Speaker 1: Three two one zero all engine running lipstof.
Speaker 2: We have a Liptop.
Speaker 1: Thirty two UFO show, Dan, it is twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year's to one end all and welcome back
Speaker 1: to our first UFO show of this new calendar year,
Speaker 1: the upgradeable Friday Orbit. Daniel, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good. We're recording this in twenty twenty December thirty first.
Speaker 2: So if we have an unexpected Y two K twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: rollover to twenty twenty one issue and we are now
Speaker 2: being listened to in a post apocalyptic world, right, sure,
Speaker 2: Remember to be kind to your neighbors, share water, share
Speaker 2: supplies if you're going to loose, loot kindly. And if
Speaker 2: there is no apocalyptic situation at the onset because of
Speaker 2: some sort of digital tragedy, hope everybody's twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: is going well so far.
Speaker 1: You know now that we've branched out a little bit
Speaker 1: into the whole Twitch market, and we've been playing games,
Speaker 1: and you're going to play games at some point soon,
Speaker 1: I know solid life. Kate's been watching one game in
Speaker 1: particular called Rust, which, as she described to me, I
Speaker 1: know nothing about it.
Speaker 2: Oh, she watches this, She watches people stream a game
Speaker 2: called Rust on Twitch.
Speaker 1: Correct. I believe Rust is like a post apocalyptic type
Speaker 1: of scenario as you described, or you kind of band
Speaker 1: together and do what you can to survive. How would
Speaker 1: you do in a game like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, I would be terrible. I have very limited skills
Speaker 2: in terms of life I can change a tire. I
Speaker 2: guess that would help out on the open road. I
Speaker 2: have a certain degree of charm in the real world
Speaker 2: that might be able to get me places, but no
Speaker 2: in terms of fighting, In terms of survival out in nature,
Speaker 2: I would say quite too, very limited.
Speaker 1: We're living in the digital age, Dan, that's the problem
Speaker 1: with you and me. Yeah, get us out there. We
Speaker 1: got a rough it. I don't know how that's going
Speaker 1: to go. I can cook, I can I could probably
Speaker 1: make a fire I've had. I could definitely make an
Speaker 1: make a fire if I had to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But hand to hand combat over a raccoon
Speaker 2: carcass for dinner, I just I don't know. I might
Speaker 2: be losing that carcass.
Speaker 1: So look, we're not here to talk about the negativity
Speaker 1: in the world, because we've all experienced more than enough
Speaker 1: of that over the last calendar year. Twenty twenty was
Speaker 1: not what it was supposed to be, right, but we
Speaker 1: got what we got. We did get a college football season.
Speaker 1: We can talk about how that felt to live through,
Speaker 1: both on this show and at some point in the
Speaker 1: very near future. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge. But that being said, Dan,
Speaker 1: it is New Year's Day, as many of you are
Speaker 1: listening to this, even though we're recording in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and given that we had a goofy year where so
Speaker 1: much of what we took for granted just wasn't meant
Speaker 1: to be or made itself very apparent, I thought maybe
Speaker 1: we could take the opportunity today to give some New
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions to our fine for baller hood. And these
Speaker 1: are not just like I'm not talking personal resolutions. I
Speaker 1: want to work out more, right, everyone wants to work
Speaker 1: out more. I'm talking as college football fans. What are
Speaker 1: our New Year's resolutions as we move forward?
Speaker 2: Do you have personal ones? Do you make them? I
Speaker 2: mean what we can get to them at the end
Speaker 2: of the show. Potentially.
Speaker 1: I'm not good at resolutions. I don't I'm not good
Speaker 1: at setting goals, which, as my wife tells me, I'm
Speaker 1: not good at thinking things through in advance.
Speaker 2: So these all sound like resolutions.
Speaker 1: Generally, I am not. I am not good at thinking
Speaker 1: things through in advance, So maybe that's one. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: I need to take a beat and before I jump,
Speaker 1: think a little bit.
Speaker 2: But no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not good at goal setting okay are you?
Speaker 2: No, not at all, but I need to That's something
Speaker 2: I need to improve upon. I need to be more
Speaker 2: organized about my goals and checking off tasks. I'm very
Speaker 2: good actually at writing, like this is what I need
Speaker 2: to do this Thursday. And then I do three of
Speaker 2: them and I'm like, I wonder what's on sale at Amazon.
Speaker 2: That's what happens, Like, Oh, I need to pay the
Speaker 2: electric bill and then I go on to Chrome or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hmm, let's see what deals are happening in
Speaker 2: the electronics world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So no, I need to get better at that
Speaker 2: for sure. And I need to get way more yoked.
Speaker 2: I definitely need to get more yoked.
Speaker 1: Well, who doesn't need to get more yoked?
Speaker 2: But that's true.
Speaker 1: This is where we stand jacked.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's make college football resolutions about how we want
Speaker 2: to live as college football fans and or podcasters in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one and beyond. How about that?
Speaker 1: I think that's an excellent idea. So with that as
Speaker 1: the backdrop, you know where the show is headed. Will
Speaker 1: you know? There were a bunch of games that took
Speaker 1: place that are continuing to take place, literally as we
Speaker 1: record this podcast. We are going to save the grand
Speaker 1: recap show for Sunday because once we get the Sunday
Speaker 1: and Monday that we'll have a bunch of games under
Speaker 1: our belt. We can talk about the playoff, We could
Speaker 1: talk about some of the other New Year's six games.
Speaker 1: We want to try and get those all in one
Speaker 1: fell swoop. We know that Oklahoma ran it up on Florida.
Speaker 1: We know that Dan Mullen had more dumb things to say.
Speaker 1: We know about Deeric King's horrible injury. Hopefully, knock on wood,
Speaker 1: he will be back in time for fall camp. That's
Speaker 1: at least purther reports from Bruce Feldman. But just a
Speaker 1: horrible break for Deeric King. Not just in Miami losing
Speaker 1: the Bowl game, who cares about that, but him tearing
Speaker 1: his acl right after announcing that he's coming back is
Speaker 1: a huge bummer. We could talk about Texas running it
Speaker 1: up on Colorado and the picture of Sam Ellinger wearing
Speaker 1: Texas gear at the game as a kid, which was
Speaker 1: one of our Winter Wonders selections. That we can also
Speaker 1: talk about the Yes Winter Wisconsin and whatnot, but we'll
Speaker 1: get to all of that.
Speaker 2: I want to be very specific. Well, let's talk about
Speaker 2: Florida Oklahoma on a next show or whatever the next
Speaker 2: time we do recaps. But the Dan Mullen stuff after
Speaker 2: the game, I didn't watch the clip. I saw some quotes,
Speaker 2: so maybe I'm missing context. I'm open to that. What
Speaker 2: I saw was he said, As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing here once again. Our final game was against
Speaker 2: Alabama last week. Was that like the crux basically what
Speaker 2: he said, basically saying it was sort of they'd treated
Speaker 2: it like a walkthrough exhibition, no big deal, not a
Speaker 2: real game against a really good Oklahoma team on a
Speaker 2: national stage in a New Year six game. That was
Speaker 2: the essence, I believe. So yeah, And they did accept
Speaker 2: the check that came.
Speaker 1: With the I believe I believe they accepted the check.
Speaker 1: This is the same guy who argued to have more
Speaker 1: fans in the stands and then flip flopped a number
Speaker 1: of times on I guess just how intense or non
Speaker 1: intense you should be about the college football season.
Speaker 2: So it's just right.
Speaker 1: I like Dan Mullen as a coach, but as I
Speaker 1: think we've come to know about a lot of which
Speaker 1: is the more they talk, the less sometimes we all
Speaker 1: should listen. And Mullen has certainly found himself in that
Speaker 1: drawer throughout the course of the twenty twenty football season.
