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Speaker 1: we start today's show is you guys love schedules.

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Speaker 1: You really have a dislike some of you were Clemson

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Speaker 1: Is Thursday, June fifteenth, of our lower twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: We're here in Los Angeles, California at Lead eleven. Workouts

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: As I said innocently enough, as I always do, I

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Speaker 2: So you know what, We're gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 1: And it all stems from a conversation I had with

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Speaker 1: It's very windy. If you're listening on podcast, none of

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Speaker 1: doubling is a paperweight out here? What kind of world

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Speaker 1: So I mean, what else would you do when you

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Speaker 1: Finally, we do not look up as we lay down

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Speaker 1: outside of Austin, Texas, are you ready for a world

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Speaker 1: where Texas A and M is in the mix for

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Speaker 1: the college football playoffs? Are you ready for a world

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Speaker 1: where if Bama doesn't win the West, it's not LSU,

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Speaker 1: it's A and M that won the West. I don't

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people are ready for that halfway.

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Speaker 1: Don't think half of my A and M folks are

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Speaker 1: ready for that.

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Speaker 2: What would you do with yourselves?

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Speaker 1: But if that happens Jimbo Fisher, it's like chapter two.

446
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Speaker 1: It's like part two of his career starts to get ridden.

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Speaker 2: Think about this. Follow along with me.

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Speaker 1: So far, you've known Jimbo Fisher, the dude that looks

449
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Speaker 1: like me right now, the dude with like thirty seven

450
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Speaker 1: pieces of paper in front of him, and he's like

451
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Speaker 1: lately seeming to drive an offense into the ground. I

452
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Speaker 1: know there's a lot more layers to it than that,

453
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Speaker 1: but think about, all of a sudden, if he makes

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Speaker 1: that move, because this is how the story will be told.

455
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Speaker 1: Regardless of how it went down, the story will sound

456
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Speaker 1: like this. Jimbo Fisher realized he had to make a move,

457
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Speaker 1: He went out, he brought in Bobby Patrino, and all

458
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, boom, things took off, and all of

459
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Speaker 1: a sudden, it becomes Jimbo Fisher the CEO. Now, folks

460
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Speaker 1: closer to the program. Though, CEO are the last three

461
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Speaker 1: letters that you would ever put around Jimbo Fisher to

462
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Speaker 1: accurately describe what his strengths are. But that doesn't matter

463
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Speaker 1: in storytelling because storytelling just wants to present things nice

464
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Speaker 1: and neat where we can put it on the shelf

465
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Speaker 1: and the consumer wants to buy it. So what if

466
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Speaker 1: Bobby Patrino was the missing ingredient that story? I just

467
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Speaker 1: told you, that's the story that will be told about

468
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Speaker 1: A and M football going up to Penn State, the

469
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Speaker 1: fighting Jesse's in State College. What if Drew Ahler is

470
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Speaker 1: the real deal? Now we were up there about a

471
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Speaker 1: month and a half ago. We watched spring practice, we

472
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Speaker 1: watched him, we watched an unfinished wide riste receiver group.

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Speaker 1: We've got guys coming in from Kent State, for example.

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Speaker 1: Sifa's coming in there in right now in the summertime.

475
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Speaker 1: If Drew Aller's the real deal, I know some people

476
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Speaker 1: think that guarantees some things, like if I were to

477
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Speaker 1: guarantee you Drew Aller plays at a five star level

478
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Speaker 1: this year, that means that Penn State wins the East, well,

479
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Speaker 1: it certainly gives them a good shot to do it.

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Speaker 1: But I want you to remember this is not a situation.

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Speaker 2: Like Texas in the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 1: See if you told me Texas the pills on their

483
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Speaker 1: potential in the Big Twelve, this year, they're gonna win

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. You tell me Penn State, you tell

485
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Speaker 1: me Drew Holler of the pills on his potential this year.

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Speaker 1: I look at it and I say, that may be

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Speaker 1: enough to make Penn State the favorite. But it's no

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Speaker 1: slam dunk because Drewala could be really good this year

489
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Speaker 1: and they still lose to Michigan. Drewala could be really

490
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Speaker 1: good this year, they still going to Columbus, Ohio and

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Speaker 1: get beat. Twenty seven to twenty three by the Buckeyes,

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Speaker 1: So it's a little different game there in the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten East. But if he is remember this is just

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Speaker 1: his first year as a starter. So if he's great

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Speaker 1: this year and they win the com Conference moot point,

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Speaker 1: if he's great this year and they come closer than

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Speaker 1: some people thought they would, they're on the cover of

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Speaker 1: every preview magazine going into twenty twenty four. They are

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Speaker 1: Florida state in other words, going into twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, and this is one I want to stress

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Speaker 1: to the listeners down in the Greater Gains of a

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Speaker 1: Florida area that was submitted. I didn't come up with

503
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Speaker 1: this one, although we have a well documented alleged hatred

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Speaker 1: on my end for the Florida Gators. Not quite sure

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Speaker 1: where it came from, but apparently it's there. The what

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Speaker 1: if goes as follows. What if Florida is bad this

507
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Speaker 1: year but FSU just rolls and Miami picks up steam.

