Speaker 1: the top four. And that's in the odds. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that stands out a little bit. I'm not disagreeing with it.

1140
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it stands out. I think Notre Dame

1141
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: in Texas by far out of the teams listed at

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Speaker 1: the very top. Those are the teams that will shoulder

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Speaker 1: the highest level of expectation. Notre Dame's got the second

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01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: best odds to win it all, extremely workable schedule. Texas

1145
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: has got the fourth best odds to win it all,

1146
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: and they got arch and they just loaded up on

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Speaker 1: a portal class. Plus Texas always recruits well, and with

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Speaker 1: the way that the season ended with him not even

1149
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: making the playoff, there's a lot of pressure on Steve Sarkisian,

1150
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: which he obviously understands. He got it the day he

1151
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,959
Speaker 1: took the job. They especially understood it. With this portal haul. LS,

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01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: you may be a little bit too low. LSU's got

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01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: plus fourteen hundred odds. That is good for seventh best

1154
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: in the country. Sam Levitt, if he's fully healthy, and

1155
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: he gets paired up with Lane Kiffen and he gets

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01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: paired up with that offensive staff, and then you mesh

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01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: in the portal class that they're bringing him and it's

1158
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: not even done being constructed yet. Lane Kiffin has proven

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01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: in the past he and that staff do not need

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01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: an incredibly long runway like they are very used to.

1161
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: Putting together a team in a little bit different manner

1162
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 1: than his forefathers have in the coaching world at least,

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01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: so I think LSU maybe a little bit too low.

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01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: If you'll look at where Oregon is, Organ's at fifth,

1165
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: which is not low. Alabama's not even on the slider,

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01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: They're at eleven. I think Oregon and Alabama are probably

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01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: a touch lower than they otherwise would have been cause

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01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 1: of the way their season ended, and there's a really

1169
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: bad taste in people's mouths, especially with Bama, I think,

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01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 1: probably more so than Oregon. But I think with both

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Speaker 1: of them, I'm going to enter the Keelan Russell era

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01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: at quarterback with Alabama. I am continuing the Dante More

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01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: era at Oregon. I would slightly think that they may

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Speaker 1: be undervalued. I think USC is well worth taking a

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01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,479
Speaker 1: risk on at thirteenth right now at plus thirty five

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Speaker 1: hundred or thirty three hundred, yeah, thirty five hundred odds.

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Speaker 1: I already put a little coin or two down on USC.

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Speaker 1: Someone get that to Lincoln Riley. We're not doubting them

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01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 1: over here. Everybody else maybe, but we're not. You just

1180
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way not to regress on defense.

1181
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 1: They lost Danton Lynn to Penn State. Still looking to

1182
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: backfill his spot. But good recruiting class coming in. But

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01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: they just got a good team coming back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: USC's gonna be legitimate in the playoff picture next year.

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Speaker 1: Firmly believe that Penn State is nineteenth tied for nineteenth.

1186
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: They've got plus six thousand odds. Now, I'm going to

1187
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Speaker 1: go ahead, ge out ahead of it, because you're gonna

1188
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: hear this a lot. Could Penn State be the next Indiana? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you to stop that kindly, but

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Speaker 1: I will say, very workable schedule next year. We got

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Speaker 1: Matt Campbell, We got our boy up there. He's bringing

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Speaker 1: over a large chunk of his former roster that was

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Speaker 1: at Iowa State, and that includes experience at the quarterback

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01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 1: position in Rockebec. Again, I want to say for a

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Speaker 1: second time, it's a very workable schedule. So got the

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Speaker 1: roster continuity there. I'm still looking maybe to make I

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Speaker 1: don't know, one final move in the portal, one or

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Speaker 1: two final moves in the portal nineteenth best odds to

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Speaker 1: win the national title Penn State. Those are a few

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Speaker 1: things that I looked at. You can go to FanDuel

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Speaker 1: right now. All of that is available at FanDuel. They

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Speaker 1: have three win totals at FanDuel right now, Jesse, it

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Speaker 1: is Virginia Tech, right was it Penn State LSU? It's

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech LSU. And out of nowhere, like out of

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Speaker 1: the rafters. We got to hit Mike about this. There

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Speaker 1: is a third team with an over under season win total.

