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Speaker 1: me one of these teams has to win this game. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: twelve or eleven out of the last twelve SEC champs

429
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Speaker 1: will have come either Obama or Georgia, and the only

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Speaker 1: exception twenty nineteen LSU. Some are asking why does this

431
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Speaker 1: game matter? Why does this game matter? Josh? Well, Number one,

432
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Speaker 1: it's the SEC Championship game. Do we need to get

433
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Speaker 1: Kirby Smart on the horn? Kirby Smart is on the

434
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Speaker 1: very short list of candidates if we ever decide to

435
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 1: hire a head coach at Payt State. Guy just gets it.

436
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 1: Longtime veteran of the show appeared on the show many times,

437
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: but he sat there the other day said it's the

438
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Speaker 1: SEC Championship, Like, don't you people care about that anymore?

439
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,640
Speaker 1: And then someone asked them about all these injuries, said, well,

440
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: if you worry about injuries, you don't even practice. You

441
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 1: get a scared football team if you're worried about injuries.

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00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: So it matters because it's the SEC Championship. It also

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00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: matters because the winner of this thing's going to get

444
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Speaker 1: a first round bye, yes, even if it's Alabama. And

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00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 1: the third thing is that gives you some rest, and

446
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: that is especially imperative for both of these teams because

447
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: they are beat to death. I think they'll both have

448
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 1: eleven on the field at the time Saturday, but I

449
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: don't really know Kirby's one to seven versus Alabama as

450
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Speaker 1: the head coach at Georgia, so we already saw this

451
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Speaker 1: game happen. We were at the game in Athens. How

452
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Speaker 1: much does September matter? How much does that first game matter?

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Speaker 1: Because we got a couple of games this Saturday that

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Speaker 1: are rematches of regular season games. That first game, Bama

455
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 1: was just lethal on third down. They were thirteen of nineteen.

456
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 1: Georgia was two of eight. Now, a lot of times

457
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Speaker 1: when you have an outcome, any given outcome, the winning

458
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: team probably did some things above and beyond what they

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Speaker 1: average doing in that stat category. So with Alabama thirteen

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Speaker 1: of nineteen, I mean, they're pretty good on third down,

461
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: but they're not always that good on third down, Georgia

462
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: two of eight, they're not always that bad on third down.

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Speaker 1: Both of them are top thirty in that category. When

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Speaker 1: you have the rematch, the age old question is always

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Speaker 1: do we have a progression and regression back to the mean.

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Speaker 1: If you do big advantage Georgia here, there's no guarantee

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Speaker 1: it happens. That's why it's a key to victory and

468
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Speaker 1: not an outright prediction. Ty Simpson was sixteen of twenty

469
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Speaker 1: four in this game. If anyone remembers, it wasn't that

470
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Speaker 1: long ago. He sliced Georgia up pretty good. He was

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Speaker 1: sixteen of twenty four in the first half against Georgia.

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Speaker 1: He had one hundred and ninety six and two touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in the first half against Georgia. Now, anyone who's watched

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Speaker 1: Alabama offensively as of late would understand with their own eyes. Eh,

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Speaker 1: Ty Simpson not bad, just seems to have regressed a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Probably banged up everyone at this point, but

477
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: the players regressed a little bit. He's missing Josh Quavis,

478
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: who pound for pounds, one of the most important offensive

479
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Speaker 1: players they've had. Georgia will shed no tears because they're

480
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: missing important players as well. Jam Miller, I don't know

481
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Speaker 1: if he's gonna play. If he does play, far less

482
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Speaker 1: than one hundred percent. Again, no tears from Georgia anyway.

483
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: Pass pro has been an issue because of that, especially

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Speaker 1: against Auburn last week. So again, that's one of the

485
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Speaker 1: keys to being really lethal on third down. That's one

486
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Speaker 1: of the keys to being really lethal through the air

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Speaker 1: in the first half like he was the first time.

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Speaker 1: Do we have a regression to the meme? And then

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Speaker 1: when we talk about pressure, let's talk about Georgia. The

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Speaker 1: Georgia pass rush is the most important facet of this

491
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Speaker 1: game to me. It's a fundamental difference that could spell

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Speaker 1: the difference between the first game. In this game, they

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Speaker 1: didn't sack Tie Simpson the first game, they didn't even

494
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: pressure him enough in the first game, but they're havoc

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Speaker 1: rate over the last half of the season has been

496
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Speaker 1: over twenty percent two of their last three games, and

497
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: really could have been against the FCS dial it up game,

498
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: but they chose not to. But against Texas and Georgia Tech,

499
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Speaker 1: if you watched Georgia, they got after the quarterback to

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Speaker 1: a degree that they did not in the first half

501
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Speaker 1: of the season. And that just goes back to the

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Speaker 1: whole Kirby Smart. Never stop coaching, never stop working, never

503
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: stop scheming, never stop developing, even during the season, different angles,

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Speaker 1: different approaches, and it's just you're not going to reinvent

505
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: yourself on the fly during the season. But what you

506
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: can do is you can just keep coaching that you

507
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Speaker 1: know what out of your team to find fractions of

508
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Speaker 1: inches and squeezing the sponge that much harder to just

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Speaker 1: get a couple of more drops out of it. Because

510
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Speaker 1: in these kinds of games like they play with Alabama,

511
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: they're always one possession games. This game absolutely profiles as that.

512
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: Georgia's favored by two and a half. So there are

513
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Speaker 1: two game breaker spots that I'll have a close eye

514
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: on in this one. They're actually both at the receiver position,

515
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: which is kind of weird if you think about the

516
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: history of these two programs. It used to be Kirby

517
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: and Nick Saban, and it used to be a line

518
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: of scrimmage man who can run the ball, and each

519
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: of them looked the other in the eye and it

520
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: was like they were looking in the mirror. And you

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00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: fast forward several years and Alabama's ability to break this

522
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: game if they do, it's kind of like it was

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Speaker 1: the first game Alabama. They labored their way to a

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Speaker 1: little over one hundred yards rushing and they did stay

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Speaker 1: committed to it, and that kept the passing game open enough.

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Speaker 1: But Jeremy Bernard, Isaiah Horton's come on a lot for them.

527
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: I got no clue what's happening with Ryan Williams. Lotzier

528
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: Brooks has really stepped up. Those are game breaker types.

529
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 1: That is a game breaker type unit. If ty Simpson

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Speaker 1: has time to operate, and they're going to have to

531
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Speaker 1: come through, cause there aren't many other paths for Alabama now.

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00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: They have really struggled to consistently hit the deep ball,

533
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: and they've struggled to run the ball, which means you

534
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: really got to thread the needle. You really got to

535
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Speaker 1: be precise in the under neath an intermediate passing game.

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Speaker 1: That's the path for Alabama. Now, it's not a mystery

537
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: it has been for a while with Georgia. Zachariah Branch

538
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: is a very important player in this game. I stood

539
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: there last week and watched Alabama seem to be in

540
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: control of a game defensively, and then they're two huge,

541
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: like yards after catch explosive plays, and you sit there

542
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 1: and think to yourself as you're watching the replay. Once

543
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: you know Alabama wins the game, you're thinking, who on

544
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: Georgia's team can do that? Oh, Zachari Branch, Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

545
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: probably more so than anybody Auburn has. So it doesn't

546
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you've got control of the game.

547
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: If you just casually let a couple of plays spring

548
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: for fifty five sixty yards after the catch, that guy

549
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: can do that. Alabama secondary throttled Georgia down a little

550
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: bit a lot actually in passing numbers the first go

551
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: around here, but Georgia still had two twenty seven on

552
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: the ground, and I expect Georgia to have a fair

553
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: amount of success running the ball again in this game.

554
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if you just outright win the game

555
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: running the ball now, full credit to that staff at Georgia,

556
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: like they've done a really good job resurrecting that ground game,

557
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: and it's been good enough, plenty good enough this year.

