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Speaker 1: There is a root system planted there with him for

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Speaker 1: a number of reasons. One of the beautiful things in

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Speaker 1: college football is when a guy that is uniquely tied

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Speaker 1: to a program exists at that program. Brent Key, Georgia Tech,

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Speaker 1: perfect example, Clark Lee Vandy, perfect example. Well, Kenny Dillingham

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Speaker 1: Arizona State is a perfect example. So someone who lives

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Speaker 1: in Spokane, Washington may look and say, dude, if I

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Speaker 1: could have Arizona State or Michigan, it's Michigan. It's a

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Speaker 1: no brainer to you. It would be. But that's all

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Speaker 1: things being equal. All things aren't equal with him. He

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Speaker 1: has strong ties to Arizona State, so it's going to

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Speaker 1: take a lot to get him out of there. Michigan

438
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Speaker 1: has a lot to offer, and that's why you listen,

439
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Speaker 1: and he may very well listen to them if the

440
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Speaker 1: time comes and choose to go. All I'm saying is

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Speaker 1: I maintained, and I still maintain there's a very, very

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Speaker 1: different dynamic in play with Kenny Dillingham in Michigan. Then

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Speaker 1: there is kaelin de board Michigan, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: any of that's ever changed. I think that's been the

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Speaker 1: way it's been the whole time. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: of talk earlier today about Jedfish. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: of talk, you know, like I was looking over on

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Speaker 1: the fort. It's over on the Michigan on three site,

449
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Speaker 1: Chris Ballast and those guys are updating by the second,

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Speaker 1: not just by the minute, by the second over there,

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Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of talk over there today.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, look, if you're a Michigan fan,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you're not checking this thing at

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Speaker 1: least thirty times a day, maybe even thirty times an hour.

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Speaker 1: But that's your personal business. You live your life however

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Speaker 1: you want to. I know I am. If you're looking

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Speaker 1: at my web browser history, I'm over here at fair

458
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Speaker 1: amount because I'm fascinated at what people are thinking during

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Speaker 1: coaching searches. So there is it's been some cinnament about Jedfish.

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Speaker 1: There's been some thought this week, and granted it's only Tuesday,

461
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Speaker 1: but there's been some thought this week that Jedfish's name

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Speaker 1: may be climbing, and that's because Michigan was taking a

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Speaker 1: hard look at him. There's been some cinniment today that,

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Speaker 1: hey man, maybe Jetfish's name has cooled. I think that's accurate,

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Speaker 1: and I think they've done a fairly good job, especially

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Speaker 1: if you're on the forward over on the message board

467
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Speaker 1: over there, I think they've done a fairly good job

468
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Speaker 1: of detailing that not necessarily details that I think it's

469
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Speaker 1: important for us to dive into. It's more minutia based.

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Speaker 1: The critical take home points here are I don't know

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Speaker 1: that Jetfish is going to be a factor in the

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Speaker 1: Michigan search moving forward. He's got himself a good job

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Speaker 1: at Washington. It's one of the better jobs in the

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Speaker 1: Big ten. In fact, Jetfish may have one of the

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Speaker 1: more underrated jobs in the country. So it's not like

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Speaker 1: he needs to be desperate to leave Washington. But I

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Speaker 1: think his name was a factor. I'm not so sure

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a factor moving forward. I think

479
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Speaker 1: Eli Drinkwitz's name is involved here. Hey, you need none

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Speaker 1: understand where we're sitting. Where we're sitting is this is

481
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Speaker 1: a premier job with several question marks attached to it,

482
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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to be as fair as I can.

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Speaker 1: I've got immense respect for the Michigan job, the Michigan program.

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Speaker 1: I would view it extremely highly. It would be one

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Speaker 1: of my top five destination jobs if I were a

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Speaker 1: head coach. You cannot ignore the internal investigation going on.

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Speaker 1: You cannot ignore the uncertainty with the ad. You cannot

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Speaker 1: ignore the administrative uncertainty right now. Now, those aren't stop signs.

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Speaker 1: Those could be roadblocks, potential stop signs for coaching candidates.

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Speaker 1: You don't know because you're not talking to them, and

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Speaker 1: so unless you were to be able to sit down

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Speaker 1: with them, you don't really know how much it matters

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Speaker 1: to them. If you're a Michigan fan, you're very quick

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Speaker 1: to brush past it, because you hope that's how people feel.

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Speaker 1: If you're an Ohio State fan and you're watching the

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Speaker 1: Michigan search, you probably make a huge deal about internal

497
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Speaker 1: goings on and whatnot. So the only thing that matters

498
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Speaker 1: really is the perspective of the potential hire, and they're

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Speaker 1: not talking publicly about that, so you're kind of left

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Speaker 1: to wonder. The situation is this. It would probably take

501
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Speaker 1: a perfect confluence of events to get Caitlin to bore

502
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Speaker 1: out of Alabama anyway, and if he looks and sees

503
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Speaker 1: even a whiff of that, he's probably turned off by it.

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Speaker 1: This is me guessing he's probably turned off by it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's cross that name off the list. Maybe Kenny

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Speaker 1: Dillingham looks at it and says, you know, it was

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Speaker 1: going to take the perfect situation with no questions to

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Speaker 1: draw me out of my home Arizona State, and there

509
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Speaker 1: are just a few too many questions there. Thanks, but

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Speaker 1: no thanks, So you cross that name off the list.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Jed Fish is going to be an

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Speaker 1: option for him. And my point here is which other

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Speaker 1: candidates are we looking at? Do you really want to

514
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Speaker 1: go after jesse mentor knowing that you're probably always going

515
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Speaker 1: to have to fight against the NFL for him. Is

516
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Speaker 1: there a mystery candidate that we're not really aware of

517
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Speaker 1: very well? Could be coaching searches get really fun when

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Speaker 1: there's a talk of a mystery. Can remember how Kalani

519
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: Sitaki didn't really come in out of the rafters in

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Speaker 1: the Penn State coaching search until late in the game,

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Speaker 1: So there could be that. But if there's not that

522
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: names like Eli Drinkwitz get thrown out and people are

523
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Speaker 1: really quick to scoff at it. I've noticed this, and

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Speaker 1: my question is always who who who who? Who? Whoa

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Speaker 1: wa whoa what? You're scoffing as if you have definitively

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Speaker 1: better options? Do you?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: I would ask, do you now if you tell me

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Speaker 1: Debores a better option? Well, of course he is. Can

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Speaker 1: you hire him? You may tell me you think Dillingham

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Speaker 1: is a better option. Maybe he is. You know, I

532
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Speaker 1: may lean Kenny slightly there. I think a little higher

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Speaker 1: of Eli than many of you do. So, but I've

534
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Speaker 1: still lean Kenny slightly. Can you hire him in this scenario?

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Speaker 1: You couldn't Jeed Fish we think is off the board now,

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Speaker 1: So like, how far down the list do you go

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Speaker 1: before you just kind of throw your hands up and

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Speaker 1: go enter him route for twenty twenty six and start

539
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Speaker 1: your coaching search in the summer, like you just have

540
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Speaker 1: a long runway a year long coaching search. I have

541
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Speaker 1: always been baffled by people who turn their nose up

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Speaker 1: at the concept of Eli Drinkwitz. Eli Drinkwitz, It's well

543
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Speaker 1: known in the SEC, is one of the better staffers

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Speaker 1: in the country. Staffers, meaning a guy who knows how

545
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Speaker 1: to identify coaching talent and hire them and put him

546
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Speaker 1: on his staff. I mean LSU saved their program defensively

547
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Speaker 1: by raiding Missouri. They went and got Blake Baker, American

548
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Speaker 1: hero Blake Baker. Kevin Peeples came along with him, and

549
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Speaker 1: everyone's looking around saying, wait a second, if these guys

550
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Speaker 1: are so great, why were they at Missouri. We'll cause

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Speaker 1: Elike Drinkwitz is really good at identifying talent and bringing

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Speaker 1: it in. He just had an offensive coordinator, I believe,

553
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: leave like he's always it's always a turnstyle there. Some

554
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Speaker 1: players leave via the portal, coaching talent leaving via the portal,

555
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Speaker 1: And so I'm looking at it, and I'm always thinking

556
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Speaker 1: to myself, got really good personnel there as well. Always

557
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Speaker 1: a scrappy team, haven't won a national title, haven't won

558
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Speaker 1: the SEC. But like they probably punched a little bit

559
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Speaker 1: above what they should be punching at Missouri. Those are

560
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Speaker 1: all the hallmarks if a good head coach to me,

561
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Speaker 1: not to mention, it's kind of fun. You know, he'll

562
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Speaker 1: give you sound by it every now and then. Like

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Speaker 1: I'd have no problem with Eli Drinkwitz being on my

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Speaker 1: coaching hot board. That's just me. So that's where we

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Speaker 1: are with the Michigan head coaching search. My guess and

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Speaker 1: the pretty widely held belief in Michigan circles is this

567
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Speaker 1: is gonna ramp up this weekend pending the outcome of

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Speaker 1: the Alabama game. And I'm sure Kaylen de Bors tuned

569
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Speaker 1: into the show. Kaylyn de Bor is probably looking to say,

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Speaker 1: wait a second. He's like Leo pointing at the TV, like,

571
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Speaker 1: what what I thought? I already rid myself of this. Nope, Nope,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to You're gonna have to meet him

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Speaker 1: on a tarmac in Toledo, Ohio somewhere or maybe like Frankfort,

574
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Speaker 1: Kentucky in the dead of the night, and you're gonna

575
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Speaker 1: have to look him in the eye in the terminal

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Speaker 1: and say no, and then you have rid yourself of it.

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Speaker 1: In that scenario, you also just lost to Oklahoma in

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Speaker 1: your season's over, so probably not a fun weekend anyway.