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Speaker 1: Would anyone like to guess who it is? There is

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Speaker 1: no context clue like you would never in a million

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Speaker 1: years guess that Arkansas is randomly the third Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: you go. Four and a half. By the way, so

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Speaker 1: welcome to Fayeville, Ryan Silverfield. But that's not what I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about. The NFL playoffs still ongoing,

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Speaker 1: and I like, no one covers the NFL like me.

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Speaker 1: This has been well established in the past few weeks.

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Speaker 1: No one covers the NFL like me. I was on

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams before anyone was, Jesse. He doesn't play this

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Speaker 1: Big moment to end the show Tonight, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: I take a sip of water for this this is

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Speaker 1: a monumental moment. Two of you are about to have

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Speaker 1: your lives change forever. I don't think I'm overstating it

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Speaker 1: one bit. Okay, we do bold predictions on this show,

1244
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Speaker 1: a lot of them. In the spring and summer. I

1245
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: make some predictions, but I open up the Pate State

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Speaker 1: mail bag and I take tons of predictions from you guys,

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01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: and we do like thirty of those segments in the

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Speaker 1: spring and summer, and I put a Boldness rating on

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Speaker 1: every one of your predictions. And the rule around here

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Speaker 1: has always been, if you make a prediction that I

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01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:25,879
Speaker 1: rate nine and a half or higher on the Boldness

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Speaker 1: scale and it hits, you take home a chalice of supremacy.

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Speaker 1: In fact, take camera one, Bradley, there are two child

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Speaker 1: life supremacy back here on our set. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: see because they're made of glass or are they made

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Speaker 1: of crystal, I don't know, but there two of them

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Speaker 1: right there. Ironic because we have to give two of

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Speaker 1: them away tonight. And I'm going to get to it

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Speaker 1: in just a second. But some other bold predictions that

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Speaker 1: came true this year. Coach Jakes from Cherry Valley, New York,

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Speaker 1: the sec will not win the national championship. That's an

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Speaker 1: example of a prediction that we did not think was

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Speaker 1: that bold. We put a seven and a half on

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Speaker 1: that one, and as it turns out, the sec was Bradley.

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Speaker 1: Why did we have to show this? Oh no, that's

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01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: not my predictions. That's how it actually went. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: have forbidden Bradley from actually showing my predictions, you know,

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Speaker 1: mainly because Florida was in them in the preseason. Ye

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Speaker 1: have tough times for me, but you know I'm reformed now.

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01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:24,759
Speaker 1: I put the clown nose on earlier tonight and we've learned.

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Speaker 1: The next one was about Penn State. Now, remember Brandon

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Speaker 1: hit us up from Orlando. He said, Penn State under

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Speaker 1: eight and a half wins. Penn State was top five

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Speaker 1: preseason Penn State. This was the year. Don't think about

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01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: him now, think about him in July. This was the

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01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: year that they were gonna make the run. And Brandon

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01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: sitting there saying, not only are they not gonna make

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01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: the run, they're gonna crash and burn under eight and

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Speaker 1: a half wins. And I made that an eight point

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Speaker 1: seventy five. I'm surprised I didn't make it more bold. Well,

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01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: Penn State went seven and six. If James Franklin got

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01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: fired and man he hit, he hit with room despair,

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: could have made it seven and a half. What about

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01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:09,600
Speaker 1: the one about the ACC? So we had one that

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01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:13,719
Speaker 1: was the ACC runner up will not make the playoff.

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01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: That was jer rw Jay Rue possibly a soft jay

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01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 1: there in Greer, South Carolina. The ACC runner up will

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01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: not make the playoffs. I put an eight point seventy

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Speaker 1: five on that one. Now, in fairness, the ACC's tiebreaker

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01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 1: rules were all jacked up this year, so Miami ended

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01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: up making the playoff and they didn't even play in

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01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: the conference championship game. It was whole stupid thing. So yeah,

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01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 1: who was it, Jesse? It was Virginia and Duke and

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01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 1: neither one of them made the playoff and great job.

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01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 1: ACC so made a very unnecessary mess of things. Rumor

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01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: on the street is they will rectify their tiebreaker rule

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Speaker 1: before next year. We'll see next up. This one came close.