558
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: If that's still there, If the ground game is still there,

559
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: don't have to run it for over two hundred but

560
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: just run it effectively enough. That's a big deal. This

561
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: is where that Georgia's center spot matters. Drew Bobo's status

562
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: has been very much up in the air. I would

563
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: just lean towards he's not playing, and if they get

564
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: him late in the week, that's a pleasant surprise. But

565
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: you think about the individual matchups here, You think about

566
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: what it takes for Georgia to operate efficiently offensively, and

567
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: the difference in a red shirt freshman starting against the

568
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: likes of Tim Keenan at Alabama are and it could

569
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: be anything from functionality in the snapping game to run fits,

570
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: to disruption on that front, to disruption in timing of

571
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: passes and rhythm and whatnot. All of that stuff can

572
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: be a big factor here. But the injury situation is

573
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: a huge deal both ways. I could just as easily say,

574
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, Bama was so lethal on third down. Who

575
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: was their number one safety valve really this side of

576
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: Jeremy Bernard down the stretch, it was Josh Quavis. They

577
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: don't expect to get him back for this game. That's

578
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: why it looks so labor intensive against Auburn. They didn't

579
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: have one of the most dependable third down weapons. Not

580
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: to mention the little dip you taking pass pro with

581
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: Ady not being on the field. So the injury situation

582
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: is really tough for both teams. And that's for the

583
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: guys that will miss the game. They're gonna be guys

584
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: on the field that probably have little business being on

585
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: the field. You just you got a mentality of a warrior.

586
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: It's a conference championship game by this point. The other

587
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: thing to remember the first go around in this one

588
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: was big staff win for Alabama. I mentioned this with

589
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: Texas and Georgia when they played a few weeks ago.

590
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: When we get they're about like five or six programs

591
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: in college football that when they play, I almost don't

592
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: sern myself so much with matchups. It's a staffing thing

593
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: for me. Texas Georgia just the same as Alabama Georgia

594
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: and that they all get to choose how they do it.

595
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: College football does not dictate that Alabama or Georgia have

596
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: to play and recruit any one way. They get to

597
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: have whatever style they want offensively and defensively. They get

598
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: to define whatever identity they want their program to have.

599
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: They pretty much get to recruit any kind of athlete

600
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: they want. They've got really good nil resources, so they

601
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: get to build themselves however they want to. Nothing's off limits.

602
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: So it's all about culture versus culture. It's all about

603
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: approach versus approach. And Georgia has just stomped Texas's approach

604
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: and they've outstaffed Texas a couple of times. It wasn't

605
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: that emphatic, but I thought Debor and his staff kind

606
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: of did that to Kirby to first go around. You

607
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: don't say that very often about Kirby Smart and Georgia

608
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: rarely do you ever say it. So my question is

609
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: do we end up saying it twice? Like Debor's still

610
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: perfect against landing Kirby and Sark in his career, is

611
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: that going to continue here? Let's take a look at

612
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: what the model thinks. FanDuel's got Georgia by two and

613
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: a half model a little higher on Georgia than FanDuel

614
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: is we cross three. The Pate State model, the little

615
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: in house model. It's not a little model. The in

616
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: house model here has Georgia by four. I cannot emphasize

617
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: this enough. I have no feel on the game. I've

618
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: watched every snap of both of these teams, maybe outside

619
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: of the SCS games, and we have arrived in December,

620
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: and I really have no feel on the game. The

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00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: injury situation especially muddies it up for me. So when

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00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: I don't have a feel all that much on the game,

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Speaker 1: I'll just go with the model. The model says Georgia

624
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: wins and covers, I'll say Georgia wins and covers. I

625
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: also said that the first go around in Athens and

626
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: whiffed on that one. So who knows what I do

627
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: know is really looking forward to it. As a kid

628
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: who grew up on the Chattahoochee River, which is the

629
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: river that divides Alabama and Georgia, it always means a

630
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: little bit extra for me when those two teams play.

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00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: The current odds to win the national Championship Georgia's third, fourth, fifth, sixth,

632
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: Alabama's eighth and whoever wins this one I think gets

633
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: a first round by I would also just highly suggest

634
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: as you guys are checking out the ABC broadcast of

635
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: that game, might want to flip over to ESPN a

636
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: time or two. Who knows what could be happening over there.

637
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm told an announcement maybe coming tomorrow on that front.

638
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: But you know what, the night before is when it

639
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: really pops off, because the night before is when we

640
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: have our first ever sort of exclusive live show, and

641
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: we're doing it in Atlanta, Georgia, the night before the

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Speaker 1: SEC Championship game. It'll be at the Buckhead Theater in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes up the road from Mercedes Benz Stadium, Georgia. Folks,

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Speaker 1: you already lived there. Bama folks, you'll be in town

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Speaker 1: for the game. We got a few tickets remaining. We've

646
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Speaker 1: kind of slowly been like releasing some onto the market

647
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Speaker 1: so that we don't just hard sell out before we

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Speaker 1: know the matchup of the game. I cannot stress this enough.

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Speaker 1: Those tickets will not last, so if you want them,

650
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Speaker 1: you need to grab them now. Paystatematerial dot com. You'll

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Speaker 1: see the tab for the live show gonna be fun,

652
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Speaker 1: gonna have some special guests. Rumor on the street is

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Speaker 1: Cublic's even gonna drop by. Now that's merely rumor because

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Speaker 1: it's not I can't legally confirm that, So it's merely

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Speaker 1: rumor at this point. But we're gonna have a lot

656
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Speaker 1: of fun and we'll do more of those in the future.

657
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Speaker 1: But you only get one shot to attend the first one,

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Speaker 1: and so that's this one. Looking forward to having you

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Speaker 1: guys there. Live count update, Jesse, what's the live count

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Speaker 1: at we are? Boy? Oh boy? Could it actually happen?

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Speaker 1: So we're at four nine nine seven four eight. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're like two hundred and fifty away. I may

663
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Speaker 1: have vastly underestimated the audience. Yeah, if you're watching right now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got like twelve thousand tuned in, so

665
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Speaker 1: we just need like two hundred and fifty of you

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Speaker 1: to hit the subscribe button. I don't really know that

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Speaker 1: I can compose myself if we hit five hundred k live. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: back to the show, Ohio State Indiana Big Ten Championship

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Speaker 1: Game hoops to monks. US didn't see that coming. Two

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00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: years ago Saturday night, eight eastern seventh Central on Fox.

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Speaker 1: This game happened last year, different personnel, different venue. But

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Speaker 1: just before we dive into this, let's remember this game

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Speaker 1: did happen last year. Ohio State thirty eight, Indiana fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Some said it wasn't even as close as the final

675
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: score indicated. I am some. The difference is well, one

676
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Speaker 1: of the differences is this Indiana team is a legit

677
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Speaker 1: number two team in the country. We're going to show

678
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Speaker 1: the JP pole later, which is just a power rating.

679
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Speaker 1: They're number two. So, like, I can't believe Indiana has

680
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: become this good. I just I cannot believe it. So

681
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Speaker 1: regardless of the outcome this Saturday, hats off. But I

682
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: will say, if they only manage sixty eight yards passing again,

683
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Speaker 1: I think the result may look the same. So there's

684
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: some non negotiables here for Indiana. Obviously, the line on

685
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: the game's Ohio State minus four and a half. Fernando

686
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: Mendoza's right up there as a favorite or a co

687
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: favorite in the Heismanage right now, depending on where you look.

688
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: So their challenge is they've got to scale their passing

689
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: game against the number one pass defense in the country.

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Speaker 1: It's non negotiable, all right. I mean, if they're getting

691
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Speaker 1: throttled down on that front. Ohio State just gets to

692
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Speaker 1: kind of mess around and know that twenty four points

693
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Speaker 1: will probably be plenty good enough, So they've got to

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Speaker 1: scale those passing numbers. Now. They have faced two top

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Speaker 1: ten passing defenses so far this year. One of them

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Speaker 1: was Oregon. Mendoza was twenty of thirty one for two fifteen,

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Speaker 1: one touchdown, one interception. The other one was Iowa thirteen

698
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Speaker 1: of twenty three. Against Oregon, he was twenty of thirty one.

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Speaker 1: Against Iowa, he was thirteen of twenty three two thirty three,

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, one pick. Candidly, I think he needs better

701
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Speaker 1: numbers than either one of those games to beat Ohio

702
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Speaker 1: State unless there's a really really big turnover differential in

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Speaker 1: this game. But that's not the fun part. I kind

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00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 1: of skimmed over that because that's not the fun matchup.

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Speaker 1: The fun matchup is how much can Indiana run the ball?

