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Speaker 1: today that slightly less people watched the National title game

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Speaker 1: last night then watched the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Alabama.

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Speaker 1: That's not the biggest shock in the world to me.

429
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,640
Speaker 1: It is pretty crazy that a semi final game does

430
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: a better number than a national title game. But if

431
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Speaker 1: you understand how powerful branding is in college football, not really.

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Speaker 1: Why do I bring it up to remind you again

433
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't care about it. I don't care about it.

434
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Speaker 1: You shouldn't care about it. I'm addressing it because people

435
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 1: asked about it. But I brought this up the other

436
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Speaker 1: day on our Sunday Night show, and I said, I

437
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Speaker 1: don't think this game's going to do this big monster number.

438
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: Twenty five million people, still a really good number. I

439
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: didn't think it was going to do some monster number. Candidly,

440
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Speaker 1: I thought it'd be a smaller number than that. So

441
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Speaker 1: it actually did a good number by my estimation. But

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Speaker 1: I said, I think it's great for the sport. I

443
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: think Michigan versus Washington's great for the sport. Now I

444
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: knew the pushback was going to be, well, if it

445
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Speaker 1: doesn't get a Monster TV rating, that means it's bad

446
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: for the sport, right, No, no, no, no, it's not

447
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: in any sense of the word bad for the sport

448
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 1: because in the aggregate, think about what Washington did. I

449
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Speaker 1: told you the favors I thought Michigan did for a

450
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Speaker 1: lot of at football. But this is great for college

451
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: football because long term, it taught you so much about

452
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: what still works that people lied to you and said

453
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't work anymore. Think about roster building. Neither of these

454
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 1: teams are perennial top five, and only Michigan borders as

455
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Speaker 1: a top ten perennial recruiter. Point being all of a sudden,

456
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Speaker 1: when you realize if that's the bar we have to hit,

457
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 1: that's a lot more achievable for a lot more teams.

458
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Speaker 1: Coaching searches I think have been fundamentally altered by what

459
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Speaker 1: people like Kayln de Bor have done. Lance Leipol at

460
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Speaker 1: Kansas is another one that's got people second guessing and

461
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: looking around and saying, wait, what are we prioritizing? Why

462
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Speaker 1: don't we do it like Washington did? Why don't we

463
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Speaker 1: do it like Kansas did? What did they see from

464
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Speaker 1: guys that were at these remote outposts that we never

465
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Speaker 1: even so much as considered, Well, there are a lot

466
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Speaker 1: of guys out there that are probably going to get

467
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Speaker 1: opportunities as a result of the run. Kaylen de Bor

468
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Speaker 1: just went on and think about the hope, the hope

469
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Speaker 1: that you were told and I was told would only

470
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Speaker 1: come in an expanded playoff. We're not reltigating it, I promise.

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Speaker 1: I think this gave more hope than the expanded playoff

472
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Speaker 1: ever will the expanded playoff is going to be a

473
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Speaker 1: mirage of hope for a lot of you. This right

474
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Speaker 1: here's authentic hope. Because this happened in the fourteen field,

475
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 1: they didn't need an expanded playoff. Washington got in the

476
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Speaker 1: old fashioned way and Michigan got in the old fashion way,

477
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: not by having a top five draft pick at quarterback,

478
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Speaker 1: not by loading up with all star recruiting classes. They

479
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: recruited well enough. They built team and then they had

480
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Speaker 1: some luck along the way, which every championship team does.

481
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Speaker 1: But at the core it was built the same way

482
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Speaker 1: winners were built in the nineteen nineties and the nineteen

483
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Speaker 1: seventies and the well, I don't know what they were

484
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Speaker 1: playing in the eighteen thirties, but the principles of winning

485
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: were on display. And then whatever you want to say

486
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Speaker 1: about the off the field stuff is whatever you want

487
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Speaker 1: to say. But I had a lot of fun with

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Speaker 1: this last night. We had a lot of f on

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Speaker 1: our crew. There had a lot of fun. I only

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Speaker 1: had one bad interaction, and I wish Washington folks all

491
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Speaker 1: the best. A lot of their players found me on

492
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Speaker 1: Saturday because we were doing media day. I had I

493
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Speaker 1: think about half a dozen Washington players more than that

494
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Speaker 1: came up to me. Had fun. You know, I've been

495
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Speaker 1: winless with them all year, and to their credit, talked

496
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Speaker 1: to some of them in the tunnel after the game

497
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Speaker 1: last night. They came and found me and said they