Speaker 2: I did see to be fair. As for the terms,
Speaker 2: this is from gatorsports dot com. As for the terms
Speaker 2: of his contract, Mullen was due to receive a two
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars bonus for reaching a New Year six Bowl,
Speaker 2: but he and his coaching staff will forego bonuses this
Speaker 2: season due to the ongoing COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: That's nice. That's a nice gesture.
Speaker 2: So I imagine the school is still in the conference is
Speaker 2: still happy to accept that cash. But it isn't. It
Speaker 2: is nice, and this is what a lot of coaches
Speaker 2: have done, so sure that that is at least nice
Speaker 2: and beneficial of the school and athletic departments and the
Speaker 2: bottom line that has been greatly affected literally everywhere. Now,
Speaker 2: with that being said, we know that there are games
Speaker 2: going on. We're going to do a recaps Mayo Bowl
Speaker 2: and the trophy at the Mayo Bowl shattering. We're going
Speaker 2: to do all that thirstiest bull of them all.
Speaker 1: All that stuff. We're going to recap on our Sunday recording.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, resolutions, Happy twenty twenty one. It is great to
Speaker 1: see you, twenty twenty one. You could not get here
Speaker 1: soon enough. Hopefully we put a lot of this behind us.
Speaker 1: We can move forward without a virus and play a
Speaker 1: normal college football season. There. Okay, those are the table stakes.
Speaker 1: We're all united behind that as fans, Dan, or as
Speaker 1: a fan in your case, do you have any resolutions
Speaker 1: as we move forward?
Speaker 2: I've got like a what's a ten sided shape? A
Speaker 2: do decahedron? A decaheat do decahedron is twelve. Okay, so
Speaker 2: a ten sided shape is called on That's the shape
Speaker 2: of my resolution.
Speaker 1: It would be a deca something.
Speaker 2: Ten sided shape is a deca gone, A deca gone.
Speaker 2: There you go, yeah, a deca gone. Okay. This is
Speaker 2: a single resolution that I want just as a college
Speaker 2: football fan and podcaster, I want to dig deeper into
Speaker 2: the group of five for specific entertainment players and units
Speaker 2: more often. And that's not because of anything. I you know,
Speaker 2: feel big picture about the sport. It's tough to follow
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty teams. But every time I find
Speaker 2: myself looking at a team because there's like a big match,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, man, this dude is everywhere, and I'll
Speaker 2: watch like previous games like oh, this receiver is fully unstoppable.
Speaker 2: You know. I want to be able to be in
Speaker 2: on those guys earlier than I have been. I just
Speaker 2: usually do it ahead of a big game. I want
Speaker 2: to do a better job earlier on because even though
Speaker 2: a team is like you know, oh they're three and four,
Speaker 2: Like what, you know, why are we caring about this team?
Speaker 2: There's all like they're just dudes on every team. I
Speaker 2: want to be better in my dude hunting by that phrase.
Speaker 2: Yeah great, I do well.
Speaker 1: If Coastal Carolina taught us anything this year, it's that
Speaker 1: maybe you're onto something right. So again, consider the context
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty season. Teams will playing all sorts
Speaker 1: of different numbers of games. Right, Ohio State's in the
Speaker 1: playoff at six and zero. Meanwhile, we've got other teams
Speaker 1: that some have played eleven or twelve, and I think
Speaker 1: because of the very structure of this season, it gave
Speaker 1: us an opportunity to pay more attention to a team
Speaker 1: like a Coastal Carolina. And definitely they were one of,
Speaker 1: if not the best stories of the entire year. It
Speaker 1: was fun as hell to watch them, and I think
Speaker 1: in a normal year it might have gotten left on
Speaker 1: the cutting room Florida in because we've got so much
Speaker 1: other FBS football that we got to cover and Power
Speaker 1: five football that we're talking about, that we just can't
Speaker 1: pay attention to a guy like a Grayson McCall like
Speaker 1: we would or like we did in twenty twenty. So
Speaker 1: I am with you. I would kind of build on
Speaker 1: that a little bit and say that I want to
Speaker 1: do better, be more out spoken. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to characterize it with regard to how do we make
Speaker 1: this a more equal playing field for those group of
Speaker 1: five schools. I'm tired just of calling them the group
Speaker 1: of five schools. It's like they're a second class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the term group of five. Actually, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: It kind of just sucks.
Speaker 2: Because it's it's sort of like a others JV terminology. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's stupid, and you know, we have done far, far
Speaker 2: too many wrong things and referencing just like yep, this
Speaker 2: these this grouping of others group of five, and you know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's whoever came up with the group of five
Speaker 2: thing is to blame as well. But uh yeah, let's
Speaker 2: let's be much more specific.
Speaker 1: We have to walk a fine balance on this show too,
Speaker 1: because the overwhelming majority of the people who listen are
Speaker 1: fans of Power five schools. Definitely, if we dive too
Speaker 1: deep into the I'm going to say a group of
Speaker 1: five stuff, We're going to lose folks, and that's also
Speaker 1: not going to be helpful for our business. But we
Speaker 1: need to find a way to walk that balance. And
Speaker 1: now I don't know, I don't know how we do it.
Speaker 1: We could probably start in the new year by coming
Speaker 1: up with our own name for the Group of five.
Speaker 1: Let's rebrand it, let's take that as one of our
Speaker 1: official resolutions here.
Speaker 2: Well, I would argue, so I'm just going to the
Speaker 2: conferences and the stories there in the Group of five
Speaker 2: have become more interesting with Power five conferences by and
Speaker 2: large becoming less competitive. How many times has Oklahoma won
Speaker 2: the Big twelve, you know, these past few years? How
Speaker 2: many times has you know Ohio State won the Big Ten?
Speaker 2: How many times is Clemson? How many times has? I
Speaker 2: guess the SEC has been weirdly more up in the
Speaker 2: air with Georgia, Alabama, LSU all winning recently. But we're
Speaker 2: talking about the same teams over and over. And meanwhile,
Speaker 2: in the American, in the MAC in the Mountain West,
Speaker 2: we're seeing more volatility and more competition at the top
Speaker 2: in a lot of cases, you know, year over year.
Speaker 2: So in a number of ways, what the Power five
Speaker 2: is doing at the top has aided my own interest
Speaker 2: in some of these other conferences. As I say, well, all.
Speaker 1: Right, good one, that was a good one.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you have?
Speaker 1: I want to call bs on anyone in the college
Speaker 1: football universe. Uh oh claiming that something is not logistically possible. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to be more mindful of that, because this
Speaker 1: was always the laziest argument against doing a playoff, if
Speaker 1: you recall, until suddenly it vanished. Suddenly it vanished amid
Speaker 1: public pressure, with a ton of money on the table,
Speaker 1: probably a thousand other factors as well. Even still, that
Speaker 1: logistics argument had never fully been put to the test
Speaker 1: in the way that it was in twenty twenty, Notre
Speaker 1: Dame can't join a conference exactly. That's not logistically possible,
Speaker 1: seeing as how we played a high level college football
Speaker 1: game with sixty hours, sixty hours of lead time. I
Speaker 1: have to believe, I have to believe that almost anything
Speaker 1: is possible moving forward. I did not say easy. I
Speaker 1: know it's not easy, but just don't tell me it
Speaker 1: is logistically impossible, because after what we just went through Sun,
Speaker 1: everything is possible. You can find a way to make
Speaker 1: it happen. They did in BYU Coastal, they did on
Speaker 1: like a thousand other different fronts during the twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: We can do it, we can do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, though that was a very
Speaker 2: specific situation, and that BYU is an independent team that
Speaker 2: had a buy that week, so that was an advantageous situation.