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Speaker 1: That's the mission, that's the Michigan coaching search right now,

580
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Speaker 1: let's move on. We have not done a segment like

581
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Speaker 1: this in quite a while. Wow, but it's that time.

582
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Speaker 1: The Transfer Portal is a buzz right now. Remember our

583
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: close friend the transfer portal, Well, it's filling up. Remember

584
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Speaker 1: we got one portal window now n It technically opens

585
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Speaker 1: Win Jesse the second or third of January, but you

586
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Speaker 1: can kind of express your intent to go in the portal,

587
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Speaker 1: and several guys have taken the opportunity to do just that.

588
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Speaker 1: So this thing looks like it's going to go off

589
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Speaker 1: the rails a little bit. There are several high level

590
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Speaker 1: names in it already, and it looks to just be

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Speaker 1: starting so at the quarterback position alone. If you go

592
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Speaker 1: look at you on three rankings right now, and it's

593
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Speaker 1: starting to starting to fill up a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: you know, whoever the number one player in the portal

595
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Speaker 1: is right now, could be number three tomorrow. Number one

596
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Speaker 1: player in the portal right now, Sam Levitt though one

597
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Speaker 1: of many quarterbacks who have entered the portal. That's Arizona

598
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Speaker 1: State's quarterback. Looking at Nakos's hot board and just reading

599
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Speaker 1: some of the articles that they've put out thereon Miami,

600
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Speaker 1: Indiana LSU, and you're gonna hear the same schools mentioned

601
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Speaker 1: a lot. Because if you're in the market for a quarterback,

602
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Speaker 1: you know you're probably not pushing all your chips to

603
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Speaker 1: the middle for one guy. You're probably in it for

604
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Speaker 1: several guys. It's no different than recruiting. But Sam levit's

605
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Speaker 1: the number one overall player in quarterback in the portal.

606
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Speaker 1: That's via on three as of today. All right, the

607
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Speaker 1: number two player Dylan Riola, Nebraska in the portal. This

608
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,479
Speaker 1: came as a shock to many. Not Will Compton, but

609
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: it came as a shock to many. Louisville has been

610
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Speaker 1: mentioned here and it's kind of been reported. It's kind

611
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Speaker 1: of been whispered that Riola reached out to Oregon. Now,

612
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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta tell you. I know everyone loves

613
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Speaker 1: when I do this. Dylan Riola in the portal was

614
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Speaker 1: not like this closely guarded secret. It was kind of

615
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Speaker 1: speculated in the industry it was gonna happen. I don't

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Speaker 1: really get caught up all that much in the portal,

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Speaker 1: so I didn't do a whole lot of digging on it.

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Speaker 1: I said, Okay, maybe it happens because you hear portal

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Speaker 1: rumors all the time. So I just said, all right,

620
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Speaker 1: I believe it when I see it. Okay, Well it happens,

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Speaker 1: So now I believe it. But the funny thing is

622
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Speaker 1: you had heard Oregon whispered about to the point where,

623
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Speaker 1: like I asked around. I asked some people and they

624
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Speaker 1: were like, ah, I guess it could happen, which is

625
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Speaker 1: code for oh wow. I hadn't heard that yet. Let

626
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: me text someone after we get done talking. So Oregon

627
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: maybe in the mix here. It looks like Texas Tech

628
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: will not be in the mix, so do whatever you

629
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Speaker 1: want to with that. The number three player in the portal,

630
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Speaker 1: the number three quarterback in the portal is Brennan Soresby

631
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Speaker 1: out of Cincinnati. I guess I should say of Cincinnati.

632
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Speaker 1: Not a ton of info on him quite yet. I

633
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: think that's kind of early in the process. Also, you

634
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: could technically have the NFL be an option for him,

635
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: so a little different ballgame than these other guys. But

636
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Speaker 1: I think the big story item was DJ Lagway at

637
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Speaker 1: Florida announcing his intention to enter the portal. I'm told

638
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Speaker 1: someone had to him as their number one quarterback in

639
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Speaker 1: the SEC in their preseason quarterback power rankings, and it's

640
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Speaker 1: not important who that person was, It's just important that

641
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: that information is out there. Again, we're not about casting

642
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: blame on this show. We're not about that at all.

643
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: We don't throw people under the bus. We don't do that.

644
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Speaker 1: So whoever that was that had Lagway as their number

645
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Speaker 1: one preseason quarterback in the SEC, I'm sure their heart

646
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: was in the right place. They sound like an okay guy.

647
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Speaker 1: If it was a guy we don't know, we can't

648
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Speaker 1: possibly know. And it sounds like they had the best

649
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Speaker 1: of intentions. It sounds like they were working on some

650
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: pretty good knowledge and then coaches and players screwed it up.

651
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Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like. So anyway, we arrive here

652
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Speaker 1: and DJ Lagways in the portal and reading between the lines,

653
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: actually you don't have to read between the lines. It's

654
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Speaker 1: been pretty widely reported that this was kind of John

655
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Speaker 1: Summerle and his staff meeting with DJ Lagway, and that

656
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: meeting sounds like it did not go well. And that

657
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: meeting sounds like it included a lot of that coaching

658
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: staff challenging his mental makeup, his competitiveness, his disposition towards football,

659
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: and it just really it did not provide either party

660
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Speaker 1: with the warm fuzzies, and they left realizing, yeah, he's

661
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: probably not gonna be our quarterback this year. And DJ

662
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: Lagway left realizing yeah, I'm probably not gonna fit here anymore.

663
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Speaker 1: And so now he's in the portal. Baylor has been mentioned,

664
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Speaker 1: Miami has been mentioned, LSU, Louisville. Again, we're still very

665
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: early in the process. So those are the quarterbacks. That

666
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: quarterback picture is only going to deepen. There is good

667
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver talent, there's good running back talent. Again, I

668
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Speaker 1: cannot stress enough. It's December sixteenth, so we've only just begun.

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Speaker 1: As Karen Carpenter would say, big fan of the portal,

670
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Speaker 1: Karen Carpenter, Nick marsh is a player that I'm circling.

671
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: Now that's me personally. I don't have my own portal rankings,

672
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Speaker 1: but I'm circling the name Nick Marsh out of Michigan State.

673
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Speaker 1: I would be targeting him. Pete State is set at

674
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Speaker 1: wide receiver, but if we were not, I would be

675
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Speaker 1: targeting him. Perry Thompson and Malcolm Simmons at Auburn have

676
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Speaker 1: also entered the portal. CJ. Backster at Texas intending to

677
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: jump in the portal as well. So there are a

678
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Speaker 1: lot of There're gonna be a lot of big time names,

679
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: a lot of game changer types think about what Texas

680
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: Tech or not Texas Tech. Think about what Texas A

681
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: and M dim with conception on and Craver and just

682
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: the immediate, like season altering impact those guys have had,

683
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: we could very well be looking at that. Possibly just

684
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: go get one of them, much less two of them.

685
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Speaker 1: Offensive linemen. Everyone's after them, Everyone's after big bodies on

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage period. And I was talking with

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Speaker 1: some coaches this past week end, and I've talked with

688
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: some non coaching types this week and I've got one

689
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: of those ideas that's really easy to say. It's much

690
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: harder to execute. But if you watch college football, and

691
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Speaker 1: you've watched it for a long time, you don't have

692
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Speaker 1: to be a former O line coach or having played

693
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: offensive line at some point in your career to know

694
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: offensive line play seems to have across the board. It's

695
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: just not really much dominant offensive line play. And one

696
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: of the easiest go to theories on why is well,

697
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: it takes chemistry, it takes cohesion, it takes a lot

698
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: of reps together, and with how much churn there is

699
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: in the sport, you just don't really see that as much.

700
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Speaker 1: So you got a lot of pieces. But you don't

701
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Speaker 1: have as many full units that have played together multiple years.

702
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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about that within the framework of the portal,

703
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Speaker 1: And again I want to warn everyone. What I'm gonna

704
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Speaker 1: say is easy to say, I know, it's much harder

705
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Speaker 1: to execute. But if I were in the G five

706
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Speaker 1: ranks or even the FCS ranks at the higher level,

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Speaker 1: and I were a group, I mean a center guard

708
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Speaker 1: combo or maybe even a center guard tackle combo or

709
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Speaker 1: a guard tackle combo, and I was in any kind

710
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Speaker 1: of demand at all, I'd look to my dude on

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Speaker 1: the left, or my dude on the right, or both

712
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Speaker 1: of them, and I'd lot pinkies with those guys and say, hey,

713
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: we in isolation are valuable commodities because we're offensive linemen

714
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: who can be plugging play starters. But we together are

715
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: borderline priceless because we are chunks of an offensive line

716
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Speaker 1: unit and we are bringing more than just our individual talent.

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Speaker 1: We're bringing cohesion. And I would go full package deal.

718
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Speaker 1: And if I were at the G five level and

719
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Speaker 1: I would do that, I would look at the P

720
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Speaker 1: four level and I would just look him dead in

721
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: the eye and say, you guys really want to go

722
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: overspend on wide receiver talent and not have your quarterback

723
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: have any time to throw the ball. You want to

724
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: go really overspend on running back talent and have no

725
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: one to pave the way. You want to rely on

726
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: slide protection all year, or you want some folks who

727
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 1: speak the same language. Yeah, we may have been doing

728
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: it at the FCS level, but your guys aren't doing

729
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: it at the power flour level. So maybe those of

730
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: us who have done it together before it can do

731
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Speaker 1: it up there as well. As I said, it took

732
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: two minutes. It was so easy to say. So my

733
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: advice to all the player personnel departments out there, recruit

734
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Speaker 1: offensive line blocks. That's it. That's all. Also, after you

735
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: do that, like you guys may have kids at home,

736
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Speaker 1: you could go to paintstatemterial dot com and buy them

737
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: a chuggy sweater. That'd be nice. In fact, if you

738
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Speaker 1: whiff on your portal class, you may really want to

739
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: go and peruse the Peate State store because you need

740
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: smiles at home, because you may be coming home with

741
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: news down the road that puts a frown on their face.