706
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Speaker 1: How successfully can they run the ball. This is not

707
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: a dominant ground game, but they're pretty good at running

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Speaker 1: the ball. Ohio State's got the number four run defense

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Speaker 1: in the country. All right, So if I tell you

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Speaker 1: that one side's not dominant any way doing it, but good,

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Speaker 1: just not dominant, and the other side top five. Normally

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Speaker 1: you think to yourself, I mean, give me Ohio State

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Speaker 1: all day, and it may work out that way. It

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Speaker 1: may work out that way. Indiana's got the number nine

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Speaker 1: rushing attack in the country, so I don't want to

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Speaker 1: paint them as like this poverty program. When it comes

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Speaker 1: to running the ball, they're very good at it. But

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Speaker 1: the paper here, I have brought the paper along tonight,

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Speaker 1: I'll pop it. Why not immunity It says Ohio State

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Speaker 1: has a discernible advantage here. Here's the one thing to

721
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Speaker 1: watch because of the nature of Ohio State schedule. They

722
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: are very good. I don't doubt them on that front.

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Speaker 1: But they have gotten this late in the season without

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Speaker 1: facing sort of like a top fifty rushing attack with

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Speaker 1: a good passing game attached to it. Michigan was that,

726
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: but Michigan doesn't have a high level passing game attached

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Speaker 1: to their ground game. Indiana does. So Really, that's what

728
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Speaker 1: we call a toolbox offense around here, an offense like Texas,

729
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Speaker 1: A and m kinda like on any given weekend, they

730
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Speaker 1: could throw it for four hundred on you, they could

731
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Speaker 1: run it for three hundred on you. Neither of those

732
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: things is going to happen to Ohio State, mind you,

733
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Speaker 1: but they could do multiple things. At the very least,

734
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Speaker 1: it finally makes you respect the full spectrum of offense,

735
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Speaker 1: and Ohio State did not have to do that against

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Penn State and Purdue and UCLA. So it

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Speaker 1: may be a moot point because Ohio State may just

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Speaker 1: be that good. This is one of the final things

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Speaker 1: we kind of have to find out, Joel Klatt said

740
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: on the broadcast last week, and I thought it was

741
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: very well put. He said. It seems like all the

742
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: other contenders just keep giving us more questions. Ohio State

743
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: just keeps giving us more answers. This could be another

744
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 1: one of the answers. There aren't many questions with Ohio State.

745
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: So Penn State, especially with outside runs. They had some

746
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: very good early success against Ohio State that didn't last

747
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Speaker 1: very long. But again it's the number one team in

748
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Speaker 1: the country, so you're kind of trying to nitpick. You're

749
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: having to pull out the magnifying glass a little bit

750
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,479
Speaker 1: to find edges. But it sounds like I'm talking about

751
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Speaker 1: Indiana as a three touchdown dog. I'm not. They're a

752
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: four and a half point dog if they were to

753
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Speaker 1: win the game. That's probably one thing they've figured out.

754
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: The other thing is maybe they have figured out a

755
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: way to have an answer for Ohio State's explosives, because

756
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: if you don't, then rest of this stuff you might

757
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,479
Speaker 1: as well just fast forward through. You can, Like, here's

758
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: what's so frustrating about playing Ohio State. You can control

759
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: the tempo in the game. You could tilt the field

760
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: with special teams, have great starting field position versus terrible

761
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: for them. You could run the ball pretty successfully, you

762
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: could have good success on third down. All that could

763
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: be happening. And yet because Ohio State still top ten

764
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: in catbuster passes, it just doesn't matter. Because they got

765
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: so many guys that could break the game on you.

766
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith not the least among them. But then all

767
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you got Carnel Tate doing it. I mean,

768
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: they got tight ends that are better than a lot

769
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: of receivers out there. And if they're doing those things,

770
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. You worked so hard to create

771
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: this game script and they just pop one for seventy

772
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: on you, and you're like, man, we worked so hard,

773
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: and look how easy they just made. It. Can't let

774
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: that happen. It is a test of Will's game. Not

775
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: guys named Will, mind you, but that Indiana at Oregon

776
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: game kind of did something to us, Like you thought

777
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: about Indiana one way before that day, and you were

778
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: forced to think about them a different way after that.

779
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: I know I did, so I no longer worry about

780
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Speaker 1: them just getting clowned, like they kind of got clowned

781
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: in this game a little bit last year. I'm not

782
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: saying Ohio State couldn't run away with the game. Ohio

783
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: State they have paths where they could blow anyone out.

784
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Speaker 1: I'd kind of be surprised if Indiana didn't put up

785
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: a really good fight here at the very least. Also,

786
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Speaker 1: what sticks in my mind is Ohio State's handling of Michigan,

787
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: which is six days ago, seven days ago at the

788
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: point of this game kicking off, where they've had a

789
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: four year drought and they win the game, and they

790
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: were very celebratory, but also they were alarmingly business like

791
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: because it was just another box they were going to check.

792
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Speaker 1: I'm not denigrating the nature of that rivalry. It's the

793
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: best rivalry in college football. I've been to it several

794
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: times It's a humongous accomplishment to win that game, but

795
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: it was not a Super Bowl vibe, and so both

796
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: of their wills on display at Lucas Oil Stadium the

797
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: same time. That's the beauty of conference championship games. That's

798
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 1: the beauty of late season college football, because you got

799
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: multiple programs, multiple teams out there that look like they

800
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: can't be defeated. And in this case it's number one

801
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: versus number two. Someone's got a Toteiel. Let's take a

802
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: look at what the model thinks. FanDuel's got Ohio State

803
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: minus four and a half right now, Model agrees Model

804
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: Scott Ohio State minus four and a half. I just

805
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: got to tell you, I've watched Ohio State play all year.

806
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: I've watched them be dominant all year, and yet there

807
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: has still been this voice in the back of my

808
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 1: mind that says, we have only seen their A minus game.

809
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: There is still a little bit more in the tank.

810
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: They geared up last year at the perfect time. I

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Speaker 1: until further notice, have to assume they're going to do

812
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: that again. So I'll doubt Indiana. That's fine, if they

813
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: need it in the hype video, that's fine. But until

814
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: further notice, Ohio State is the best team in the country,

815
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: and I'm taking them to win, and I will take

816
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: them to cover if they lose. Hey, I don't know

817
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: how that would change fundamentally people's perspective. Outside of a

818
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,439
Speaker 1: scenario where Ohio State really just gets handled, which would

819
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: be a shock to the census, that would be a

820
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Speaker 1: bucket of cold water to the face. If Indiana did

821
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Speaker 1: to them what they did to Oregon, that would mess

822
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Speaker 1: with my mind. I don't see that happening. But outside

823
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: of that happening, the outcome of this game, they're still

824
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: going to be probably number one and number two in

825
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: whichever order the game dictates. Comes selection Sunday, and the

826
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Speaker 1: loser gets to taste their blood and gets to try

827
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Speaker 1: to do what Ohio State did last year. It could

828
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Speaker 1: be Ohio State doing what Ohio State did last year.

829
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: It could be Indiana trying to package up the Ohio

830
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: State model from last year. So yeah, sorry, lot of

831
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Speaker 1: texts coming into that, a lot of people really really

832
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: upset with the playoff rankings and some other stuff's going

833
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Speaker 1: on too. It's a big week around here. Jesse Live

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Speaker 1: subscription counter right quick, Hey, we're forty we're thirty five

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Speaker 1: away now. Jesse, who is technically the producer of the show,

836
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Speaker 1: has tried to make a call in my ear, and

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Speaker 1: he thinks that we should just maintain the counter here.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know how quickly we can get thirty subs, Jesse,

839
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Speaker 1: is it really moving that quick? You do think it's

840
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Speaker 1: moving that quick? Okay, So Jesse thinks that I should

841
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Speaker 1: just fill the buster here live at seven forty three

842
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Speaker 1: pm Central Time on Tuesday, December second, my mother's birthday.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Happy birthday to one Tricia Pate watching

844
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Speaker 1: in west central Georgia. So if you don't subscribe for us,

845
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Speaker 1: you should subscribe for her. I'm sure that's what she

846
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Speaker 1: would want. I'm talking like she is no longer with us.

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Speaker 1: She's still very much with us, but I'm sure that's

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Speaker 1: what she would want. Anyway, if you're watching live, that

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Speaker 1: is our live subscriber count. And we were at four

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Speaker 1: nine nine nine seven one right now. I don't know, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: it's moving a little too slow for my taste. All right,

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Speaker 1: There goes us five. Just like that. I think what

853
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Speaker 1: we can do is I could just get my papers

854
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Speaker 1: in order. Here there go fourteen more Okay, so I

855
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: can tell you, for instance, they're watching in San Juan,

856
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, they're watching in Gary, Indiana, they're watching in Joplin, Missouri.