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Speaker 1: If this happens, there are gonna be some really really

509
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Speaker 1: irrational things being said. There could be some irrational decisions

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Speaker 1: being made. There is no substitute. There's no way to

511
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Speaker 1: simulate what it feels like when your rivals turn up

512
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Speaker 1: the heat on you and you're not delivering. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter what you think in a controlled setting at dinner,

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what you say. Is in June or

515
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Speaker 1: July when the heat gets turned up, and what that

516
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Speaker 1: would look like here is Florida goes five and seven,

517
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Speaker 1: FSU goes eleven and one, and they're in the playoff.

518
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Speaker 1: Miami rights the ship and they're a nine win team

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Speaker 1: this year. If that happens, and recruiting is also suffering

520
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Speaker 1: along with it, there would be a huge movement to

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Speaker 1: make a coaching change at Florida.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's right.

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Speaker 1: In fact, you probably wouldn't hear me say that's right,

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Speaker 1: knowing my history on these sorts of things. But I've

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Speaker 1: also found myself before fighting a losing battle in trying

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Speaker 1: to preach logic, let's preach patience.

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Speaker 2: There is none of that. We don't play one hundred

528
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Speaker 2: and sixty two of these games.

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Speaker 1: We played twelve of them, and it's a long time

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Speaker 1: between Game twelve and then game one of the next year.

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Speaker 1: And if your two rivals, if Florida States validated themselves,

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Speaker 1: and if Miami turns it around, you know as well

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Speaker 1: as I do. What it's gonna sound like. If they

534
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Speaker 1: can do it, why can't we? If Mario did it

535
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Speaker 1: in two years, why can't we? Mike Norvel figured it out.

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Speaker 1: He's not even recruiting as well as we are. Why

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Speaker 1: can't we?

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Speaker 2: That's what it's gonna sound like.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, what's gonna be said is we're in the

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Speaker 1: SEC We got more resources.

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Speaker 2: Than they do. Well, yeah, you do.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, to hoopst much is given,

543
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Speaker 1: much is required, and I'm talking about scheduling there. The

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Speaker 1: other part of that is this is not entirely wrong.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have any traction as a Florida program

546
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Speaker 1: exiting twenty twenty three, all you're gonna have for seven

547
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Speaker 1: months is time to look at that upcoming schedule in

548
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four will not be fun. Not gonna be

549
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Speaker 1: fun anyway, but it's especially not gonna be fun if

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Speaker 1: they're coming off a five or.

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Speaker 2: Six win season.

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Speaker 1: So you see, the what if game is very dangerous

553
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Speaker 1: because it's a glass half full, glass half empty thing.

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Speaker 1: It's probably in my wheelhouse, but it paints a dream

555
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Speaker 1: scenario and a nightmare scenario at the same time. For

556
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Speaker 1: many different fan bases, and then we'll ultimately see what happens.

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Speaker 1: That's what God created the fall for. As me Mal

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Speaker 1: would say, here we are on the road, Academy Sports

559
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Speaker 1: and Outdoors, wind figuratively in our sales as the literal

560
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: wind comes straight in off the Pacific. A little bit

561
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Speaker 1: warmer here than it was last year. That's probably not

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Speaker 1: gonna last. But a few more hours, Academy Sports and Outdoors.

563
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Speaker 1: We could have gotten this table there. We could have

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Speaker 1: gotten this tablecloth there. I showed you famously at this point.

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Speaker 1: The other day someone hit us up who is in

566
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Speaker 1: the reptile business, and said I needed some reptile nets.

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Speaker 1: And I went to a certain establishment that shan't be named,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't have it. And I went to Academy

569
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Speaker 1: and they had it for five bucks. You know you

570
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Speaker 1: can get your lacrosse stick there, big lacrosse field just

571
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Speaker 1: off to my left by the way. You know you

572
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Speaker 1: can get your baseball supplies there. We know the sporting

573
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Speaker 1: goods and outdoor supplies are there. We know the tents

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Speaker 1: are there, we know the canopies are there. We know

575
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Speaker 1: the coolers are there, we know the grills are there.

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Speaker 1: Et cetera is there too. I think one of the

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Speaker 1: best marketing campaigns that Academy could probably endeavor is we

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Speaker 1: do etc. It's probably gonna get shot down by the

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Speaker 1: focus group, but I think it would go over well,

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Speaker 1: and at the very least we could try it on

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Speaker 1: our show. But Academy Sports and Outdoors is our partner

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Speaker 1: that's had our back and it enables us to take

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Speaker 1: the show on the road. But it also enables us

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Speaker 1: to bring you the show for free. And like I say,

585
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's not a chemical treatment plant. It's not someplace

586
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Speaker 1: that puts their sticker on the show but has otherwise

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Speaker 1: no functional use in your life. These folks are actually

588
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Speaker 1: there to give you things that you need.