Speaker 2: There is an element to college football that we all
Speaker 2: know and we all understand. That's just like, this is
Speaker 2: how we've always done things, So this is how we're
Speaker 2: going to do things now. Obviously, when you throw that
Speaker 2: the wrench of twenty twenty into everything, then it becomes okay,
Speaker 2: well we're changing schedules and like up two weeks later,
Speaker 2: we're changing schedules. Again, I think the malleyability element to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty was pretty eye opening, and not always in
Speaker 2: a good way. That like, oh, maybe the Big Ten
Speaker 2: isn't as organized as they should be in terms of
Speaker 2: messaging and executing a schedule and a set of rules.
Speaker 2: So what I come down is tradition is both the
Speaker 2: appeal and a problem of college football, right, Like, it's
Speaker 2: just it's easy to look at the sport and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's so many amazing things about the traditions of these
Speaker 2: teams and these conferences and these rivalries, but then you
Speaker 2: get stuck in the mud where like, yeah, the tradition
Speaker 2: is we schedule teams nine years in advance. Why I
Speaker 2: don't know, just because we're nervous about filling things and
Speaker 2: we want to make sure everything is set Like well, okay,
Speaker 2: well what if we came up with a new way
Speaker 2: of doing things. So I think this is dead on
Speaker 2: for you. That it's not that college football needs to
Speaker 2: be brought into the twenty first century, because I think
Speaker 2: they've done a relatively good job of improving things, albeit slowly.
Speaker 2: It's more the why don't we rethink the organization the
Speaker 2: way this sport is organized while maintaining it's sort of like,
Speaker 2: isn't there like a new Mustang electric car that still
Speaker 2: looks like a Mustang, but its kind of brand new guts.
Speaker 2: That's the way I think we need to think about
Speaker 2: college football and the structure thereof.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as a related point, I want to do
Speaker 1: everything in my power to remember that the playoff committee
Speaker 1: decided it needed to meet in person to pick four teams.
Speaker 1: They were insistent on meeting in person. Now, look, we
Speaker 1: talked to a broad spectrum. I mean, you were hacking
Speaker 1: foreign governments remotely via zoom. Sure, so we talked to
Speaker 1: a broad spectrum of people out there. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tell you how to feel about this here virus.
Speaker 1: Just stay safe and stay away from people. It just
Speaker 1: let's try it out to spread it because no one want, said,
Speaker 1: you want to get sick. But totally we could put
Speaker 1: all that to the side, and I think agree that
Speaker 1: the argue even by the playoff committee, that they just
Speaker 1: couldn't do what they had to do, which was picked
Speaker 1: four obvious teams over zoom, because you know, sitting on
Speaker 1: zoom for all these hours is just it's hard. We
Speaker 1: all know it's hard. We've all been doing it for
Speaker 1: the last year. Shut up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And how many of these like older gentlemen and
Speaker 2: ladies on the committee are chasing toddlers around. My guess
Speaker 2: is Bill Hancock is not chasing toddlers around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And my guess is they're all hopping on zoom
Speaker 1: calls with their family anyway. So don't give me and
Speaker 1: their day jobs and they just don't give me. And
Speaker 1: that's a small thing, right, That's a small thing, super small.
Speaker 1: It's a super tiny thing. But it speaks to their
Speaker 1: way of thinking, the way of thinking, and the broader point,
Speaker 1: like you said, of this is the way we've always
Speaker 1: done things. They did not all need to be in
Speaker 1: a room. Okay, I don't care about the virus, I
Speaker 1: don't whatever. Just don't try to make that argument. Think differently.
Speaker 1: Zoom's a thing, people are comfortable with it very easily
Speaker 1: could have done that anyway. That's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: But I am I am as just to put a
Speaker 1: bow on this, I'm going to call bs on the
Speaker 1: whole logistic impossibility thing whenever I hear it and think
Speaker 1: about it differently, because.
Speaker 2: It's like, what are the logistics are scheduling like, what
Speaker 2: what do you feel like is schedulings.
Speaker 1: One scheduling's won right nine years in advance? You you
Speaker 1: called that one out. I think we're probably coming to
Speaker 1: a point with the playoff where we're going to start
Speaker 1: talking about adding games. I don't know when that's going
Speaker 1: to happen, not privy to anything, but it's going there.
Speaker 1: It's going there because we've had the same two teams,
Speaker 1: three teams in this thing however many years now, So
Speaker 1: it's getting there. It's going to come there sooner than later.
Speaker 1: And you never have name image likeness, right, Well, that
Speaker 1: was going to be my next point. Yeah, the video game,
Speaker 1: the video game name in like that, that's specific. Yeah, name,
Speaker 1: image and likeness could bring about all sorts of in
Speaker 1: college football, and the logistics of that, again will be
Speaker 1: difficult for teams to manage. How do you manage that
Speaker 1: if you're a school? I don't know, but my guess
Speaker 1: is smart people can figure it out if we sit
Speaker 1: down and think about it. Right, let's sit down and
Speaker 1: think about it. Let's not be rooted in the past,
Speaker 1: and let's try to hack this thing together here figure
Speaker 1: out the best way to do. Like, there's a thousand
Speaker 1: things in college football that I think fall into this
Speaker 1: category of being argued about as logistically impossible, which really aren't.
Speaker 1: They're more difficult and they are challenging, but we can
Speaker 1: figure it.
Speaker 2: Out, right, I mean, I think the postseason in general, right,
Speaker 2: I know, we got a question about this for our
Speaker 2: bruin A which we're recording in a little bit here,
Speaker 2: but somebody was asking about, like, you know, ESPN is
Speaker 2: on this broadcast asking about, like, how do we make
Speaker 2: the Bulls more important? Everybody? You know, We've got all
Speaker 2: these great bowl games, but people don't seem to like
Speaker 2: want to talk about all these games. I'm again paraphrasing
Speaker 2: ESPN Owning everything may not be the best thing. If
Speaker 2: they're mentioning the playoff and putting up playoff graphics and
Speaker 2: playoff hypotheticals on a Wisconsin Illinois game, you know everything.
Speaker 2: I don't know if ESPN did that game specifically, but
Speaker 2: just a random game early on that doesn't necessarily have
Speaker 2: playoff implications. The discussion around Bowls and the discussion around
Speaker 2: where we are as a sport in twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: now is kind of fascinating. You have guys opting out
Speaker 2: of these bowl games like if your day job TI
Speaker 2: said you're doing a great job, we want you to
Speaker 2: start working thirty eight saturdays a year, your response would be,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but how much more are you paying me?
Speaker 2: Would probably be in some way a reality. And I
Speaker 2: think we are approaching a point where as we see
Speaker 2: opt outs, as we see guys declaring for the NFL Draft,
Speaker 2: and as we see guys saying, you know, I mean
Speaker 2: this year is very specific because of COVID and public
Speaker 2: health stuff, and teams opt out because of the process
Speaker 2: they had to go through to actually play games. I
Speaker 2: think we're going to reach a point where, like Bowls
Speaker 2: mattered before, because that was the postseason. You know, we
Speaker 2: were watching games. We were watching games all New Year's Day,
Speaker 2: and this was they were showcases because college games, by
Speaker 2: and large were not nationally broadcast, and so I couldn't
Speaker 2: living in southern California watch an Iowa player every week,
Speaker 2: or a Virginia Tech player every week, or a Arkansas
Speaker 2: player every week just because everything was so regional. I
Speaker 2: could watch, you know, Danny Farmer and UCLA. But then
Speaker 2: on New Year's Day, I could watch all these teams
Speaker 2: and there was a showcase for these players to get
Speaker 2: into the NFL or perhaps be a preseason All American
Speaker 2: the next year and raise their profile. And we sit
Speaker 2: here and wonder like, well, why why don't people care
Speaker 2: about bulls? You're paying me like you want me to
Speaker 2: play in these games for your TV show? What we
Speaker 2: what are we making here? What percent of the ESPN
Speaker 2: payout pie are going going to me and my family
Speaker 2: to appear in this game? When I've been on national
Speaker 2: TV ten of the last twelve weeks, That to me
Speaker 2: is we can't change that, can we?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: You want you want people to watch the male bawl,
Speaker 2: you want people to watch the insight bawl. Whatever, Let's
Speaker 2: get all our players on the field and have a
Speaker 2: reason to play, and it becomes more interesting.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got motivation, right, yeah, or needs to have motivation
Speaker 1: and ty.