857
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 1: One more look at that. Look at that. Womstill monngst

858
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: us would have thought that five hundred thousand subscribers would

859
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: happen while we were live on air, we would. So

860
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: I got to take this opportunity to say thank you

861
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: to you guys. There are a lot of really special

862
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: things happening with our show right now, a lot of

863
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: things that candidly, I don't want to get into people

864
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: hating on stuff for people, doubt and stuff. But there

865
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: were people within the last decade that thought it was

866
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: one of the most foolish things in the world to

867
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 1: leave certainty to tread into uncertain waters, and that being

868
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 1: trying to make a living in digital media, in alternative media,

869
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: especially if you're just going to go talk about college football. Now.

870
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,479
Speaker 1: The reason that I was so steadfast that this would

871
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: work was because I am one of you guys. I

872
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: am of the college football diehard audience, and I knew

873
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: I wasn't being served. I looked around on radio, on TV.

874
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: I didn't really have what I wanted, and I knew

875
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: I wasn't alone. All my buddies felt the same way.

876
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: So let's go do it. Let's stop instead of complaining

877
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: about it, Let's go offer it. The market offers us

878
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: the ability to do that. Now, overhead and distribution are

879
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: not barriers anymore. And so now if you think you

880
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: got what it takes, go try your hand at podcasting,

881
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: Go try your hand on YouTube. And we did. And man,

882
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: the show has exploded to the point where we get

883
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: to call our shots, we get to own our ip,

884
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: we get to own the show. And I say we

885
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: intentionally because it's not me, it's the staff. It's you,

886
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: guys though your show. We don't exist without you. So

887
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: I know some people say that sometimes calls the teleprompter

888
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: tells them to say it. We don't own a teleprompter.

889
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you guys. Man, we got a lot

890
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: of special stuff happening right now. We've had some pretty

891
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: big meetings lately that are directly tied to the success

892
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: of this show. That's just numerical evidence of it, but

893
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: the evidence is all around. So you let us do

894
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:55,959
Speaker 1: what we love to do for a living. I really

895
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and in turn, we get to deliver to

896
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: you exactly what you want, which is sort of a

897
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: college football show that's free of like any kind of

898
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: corporate interference. No one ever walks in and dictates what

899
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: we have to say. There is no league that we

900
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: have to have allegiance to or network that we have

901
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: to have allegiance to. I mean, we got great partnerships,

902
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: but it's our show, and you guys have made sure

903
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: that it can remain that way. And to anyone out

904
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: there that is toying with the idea of doing this

905
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: and may be intimidated because the market's too saturated, market's

906
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: not too saturated. If you love what you do and

907
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: you can dedicate yourself to it and you have a

908
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: minimum baseline of God given ability, talent is very overrated.

909
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: Actually in this case, if you just got the minimum,

910
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: just go do it. You can actually change your life

911
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 1: in the process. I know, because you've helped me change

912
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: mind and changed the staffs. And look, I know that's

913
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: a really, really lofty number. I will tell you we

914
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 1: have only just begun on that front. Can really fundamentally

915
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: alter the way that the way college football is discussed

916
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: and covered, because that's in the process of happening. Now, okay,

917
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: let's get back to it. Did not plan on that

918
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: happening live on air. Follow up to that, we got

919
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: to figure out how to properly celebrate that. So I

920
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: am now open to suggestions. However we're going to do it?

921
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: What do we do? I can't shave my head, I

922
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: can't go Will Compton, I'm already there. So what do

923
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: we do? The floor is open, No rush, no rush,

924
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: floor is open, as we are well on our way

925
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: to a million subs at this point, Mark Stoops has

926
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: been fired at Kentucky. Will Stein has been hired at Kentucky.

927
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: Life comes at you really, really fast, as it turns out.

928
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: So two years ago, you may remember, Mark Stoops was

929
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: the head coach of Kentucky. Jimbo Fishers fired at Texas

930
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: A and M. There were a lot of rumors and

931
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 1: speculation that Texas A and M was targeting Mark Stoops

932
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: because they were and there was sort of an agreement

933
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: in principle, and then Mark Stoops started to pack his

934
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: bags and in the meantime, the forums and the message

935
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: boards and talk radio just blew up, and Texas A

936
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: and M fans basically revolted and basically said no, no,

937
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: And the A and M administration was like, what do

938
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: you mean, No, You're not going to hire him, and

939
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: if you do, you will pay the price and don't

940
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: even make us back up our words on that, because

941
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: we will deliver. So it fell through, and then there

942
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: were various takes out there to varying degrees of egregiousness.

943
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: Are a good close personal acquaintance, not friend, but acquaintance.

944
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: Brandon Walker, for example, took to the internet two years

945
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: ago one of many great takes he's had. He said,

946
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: if Texas A and M fans really strong armed their

947
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: school into not hiring Mark Stoops, we have a new

948
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: dumbest fan base in America, more concerned with winning the

949
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: press conference than winning games. Mark Stoops, since that tweet,

950
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,359
Speaker 1: nine to fifteen out of a job, Texas A and M.

951
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Since that tweet, They're in the playoff, aren't they, Jesse.

952
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: So it turns out you can win the press conference

953
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: and win games. Yeah. So will Stein? Hoopst is will Stein?

954
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: Some of you may be asking, well, he is the

955
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: Oregon offensive coordinator. Really sharp guy. I love the idea

956
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: of Kentucky going after will Stein now and now until

957
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: eternity when a new coach is hired. I am ripping

958
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: Tom Fornelli's quote, it's a great hire. I have no

959
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: idea if it will work out. I do love the

960
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:36,280
Speaker 1: concept of it, though, and the concept is stop trying

961
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: to find a sure thing. Stop trying to find a

962
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: guy that's already an established winner as a head coach,

963
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: be cause they aren't really out there. And if they

964
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: are out there, respectfully, it's Kentucky. You're probably not landing them.

965
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: You got to go land the next guy. Well, Josh,

966
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: what if they hit a home run and will Stein

967
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: wins a lot, Well, worry about retaining him later, but

968
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: go get a guy who can win first. I got

969
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: to tell you I've sat in will Stein's offensive meetings

970
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: within the last month. Even in fact, so has Savannah State.

971
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: We were out there for the USC game, and I mean,

972
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: Dan's really great about access there as long as you

973
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: keep your mouth shut, And so I took a blood

974
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: oath that I wouldn't report anything back directly, but I

975
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: also went and set in on will Stein's offensive meetings,

976
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: and Savannah State leans over to me, Yes, yes, my

977
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: wife is in the offensive meetings with me as well.

978
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,439
Speaker 1: She leans over and asks, who is that? I said,

979
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: that's will Stein, She goes, he sounds like a head coach.

980
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 1: Well less than a month later, he is an sec

981
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: head coach. Runs a good meeting, obviously runs a good offense.

982
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 1: How prepared does the room feel? Is always what I compare.

983
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: Does there go a lot of these places? I get

984
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: to sit in that kind of setting A lot like

985
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: how prepared does the room feel? How much are they

986
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: echoing back to you what you're saying to them? It

987
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you know if you can't put it

988
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: in their head, and if what's in their heads doesn't

989
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: come out on the field, it can be the smartest

990
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: football savant known to man. It doesn't matter. Will Stein's

991
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: really good at knowing the game, calling the game, coaching

992
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: the game. But then his player is executing the game

993
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: at a high level. And the other thing that stands

994
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: out about will Stein's offense and being in his meeting

995
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: rooms is how readily those quarterbacks could finish his sentences

996
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: for him. They just know the system, so he knows it,

997
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: and what he knows is in them. So it's not

998
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: a guarantee of anything. I'm just giving you an observation

999
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: dude is really sharp offensively, and his team plays accordingly.

1000
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: It'll come down to the same things for him. At

1001
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: Kentucky it comes down to for anyone else, do you

1002
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: have the necessary support? We'll see can you recruit the South?

1003
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,320
Speaker 1: Are you given the resources to recruit the South? Especially

1004
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: at Kentucky where you're probably not gonna swing, you know,

1005
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: shot for shot with the Georgias or Alabamas or tech

1006
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: that says, can you place a premium on premium on

1007
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: evaluation and on development, sort of what Elko did at

1008
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: Duke not to you know, apples to apples, compare the programs.

