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Speaker 1: You know, some really fascinating conversation happens this time of year.

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Speaker 1: I share as much of it as I can with you.

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Speaker 1: But I was watching Daisy Jones in the sixth for

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Speaker 1: and it occurred to me, this is a lot like

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Speaker 1: a band. We're kind of in the rehearsal period right now.

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Speaker 1: But in the next fifty five days we have week

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Speaker 1: one of fall Saturdays upon us. I don't really care

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Speaker 1: what the calendar says. When they're playing college football, it's fall.

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Speaker 1: We are jam packed. We are high a top a

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Speaker 1: very rainy, frequently rainy downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Balances of power

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Speaker 1: where does it lie? Kind of easy to figure out

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Speaker 1: in some conferences, a little bit more difficult to figure

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Speaker 1: out in other conferences. But on the surface, that's one thing,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, what happens when we remove the first

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Speaker 1: layer of top soil. You get some grubworm and you

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Speaker 1: also get some teams that are underachieving that could quickly

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Speaker 1: rise back to the surface. Well, I'm talking about it tonight,

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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about it on both sides of the

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Speaker 1: sec I'm talking about chip Kelly tonight, what you think

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Speaker 1: about him? A very different tone today than when we

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Speaker 1: talked about Dabbo or when we talked about Jimbo Fisher.

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Speaker 1: Disagreement amongst you guys, but a kind of a more

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Speaker 1: nuanced kind of disagreement. We've got what ifs, We've got

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Speaker 1: bold predictions. We're putting the bright white hot spotlight on

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Speaker 1: FSU tonight. All that plus a few other odds and ends.

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Speaker 1: Happy to have you with us. We're just college football

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Speaker 1: year round. There is no MLB Draft coverage on the

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Speaker 1: show tonight, although it is on a monitor out in

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Speaker 1: the hallway if you're so interested. They're watching us in Chandler, Arizona, Humble, Texas.

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Speaker 1: The h is silent, Phoenix City, Alabama, Lynn, Massachusetts. We

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Speaker 1: got ideas for the Peate State store coming in left

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Speaker 1: and right. The reason I asked you guys is, for example,

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Speaker 1: I never would have thought to sell flags. I never

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Speaker 1: would have thought that you guys are out there tailgating

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Speaker 1: and I should have thought about it, but I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: whatever you guys want within reason. Of course, you know

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Speaker 1: that the paint State branded toe rings. I don't know

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Speaker 1: but I think it's a good idea. Nonetheless, Jesse's got one,

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Speaker 1: everyone else. Let's dive into the show tonight. We did

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Speaker 1: this a couple of years ago. Direct Colin and I

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Speaker 1: we were just sitting around one day chatting. I think

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Speaker 1: literally was, and he said, hey, balance of power, man, Like,

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Speaker 1: do an entire show on it. So that's what we're

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Speaker 1: doing to lead the show off tonight, sec West balance

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Speaker 1: of Power. You know, sometimes you get results like we

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: believing or not revisionist history. Notwithstanding, Saban doesn't always win

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Speaker 1: The key picture, well not the key picture, the key figures.

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Speaker 1: Ironically enough, in the SEC West, second and third tier

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Speaker 1: or not for Jimbo Fisher, for Hugh Freeze and Auburn.

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Speaker 1: But you know they'll tee it up this fall and

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Speaker 1: They've got plenty of talent out there. We know all that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's like beating a dead horse by July.

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Speaker 1: Everyone said that a million times. But the balance of

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Speaker 1: get a taste for beating the big boys. You get

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Speaker 1: a taste for doing something you hadn't done in a

429
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Speaker 1: decade and a half. There are kids almost old enough

430
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Speaker 1: to drive in the state of Tennessee that weren't alive

431
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: the last time they beat Alabama. That's a big deal

432
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 1: to pull off that early in your coaching tenure. And

433
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Speaker 1: then you also add on to that the fact they

434
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Speaker 1: just landed a top ten class, so recruiting has been

435
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Speaker 1: continually improving as well. It's a pivotal year for Tennessee

436
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 1: not to prove that they can do it. They just

437
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,640
Speaker 1: prove that. But that was a team. Now we start

438
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: to zoom out and ask is this a program thing?

439
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: Is that what we should expect? Because we got teams

440
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: out there that we can every three or four years

441
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 1: expect to pop a random double digit win season on you.

442
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Speaker 1: Far fewer are the programs that can consistently average nine

443
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Speaker 1: to three quarter to ten wins a year. It's Tennessee

444
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Speaker 1: going to be one of those. That's what this year

445
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: will go a long way in helping decide for us

446
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: and then behind them, and I don't know how far

447
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 1: necessarily because it's still in kind of a state of flux.

448
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 1: South Carolina's done it two years in a row. South

449
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: Carolina's got one of the hardest schedules every year in

450
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Speaker 1: the country, and so it's very important to calibrate your

451
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Speaker 1: judgment post season when you're looking at what they did

452
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Speaker 1: two years in a row. As you well know, they

453
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Speaker 1: have overachieved relative to the Vegas over under that new

454
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator move that Shane Beemer made, now well Logan's

455
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, one of the most important moves in the

456
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Speaker 1: assistant coaching world that was made by any school. Because

457
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Speaker 1: again of South Carolina being a top twenty program when

458
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 1: they're right anyway, but also who they play every year,

459
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: you got that. You also, speaking of top twenty, you've

460
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Speaker 1: got Shane Biemer's crew over there ascending into being a

461
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Speaker 1: top twenty power in recruiting, and that wasn't the case

462
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Speaker 1: when he got there. Not close Florida is going to

463
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Speaker 1: be better than their five and a half win total

464
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Speaker 1: this year. I just have to blindly believe that. It

465
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Speaker 1: almost takes zooming out a little bit on them. The

466
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Speaker 1: closer you get, you know, and the more you realize

467
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 1: or remember the painful memories of last year, the more

468
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Speaker 1: negative you may be about Florida. I think sometimes it

469
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Speaker 1: helps to have a completely refreshed, cleansed palate and you

470
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Speaker 1: come back to the table. And here's how simple it

471
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: should be with Florida. It should be as simple as Wait,

472
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Speaker 1: they're recruiting top twenty or better every year. Right, they've

473
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Speaker 1: portal top twenty or better every year, right, multiple years

474
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Speaker 1: in a row. Right, Yeah, it's Florida. Right, Yeah, that's it.

475
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Speaker 1: That Billy Napier is the head coach. Billy Napier is

476
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Speaker 1: not twenty five years old, a rookie who got handed

477
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Speaker 1: the job through means of nepotism and has no clue

478
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Speaker 1: what he's doing. He's actually won before as a head coach. Right,

479
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: he's got proven production. Right, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

480
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: they should be a lot better than that. There is

481
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Speaker 1: no excuse for that wind total to be down there. Now,

482
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: the Florida didn't set the wind total, Vegas did. It's

483
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Speaker 1: up to them to fly past that over under wind total.