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Speaker 1: This one is from Josh in Savannah. A lot of

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: jokes could be made, no joke will be made. But

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01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: what Josh did predict is Brian Kelly is done at

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01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 1: LSU Before Thanksgiving. LSU was a top ten team everybody.

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01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: And then LSU went and Josh couldn't have known this,

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01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 1: but LSU went and beat Clemson on the road in

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01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 1: week one, so then it really luck that they were

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01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:33,519
Speaker 1: off to the races. And this man called Brian Kelly

1306
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:38,480
Speaker 1: being fired before Thanksgiving, and Brian Kelly got fired before Thanksgiving.

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01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:40,639
Speaker 1: And I put a nine point twenty five on this.

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01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:45,759
Speaker 1: It just missed being Chalice worthy. That was very close.

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01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: If he asked me a different day, I may have

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01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: made it a nine point five because I was right

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01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 1: on the ledge on that one. Okay, two of you

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01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 1: have secured Chaali of supremacy. Challai is the plural of

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: chalice around these parts. Let's go to the tape. First

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Speaker 1: one college football with Sam from Pinckney, Michigan. Kurt Signetti

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01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: takes the Indiana Hoosiers back to the playoff, except this

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01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:15,560
Speaker 1: time he wins at least one game, advancing to the

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01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: quarterfinals or better. And I made that a nine point

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01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:25,639
Speaker 1: five because truthfully, the schedule was getting tougher. I very

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01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: notably was a doubter of Indiana this year. Also, I

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01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,520
Speaker 1: didn't know that they were just going to magically recreate

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01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 1: and exceed the dynamic that they had a year before.

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01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 1: How was I to know? Apparently everyone else did but

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01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: me College Football with Sam. I put a nine point

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Speaker 1: five on that prediction. Chalice of Supremacy secured. We will

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Speaker 1: get your shipping address and information. And that's not all.

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01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 1: We had One more Cam, Sunrise Florida. Cam said a

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01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: team will go sixteen to o this year in route

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Speaker 1: to a national championship. And wouldn't you know it, Kurt

1329
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:08,759
Speaker 1: Signetti and the Indiana Hoosiers sixteen and oh national champs.

1330
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:11,839
Speaker 1: I rated this in nine point five on the boldness scale.

1331
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: And I may have picked him against some four times,

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01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: but I went oh and four and they went sixteen

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01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,560
Speaker 1: and oh and they won a national title. So Cam,

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01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti got a whole trophy, and they're gonna get

1335
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:27,440
Speaker 1: rings and everything. You're gonna get a Childice of Supremacy.

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01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: So in the end, who was the real winner here?

1337
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,719
Speaker 1: Because they give out trophies every single year, we rarely

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01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 1: give out Childlive Supremacy. Great show, We'll have another show Thursday. Look,

1339
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be the one to call it early.

1340
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: I highly suspect we won't have a show Sunday because

1341
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, of the whole foot to two foot of

1342
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 1: snow predicted for Nashville. So in the meantime, I know

1343
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: we can be here Thursday, so let's just make good

1344
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: use of what time we have together over the next week.

1345
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:57,240
Speaker 1: Nothing is promised. Appreciate you guys so much. Make sure

1346
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: you're subscribed to the channel. The foot All season is ended,

1347
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: but our season has not ended. We're not going anywhere,

1348
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:06,719
Speaker 1: so we'll still be here for you. Director Bradley, Producer Jesse.

1349
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate, take care of have a great rest

1350
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: of your evening, and God bless hey. For those of

1351
01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:13,680
Speaker 1: you listening on podcast, this is a quick cut in

1352
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 1: This is just between you and I. They can't even

1353
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: hear me on YouTube. When we got back from Nashville

1354
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: the other night, immediately after the National Championship game, I

1355
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: recorded our actual game reaction. So in the show so

1356
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: far you have not heard the usual game reaction that

1357
01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: you'd hear on the show during the season, And I

1358
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,840
Speaker 1: thought to myself, that's great. If you're on YouTube. A

1359
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 1: lot of you just listen on podcasts, and so you

1360
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: miss that until now I'm having the guys drop that

1361
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: audio of the reaction video into the show. So here

1362
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: you go listen and.