1009
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: But that'll matter a lot here. But at least they

1010
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: took a swing. I respect Kentucky for taking a swing.

1011
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people looked at him and said, dude,

1012
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 1: you're about to pay Mark Stoop's thirty seven million dollars

1013
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: not to coach. And by the way, that thirty seven

1014
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: million dollars is due within what Jesse sixty days, Yet

1015
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: they don't get to spread it out over several years. Kentucky.

1016
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 1: People say, it just means more, It just costs more.

1017
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: I know that. So best of luck to will Stein.

1018
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: We may even venture up there. For the Speaker series

1019
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: this spring. So I'm sorry, it's a crazy time right now,

1020
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: and we're about to talk about something on the show,

1021
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: and I just want to make sure nothing's happened on

1022
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: this front, Jesse. I mean, you know what we're about

1023
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: to talk about. Has anything happened that I should know

1024
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 1: about on a certain coaching search? I don't think so.

1025
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: H always getting ready. He's so depressed. It's not funny.

1026
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: It's not funny. Would you say, Jess, you say something

1027
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: about merch? Yeah? Okay, before we depress everyone with the

1028
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: latest on the Penn State coaching search. Hey, it's Christmas season.

1029
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Speaker 1: Look at those beautiful sweaters over at the paint State

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1031
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1032
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Speaker 1: You may be a wayward mother that has accidentally stumbled

1033
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: onto the channel because your son subscribed you to it

1034
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Speaker 1: unbeknownst to you. Don't unsubscribe, and number two, get him

1035
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,720
Speaker 1: a Christmas sweater. Look at tis the season to be chuggy.

1036
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Speaker 1: Where could you go wrong with that? Those things have

1037
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Speaker 1: been flying off the virtual shelves at the payt State

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Speaker 1: store paytstatematerial dot Com. Appreciate you guys. Okay, all right,

1039
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: it's it's about to get really somber. For first second,

1040
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: the Penn State coaching search is a disaster. I'll say

1041
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: it now. My Penn State brethren are saying it, even

1042
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: if they have never agreed with me on who they

1043
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: should hire, nor have they agreed with me on whether

1044
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: they should have fired. James Franklin and know and Matt

1045
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: Campbell are the two fill ins to the blanks there.

1046
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: The latest in this saga is that Kilani Sitaki is

1047
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: going to remain at Brigham Young. Since we last spoke,

1048
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: Penn State made a serious run at him, and I

1049
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: thought we'd hear his name sooner, but we didn't. And

1050
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: now it doesn't matter because he's going to remain at

1051
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: Brigham Young and they're going on to play in their

1052
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:39,240
Speaker 1: conference championship game Saturday. There were a lot of questions

1053
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: about how good a fit he would be fit as

1054
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: a very overrated term in coaching searches, but I digress, well,

1055
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: moot point. So that makes like twenty seven names that

1056
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: Penn State has struck out on really an inexcusable spot

1057
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: for Penn State to be on. Let's rewind it for

1058
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: a second. Let's just remember where we are. I know

1059
00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: a lot of Penn State fans are watching, and like

1060
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: we I don't want to listen to this rehashed what's

1061
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: going to take thirty seconds. But for those of you

1062
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: who are just kind of observing this from a distance

1063
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: and you're in the weeds on it and you're so

1064
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: zoned in, zoom out. They fired James Franklin before almost

1065
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: anyone else fired their head coach this year. The reason

1066
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: was so they could get a jump start on a

1067
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:24,280
Speaker 1: coaching search. Why, because the calendar is different now. Signing

1068
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 1: day is tomorrow, it's the first Wednesday in December, and

1069
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: the portal season opens in early January, and so we've

1070
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: got to have a coach in place. That's the entire reason.

1071
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 1: You fire a guy that otherwise was winning nine plus

1072
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: games per year. It's not good enough for us anymore.

1073
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: All right, that's great, except that you had no idea

1074
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: who you could go get. Well, Josh, you can't know

1075
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: who's available to you until you fire your coach and

1076
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:50,879
Speaker 1: you go out on the market. No, no, no, no no.

1077
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: We can't know who's available to Penn State until they

1078
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: fire James Franklin and go hire a replacement, you better

1079
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: be about ninety eight percent sure if you're the athletic

1080
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: director or else, you have screwed your program and it's

1081
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 1: totally inexcusable. And at that point, if you fire James Franklin, again,

1082
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: not terrible by any stretch. The guy was in the

1083
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: semi finals like eight months prior. But he's not good

1084
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 1: enough for you. You fire him, and you know you

1085
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: can go get Marcus Freeman or Mike Elko or Kaylin

1086
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: debor fine, tough love, tough business. Go do it. But

1087
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: if you're firing him out this window, you're saying goodbye,

1088
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: and out that window you see nothing but fog. You

1089
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:33,959
Speaker 1: might want to have him stick around until the fog

1090
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: clears up a little bit. But Pat Craft didn't do that.

1091
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: And if you don't have certainty that you can upgrade

1092
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: from your current situation, but you hit flush on your

1093
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: current situation anyway, you're probably not equipped to be the

1094
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: athletic director of a major program. Just calling it like

1095
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: it is. I got nothing against Pat Craft, I'm just

1096
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: what else is in your job description? At that point,

1097
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: the football program at Penn State by ten Miles matters

1098
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: more than anything else he does, and it's in a

1099
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: state of disrepair right now. Do you understand Signing day

1100
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: is tomorrow and they've got the one hundred and twenty

1101
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: eighth RANC class in the country. They're in a situation

1102
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: right now where whoever they sign is. I kid, you

1103
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: not gonna have to try and do what Barry Odom

1104
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: did at Purdue or what rich Rod did at West Virginia.

1105
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: Just portal in sixty guys so they can have a

1106
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: competitive team next year. That's not even to mention the

1107
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: mid to long term rebuild of the roster. And meanwhile,

1108
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: I look down the road, Virginia Tech could not have

1109
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: gotten a better Christmas present than Pat Craft delivered to them.

1110
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Pat Craft is a sleeper agent

1111
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: for Virginia Tech. What I am saying is if Virginia

1112
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: Tech had planted Pat Craft in State College Pennsylvania to

1113
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: do their bidding, he wouldn't have done much different than

1114
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: he's done. He fired a top fifteen caliber head coach

1115
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: early enough in the season where Virginia Tech could go

1116
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,919
Speaker 1: get him. I have him in place, have a top

1117
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: thirty recruiting class, probably better than that after they wrap

1118
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: it up tomorrow and you went and got a playoff

1119
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: caliber head coach, you massively upgraded, You got delivered to

1120
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: you a top fifteen head coach at a program that's

1121
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: not a top thirty program. And it's because the other

1122
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: guy's voluntarily dumped him with no certain answer. I cannot

1123
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: believe Penn State finds themselves here. Like we debated internally tonight,

1124
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: should we have fun with this? Should we do the

1125
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: Sarahmonclaughlin's special music, And we were gonna do it, and

1126
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: I said no because I like Penn State a lot

1127
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: as a program. So I actually don't want to make

1128
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: light of it because it's really not a joke. It is,

1129
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: but it isn't. It's actually really serious because there's no

1130
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: reason why Penn State football should be in this position.

1131
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: You could come to me and say, well, this job

1132
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: is not the caliber of Ohio State or Michigan or Oregon. Okay,

1133
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I can promise you it's better

1134
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: than it's being treated. Promise you it's better than it

1135
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: is perceived in the marketplace right now. And the other

1136
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: thing that aggravates me about this is you've got a

1137
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: guy I'm gonna hammer this again. I really couldn't care

1138
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: less who it pisses off. Matt Campbell is just sitting

1139
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: in ames, Iowa. And I mentioned his name a month ago,

1140
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: and a lot of you turned your nose up at him. Okay, well,

1141
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: how do you feel now because you chased unicorns for

1142
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: a while that you had little to no shot at

1143
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: getting even if you had a competent athletic director. And

1144
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: then you chased the backup options to the unicorns. And

1145
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,439
Speaker 1: they also told you know, and meanwhile, the guy who

1146
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: in the one hundred and thirty four year history of

1147
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: Iowa State football is in the midst of the best

1148
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: three year run in program history, that's just sitting there,

1149
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: has not gotten a look. And I had a couple

1150
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: of you say, well, hey, man, if Matt Campbell's so great,

1151
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: then whyhattan he gotten offers before he has? Tennessee was there,

1152
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: Florida State was there, the Detroit Lions were there. You

1153
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: don't know it because he doesn't push to publicize it.