484
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Speaker 1: And then you start resurrecting a program. And that's what

485
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Speaker 1: Anyone who's a fan of the sport outside of Miami

486
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Speaker 1: and Tallahassee, et cetera. Anyone who's just a fan of

487
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: the sport is probably looking and saying the same thing

488
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: I am. I look at Kentucky. Kentucky preseason win totals.

489
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Speaker 1: They've got the third highest in the East. I got

490
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Speaker 1: excoriated the other night because I didn't mention Kentucky in

491
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Speaker 1: one of the bold prediction segments. So I'm gonna mention

492
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: them now. Kentucky historically has been a program that every

493
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 1: few years is capable of a special thing. They're not

494
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Speaker 1: a program in football that's gonna fly at the nine

495
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: to win per year range on average. However, we're gonna

496
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Speaker 1: talk about a team later in the show that I

497
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Speaker 1: think is kind of morphing as the sport morphs. I

498
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: think the transfer portal era will come to be very

499
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Speaker 1: kind to Kentucky because of what the transfer portal is

500
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Speaker 1: compared to regular recruiting. In regular recruiting, a lot of

501
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: the trappings matter, a lot of the bells and whistles matter.

502
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Speaker 1: In portal. When you're getting a guy out of it

503
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: that's played three years of college ball, it is so

504
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: down to business. It's so transactional, and in some cases

505
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: it benefits a program like Kentucky, a coach like Mark Stoops,

506
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: who can really just sit down in front of you

507
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Speaker 1: and say, look, we're not gonna have a cake with

508
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Speaker 1: your name on it. We're not gonna have a Ferrari

509
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: parked out front that you can take a picture with.

510
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Speaker 1: If you want to do that, probably not place for you,

511
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: but you did that three years ago when you originally

512
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: committed to wherever you committed to. Now it's time to

513
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: get down to business. You got a couple of years

514
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: of college ball left. You need to maximize it. We're

515
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: the place that's proven we can we can develop you.

516
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: I can put you in position to play against the

517
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: best in the country. I can put you in a

518
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Speaker 1: position to be coached by some of the best in

519
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Speaker 1: the country. What do you think for a kind of

520
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: like Devin Leary that works and in the future, I

521
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: think as the as the nil portion of it sort

522
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: of calibrates and everyone gets their bearings, I think Kentucky's

523
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Speaker 1: going to be sort of a low key destination for

524
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Speaker 1: transfer portal players who once upon a time wouldn't have

525
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: looked in Kentucky. But the second time around will because

526
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Speaker 1: the second time around different things matter than the first

527
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Speaker 1: time around. So that's the balance of power as I

528
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: see it right now in the respective corners of the SEC.

529
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Speaker 1: I know they'll think that I'm picking on them, because

530
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Speaker 1: they always do. I'm not. It's agreedious that Florida's win

531
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: told is that low. It's insane. I really I hope

532
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 1: they're right, you know, because their fan base thinks it's crazy,

533
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: and I hope they're right. I hope they just like

534
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: go full people's elbow on the five and a half.

535
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: I hope that's over already by the time they get

536
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Speaker 1: to November. We and by we, I mean myself and

537
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: management at Academy Sports and Outdoors. We personally opened a

538
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: brand new store in Peoria and Bloomington, Illinois this past week.

539
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: And I told you guys Thursday, I want evidence that

540
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: you went there and you delivered it by the truck load.

541
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Speaker 1: I did not even I didn't know exactly what Academy

542
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors carried. So I try and mention these

543
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: obscure products that they carry sometimes to just illustrate the

544
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: depth of product that they have. When you go in there,

545
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: everybody knows they've got the traditional sporting goods equipment. Everybody

546
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: knows you can get a hockey net, they're a basketball goal,

547
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: baseball bat. Did you know you can get wedding rings there?

548
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: I don't mean the actual ring. I mean sort of

549
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: the like silicone rubber ring that you want to wear

550
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: when you still want to display your affection for your

551
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: significant other. But you may be kayaking, or you may

552
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: be weightlifting and you don't want to wear the real

553
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: thing in there. Academy has it one of you. Hit

554
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: me up. Listen, how beautiful this is. This is how

555
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: I know this marriage is gonna last. First Off, these

556
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: people got married in the spring, so they avoided the

557
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: fall death trap. Secondly, they bought wedding rings at academy.

558
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 1: And thirdly, while they were in the checkout line, they

559
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: made sure to confirm to me they grabbed some great

560
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: big leak chew. I think grape is the best big

561
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: lead chew flavor. We can disagree reasonably minded on that.

562
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: But what a trip like? Where else are you gonna

563
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: go to get silicone wedding rings in big leak chew?

564
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: And maybe I don't know a football while you're at it,

565
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors. And then you narrow it down

566
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: even further out of the places you could get those

567
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: things which one brings our show to you free of charge,

568
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors and nobody else. It's like that movie.

569
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: What's that movie? I can't remember Anyway, there's a movie

570
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: out there where someone just keeps on saying, God bless

571
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: America and no place else. God bless Academy and other places,

572
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: but not quite as much as Academy. That's at least

573
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: a tagline that they could try out for this fall.

574
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: It probably won't pass the focus group, but I encourage

575
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: them to try it anyway. Academy Sports out Doors. If

576
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: you can't get there in person, chances are they're about

577
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: to build a store in your backyard. But until then,

578
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: Academy dot com is where you want to go. Wedding rings, grills,

579
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: big leak, chew, etc. What If this? What if that?

580
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: It's one of our favorite games on the show. To

581
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: play the what if game. Let me take a sip

582
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: from the chalice. There have been rumors, by the way,

583
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: that there will be chawli plural of chalice. There will

584
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: be chawli available in the pet State Store. That is

585
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: not true at this time. I can confirm that Challi

586
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: will not be for sale. They are only available to

587
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: be one and if you want to know how to

588
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: win one, just stick around. I'll let you know. What

589
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: ifs this fall? What if it happens? Well, we got

590
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Speaker 1: four real good ones tonight, and the first is a

591
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: nightmare scenario for our friends in South Florida. He has

592
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: to do with Mario christ Ball has to do with Miami.

593
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,239
Speaker 1: Chad said, what if year two from Mario Christabal has

594
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: little improvement from year one? Is he still going to

595
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Speaker 1: be the head coach at the end of the year, Chad,

596
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Speaker 1: I would love for you to have just given me

597
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Speaker 1: a record. So they went five and seven last year.

598
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: If you're saying they have little to no improvement, let's

599
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: just say six and six. At least we made a Bowl.

600
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: So six and six. If Miami goes six and six,

601
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: is Mario Christabal the head coach? Well, let me answer

602
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: the second part. Yeah, he'll still be the head coach.

603
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: I got very little doubt he'll be retained as the

604
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Speaker 1: head coach. Could there be staff turnover? Yeah, that stuff

605
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: happens all the time anyway, So it'd still be the

606
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: head coach. They're outside of scandal happening off the field,

607
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: top ten portal, top ten recruiting in the twenty twenty

608
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: three cycle. Talent acquisition's been there. I know the detractors

609
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: would be saying, well, yeah, but Mario's always recruited. Well

610
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: look at this though, yet again underachieving on the field.

611
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: Told you told you, I can go ahead and print

612
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: that on a fortune cookie and break it open in December.