742
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: They got dark and morbid really quick. Look Paytstatematerial dot com.

743
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: We got a wide variety over there. I'm gonna talk

744
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: about one special item later in the show, but the

745
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: Tiss the Season collection flying off the shelves. It's our

746
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: best performing holiday collection ever because it's the only time

747
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: we've ever had a holiday collection. You may also know

748
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: it as a Christmas collection. I say holiday cause like

749
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: there's no specific Christmas branding on the Tiss the Season

750
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: to be Chuggy sweater, even though we all know it's

751
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: a Christmas sweater, and that's what you would call that

752
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: niche of clothing, a Christmas sweater. So anyway, way, I

753
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 1: just didn't want anyone to think we were avoiding sant

754
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: Christmas around here. We don't even go Xmas in the store.

755
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: There is no Xmas merch full Christmas. Okay, so we've

756
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: got a wide variety of that. But you also just

757
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: got your normal T shirts over there. If you live

758
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale and it never dips below seventy and

759
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: you don't really need sweaters, that's fine. We've got you

760
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: set in that department as well. Paytstatemterial dot com. All right,

761
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: we've got we've got a very very important matter to

762
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: talk about. Man, The important matter is I left my chapstick, Bradley,

763
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: that's on you. Now I got to talk about Joel

764
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: Klatt with chapped lips. This is the worst. This is

765
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: the worst. So I opened the mail bag earlier today

766
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: and I told Jesse, we have a rule for this

767
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: show tonight. It's our last show of the week, it's

768
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: our last show before the playoffs. So I really want

769
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: us to just go anywhere the the audience wants to go.

770
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: Always a big mistake. Mason in Duluth, Minnesota, here's where

771
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: he wanted to go. Joel Klatt called all Cinderellas and

772
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: march madness stupid. Why do all you national voices hate

773
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: on the little guy? David beat Goliath, Boise beat Oklahoma,

774
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: and UCF went undefeated. We remember those stories more than

775
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: the giants. Keep this up for a second, brother, This

776
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: is really just a breathless screenshot. I'm really glad we

777
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: screenshot this past tens of screenshot. Okay, so they start

778
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: throwing shots at Klatt, which, okay, if he deserves it,

779
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: he deserves it. And then I got lumped in and

780
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: I hadn't said anything about Cinderella's but I'm about to

781
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: because Mason insisted, if I'm gonna get blamed for it,

782
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: I might as well do. He said, why do all

783
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: you national voices hate on the little guy? You might

784
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: be wondering to yourself what warranted all this? Well, here's

785
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: what happened. I'm gonna do something in order, because this

786
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: is probably the order it happened to you in You

787
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: know sometimes how you see a snapshot or a small

788
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: SoundBite of something and you get outraged by it, and

789
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: then you go on to learn the context of it

790
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: two weeks later and you're like, wow, I probably shouldn't

791
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: have gotten as outraged as I did over that. That

792
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: is what is happening to Clatt. Admittedly he brought a

793
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: lot of this on himself. But Clatt went on Next

794
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 1: Round Live. Those guys are friends of the program. Clatt's

795
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: a friend of the program, and so we're just talking

796
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: about a bunch of friends of the program getting together,

797
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: and he did a segment. Now what you probably saw

798
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: was you probably saw quote edits like this or quote

799
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: graphics like this, And if you're listening on podcast, just

800
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: imagine scrolling through your social feed. There's a picture of Clatt.

801
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: Looks like he's somewhere very sunny and happy, and then

802
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: there's a quote at the top and it says, quote,

803
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Speaker 1: we don't want cinderellas, we want the best teams playing

804
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: each other. At the end, the NCAA basketball tournament is

805
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,959
Speaker 1: a joke. It's the dumbest tournament and the least fair

806
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: tournament in all of sports. Now, they started throwing babies

807
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: off of buildings moments after that was posted, and you

808
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: can imagine why that means. Joel Clatt hates underdogs. He

809
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 1: wants the G five to just die entirely, just die

810
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: on the vines, cut him loose. We're in it for

811
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: the big boys and nothing more. We're better than you

812
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: and we know it. That's Joel Clatt, right. I, in

813
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: the interest of fairness, had the staff dig into the archives.

814
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: And I know it may be irresponsible, but I thought

815
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: that maybe we needed to provide context and play the

816
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: entire sound bite. Now, I gotta warn you this is

817
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: not going to fully absolve Clatt in many of your minds.

818
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: There's still going to be fair amounts of egregiousness in

819
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: what is said here. But before we break it down,

820
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: I just wanted to let people know the full context

821
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: of what was actually said, so this was Next Round

822
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: Live a couple of days ago, roll at Bradley.

823
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Speaker 4: The reason the group of five is included in this

824
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 4: playoff is to void anti trust litigation. That's it, guys, Like,

825
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 4: we're not looking for a Cinderella. Nobody cares in football

826
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 4: about James Madison or or you know, the equivalent of

827
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 4: George Mason going didn't George Mason go to the Final

828
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 4: four or something like that. Nobody cares in football about that.

829
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 4: We don't want Cinderella's. We want the best teams playing

830
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 4: each other at the end. In fact, hot take, I mean,

831
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Speaker 4: like the hottest of all takes that I've ever had

832
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 4: in my entire life. The NCAA Basketball Tournament is a joke.

833
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 4: It's it's the it's the dumbest tournament and the least

834
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 4: fair tournament in all of sports. We go and we

835
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 4: put we put teams at odd times on neutral sites

836
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 4: in a one game affair like that doesn't crown a

837
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 4: true champion. We're not We're not doing anything that tells

838
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 4: us who's the best team over the course of the

839
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 4: entire season. You know, like, if anything, the NCAA Basketball

840
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 4: Tournament should act exactly like the old the old World Cup.

841
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: Which we should have groups.

842
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 4: They should all get guaranteed three games, and they should

843
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 4: be played at the higher seeds arena so that those

844
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 4: seeds are rewarded for a quality game. And that way

845
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 4: we don't just get to see, like, you know, Kentucky

846
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 4: won and done against George Mason or something like that. Well,

847
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 4: that's stupid.

848
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Speaker 1: The chat is already filling up with the usual suspects.

849
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: All right, some of that was insane. I'm gonna grant

850
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: you that. I just want to say the foundation of it,

851
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,720
Speaker 1: I at least understand the foundation of it is sound.

852
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: Not all the parts of it, the foundation of it

853
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: is sound. So a couple of quotes there. Number one,

854
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: the G five is in the college football playoff to

855
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: avoid litigation is basically true. I'm not asking you what

856
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: makes you feel good. I just want you for a

857
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: second to stop screaming. Lower, lower the caps lock on

858
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: the keyboard, Just sit still for a second. That's not incorrect.

859
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: They are present in the playoff. They're granted an auto

860
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: bid in the playoff because if they're not, then there

861
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: will be lawsuits filed immediately. So that part's accurate. Now,

862
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: whether you think it's also morally sound that they're included

863
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: in the playoff. That's your own that's your own business,

864
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: that's your own opinion. He's got his, I've got mine,

865
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: you've got yours. But he is right because in no

866
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: other merit based world where we just judged these teams

867
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: on a static scale of quality of resources and therefore

868
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: what you do with the resources and the results on

869
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: the field and strength of schedule, in no world would

870
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: James Madison be in the playoff. But the parameters of

871
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: the playoff right now are that we take the five

872
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: highest ranked conference champs. So by every current rule, James

873
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: Madison is in the playoff and should be in the playoff.

874
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that. Tulane is in the playoff

875
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: and should be in the playoff. I don't disagree with

876
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: the structure. I don't disagree with the body of the

877
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: playoff this year based on the current rules. What he's

878
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: saying is the rules are the way they are right now,

879
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: because if they weren't that way, then someone would get

880
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,919
Speaker 1: sued really quickly. He is correct about that. Ye that

881
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: always gets twisted into well, you must hate the G five,

882
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: oh man, you must hate the little guy. Oh You're

883
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: just a corporate shill. Oh man, You're just in it

884
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: for the money. I deal with that all the time.

885
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: I left corporate media. By the way, I bought my

886
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: show from CBS so I could leave corporate media, so

887
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: I could be free of the very thing that people

888
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: accused me of. And yet, anytime you state an opinion

889
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: that's contrary to what the G five mafia out there

890
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: that roams the internet wants you to say, it's not

891
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: just we different opinion, but we can still go and

892
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: have ice cream on Sunday, it's you hate us and

893
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: you're bought and paid for And I sit here and

894
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: I know good and well, no one's bought and paid

895
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,959
Speaker 1: for us, because we own our own show. And yet

896
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: we can't fight the allegations. It's really tough. So I

897
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: wanted to play one more sound bite that I haven't

898
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: seen widely aggregated on the internet. This was the same interview.

899
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: This was just moments later Bradley cupsot too.

900
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 4: This is clap In order to separated out, the Group

901
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 4: of five will have to be incentivized somehow and specifically

902
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 4: from a financial perspective, to go play their own championship.

903
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 4: I think that would be better for them anyways. But

904
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 4: if that doesn't happen and they get cut out of

905
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 4: the finances, they will sue and we'll wind up in

906
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 4: court and they'll be in the playoff moving forward.

907
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: That's been the same point that's been made on this show.

908
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: So you notice, like, if you really hated the G five,

909
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: you just say piss on the G five. That's not

910
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: what he did, despite the fact that that part didn't

911
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: get shared widely, And that's not what I've ever done

912
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: on this show. Anytime you got a problem with something,

913
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: you ought to have a solution for it. So if

914
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: your problem is man, it makes little sense that we've

915
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: got one hundred and thirty six teams pretending to play

916
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: the same caliber of the sport. You need to have

917
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: a solution. That solution he just presented is the same

918
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: one we've shared on this show, and that is a

919
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: G five playoff. Now when we've presented it, this is

920
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: not the first time this has happened on this show.