Speaker 2: Please, if your day job asked you to start working
Speaker 2: thirty eight saturdays a year, promise me you will ask
Speaker 2: for more cash.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our next resolution, Dan Euroup,
Speaker 1: what do you got?
Speaker 2: I just want to watch games with humans in my
Speaker 2: house eating food.
Speaker 1: That would be so much fun, right.
Speaker 2: It would? And hey, I have now because I'm in
Speaker 2: a house. I have a small patio. I don't have
Speaker 2: a tie hilden Brand patio. Don't get it twisted right,
Speaker 2: little yard back there. I actually want to watch games outside.
Speaker 2: I want to get some sort of projector, but I
Speaker 2: want to be with people, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: worry about invisible particles, because Lord knows, Tie, when I
Speaker 2: get really eaten, I've got some visible particles spreading around.
Speaker 2: I just college football to me, watching a game alone
Speaker 2: on my couch. And yes, Jody likes college football, but
Speaker 2: in a down year for Michigan, not as much. I
Speaker 2: just it's a communal experience, like I can watch a
Speaker 2: movie alone in a dark room on a giant TV
Speaker 2: and be thrilled watching college football. I mean, I'm used
Speaker 2: to watching games like these past few years with our
Speaker 2: friend Richard Richard Johnson, and I'm sure you're used to
Speaker 2: watching games every week with your buddies or mama. H
Speaker 2: If it's Notre Dame, it just it feels like food
Speaker 2: without seasoning. It's like, yeah, I mean, something's going into
Speaker 2: my stomach, but it's not all that fun. And so
Speaker 2: I can't wait Tie to just like hand somebody up
Speaker 2: a plate of spicy cage and tots and a dipping sauce,
Speaker 2: like just go crazy. Well, one of the things I'm dying.
Speaker 1: For that You did a little bit of a live
Speaker 1: stream last night at the beginning half of the Florida
Speaker 1: Oklahoma game, and one of the things that you and
Speaker 1: Richard Johnson talked about was how odd it's going to
Speaker 1: feel like to be able to gather again comfortably right
Speaker 1: Like you go and you watch old YouTube videos of
Speaker 1: people gathering for a concert what have you, and it's like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, were are the masks, where are the protocols?
Speaker 1: Why are they to each other. It's a very weird
Speaker 1: experience now coming out hopefully on the on the tail
Speaker 1: end of this thing. And I'm kind of in the
Speaker 1: same boat, like just to be able to have the
Speaker 1: option to go to a sports bar to watch a
Speaker 1: game that was not something I necessarily did a whole
Speaker 1: lot of, at least not recent. To have that option
Speaker 1: to go down the street and you know, just pull
Speaker 1: up a chair at the bar, have a draft and
Speaker 1: watch a game. That was something I think we took
Speaker 1: for granted before. And I guess, depending on where you're at,
Speaker 1: maybe it's something you still can do. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it certainly isn't something we can do here, and
Speaker 1: I miss that. I miss that, I miss being able
Speaker 1: to gather with people to watch games. I miss having
Speaker 1: more of an option to go to a game. You know,
Speaker 1: of course I have down here as a resolution. I
Speaker 1: want to go to a game next year.
Speaker 2: Because days, who do you want to say?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's it's just been a while
Speaker 1: for me, Dan, it's been a while. I didn't go
Speaker 1: to games before, mainly because it's hard for us to do.
Speaker 1: I like talk about things that are logistically difficult but
Speaker 1: not impossible. We do a show every Sunday morning in
Speaker 1: which we recap all of Saturday's action. You go to
Speaker 1: a game on a Saturday. It's tough to do. It's
Speaker 1: tough to do that Sunday show, but I want to
Speaker 1: find a way to make it work. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's during the regular season. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's our deal where we go to the National Championship.
Speaker 1: We haven't done that in a couple of years now out,
Speaker 1: but I want to go to a game next year
Speaker 1: because it's been a while and I just miss it.
Speaker 1: Man to your point of like watching with other people.
Speaker 1: I want to go to a game next year. I
Speaker 1: want to find a way to make it work. We
Speaker 1: can build a whole weekend around it. We could do
Speaker 1: a recap show from the venue. Whatever, let's put Let's
Speaker 1: put our heads together and come up with something. But
Speaker 1: this is a sport that is meant to be shared
Speaker 1: with others in our tribe, be it the verbaler hood
Speaker 1: or our teams or whatever. And we will be doing
Speaker 1: live shows this summer some way, somehow. They might be
Speaker 1: picnics outside or something if we're you know, we want
Speaker 1: to stay as safe as possible, hopefully, but there will
Speaker 1: be live soliverbal We'll figure out something. But we got
Speaker 1: to find a way to cook at this. Yeah, cook
Speaker 1: out would be great. Find a way to enjoy this
Speaker 1: with others, be it at at home or at the stadium,
Speaker 1: outside the stadium. We got to figure something out.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: You got any others?
Speaker 2: Oh, I've got I told you I've got a decade
Speaker 2: one time, give me the dec any more sides? Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to be stricter. This is the oldest thing
Speaker 2: I'm going to say today. Actually I shouldn't claim that
Speaker 2: before the show's over. But I want to be stricter
Speaker 2: with my night game curfews. Okay, I just I especially
Speaker 2: because we record pretty early on Sunday morning, and even
Speaker 2: though there's games Thursday night Friday night, we do And
Speaker 2: this goes with another one of my resolutions. I just
Speaker 2: don't have it in me to stay up until one
Speaker 2: in the morning watching Pac twelve games anymore. But sometimes
Speaker 2: it'll be an organ game. Sometimes it'll be like a
Speaker 2: random type Mac game or game in the American on
Speaker 2: a Wednesday or Thursday night or whatever the case is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what my exact curfew is. It's probably
Speaker 2: hope you're sitting out. It's probably ten thirty. It's probably
Speaker 2: in that range because just with with having a kid
Speaker 2: and just my schedule is different. It's and this is
Speaker 2: the other resolution, by the way, I want to be better.
Speaker 2: I want to mine better and more consistent sources for
Speaker 2: those thirty to forty five minute games and broadcasts. I
Speaker 2: just don't have any filler between the snaps. There's a
Speaker 2: sweet spot. There are some that I used to have,
Speaker 2: so if anybody has suggestions where it's just like it's
Speaker 2: every snap of every game, but it's basically limited replays
Speaker 2: unless it's like overturning you know, a bang bang call
Speaker 2: or something like that, and touch scoring plays, but they're
Speaker 2: use I used to have a couple of different sources
Speaker 2: where just like, wow, this is every offensive snap, every
Speaker 2: defensive snap, and you know, God bless Joe Tests or
Speaker 2: Adam Emein or whoever. I'm not at that point watching
Speaker 2: the game for their insights.
Speaker 1: Writing this down. Yeah, one wants to watch more pirated footage.
Speaker 1: Did I get that right? Is that correct?
Speaker 2: That's absolutely right? Okay, I mean I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna sit here and make things up for the
Speaker 2: forballers out there listening. That's how I like, I really
Speaker 2: love to consume games because we have so many that
Speaker 2: we need to get through that I just I want
Speaker 2: boom snap snap snap snap, snap stap. That's what I want.