589
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Speaker 2: For a nominal fee.

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Speaker 1: Of course, so Academy Sports and Outdoors always appreciate him

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Speaker 1: Academy dot com. If you can't get there in person,

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Speaker 1: I am going to get in trouble. For the next segment,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get in trouble.

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Speaker 2: I am going to.

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Speaker 1: Get some pretty stiff pushback no matter which direction I go.

596
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Speaker 2: So I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

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Speaker 1: I am going to take the path that includes me

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Speaker 1: delivering some opinions that I have gotten from you. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to mix some commentary in. I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: you some anonymous quotes from coaches. In fact, that's where

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Speaker 1: this came from. And you can decide for yourselves how

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Speaker 1: you feel about this. All right, Colin, here's your endpoint.

603
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Speaker 1: And I miss you, by the way, Colin, here's your endpoint.

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Speaker 1: So I'm talking to some folks in the coaching world

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Speaker 1: and they were talking about Debo Swenny the other day

606
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Speaker 1: and it got me to think it because they were

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Speaker 1: giving me their opinion about how you know, there may

608
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: be some of his methodology they're not crazy about, but

609
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: everyone's got that the bottom line is the guy's results

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Speaker 1: speak for themselves. And one of you asked me about this,

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Speaker 1: and so I just put it out earlier on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I said, Hey, what are your opinions of Daboswenny? And

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking about it. I was in my

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Speaker 1: hotel room earlier this morning. I was just thinking about this.

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Speaker 1: We did not plan on putting this in the show,

616
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Speaker 1: but I feel like we got to go this direction

617
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Speaker 1: because we got like a thousand replies to it.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening a podcast, let me ask you if

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Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, whether live or delayed, let me

621
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Speaker 1: ask you, what do you think about Dabo Swenny? Because

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Speaker 1: I got probably I wrote down four of the most

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Speaker 1: popular responses. I think there are like four buckets that

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Speaker 1: opinions of daboswenty fall in. One of them is just

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Speaker 1: I respect him. He's a high character guy. I love

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Speaker 1: the way he goes about his business. There are some

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Speaker 1: people who feel that way. Obviously a lot of Clemson

628
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: fans feel that way. That's self descriptive. I don't have

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Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on that. There is

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Speaker 1: a fairly sizeable group of people. I may fall into

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Speaker 1: this group. Actually, there's a sizeable group of people who

632
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Speaker 1: say there are some things about him that I don't

633
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Speaker 1: particularly love, but that makes him no different than anyone else.

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Speaker 1: It's not like I totally love anyone's approach to life,

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Speaker 1: including mine.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes, so he's.

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Speaker 1: Got some idiosyncracies I could do without. But by and large,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a stand up guy. You can't deny

639
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: his results, his process works, they're certainly succeeding and having

640
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Speaker 1: built a unique culture up there. That's category two. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of the silent majority may fall into

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Speaker 1: that category. Then there's category three, and that is I

643
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Speaker 1: don't like him. I don't like Dabos Swinney. I don't

644
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Speaker 1: like his methodology. I think there's a lot of him

645
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Speaker 1: that may be an authentic I think he may be

646
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Speaker 1: a little bit too showy, plays to the audience, and

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Speaker 1: part of him is just straight up tacky. It's not

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Speaker 1: a word I think we've ever used on the show,

649
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Speaker 1: but it's a word some of you used, and therefore

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Speaker 1: I think that is the sticker that goes on bucket

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Speaker 1: number three. Frankly, I don't want to really talk to

652
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Speaker 1: any of you, because I get where you're coming from,

653
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: even if I disagree with you. However, Bucket number four

654
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: is a little bit different story. Bucket number four is

655
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: I despise him. I think he's fake, I think he's inauthentic,

656
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: and I don't want anything to do with him. And

657
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: then there's probably like a personal attack or two that

658
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: is lobbed at the very end of that that I

659
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: won't present on the show. I want to talk to

660
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: that crowd for a second, so you're free to your opinion.

661
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: Told you we're not going to castigate anyone here for

662
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: what you think, especially when it's an opinion based segment.

663
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: But here's what I want to know.

664
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: For the folks out there who claim Dabos Winny is fake,

665
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: for the ones who claim he's inauthentic, my simple question

666
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: to you is, who is the real Dabos winning? So

667
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: define for me what it is about him that's fake,

668
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: and then I want you to tell me what it's

669
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: like when the MIC's off, when the camera's off, when

670
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 1: he goes home on Saturday after the game, when there

671
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: is no assembled media in front of and when he's

672
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: just you know, out out on his driveway on a

673
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning before work. Who is he really? When he

674
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: talks to his buddies on the phone. Who is he really?

675
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: When he's meeting with his staff on Monday morning?

676
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 2: Who is he really?