921
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: The chat just fills up and the comment section just

922
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: fills up with No, that's not fair because you're excluding us,

923
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: you're boxing us out. You're already boxed out. You're already

924
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: boxed out because the natural order of things boxes you out.

925
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: And that's why it's really dumb to talk about Cinderellas

926
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: in college football. There aren't Cinderellas in college football. There

927
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: never will be Cinderella's in college football. In fact, we

928
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: grow further and further and further away from the possibility

929
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: of a Cinderella every day. Because once upon a time,

930
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: Boise State seven existed and there wasn't a monumental gap

931
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: between them and Oklahoma because it was possible for the

932
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: players at Boise to stay there four years. Nowadays, there

933
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: are mechanisms like the Portland nil that make it to

934
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: where even if a G five team did just hit

935
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: the lottery with a recruiting class and they just smoked

936
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: everyone on evaluation and even smoked everyone on development, you'd

937
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: get one to two years in with that crop of players,

938
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,959
Speaker 1: and then the big boys would take notice and you'd

939
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: get raided. Not just your players, but your coaching staff

940
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: that all get raided. I know because it's happening. So

941
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: I even think it's bad faith to use Cinderella's stories

942
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: of years gone by, like UCF twenty seventeen or Boise seven.

943
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: Those will never happen again, they'll never happen again because

944
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: the moment they start to happen, the players get poached.

945
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: So you're already boxed out. What would make sense is

946
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: a world, fully subsidized, fully funded, that creates a national

947
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: championship you can actually chase and win. That's the solution.

948
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: So it's not just the problem, it's the solution. Now.

949
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: The crazier parts of this were when Klatt started talking

950
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: about how we're not looking for a Cinderella. I fully

951
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: get what he's packed. I fully get what he's putting

952
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,439
Speaker 1: down there. What he's saying is in football, we don't

953
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: really believe in Cinderella's. He's right about that, all right forever.

954
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: The rules on this show is, do not apply football

955
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: logic to basketball, and do not apply basketball logic to football,

956
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: because they are apples to oranges as far as comparing

957
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: in college sports. Likewise, when we talk about Cinderellas and

958
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: people look at the G five, well, you gotta have

959
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: G five inclusion. Why we love cinderellas. We love Cinderellas

960
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: in college basketball. We love them because we think they're

961
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: possible in basketball. When Klatt said, oh, no, one wants

962
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: to talk about a Cinderella. We're not looking for a cinderella.

963
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: We're not looking for a cinderella in college football because

964
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: it's impossible for one to happen in college football because

965
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: every mechanism of the portal in nil makes it such

966
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: that the moment a Cinderella starts to pop its head up,

967
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: I EO seven boise or twenty seven or twenty seventeen UCF.

968
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: If O seven boise are twenty seventeen UCF even started

969
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: to happen today that get raided, that all get portaled,

970
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: the players would leave, the coaches would leave. I know

971
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: that because it's happening. So there is no Cinderella opportunity

972
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: in foototball. So instead, what we've trained our mind to

973
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: do is we've trained our mind to understand, unlike basketball,

974
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: you're not making a run in football because in football

975
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: you get to put your hands on people for four quarters,

976
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: and bigger, faster, stronger really does win nine tenths of

977
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: the time. And if it doesn't win on one Saturday,

978
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: then it's probably going to win on the next one.

979
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: So no one's stringing together three or four wins and

980
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: winning a national title or even go into the semi

981
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: finals or the national title game as a cinderella in

982
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: college football. But when my guy said that the NCAA

983
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: Tournament in basketball is a joke, now, that's where I

984
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: had to sit back for a second and say, hold on, now,

985
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: hold on. I rewound it because I always believe in

986
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: listening twice just in case I misheard something. But I

987
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: didn't miss hear it. And Joe Klatten not a big

988
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: NCUBAA tournament fan in basketball. I actually think the NCUBAA

989
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: tournament's amazing. But that's because I know that cinderellas can

990
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: exist in college basketball. And the point he's making is

991
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: that's not the best way to crown the best team

992
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: in college basketball. I never looked at the NCAA Tournament

993
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: is doing that. I don't really think there is a

994
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: way that captures the public's imagination like the NCAA Tournament

995
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: does to crown a real, true best team over the

996
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: course of a season in college basketball. The college basketball

997
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: season plays out the way it does and then you

998
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: have this amazing spectacle of a tournament in April. It's

999
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: a little bit randomized. Yes the two seed can fall

1000
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: to the fifteen seed, and yes, your season just abruptly

1001
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: comes to an end like a record scratch. That's the

1002
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: way it is tough. In football, I don't think like that.

1003
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: But in basketball, I viewed basketball in a vacuum. I

1004
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: viewed football in a vacuum. They don't overlap. For me,

1005
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: I learned very few lessons from the structure of college

1006
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: basketball that I apply to the structure of college football.

1007
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: So March madness makes sense because the concept of a

1008
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 1: Cinderella in basketball makes sense. The minute we start talking

1009
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: about G five inclusion and the pros and cons of

1010
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,240
Speaker 1: it in college football and someone throws like Florida Gulf

1011
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: Coast at me or George Mason at me, Well, I

1012
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: just turned the volume down, like you have no idea

1013
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. You have no idea what you're

1014
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: talking about. Now. The NCAA Basketball Tournament is not a joke.

1015
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: It's awesome, but that's because you have to properly consume it.

1016
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: You're not looking to crown the best team over the

1017
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: course of a whole season. That's never been what that

1018
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: tournament was about. Does it reward the hot team at

1019
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: the right time? Could you just get red hot from

1020
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: three and buzz saw your way to the Sweet sixteen

1021
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: or the Elite Eight over teams that were favored by

1022
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: double digits. Yes, that's basketball. That's basketball. If you don't

1023
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: like it, watch football, which is what I choose to

1024
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: do ironically. So yeah, man, there were some weird points

1025
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: made there. I don't necessarily think that if I lifted

1026
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: Klatt's shirt there would be a barcode on his lower

1027
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 1: back that proves he's been bought and paid for simply

1028
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: because he shared an opinion that some disagree with. Many

1029
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: in this case disagree with. They're watching us in Lawrence, Kansas.

1030
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Durham, North Carolina. They're watching us

1031
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: in Oxford, Mississippi. Uh sorry, I had to check something there.

1032
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: All right, we had another question. As I said, we

1033
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: opened the mail bag, and the mail bag overflowed today.

1034
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:20,240
Speaker 1: Trey from Hamilton, Alabama, which head coach needs the National

1035
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: Championship more? In these playoffs? I don't think a single

1036
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: coach needs to win the National Championship to validate themselves.

1037
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: I think if a couple of them won it, it

1038
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: would transform their perception. But I got some who need

1039
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: to win some games. How about that, Trey. The first

1040
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: thing that I would say is Kurt Signetti doesn't need

1041
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: to win anything. Kurt Signetti has become a legend. What

1042
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: he's done in Indiana already is one of the great

1043
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: stories in the history of college football. But imagine if

1044
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: he did win the national title, and he very well may.

1045
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: If Kurt Signetti in Indiana won the national title, I'm

1046
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: again I'm gonna say it may be the greatest story

1047
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: in the history of college football, certainly one of the

1048
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: most unbelieva stories, if not the most unbelievable story in

1049
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,280
Speaker 1: the history of college football. The only reason I hesitate

1050
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: is because you always hesitate when you talk about in

1051
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: the entire history of a sport, and you're worried that

1052
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: you're being prisoner of the moment. I actually think the

1053
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: opposite is true. I don't think people are making a

1054
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,720
Speaker 1: big enough deal about what SIG is doing in Indiana.

1055
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: I really don't. I really I know that people talk

1056
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: about it. This is like historic, all time history of

1057
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: the sports stuff that's unfolding in Bloomington, Indiana, And I

1058
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: don't know that we could do it enough justice, like

1059
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 1: talking about it enough. But that's before the playoff has started.

1060
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: What if they win the whole thing? I have we

1061
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: talked about this for like thirty minutes today. I have

1062
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: a thought that if Indiana wins the national championship, it

1063
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: would be a phenomenal story. If Indiana wins the national championship,

1064
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: it would be phenomenal for Indiana. There's this weird, twisted

1065
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: way where it could actually be bad for the sport overall.

1066
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: Not in a sense that Indiana being good is bad

1067
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: for college football or anything like that. It would create

1068
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: so much unrealistic expectation on every other coaching staff in

1069
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: America that I think the collateral damage of an Indiana

1070
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: national championship would be a net negative on college football.

1071
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,320
Speaker 1: And I don't like, I know that's going to get twisted,

1072
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: But if you really think that through, I think most

1073
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: of you can see what I'm saying is accurate. The

1074
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: attention span and the patience windows would evaporate. And if

1075
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: that guy just won a national championship in his second

1076
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: year at Indiana, there will never be an excuse for

1077
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: John Sumrall not to immediately do it at Florida, for

1078
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen not to immediately do it. Kaylin de boy,

1079
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: you should have already done it at Alabama. Kirby it's

1080
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: been two or three years, what's wrong with you? Like

1081
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: that would be that would be like a persistent attitude

1082
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: across the country. So yeah, he doesn't care, sig shipdn't care.

1083
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: But the rest of college football. I'm just saying, man,

1084
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: I don't know if the rest of college football is

1085
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: really pulling for Indiana, like just the general fan, the

1086
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:08,359
Speaker 1: agnostic fan at home.

1087
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 4: Maybe.

1088
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: So I'll say three coaches here. I think Mario Christobal

1089
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: badly needs success in this playoff. They're playing Texas A

1090
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: and M They're about a field goal underdog this Saturday.

1091
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: We're going to be there for that game. It's going

1092
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: to be a war physically. It may be one of

1093
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: the best head to head matchups in this entire tournament.