Speaker 2: And you also, weirdly get a better sense of momentum
Speaker 2: and trans like they keep running off tackle, they keep running.
Speaker 2: When you have graphics popping up and you're cutting to commercials,
Speaker 2: it's easy to sort of get distracted, maybe flip to
Speaker 2: another game when you get that just I want that
Speaker 2: efficiency tie. That's what I want. So that goes with
Speaker 2: my stricter curfew. The more of those sources I can get,
Speaker 2: the more I can just wake up at five am
Speaker 2: and just scrub through everything that I can. All Right,
Speaker 2: that's very specific, though, But like people have lives too,
Speaker 2: I would imagine it's not just dumb podcasters. Like, if
Speaker 2: you love college football and you happen to be a
Speaker 2: fan of a specific team and you missed what you've
Speaker 2: now learned was an awesome matchup, you probably rather get
Speaker 2: through it in a shorter time span than three hours.
Speaker 1: Right, well, I think so.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Again, I'm old, though, I am very old, and
Speaker 2: I admit this readily. Okay, do you want more of
Speaker 2: my well resolutions?
Speaker 1: Here's one? Okay, here's one. I want to celebrate the
Speaker 1: little internet nuances of college football more. Okay, in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, A large chunk of what we do here
Speaker 1: is already that celebrating these these these little tidbits of
Speaker 1: spiciness in college football, the things that make it unique,
Speaker 1: like the surrender cobras and the college kickers and the
Speaker 1: fat guy touchdowns. And I used to roll my eyes
Speaker 1: at a lot of that stuff. And maybe it's because
Speaker 1: I'm like the krusty old media guy. Now I don't know.
Speaker 2: But in a weird.
Speaker 1: Season, I've seen what krusty old media guys look like.
Speaker 2: You are not one of them. Krusty in mind, the
Speaker 2: mustard stains don't exist, the open flies, the disheveled hair.
Speaker 1: I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 2: The conversation. No, I'm describing like eleven different people. I've
Speaker 2: seen im press boxes, the awkward conversations with women, especially
Speaker 2: much younger ones. You're not that person.
Speaker 1: Sorry, but it's easy to get hackneyed, right when you
Speaker 1: do this all the time. And in a weird season
Speaker 1: where it was hard to get up and feel good
Speaker 1: about a lot of what was going on out there,
Speaker 1: there were these moments still in the season that we
Speaker 1: had that made it easier to feel good about what
Speaker 1: we were watching, right, These unique moments of college football
Speaker 1: goodness that you could cling to and feel good about.
Speaker 1: We had moments like that scattered throughout the season. We
Speaker 1: say moments all the time, but these are the things
Speaker 1: that make the sport unique. I want to remember that
Speaker 1: next time. We're doing a recap show in week ten
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty one season and the season's getting
Speaker 1: a little long in the tooth, and you know how
Speaker 1: it is. You and I are grinding right, grinding, We're
Speaker 1: feeling we're feeling tired. We just watched a Pac twelve
Speaker 1: game to one am. I want to remember these moments
Speaker 1: because that is what keeps people coming back, It's what
Speaker 1: keeps people entertained, It's what makes us all feel good
Speaker 1: about college football. And I don't want to take it
Speaker 1: for granted. So surrender Cobra as a college kickers. In fact, guy,
Speaker 1: touchdowns twenty twenty one is your year, at least in
Speaker 1: my book.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing with that is those are more
Speaker 2: things in the moment. So I think you just need
Speaker 2: to be more active on social media. I think that's
Speaker 2: the solution.
Speaker 1: That is not a solution. That is not the solution.
Speaker 2: No, but those are social media things. It's hard to
Speaker 2: describe visuals, and we're doing more video. I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I think those are the things. And I think that
Speaker 2: comes with you know, attending games and tailgates and everything
Speaker 2: like that. You appreciate those little things even more. But
Speaker 2: I don't know, those are things that are popping like
Speaker 2: your dilly bar dance.
Speaker 1: This is the natural essence of college football, and sure, well,
Speaker 1: college football, Internet, college trible Internet, but that's sort of
Speaker 1: our base here and I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: I pay those sweet homage.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's fine, you can do it here on the show.
Speaker 2: Things that resonate with you on Saturday will resonate Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: I am on that. The social media tip. I am
Speaker 2: going to continue because this was one of my resolutions
Speaker 2: heading into the season. I just I try to stay
Speaker 2: off of Twitter as much as I can. I do
Speaker 2: it for collegeoble Saturday because you get, oh, watch the
Speaker 2: North Carolina State ending blah blah blah. But I want
Speaker 2: to hold back on angry Oregon tweets because I'm I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure there and I don't have a ton of
Speaker 2: Twitter followers comparatively, but I have some, and my Oregon
Speaker 2: tweets are basically just for me, the angry ones, especially
Speaker 2: like how could they you know? Third Impelham the stuff
Speaker 2: like that from way back when regarding the old defensive
Speaker 2: coordinator and linebackers coach. So I think I've done a
Speaker 2: better job of in the way that I'm trying to
Speaker 2: mine the feeds the forty five minute game feeds my
Speaker 2: Oregon fan friends and just badgering them with text messages
Speaker 2: until and luckily I have a couple that badger me
Speaker 2: as well, just because I don't know, there's really no
Speaker 2: reason for me to be upset about Oregon football. They're
Speaker 2: pretty good every year at least and except for that
Speaker 2: one year, and it just I'm trying to be better
Speaker 2: about animous about college kids online, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's probably a good resolution.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean you've spiked controllers, You've got into our
Speaker 2: spiked cell phones, got into deep depressions. This was your
Speaker 2: twenties though, though. Yeah, so I think you've done a
Speaker 2: much better. You've done a better job than I have.
Speaker 2: I can definitely get better.
Speaker 1: This was the first year where I've had someone tweet
Speaker 1: at me asking for a proof of life.
Speaker 2: I've had that before, but I'm far more publicly emotional.
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you dead? Are you okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And this is not just in relation to Notre Dame game.
Speaker 1: This is because of not tweeting for like a month.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you're sometimes you just have bigger
Speaker 1: fish to fry to that when you're busy and you
Speaker 1: have a limited amount of hours and time in minutes,
Speaker 1: if the item that gets cut off as social media
Speaker 1: then so be it. But you know, it's it's not
Speaker 1: a bad suggestion, just be nicer out there, it's be nicer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and honestly, yeah, I mean this is I mean
Speaker 2: we are I'm not even gonna say guilty. I'm saying
Speaker 2: we are massively guilty of snark online. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: yet because it's fun in the moment, but then when
Speaker 2: you just feel like an idiot and you're pushing forty
Speaker 2: and you're like, eh, what am I doing here? And
Speaker 2: plus I mean you're learning nuclear fission in Cantonese, like
Speaker 2: you're just a busy dude. So I think that's a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 1: I want to try harder to not judge a college
Speaker 1: quarterback by his NFL draft prospects. I am so guilty
Speaker 1: of this. Are you still an NF I know you
Speaker 1: know more about the NFL, but and this is the
Speaker 1: irony of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't watch the NFL on Sundays.
Speaker 2: I watch a lot of Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of football on Saturdays. And I
Speaker 1: am still interested, very interested in the NFL. I'm actually
Speaker 1: still alive going into Week seventeen in a survivor pool
Speaker 1: first time effort, and of course there are like eight
Speaker 1: other guys who did it too, which is ridiculous, but whatever,
Speaker 1: it's an accomplishment. I follow it, but I don't watch
Speaker 1: it because I'm in football. Overload comes Sunday, we do
Speaker 1: our thing and we try to go and live a
Speaker 1: normal life the rest of the day. But I am
Speaker 1: still very much influenced by what the NFL thinks of
Speaker 1: a guy moving forward. Okay, and I want to try
Speaker 1: and get away from that because our game's college and
Speaker 1: too many guys have come and gone awesome at the
Speaker 1: college level, mediocre, non existent at the next level, to
Speaker 1: be fair, but looked as a result by me when
Speaker 1: it comes to them being a quote unquote legit threat
Speaker 1: on Saturdays because of a pop gun arm or being
Speaker 1: a little too short, or yeah, being Jared Garantino. I
Speaker 1: don't know whoa whoa.