677
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 1: I struggle anytime someone's never met someone to take him

678
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: seriously when they start telling me how fake someone else is.

679
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: I've sensed it before.

680
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: I've got folks just like you who I've never met before,

681
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: who I look at and I think I can see

682
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: straight through. However, I can't know for sure if I've

683
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: never met him before. And the other thing, Meme WHI

684
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: used to always tell me get an idea of the

685
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: why before judging the what and what she meant by that.

686
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: Hats off to Mema for that when what she meant

687
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: by that is there may be a person out there

688
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: who does some things that make no sense to you,

689
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: or they carry themselves in a way that makes no

690
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: sense to you, but.

691
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 2: Maybe you don't know their story.

692
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: Jim Ross used to always say, until you've walked a

693
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: mile in my boots, you only know half the story,

694
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: which also could have been a Memea quote. So Dabo's

695
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: got a funny way about this. Dabo's got a weird way,

696
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: a little cringey way he goes about that. That's the what,

697
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: What's the why behind it? Candidly, I think he brings

698
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: some of this upon himself because he shies away from

699
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: platforms like this one, by the way, which is open

700
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: to him anytime he wants it, from allowing himself to

701
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: be presented long form, unfiltered in a way that really disseminates.

702
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 2: The why behind a lot of the what now.

703
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: If it doesn't bother him and it's not slowing Clemson down, hey,

704
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: maybe there's no incentive for him to talk like that.

705
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how I feel about him. I have

706
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: never cared for the Clemson versus the world mentality. I've

707
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: never cared for the little Clemson deal only because that's

708
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: a personal thing with me. I don't believe in using

709
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: that kind of fuel for motivation because of exactly what's

710
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: happened at Clemson. You preach that stuff, you preach everyone

711
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 1: doubting you, You use disrespect as your fuel. It actually

712
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: can get you to the mountaintop. The problem is when

713
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: you're on the mat, out on top, no one doubts

714
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: you anymore, no one disrespects you anymore. You have to

715
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: make it up. You have to manufacture it, and before

716
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: too much longer, even though they are nineteen and twenty

717
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: years old, folks see through that that you can't tell them.

718
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: Folks doubt you when they know they're favored by thirty

719
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: six and a half against the conference opponent this Saturday,

720
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: and so it wears out. And if you don't have

721
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: a you don't have a secondary pitch, you don't have

722
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: something else in your back pocket, you can fall flat

723
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm not telling you that's why Clemson

724
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: has fallen off. I'm telling you that I think it

725
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: contributes a little bit. Coaching turnover can contribute to that.

726
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: Not nailing it at quarterback every cycle, not continually refilling

727
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: the coffers at wide receiver. A lot of these things

728
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: go into it. It's never a sound bite or a

729
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: snapshot that fully represents what a program is. So that's

730
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: one thing that I've never personally cared for. They're running

731
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: down the hill before the game. I don't know the

732
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: why behind that. Uh, I've never I've never really looked

733
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: at it and said, yeah, Godabbo. I've never never necessarily

734
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: cheered that on. But you know what, I wear a

735
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: white T shirt every single show. For all I know.

736
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: Dabos Swinny could watch it and say, that is the

737
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: stupidest thing I've ever seen. Well, he doesn't know the

738
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: why behind it. I don't think any of you do

739
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: because I've never told that story.

740
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: Maybe I will one day, big deal.

741
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: So the guy may have a couple of things that

742
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: I don't particularly love.

743
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: Here's what I know.

744
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: What I know is anyone who's ultra close to him,

745
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: anyone who's been around him, high school coaches especially that

746
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: I've talked to, they come back and they say the

747
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: same thing, whether you like him or not, there's nothing

748
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: fake about that. In fact, I would call Daboswenny one

749
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: of the most brutally authentic and one of the most

750
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: brutally What you see is what you get. Kind of

751
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: guys in coaching. I know some of them that have

752
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: an image that's sort of a mirage. I know some

753
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: of them that are what we would call in our

754
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: world heavily produced. Dabbo's not one of them. I don't

755
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: know if you can tell that if Dabo were heavily produced,

756
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: you would hear a fraction of what you actually get

757
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: out of him, because what you get out of him

758
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: is largely, as I said, what you get that's really him.

759
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: I think there's also an element I would be remiss

760
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: if I didn't mention it that is faith based in

761
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: the way that he goes about messaging. Sometimes that stuff

762
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: can seem inauthentic because there are some people out there

763
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: who just flat out don't think someone could actually operate

764
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: off of that platform.

765
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 2: Well, I can assure you there are people who do.

766
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: I'm one of them.

767
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: I've never backed away from talking about my faith on

768
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: this show. Now, I may go about it a different

769
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: way than Dabosweny does, but I know that I've gone

770
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: in our comment section before, even as subtly as I

771
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: mix it in on our show, and I try not

772
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: to be in your face about it, But as suddenly

773
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: as I've mixed them, I've had folks question the authenticity

774
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: of that in my comment section. And I'm not Davos Twenny,

775
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: so that times one hundred is him. But the point

776
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: is whether you like it or not, I don't care

777
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: if you tell me you don't like it.

