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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in lay Kick is live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, November twenty ninth, the Year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, jam packed show. It always is, especially on

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Speaker 1: Sunday nights. Now I get the senses. We wrap up

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Speaker 1: November and we start to venture into yes, December football.

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Speaker 1: I get the feeling some of your teams are out

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Speaker 1: of for all intents and purposes, the races and your

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Speaker 1: are out the window. And I get the sense, as

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Speaker 1: I do this time every year, usually earlier than this,

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Speaker 1: some of your minds are starting to drift, and maybe

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Speaker 1: you're asking yourself, I, I mean, I'm even paying attention

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Speaker 1: to college football at this point. Well take it from me.

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Speaker 1: Just let me give you a little word of advice here.

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Speaker 1: If you're drifting, come back, and come back pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: There is a lot happening could be with your program,

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Speaker 1: but it most certainly if it's not with your program,

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Speaker 1: is happening with programs that will directly or indirectly impact

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Speaker 1: your program. The old Keystone program theory is we like

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Speaker 1: to call it taken straight from the blockbuster movie Lake

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Speaker 1: Placid We've got full week thirteen reactions tonight. All that

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Speaker 1: stuff going on elsewhere, we're going to talk about that too.

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Speaker 1: There could be one or maybe multiple major college football

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Speaker 1: got two best bets coming up Romannudle Express Power to

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Speaker 1: several potential nightmare scenarios coming for the college Football Playoff

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Speaker 1: selection committee. This was always going to be an atypical year.

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Speaker 1: It was always going to be a very rough assignment,

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Speaker 1: if you will, for the men and women on the

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Speaker 1: College Football Playoff Committee who are finding a way to

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Speaker 1: meet in person, by the way, and so that is

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Speaker 1: made even more muddy when you realize that some of

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Speaker 1: So we're going to hit on all that tonight. Very

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Speaker 1: happy to have you with us if you haven't already

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Speaker 1: as we did last week, and as we I was

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Speaker 1: talking to Colin, I guarantee you will end up having

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Speaker 1: channel a lot of times that never airs on the show.

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Speaker 1: If we wrap up the show tonight, and then at

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Speaker 1: nine thirty nine we get rumor out of Columbia, South

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Speaker 1: Carolina that a game Cocks head coaching hire is eminent. Well,

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Speaker 1: At late Kick, Josh I mentioned I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: back to the ramin middle Express. Hey, hats off to

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Speaker 1: Also because I don't have time to break it down

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Speaker 1: actual football here. Alabama's defense is rapidly improving. I mean

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Speaker 1: talk about anything either. It's just we're just being completely

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Speaker 1: honest with ourselves. And so people get to about Fayetteville, Arkansas,

429
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Speaker 1: and then they kind of say, all right, this is

430
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Speaker 1: where the Big twelve starts. So this is where the

431
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Speaker 1: edge of the world is for college football right now,

432
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Speaker 1: and they turn back around and they go to the

433
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Speaker 1: Midwest and the South, and I don't want it that way.

434
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Speaker 1: So I'd love to see urban Meyer there. Nothing about

435
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Speaker 1: the remainder of twenty twenty is going to change this either,

436
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Speaker 1: by the way. So I would suggest you're a Texas

437
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,520
Speaker 1: fan and you're on board with that line of thinking

438
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 1: and you think urban Meyer is your guy, which I do,

439
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Speaker 1: I would advise you to root hard for USC because

440
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Speaker 1: I don't think Notre Dame's coming open. And it's pretty

441
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Speaker 1: widely speculated there that Notre Dame USC Texas. Those are

442
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,160
Speaker 1: the only places that urban Meyer would even entertain coming

443
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,879
Speaker 1: back to the sport for Notre Dame is not going anywhere, obviously.

444
00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,920
Speaker 1: Just root for Clay Helton at USC. Keep him in

445
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,399
Speaker 1: that chair as long as you can so that you

446
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,760
Speaker 1: don't have any competition on the market out there. And

447
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,080
Speaker 1: if urban Meyer is not the head coach at Texas,

448
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,280
Speaker 1: it's just because he didn't want to coach, period. It's

449
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 1: not because some other job and some other suitor out

450
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,160
Speaker 1: there outbid you or put together a better package. And listen,

451
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Speaker 1: even if those other jobs did come open, Texas is

452
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Speaker 1: the place. Like out of those jobs, Texas is the place.

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Speaker 1: So again, like I said about twenty twenty, when you

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Speaker 1: look down the road a little bit, You've got a

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Speaker 1: game at Kansas State this Saturday. I think Texas opened

456
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Speaker 1: is a little over a touchdown favorite. Couldn't care less

457
00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,639
Speaker 1: what happens there. They play Kansas to end the year.

458
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Speaker 1: Couldn't care less what happens there. Nothing about the future

459
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 1: of this program is going to change one way or

460
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Speaker 1: the other based on the final two weeks. Make your decision,

461
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,400
Speaker 1: and we have pretty strong indication and reason to believe

462
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 1: it's going to happen this week. A decision, not maybe publicly,

463
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Speaker 1: but a decision. Make it now be convicted in it.

464
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Speaker 1: I would suggest you should. I've already made it. But

465
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Speaker 1: let's let the pass be the past and let's let

466
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Speaker 1: the future be now. I think that was a Joe

467
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Speaker 1: Dirt quote. Oh boy, dead air is not what we're

468
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Speaker 1: supposed to do. But I'm just pausing for a second.