Speaker 2: What happened to being nice to college kids?
Speaker 1: That's your resolution, not mine. Okay, too many of these
Speaker 1: guys have come and gone. I've overlooked them because they
Speaker 1: were missing something that the NFL would require, and that's
Speaker 1: just not fair. Ian Book is not going to be
Speaker 1: a good pro quarterback newsflash.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe maybe not. Yeah, I'd be wondering, and Josh
Speaker 2: Allen would be Apparently he's good.
Speaker 1: He's very good. I saw someone compared him to John
Speaker 1: Elway earlier this morning, which is crazy. But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be delighted to be wrong. But I
Speaker 1: have been under this assumption for years now that book's
Speaker 1: got no future beyond what we see right now him
Speaker 1: doing for Notre Dame, which is, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the most successful quarterbacks, if not the most successful quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the history of the program. And I've just sort
Speaker 1: of dismissed it as, oh, well, he's got a limited
Speaker 1: skill set, but you know what, so what So.
Speaker 2: This is better appreciating players for what they are, not
Speaker 2: what they aren't, correct. I have that for teams, for
Speaker 2: teams for what they are rather than what they aren't.
Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time talking about teams potential,
Speaker 2: like USC and Texas or Miami, you know, these traditional
Speaker 2: powers Nebraska, and I think we view a lot of
Speaker 2: these teams through the lenses of fans expectations, which is
Speaker 2: fine because that's a very real part of why coaches
Speaker 2: are hired and fired and teams, you know, feel pressure.
Speaker 2: And I want to start doing a better job of
Speaker 2: viewing teams for what they are and not what they
Speaker 2: aren't right like, and that that's my problem with how
Speaker 2: the playoff is looked at. That's my problem with how
Speaker 2: the Playoff is covered by places like ESPN or Fox
Speaker 2: or whoever. It's okay to look at a team for
Speaker 2: what they are, Like, they're not a playoff team, so
Speaker 2: they're not worth talking about. They're not an NFL prospect,
Speaker 2: so he's not, you know, worth taking seriously. On the
Speaker 2: flip side, I'm interested in how we can better view
Speaker 2: college players without the context of their recruiting profiles. Right,
Speaker 2: we expect certain things because they're a four star, five star,
Speaker 2: and I understand, mathematically, you're far more likely to get
Speaker 2: drafted in high rounds. You're far more likely to win
Speaker 2: New Year six games, or become an All American or
Speaker 2: win the national Championship if you have that blue chip
Speaker 2: ratio of you know, at least fifty percent of your
Speaker 2: team being your recruiting classes being comprised of four or
Speaker 2: five stars. But we get to a point where we
Speaker 2: place expectations on players that are clearly undeserved based on
Speaker 2: on field play, and then we set ourselves up for
Speaker 2: disappointment as fans and people covering the sport because they
Speaker 2: were five stars, because they were four stars, they're considered
Speaker 2: to be a disappointment if they're not stars in college.
Speaker 2: When a lot of that is guesswork. You know, we're
Speaker 2: guessing at the potential because of their physical attributes, because
Speaker 2: of their tape. But there are so many variables that
Speaker 2: go into whether or not a player succeeds, be it
Speaker 2: you know, how they grow, their injuries, their emotions, their
Speaker 2: mental makeup, you know, whether or not they selected the
Speaker 2: right school, the right type of system for their talents
Speaker 2: that we place and we are guilty of this. We
Speaker 2: place these expectations two, three, four years down the line
Speaker 2: based on what they were projected to be as juniors
Speaker 2: in high school. That's not fair at all now, right, it's.
Speaker 1: A heavy cross to bear for some of these kids
Speaker 1: totally branded as a five star, four star, Yeah, saviors
Speaker 1: in a lot of these cases, being told through their
Speaker 1: entire youth football career that they're the next big thing,
Speaker 1: the next hype mm hmm. Then you go to a
Speaker 1: big school and you know, it's a transition for a
Speaker 1: non athlete to go away to college. Immerse themselves in
Speaker 1: that new culture.
Speaker 2: Doesn't this, doesn't this also fall under And this is
Speaker 2: part of my decagon, the Dan Decagon of self improvement.
Speaker 2: It's tough because a lot of them, a lot of
Speaker 2: the players, when they speak to the media, they're very
Speaker 2: specifically coached about, you know, not necessarily what to reveal,
Speaker 2: but how to come across because you know that you're
Speaker 2: always being judged on social media. You're always being judged
Speaker 2: by you know, fans of the team or boosters or
Speaker 2: coaches or whoever, people in the athletic department. So players
Speaker 2: are taught to just be sort of take things pretty
Speaker 2: down the line. It's difficult to get player perspective as fans,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that's not revealed, and you find
Speaker 2: out after the fact you talk to people in the know.
Speaker 2: You know, somebody heard from somebody on a message board
Speaker 2: that you know, they got dumped the night before the
Speaker 2: game by their girlfriend and that's why they look sluggish
Speaker 2: and not into the game. You're like, oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: It's hard to get that player perspective, but I think
Speaker 2: it would be easier for us to say or to
Speaker 2: look at these like, well, their kids and you know
Speaker 2: they're there to play football, you know, suck it up,
Speaker 2: you know, get focused on the field. There's a certain
Speaker 2: degree of truth to that, I suppose. But if we
Speaker 2: can get more player perspective, and maybe this goes with
Speaker 2: the name, image and likeness thing that you know, players
Speaker 2: are going to be building brands on social media and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and we get a better sense for
Speaker 2: them and you know, what goes into their daily lives.
Speaker 2: But I'd like to do a better job of trying
Speaker 2: to get like what what is a day to day
Speaker 2: life for these guys? You know, what goes into their
Speaker 2: preparation in the off season and their injury rehabilitation, Like
Speaker 2: where are they emotionally, mentally, physically, whatever? And yeah, I
Speaker 2: think that's important.
Speaker 1: I've got a point here about authenticity. Yeah, finding a
Speaker 1: way to surface that authenticity that we know exists but
Speaker 1: is really hard to cover during the season when we've
Speaker 1: got a million games, it unfortunately gets overlooked, overshadowed. I
Speaker 1: want to find a way to surface that better in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, to provide that context and give the
Speaker 1: fans what they want. You know, we started this patreon
Speaker 1: at verballers dot com. This is not an ad for
Speaker 1: the Patreon. But I think it's been an interesting use
Speaker 1: case for you and I just to meet people where
Speaker 1: they're at, see what they're into. Sure, and it's been revealing,
Speaker 1: frankly for both of us to see what our fan
Speaker 1: base is looking for with regard to the podcast, just
Speaker 1: as being college football fans where are they at? It
Speaker 1: has really helped me try to figure this out as
Speaker 1: we now start thinking about twenty twenty one. So I
Speaker 1: want to try and surface as much of that real,
Speaker 1: pure goodness of college football, or if nothing else, just
Speaker 1: the real, even if it's not good of college football,
Speaker 1: to give people a better perspective of what's going on.
Speaker 2: Sure. Else, I want to roast more roast and grill
Speaker 2: more vegetables.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is this is less college football but more
Speaker 1: for like college football watching.
Speaker 2: Okay, I am a not nervous but like I like
Speaker 2: snacking all the time and over the course of like
Speaker 2: noon to midnight or whatever I'm setting my curfew at.