778
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 2: That's just personal preference.

779
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: When you start telling me someone's fake about it, when

780
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: you start telling me they're inauthentic about it, when you

781
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: start telling me without having the first clue about who

782
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: the dude actually is under the surface, that he's fake,

783
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: that's not really him. How in the world do you know,

784
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 1: and how many folks out there do I know, having

785
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: a little access in this sport, that do know Daboswenny

786
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: on an intimate level, that have ever told me that

787
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: the answer is zero. The next person who knows Dabosweny,

788
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: the man who tells me he's inauthentic and fake, will

789
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: be the first one. I've had people who know him

790
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: and tell me they don't care for him. I've had

791
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: folks who know him and tell me I'm not the

792
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: biggest Dabo fan. I've had a bunch of folks who

793
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 1: say they love him. I don't know that I've ever

794
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: had anyone who knows the guy who says, boy, that Dabbo,

795
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: you know that stuff you see, it's not really him.

796
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 2: I don't hear that.

797
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: So that's the one thing when we got in this

798
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: Dabos twenty conversation, which frankly, I didn't think we were

799
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about in June because it's not like

800
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: he's he's said anything that's trended over the last month

801
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: or so.

802
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 2: I didn't know we were going in that direction.

803
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: But when I saw some people throwing those terms around,

804
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, yeah, we better talk about that. All right,

805
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: Let's move right along making good time here Lives Live

806
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: can be There's there's proof in the live chat if

807
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: you're watching, and I appreciate you guys being tuned in.

808
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,959
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some bold predictions. This is chapter nine

809
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: of bold predictions. What do you think that you would

810
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: bet your own money on when it comes to twenty

811
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: twenty three?

812
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 2: The bold are the better, because.

813
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: If you're making them, I don't have to make them

814
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: bold prediction number one pretty simple and straightforward. This is

815
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: from you, not me. By the way, if you're listening

816
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: on podcasts, Michigan just wins the National Championship. Well, I

817
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: make that win an eight point twenty five on the

818
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: boldness scale. Some of you are joking with me that

819
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: I am living on eight point twenty five or eight

820
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: point five right now, which is pretty consistent because a

821
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: lot of these bold predictions have been about that bold now.

822
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: Their current odds are plus eight fifty, so for those

823
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: of you who don't follow gambling, that makes them the

824
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,439
Speaker 1: fourth odds on favorite not to win the Big Ten

825
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: to win the National Championship. And I would also add,

826
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: when you look at those teams, the Ohio States, Sabama's,

827
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: the Georgia's, whoever's up there pound for pound, Michigan probably

828
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: has the fewest unanswered questions out of that group. I

829
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: think that's fair to say. You don't have to think

830
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: they're the best, but think about the questions. You've never

831
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: seen Carson Beck start a game for Georgia. I don't

832
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: We don't even know who's going to start for Alabama.

833
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: Ditto for Ohio State. At least we know who JJ

834
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: McCarthy is at Michigan. At least we know they got

835
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: a one two in the backfield at running back, so

836
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: there's some things we know about them. So this is

837
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: not the wildest prediction. It's just hard to win a

838
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: national championship first off, and that's why I put the

839
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: eight in a quarter on the boldness going. Secondly, it's

840
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: been hard for Michigan to get traction once they get

841
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: in the playoff. Not everything that has not happened is

842
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: and it cannot happen category as we preach all the

843
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: time on the show. But out of the top eight

844
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: in the Big ten, out of the top eight when

845
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: it comes to odds to win the Big Ten, they're

846
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: the only one.

847
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 2: Set at quarterback.

848
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: So it's a really really interesting time up there. There's

849
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: seventh in FBS. In returning production, I just have I

850
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: have two words written in all caps on the sheet

851
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: of paper in front of me.

852
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 2: Prove it.

853
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: That's all they have to do. That's all, by the way,

854
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: that's all they have to do.

855
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 2: Prove it.

856
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: Next up, since we're here on the West coast as

857
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: PAC twelve paid, I would be remiss if I didn't

858
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: honor this bold Pride while we're out here in Los Angeles.

859
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: Because it's really bold, how bold?

860
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 2: Well? Listen to this?

861
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: Two pack twelve teams make the college football playoff Now,

862
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: mind you, since twenty fourteen, two of them total have

863
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: made the playoff. As I mentioned earlier in the show,

864
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: if you're watching the entire thing, we had Oregon the

865
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 1: first year, and we had Washington a couple of years later,

866
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: and then the door slammed on their face and they

867
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: haven't gotten another one in since then. Southern Calvis kind

868
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: of closed last year, but they lost the Pac twelve

869
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: championship game. Oh by the way, the prediction says two

870
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: Pac twelve teams are going to make the playoff and

871
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: one of them won't be USC, so exclude the Trojans

872
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: on an already borderline impossible task for the Pac twelve.