469
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to collect my thoughts because now we're going

470
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Speaker 1: to transition to a much different culture. As much as

471
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Speaker 1: there's talk at Texas about a potential coaching change, there's

472
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Speaker 1: technically talk about it at Michigan too. I think it's

473
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Speaker 1: an apples to Orangees comparison. Though, So Penn State beat

474
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Speaker 1: Michigan yesterday twenty seven to seventeen. I want to say

475
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Speaker 1: it was the final and the Michigan situation, I understand,

476
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: does not make sense for a lot of you. It

477
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: just doesn't compute if you're an LSU football fan or

478
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Speaker 1: if you're a Florida State fan. It just doesn't make

479
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense because you look and you say, hey,

480
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Speaker 1: I'm not even a fan, but I'm just kind of

481
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,360
Speaker 1: watching because I love the sport. This program seems lifeless,

482
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 1: and these players really do not seem engaged in this

483
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Speaker 1: head coach. He's he's on autopilot. Man. It's like lights

484
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 1: are on. No one home during the headlights sort of deal.

485
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Speaker 1: Everything seems to be operating at like fifty percent capacity,

486
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: and they're not going anywhere. They're just dead in the water.

487
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: And so it makes sense to you that Jim Harbaugh

488
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 1: should be on the hot seed, or maybe they already

489
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Speaker 1: should have made a move, And at the very least,

490
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Speaker 1: it seems it should be an inevitability in most of

491
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Speaker 1: your minds that a change is imminent. Now, if you're

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Speaker 1: a Michigan fan, or you're a Michigan alumni, if you're

493
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Speaker 1: a former player there, this situation makes a lot more sense.

494
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Speaker 1: There's just a culture at Michigan. It's a little bit different.

495
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: In fact, it's a world different than a lot of

496
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Speaker 1: other places where football probably just matters a whole lot

497
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: more and it leads to more swift decisions and actions.

498
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Speaker 1: And sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes that's a bad thing.

499
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Speaker 1: I say all that to say this, We've talked about

500
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Speaker 1: Horball a number of weeks in a row. Now, I

501
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 1: don't really think yesterday changed anything in the sense of

502
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen from the Michigan side of things.

503
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Speaker 1: Now Here is a little more nuanced version and a

504
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: little different avenue you have to go down We're getting

505
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: to the end of the twenty twenty season. Now, Michigan's

506
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 1: not a good football team. Nothing about the rest of

507
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Speaker 1: twenty the twenty is going to change there. Here's what

508
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: we do know. He's got one year left on his deal,

509
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Speaker 1: which is twenty twenty one. And so as much as

510
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I don't think on Michigan's end they're

511
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Speaker 1: going to make a move, they do have to make

512
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Speaker 1: one move. I highly doubt. I would bet you a

513
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Speaker 1: lot of money that they are not going to enter

514
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one spring calendar or fall workouts, or

515
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: eventually the twenty twenty one college football season and not

516
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: have made a public move one way or the other

517
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Speaker 1: on Horriborne. When I say public move, I mean announcing

518
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Speaker 1: whether you're going to extend him or not. And even

519
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: if you're not going to in reality extend him, you

520
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,479
Speaker 1: need to just extend him in window dressing terms. Because

521
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: you got a lot of staffs out there that are

522
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Speaker 1: recruiting against Michigan. Some of you think this matter, some

523
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: of it doesn't. I happen to subscribe to the theory

524
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Speaker 1: that it does. Michigan's got a pretty good recruiting class

525
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: put together right now? Do you understand how easy it is.

526
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Speaker 1: It's not even negative recruiting, it's just honesty. If I

527
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: can walk into your living room and say, wait a second,

528
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Speaker 1: hold up, I am Ohio State, I'm Alabama, I'm whoever

529
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Speaker 1: you're recruiting against. My coaching situation couldn't be any more stable,

530
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: and yet you're telling me you're seriously considering the place

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Speaker 1: where the head coach is about to work out the

532
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 1: final year of his deal and no one even knows

533
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: if he's going to be back. He can't even look

534
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: you in the eye and tell you where he's going

535
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: to be next year because his own employer has not

536
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: found enough confidence in him to extend him. Is that

537
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: really where you want to be? Hey, Oh, that's reality again.

538
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: That's not even negative recruiting. That's just being straight up

539
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: with a guy. I mean, it's like, if you love

540
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: warm weather and I'm Florida and I'm competing with Notre

541
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: Dame for your signature, I'm going to show you that

542
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: the average day in December is like partly cloudyed thirty

543
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: four degrees. I'm showing you that that's not negative, that's reality.

544
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: So they've got to make a decision one way or

545
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: the other on how they are going to present his

546
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Speaker 1: future to the public. That I think is the next

547
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: step here. Now that's from the Michigan side of things,

548
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: because I don't think we're going to enter next year

549
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: without the public having been informed where they stand one

550
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Speaker 1: way or the other. But if you're a Michigan fan,

551
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Speaker 1: or if you're just a curi onlooker, you know there's

552
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: a second school of thought out there. Because I keep

553
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,959
Speaker 1: saying from the Michigan side, from the Michigan side, from

554
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Speaker 1: the Michigan side, Well, there's also another side here, and

555
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: that's Jim Harbaugh. And there's a school of thought that

556
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: Jim Harball certainly has not publicly confirmed. Also hasn't denied.

557
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 1: It should be noted, but he has never confirmed this either.

558
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: And so there's just wild speculation, and you know, us,

559
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: we're happy to dive into that. There's speculation. There's a

560
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: school of thought that Jim Harball's just a better fit

561
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: in the NFL, right he is a guy that would

562
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: value strategy and valuing tactics and being a tactician over

563
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: recruiting and developing and investing all his energy to you

564
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: to closing the gap I would say, imagine area, but

565
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: it's totally real, and that exists in the NFL. Like

566
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL, they build it in order to crunch

567
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: everyone up in the middle to where the brighter football

568
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 1: mind and the better tactician and the better game day coach,

569
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: Like that's the kind of guy who shines in the NFL.