1154
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: Dudes had a ton of big time offers in his

1155
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: lap in the past, not the cycle in the DAN Again.

1156
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: It boggles my mind. Sometimes athletic directors have their affairs

1157
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: in order, and I look at a situation and I

1158
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: don't understand it. But just because I don't understand it

1159
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. This one is one

1160
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't understand because the guy at the center of

1161
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't understand. So I don't know if I don't

1162
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: know if Pat Kraft's gonna have his job much longer,

1163
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: Like I legitimately look at it, it's that disastrous. I know.

1164
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: If you're not following this coaching search day to day.

1165
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: You are listening to me right now saying that's way

1166
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 1: too harsh, dude. You're you're trying to You're trying to

1167
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: rage bait with this. We're all the other terms engagement, farm,

1168
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: click bait. You're just trying to hot take your way

1169
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: through this. No, I'm not, I promise you I'm not.

1170
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: If you get closer to the situation, you really start

1171
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: to feel the gravity of the situation. It really is

1172
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: that bad. So I don't know where it's gonna go.

1173
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 1: I don't know where it's going to go. Like I

1174
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: don't know if Bob Chesney has signed his deal at UCLA.

1175
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: I don't Jeff Brahm, like these are just some of

1176
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 1: the names being thrown around. Brian Dable is out there.

1177
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I do know this

1178
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:19,680
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1179
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1180
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Speaker 1: spring sporting season. I don't care if you want to

1181
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: buy stuff for the summer of next year. Really competitive

1182
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:28,800
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1183
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: of the show. Eternally grateful to them. They believed before

1184
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 1: many others believed, and so Academy dot Com is always there.

1185
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: If you can't get their in person. A lot of

1186
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: you are doing shopping right now, and once you get

1187
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: done at the pet State store, paystatematerial dot Com, head

1188
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 1: over to Academy, whether it be in person or Academy

1189
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Speaker 1: dot Com. Grills, canopies, late late tailgating purchases. Perhaps, yes,

1190
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: it could all be done there. We still got more

1191
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: games to predict. Jesse wow ooh, Big one here, Big

1192
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: twelve Championship game Saturday noon kickoff on ABC Texas Tech.

1193
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,479
Speaker 1: Brigham Young rumors that Joe Tess is on the call here,

1194
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: so expect many things, Probably not a blowout, though. Kalani

1195
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: Sitaki has re upped with Brigham Young, so he's staying.

1196
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 1: Joey McGuire a new contract. He's staying. And before we

1197
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: even dive into the matchup, you know you got two

1198
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: brilliant head coaches here. So Taki's doing things rarely seen

1199
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: in Provo Utah. Of course, Joey McGuire and company are

1200
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: putting together a historic season in Lubbock, Texas. And yet

1201
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: despite all that, good close friend of the program and

1202
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: noted college football savant Joey McGuire chose to share some

1203
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: of his wisdom with the college football public earlier this week.

1204
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: Don't take my word for it. Roll at Bradley.

1205
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think he's really important people that

1206
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 2: understand football as a whole, you know, I think no

1207
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 2: matter what you know, I think Josh Pate does a

1208
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 2: great job. I think he's a guy. I wouldn't be

1209
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 2: mad if he was the commissioner of college football.

1210
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: I know he would take.

1211
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 2: The job and do a great job.

1212
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: And what started as a joke is becoming very serious,

1213
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: isn't it. Hey, who flips what in this game? We

1214
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: were at this game and love it when it happened.

1215
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: It was a great environment but it wasn't a very

1216
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: competitive game. Twenty nine to seven was the final. So

1217
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the most boiler plate logic imaginable

1218
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: here is, well, if it plays like that again, I

1219
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: may be tuning out by halftime. Okay, So if it doesn't,

1220
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 1: what has to flip? Well, a couple of things have

1221
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: to flip. For Brigham Young. They need to find a

1222
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: much more competent ground game than they had the first

1223
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: time around, because twenty seven carries for sixty yards for

1224
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 1: Brigham Young is not going to get the job done.

1225
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: They also need to re establish their dominance and turnover margin.

1226
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: They were minus three in this game, and yet they're

1227
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: number seven nationally in turnover margin on the year. The

1228
01:04:55,840 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: problem is Texas Tech is fourth, so neither of them

1229
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: are very prone to giving the ball away. It's just

1230
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: that when they played the first time, one of them

1231
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: certainly had the edge. It was the home team for

1232
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. See here's the funny thing about the first game,

1233
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: big margin of victory, it actually could have been much worse.

1234
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 1: Texas Tech kicked half a million field goals. They had

1235
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: five field goals from inside the Brigham Young thirty. I

1236
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: think three of them were in the red zone, we counted,

1237
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 1: so they couldn't finish drives, and they're eighty ninth in

1238
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: red zone touchdown percentage, so that's been a little bit

1239
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: of an issue with them. But the point is, with

1240
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: those issues, they still won going away. Flip even one,

1241
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 1: if not two of those field goals into touchdowns, and

1242
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:41,479
Speaker 1: it is a huge, like blowout victory for Texas Tech.

1243
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 1: So Brigham Young has played their best ball as of late.

1244
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: I fully believe that. I fully believe they are the

1245
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 1: best version of themselves right now. I do believe they're

1246
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: a better team than they were when these two played

1247
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: the first time around. Texas Tech probably is two. So

1248
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: the final well, you know, the final feel kind of

1249
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: comes down to how have they been lately, Like they've

1250
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: won their past three by double digits. They need to

1251
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 1: flip turnover Okay, Like I'm trying to visualize why I'm

1252
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 1: looking off and up to the left, like I try

1253
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: and visualize how it would happen, how the upset would happen.

1254
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: I think the way the game would have to feel

1255
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: stylistically is turnover margin has to be flipped, and that

1256
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: needs to happen early so that Texas Tech doesn't grab

1257
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: an early lead because Texas Tech grabs these games early

1258
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 1: and they're over They're one of the best first half

1259
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 1: offenses in the country. They're number three and first half

1260
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: points per game, they're number two in first half pass

1261
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: yards per game, number one in the country in first

1262
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 1: half explosive passes of twenty five plus yards, So you

1263
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 1: can't let that happen. Greatly helps if you do what

1264
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: Michigan did against Ohio State last week, get yourself an

1265
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 1: early turnover, but capitalize on it, and then they just

1266
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: kind of need to ride the revenge wave. They basically

1267
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: just need to show a version of themselves that proves

1268
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 1: the gap is not quite as big as it looked

1269
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: the first time around. There is a fairly sizable talent

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01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: edge here from Texas Tech, but you can overcome that,

1271
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: Like there are ways bringing me on has done this

1272
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,439
Speaker 1: a long time, so there are ways you can overcome that.

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01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to overcome is instinct versus eyeballs. My

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01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: instinct generically in a matchup like this is okay. If

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01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 1: we had a match up early in the season, one

1276
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: team did get blown out, but it's cause they were

1277
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: minus three turnovers and they're gonna get another shot. Oh,

1278
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: by the way, their head coach just re upped contractually

1279
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: after he flirted with leaving for a hot minute, and

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01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: they get another shot. Like, I'm riding with that team

1281
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: at the very least, I'm taking the points. But I

1282
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: remember watching the game, and I remember telling myself leaving

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01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: Lubbock that day, if these teams play again, just remember

1284
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: as dominant as this was, it could have been worse.

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01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: And the next time they will play would be in Arlington, Texas.

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01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: And that turf's not going to slow Texas Tech down

1287
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: any I can't get over that. I really can't get

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01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,439
Speaker 1: over that. The model can, though, So let me show

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01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: you something right quick. At FanDuel, Texas Tech is minus

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01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: twelve and a half. The paid state model has Texas

1291
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 1: Tech minus eight. Brigham Young is a huge lean, like

1292
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: best bet type of stuff. And because I'm not betting

1293
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 1: the game, I am feeling willing to outright challenge the

1294
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: model on this. The model historically has been really low

1295
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: on Brigham Young. Well now it's way high on Brigham Young.

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01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 1: I actually believe that the gap is bigger than the

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01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,720
Speaker 1: model does. I'm going to take Texas Tech to win

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01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: and cover and if they do, look, I think we're

1299
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 1: looking at them possibly locking down a first round by

1300
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: I do believe, and there's been some argument and some

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01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: debate out there about that. I do think you got

1302
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: Ohio State in Indiana one to two in any order.