613
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: If this happens, that's what that fortune cookie's gonna say.

614
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: I got a hard time seeing it happen, though, Chad.

615
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: Now the over under seven and a half wins, so

616
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: it's well within the realm of possibility. I got a

617
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: hard time seeing them not show some improvement. Now. I

618
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: told you when I was down there a couple of

619
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and I'll tell you again, twenty twenty four

620
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: is really the year they got circled. That doesn't mean

621
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Speaker 1: they're just overlooking twenty twenty three. Far from that. The

622
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is when they feel like they'll just

623
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: be fully off the ground with their version of that

624
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: Miami roster. But in the meantime, what they just do.

625
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: They brought in two new coordinators. Both of them hail

626
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: from Louisiana. Ironically, you talk about rural Louisiana being plugged

627
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: into the Miami night Live scene. What a time for

628
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: Lance Guidry down there, Shannon Dawson, What a time, What

629
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: a time for the locals trying to understand what they're saying.

630
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: Good guys, though, love both of those guys. I got

631
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: a hard time seeing them not improve off five and seven,

632
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: and by improve, I mean let's get up into that

633
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: eight win range. How about that. Don't have an easy

634
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: schedule though, That's what stands in the way of it. Potentially,

635
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: there's some teams like Louisville. We're about to talk about

636
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: them later in the show. Louisville has just a masterclass

637
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: and how to draw a favorable schedule in the ACC.

638
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Miami does not have that, I think outside of themselves.

639
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: They play four of the five other top teams in

640
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: terms of odds in the ACC. This fall not an

641
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Speaker 1: excuse we're baking in. But we're not asking them to

642
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: win eleven games either. So if it were to happen, Chad, yes,

643
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: I still think he'd keep his job. Next up, let's

644
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: go to the Great Big Ten. This would revolutionize the sport. Adam.

645
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: Adam said, what if Michigan wins the national championship, Adam,

646
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: it would be a massive deal for Michigan. I think

647
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: it'd be just as big a deal for the Big Ten.

648
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: There has not been a Big Ten team win a

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00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: national championship aside from Ohio State this millennium. Last time

650
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: it was you guys, it was nineteen ninety seven. So

651
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: the Big Ten inside its own walls, is thought of

652
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: as a multi team conference. I'm telling you in Austin, Texas,

653
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: or in Fresno, California, or in Albany, Georgia, when those

654
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: folks look at the Big Ten for a while, they

655
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: came to think of Ohio State, and then a bunch

656
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: of randos, and then all of a sudden, Jim Harbond

657
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: Michigan started making noise the last two years. But even then,

658
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: while you guys internally think all right, Big Ten's turn

659
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: in a corner in Fresno, in Austin, in Albany, they're

660
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: just saying, oh, so, even Ohio State can't win the

661
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: national title anymore because they watched you crash and burn

662
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: Michigan twice in the playoffs. So they're not scared of

663
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: you either. So if Michigan were to win the national

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Speaker 1: title this year, aside from what it does for the

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Speaker 1: legacy of Jim Harbaugh, think about what it does for

666
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten. Because in reality, Ohio State is still

667
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: a primetime player. But if you all of a sudden

668
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: introduced a new one to the mix, then instead of

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Speaker 1: just being a playoff contender, is now a perennial title contender.

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Speaker 1: And you're going into a new world for the Big

671
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: Ten where you're adding UCLA and USC who knows what

672
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: else happens, and you got those new media rights deals,

673
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: that big new TV deal. It would happen just in

674
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: the nick of time from a marketing perspective alone for

675
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. As for Jim Harbaugh, we talked about

676
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: him the other day. I did the whole what is

677
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: your opinion of Jim Harbaugh thing? He would transform himself.

678
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: This would be his Mark Ricked moment. Mark Ricked in

679
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: twenty twelve was it turns out, as close as he

680
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: was ever going to get to transforming himself from being

681
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: thought of as a really good college football coach to

682
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: being great on top of the mountain mentioned with the

683
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: best of the best because they came up about five

684
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: or six yards short in an SEC championship game against Alabama.

685
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: They didn't go on and have the opportunity to splatter

686
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in twenty twelve like they would have done,

687
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: like Alabama did, and Rick never came close again. Harbaugh's

688
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: come close a couple of times. He's gotten to the playoff.

689
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: They just couldn't get to the title game. If he

690
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 1: finally gets there, it would be his Berlin Wall moment.

691
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: It would be the one that Rick swung at and missed,

692
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: and he swings at it, Jim Harbugh hits it. All

693
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden, College football would talk about him totally differently.

694
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: History would talk about him totally differently, that all of

695
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: a sudden goes from a guy that can't get over

696
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: the hump in one fell swoop. They start saying things like, man,

697
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,439
Speaker 1: how many other coaches have coached in the Super Bowl

698
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: and won a national championship game? And you would look

699
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: at these people and say, aren't you the same one

700
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: who told me they were supposed to fire him two

701
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: and a half years ago. No, No, that wouldn't me.

702
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: Yes it was, but it's okay. We've all been wrong

703
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: a time or two. A lot of folks were wrong

704
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: in this scenario. If this happens, a lot of folks

705
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: would have been wrong. Oh, by the way Statson Info

706
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: tells me, if they just make the playoff this year,

707
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: If Michigan just makes the playoff this year, Jim Harball

708
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: will be one of only four head coaches with back

709
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: to back to back playoff appearances, and that would be

710
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: alongside Lincoln Riley, Nick Saban, and Dabo Swiney. Kirby Smart

711
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: at that point may have pulled it off as well.

712
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: But the impact on Michigan, the impact on the Big Ten.

713
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: We also have to ask ourselves in this what if

714
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Speaker 1: if Michigan wins the national title? It probably means they

715
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: beat Ohio State. Not definitely, but probably That's a whole

716
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: new what if What if that happens? Well, what if

717
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: what if Michigan wins the title? What happened to Ohio State?

718
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, I do Maybe we'll find out. I

719
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: don't know. The next one takes us to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

720
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: Tyler asked, what if bam Emma's quarterback battle goes all season? Well, Tyler,

721
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: this is not going to happen. Jesse watched me write

722
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: down on a piece of paper and he said, well,

723
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: surely you're not gonna say that. What are you actually

724
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: gonna say? Now, Jesse? You call me on my bluff

725
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: and I'll throw my cards down every time. It's not

726
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The quarterback battle is not gonna go all

727
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: season long. They're going to decide on a top two

728
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: early in fall camp, if they haven't already, which is

729
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: the other big question, Hoopster, those two gonna be and

730
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: then they'll find themselves a starter and they'll probably stick

731
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: with him, and if he's not good enough, and if

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00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: he's he's not prolific enough through the air, they'll just

733
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: run the ball sixty percent of the time because they

734
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: got the horses and the offensive line to do it.

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Speaker 1: What you're not gonna see is you're not gonna see

736
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban allow himself to step to a podium every

737
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: Monday morning in Tuscaloosa weeks one through twelve and be asked,

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Speaker 1: all right, what are we getting this week at quarterback?