570
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 1: In college football, well, if you enter into any given

571
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: Saturday as the best tactician, but the other guy's got

572
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: twenty one points worth of a better roster than you

573
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: before they ever kicked the ball off, then that's not

574
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: exactly your environment. So there's this school of thought that

575
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's currently coaching in ann Arbor. But if you've

576
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: ever pulled up a map of Michigan, not too far

577
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: down the road from ann Arbor is Detroit, and Detroit

578
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: just fired their head coach in GM yesterday. I want

579
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: to say, and it's the only guy I've ever known

580
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: that has the last name that matches my mom's first name,

581
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: which is Matt Patricia. Well he's out. So he took

582
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: his pencil behind the ear and he's gone. And now, hey,

583
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: you want to talk about recruiting, Well, maybe Lyons Brass

584
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: goes into Jim Harbaugh's living room and says, not only

585
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: can we give you the platform that values strategicy and

586
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: a tactical mind, we can also tell you you can

587
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: just live in your same house. You don't even have

588
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: to move, and just instead of driving west to work

589
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: every day, you just drive east and we'll give you

590
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: a commuter card. We'll pay for your parking, well, whatever

591
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: you need. We'll pay you a lot of money, and

592
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: we can get you out of that and you won't

593
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: look like a failure because you're going from college to

594
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: the NFL. It just wasn't a good fit. So there's

595
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: another school of thought that the way that you potentially

596
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: could have a new coach at Michigan in twenty twenty

597
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: one would be a mutual parting of ways. I have

598
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: zero reason to believe that's going to happen, but that

599
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it wouldn't happen or couldn't happen. I just

600
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: don't have any insider knowledge on that. I wish I

601
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: could tell you otherwise, but I don't. But if that

602
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: were to happen, and if the Michigan job were open,

603
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: I want to make two points right quick. You don't

604
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: need to overthink the room here. Matt Campbell by ten miles.

605
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: As just as I said, as is the case with

606
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Speaker 1: Urban and Austin, Matt Campbell's the guy by one hundred miles,

607
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 1: not just ten one hundred miles. He's the candidate for

608
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: you at Michigan. He is tearing it up at Iowa State.

609
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: If you want to set aside two hours of your life,

610
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: go ask a personnel type or a scouting type in

611
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: the college or NFL industries about Matt Campbell. Go like this,

612
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: go hey, what do you think about Matt Campbell? And

613
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: then just put your pencil down, put your phone on silent,

614
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: cross your arms, and just sit back, because they're going

615
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: to go and go and go about how great he

616
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: is every aspect about his strength and conditioning program, to

617
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 1: his player personnel and evaluations, all that stuff. They will

618
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: just go on and on and on. And so that

619
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: would be the guy at Michigan. And secondly, here's the

620
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: other point I wanted to address. Michigan's a great job.

621
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to get hung up on history and history

622
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: and well, they've never done this, and historically they've been

623
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: that all it tanks is the right coach I've been

624
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: trying to hammer this home. You never have a generational

625
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: head coach until you have one, and then when you

626
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: have one, you do everything you can to keep him

627
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: and make him happy and give him all the resources.

628
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: You thought that was hardbought Michigan at this point, clearly

629
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: it's not. What if you were just one coach ahead

630
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: of the curve, and what if this guy the next

631
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: guy after maybe maybe a mutual agreement to part ways,

632
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: which again and we have no indication to believe is

633
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,239
Speaker 1: going to happen, just speculation at this point. But if

634
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: it were to happen, man, he'd tear it up. You

635
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: want the uh oh factor. That'd be a lot of

636
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: collective oh oh around the Big Ten. If Matt Campbell

637
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: were to all of a sudden waltz to a podium

638
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: in ann Arbor, Michigan with maize and blue on, probably

639
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: a sweater, I would guess a sweater at the introductory

640
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: press conference. Would he bend the bill of the Michigan

641
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: cap that I don't know, Like Bo did it that way,

642
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: I think Matt would do it that way. But point being,

643
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: think about what I just said in closing here with

644
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Speaker 1: this particular point before we talk about a lot of

645
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,719
Speaker 1: games from yesterday, we are at least entertaining the idea

646
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: that Texas could come open, Michigan could come open. Ironically,

647
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: we are not entertaining the idea that Auburn could come open.

648
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: And that's like an annual rite of passage. If you

649
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: ever find yourself behind a desk with a microphone in

650
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: front of you and you're covering college football, Auburn hot

651
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: seat talks a staple, you write it in pen on

652
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: your December calendar every year. Well, we don't have that,

653
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: but we do have some big jobs that could be

654
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: in play. All right, Colin, let's talk about games from

655
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: either yesterday or Friday Week thirteen takeaways a lot of

656
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: them to get to here. So let's roll through a

657
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: Notre Dame thirty one. North Carolina is seventeen. Sometimes we

658
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: dig really deep inside the box score for the padlock stat.

659
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: Don't need to do that, at least with this game.

660
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: The padlock stat was just on the scoreboard itself, seventeen.

661
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: If I tell you North Carolina is hanging at seventeen,

662
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: then I tell you Notre Dame's winning that thing and

663
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: probably winning it going away. Now, if you want a

664
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: secondary padlock stat it's a lot more in line with

665
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Speaker 1: what we typically do. Holding North Carolina's offense to two

666
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight total yards, that is getting it

667
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: done for Brian Kelly and company. It was very thorough.

668
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: There was never that pull away moment until the ending.

669
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Speaker 1: But yet it was a game that felt like they

670
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: were in control of most of the way, and boy,

671
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: when that defense clamped down, it really clamped down. So

672
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: the Notre Dame is overrated crowd has been out in force.

673
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: They got a twenty four hour head start this week

674
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: because the game was on Friday. So I'm just asking

675
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: you this basic strictly on what your eyes have seen

676
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: this year, and not what a preseason magazine in July

677
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: told you, okay, or what a Vegas point spread tells

678
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: you hypothetically, because those things will change in their market

679
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: based I want you to answer me the following question.