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01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: I think the SEC champ is going to be in there,

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01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: and then I think Texas Tech if they win, will

1305
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: be the fourth team. And by the way, if they

1306
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 1: do win, also think about what that does downstream in

1307
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: the playoff rankings. That probably maybe bumps Brigham Young out

1308
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 1: from between Miami and Notre Dame, which then potentially triggers

1309
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 1: our ACC doomsday scenario of Duke winning the ACC, not

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01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: being ranked high enough to get in the playoff, and

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01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: the committee sitting there on selection Sunday saying are we

1312
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: gonna put Miami in? Or are we gonna say no

1313
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 1: to the entire ACC butterfly effect. Man, it's out there.

1314
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:35,679
Speaker 1: You may think there aren't many things that could change

1315
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 1: this Saturday. Yeah, there are. I have an itch on

1316
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: the edge of my nose. I don't know what it is.

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01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: It's not what the haters will say. It is drug free.

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01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: The only way to be over here, kids. I am

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01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: a graduate of the Dare program at New Mountain Hill Elementary.

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01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: So I've never done a drug in my life. I

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01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't even know where to get them. I'm sure the

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01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: live chat would, but I wouldn't even know where to

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01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: get them. So it's just a good old fashion knows.

1324
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: Although there is a suspicious amount of energy on the

1325
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 1: show tonight, but it's not because of that. Okay, JP

1326
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: pole week fifteen. It has dropped fifteen weeks. I have

1327
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 1: told you these are not rankings. These are power ratings.

1328
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: But I especially need to tell you because the playoff

1329
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,760
Speaker 1: rankings are out right now. The order you're about to

1330
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: see these teams in, in no shape, form or fashion,

1331
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: is reflective of how I think the rankings should look.

1332
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: I can't stress that enough. There are two very very

1333
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: glaring examples here of why I can't stress that enough.

1334
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: All this is I'm about to show you is the

1335
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 1: model data spat out in the order of who it

1336
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 1: would favor against two on a neutral field. Have we

1337
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: been clear? I think we've been clear all year. Let's

1338
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:50,080
Speaker 1: take a look. Missouri is there at number twenty. Eli

1339
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: Drinkwitz will be relieved to know that he finished the

1340
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: season in the top twenty of the JP Pole and frankly,

1341
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what more he could ask for a

1342
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: few more wins. But outside of that, let's not be selfish. Okay,

1343
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,759
Speaker 1: got your contract extended, You're making half a billion dollars

1344
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: a year, and you're a top twenty JP Pole team.

1345
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Penn State is at nineteen. I want to

1346
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: pause here for a second. Obviously Penn State's not ranked

1347
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: in the top twenty north should they be? But power

1348
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: ratings wise, and I have confirmed this with FanDuel, this

1349
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: is worth the paper pop. No matter who wins the

1350
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: ACC Championship game Saturday, whether it's Duke or whether it's Virginia,

1351
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 1: FanDuel would favor Penn State by more than a field

1352
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: goal over either one of those teams. Do with that

1353
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 1: whatever you will. Iowa number eighteen. Tennessee stayed at seventeen,

1354
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: Brigham Young's at sixteen. I'm telling you, man, you look

1355
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: at that and you think, oh, bring him young man.

1356
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:51,640
Speaker 1: They're only sixteenth. It's a huge deal for them to

1357
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 1: be this high because their talent roster doesn't compare with

1358
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: some of these other teams. Just like Indiana. I'll show you.

1359
01:11:58,200 --> 01:11:59,720
Speaker 1: I'll just go ahead and spoiler alert it for you.

1360
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:01,719
Speaker 1: They're all the way at number two. It's a huge

1361
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 1: deal that these non blue blood, non perennial top five,

1362
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: top ten recruiting teams are this high. It's also a

1363
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: little reflection of where the sport is right now, a

1364
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: little bit of the flattening of the sport. Let's go

1365
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 1: top fifteen, USC at number fifteen, Lincoln Riley, there you go,

1366
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 1: stood up on the podium there held the sword in

1367
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 1: his hand, led the band, number fifteen in the jpee pole.

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01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: Vandy at number fourteen. Really kind of similar to where

1369
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,799
Speaker 1: they are in the college football playoff rankings. Utah thirteen,

1370
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: o U twelve, Miami's eleven. All right, look at who's

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01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 1: number ten. Texas is number ten. This is where I

1372
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:40,640
Speaker 1: need to stop for a second, and I need to

1373
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: remind everyone at least one more time. This in no

1374
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: way is reflective of what I think the rankings should

1375
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: look like, because I don't think Texas should be number

1376
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: ten in the rankings. But from a power ratings standpoint,

1377
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:58,679
Speaker 1: they absolutely would be favored against Brigham Young or who else.

1378
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: Jesse certainly against either of the ACC teams. They be

1379
01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:04,679
Speaker 1: favored by half a mile against the G five teams.

1380
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 1: So yes, Texas still respected by the odds makers know

1381
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:14,679
Speaker 1: that shouldn't matter when it comes to fielding the playoff.

1382
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is number nine, Alabama's number eight, Ole Mess seven,

1383
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: Notre Dame six. So the model has been high on

1384
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: Notre Dame all year. We have never had Notre Dame

1385
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: I think outside of the top eight or so maybe nine.

1386
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: And that's even when they were zero and two. So

1387
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 1: I mean, model's been rock steady on Notre Dame all year.

1388
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 1: Top five, Oregon at five A and M at four.

1389
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:40,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull something up on the laptop here right quick.

1390
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: Georgia's three, Indiana's two. They did flip Indiana and Georgia

1391
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 1: and Ohio State's one, just to give you an idea

1392
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: of the gap between these teams right now. It will

1393
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: not shock you to learn that Ohio State is they

1394
01:13:56,160 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 1: have re established the gap between themselves and Indiana. There

1395
01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: is right about a four point four and a half

1396
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 1: point gap, which is reflected perfectly in the FanDuel odds

1397
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:11,360
Speaker 1: this week. But with Georgia at about another point there

1398
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 1: and then you go down to Texas A and M

1399
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 1: at about another two points, and then the gap between

1400
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 1: Oregon right now and Ohio State would be eight and

1401
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: a half points according to the model. So again, make

1402
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,599
Speaker 1: of that what you will. The gap between Ohio State

1403
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: at number one and let's just say Missouri fairly sizable,

1404
01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: like sixteen points, fifteen points something like that. And as

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01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: soon as I put that number out, I think I'd

1406
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: get a lot of action on Ohio State minus. You

1407
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: could do that in Missouri right now. You know Missouri

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Speaker 1: I wanted to hit one last thing. A couple of you,

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01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: and by a couple, I mean like fifty of you

1442
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 1: asked about this. Hold on a second lipbom uh. So

1443
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,760
Speaker 1: Blaine from Hattiesburg, Mississippi hit us up. He said, do

1444
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: you agree with Cole's take? I assume kublic that Kiff

1445
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:50,120
Speaker 1: and quit on Ole. Miss You may be wondering what

1446
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: take is he talking about, So I'm gonna play it

1447
01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: for you. I think this is from mcelroyan Kublick, which

1448
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: is a radio show I listened to every morning. By

1449
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: the way, it's it's local in Birmingham, but really it's

1450
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: a national college football show. So this was a couple

1451
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: of days ago. Kublick just woke up in an ordinary

1452
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 1: mood and decided to go off on poor, innocent, defenseless

1453
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:14,759
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. Let's take a listen.

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 4: You don't leave your team before you're going to the playoffs,

1455
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 4: like it's you can't do it, man like you tell LSU.

1456
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 4: I'm sorry and I hate it. I wanted to be

1457
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,200
Speaker 4: your head coach. You tell Florida, I would love to

1458
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,720
Speaker 4: coach the Gators man like it. It would be so cool.

1459
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 4: To run out there in the swamp and lead that

1460
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,760
Speaker 4: team out there and like do what Spurrier did and

1461
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 4: do what Urban did and like be the next guy there.

1462
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 4: But you know what, I can't do it right now.

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01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 4: I can't wait.

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01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: That too.

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01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:50,880
Speaker 4: Like it's like like you're trying to force your You're

1466
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 4: trying to force your leverage on old miss. Why don't

1467
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 4: you force your leverage on.