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01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 2: Enjoy the Indiana Hoosiers.

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01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: What Indiana Kurtzignetti National champions twenty seven to twenty one

1365
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: in the final brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors.

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01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:01,120
Speaker 1: You always gear up an Academy, They're in person, Academy

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01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 1: dot Com. They've been locked arm in arm with us

1368
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,799
Speaker 1: all year, and wow, Indian as a national champion. Indiana

1369
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: Kurtz Signandy twenty seven to twenty one. The Hoosiers are

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01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: national champions. I've been saying that over and over again

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01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 1: for about the past two and a half hours. Just

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 1: got back in Nashville from Miami, and I've been trying

1373
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: to get used to it, and I've come to the

1374
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: conclusion I can't get used to it. So huge, huge,

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01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:28,640
Speaker 1: huge congratulations, And I'm gonna own some things both in

1376
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 1: this video and in the show we'll do tomorrow night.

1377
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 1: But I was thinking about it. I don't know that

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01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: you can really properly define how big this is in

1379
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: the moment. I think this is the kind of thing

1380
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: that takes history. Now we've got history looking in the

1381
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: rearview mirror, so we know how historically unprecedented it is.

1382
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 1: But just the full impact. I don't know that we

1383
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: can know, because you know, like ten years from now,

1384
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:53,600
Speaker 1: we'll be able to look back and we'll know was

1385
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: this the dawning of a new era? You know, did

1386
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 1: like two or three other teams randomly do this? Did

1387
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: UCLA and Menue going to come out of nowhere and

1388
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:03,440
Speaker 1: win national championships?

1389
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 2: I doubt it, But ten years from now.

1390
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: I'll know for sure, So i'll know if Indiana was

1391
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 1: the anomaly to end all anomalies. And I don't think

1392
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 1: they are anomalies because I think the program's here to stay.

1393
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. As far as a

1394
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 1: team slash program coming out of nowhere, or was it

1395
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 1: the beginning of a new trend? Ten years from now,

1396
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: we'll know.

1397
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:23,720
Speaker 2: Right now we don't.

1398
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: What we do know is they operated like nothing I've

1399
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: ever seen before. Just the efficiency. It's almost like watching

1400
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 1: an AI football team. Honestly, it's like they execute at

1401
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: such a high level. I don't care how well they are.

1402
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't care if they're thirty four years old on average.

1403
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 1: If you just put eleven humans on a football field

1404
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: and the other guys are really good too, you know,

1405
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 1: the other guys on the other side, they're allowed to

1406
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: try really hard too, and just the ruthless efficiency, and

1407
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 1: especially in the second half of this game tonight, it

1408
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: was a heavyweight fight. Man standing there on field level,

1409
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:01,080
Speaker 1: you're watching blow after blow, You're watching what should be

1410
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 1: a knockout shot delivered multiple times to Miami, and they

1411
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 1: get back up, and then Miami answers in a way

1412
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: that would stagger or knock out most other teams. And

1413
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:15,719
Speaker 1: then Indiana in some cases literally with their mouths bloody,

1414
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: just get back up and say okay.

1415
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 2: And it's not like this arrogant cocky okay either.

1416
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: It's like a okay, well, now we're gonna give it.

1417
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna give it our best, and our best is

1418
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 1: good enough. I was thinking towards the end of the game,

1419
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 1: when you've had multiple answers from Miami, there are two

1420
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:37,679
Speaker 1: different distinct moments there, at least in that second half,

1421
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: where you think to yourself, uh oh, so it's a

1422
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: ten to seven game, and then you got the block

1423
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:47,200
Speaker 1: punt touchdown and that should be ballgame, and then they

1424
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: answer right back, and then Indiana answers again. Were there

1425
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: three different times they had ten point leads in the

1426
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: second half, I think there may have been, and Miami

1427
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 1: answers again. And I looked to Tom Lougan Bill, who

1428
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:02,439
Speaker 1: was standing next to me, because all I could think

1429
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: of was the movie The Perfect Storm, and I said, Lugie,

1430
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 1: they're Perfect Storm in them.