739
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: That's just not gonna happen. It's not practical. That's not

740
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,280
Speaker 1: how major programs operate. Ones that are far worse stable

741
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: than Alabama don't operate that way. Nick Saban's not going

742
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: to allow his program to operate that way. Now, that's

743
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: not me telling you Bryce Young will just be reincarnated

744
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: in one of these guys magically out of thin air.

745
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: He won't. They don't have a Bryce Young caliber quarterback there.

746
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: They're probably not going to need one if the team

747
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: is wired the right way from the neck up, which

748
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: is what we've talked about a lot. And also if

749
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: they don't feel like they can push the ball consistently

750
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: down the field through the air, that doesn't mean, contrary

751
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: to semi recent popular belief, they have to shut the

752
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: program down. It just means that they have to play

753
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: a different style of football. That's it. Alabama can win

754
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: every game on their schedule running the ball the way

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00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: they used to. We all know. Also, the way they

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00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: used to play coincided with playing a little bit different

757
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: caliber defense. So when we ask these questions about quarterback,

758
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: it's not in a vacuum. Whether it's ty Simpson or

759
00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: Milroe or even Butner. That alone's not telling me the

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00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: whole story. Is this secondary going to play the way

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00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: that I think they could? Is their depth on the

762
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: defensive front going to be more quality than it has been.

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00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: The players are there, it just has to perform. I

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00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: do not think you're going to see a twelve week

765
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Speaker 1: quarterback battle. Though. Lastly, this is almost like a soap

766
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: opera storyline for the what IFFs here? Tate said, what

767
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: if Brenton Venables gets a playoff win before Lincoln Riley.

768
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where I'm supposed to go with this.

769
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: I know where Tate's going, and I know where Oklahoma

770
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: fans would go. So first off, let's just address that

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00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: if Lincoln Riley ends up making the playoff again and losing,

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Speaker 1: or making it two years in a rown losing and

773
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: he messes around and he lets Oklahoma, led by Brenton

774
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: Venables get in that thing and win a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Before he does, theyd have to shut down Norman for

776
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: a couple of days. I don't know how you handle

777
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: the public school system there. I don't know how private

778
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: business operates, and I'm not here to tell you your business.

779
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it would be a big deal for

780
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: those folks. It would be a big deal. It would

781
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: be like being cheated on and then you pull up

782
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: to a red light and there she is waiting for

783
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: the bus. That's exactly what it would be. No offense

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Speaker 1: to bush riders. I've been one a time or two

785
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: in my life. Some of my best friends in life

786
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,959
Speaker 1: I met on buses. But I'm saying, if you see

787
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: the one who left you in dire straits and you

788
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: see the one you're with helping you to thrive, it

789
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: does a little something. It's a little pick me up

790
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: to the soul. And the more sinister minded you are,

791
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: the Eddie Rattos of the world. For those out in

792
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: that portion of the country, you'll know who I'm talking about.

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00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: The more sinister in mind that you are, the more

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00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: it would mean. As for me, I would sit here

795
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: and go all right, Well, that means Oklahoma is off

796
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: and running and there good program and Lincoln Riley and us.

797
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: He probably haven't fallen off in this scenario. It probably

798
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: just means their defense still can't stop molasses in December,

799
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: and he hasn't made the proper changes to his staff.

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Speaker 1: That's probably what that means. On the other hand, it

801
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: also means that Brent Vinnibles has finally lived up to

802
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: his reputation as a defensive minded coach whose defense last

803
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: year woefully underachieved, or maybe expectations were set too high

804
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: on one or the other. I say, finally, like he's

805
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: been there five years, he's been there one year. So

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00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 1: that's what it would mean for me. What it would

807
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: mean for the folks in Norman, totally different story. Thank you, Chad.

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00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: I think it was Chad. I had a good question

809
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: for you today. Well I thought it was good and

810
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: then you validated that. Oh man, we got a lot

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00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: of folks watching live. Thank you so much. Hey, since

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00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,759
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Speaker 1: man to ask for it. That hurt to say more

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Speaker 1: than I thought it would. But anyway, thank you in advance.

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Speaker 1: I know our audience, and if our audience took over

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00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,839
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00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: to two hundred thousand subs before kickoff. I asked you

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00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: earlier today, what's your opinion of Chip Kelly? Chip Kelly,

837
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: you still think of him as being at Oregon, don't you.

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Speaker 1: It's tough. That memory framework thing works in very mysterious ways.

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Speaker 1: This was like the anti Jimbo Fisher segment. This is

840
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: the anti Dabo Swentty segment. When I asked you your

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Speaker 1: opinion on Jimbo and Dabo, you guys went all different

842
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,880
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Speaker 1: you had personal reasons. With chip Kelly, there was pretty

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00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:41,280
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00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,120
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Speaker 1: the curve, and not just stuff that you see nutrition practice, habits,

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00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: sort of the neck up aspect of college football, a

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00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that pretty much every program does now.

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Speaker 1: Chip Kelly was kind of at the forefront of that.

852
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: He tried a lot of it in the NFL, and

853
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 1: not surprisingly, professional athletes pushed back on it a little

854
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: bit more than college athletes can. Also, there's pretty broad

855
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: agreement there may be some aspects of himself personally that

856
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: limit his scaleability, and that is a way too convoluted

857
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: way of saying he didn't like to recruit as much

858
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: as other folks, and some of you think that'll stop

859
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: him from ever winning a national championship. How's that? Why

860
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: make it complicated when it can just be dumbed down.

861
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: The disagreement about chip Kelly when it came to you

862
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: guys going back and forth and me participating with you,

863
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: was a lot more nuanced than Jimbo. It was a

864
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: lot more nuanced than Lincoln Riley or not Nick Saban.

865
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: We hadn't done him, but daboswenty pretty much Everyone looked

866
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 1: at Chip Kelly and still does as a phenomenal play caller.

867
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: And I was talking to some folks behind the scenes

868
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: in the industry today to kind of pick their brain,

869
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: get their viewpoint of But there's not a person worth

870
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: their salt out there that questions him as an offensive

871
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 1: mind even today. Like some folks say, the game has

872
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: passed him by really well, that scoreboard is not aware

873
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: of that. I saw him in person twice last year.

874
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: They're fine, and he's fine there. Staffing a defense is

875
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: a completely different issue, and if there's something that's going

876
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: to hold him back even more so maybe than just

877
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: raw talent acquisition, their defense hasn't been good enough in

878
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: his time at UCLA. I still think it may not

879
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: be good enough, but they just went and hired a

880
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator from the Ravens about thirty three years old.

881
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: I think Jesse's never called plays, so I'm not sure

882
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: what to expect there. But when it comes to strengths

883
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: and weaknesses, everyone's got him. Some are more pronounced than others.

884
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: But if you told me, hey, you can adjust one

885
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: thing about Chip Kelly to make him like a slam

886
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: dunk championship caliber head coach year in and year out,

887
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: it actually wouldn't started recruiting for MEAs I'm about to

888
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: talk about in a second, I just wish that I

889
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: could press a button and give Chip Kelly a top

890
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: fifteen defensive support staff. If I could do that, that

891
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: guy'd be the favorite in the Pac twelve this year.