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Speaker 1: Lsu Yep, yup, yup. I don't disagree with anything that

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01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:06,719
Speaker 1: they said there. I haven't disagreed with most any opinion

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01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: that's been offered on this. It's really one of those

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01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 1: classic college football conundrums, if you will, because I think

1472
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: everyone's kind of right. You could come at me and

1473
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 1: say Lane Kiffin one hundred percent should have taken that

1474
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:20,720
Speaker 1: job any way he wants to, if he wanted it,

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01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, that is his right. And then

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01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:27,680
Speaker 1: Cuberlic could come in, backed by Michaelroy, and say, you

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01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: know what, he quit on his team at Yep, he

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01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: sure it did. And then someone else could say, well,

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01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:35,000
Speaker 1: they wouldn't let him coach his team in the playoff,

1480
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: that's correct, And then someone else could say, well, you

1481
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: know there was one surefire way that he could have

1482
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 1: coached the team in the playoff, stay at old mess yup.

1483
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: All this stuff I agree with, and then someone else

1484
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: could come in and say, eh, the calendar is a mess.

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01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: It's a shame that anyone has to deal with this. Yep,

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01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: that's also accurate. And then someone else could come in

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01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 1: and say, stop making the calendar the scapegoat. These are

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01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: adults making tens of millions of dollars. They ought to

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01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: be man enough to stand by their word, and I'm like, yup,

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01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:11,920
Speaker 1: that's valid. I don't disagree with any of this. I

1491
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: don't really know how to feel because normally there's a

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01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 1: very very clear side. It's not normally this gray. Normally

1493
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:22,320
Speaker 1: it's pretty white and black. I will say this though.

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01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: All right, So they said something at the end there

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01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: that I don't think was feasible, Like he said, you

1496
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:29,640
Speaker 1: shouldn't have quit on your team, like you should have

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01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: just seen it through. Now, what you could have done

1498
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:37,719
Speaker 1: paraphrasing here is he said you could have just waited

1499
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 1: and told Lsu, I'm gonna see my season through, then

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01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: I'll take your job. And he said, kind of if

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01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: you wanted it bad enough. McElroy said, you know, if

1502
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: they wanted you bad enough, they'd be willing to wait. Well, yeah,

1503
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: ls you would have been willing to wait even today.

1504
01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,439
Speaker 1: LSU would have no problem with him going to coach

1505
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:57,439
Speaker 1: the playoff. Of course they would have no problem with it.

1506
01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: It's the old Miss side that had the problem with it,

1507
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:05,560
Speaker 1: and it was never gonna happen that way. It sounds reasonable,

1508
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: but practically it couldn't happen that way. Think through that

1509
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 1: for a second. The LSU job's vacant. You know, a

1510
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:16,520
Speaker 1: bunch of people want the job, and yet you mysteriously

1511
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: go well into December and you haven't filled the job

1512
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,799
Speaker 1: like Penn State right now, imagine if that was LSU.

1513
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 1: No one would call LSU desperate. They would know they're

1514
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,640
Speaker 1: waiting on someone, and they would know who someone it is.

1515
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 1: They would know it's Lane Kiffin, and ole Miss is

1516
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:34,479
Speaker 1: not stupid, so they'd know it too. And Ole Miss

1517
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: will say no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no.

1518
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: Tell you what if it's not you sign this contract,

1519
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: sign this piece of paper we're putting in front of you.

1520
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: And if Lane Kiffin said no, then you suspend him

1521
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: with pay. But you're not letting him ride it out

1522
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: there while all the while, for all you know, recruiting

1523
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:54,519
Speaker 1: half your roster away. You're not doing that. You're not stupid.

1524
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 1: It's just semantics at that point, okay, whether whether the

1525
01:20:57,600 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: LSU job has been offered to him or not, or

1526
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,599
Speaker 1: or whether he is seeing the season through. That wasn't

1527
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 1: gonna happen. And the other thing you could have done

1528
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:09,639
Speaker 1: if you wanted to make that happen, the only thing

1529
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 1: you could have done, actually is retained Brian Kelly. That's

1530
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 1: the only thing you could have done. You could have

1531
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: retained Brian Kelly, run a very very air tight, super

1532
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 1: secret back channel coaching search where you let it be

1533
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: known to Lane Kiffen and his reps, our job's gonna

1534
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: come open. It's gonna come open after your season ends,

1535
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:35,640
Speaker 1: whenever that is, and if that needs to be in January.

1536
01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 1: We'll hold on to Brian Kelly through January. Therefore we'll

1537
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 1: be able to lock down a recruiting class. If we

1538
01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: need to go all the way through the portal window,

1539
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: we'll go through the portal window, and then when your

1540
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: season ends, we'll fire him and we'll hire you. That's

1541
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 1: the way it could have happened, but it didn't. Happen

1542
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: that way. So the moment Brian Kelly was fired, there

1543
01:21:56,800 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: was no world, no matter how you spread the ice

1544
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:02,640
Speaker 1: over the cake, where Lane Kiffin was going to be

1545
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:05,520
Speaker 1: able to finish his season at Ole Miss, including the playoffs,

1546
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: and still take the LSU job. If the current situation

1547
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: is as is, it just becomes obvious what's happening. So like, yes,

1548
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: of course, in a perfect world you could have seen

1549
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:19,719
Speaker 1: it through, and in a realistic world, LS you would

1550
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:21,600
Speaker 1: have loved that Ole Miss was never going to allow that.

1551
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: So if you think he quit on his team, it's

1552
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: because he did. He did quit on his team. And

1553
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: if you think that's unethical or that's hypocritical, it's cause

1554
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: it is at least hypocritical, if not unethical. And if

1555
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: you think that a disproportionate amount of criticism has been

1556
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 1: slung towards Lane Kiffin when people like John summerl are

1557
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,560
Speaker 1: also in this position, that's true. It's because Kifin's a

1558
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 1: much bigger name and he handled it way differently than

1559
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: John did. And if you're of the opinion that, well, hey,

1560
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 1: he's an adult, he can make any decision he wants,

1561
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. And if you think the LSU is

1562
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: a better job, and you should take it whenever it's offered.

1563
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: That's fine for you to feel that. My point is

1564
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 1: you can feel any way you want to about it.

1565
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how you feel about it, nor does it

1566
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: matter how I feel about it. It matters how Lane Kiffen felt.

1567
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: And we know the answer to that. But I get

1568
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:09,839
Speaker 1: it's all going to come down to your personal preference,

1569
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: sort of your personal college football worldview. That's what it's

1570
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:15,640
Speaker 1: going to come down to. And we know Cole kublicks.

1571
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 1: And on a slightly related note, we will have him

1572
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 1: on the show Thursday. Maybe will zoom Lane in as well.

1573
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:25,720
Speaker 1: Just a nice little three box and Lane's I'm told

1574
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: he's pretty busy right now. We appreciate you, guys, man.

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01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: We're almost a five hundred and one thousand subs now.

1576
01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:34,559
Speaker 1: We appreciate you so much. I mean, did not wake

1577
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: up this morning thinking that we were going to hit

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01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: five hundred k on air tonight. I thought it would

1579
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:43,839
Speaker 1: be tomorrow before we did. But the audience always delivers.

1580
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: Are are people always delivered? They have never not delivered.

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01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 1: So it's a big week for us. I can't give

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01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: you all the details right now, there's just a lot

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01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 1: going on. I mean, above and beyond this number next

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01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: to my head, there's a lot going on. Time in spring,

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01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 1: I'll probably be able to just tell the full story

1586
01:24:04,479 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: of all the wheels in motion behind the scenes. And

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01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: I know you hear this from me about every six months.

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01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: That's caused great stuff keeps happening to us about every

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Speaker 1: six months or so. So look, before you start to worry,

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01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:19,519
Speaker 1: nothing's happening with the show. Show's not going anywhere, show's

1591
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: not changing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. It's just we got

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Speaker 1: incredible opportunities coming our way. One of those is our

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you another really really really big one that's

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01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 1: coming Saturday, and when I get the go ahead to

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01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 1: announce that, I will. But it has to do with

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Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game and we're really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: And then there are several other things in motion as well.

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Speaker 1: So happy but also focus for director Bradley, for producer Jesse.

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Speaker 1: We will be back Thursday, probably about an hour earlier.

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Speaker 1: In other words, at the same time we've been doing

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