1094
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: But there's been a lot of thought that Mario's underachieved

1095
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: at Miami. There's been a lot of thought that, well,

1096
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: he's assembled a lot of talent, but man, they really

1097
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: haven't gotten the job done. Now. They've ascended every year

1098
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: record wise. They've gone five wins, seven wins, ten wins,

1099
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: ten wins again and now a playoff berth this year.

1100
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: So they've gotten better every year. They lost cam Ward

1101
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: and brought in Carson Beck and they're right back in

1102
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: the playoff. But if he added a playoff win, much

1103
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: less multiple playoff wins, then I really think people start

1104
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: to talk about him a little bit differently. So it'd

1105
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: be really big for Mario if he were able to

1106
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: do that. Kaylendor I would say the same thing about

1107
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: Kaylen de Bor far less. People doubt him because of

1108
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: what he did at Washington, and he's got universal respect

1109
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: amongst his peers. I think most people just in general

1110
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: fandom respect him. But they were really really beat up

1111
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Alabama went from one of the favorites

1112
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: to win it all to with the way they performed

1113
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: in the last month, they're really not on anyone's radar

1114
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: to win it all. A lot of people think they'll

1115
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: get eliminated this Friday Night, So what if they were

1116
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: to win Friday Night, but then they were to beat

1117
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: Indiana as well. I look, given the state of that

1118
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 1: team late in the season, I think it's an accomplishment

1119
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: for them to be in the playoff, especially if they

1120
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: win a game. If they win a game of the playoff,

1121
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: to me, that's been a successful year for them all

1122
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: things considered. But if they beat Indiana. He starts kind

1123
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: of going on another one of those Washington runs, but

1124
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: at Alabama this time, and all of a sudden, they're

1125
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: parked in the semi final. Yeah, that would greatly change

1126
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: the perception. And Dan Lanning I probably should have put

1127
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: Landing second because Dubor's beaten. Landing had to head several times,

1128
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: so Landing there's still a little bit of question about

1129
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: him in these big games. Signetti and Indiana went in

1130
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: there and housed them earlier this year, and Lanning got

1131
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: in this tournament. Last year's the one seed won the

1132
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: Big Ten, had the first round by and everything, and

1133
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: they just got smoked. But that's because they had the

1134
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: unenviable task, as it turns out, of playing Ohio State.

1135
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: So if they get in this thing, and I absolutely

1136
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: love their placement in the bracket, they are gonna beat

1137
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: JMU handedly Saturday, and then they're gonna go play Texas Tech,

1138
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: and if they win that game, I mean, they're in

1139
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: the semi final. And I'm just telling you they should

1140
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: win both of those games. I mean, I think Oregon

1141
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: very very many scenarios are in the semi final of

1142
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: this thing more times than not, and that would be

1143
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: against Indiana or someone who upset Indiana, and either way,

1144
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: like if they are to get there, if they are

1145
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: to get to that semi final, they're probably either facing

1146
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: Signetti again with a chance to avenge that early season loss,

1147
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,919
Speaker 1: or maybe they're facing dubor maybe he gets another shot

1148
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: at Debor. I think if Alabama makes it to the

1149
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: second round, they got a better shot of beating Indiana

1150
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: than Oklahoma does. Even though I picked Oklahoma in the

1151
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: game Friday, I think Bama's got a better shot of

1152
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 1: winning two games to face Oregon than Oklahoma has winning

1153
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: two games to face Oregon. I know that's weird, but

1154
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: it makes sense in my head at least. So I

1155
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: think Landing Landing really needs to make some noise here

1156
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: because with the way they got eliminated last year, if

1157
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: they even win Saturday, I mean there are three touchdown

1158
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: in favorites, so they should win Saturday. But even if

1159
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: they win that one, then they get bounced by Texas Tech.

1160
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: People are gonna look at that as a failure. I'm

1161
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: just telling you that's the expectation level there, that's the

1162
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: talent level. There. A lot of talk about them get

1163
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: healthy at the right time. I buy into that. That's

1164
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: why I have them going way deeper than just the

1165
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: Texas Tech game. But yeah, I think Mario needs it.

1166
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: I think Landing needs it. I think it would be

1167
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: nice for Deboor to have. I don't think Signetti needs anything.

1168
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: But if he does get something here, if he does

1169
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: get to the national title, and especially if he wins it,

1170
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: I think the collateral damage that does on the impact

1171
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 1: it has on other coaches would be a disaster for

1172
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: other coaches. Let's continue. Yeah, so this question changed today, Patrick,

1173
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: and Saint Louis hit us up early in the day.

1174
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: He said, in your opinion, what's the greatest threat to

1175
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: the success of college football? Private equity involvement? Current calendar

1176
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: nil players having to re sign each year. So college

1177
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: football is in a very weird spot, Patrick, because on

1178
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 1: one hand, it's never been more popular than numbers are

1179
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 1: off the charts. Our data is unbelievable, It's incontrovertible on this.

1180
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: So I just tweet out sometimes college football and the

1181
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: scale emojis. So that's one hand. On the other hand,

1182
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 1: the minute you peel back the curtain, there's all kind

1183
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: of mess behind the scenes. So how are you supposed

1184
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: to characterized college football. Is it exploding? Is it great

1185
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: or is it terrible? Or is it great on the

1186
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: surface but rotten underneath? Or is there just a temporary

1187
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: mess underneath but it's getting itself worked out. It's just

1188
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: that a mess getting worked out still looks like a mess.

1189
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,479
Speaker 1: How are we supposed to characterize this? So I said

1190
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: a second ago that this answer for me changed earlier

1191
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: today the way I feeled it and change. It just

1192
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: so happens that we had a sound bite dropped in

1193
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: our lap that I thought would be perfectly tailored for

1194
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 1: this part of the show. So Eli Drinkwitz at Missouri

1195
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: had a press conference earlier today. I don't even know

1196
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: what he got asked. He may have been asked what

1197
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: his favorite color is and he may have said blue,

1198
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: speaking of which, that's the mood I've been in lately,

1199
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: and you want to know why. So he got into

1200
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: talking about some of the problems he sees in college

1201
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: football right now. So I want you to listen to this.

1202
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: It's a little lengthy, but I think it's well worth

1203
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: the listen, and I'll wrap back around on the other side.

1204
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 2: The system that we're in is really sick right now,

1205
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:01,439
Speaker 2: and college football is sick and not in a it's

1206
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 2: just there's showing signs of this thing really cracking moving forward,

1207
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 2: and we need to get something under control. And you know,

1208
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 2: the Score Act was something that it looked like it

1209
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 2: was going to be a step in a direction. There

1210
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 2: is no perfect solution, but we have to get some

1211
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 2: sort of steps moving in that direction. Tampering is at

1212
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 2: I mean the highest levels. There is no such thing

1213
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 2: as tampering. It's just because there's nobody it's been punished

1214
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 2: for tampering, and so everybody on my roster is being called.

1215
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: We've worked around a system and then tried to create.

1216
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 2: That as the system instead of creating a functioning way

1217
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 2: of moving forward and making sure that it works for everybody.

1218
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: Now, for some reason, even though coaches have probably the

1219
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: best viewpoint on this out of all of us, their

1220
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: opinions get dismissed because they make a lot of money.

1221
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: So if you make a lot of money, you don't

1222
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: ever get to point out legitimate concerns because if you're rich,

1223
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to point out concerns. So since the

1224
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: head coaches can't do it, sometimes I like to play

1225
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 1: their sentiments and if I agree with them, I'll echo them,

1226
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,479
Speaker 1: So I'll echo a lot of what Eli drink, which

1227
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: just said, there, you've got the greatest sport on the

1228
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: face of the earth. It's had horrifically bad leadership. It's

1229
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: been void of leadership. So it's kind of run over

1230
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: in the ditch a little bit. But that doesn't mean

1231
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: the car is total. It's just in the ditch. And

1232
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 1: we've always talked on this show about how current viewership,

1233
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: current engagement, current metrics are well downstream of decision making.

1234
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: So even if college football were to make the worst

1235
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: decisions imaginable today and tomorrow and the day after that,

1236
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: you wouldn't reap the consequences of that in terms of

1237
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: ratings for several years. So what you're seeing right now,

1238
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: in other words, is the benefits and the fruits of

1239
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: decent decision making in the past. Terrible decision making right

1240
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: now would not be reflected in viewership numbers until well

1241
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: down the roads. So it's always been a fallacy when

1242
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: people I'll say there's nothing rom with college football, look

1243
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: at the ratings. I see the ratings. That means there

1244
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: was nothing roman college football decision making a decade to go.

1245
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: We are not a decade ago anymore so. All the

1246
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: fences have been torn down, the cattle are just roaming

1247
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: all over the place, and no one really even knows

1248
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 1: who owns the farm. Like what's happening right now? I'm

1249
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: going to tell you what I think is going to

1250
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: happen in short order here, in very short order, I

1251
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: think collective bargaining is coming to college football, which sounds

1252
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: like just a pill that you swallow and spit right

1253
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: back up to a lot of people, me included, for

1254
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: a long time, given the current landscape, that is, by

1255
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: ten miles, the best solution moving forward. It doesn't have

1256
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 1: to be wild West, it doesn't have to be anything

1257
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: like that. In fact, you list a lot of what

1258
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: you love about college football, you list a lot of

1259
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: what you wish would come back to college football, you're

1260
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 1: actually gonna get it with collective bargaining. I'm not going

1261
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on this. There are

1262
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 1: some really really smart people working on this. There are

1263
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 1: a lot of athletic directors and presidents at the university

1264
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: level that I think are well down the road on

1265
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: this already making this up kind of halfway to what

1266
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,919
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. When I look at it. I don't

1267
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: care about it from a business standpoint as much as

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Speaker 1: I care about it from a check the boxes on

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01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 1: me getting what I love in college football standpoint. So

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01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: if I love players not moving around so much, if

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01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: I love National Signing Day mattering, if I love loyalty

1272
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: two programs mattering, I actually believe that the collective bargaining route,

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Speaker 1: when it's done right, is going to give me way

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Speaker 1: more of that than what I have right now. What

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01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:33,439
Speaker 1: I think that's going to look like is, I don't

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01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: think that you're talking about doing it from the university

1277
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Speaker 1: level or from the league level. I think you're talking

1278
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: about it being centralized and way up the ladder above

1279
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Speaker 1: the league level. And I think you're talking about maybe

1280
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Speaker 1: if you're scared about private equity involvement, I think probably

1281
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: that's the level that it gets infused into more so

1282
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 1: than the university level or the conference level, because at

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01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: that point you're not you're not having to accept the risk,

1284
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: you're not running payroll. They're not employed by the University

1285
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: of Utah. They're employed by whatever conference Utah happens to

1286
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: be in by then, not even the conference, actually the

1287
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 1: entity above the conference. Anyway, think this through for a second.