892
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: I know some of you don't believe that, but I'm

893
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 1: right about it, because they got a good enough quarterback

894
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,879
Speaker 1: coming in the door. That's as deep a team as

895
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: he's had at UCLA. If they had a top fifteen,

896
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: don't even need top three or four, top fifteen, top

897
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: twenty ish defensive staff, totally different ballgame. Everyone on the

898
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: West Coast knows it. But there are others amongst you

899
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: who went the personal route some of you. Some of

900
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: you just said, oh, Chip Kelly, Yeah, he's a good

901
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: play caller. Yeah he's had some success, great teams at Oregon.

902
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: That kind of rubs me the wrong way. I don't know,

903
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: there's just something about him, and I know what you're

904
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: talking about, and I think it boils down to a

905
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: couple of things. Number One, Chip Kelly really at his core,

906
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: does not care enough about what other folks think about

907
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: him to ever a dre that. Chip Kelly's got a

908
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: really personable side of him. You don't normally see it publicly,

909
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: but he's got that. He just doesn't care what other

910
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: people think enough to try and showcase it. Like Jip,

911
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: Kelly does not get on the phone at night with

912
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: his agent or a publicist and say, all right, all right,

913
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: what's my Q rating today? What do I need to do?

914
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: Image wise? Which shows do I need to go on?

915
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: Which appearances do I need to make? Have I put

916
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: enough on social media today? What are people saying about me?

917
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: Those aren't conversations he's having. He just doesn't care enough.

918
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: If he did care, Chip Kelly could just overhaul his

919
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: public image over the span of twelve months. He doesn't

920
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: care about it enough. And also, I think some of

921
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: you have also seen him be kind of short with

922
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: the media, and I think you've seen him be pretty dry,

923
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: and you've taken that to me, gotta be a jerk.

924
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: Here's an exercise I wish we could do. I wish

925
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: I could take fifty of you, just random drawing whoever

926
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: wants to participate. I want to take fifty of you,

927
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: and I want you to do what you do for

928
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: a living. So I used FedEx the other day. We'll

929
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: use UPS today. You drive a UPS route in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

930
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: You don't have to come be a head coach, just

931
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: drive your route. Then I want to take a football coach.

932
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: I want to take Chip Kelly, actually, and I want

933
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: you to have a press conference at the end of

934
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: the day, and I want you to explain to him

935
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: why you went down Commerce Street instead of just getting

936
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: on twenty four and looping around. And I want you

937
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: to look at him and smile, even though he knows

938
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: nothing about what he's talking about. And you drive that

939
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: same route every day, and you know right down to

940
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: the second how precision based that timing can be, and

941
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: how to squeeze every second out of that morning and afternoon.

942
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: You have forgotten ten times more about that route than

943
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: he'll ever know. But he's there questioning you, knowing nothing.

944
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: His power is. He happens to have a microphone in

945
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,439
Speaker 1: his hand. How would you look at him and then

946
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: ask yourself if you did it? Every day for multiple years.

947
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: How would you look at him? And the answer is,

948
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: you'd look at Chip Kelly the exact same way he

949
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: looks at the media. Scratch that, you would be far

950
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: bigger a jerk to Chip Kelly than he's ever been

951
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: to the media. And that goes for pretty much everyone

952
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: in pretty much every line of work, especially when you

953
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: achieve at a high level and then people ask you

954
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: questions who relatively speaking, know nothing about what you're doing.

955
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: How would you act? You'd look exactly like Chip Kelly

956
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: or worse. Is my point. It would be the most

957
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: fun exercise because I think a lot of folks would

958
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: walk away from it saying I get it now, I

959
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: get why these guys are the way they are. This

960
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: is not to demonize media. That's my business, that's my industry.

961
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: You'll notice when I ask coaches questions they sound a

962
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: lot different than the normal questions they get. I know

963
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: my lane, I know where those guys could make me

964
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: look like a fool if they wanted to. I do

965
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: a good enough job making myself look like that. I

966
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: don't need them to do it for me. But those

967
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: are really the only two. Like if chip Kelly just

968
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: wanted to. I think chip Kelly could make himself more

969
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: affable and outgoing and fun loving, or at least he

970
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: could portray that image. Some folks can fake it and

971
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: make it, and I just don't think he cares about that.

972
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: But I think as for his future at UCLA, I

973
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: think he landed in a really good spot, and I

974
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: think he's there at a very fortuitous moment. Remember when

975
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: he came back to the college game, it wasn't just UCLA.

976
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: Florida was in the mix too. Florida wanted chip Kelly,

977
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: and chip Kelly had his choice, and he chose UCLA,

978
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: and a lot of people looked at it, not knowing

979
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: any better, and said what is he doing? And chip

980
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: Kelly looked at it and said, if he went to Florida,

981
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: what would he be doing? Like, chip Kelly is not

982
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: a guy who loves to live on the road in recruiting.

983
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly is not a guy who is necessarily fond

984
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: of backslapping with a dozen donors per day. It's just

985
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: not his it's not his vibe. And that's okay. And

986
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: if it's not his vibe, you see, is the job

987
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: for him. But when people look at UCLA or for

988
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: that matter, a number of jobs on the West Coast.

989
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: You look at building a permanently lower ceiling on top

990
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: of your head than is possible to reach a national

991
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: championship with good reason. That's what history has taught us.

992
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: You're not gonna win a national championship in football at UCLA. Well,

993
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily saying something is about to change that

994
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: cataclysmically to all of a sudden make that possible. I

995
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: am saying Chip Kelly's in the right place at the

996
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: right time at UCLA because, as I've said for a while,

997
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: I feel like the sport's kind of come into him

998
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: a little bit. Kelly's not about to have UCLA landing

999
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: top five in high school recruiting for obvious reasons. But

1000
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he can do, same thing I

1001
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: said about stoops A, Kentucky a little while ago. What

1002
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: they can do the second time around and they've been

1003
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: successful at it. They can go the second time around

1004
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: through the portal and they can say, Okay, two years ago,

1005
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: we weren't even in your top five. Now you've gotten

1006
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: that out of your system, and you don't need to

1007
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: take a photo shoot with the bunch of three hundred

1008
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: thousand dollars cars, And we don't need to put your

1009
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: name on a cake and put it in your dorm room.

1010
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: And you don't need the bells and whistles. You're down

1011
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: to business. Now, you're a multi year college football player.

1012
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: You understand what you want. You understand how pivotal development is.

1013
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: You want a forty year lifestyle instead of a four

1014
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: year lifestyle. We're the place to develop you. And you're

1015
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: also going to get a world class degree from UCLA.

1016
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: What do you say? That approach right there is nuts

1017
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: and bolts. It's bare bones. But that's going to work

1018
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: a whole lot more in portal than it is in

1019
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: traditional recruiting. The second thing you need to keep in

1020
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: mind is that those three words nil, because that's kind

1021
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 1: of also right up his alley and righte up UCLA's alley.