680
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: Besides Alabama, who in America looks definitively better than Notre Dame,

681
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: A team that if I put them on the field

682
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: with this Saturday you would bet a paycheck would run

683
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: Notre Dame off the field. The answer is that team

684
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. Okay, you can go to Ohio State if

685
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: you want to. I just watched Indiana take them to

686
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: the wire. This team we're in the Golden Helmets here

687
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: is a little bit different caliber than Indiana. You could

688
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: say Clemson. I just watched them play them a month ago,

689
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: less than a month ago, a couple of weeks ago.

690
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: Dj Ouyang la Lay put up better stats than Trevor

691
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: Lawrence has put up all year. It wasn't a deficiency

692
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: at quarterback that cost Clemson. There were some defensive deficiencies.

693
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: So if I put a couple of those dudes in

694
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: the starting lineup, are they the difference in three or

695
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: four touchdowns? You may think so, I certainly don't. So.

696
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: I love what Notre Dame looks like right now. I

697
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: think they're a major player in the college football playoff picture.

698
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: And until someone ranks them number one, and I've seen

699
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: a couple of you do that, that's overrated. Notre Dame

700
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: is not the number one team in the country. But

701
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: if you got them two or three, I have no

702
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 1: problem with that whatsoever. We have them three right now

703
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: in our internal numbers. We got them as the third

704
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: best team in the country, So I can't disagree all

705
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: that much with that, and I do think that we

706
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: are very much headed towards the possibility that we have

707
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: two ACC teams in the College Football Playoff. That's a

708
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: real possibility this point. A and M twenty LSU seven.

709
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: This game happened last night. I get the distinct impression,

710
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: and I can't blame you that it's the first time

711
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: a lot of you have seen Texas A and M

712
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: play this year, because there was a lot of shock,

713
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: and I don't really know where the shock came from.

714
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: But again, I've watched A and M like five or

715
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: six times this year. Maybe some of you haven't. There's

716
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: been a lot going on this year, so maybe some

717
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: of you just found your way to a TV set

718
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 1: last night and you saw him in primetime and there

719
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: was a lot of shock, and I don't get it.

720
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: So here were the two parts of the shock. Number One,

721
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: people were surprised that A and M didn't look like

722
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: Alabama or look like Clemson. Well they're not. They're not

723
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: an elite team. They're not a great team. They're a

724
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: very good team. There's a difference in the tiers. Okay,

725
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: this is a very good team, they're not great. So

726
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: there was a lot of shock that A and M

727
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: didn't look great. Well, they haven't been great all year.

728
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: There's been no point where this team's been called great,

729
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: at least on this show or anywhere else I've heard.

730
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: Number two, there was a lot of surprise that will

731
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: offensively they look limited at times. Well, they've been limited

732
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: offensively all year. That's not going to change. But the

733
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: whole point is we've known, after they've had injuries and

734
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: opt outs at wide receiver, they don't have an elite

735
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: option at wide out. So if you face a team

736
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: like you did with LSU last night, that, as deficient

737
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: as they may be, has some talent in the defensive backfield,

738
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: you're not moving the ball up and down the field

739
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: on them. If your Texas A and M. Now, conversely,

740
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: LSU is going to play Alabama Saturday, probably going to

741
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: be a little bit different story. But they're playing A

742
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: and M, So A and M they had to crow

743
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: bar them. That's how they have to win these games.

744
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: So we've known they're not elite at wide receiver, and

745
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: we also have known another thing. They have continued just

746
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: like Alabama. They've kind of trended the same way as

747
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: Alabama has. Defensively they've got a really good unit defensively,

748
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: and so once Jimbo Fisher saw number one, his defense

749
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: was locking down LSU and number two, it's pouring down

750
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: rain out here. Once he saw those two factors, they

751
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: packed it in. They pulled a good old fashioned Kirby

752
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,959
Speaker 1: smart last night is what they did, and they said,

753
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: we'll take the win. They went into a win as

754
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: a win mode last night, and in those kinds of

755
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: games they are and AF you're playing ut Chattanooga, not

756
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: so much you want to get some margin there. But

757
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: they won and it just was what it was. Now.

758
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: As for LSU, Terres Marshall has announced that he is

759
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: opting out of the rest of the season. I had

760
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: one of our esteemed viewers ask me and my DMS today,

761
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: why are you calling quitting opting out? Semantics? Friend Terrace Marshall,

762
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: Taris Marshall, excuse me, has opted out? You can call

763
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: it whatever you want to. He will not be on

764
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: the field Saturday against Alabama, nor will he at any

765
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: other point this year. Now, what I did not take

766
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: too kindly to yesterday. I don't know how Steve Enzmiger

767
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: feels about it, but I did not necessarily love listening

768
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: to edus Zeron's comments in the postgame where he said

769
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: he was not particularly pleased with the offensive plan they

770
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: had and he would have liked to have seen a

771
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: different plan. Well, I got good news for Edourozeron. I

772
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: checked this morning and according to LSU's official website, he

773
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: is the head football coach there, which means every plan

774
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: that's going to be implemented in the football games they

775
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: play Saturday has to come across his desk for approval,

776
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: and if it's not, then it's a their election of

777
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: duty on his part. But if they are and he

778
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: signs off on it, he has no one to be

779
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: upset with but himself. So I don't care about what

780
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: he feels about his offensive coordinator. And to be honest,

781
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: you can handle that internally. I don't need to hear

782
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: eduwars Ron telling me about how he's unhappy with how

783
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator called a game or the overall plan

784
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: they had in place. That your plan, man, You signed

785
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: off on it. So your plan didn't work out. It

786
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: wasn't Steve Enzmeer's plan. It was your plan that didn't

787
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: work out. That's why they pay you the kind of

788
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: money they pay you to shoulder that kind of stuff.