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01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: Think about collective bargaining and what it means. It means

1289
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: finally you can list your rules and enforce them because

1290
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: you've collectively bargained with the athletes, so everyone's agreed to it.

1291
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 1: Your player reps in collective bargaining are not going to

1292
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: be like hot shot freshmen who can even get their

1293
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: way around their dorm room much less understand the world

1294
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: of college football. It's going to be veterans on rosters

1295
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: that are your player reps. Now here's what I think

1296
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 1: will be the mentality amongst your veteran player reps in

1297
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: college football when the time comes for them to have

1298
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: a seat at the table for collective bargaining, they are

1299
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 1: going to appreciate and value the dues that they've paid

1300
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: at whatever institution they're at. And so when it comes

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01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: time to agree upon pay scales. What I think we're

1302
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: headed towards and my fingers are crossed on this. What

1303
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: I I think we're headed towards is a system that

1304
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 1: heavily incentivizes sticking it out at the same program. It

1305
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: never locks you into the same program. You're free to transfer.

1306
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: But if I'm a freshman at South Carolina, I know

1307
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: I'm earning a certain amount, but if I'm a sophomore there,

1308
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 1: I know I'm earning more. But if I'm a third

1309
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:22,759
Speaker 1: year player at South Carolina, that's when my big earnings

1310
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: kick in. And if I make it a fourth year

1311
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: at South Carolina, then that is payday for me. And

1312
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that I can't partake in NIL. If

1313
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: I'm a superstar player, there's going to be a market

1314
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 1: for that. But if we are in a collective bargaining world,

1315
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,560
Speaker 1: that means we're also in a world where NIL is

1316
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: wild west, pay for play is gone, and the true

1317
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 1: spirit of NIL takes its place, which means your transcendent

1318
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: stars get the Snickers commercial. But otherwise NIL kind of

1319
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: becomes nil and revenue sharing becomes collectively bargained revenue sharing.

1320
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: That's where I think we're probably heading. I don't know

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01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 1: that that's ten years down the road or even five

1322
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: down the road. By the way, I think it may

1323
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 1: be much closer than that. But I'll tell you what

1324
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: the biggest thread is. The biggest thread is no plan

1325
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: like Eli drink Wish just talked about, because right now,

1326
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 1: think about what we've lost in college football. The games

1327
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: are still awesome. The games are unbelievable ratings through the roof,

1328
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: so people still love the games. It is my belief

1329
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: that we've lost several of the adhesives that connect fan

1330
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: to sport. One of them we've lost is recruiting. Recruiting

1331
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 1: still exists, but the attention that recruiting and National Signing

1332
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 1: Day gets up pales, pales in comparison to what it

1333
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: used to get. And the only thing I can compare

1334
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: that to is what if overnight people just kind of

1335
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 1: lost interest in the NFL Draft. They would still watch

1336
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:45,759
Speaker 1: the NFL games on Sunday, but you would have lost

1337
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 1: part of the adhesive that connects fan to product. Also,

1338
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: in college football, we have watched spring games more and

1339
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 1: more go by the wayside, and we'll probably go even

1340
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,559
Speaker 1: further down that road. That's not the end of the world.

1341
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: But there is a family out there down the road

1342
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: in ann Arbor, Michigan, down the road in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,

1343
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 1: down the road in Gainesville, Florida, who probably can't afford

1344
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: season ticket packages, can't afford to go to the big games.

1345
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they go to like the FCS game

1346
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: every year, but what they can't afford to do one

1347
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 1: Saturday in the spring is load up the truck and

1348
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: go down the road and walk in a stadium because

1349
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 1: it's free or it's five dollars, and that's an experience,

1350
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: and there's a little kid who's experiencing that, that gets

1351
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,400
Speaker 1: a lasting memory, and it becomes the early adhesive between

1352
01:10:35,479 --> 01:10:39,639
Speaker 1: him and her and that program and that university. It'll

1353
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:42,360
Speaker 1: still happen to a degree even if that experience hasn't

1354
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 1: had but you removed a little bit more of the adhesive.

1355
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 1: You have also greatly devalued bowl games. This is all

1356
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: happening in the last ten years. Bowl games still exist.

1357
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: Bowl games are not what they used to be, even

1358
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: I can't pretend they are. So a lot of the

1359
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: adhesive outside of the games themselves that attract fan to

1360
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: college football has suffered greatly. You don't just get to

1361
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: keep doing that and never suffer consequences down the road.

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01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: I just don't know how far down the road it is.

1363
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,559
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's too late. We're not at

1364
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: the too late point, not at the too late point

1365
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: at all. I just hope we never get anywhere close

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01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 1: to it. So a couple of months ago on the show,

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01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: I talked about a group called the Magnolia Foundation. And

1368
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: the reason that I did not mention it every other

1369
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: show is because we got such overwhelming feedback in the

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01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: two shows that I mentioned it that frankly, we got

1371
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 1: overwhelmed a little bit, and I kind of had to

1372
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: hit the brakes on it a little bit. Here's what

1373
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 1: the Magnolia Foundation is. In twenty twenty, I moved to Nashville.

1374
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: Shortly thereafter, there's a big tornado that came through Nashville.

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01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 1: It sideswiped my building and I was out of it

1376
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: for a week. But it went over the Cumberland River

1377
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: and it went into places like Cookville, Tennessee, was on

1378
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:08,200
Speaker 1: the ground for a long time. It grew into an

1379
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: EF four tornado. It killed a couple of dozen people,

1380
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: and one of them was the daughter of one of

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01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: our friends of the program, Matt Collins, who runs the

1382
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: Magnolia Foundation. They started the Magnolia Foundation because they went

1383
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: through the process of what it's like to have to

1384
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:29,680
Speaker 1: bury your child, and they looked at that process and

1385
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 1: they realized how difficult it is. They realized that many

1386
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: people any given time in our country are going through that,

1387
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,919
Speaker 1: and they wanted to help out because they understand the expense,

1388
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:45,639
Speaker 1: and so they started the Magnolia Foundation. The Magnolia Foundation

1389
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 1: helps any families who have lost children age zero to eighteen.

1390
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 1: And they helped with funeral expenses, they help with commemorative care,

1391
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 1: they help with basically everything the expenses you would think

1392
01:12:57,800 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: exist and then the ones you would never think of.

1393
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: And so Matt reached out quite a while ago because

1394
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 1: he watches the show and I got to know him,

1395
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: and I said, we want to partner with them. We

1396
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 1: want to partner with you guys, and so we did.

1397
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 1: And so the first thing we did is we put

1398
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 1: the website right there on the bottom of the screen.

1399
01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:17,720
Speaker 1: If you just want to donate to them directly Themagnolia

1400
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: Foundation dot com, slash give, and several of you did that.

1401
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: We also have items in our store paytstatematerial dot com

1402
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: that are specialty to the Magnolia Foundation where portions of

1403
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 1: those proceeds are just going to the Magnolia Foundation. And man,

1404
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 1: we just cut them a check for several thousand dollars today.

1405
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 1: I got to tell you also, there have been several

1406
01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 1: private donors that have reached out with very, very sizable contributions.

1407
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: The Detroit Airport, Detroit International Wayne Airport up there in Detroit,

1408
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 1: one of the biggest contributors. They reached out because I've

1409
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: told several stories about being in the Detroit Airport on

1410
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: the show after Ohio State Michigan games, and so there's

1411
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 1: some folks at the airport who watch the show. So

1412
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 1: they're part of a charity up there, and they think

1413
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: they have a golf tournament every year. Anyway, ten thousand

1414
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: dollars I'm not even sure they wanted me to share it,

1415
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 1: but ten thousand dollars contribution that they cut to the

1416
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 1: Magnolia Foundation to help families specifically there in southeast Michigan.

1417
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 1: So they do incredible work there. I am mentioning it

1418
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:30,000
Speaker 1: again on the show because it is December sixteenth. This

1419
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:33,719
Speaker 1: is a really, really hard time of year for people

1420
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 1: who are going through that. There's never an easy time.

1421
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: People who haven't been through it, including me, cannot fully

1422
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 1: understand it. And I understand that as much as we

1423
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 1: can understand it. What we understand is it helps to help.

1424
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,800
Speaker 1: And so if you are able out there, I would

1425
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: strongly encourage you. If you're blessed and you're well off

1426
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: financially and you're just looking for ways to help. That's

1427
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: a really good place to help Themagnolia Foundation dot com,

1428
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 1: slash give and you can check out in the pet

1429
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: State store. Are you are loved lying there and portions

1430
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: of those proceeds go to the Magnolia Foundation as well.