1431
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 2: He said, of course, what are you talking about?

1432
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about the moment in Perfect Storm

1433
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: spoiler alerts twenty five years old for those of you

1434
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 1: who haven't seen it, but they're in the middle of

1435
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 1: that storm and it's just crazy, and everyone thinks they're

1436
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: going to die. And then the clouds part and the

1437
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:30,640
Speaker 1: seas calm, and everyone's overjoyed because they thought they were

1438
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: going to die and now they're happy. And now they're

1439
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 1: going to go back to Cape cod or wherever it

1440
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: was they set se off from. They're going to see

1441
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 1: their families again. And then the clouds close back in

1442
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 1: and the wind picks up and the waves start tossing

1443
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: them left and right, and George Clooney looks as there's

1444
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: this last ray of sunlight and he goes, She's not

1445
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 1: gonna let us out, and that, if you've never watched

1446
01:18:55,720 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: Indiana football, is what watching Indiana football was like to night.

1447
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: Hey do me one favor right here. Look down. Are

1448
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 1: you subscribe to the channel? If you are, thank you.

1449
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: If you're not, please click subscribe. It helps us keep

1450
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: the show free and free of corporate interference. All right,

1451
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 1: that's it for me. Back to the clip, perfect storm,

1452
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,719
Speaker 1: perfect storm of a season. I guess that metaphor works

1453
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: multiple ways for Indiana. You can just pick whichever way

1454
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 1: it works best for you. But man, all right, So

1455
01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:24,799
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza also known as Alberto Mendoza, in the postgame

1456
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: press conference, what a warrior's effort, not tonight, all season,

1457
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:30,640
Speaker 1: but especially tonight, because it reminded me a lot of

1458
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 1: that Ohio State.

1459
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 2: Game where he just gets boom.

1460
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:35,800
Speaker 1: In that case, he got blasted on the first play

1461
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 1: of the game, got back up and ended up winning

1462
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 1: the thing. Tonight gets his mouth bloodied early in the game.

1463
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were upset there was

1464
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: no call on that play. Maybe there should have been.

1465
01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: I'm just forget about the play itself for a second,

1466
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: think about what he did after that, and think about

1467
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: coming down to the wire. It always ends up if

1468
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a championship run that you can't hide

1469
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 1: your quarterback. Not that Indiana had been. But even in

1470
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 1: a game in a one off, four quarter situation at

1471
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: this level of the season, like at this level of

1472
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you don't hide your quarterback. And that's even

1473
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: in a defensive oriented game or maybe you know, a

1474
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:16,400
Speaker 1: three phase oriented game, there's gonna be a couple of

1475
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: moments where quarterbacks have to make plays. And Fernando Mendoza

1476
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 1: did it tonight. And you know, you can say it

1477
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:26,600
Speaker 1: takes a lot of guts for that coaching staff to

1478
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,000
Speaker 1: make that call, especially the second fourth down call on

1479
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: that drive with about ten minutes, nine minutes and change

1480
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 1: to go. Yes, it takes guts. What it really takes

1481
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 1: is knowing your personnel. That's what it really takes. And

1482
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: when you got eighty over there, Charlie Becker, who literally

1483
01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: hadn't dropped the ball all season. But then also when

1484
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: you know you got Fernando Mendoza who's going to touch

1485
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:51,200
Speaker 1: the ball every play, it doesn't give you one hundred

1486
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 1: percent statistical likelihood you're gonna make anything. It just gives

1487
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:58,680
Speaker 1: you this comfort in knowing he's on my side. And

1488
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: look if I go down swinging him on fourth down

1489
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: leverage situations, if that's how we go down, That's how

1490
01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: we go down.

1491
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 2: That's got to be a good feeling.