789
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: There are a lot of coaches out there you need

790
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: to listen closely in these postgame pressers, the ones that

791
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: are going to have some longevity about themselves. It is

792
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: we we when they win, and it is me, me,

793
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: me when they lose. It's the antithesis. It's the total

794
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: inverse of what society is like. That's why society is

795
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: making far less money, shall we say, than a major

796
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: college football head coach. Got to be a little bit

797
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: different there again. Alabama plays LSU Saturday. Alabama opens up

798
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: as nearly a four touchdown underdog. There is not a

799
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: number high enough on this game. I'm telling you. There

800
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: are players at Alabama who would have gone in the

801
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: first round of the NFL Draft who internally let it

802
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: be known they returned to play this game. That's how

803
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: much that game against LSU means. They thought behind the

804
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: scenes as hard as you would ever see anyone fight

805
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 1: to make this game happen. So, as we sit here Sunday,

806
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: it's on and it's a four touchdown spread and hashtag

807
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: prayers for Tigers. A and M meanwhile, is going to

808
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: Auburn Saturday. This is a very consequent game for both

809
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: teams A and M. The number has been kind of weird.

810
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: Like I was Tray Scott was telling me earlier today,

811
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: FanDuel had this thing at A and M minus two. Well,

812
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: right now I'm looking across the board and the consensus

813
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: is A and M by about six. Those are the

814
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: numbers right now. We'll talk about that more. Tuesday, obviously,

815
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: Oregon State took down Oregon forty one to thirty eight.

816
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: I was driving back from Columbus to Nashville and I

817
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: was listening to this game on the radio. So hat

818
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: tip to the Oregon State radio team did a really

819
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: good job of seeing through the fog and as best

820
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: they could describing what was happening. It helped that the

821
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: teams were wearing highlighter jerseys. I don't know what to

822
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: tell you, man. Oregon just flat out got out played here.

823
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily something you expect to say, but it's

824
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: been weird all year with Oregon. We got a few

825
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: games sample sized under our belts now and the thing

826
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: that's happening there is I just used the word inverse. Well,

827
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: Oregon's kind of in inverse territory too. They had all

828
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: these new pieces offensively, offensive line, quarterback, you know the deal,

829
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: and so you expect them to have to be carried

830
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: by their defense early on, and yet offensive putting up

831
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: big numbers. They're doing enough to win, certainly, and they

832
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: score forty one in this game, even with three turnovers.

833
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: And yet it's defense that can't get off the field,

834
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: can't make stops, and it's just been weird. I mean,

835
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: who knows, really what's going to happen here the rest

836
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: of the year. I know that there was a pretty

837
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: widely adhere to talking point that I agree with that

838
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: once Oregon lost this game, for all intents and purposes,

839
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve is out of the college football playoff conversation.

840
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: There is a ninety five percent certainty that that's true.

841
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: In meteorology, you talk about non zero chances. Well, there's

842
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: a non zero chance that the Pac twelve could still

843
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: make the playoff. Washington's undefeated more on Washington in a

844
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: little while in a different format or a different segment

845
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: of this show. USC shockingly is still undefeated. Yes, they're

846
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: technically in it. But I say technically because we understand

847
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: what reality is here. But I mean, Oregon understands right

848
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: now and Mario Cristobal and that staff understand they're not

849
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: where they need to be defensively. Therefore they have to

850
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: take more risk than they want to on offense. And

851
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: what happens is, Yeah, they've been able to put up

852
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: some pretty impressive numbers, but inevitably it was gonna buy

853
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: them eventually in the form of turnovers. And they were

854
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: minus three turnovers in this game. And when you lose

855
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: a game by a field goal, that's probably the padlock

856
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: stat that you need to know about. Georgia beat South

857
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: Carolina forty five to sixteen last night. You could see

858
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: this game plan coming a mile away. The week before,

859
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk about JT. Daniels and

860
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: they barely got past Mississippi State that they got passed them.

861
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: And I was sitting here last Sunday night and I said, Hey,

862
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what the future of Georgia football is

863
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: going to be, but I can promise you this, what

864
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: you saw tonight is not going to be now or

865
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: ever the future of Georgia football as long as Kirby

866
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: Smart's there. They had eight yards rushing last week. I

867
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: think I've heard that stat a million times so far

868
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: in the past seven days they had eight yards rushing. JT.

869
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: Daniels had to throw it all over the place. And

870
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: for a lot of folks who wanted hope about the

871
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: quarterback position, that was great to see. That's not what

872
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: Kirby smart wants. Last night they had a three to

873
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: one run to pass ra They ran it forty six

874
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: times for three hundred and thirty two yards, four touchdowns,

875
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: seven point two yards per carry. That was coming again

876
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: from a mile away. They are in the mode that

877
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: several teams find themselves in right now. George is just

878
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: kind of a more talented version of what a lot

879
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: of other teams are. Their preseason goals are out the window,

880
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: yet they have a lot of work to do. There's

881
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: a standard they want to maintain in that here too.

882
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: But there's also you know, there's also kind of this

883
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: mentality that the twenty twenty one season has started, especially

884
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: for them at quarterback right now. And you look at

885
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: guys who were emerging, like Jermaine Burton didn't do a

886
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: whole lot last night, but in general at the wide

887
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: receiver spot, I mean, there are a lot of Georgia

888
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: folks who are looking around and saying, wait a second,

889
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: quarterback is not going to be a question for us

890
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: if JT. Daniels comes back, and pretty good likelihood he will.