Speaker 2: I guess it's eleven am now that I'm in Central time.
Speaker 2: I do love roasted and grilled vegetables and I want
Speaker 2: to have more giant piles of them around for me
Speaker 2: to snack on. I want interesting seasoning combinations, sauces, you know, vegetables.
Speaker 2: I didn't think about roasting even fruit. I haven't thought
Speaker 2: about roasting or grilling that. That's that's a goal, tie,
Speaker 2: I just one hundred percent of goal. If I could
Speaker 2: just have like a giant what's what's a good?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: If I just a giant mount of caramelized onions is
Speaker 2: pretty good to me. But any sort of just giant
Speaker 2: situation with roast vegetables, I love it. Some spicy ones,
Speaker 2: some interesting sauces, that's what I want. That's a resolution, Ty,
Speaker 2: that counts all right?
Speaker 1: All right if you say so. If you say so,
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't you can't appreciate that. Oh I
Speaker 1: can appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I just can't eat garbage all day, Ty, I'm getting older. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how about digging deeper into season improvement stories?
Speaker 1: Season improvement stories?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, teams who start out slow and slowly, but surely,
Speaker 2: you know, get their footing, whether or not it's because, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, and it's a context thing too, like oh,
Speaker 2: these guys got healthier, or you know, this coach returned
Speaker 2: from you know, some sort of personal tragedy and everything
Speaker 2: culturally was way better in that locker room or oh
Speaker 2: their schedule was you know, we you know, pay attention.
Speaker 2: They had started out with three road games, and that's
Speaker 2: why they started all three against good teams. It's hard
Speaker 2: to remember when you have so many teams playing the sport,
Speaker 2: but I do like paying attention to digging into when
Speaker 2: teams really get their acts together, and you know, late
Speaker 2: October throughout the final stretch of the year.
Speaker 1: I've got something similar to that as well, because twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: at least for solid wife Kate and I, was a
Speaker 1: year of home improvements. True, right, a lot of folks
Speaker 1: stuck at home looking at the four walls, thinking what
Speaker 1: can we do? It's not going to expose us to
Speaker 1: the deadly virus. We could do stuff around the house.
Speaker 1: We can paint, we can do home projects, and we
Speaker 1: did all of them. We're still doing them every weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, so why not expose those On the college
Speaker 1: football side, right, We did a Marie Condo episode not
Speaker 1: so long ago in the off season where we took
Speaker 1: a look at what we could get rid of, well,
Speaker 1: we could tidy up in the world of college football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think if we pay attention to those storylines, and
Speaker 1: try to highlight the good. Highlight some of those good stories.
Speaker 1: People would gravitate to it for sure.
Speaker 2: Can I focus on something you said early on in
Speaker 2: that how would you improve your home for college football watching?
Speaker 1: For college football watching?
Speaker 2: Yeah, aside from just like buying a bigger TV. Are
Speaker 2: you happy with your sound? Are you happy with your
Speaker 2: seating setup? Because you might be accommodating more people in
Speaker 2: a healthier world. Are you happy with your food preparation?
Speaker 2: Would you be ordering more takeouts? You're doing less work
Speaker 2: and less cleaning on a college football day. How are
Speaker 2: you satisfied with your grill? Do you want to add
Speaker 2: a smoker? Do you want to add a pizza oven?
Speaker 2: Do you want to start making better drinks? What is?
Speaker 2: What could you improve personally? If you're self scouting your
Speaker 2: home as it relates to football watching?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to figure out a solution for outdoor watching.
Speaker 1: I don't have a great setup out there. You talk
Speaker 1: about a projector I need to come up with a
Speaker 1: solution to take one of my TVs outside or I
Speaker 1: haven't really thought that through.
Speaker 2: Could you do that seasonally? Could you just like I
Speaker 2: don't know if you have a wall to mount a TV?
Speaker 2: On out there. I don't have a wall TV off
Speaker 2: when it gets cold or something.
Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't have a setup like that.
Speaker 1: So I think, whatever I'm doing, I'm taking a TV outside.
Speaker 1: So it might involve getting one of those cheaper tcls
Speaker 1: that I can drag in and out still get a.
Speaker 2: Decent How long could you watch night games outside in PA?
Speaker 2: Could you watch a long through October? I think could
Speaker 2: you go out because you have a fire pit situation?
Speaker 2: I yeah, through October might be a little aggressive.
Speaker 1: You could. You could get a good chunk of the
Speaker 1: way through the month of October watching games outside. The
Speaker 1: problem would be the mosquitoes need a solution on the
Speaker 1: mosquito front. But if you can solve that, then yeah,
Speaker 1: you could watch games for a good chunk of the fall.
Speaker 2: How long do mosquitos last in Eastern PA?
Speaker 1: Well, they last pretty long as long as it's forming.
Speaker 1: The candles don't work. That stuff doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Send your your mosquito solutions Eastern pad my way. But
Speaker 2: at me verbal at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: I need a setup for outside. I think that's the
Speaker 1: most the most pressing thing, and then inside. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not huge on like the four screen setup.
Speaker 1: I think you could do two, though you could do two,
Speaker 1: and I do do two.
Speaker 2: I have room. So what is your two TV setup?
Speaker 1: I don't have a two TV setup. That's where I'm
Speaker 1: going like this. Okay, my two TV setup is the
Speaker 1: big screen, the sixty five, and then closer to me
Speaker 1: another game streaming on the laptop. And that's fine for me.
Speaker 1: But if I'm having company over to watch the game
Speaker 1: in my living room again, in some post apocalyptic setup
Speaker 1: where the virus has already you know, done its thing
Speaker 1: and we're on the straight and narrow again, I need
Speaker 1: to have a better viewing experience for that person. It's
Speaker 1: fine for me, but not for the guest.
Speaker 2: Is your sixty five inch TV on a stand or
Speaker 2: mounted on the wall. It's a top a TV stand? Okay,
Speaker 2: so hypothetically, maybe just for in season, maybe just for Saturdays,
Speaker 2: if you got some sort of I guess having an
Speaker 2: empty mount doesn't look good, and the two TV setup
Speaker 2: could look weird. I don't know how Kate feels about it.
Speaker 2: I guess she's the other fifty percent.
Speaker 1: My guess is very poorly, very poorly about this.
Speaker 2: So what color is the wall on which your TV
Speaker 2: is up again, sitting on the stand.
Speaker 1: Like a very neutral gray beige color.
Speaker 2: Neutral grayish beige. I don't do color, you know that, right?
Speaker 2: Could you project above for like bigger game nights. It's
Speaker 2: tough during the day, but the projector's pocket projectors are
Speaker 2: pretty cheap.
Speaker 1: It's not a bad idea. It is not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: I've also got a side wall that I could potentially use.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you want you want to you you don't
Speaker 2: want to be switching back. You don't want to be
Speaker 2: swiveling your head all the time, right, true. I think
Speaker 2: you look into projector options because you could either pull
Speaker 2: down a screen so that's unobtrusive potentially because it's you know,
Speaker 2: mounted up higher on the wall around the ceiling, or
Speaker 2: if you have a bright enough projector. I think they're
Speaker 2: pretty bright. I don't know my lumens tie, but I
Speaker 2: think you can get a pretty bright projector on. It
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be a white wall. It definitely looks
Speaker 2: better on a white wall. I think you might be
Speaker 2: able to do, you know, get a little cart behind
Speaker 2: the couch or something something small, not not not popping.
Speaker 2: You put the big game on the projector and you
Speaker 2: put the medium sized game on the sixty fiver.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I don't
Speaker 1: know yet, but.
Speaker 2: I think there's potentially, I think there's I think there's
Speaker 2: some upside there.
Speaker 1: So why don't we say final resolution here? As we
Speaker 1: close in on an hour of talking college football in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one?