1431
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. What happened Jesse? Oh, Jesse

1432
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 1: messed up the rundown. That's on Jesse. That's not on me. Okay, Well,

1433
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: luckily we called an audible here. Kevin, our buddy from Montgomery, Alabama,

1434
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 1: hit us up. He said, Hey, what's your plan to

1435
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 1: fix Bowl season? I don't know if I can. Kevin,

1436
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can. The first thing I

1437
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 1: have to do is ask you a question, and that

1438
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: is how married are you to the current structure? The

1439
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,640
Speaker 1: current structure is just bull season happens at the end

1440
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 1: of the regular season. If that's what you're looking for

1441
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: me to save, I don't know that I can save it.

1442
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:49,679
Speaker 1: I can keep the games we're about to have. We're

1443
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 1: in the middle of boll season right now, so I

1444
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: can have the games still happen. But you're gonna deal

1445
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:59,160
Speaker 1: with teams opting out, players opting out. You know, the

1446
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: stuff we hate. So if you're looking for me to

1447
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 1: say that, if you're looking for me to hit the

1448
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 1: rewind button and go back in time, I can't do that.

1449
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: We warned about it, but they didn't listen to our warnings,

1450
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 1: so I can't do anything about that. Now I have

1451
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: tossed around an idea. I heard our buddy Rick Neuheisel

1452
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:18,760
Speaker 1: was tossing around. This idea. Doesn't really matter who had

1453
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: it first, as long as it's a good idea. That's

1454
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 1: what mema says, and that is to have bowl season

1455
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the next season. Now, anytime you

1456
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,720
Speaker 1: mentioned these ideas, they're going to be radical, Okay, So

1457
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 1: like that's why I always ask, do you have to

1458
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 1: have bowl season at the end of the current season. Okay?

1459
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: If you do, don't listen to the following idea, you're

1460
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 1: not gonna like it. But if you're open to some

1461
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: radical proposals, at least what you could have is the

1462
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: playoffs plenty big enough now to where december's filled with inventory,

1463
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: so we don't have to have the bowl games or

1464
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 1: else there's no football in December. There wouldn't be as

1465
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: much of it. But if you're okay, with it. What

1466
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: you could do is write down the games that would

1467
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: have been Bowl season and then let those be sort

1468
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: of like a gigantic kickoff week the following year, or

1469
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,760
Speaker 1: what you really could do, Like I was thinking about this,

1470
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: if we're gonna move the start of the season up

1471
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 1: to where what is currently week zero is week one,

1472
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: maybe you have like a tune up weekend where there

1473
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: are some decent games and some throwaway games, and then

1474
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:26,559
Speaker 1: week two is Labor Day weekend, and that's the huge

1475
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: like what would be Bowl season Bowl weekend, and you

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01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: got like thirty or forty matchups that were kind of

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Speaker 1: set last year, like Jesse, who would Notre Dame have

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Speaker 1: played in their Bowl game?

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 1: Who? Was it? Georgia Tech or someone like that? So

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01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 1: would have been BYU. Okay, so just let's just pretend

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01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 1: that under this new idea, let's just take Georgia Tech.

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01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 1: Since they're end the game Georgia Tech and Brigham Young.

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01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 1: Instead of playing December twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, they

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01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: just play Labor Labor Da week in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: That's the Bowl game. I know, it makes no sense

1487
01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: by historical standards because the team the players that are

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01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 1: going to be on those teams next year weren't even

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01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,559
Speaker 1: on the team the year before. I know that I'm

1490
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 1: trying to save it. Okay, the current the current situation

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01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 1: is on live support. So this would just be one

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01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: way to do it, and it gives you something to

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01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: look forward to the next year, and all the games

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01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 1: are going to be played at a maximum level and

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01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: no one's going to opt out because they're legit regular

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01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: season games. So that would be one idea. There's another

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Speaker 1: idea that our buddy Stephen Godfrey is thrown around and

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Speaker 1: I was listening earlier today to his proposal and what

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Speaker 1: his idea was. It's pretty complicated, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: sort of broad stroke it community. His idea was, forget

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01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: about all the tie ins. Just have the Bowls, but

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01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:50,680
Speaker 1: they don't have to take an SEC team, they don't

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01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: have to take an ACC team, and they just start

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01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 1: basically recruiting teams. You could start in like week six,

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01:18:57,280 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: Week seven, week eight, and you just start recruiting teams

1506
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:04,280
Speaker 1: are bidding on teams. They're basically recruiting teams like teams

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01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 1: would recruit players. And so they're going to Notre Dame

1508
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, get if you guys aren't in the

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01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: playoff already, or if you're not in the playoff at

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01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: the end of the year, the Pop Tart Bowl over here,

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01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: We're willing to pay you this much money. We're willing

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01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:17,559
Speaker 1: to pay your players this much money. So here's the

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01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: full compensation package. And the bowls are competing against themselves.

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01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:25,800
Speaker 1: And then another idea he tossed out was partner with

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01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: one of the big streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon, whatnot,

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01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:33,919
Speaker 1: and just document the whole thing. Document the Sun Bowl

1517
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: competing against the Gator Bowl and the entire process. And

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01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: it comes down to like the night before and the

1519
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:44,599
Speaker 1: Gator Bowl thinks that they have Memphis, but then the

1520
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 1: Sun Bowl yanks Memphis away with an over the top offer.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, radical proposals. And then there's another question, Okay,

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01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: could you blend that concept with sort of what I

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01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: call the thirteenth game concept. We were throwing this idea

1524
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:02,960
Speaker 1: around earlier today. There's a lot of holes in this one.

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01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: But you know how when Vandy realized they were going

1526
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 1: to get locked out of the playoff, they tried to

1527
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: schedule a thirteenth game last week. Well, what would happen

1528
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: if you kind of took bowl games bowl season, threw

1529
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 1: a Steven Godfrey spin on it, and had the whole

1530
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: recruiting process, but you had those games take place on

1531
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:28,879
Speaker 1: conference championship weekend. So anyone who's not in a conference

1532
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: championship is in their bowl game that is essentially their

1533
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:37,599
Speaker 1: thirteenth game. But the results of the bowl games are counting.

1534
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:40,840
Speaker 1: You're not even putting out your final playoff rankings until

1535
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: after that thirteenth weekend. So if Brigham Young and Georgia

1536
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 1: Tech are playing in the Pop Tart Bowl, that's wonderful

1537
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:50,720
Speaker 1: and they just missed out on the playoff, but they're

1538
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: getting a thirteenth data point. So everyone who's playing that

1539
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 1: weekend is getting a thirteenth data point. Now, I think

1540
01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 1: one of the things you would have to do is

1541
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 1: you would have to crystallize the idea that if you're

1542
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: playing in the conference championship games, you've got a spot

1543
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: in the playoff, because otherwise I would look at it

1544
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 1: and say, like, if I'm Alabama, why am I going

1545
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:12,360
Speaker 1: to play Georgia. I'm playing a tough opponent, while the

1546
01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: other teams that are competing for spots are playing somewhat

1547
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 1: lesser opponents. So I would kind of need some assurances

1548
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,320
Speaker 1: that if I'm playing in these conference championship games, I'm

1549
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: going to be in. I don't even know how you

1550
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: would do that. That's just a loose concept that we

1551
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:26,719
Speaker 1: were throwing around. So I don't know if we can

1552
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: fix bowl season to the degree that we just resuscitate

1553
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,679
Speaker 1: what used to be, But you can get creative about

1554
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: ideas for the future. A couple of more things to

1555
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: hit here. Hateful, hurtful allegations came our way from Murphysboro, Tennessee.

1556
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 1: And this allegation sounded like this, why are we allowing

1557
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: vague posting to become the hot new trend in college football? Now,

1558
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: we all know what they're talking about, But if you

1559
01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:00,120
Speaker 1: don't know what they're talking about. I have a tradition

1560
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: around here, and that is when I hear some big

1561
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:06,959
Speaker 1: news maybe on the horizon, but I'm not at liberty

1562
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,639
Speaker 1: to discuss it. I just put out the gift from

1563
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,599
Speaker 1: Jurassic part of the cup of water on the dash

1564
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 1: of the Ford Explorer when the t Rex is approaching

1565
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:20,040
Speaker 1: and the footsteps of the t Rex start causing ripples

1566
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 1: in the water, same thing figuratively. That happens in college football,

1567
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 1: all right, Jesse, that's when you tell me I can

1568
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: stop hitting the desk. So here's the thing about it.

1569
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:34,520
Speaker 1: I'm not a reporter. I'm not a journalist. In exchange

1570
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,720
Speaker 1: for that, people tell me stuff all the time that

1571
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 1: I can be trusted with because they know I'm not

1572
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:43,679
Speaker 1: a newsbreaker. I don't look to do what Pete Nakos does. Okay,

1573
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: Pete Nakos is breaking news constantly. That's not what I do.

1574
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: I just have a college football show. We have a

1575
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 1: lot of fun here. So in exchange for that being

1576
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: my existence, sometimes people are a little or maybe a

1577
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: lot more free with the information and they'll share with me,

1578
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 1: and then the follow up is, now keep that between

1579
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 1: us for now, which sucks because I'd love to just

1580
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,759
Speaker 1: throw it out there. For instance, now, this was not fun.

1581
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:12,640
Speaker 1: This was not a fun piece of information. But the

1582
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 1: Charon More stuff was known behind the scenes for a

1583
01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: long time. I certainly didn't know he was going to

1584
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:20,759
Speaker 1: get fired when he got fired, and I certainly didn't

1585
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:24,919
Speaker 1: know that we were going to have, you know, the

1586
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 1: events transpire right before he got fired the way they did.

1587
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. But the infidelity. People knew about that.

1588
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: People knew about that behind the scenes. I don't care

1589
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: what anyone says up there. I never spoke publicly about

1590
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 1: it twofold on that front. Number one, because I wasn't

1591
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:43,599
Speaker 1: at Liberty too, because the people who told me about

1592
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: it asked me to keep my mouth shut on it,

1593
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: so I did. And number two, you start talking about

1594
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, you open yourself up legally, and

1595
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: I was not about to do that. This is real

1596
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: brick on this set, so I can't afford for someone

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01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 1: to come take it from us as expensive. But on

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01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: the other SI, like with coaching, search rumors all the time,

1599
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,719
Speaker 1: here's stuff all the time. I'm going to have fun

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01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: with it, okay, and I'm going to continue to do that.