873
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm calling this one a nine point seven to five

874
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: on the boldness scale, leaving that little shred of possibility,

875
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: but also acknowledging this is pretty ridiculous. You got to

876
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: have a catastrophe take place in the SEC. In the

877
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: Big ten, Notre Dame better not be on their game

878
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: this year. The Big twelve needs to cannibalize itself collective,

879
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: and I think even if that happens, you got to

880
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: have two Pac twelve teams, not USC apparently, that have

881
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: to rise above and beyond. So let's just say it's

882
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: it's Oregon and Washington and they have to rise above

883
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: and beyond. I think the best path for this is

884
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: they play twice and whoever wins the regular season matchup

885
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: loses the conference championship in both competitive games thirty eight

886
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: thirty five, and the committee looks and they see a

887
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: bunch of chaos around and they say, hey, why not

888
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: both of these teams profile out as playoff teams. The

889
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: PAC twelve is good this year, so let's not judge

890
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: it on what it has been. Let's judge it on

891
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: what it was this year. That's the path, But this

892
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: is tough. Nine point seventy five on the boldness scale

893
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: for me. I went nine point twenty five on the

894
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: next one. We're going to Oxford, Mississippi. Here Ole miss

895
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: wins ten games. They are a team right now with

896
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: a preseason over under of seven and a half, so

897
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to clear that substantially. But I made

898
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: this a nine point twenty five because I know so

899
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: they play at Bama, they play at Georgia, they got LSU,

900
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: they got A and M, and they got Tennessee. You're

901
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: telling me they gotta go three and two, worst case

902
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: against that stretch, and then go undefeated the rest of

903
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: the way.

904
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 2: I just don't think it's gonna happen.

905
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: If they were returning a superstar at quarterback, that would

906
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: still be a tall task. But as it stands, they're not,

907
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: And as it stands, this is not a loaded roster

908
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: that's gotten multiple top five classes baked into it. They're

909
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: having the heavily portal every year.

910
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 2: I praise the job.

911
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: Kiffins doing, don't get me wrong, So this is not

912
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: a knock on them. In fact, I credit them. But

913
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: when you're asking them to clear this kind of bar,

914
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: go ten to two this year, that's tough. They have

915
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: won ten games twice in the college football Playoff era.

916
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 2: Our best guess is they'll be favored.

917
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: In maybe seven games this year, So that one's gonna

918
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: be tough.

919
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, not much more to say about that.

920
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: You're playing that five game stretch and a lot of

921
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 1: those games are back to back, guys, so it's gonna

922
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: be tough to clear that seven point five.

923
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough to hit that eight win mark.

924
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 2: Let's worry about that before we were about hitting ten

925
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: win mark.

926
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: And lastly, this one was kind of interesting because I

927
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: kind of misread it for a little while. Jesse had

928
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: to correct me. A new Big Twelve team makes.

929
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 2: The Big Twelve Championship game.

930
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: I took that to mean one of the teams that

931
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: hasn't been there before. No, you guys are talking about

932
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: those brand new teams. You're talking about Brigham Young, Cincinnati, Houston, UCF.

933
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: So I go and I look at the win total market,

934
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: which is not always the end all b all, especially

935
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve, as history has taught us. UCF

936
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: has the seventh best odds to win the conference Brigham

937
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: Young tenth, Cincinnati tenth, Houston twelfth. I'm just gonna use

938
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: basic deductive reasoning and I'm gonna say Central Florida has

939
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: the best shot here. Central Florida is coming off back

940
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: to back nine win seasons.

941
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 2: Pretty good team.

942
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: Gus Malzan I will continue to maintain probably has the

943
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: ability to see the future with the way he has

944
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: navigated this sport. He is making massive buyout money from

945
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: Auburn to coach in Orlando, Florida. As they've become a

946
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: Power five team. That's how you figure it out. That's

947
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: when you know someone's figured it out. But the thing

948
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: about it is for them to play for a Big

949
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: Twelve championship when they are replacing four starting offensive linemen

950
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: is going to be extremely difficult, not impossible, but extremely difficult.

951
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: They also are, you know, if you want to go

952
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: glass half full, they profile as the third team in

953
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: the Big Ten when it comes to returning production level.

954
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: But I'm making this one an eight point seventy five

955
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: out of the.

956
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 2: Four of them.

957
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: It's the Big twelve. Anything can happen. We've learned that

958
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: over the past twenty four months. But that one's going

959
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: to be tough. So new Big twelve team makes the

960
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: conference title game, not the playoff. At the conference title game,

961
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: that's an eight point twenty five at the very least

962
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: for me.

963
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 2: All Right.

964
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: Since we were in Los Angeles, I felt the need

965
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: to do two things.

966
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 2: The first is.

967
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: To remind you it takes a lot to go on

968
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: the road. It takes a lot to pack this equipment up.