1492
01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: All four of Indiana's scoring drives tonight were eleven plus plays,

1493
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: So they never let Miami tilt the game. They never

1494
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: let Miami tilt the criticals in their favor and as

1495
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: a result. I mean, look, I know that Sarratt and

1496
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:28,640
Speaker 1: Cooper have been headline grabbers all year, rightfully, so has

1497
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 1: there been a more clutch player than Charlie Becker. I

1498
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,680
Speaker 1: remember I was talking to an Alabama staffer when they

1499
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,600
Speaker 1: were going into the Rose Bowl against him. That was

1500
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: the dude. They just kept circling and they kept saying,

1501
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: we got to have an answer for eighty. Well, no

1502
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: one's had an answer for him. Contested catches, wide open catches,

1503
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's been incredible to watch on a team

1504
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: where it was already perceived that they had a big two,

1505
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: which they did, and do him emerging as well. I

1506
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: just I've never been more sure I'm watching a guy

1507
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: that's gonna play ten plus years in the league. Just

1508
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:07,679
Speaker 1: I got no doubts that he will. So yeah, man,

1509
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 1: on all fronts. Just an unbelievable scene that unfolded down

1510
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 1: in Miami. I know a lot of you guys made

1511
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: that trip. Man, I'm so glad for the Indiana folks.

1512
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 1: They got to do it because, like we talked about,

1513
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: those ticket prices were through the roof and it didn't

1514
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: stop you, and you took over someone else's building and

1515
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: then you got what you paid for. Sometimes things fall flat,

1516
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: but you guys got what you paid for. But Miami

1517
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: was right there. I picked Miami to win the game,

1518
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 1: all right, So let's not bury that I buried it

1519
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 1: like three or four minutes. But let's not bury that

1520
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: picked Miami to win the game. And if I picked

1521
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:45,639
Speaker 1: him to win the game, and then you told me, hey,

1522
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 1: you picked Miami to win. Yeah, all right, here's what

1523
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you. They're gonna have the ball at

1524
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:52,719
Speaker 1: midfield with a minute to go down six.

1525
01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 2: Do you take it? Yes? Sign me up, Sign me up.

1526
01:22:57,920 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 1: After all of the things that you can't do against Indiana, Okay,

1527
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:06,639
Speaker 1: they're bad on third down partly because Indiana forced them

1528
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 1: to be bad on third down. They missed a field goal,

1529
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: they got a pump block for a touchdown. These are

1530
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:15,000
Speaker 1: all things that we would universally agree you cannot do

1531
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: if you're going to have a shot to beat Indiana.

1532
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: They did all of them and still had a shot

1533
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 1: at midfield down six a minute to go, and Indiana

1534
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: makes a play and Indiana comes out on top because

1535
01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:30,640
Speaker 1: that's what they've done all year. But I just I know,

1536
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 1: it's one thing if you're Baman, you got run. It's

1537
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: one thing if you're Oregon and you got run. But man,

1538
01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 1: Miami took some blows. They dealt some blows and it's

1539
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:40,680
Speaker 1: right there, which is all you could ask for in

1540
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,800
Speaker 1: a National championship game from my perspective, just being able

1541
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:45,880
Speaker 1: to stand there as a bystander. I know a lot

1542
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: of people aren't Indiana or a Miami fans, and you

1543
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 1: were sitting there wondering when you woke up yesterday morning

1544
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: now or even gonna get a good game. Yeah, we

1545
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: got a good game. We got a great game. I

1546
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: don't know, four and a half, Tili. That was a

1547
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: great game, man. I mean you you had a lot

1548
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:07,280
Speaker 1: of championship medal both sides exhibited, especially in that second half.

1549
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: But you know, it's funny when you look at the

1550
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 1: immediate what they call a one sheet that they'll give

1551
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: us at the game, and sometimes you'll look on your phone.

1552
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 1: You look at the box score really quick. Sometimes the

1553
01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: box score tells you everything you need to know. Sometimes

1554
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 1: the box score lies to you, and then there are

1555
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 1: other times where the box score just doesn't tell the

1556
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: whole story. I felt like this was one of those

1557
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 1: those third category games. It was a classic three phaser,

1558
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,719
Speaker 1: as me Mal would call it, because the box score

1559
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:38,640
Speaker 1: does not really tell you what you need to know.

1560
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: The box score tells you Miami out gained Indiana. Yes,

1561
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 1: the box scorer tells you Miami, you know, needing to

1562
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: run the ball to win the game. Five and five.

1563
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:49,559
Speaker 2: Point two yards per carry.

1564
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,639
Speaker 1: If you, in fact, if you told me that number

1565
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: this morning, I would have felt really good about my pick.