1022
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: And when you combine that with obviously a lot of

1023
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: opportunity you can have in southern California, all of a sudden,

1024
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: even in the high school ranks, you all of a

1025
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: sudden land the Dante Moors of the world. And it's

1026
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: no small thing to pitch yourself. Is the fact that

1027
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm Chip Kelly. Here are the guys I have coached

1028
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: and developed in the past, but also, oh, you can

1029
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 1: pick and choose your spots and go toe to toe

1030
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: with some of the big boys in NIL. I mean

1031
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: that kid was committed to Oregon. Oregon is a big

1032
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: player in NIL, and UCLA went and got him. Just

1033
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: to give you an idea of what they are capable of.

1034
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: So I think the portal cuts through a lot of

1035
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: what has formerly been a low ceiling on a chip

1036
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: Kelly team at a UCLA. Now I don't know how

1037
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: high they can fly. I just think I think their

1038
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: ceiling is being raised a little bit. It was really

1039
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: fun going back and forth about chip Kelly today. I

1040
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: didn't think we were going to get that many, that

1041
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: many different bits of feedback on him. They're watching us

1042
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: in New Haven, Connecticut tonight, and we thank you for that. Toledo, Ohio.

1043
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:49,959
Speaker 1: Prairie Grove, Arkansas, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Thank you so much

1044
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: for tuning in. It's bold prediction time. What do you

1045
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: believe about this season that you would bet your own

1046
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: money on the first one is well above a nine

1047
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. Producer Jesse and I went back

1048
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: and forth feverishly today on what the boldness rating should

1049
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: be on this. So listen to what John's predicting. Not

1050
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: surprisingly hailing from college station, but he says he's a razorback,

1051
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 1: not an aggie. John says Texas A and M is

1052
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: going to win the National Championship at plus six thousand odds.

1053
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: All the talent, the Patrino offense, chip on their shoulder,

1054
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 1: traditional power, new quarterback, there's a path. It should be

1055
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 1: noted that John sent this to us May fourteenth. Well

1056
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: today it is July ninth, which is good because it

1057
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: illustrates what's happened in the odds market. When John sent

1058
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: that A and M was plus six thousand to win

1059
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 1: the national title. You know what they are now they're

1060
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: plus twenty eight hundred, one of the biggest movers in

1061
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: the National Championship odds market. For those of you who

1062
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: don't know what that means, that means a lot of

1063
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: folks have been on Texas A and M to win

1064
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: the national title. That's what it means. Now they're up there,

1065
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: tied for eleventh. They've got the same odds as notre

1066
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: They've got better odds than Tennessee to win the National Championship.

1067
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: Lost in the commotion of last year and lost in

1068
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: the commotion of Bobby Petrino coming in. And all of

1069
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 1: that is the fact that they're quietly returning the number

1070
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: two defense in S and P plus. I shouldn't even

1071
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: say returning. Bill Connelly has them ranked as the number

1072
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: two defense in preseason S and P plus. And here's

1073
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: another good stat from producer Jesse. You take the top

1074
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 1: one hundred recruits A and M's ever signed in the

1075
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: history of their program, all nine hundred years. Out of

1076
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: the top one hundred kids they've ever signed, do you know,

1077
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: twenty six of them are on their current roster, over

1078
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: a quarter of the top one hundred players signed in

1079
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: the history of that program or on campus right now.

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00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: And guys, that's after a bunch of them left this

1081
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: past spring and summer. Having said that, it'd be tough

1082
00:55:58,239 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: for me to see A and M winning the national champion,

1083
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: so I'm putting a nine point twenty five on this. Yeah,

1084
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: I feel good about it. Nine point twenty five. Next up,

1085
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: this one's kind of out of nowhere, but you need

1086
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: to be paying attention to it. Anybody who talks acc

1087
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: Right now, they're going Clemson in Florida State right, maybe

1088
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: some Miami sprinkled in. Noel from Fort Myers said, my

1089
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: bold prediction for this season is Louisville wins ten games

1090
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: in Jeff Brohm's first year as head coach there. This

1091
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: is not all that bold to me. This is a

1092
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: seven point twenty five on the boldness scale. Now, I

1093
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: know some of you out there don't exactly have the

1094
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: ACC helmet grid schedule next to you, so you may

1095
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: not be familiar with Louisville schedule. Well, let me tell

1096
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: you what it has. It has no Florida State, it

1097
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: has no Clemson, it has no North Carolina. They get

1098
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 1: Notre Dame at home. There is no back to back

1099
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: road stretch on this schedule. It is as favorable a

1100
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 1: draw as you could possibly have gotten the ACC. Also,

1101
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: Louisville sneaky good roster. They brought in Jack Plumber quarterback,

1102
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: and that's a guy who came in from Cal. But

1103
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: he's familiar with Brahms offense and last year at Cal

1104
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:18,479
Speaker 1: twenty one to nine td to I int ratio had

1105
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: a sixty three percent completion percentage. Pretty good player doesn't

1106
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: have to learn a system. Familiar with the system. I

1107
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: just I'm not deterred by the churn at head coach.

1108
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: Most Louisville fans are happier with their head coaching situation

1109
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: now than they were, so Louisville winning ten games this year,

1110
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,959
Speaker 1: that wouldn't necessarily mean they're one of the best teams

1111
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: in the country. You're not always what your record says

1112
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: you are in college football. A lot of that has

1113
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: to do with schedule. This would be the perfect case

1114
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: study of that. So they win ten games this year,

1115
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: it would not stun me. I would not be on

1116
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: the floor. I'm gonna put a seven point twenty five

1117
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: on the boldness scale for that. Next up, this gets

1118
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: a little bolder. Major from College Park Maryland says Maryland's

1119
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: finally gonna take a jump. They're gonna beat Michigan or

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00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: Ohio State this season. Time out, there's my first time

1121
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: out of the show. Take a sip from the chalice

1122
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: ear musk. Kids. I need those of you who don't

1123
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: already follow me on social to go ahead and follow

1124
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: me at Lake Kick Josh. I'm even on threads, but

1125
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: I want you to go to Twitter and I want

1126
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: you to look at what I put out after dark

1127
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: last night. I had to wait till the sun went

1128
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: down for this one. It's a little graphic there is

1129
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: nature is just wild. So I saw Tom Fournelli put

1130
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: it out there, and then I just stole it from him.

1131
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. I love stealing things.

1132
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long

1133
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: time ago. So I look at the video and it's

1134
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: so bizarre. And this is going to tie back into Maryland,

1135
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: I promise you. There is a jaguar, one of the

1136
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: most fierce animals on the planet, scared of nothing. There's

1137
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: a jaguar sitting there in the jungle. There are these

1138
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: two tortoises torti the plural of tortoise, and they're just

1139
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: moseying along and they walked right past the jaguar, and

1140
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: the jaguar lets him pass, and then the tordi go

1141
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: behind the jaguar, and you know what, they did unspeakable things,

1142
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: And the male tortoise had his mouth wide open while

1143
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,959
Speaker 1: he was doing it, total yolo style when you say

1144
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: you only live once. They fully embraced it that afternoon,

1145
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: and so God blessed them. I took it as a sign.

1146
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: I probably went and bet a few dollars on Maryland

1147
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: right after that, and louisvill we got Maryland in the

1148
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: show tonight. So Maryland's gonna beat either Ohio State or Michigan.