891
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: And we got all these receivers, and we got all

892
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: this talent here, and some of them are just now

893
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: starting to emerge. It's like, yeah, we're not going to

894
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: go to the SEC title game this year, but hey man,

895
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: let's start implementing whatever we're going to do in twenty

896
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: twenty one now. And so they're doing that, but it

897
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: feels like in other ways, half the sports just kind

898
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: of trying to limp to the finish line. And there's

899
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: a lot to be taken advantage of monetarily out there

900
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: because of that, and we'll talk about that at the

901
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: end of the show. Michigan State, I'm going to talk

902
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: about monetary leveraging. How about what happened yesterday? So Michigan

903
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: State goes into the Northwestern game, is a thirteen and

904
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: a half point dog. They win the game out right,

905
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty. Now, we did not make Michigan

906
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: State an official play. It was a borderline for us,

907
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 1: but we didn't. However, it had my eye. We didn't

908
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: break the game down, but it had my eye. But

909
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: let me tell you, this game turned into an absolute

910
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: gold mine. For those of you who understand live betting,

911
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: this game turned into a gold mine. So a lot

912
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: of the early lines that are put out, yes there's

913
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: algorithm that's involved, but a human being is tweaking those

914
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: lines before they put opening numbers out. But when you're

915
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: talking about live betting, there are too many games going on,

916
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: so it's largely algorithmically driven, which means there is a

917
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: predescribed process or determined that goes into how a number

918
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: changes in a live game based on what's happening every

919
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: given play. Well, here's the thing. When you got a

920
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: team that struggles to score that's favored by thirteen and

921
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,720
Speaker 1: a half points, the algorithm only knows that the team's

922
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: favored by thirteen and a half points, and so it

923
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: ingests former data points of thirteen and a half point.

924
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: Favored is currently down by two touchdowns, what should the

925
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: live number be? So yesterday, Northwestern gets down by two

926
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: scores two touchdowns early, and Michigan State was still either

927
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: even money or even plus money on the money line. So,

928
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: in other words, there was a situation yesterday and I

929
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: dumped on my whole account on it. Pretty much fortunately,

930
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: where Michigan State was up by two scorers on a

931
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: team that struggles to score, and you could have got

932
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: one to one return on your money just betting them

933
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: to win the game. Don't have to cover any number,

934
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: just win the game. And it took a while for

935
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: the algorithm, the old live betting algorithm, to catch you

936
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: up there. But man, I mean, I was talking about

937
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: Elliot during the game. We were saying, is this an error?

938
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: When is the adjustment going to come? And it was

939
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: sitting there for twenty twenty five minutes of real time.

940
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: But that was crazy to see. So I mean, live betting,

941
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: there's a lot of value there if you understand what

942
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: you're doing. Let me say that very slowly. Please don't

943
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: ride your gut on that stuff. Northwestern was minus three turnovers.

944
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: That's really the padlock stat and all you need to

945
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: know about that they are a zero margin for era team,

946
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: not a low margin, zero margin for error. And with

947
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: this loss at the hands of Michigan State, now Northwestern

948
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: not from the ranks of the unbeaten. The big ten

949
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: picture just continues to change by the week, which is

950
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: what we're about to talk about right now. The college

951
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: football Playoff committee could be headed for just a disastrous

952
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: confluence of events. And you know how very rarely I

953
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: use that combination of words. Let me ask something because

954
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: I did it on Twitter earlier today and I got

955
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: a very fascinating split of opinion. What value do you

956
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: place on games? Because ultimately, the value you place on

957
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: games and the value you place on competition, those values

958
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: will determine where you land on the hypothetical debate I'm

959
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: about to throw out there that I think is going

960
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: to become a reality in the not too distant future.

961
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: There's a potential mess down the road, and so seeing

962
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: it ahead of time, and it's not that hard to see.

963
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: I take to Twitter earlier today and I said, you

964
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: are the deciding vote on the college football playoff committee. Okay,

965
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: and let's just say, for hypothetical sakes purposes, the last

966
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: spot in the playoff field is coming down to two teams.

967
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: The first team is a nine to one Texas A

968
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: and M team no SEC championship, just nine to one.

969
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: The second team is a six to oh Ohio state

970
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: that did not play enough games to go to the

971
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: Big Ten title game and the only way they got

972
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: a sixth under their belt is the Big Ten has

973
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: them play a game on conference championship Saturday, just not

974
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: in the conference title. If Ohio State is not able

975
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: to play this Saturday, that's where we're headed. If they

976
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: don't play Saturday, if they can't field a team, if

977
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: they can't get on the field against Michigan State or

978
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: Michigan for that matter, they will not meet the minimum

979
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: requirements to go to the Big Ten title game. And

980
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: so there is just this fascinating dichotomy of opinion out

981
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: there right now. And that's the situation that's at hand.

982
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you you kind of heard

983
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: bits and pieces of this, but like I said, a

984
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: lot of folks lives are fragmented right now, so you

985
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: don't necessarily have time to pay attention to every single

986
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: turn of the world of college football. So what's happening

987
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: and what's changed from August really is in August you

988
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: kind of looked and once you found out who was

989
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: gonna be playing, you said, all right, fourteen playoff, Let's

990
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: see how it's gonna work out. Well, the SEC champ

991
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: is gonna go and the Big Ten champ is gonna go. Translation,

992
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 1: Alabama's gonna win this Ohio State's gonna win that, Clemson's

993
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: gonna win this one over here, And those are three

994
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: spots we just have locked in. And then there's gonna

995
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: be a fourth spot. Maybe it's Oklahoma if they win

996
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. Maybe it's Oregon if they win the

997
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: Pac twelve. And that was gonna be the big debate, right, Well,

998
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: what's changed here. What's changed is the twelve's cooked in

999
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: all likelihoods, so they're out of the equation. The Big

1000
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: twelve's probably cooked, although there is this back door case

1001
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: being made for Oklahoma that I'm not ready to entertain

1002
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: quite yet. Never say never, but quite yet. Got to

1003
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: get over Iowa State first and thirdly, really there's four

1004
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: points to this. Thirdly, Notre Dame threw a wrench in

1005
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: everyone's plans where they beat Clumson, and so now you

1006
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: got the potential for two ACC teams being there. But also,

1007
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: Ohio State unfortunately plays in a conference that doesn't take

1008
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: football as seriously as they do. So a lot of

1009
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say sounds like I'm hating on

1010
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Oh it's far from that, far from that.