1566
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 1: Five point two yards per carry. Now, what I couldn't

1567
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 1: have known is that special teams in defense were going

1568
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 1: to tilt so heavily Indiana that it rendered a lot

1569
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 1: of that mood. Miami misses a field goal, Indiana's two

1570
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:13,520
Speaker 1: for two kicking threes, Indiana blocks a punt for a touchdown.

1571
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 1: Also talk about tilting the field, which Indiana has been

1572
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:20,879
Speaker 1: so good at all year. Miami's final six drives started

1573
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:22,719
Speaker 1: on their twenty five yard line.

1574
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 2: Or worse.

1575
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that wins games. That's the

1576
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 1: kind of thing where turnovers aren't heavily tilted either way,

1577
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 1: you get out gained, and you still win the game.

1578
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: It's because the box score is not lying to you.

1579
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,560
Speaker 1: It's just not telling the whole story. A lot of

1580
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 1: people are asking right now, what does this mean? Like

1581
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:45,599
Speaker 1: the Indiana win, what Kirksey Nitti has done in Indiana.

1582
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: I mean people were asking him in his post game,

1583
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: oh what does that mean? And everyone's columns postgame had

1584
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: at least a portion of what does this mean for

1585
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 1: college football? I'll get to that in a second. I

1586
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: do want to think quick Trip. Quick Trip made this

1587
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 1: entire tour this year possible. The Fall Don't Lie Tour

1588
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 1: huge success. I would say easily my favorite tour that

1589
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: we've done. It was the most successful tour we've done.

1590
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:12,640
Speaker 1: And I learned a long time ago, man, when I

1591
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 1: first got to cover college football and I was working

1592
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: local news, we would come to the end of a

1593
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:21,040
Speaker 1: season and I would always, you know, be on my

1594
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 1: way out of the stadium and I would just turn

1595
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 1: back around and I would hang out in there and

1596
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:28,240
Speaker 1: it's empty and you're just reflecting on of course, it's

1597
01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 1: the end of a season, and you're reflecting on the

1598
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:32,000
Speaker 1: fact that you just got to cover a whole season

1599
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:33,280
Speaker 1: of college football for a living.

1600
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 2: It wasn't much of a living back then, but it

1601
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:35,799
Speaker 2: was a living.

1602
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 1: It beat having a real job, as I always said.

1603
01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 1: But I always remembered that there were, you know, people,

1604
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 1: my peers, other reporters covering college football, and you realized

1605
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: this beginning of the next season, you know, five or

1606
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: six of them more in a round anymore. And over

1607
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: the span of four or five years when I worked

1608
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:59,120
Speaker 1: in local news and local sports, I just came to

1609
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: understand you don't assume another season because there are always

1610
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 1: layoffs or just life could take unpredictable turns. And so

1611
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:09,120
Speaker 1: I always felt that way. I still think that way.

1612
01:27:09,520 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: We got a good thing going right now. I don't

1613
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 1: take a day of it for granted. And you guys

1614
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:15,720
Speaker 1: know I appreciate you, and the days I don't tell you,

1615
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:17,600
Speaker 1: just understand, I'll probably tell you the next day. I

1616
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: appreciate you. But even tonight leaving hard Rock Stadium down there,

1617
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,400
Speaker 1: I mean, our show is having a ton of success,

1618
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:27,599
Speaker 1: but you still look around. You'd never assume another season.

1619
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:30,719
Speaker 1: And so we had a great one this year, fueled

1620
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 1: by quick trip and I appreciate it. So did Indiana.

1621
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: Let's get back to this. So million different ways to

1622
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 1: ask the same question. A million different people are asking

1623
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:44,400
Speaker 1: the same version of this question. What does the Indiana

1624
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 1: win mean for college football overall? To me, it can't

1625
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: be overstated. This was college football's Roger Banister moment, Roger

1626
01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: Banister pretty famously first dude to run the sub four

1627
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 1: minute mile. Up until that point, a lot of people

1628
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 1: thought it was impossible, and the entire moral of that

1629
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 1: story it was never impossible. It just took a guy

1630
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:07,919
Speaker 1: doing it to show you it was possible.