1601
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what the show is about. And

1602
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,599
Speaker 1: if you don't enjoy that, that's totally fine. This probably

1603
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 1: is not the show for you. My social accounts are

1604
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: probably not social accounts that you want to follow. It's

1605
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:24,639
Speaker 1: not really that serious at the end of the day.

1606
01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 1: But I will say this all right. So last week

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01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:31,680
Speaker 1: I put it out there because I got told Friday

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01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 1: morning that Alabama was working towards an extension with Kaylin

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01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:37,400
Speaker 1: de Boor, and they were probably about to put an

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Speaker 1: announcement out about him in Michigan. So I put the

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Speaker 1: water cup out there. It took two days and so

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Speaker 1: it finally happened on Sunday. And once the thing I'm

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01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:52,840
Speaker 1: referencing happens, I'll let you know what the water cup

1614
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:55,719
Speaker 1: gift meant. That is what I was talking about Friday.

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01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,679
Speaker 1: People called bs on it, so, oh, this didn't warrant

1616
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:01,519
Speaker 1: the water cup. There are no rules for what warrants

1617
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:04,599
Speaker 1: the water cup gift. It's just what I feel warrants

1618
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 1: the water cup gift. And secondly, yes, that was a

1619
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:10,919
Speaker 1: big deal. When the number one candidate in the Michigan

1620
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Speaker 1: coaching search tells you he's not going to be a

1621
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: candidate in the Michigan coaching search, that's a really big

1622
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: deal because the alternative is he goes to Michigan. So

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Speaker 1: if he's saying he's not going to that's a really

1624
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Speaker 1: big deal. So I will continue to use the water

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Speaker 1: cup gift. When I put it out there, that means

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Speaker 1: I think big news is coming. Don't necessarily always know

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Speaker 1: how soon, but I think it's coming, and once it

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Speaker 1: does happen, I will tell you yep, that's it. That

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Speaker 1: was it. Okay, we've addressed the allegations. I hope I've

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Speaker 1: been clear enough. Before we get to worst bold predictions

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Speaker 1: Because Oklahoma's got pretty long odds to win the whole

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Speaker 1: We end every show in December the same way we

1665
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 1: go in our bag of predictions. Not mine yours from

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Speaker 1: the preseason. And the rule around here is very simple.

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Speaker 1: We have a scale of one to ten that measures

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Speaker 1: how bold the prediction was from you. And if I

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Speaker 1: give it a nine and a half or boulder and

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Speaker 1: you hit the prediction, we ship you a chalice of supremacy. Jesse.

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Speaker 1: I think we shipped three of them last year. We'll

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Speaker 1: see how many this year. I'm gonna go through some

1673
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Speaker 1: of the worst though, because some of these crashed and burned.

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Speaker 1: When you go bold, sometimes you crash. And the rule

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Speaker 1: around here is if I'm going to risk a chalice

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Speaker 1: of supremacy, you risk public embarrassment. In December, and four

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Speaker 1: of you are about to get thrown under the bus, respectfully.

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Carrie, North Carolina first up. Clemson becomes the

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Speaker 1: first team since twenty thirteen Fresno State with three one

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Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers. Clemson did not have a single thousand

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Speaker 1: yard receiver this year. Jeffrey TJ. Moore was closest with

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01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: seven fifty four. Antonio Williams was hurt some of the year.

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Speaker 1: He had six hundred and four yards. Westco five hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty seven. Kay Klubnick obviously regressed in terms of

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01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: passing numbers this year. He was twenty eight hundred his

1686
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:42,599
Speaker 1: first year, thirty six hundred his second year. And then

1687
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: came back down to twenty seven to fifty his third year.

1688
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: I only gave this a nine on the boldness scale.

1689
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:50,800
Speaker 1: I actually thought it could happen. I don't think it would,

1690
01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:55,000
Speaker 1: but I thought it could. Nonetheless, not even close. Next up,

1691
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: this one did get a nine and a half on

1692
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,960
Speaker 1: the boldness scale. A chalice could have been won, except

1693
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:04,719
Speaker 1: that this was the prediction from Nick. Michigan State beats

1694
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: Michigan and Penn State at home this year. Year two,

1695
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 1: Jonathan Smith will have his offense clicking. Year two ended

1696
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: up being the last year for Jonathan Smith and East Lansing.

1697
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 1: He got fired, quarterback got benched. They lost to Penn

1698
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:18,479
Speaker 1: State twenty eight to ten. They lost to Michigan thirty

1699
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:22,479
Speaker 1: one to twenty. They started three and oh and then

1700
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 1: they lost eight in a row. So people quickly forgot

1701
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: about the three and oh start. Kind of sad. So yeah,

1702
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: that one was no, we're close. This one was creative,

1703
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 1: but also not close. I gave the next one a

1704
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:38,760
Speaker 1: nine and a half. Benjamin from Lawrence, Kansas got really

1705
01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:44,400
Speaker 1: bold and he said four flying creature mascots will make

1706
01:29:44,439 --> 01:29:48,920
Speaker 1: the playoff this year. Then he gave us several examples. Well,

1707
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,680
Speaker 1: only one flying creature made the playoff this year, and

1708
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:54,599
Speaker 1: that is a duck. They can fly. There was a

1709
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: great debate on the show back in August or July

1710
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:00,960
Speaker 1: whenever that was submitted about whether a game cock was

1711
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:03,840
Speaker 1: a flying creature. We decided that it was, and then

1712
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:07,600
Speaker 1: we quickly decided it's not gonna matter. South Carolina's not

1713
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: playoff bound, Jacksonville State probably not playoff bound. Iowa didn't

1714
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:15,320
Speaker 1: make it, Louisville didn't make it, Boston College didn't make it,

1715
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: Kansas didn't make it, Georgia Tech flirted with it, but

1716
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,760
Speaker 1: they didn't make it. So only one flying creature in

1717
01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: the playoff that got a nine and a half and

1718
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: that busted. And the last one, this one hits a

1719
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 1: little close to home. John from Fort Worth, Texas said,

1720
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 1: Nebraska becomes the Indiana of this year and makes the

1721
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 1: playoff with an eleven win season. I predicted Nebraska to

1722
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:43,559
Speaker 1: make the playoff, and even I didn't say eleven wins,

1723
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 1: Nebraska went seven and five. Nebraska went four and five

1724
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,560
Speaker 1: in league play, and I held out hope to the

1725
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: bitter end, even when they had their second loss against Minnesota.

1726
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 1: I still held out hope, but they lost three of

1727
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:59,640
Speaker 1: their final four and as much as it hurt me

1728
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,919
Speaker 1: to watch it, hurt even more to watch will Compton

1729
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 1: watch it because I crawled in the fox hole with

1730
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:10,200
Speaker 1: our guy. That's what friends do. And then I snuck

1731
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: out of the fox hole to go get a snack

1732
01:31:12,880 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: right as they lost to USC and I never came back.

1733
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 1: I came back to visit, but then I left again

1734
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: right before the Penn State game, and I was nowhere

1735
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 1: to be found for the Iowa game. So in summary,

1736
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 1: I kind of hung out in the fox hole with William,

1737
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: but I didn't live in the fox hole. And it's

1738
01:31:30,960 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 1: a good thing because it turned out no one lived

1739
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 1: in the fox hole. Everyone died this year Nebraska seven

1740
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 1: and five. Better luck Next year. It'll just be with

1741
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:41,120
Speaker 1: someone at quarterback other than Dylan Ryola because he hits

1742
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:44,960
Speaker 1: hit the transfer portal. That is our show. Appreciate you guys.

1743
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 1: Make sure you're subscribed if you haven't already. This is

1744
01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:52,240
Speaker 1: our last show before the before the playoffs. So we're

1745
01:31:52,280 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: gonna do Get Up. Listen to this, Listen to the schedule. Thursday,

1746
01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:58,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna do Get Up in New York Thursday morning,

1747
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:00,559
Speaker 1: we'll be right there with Greeney and Company and studio

1748
01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: there in Manhattan, and then we will come home to

1749
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 1: Nashville for a little while, enough time to work out.

1750
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:09,720
Speaker 1: Then we'll get right back over to the airport and

1751
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:12,000
Speaker 1: we'll head out to Norman to do a live show

1752
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 1: that night with Teddy Lehman and Gabe Iker and stand

1753
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: for Steve will be there, Cubaic will be there, Dusty

1754
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: the Vorchek will be there. I said that they should

1755
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: kick the thunder out of the arena and move it

1756
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,439
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma City, but they didn't listen to me. But

1757
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: we'll be in a nice theater there, and then we'll

1758
01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:32,799
Speaker 1: be on campus there Friday night for Bama Oklahoma. Strong

1759
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: rumors that I'm going to stop buy and see my

1760
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:37,080
Speaker 1: friends there at the National Weather Service the Storms Prediction

1761
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:39,759
Speaker 1: Center Friday morning, since it is literally on the campus

1762
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:42,280
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma, and then we will hop down to College

1763
01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 1: Station right after the game for Miami and Texas A

1764
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 1: and M Saturday, and then we'll come home be in

1765
01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:53,200
Speaker 1: Nashville in time to watch the late games again, weather permitting.

1766
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: It's going to be a fun weekend and then we'll

1767
01:32:56,160 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 1: recap it all here on Sunday night until then for

1768
01:32:58,400 --> 01:33:01,679
Speaker 1: director Bradley, For producer JESSEM. Gosh Fate, take care, enjoy

1769
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: the playoffs and we'll talk about it someday. Got Blessed.

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