1011
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: I got immense respect for Ohio State. I pull for

1012
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: him at every turn because a ton of you guys

1013
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: watch the channel. But I got to be real with

1014
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: you tonight too. You are, in all likelihood gonna end

1015
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: up suffering at the hands of incompetence at the league

1016
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: and administrative level. So a lot of what we're about

1017
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: to talk about has nothing to do or no fault,

1018
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: shall I say, should be placed at the feet of

1019
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: Ohio State. But you had the Illinois game canceled, and

1020
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: you had the Merrily Maryland game canceled, and now, man,

1021
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: they're one more they're one more away. Again, if you're

1022
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: unfamiliar with what's going on here, if they miss either

1023
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: one of these next two games and they don't go

1024
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: to that Big ten title game, there are a lot

1025
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: of hypotheticals, but man, the one I just gave you

1026
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: about Ohio State and let's say at Texas A and

1027
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: M it got fiery today. So let's go back to

1028
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: the question how much do you value competition and gains

1029
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: being played? Because that will answer the following question here

1030
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: when you're choosing which one of these to go with,

1031
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,439
Speaker 1: Because if we're choosing, I'm going to tell you where

1032
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: I stand right here. If you're asking me to choose

1033
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: between A nine and one Texas A and M or

1034
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: A six and oh Ohio State. This takes two seconds

1035
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: from me, and it's that team right there, Colin showing

1036
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: you it's Jimbo Fisher and the Aggies. Here's the pushback

1037
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 1: I'm getting on this. Some of you are yelling as

1038
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: I'm speaking. Here's the pushback I'm going to get. And

1039
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: it's going to shock you that I'm not even going

1040
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: to push back or I'm not going to retaliate. You

1041
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: would say, how in the world can you take A

1042
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: and M onto over Ohio State. Ohio State's better than

1043
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: A and M. I think I agree with you, confident

1044
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: that you're right when you say that. The second thing

1045
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: you say is well, it's not Ohio State's fault that

1046
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: we couldn't play the games. You're right about that. But

1047
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: to both of those statements, I say, and and what

1048
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: is it A and M's fault? No? Is it the

1049
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: SEC's fault. No, it's the Big ten's fault. So ultimately,

1050
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: the Big Ten's not going to pay a price. It's

1051
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: member institution that has the best shot at the playoff

1052
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: could potentially pay the price. But these are called consequences

1053
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: every action has one could be positive, could be negative.

1054
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: But I mean it sounds like we agree. You know

1055
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: when you say, well, is Ohio State better? Yeah? Well

1056
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: is it their fault? No? Okay, sounds like we agree

1057
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: Ohio State should go. No, they shouldn't. There is a

1058
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: side effect of gambling culture that I've noticed. It's become

1059
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: a lot more pervasive over the past couple of years

1060
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: as gambling and sports betting have become legalized. I mean,

1061
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: there's some good things, like you don't have to bet

1062
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: with a guy named Rico in the Cayman Islands anymore.

1063
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: You can just bet on your phone at your convenience

1064
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Speaker 1: and get the money in forty eight hours. You don't

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00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: have to go on the corner of ninth and Broad

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00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: and see Terry on Tuesday morning to even up with him.

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00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: Those are good aspects of sports betting being legalized. Let

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Speaker 1: the individual handle their income however they want to. But

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Speaker 1: here's one negative side effect of it. Everyone thinks they're

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00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: an expert on this stuff now, and anytime there's a

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00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: debate about the college football playoff, you're pulling out the

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Speaker 1: old so and so would be favored over so and

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Speaker 1: so on a neutral field, guys, we've been having that

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Speaker 1: conversation for a decade. Well, however long this thing's been around,

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00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: that's old hat. Everyone understands that logic. You think that

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00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: you're beating someone over the head with your superior intellect

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00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: when you say that you're not. Everyone understands who would

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00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: be favored over who if it were Buckeye's Aggi's this

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Speaker 1: Saturday or a month down the road, if this stuff

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Speaker 1: ends up playing out. We understand that. But here's what

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Speaker 1: else I understand. I value games. I value you putting

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00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: yourself out there in this case four more times than

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Speaker 1: the other guy. And I'll tell you why that's important

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00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: in just a second. If you can't already pick up

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Speaker 1: on it with common sense, who would be favored against who?

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00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: Should only be valued in a tiebreaker scenario. I want

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Speaker 1: to make this really, really clear, who would be favored

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Speaker 1: against who? That stuff matters if your resumes are equal.

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00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: These resumes wouldn't be equal. So therefore a lot of

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00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: that who would be favored against who or who I

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00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 1: think the better team is is irrelevant. If I still

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00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: make it relevant, if I think resume A is superior

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00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: to resume B. But then I still say I'll screw it,

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00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: though I still think resume B has got the better team.

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Speaker 1: I'm just running a preview magazine. We're not even It's

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00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: not even a sport at that point. It's not competition.

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Speaker 1: At that point, you're not even going on a merit

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Speaker 1: based formula at all. There is no more meritocracy. It

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Speaker 1: is strictly okay, go play the season. But I don't

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Speaker 1: know put these teams in there anyway. What in the

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Speaker 1: world are you doing at that point? And so then

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Speaker 1: I had someone DM me about thirty minutes ago, and

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00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: you made a really good Jeffrey, I think it was

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Speaker 1: you made a really good point. I don't agree with

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00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: your conclusion, but you made a really good point. It's

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Speaker 1: one where I agree with you on the surface, but

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00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: when you get below the surface, I don't agree because

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00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: the bigger picture you were trying to paint is false.