1631
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:10,639
Speaker 2: Or put another way, a lot.

1632
01:28:10,439 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 1: Of people said it can't happen, when in reality it

1633
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 1: just had not happened, which is a familiar theme we

1634
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,960
Speaker 1: talk about a lot on this show. Well, a lot

1635
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 1: of people, and I gotta be honest, I would group

1636
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 1: myself in here. A lot of people would have told

1637
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:28,040
Speaker 1: you a team the ilk of Indiana will never win

1638
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 1: a national championship, We'll never sniff a national championship. And

1639
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 1: I believe that because everything about the history of college

1640
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 1: football had told me that. And look I'm not ignorant

1641
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 1: to the changes of this world. I'm not ignorant to

1642
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:44,599
Speaker 1: the changes in NIL and the portal. I'm not ignorant

1643
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 1: to any of that. I had baked all that in

1644
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,160
Speaker 1: and still believed that there was no way that this

1645
01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: could ever happen. That's part of the fun. Like anyone

1646
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 1: who sits around and tries to tell you when Kurt

1647
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: Signetti got hired at Indiana, they sniffed this out.

1648
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 2: No, they didn't know, did you. I was talking to

1649
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 2: I was.

1650
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 1: Talking to Van Pelt earlier tonight, name drop. I was

1651
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: talking to Van Pelt earlier tonight, and we were talking

1652
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,640
Speaker 1: about the first Signetti game, going back and looking at

1653
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 1: the b roll of his first game in Indiana and

1654
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: how there were dozens of fans in the crowd.

1655
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:17,080
Speaker 2: No one knew.

1656
01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: That's what makes it fun, That's what makes it incredible

1657
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 1: and memorable and you know, fill in the adjectives. But

1658
01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: the Roger Banister of it all for me here is

1659
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:32,839
Speaker 1: now that someone, in this case, Kurt Signetti in Indiana,

1660
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: showed that it can happen.

1661
01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 2: Where else? Can it happen?

1662
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: For whom?

1663
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 2: Else?

1664
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 1: Can it happen? Can it happen for Minnesota. Can it

1665
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:46,680
Speaker 1: happen for Arkansas? Can it happen for Houston? Just Arizona

1666
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:50,120
Speaker 1: used to start naming them all. Those programs, by the way,

1667
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:55,000
Speaker 1: have a more story track record than Indiana did. So Rutgers,

1668
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:57,719
Speaker 1: You're on the clock, Purdue, You're on the clock, et cetera.

1669
01:29:59,160 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 2: It's an amazing thing.

1670
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: Once you watch something proven to be possible, all of

1671
01:30:05,120 --> 01:30:07,360
Speaker 1: a sudden, you think, hey man, maybe it's possible for

1672
01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:09,880
Speaker 1: me too. Maybe it's possible for us too. Because Roger

1673
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:12,960
Speaker 1: Banister ran that sub form minute mile, and then a

1674
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:15,559
Speaker 1: bunch of people ran a sub form minute mile. So

1675
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: the age old question is were these people always capable

1676
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:21,719
Speaker 1: of also running sub form minute miles? They just needed

1677
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: to see this one kid do?

1678
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:28,719
Speaker 2: It? Looks that way? So now is it really that simple?

1679
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:30,120
Speaker 2: Is it just watching Indiana do it?

1680
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:33,240
Speaker 1: Because I happen to believe even Indiana will have a

1681
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 1: hard time recreating what they did this year. I know

1682
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 1: there will be more talented versions of Indiana. You cannot

1683
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: have a more efficient version of a team than Indiana

1684
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,000
Speaker 1: just put on the field. That doesn't mean they may

1685
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: not win another title. You will never operate more efficiently

1686
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 1: than they did. I don't think it's possible. There I

1687
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: go saying I don't think something's possible, and Kurt Signify,

1688
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:57,679
Speaker 1: of course in the business proven that wrong. You put

1689
01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 1: together a more efficient operation than they did thish year,

1690
01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: and I'm not really sure the season's worth watching for the.

1691
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 2: Rest of college football.

1692
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:08,800
Speaker 1: So huge congratulations to Kurt Signetti and Indiana and the

1693
01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: fans up there again picked against you guys again. I

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