969
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: We especially found that out in Miami last week, and

970
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: it takes a really really good friend to help you

971
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: get it done.

972
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: Good Greek Moving.

973
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: That's the friend that we made last week that really

974
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: came in handy and now just indefinitely they'll come in

975
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: handy for us. But here's the thing. This is not

976
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: just some commercial mover. This is not just some company

977
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: that handles major clients. You you, I'm pointing at you.

978
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: If you're listening to on a podcast, you are their

979
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: major client. Good Greek. They've got the insurance. They've got

980
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: you covered from that standpoint. They're all about trust in

981
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: all caps. And that sounds like a talking point they

982
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: wrote on a piece of paper. Now that is me

983
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: personally testifying on their behalf because of what we experienced

984
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: last week. This was like if someone owed you a

985
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: huge favor, you know, if you had saved someone from

986
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: a burning building and they said I owe you one

987
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,919
Speaker 1: and then that person went and opened a high skill

988
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: moving company. That is the treatment that we got from

989
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: Good Greek last week. And so relocation services, if that's

990
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: what you're in the need for, big or small, give

991
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: them a call. Good Greek Moving. They build us out

992
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: in a big way last weekend. They can bail you

993
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: out in a big way. Pretty much anytime. As I mentioned,

994
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 1: since we're in Los Angeles, I figured no time better

995
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: than the present to take our spotlight and shine it

996
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: just down the.

997
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 2: Road a little ways. At USC, we've been doing this

998
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 2: with a number of teams, will continue to do it.

999
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 2: We want to know the biggest questions.

1000
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: We want to talk about the best position group, potential

1001
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: breakout player. What does that schedule look like? Essentially, if

1002
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 1: you're not into preview magazines, or maybe even if you are,

1003
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: here's the page for USC. Question number one for the

1004
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: Trojans this year is not a mystery at all. It's

1005
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: defense and how much better can they get defensively? They

1006
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: allowed forty plus in all three of their losses last year,

1007
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: and they were painful to watch if you're a Trojan fan.

1008
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: There were ninety fourth and points per game allowed. They

1009
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: were over one hundredth in yards per game allowed. And

1010
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: by the way, as our astute viewers will note, that's

1011
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: with all the turnover lock guys. They were number one

1012
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: in the country in turnover margin and still gave up

1013
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 1: those kind of numbers even when the defense was taking

1014
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 1: the ball away. Be a permanent ceiling on a Lencoln

1015
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: Riley team that is lower than a national championship until

1016
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: they play a higher caliber defense than they've played. He

1017
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: knows that they know that it's not an overnight fix,

1018
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: and so I'm not claiming it should have been last year.

1019
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: That is a statement that just as easily could have

1020
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: applied to his teams in Oklahoma as will apply to

1021
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: now and in the future at USC. So that's question

1022
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 1: number one. How much improvement do we see defensively this year?

1023
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 1: Question number two, speaking of that turnover luck, how much

1024
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: of that can you replicate? There is some skill in

1025
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: taking the ball away, there's a lot more that's just luck.

1026
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: In overall twelve game per season turnover margin. And I

1027
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: go back to this, I make a prediction for every team,

1028
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: assuming your turnover margin will be even, You'll just be

1029
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: net zero, not plus five minus five. It's never the

1030
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: way the season plays out. But I've never found there

1031
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: to be a ton of skill in predicting turnover margin.

1032
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: And so if us he is just an even turnover

1033
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 1: team this year instead of top five, much less number

1034
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: one in the country, what does that do to the

1035
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: win loss column?

1036
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 2: I think I know what it would have done last year,

1037
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 2: but what will it do this year?

1038
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: Question number three, This is gonna be pretty evergreen for

1039
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,280
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley teams. What is the impact of their portal additions,

1040
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: their portalese? If you will on this year's team, and

1041
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 1: I'm specifically looking at defense, now, you can go Marshawn

1042
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: Lloyd at running back, you can go all over the roster.

1043
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: I'm looking at defense. Though they were fourth in the

1044
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: transfer portal rankings. They took in sixteen kids. They took

1045
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: Bear Alexander wasn't starting at Georgia. Probably a plug and

1046
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: play there. Anthony Lucas played some played like seven games

1047
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: out of a and m instant plug and play there.

1048
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: Jack Sullivan, the kid from Purdue let him in sacks

1049
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: last year. Probably an instant plug and play. Mason Cobb

1050
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: probably they're starting. Mike Linebacker comes there by way of

1051
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. I had Cole Kublick on the show about

1052
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: a month ago, and you guys railed against him, which

1053
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm all for attack him.

1054
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: I don't care as long as you do it verbally.

1055
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: But you guys were all over him. And because he

1056
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: criticized USC's inability to do things like tackle last year,

1057
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: and you said, well, Cole should know we totally revamped

1058
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,919
Speaker 1: and overhauled our front. So you can't criticize this team

1059
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: because it's not last year's team.