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Speaker 1: So the canceled game, right now, let's talk through this,

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00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: because here's the frustration. If you're an Ohio State fan.

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00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: The games that you've had canceled, they weren't games you

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00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: were going to lose in all likelihood. It was going

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00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: to be Illinois and Maryland. Like you're a huge four

1114
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: touchdown favorite over both of them. You know that you

1115
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: were going to skull drag them, paint the walls with

1116
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 1: their blood, etc. Whatever you want to use. And so

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00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, why can't people just understand that

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00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: we would have beat those teams? I mean, why can't

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00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: we just pencil in those two wins for argument's sake?

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Speaker 1: And no one thinks that we were going to lose

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00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: those games? Will You're right about that, You're right about that.

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00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: But see, here's the value of competition, And here's the

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Speaker 1: value of a game or games in this case, within

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Speaker 1: the context of choosing the four team field for the

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Speaker 1: college football playoff. How significant is the date November sixteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to you. Here's why games matter, and here's

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00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: why I'm going to give benefit of the doubt to

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Speaker 1: the teams that have played more games. November sixteenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen was not a spectacular day. It wasn't noteworthy. Particularly

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00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: Alabama was a twenty one point favorite a team. Alabama

1131
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: ended up winning the game thirty eight to seven. So

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Speaker 1: if they covered by ten points, what does this have

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00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: to do with anything? This sounds dumb. Well, here's what happened.

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00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: Alabama went to Startville, Mississippi, on November sixteenth of twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and they were a big favorite, just like you would

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Speaker 1: have been against Illinois, just like you would have been

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00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: against Maryland. And they did smoke them, just like in

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00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: all likelihood you would do against Illinois or Maryland. But

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00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: here's what else happened. What else happened is there was

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00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,919
Speaker 1: a play when they were up, I think already five

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00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: touchdowns or so, and a quarterback drops back and there's

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Speaker 1: no one open to his left, and there's no one

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00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: open to his right, and so he peels off to

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00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: his left like he's done a million times before, but

1145
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: he's hobbled and the defender catches up on backside pursuit

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00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: and falls with the force of his full body weight

1147
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: on this quarterback. The kid's name was Tua tongue Ailoa.

1148
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,399
Speaker 1: His hip shattered into a million pieces. Alabama's team wasn't

1149
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: the same since that point. The rest of the way,

1150
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: what you can't know unless you play the game is

1151
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: what kind of critical factor could happen in that game?

1152
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: What kind of injuries you could incur in that game

1153
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: that you never exposed yourself to that the other guys

1154
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: you're comparing yourself to did expose themselves to. That's why

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00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,720
Speaker 1: the four more games matter, even if you'd be favored

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00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: by a million in every one of those games. So again,

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00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 1: this may not end up happening at all. It may

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00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: end up that Ohio State gets their games in and

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00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: they end up winning the Big Ten by four or

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00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, and they end up going to the college

1161
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: football payoffs. All's well and good. I just wanted to

1162
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: get on the record early with this because I know

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00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: this debate is only going to heat up. I mean,

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00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 1: for that matter, A and M could lose Saturday against

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00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: Auburn and it could be all rendered mood. But if

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Speaker 1: it comes down to it, I think that committee is

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00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: going to value games play. And if you have to

1168
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: pay a penance for the incompetence of your league office,

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00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: so be it. I won't like it, but so be it.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap it up with this. Colin Ramen

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Speaker 1: Noodle Express time. We went four and two this week.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't happy about the way things went down in still Water,

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Speaker 1: but still fourign too, So we'll take that. We're sitting

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Speaker 1: in fifty eight percent against the number on the year,

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Speaker 1: and we've got two early best bets here. Make sure

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00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: you're following me on Twitter. We had I think two

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Speaker 1: games that I put out maybe three ahead of and

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00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: in addition to rather what we put out on the

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00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: show last week, and that happens routinely. It'll probably happen

1180
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Speaker 1: again this week. So follow me on Twitter at late

1181
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: Kick Josh. All right, Colin, let's show them what we

1182
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: have so far. This hurts, but it is what it is.

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00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: We are going against my Iowa state cyclones this week. Yeah.

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00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: I was going to make an analogy, but it's a

1185
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: poor one. So West Virginia plus seven, that number is

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00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: going to move off seven, I think, So make sure

1187
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: you jump on that one and Washington only laying ten.

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00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: We have Washington favored by nineteen and a half in

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00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 1: our internal numbers. We think this line's way off, so

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Speaker 1: we're taking the Huskies minus ten Againstanford. So our first

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00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: two our best bets West Virginia plus seven Washington minus ten.

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00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: Also a reminder, we're past Thanksgiving week now. I hit

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Speaker 1: the reset button for my one on one Zoom consultations.

1194
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: We got spots open all week. As soon as I

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00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,280
Speaker 1: get off the tonight, I will open my email inbox

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00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: up I will open my Twitter dms up and I

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00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: will start booking those sessions. If you think you have

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00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: the skill, if you think you have the talent, if

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Speaker 1: you've got great ideas, if you want to get involved

1200
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: in the sports media industry, you ever have or ever

1201
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: think you're going to, but you just don't know how,

1202
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have a game plan worked out, Hit

1203
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: me up in the email inbox or Twitter at late

1204
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,240
Speaker 1: Kick Josh on Twitter, Josh Pate seven zero six gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com and we'll get something set up for director Colin,

1206
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: for Jordan. On the podcast side of things, I'm Josh Pate.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're subscribed to the twenty four to seven

1208
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: Sports YouTube channel. There is a lot inevitably that's going

1209
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 1: to happen this week and you can find it all there.

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Speaker 1: Until then, we'll see again Tuesday night. Have a great

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Speaker 1: start to your week and God bless