Speaker 2: Handles for mosquitoes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, give me your final resolution, Dan, Have.
Speaker 2: I not given you all of them? Okay? I gave
Speaker 2: you vegetables, player perspective, game broadcasts, angry organ tweets, curfews,
Speaker 2: improvement stories, specific entertaining players and units.
Speaker 1: I am not giving you angry Notre Dame tweets. By
Speaker 1: the way, Seph Wye, you're way better than I am, ty,
Speaker 1: I am not giving up my angry Notre Dame commentary continue.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Do you have a do you have a secret like
Speaker 2: Notre Dame burner account that I don't know about? I
Speaker 2: do not?
Speaker 1: Actually, no, no, no, it's all that's what we need.
Speaker 1: It's all coming from me. Yeah, no Burner accounts for
Speaker 1: this guy.
Speaker 2: I think. Oh. And I also put like, appreciate teams
Speaker 2: for what they are instead of they are. And I
Speaker 2: mentioned that one as well. I think that's my decagone. Cool.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, well, look right in, Sliverbal at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Let us know yours.
Speaker 2: This may only be an octagon of improvement after all
Speaker 2: of that, and I think it's just an octagon of improvement.
Speaker 1: An octagon, a decagon. I think I only had five
Speaker 1: A pen to gone. Doesn't matter. What matters is that
Speaker 1: we're thinking about making things better in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: We live through it in twenty twenty. Let's make this
Speaker 1: coming year better, Like I said, soliverbal at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: That's the email address. Write in, let us know your
Speaker 1: thoughts on what you're going to do as a college
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Speaker 1: yourself and this new year. We're also out there on
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Speaker 1: all sorts of goodness that is still going to be
Speaker 1: with you throughout the month of January and beyond this
Speaker 1: long cold off season. We're going to do our part
Speaker 1: to enhance the experience for all of college football fans
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: But by the way, I've broken my college football resolution
Speaker 2: almost every year since I made it in like two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight or nine of being less emotionally attacked
Speaker 2: to Oregon recruiting around.
Speaker 1: Day, forget it, forget it every year.
Speaker 2: I've only recently found out about this outside linebacker who
Speaker 2: is considering Oregon. Last second, what he committed to Michigan?
Speaker 2: He committed to Oklahoma? What what? Yeah, I've broken that
Speaker 2: resolution a lot do so aside from it I mentioned
Speaker 2: we were going to give personal resolutions at the end,
Speaker 2: aside from being better about goals, is there anything you
Speaker 2: would like to do specifically better because goals is looser like,
Speaker 2: is there something specifically that you either want to improve
Speaker 2: you want to do that that's just fully new for you,
Speaker 2: an experiment? Is there something? Is there something interpersonally with
Speaker 2: somebody in your life? What is it that you want
Speaker 2: to do wholly better or new in twenty twenty one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think well, outside of the goal thing and that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do want to take a page out of your
Speaker 1: playbook and learn to get good at cooking one particular thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think that's great now, you know where I stand
Speaker 1: on omelets.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I'm already like the omelet king of Eastern elite level
Speaker 1: omelet chef here. But that only gets you so far.
Speaker 1: I need I need another arrow in the quiver that
Speaker 1: I can focus on over the course of the next
Speaker 1: twelve months and get better at So. I have not
Speaker 1: identified what that thing is yet, but it would be
Speaker 1: good to have that single minded focus on one particular
Speaker 1: dish that I can cook that will both eat, that
Speaker 1: other people will enjoy, and we'll give me.
Speaker 2: Give me your general diet. You eat a lot of fish,
Speaker 2: you don't eat a lot of bread. I don't know
Speaker 2: what you do for desserts, So maybe it's a I
Speaker 2: have a suggestion for you. What about she a pino?
Speaker 2: I have? What is Kat eat seafood?
Speaker 1: Kate doesn't eat seafood?
Speaker 2: No, oh, she doesn't eat seafood. So's she's largely a
Speaker 2: vegetarian mostly, yeah, mostly a vegetarian. That's tougher. So the
Speaker 2: olind thing works really well. What about like you can
Speaker 2: master chili's because a veggie chili is still delicious. But
Speaker 2: I think you can master that in like a week
Speaker 2: and a half.
Speaker 1: Right now, it needs to be something that's going to
Speaker 1: take time. One thing that I've been thinking about because
Speaker 1: it's in chickens, well, because of the first roast chicken.
Speaker 1: That's not going to help me on the vegetarian front,
Speaker 1: that's true. One thing I was thinking about, because it's versatile,
Speaker 1: is working with Mama h to master the good old
Speaker 1: spaghetti sauce Grandma's.
Speaker 2: That's good, but I think you can get that pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: I think I think I can, but I've never done
Speaker 1: it before, and so I want to give myself a
Speaker 1: chance to not only get the recipe down but also
Speaker 1: figure out ways to improve it.
Speaker 2: Homebrewing is that e of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: That's not homebrewing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll just buy it pasta. I mean, I've already
Speaker 1: made homemade pasta. I know how to do that.
Speaker 2: It's impressive. I've never done that.
Speaker 1: I've done that a thousand times, so that like you're
Speaker 1: sitting there kneading a ball of an egg and flour,
Speaker 1: and I haven't done it recently, but I've my entire
Speaker 1: childhood growing up Italian family.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: I've done that more time than I could ever count.
Speaker 1: So okay, but no, the sauce thing to me is
Speaker 1: interesting sauce, maybe just from my own enjoyment, ording to
Speaker 1: make Grandma's meatballs would be would be something even if
Speaker 1: Kate would need it.
Speaker 2: I think a saucy twenty one sauces of all kinds
Speaker 2: because I don't think they're going to take you long,
Speaker 2: because you can largely just follow recipes and then the
Speaker 2: next time you make it, you just make whatever adjustments
Speaker 2: that you felt it needed. But I think a saucy
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one because if Kate's eating largely vegetarian meals,
Speaker 2: you're enhancing her meals. If you are making, you know,
Speaker 2: an amazing burger sauce put on a veggie burger, if
Speaker 2: you're making an amazing salsaver day, anything you want, like
Speaker 2: you just I think you take it by the month
Speaker 2: and you say, Okay, it's it's salsa month this month. Right,
Speaker 2: next month it's s sandwich sauces salsa September, and then
Speaker 2: it's it's a marinera March, and just be a very
Speaker 2: alliterative with it, just.
Speaker 1: For be the sauce king of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: I think it's a saucy twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: How about you? You got anything before we close it out.
Speaker 2: Here, mostly sauce based. Yeah, No, it's more I want
Speaker 2: to I want to be I need to find better
Speaker 2: ways to exercise in the cold because I'm always much happier.
Speaker 2: I'm in a better place mentally if I'm able to
Speaker 2: get exercise in the morning.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: So that's something that's big for me. The cooking, I
Speaker 2: don't have a next dish. I think pizzas can still
Speaker 2: going to take up a lot of my energy my
Speaker 2: focus from a cooking perspective. Sure, I need to be neater.
Speaker 2: I for sure need to just uh you know, keep
Speaker 2: my areas clean, keep the house cleaner than I do like.
Speaker 2: I just tidiness is huge and will continue to be
Speaker 2: huge for me because I like a good tidy area.
Speaker 2: I just need to be better about staying consistent with it.
Speaker 2: I'm very big on going to sleep with a clean
Speaker 2: house and not leaving stuff for the morning. But that
Speaker 2: just means I have to stay up lighter and clean
Speaker 2: everything I didn't during the day exactly. So that's a
Speaker 2: big goal for me. You know, leave the kitchen tidy
Speaker 2: and pristine for when I wake up. All right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Thank you so very much for downloading the show. We
Speaker 1: wish you all a happy and healthy twenty twenty one.
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