1060
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 2: In theory, that's.

1061
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: True, I would humbly but forcefully defend Cole and say,

1062
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: after a certain point, your head coach and his teams

1063
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: start to develop a reputation. That's been an ongoing downside

1064
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: of the Lincoln Riley team reputation. That's why it's a

1065
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: question they've got to overhaul. They've got to address that.

1066
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: What's the best position group on this team. Caleb Williams

1067
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: was on this field behind me last night. He'll be

1068
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 1: here again tonight, just as an NFL quarterback just happens

1069
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: to be playing college. Not much more I can say,

1070
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: but I could easily go quarterback here. So yeah, you

1071
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: got a return a Heisman Trophy winner, probably the best

1072
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: in the country, about to be the number one overall

1073
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: draft pick. That would be easy. Let's go beyond that.

1074
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: I look at the receiver room. I look at the

1075
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: kids he's going to be throwing to. Mario Williams. I

1076
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: regret to inform you outside of Los Angeles is back

1077
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: Dorian Singer led the PAC twelve in receiving yards last

1078
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: year at Arizona, he crossed the desert, he comes over

1079
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: to La.

1080
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 2: You got Zachari Branch. That's a five star Deuce Robinson,

1081
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 2: who I also watched on this field last year.

1082
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Speaker 1: Technically listed as a tight end deuce, Robinson doesn't really

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Speaker 1: look like a tight end, so he figures prominently into

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00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: their rotation this year. Brendan Rice is still there, so

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Speaker 1: they've got experience, they've got versatility.

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Speaker 2: Those aren't all the same player.

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Speaker 1: Probably most importantly in that room is they know who's

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00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: throwing to them, and it's the best in the business

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Speaker 1: in Caleb Williams. That position group is the envy of

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Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of college football. I could

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Speaker 1: have gone with one of those receivers as the breakout player,

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Speaker 1: but I want to go right back to that defensive line.

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Speaker 1: I want to go to Anthony Lucas. We kind of

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Speaker 1: deliberated over this a little bit. Anthony Lucas was one

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Speaker 1: of many four and five star players in that loaded

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Speaker 1: Texas A and M twenty twenty two signing class that

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Speaker 1: set the record as the highest rated class ever. He

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Speaker 1: is also one of a pretty sizable number of kids

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Speaker 1: that aren't there one year later.

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Speaker 2: He is at USC.

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Speaker 1: Former five star defensive lineman played in seven games last year.

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Speaker 1: Much like Bear Alexander, He's a guy that didn't rack

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Speaker 1: up a ton of ton of statistics last year. As

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Speaker 1: a true freshman, He's gonna play and play immediately. They

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Speaker 1: can't afford not to play him there, not that they're

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Speaker 1: looking for a reason too or anything, So I think

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Speaker 1: he stands a really, really good shot at being a

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Speaker 1: breakout player. There a number of those defenders though that

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Speaker 1: I just listed, stand that shot.

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Speaker 2: But here's what I want to talk to you about.

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Speaker 2: The USC schedule.

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Speaker 1: It's backloaded, so I would imagine the season will go

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Speaker 1: like this. Either USC is a legitimate national championship contender,

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Speaker 1: in which case they get hyped up and it's all legit,

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00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: or USC maybe is not quite at that level, but

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00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: they still get hyped up because their schedules backloaded.

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Speaker 2: Either way, it's fun.

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Speaker 1: But they play five teams with over under preseason win

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00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: totals of eight or more in their final six games,

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Speaker 1: so pretty much everyone on the back half of their

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00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: schedule is legit.

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Speaker 2: And here's the other thing I don't like for them.

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Speaker 2: Their bye is in week four.

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Speaker 1: One of the earliest buys that you see out there,

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Speaker 1: and so all of the meat on their schedule is after.

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Speaker 2: That bye week.

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Speaker 1: That bye week's nice to have about Week seven, Week eight,

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Speaker 1: Week nine, They got it in week four. The other

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Speaker 1: thing I was trying to do is I was trying

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Speaker 1: to see, Okay, how many games are they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: favored in. It's tough to figure out because so many

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Speaker 1: of these games are going to be nip and tuck.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you two examples right now. If you look

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Speaker 1: at the advanced odds market, they're a one point underdog

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Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. They're a two point underdog at Oregon.

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Speaker 1: Those lines could shift before halftime of Week one, so

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Speaker 1: stands to reason gonna be close either way. They could

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Speaker 1: be favored in ten games, could be favored in all twelve,

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Speaker 1: could be favorite in nine.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how that works out.

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Speaker 1: USC is going to be a fascinating team to watch

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Speaker 1: this year because they're going to be in the mix

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Speaker 1: of a number of quality teams out in the Pac twelve.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the Evergreen every single season. Questioned

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Speaker 1: about Lincoln Riley, is this the year he has a

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00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,720
Speaker 1: good enough defense to pair with what figures to always

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00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: be a really really good offense and win a title. Look,

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