1149
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: I normally would call this an eight point seventy five,

1150
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: but in honor of the Tordai and the video that

1151
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: we saw with the Jaguar, I'm bumping it down to

1152
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: an eight. Maybe it'll happen. You know, they played Michigan

1153
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: really close last year. They lost by seven to Michigan.

1154
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: They lost by thirteen to Ohio State. That's the kind

1155
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: of good news. The bad news is they're one in

1156
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: eighteen against these teams over the past nineteen times they've played. However,

1157
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: Mike Loxley has Maryland went off the best season they've

1158
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: had in quite a while. They've got Taulia tako Iloa back.

1159
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: He was out at the Lee eleven too. I forgot

1160
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: to tell you guys about that. What if they were

1161
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: in the big ten West, they just get lost in

1162
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: the East. That's their problem. That's why we're doing away

1163
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: with divisions. If Maryland was in the West, a lot

1164
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: of folks would be favoring them to win the thing. Well,

1165
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: Jesse was looking at S and P plus today earlier

1166
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: and probably the most reputable preseason rating system out there

1167
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: until the JPA pole comes out, of course, and the

1168
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: jpeople heavily factors that in too. I won't lie. You

1169
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: know where Maryland is. You know where they stack up nationally.

1170
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: Maryland's right there with Louisville, They're right there with Miami,

1171
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, NC State. It's just that they get lost

1172
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: because no one expects them to beat Michigan, Ohio State,

1173
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: Penn State. And again that's why divisions are one of

1174
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: the many tools of the devil. They're fortieth in preseason

1175
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: s and P plus fortieth. They replaced four offensive linemen.

1176
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: That's the tough part. Do get Maryland right after Maryland

1177
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: plays Penn State, and Maryland's got to go to Maryland

1178
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: or Michigan has got to go to Maryland. And that's

1179
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: the second stretch for Michigan of a back to back

1180
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: road stretch. So that's the one you probably circle. Probably

1181
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,919
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm gonna put an eight on that one.

1182
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: Eight on the boldness scale. And lastly, this one's the

1183
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: highest boldness rating I've given so far. Harris from Clearwater, Florida.

1184
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: A team will sweep all the positional offensive awards, so

1185
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: quarterback Award, Davy O'Brien. I think running back is the

1186
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: Doak Walker Award, Wide receivers the Bolitnikov Award. Only one

1187
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: team's done this since Producer Jesse has been alive, and

1188
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: that was twenty twenty. Alabama nause because they ran him

1189
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: a ton won the running back award. You had Mac

1190
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: Jones win the quarterback. You had DeVante Smith win wide receiver.

1191
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: They won the Joe More Award offensive line. For good measure,

1192
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: think it's the best offense I've seen this generation. Outside

1193
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: of that, no one's pulled this off off. I don't

1194
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: think it's going to happen this year. I was looking

1195
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: at the teams and every one of them that has

1196
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback that could do it. You look at running

1197
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: back and they're not going to feature a running back enough.

1198
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: That's the thing that gets in the way. It's not

1199
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: even a bad thing, it's just a thing like that.

1200
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: Alabama team just happened to have Nase Harris on it,

1201
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: who was indestructible and a multipurpose threat out of the backfield.

1202
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: I mean he was a huge threat to catch the ball,

1203
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: so he got enough yardage and was used enough that

1204
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,439
Speaker 1: he did his thing while DeVante Smith was doing his thing.

1205
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: It takes such a perfect storm to do that. And

1206
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: I don't think that any offense out there is going

1207
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: to have that set up the way Alabama did. So

1208
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm making that a nine point seventy five. That's tough, man.

1209
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:47,160
Speaker 1: And also you get voter resentment sometimes, where even if

1210
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 1: you do technically have the best QB running back and

1211
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 1: wide receiver trio in America, some loser out there is

1212
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: going to vote against you just to spite you. They

1213
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: do it in the Heisman all the time. Why wouldn't

1214
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 1: they do it in other way? Wards couldn't be me?

1215
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: You know, we need our own awards season. That's what

1216
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: we need. We got all kind of awards. We got

1217
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: a Floyd of Supremacy behind us here, new name for

1218
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: Florida Rosdale. Maybe we'll look into that. Herbstreet does his

1219
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: own award show. Why not. We already stole fourn Ellie's video.

1220
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: Let's steal Herbstreet's concept too. Last thing I wanted to

1221
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: do tonight, I'm gonna clap before I do it. We've

1222
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 1: been spotlighting teams, We've been giving you our own basically

1223
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: a preview magazine page for a team. Multiple questions, best position, group, breakout, player, schedule, thoughts, Well,

1224
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: it's Florida State's time tonight. Our buddies over at nol's

1225
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven helped us out a lot multi

1226
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: thread participation in this on the message board today. First

1227
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: question for Florida State this year? How much improvement are

1228
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: we going to get on this defense? There were some

1229
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: metrics they were okay in last year, Like they were

1230
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: twentieth in points per game allowed. That's good enough to win,

1231
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: But they were seventy fifth and rush yards allowed per game.

1232
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: That's not the end all, be all rush year ardage.

1233
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: But if you look at those three losses they had,

1234
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: they averaged given up one hundred and seventy per game

1235
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: on the ground in those three losses back to back

1236
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: to back. I think they were defensive line being the

1237
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: caliber it should be this year should vault those numbers

1238
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: up a pretty great deal. So I think you'll have

1239
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: good improvement. How much how quantum is the leap? I

1240
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: guess is the question. We can't have what's happening on

1241
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 1: the screen right now, just will shipley chunk runs. We

1242
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: can't be having that next question, speaking of those big games,

1243
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:35,160
Speaker 1: can they peak in big games? For all the preseason

1244
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: hype around this team, which I believe in, there is

1245
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: that pesky little one in six stat Norvelle's one in

1246
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: six against ranked teams at Florida State. I'm not one

1247
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 1: who's going to sit here and say what has been

1248
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: will be. There's a lot about that team that has

1249
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: been that's not going to be this point moving forward,

1250
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: and so maybe that's one of them. But that just

1251
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: means you got to get it done. The detractor, you know,

1252
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: the doubter or the hater in the room, I literally say, well, yeah,

1253
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: Florida State ended up winning more games than everyone thought,

1254
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: but who did they really beat? It's one of the

1255
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: most overused terms in football. Well who did they beat?

1256
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: The teams they beat, that's who they beat. Like, what

1257
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Teams get upset all the time,

1258
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't I give credit for doing what you're

1259
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: supposed to do well? Last year they had that three

1260
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: game stretch in the middle of the season and they

1261
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: lost to Wake Forest by ten, They lost at NC

1262
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: State by two, and then they lost to Clemson by

1263
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: four or five by six, not blowouts, but also not

1264
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: quite good enough to be any better than ten and three.

1265
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: I was a good year for him, though really good year.

1266
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 1: That's not recalibration of expectation on my part. That would

1267
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: be very hypocritical if I did that. Do those losses

1268
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: turn into wins this year? More on that in a

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Speaker 1: second question, Number three, Are they going to defy the

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Speaker 1: blue chip ratio? One? William Elliott down there in Orlando,

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Speaker 1: Florida puts out the blue Chip ratio every cycle, and

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Speaker 1: that thing very clearly says you need to be a

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Speaker 1: buff fifty percent on this if you plan on contending

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Speaker 1: for a national championship, and that just means how many

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Speaker 1: of your players are former four and five stars. Well,

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Speaker 1: Florida State is going to be a very interesting case

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Speaker 1: study this year because Florida State's number four in returning production.

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Speaker 1: They are number four with that portal class they brought in,

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Speaker 1: but if you look at their roster, it's only at

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Speaker 1: forty one percent when it comes to blue Chip ratio,

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Speaker 1: even if you factor in all those transfers. And so

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Speaker 1: the burning question on everyone's mind is what's gonna win

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01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 1: out raw talent or maybe have they just developed that

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Speaker 1: talent better than those recruiting rankings indicate, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of returning experience, a lot of cohesiveness and experience at

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Speaker 1: the right positions. Is that all gonna win out? Or

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Speaker 1: is the blue chip ratio history going to once again

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Speaker 1: bear itself out Clemson they play this year, hire blue

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Speaker 1: chip ratio likewise with LSU, Miami and even Florida. Florida's

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Speaker 1: got a higher BCR than Florida State. So what do

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Speaker 1: we say on the show all the time, just because

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Speaker 1: it hasn't happened doesn't mean it can happen. There are

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Speaker 1: outliers all the time. Malcolm Gladwell's made a lot of

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Speaker 1: money off that book. Let's keep an eye on Florida

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Speaker 1: State and see if they're one of them. What's the

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Speaker 1: best position group on this team? You may ask. You

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01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: could easily go defensive line, you could easily go wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Why not it's July. Let's just go both of them.

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Speaker 1: Excellent depth on that defensive line. Jared Verse came back

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Speaker 1: a fabian love. It's back a lot of players. They

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Speaker 1: don't need to sacrifice quality, well, they don't need to

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Speaker 1: detrimentally sacrifice quality when they rotate and that's the difference.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes in preview mag season, you'll look at those lists

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Speaker 1: and teams may go one deep across the board with

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Speaker 1: real quality, high level power five athletes, But then you

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01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:51,320
Speaker 1: rotate and they rotate in a G five line or

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01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 1: a high level FCS line not good enough and you

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01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: get worn down. And that's even before you account for injury. Well,

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01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: Florida State's not that this year. So that's one reason

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Speaker 1: my defensive lines up there. The other one is wide

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Speaker 1: receiver size all over the place. They should be excellent here.

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Speaker 1: Johnny Wilson keon Coleman from Michigan State. Remember how big

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Speaker 1: a story that was for a couple of weeks. Don't

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Speaker 1: forget he ended up landing at FSU. Winston writes, there,

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Speaker 1: HAIKEM Williams coming in, all kinds of different options again,

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Speaker 1: all kind of size in there, and so I look

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Speaker 1: very much forward to watching how that rotation shakes out,

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Speaker 1: and especially down in the red zone. Who ends up

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Speaker 1: being a target that go to target? Ken trom Poitier.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even mention him, that's how deep they are

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Speaker 1: at receiver. The breakout player on this team, who's it

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Speaker 1: going to be? Our guests and the guess of most

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Speaker 1: over on the unconquered board on Nole's twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: Pat Payton Patrick Payton, defensive line six five two forty

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Speaker 1: five is a red shirt sophomore this year. If you

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Speaker 1: watched FSU last year, he was that guy that just

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Speaker 1: he's kind of flashed and he's the guy that naturally

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Speaker 1: when you see what he's capable of it as best.

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Speaker 1: You then look at on All twenty two and you

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Speaker 1: watch entire games and you say, oh, he's lacking is consistency.

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Speaker 1: Get a little better set in the edge, you know,

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Speaker 1: get a little better consistently on your pass rush, and

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Speaker 1: he'll be an All acc caliber player. In fact, he

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Speaker 1: was last year. He was. He was the defensive rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year in the conference last year. So four

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Speaker 1: star cycle or four star linebacker. They're in the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one cycle. Commitment he added size this summer springing

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Speaker 1: commitment is there in droves? The consistency that's the one

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Speaker 1: we're looking for. What about their schedule at Florida State.

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Speaker 1: What do we need to know here? Well, it's front loading.

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Speaker 1: That's what you need to know. LSU Week one, Clemson

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Speaker 1: Week four. I look at it, and I say, in

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Speaker 1: terms of the playoff picture, if you can split those games,

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Speaker 1: you set yourself up really well in terms of the

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Speaker 1: acc Remember, no divisions anymore. So it's not like all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden you go to Clemson and you lose,

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Speaker 1: and before you're bye week you're saying, boy, we got

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Speaker 1: to go perfect the rest of the way, and we

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Speaker 1: got to have Clemson lose twice or else we're out

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Speaker 1: of the conference title picture. Not anymore. Obviously, you can

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Speaker 1: rent with that a moot point if you win both

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Speaker 1: of them. Duke starting in let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

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Speaker 1: Week eight. Starting in week eight, probably there their toughest

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Speaker 1: conference stretch of the season. It goes Duke at Wake

1355
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Speaker 1: Forest at Pitt and then Miami and it's tough to

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Speaker 1: know what those teams will be by then, but Florida

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Speaker 1: State will have already been tested. They've already come through

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Speaker 1: really two tough games. They got a bookend of LSU

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Speaker 1: and Florida. They bookend their schedule with SEC competition. This

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Speaker 1: is not an easy schedule, but it's a very workable schedule,

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Speaker 1: very manageable. There's no back to back there where you go, oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll be lucky to just split there. No, if you're

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Speaker 1: talking about splitting, lsu Clemsons, where you talking about splitting.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the teams I'm looking most forward to

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Speaker 1: watching this year because selfishly, it's one of the teams

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Speaker 1: I've pulled for to come back to the main stage

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Look, we have the main stage

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Speaker 1: open here and we don't have to share it with anyone,

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Speaker 1: and we're so happy, and we got a normal week

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Speaker 1: coming up as far as I know. Then next week's

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Speaker 1: when it gets crazy. Next week is when sec media

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Speaker 1: days happen. And I don't know if I've told you this,

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Speaker 1: but let me break the news to you. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a lot of head coaches on the show. And

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Speaker 1: it's happening two blocks three blocks down there. Bradley had

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Speaker 1: to walk down there the other day to take pictures

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Speaker 1: of power outlets and he did just that and we

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Management just texted me and asked, how was

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Speaker 1: the show? Thanks for Norm was still on their buddy.

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Speaker 1: Management's a little under the weather tonight, so we'll give

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Speaker 1: him a pass. I would disclose his ailma, but that's

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Speaker 1: a hippo violation. Hippo violation, masculine berdon. So thank you

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Speaker 1: guys so much for watching. For producer Jesse, for director Colin,

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Speaker 1: for Bradley the associate, I'm Josh Bate. Take care, have

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Speaker 1: a great start to your week, and God bless