498
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: got us, and you got us. I didn't beat anyone

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Speaker 1: last night, Michigan did. But the one bad interaction I had,

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Speaker 1: I may have had one middle finger from one student

501
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: wearing sunglasses indoors typical, and he was hiding behind the

502
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Speaker 1: extra point net so no one could get to him

503
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Speaker 1: and he knew that. But other than that, great interaction

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Speaker 1: with both fan bases, and it's unique, man, when you

505
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: have two fan bases who have never been there before,

506
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: it makes for a very lively atmosphere. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing that stands out anytime someone wins a title for

508
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Speaker 1: the first time is how many tears you see. Georgia

509
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: folks win, Bama folks win. I would argue if Clemson

510
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Speaker 1: won another title, no one's crying anymore. I mean, may

511
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Speaker 1: be the most emotionally vulnerable amongst us are, but most

512
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Speaker 1: folks are just celebrating. All Michigan folks were crying left

513
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Speaker 1: and right last night. I saw teenagers crying. I saw

514
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Speaker 1: eighty year old folks crying on the field, in the stands,

515
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: up the tunnel, there, every which way. So it was

516
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Speaker 1: a very very memorable experience. But yeah, you give up

517
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Speaker 1: three zho three on the ground, that's the most rushing

518
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Speaker 1: yards in the title game. I think this millennium, you're

519
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Speaker 1: probably finishing second best that night. Do you remember this?

520
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Speaker 1: By the way, Colin reminds me in my ear, PF

521
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: Changs came through for us. You know, when you're on

522
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Speaker 1: the fence about something like Memo always told me, when

523
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Speaker 1: you're on the fence about a big decision in life, Joshua,

524
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Speaker 1: just order PF Changs and tell them to double up

525
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Speaker 1: on the fortune cookies because you may pull something out

526
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: like we pulled out the other night. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: which way I was going, Michigan, Washington, in Washington, Michigan.

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Speaker 1: I'm O for seven, what do I do? And then

529
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: mister pf chimed in and we opened the fortune cookie.

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00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: Actually Bradley did, and I stole this from him, and

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Speaker 1: it said victory is just around the corner. Hail to

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00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: the victors after all, So congratulations to Michigan and me

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Speaker 1: on winning the national championship last night. Humbly, of course,

534
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Speaker 1: let's move it on. So here's a little sharp swerve

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Speaker 1: in what we're talking about, because that was twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: The curtain falls on twenty twenty three, because I consider

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Speaker 1: last night a twenty twenty three game. But it is

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00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Now we made it. I love our sport,

539
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: love it, love it. This is not going to be

540
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: a doom and gloom segment or anything like that. I

541
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Speaker 1: just want to kind of set the scene for what's

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Speaker 1: to come. Colin, here's your endpoint. Twenty twenty four is

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00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 1: going to be about. Is jarring a year for you

544
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: hardcore college football fans as I think you may have

545
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: seen in most of your lifetimes, some of it bad,

546
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: some of it good, maybe a lot of it good.

547
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. Here's what I'm getting ready for. And

548
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: we're starting now in January so that this doesn't sneak

549
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: up on us in September. Do you understand. I think

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00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: you do. I just want to remind you we're headed

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00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: towards the Super Conference era. Right. This is the SEC

552
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: with Texas and OU that means the Big Twelve without them.

553
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: This is the Big Ten with both the Southern California

554
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: schools and Washington and Oregon, which means hashtag rip Pac twelve.

555
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Well, it means a large collection

556
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: of the premiere brands in the sport are in two conferences.

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00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: It means a lot of the most talented players and

558
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 1: coaches are in two conferences, not exclusively but majority. Just

559
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: to illustrate that, and just to remind you what kind

560
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Speaker 1: of collection we're looking at. I pulled the Hadjess pull

561
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: the recruiting rankings right now. Do you realize in this cycle?

562
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: Right now, the twenty twenty four cycle, twenty seven of

563
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: the thirty two to five star rated players are committed

564
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: to either an SEC or Big ten school. Seventy eight

565
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: of the top one hundred players in the country are

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Speaker 1: committed to an SEC or a Big ten school. Our

567
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 1: partners over at FanDuel hit us up and set in

568
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: our futures market. For the twenty twenty four National Championship.

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Speaker 1: The top eight teams are all either SEC or Big Ten,

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00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: and fifteen of the top eighteen are all either SEC

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00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: or the Big Ten. Now that's not shocking. Everyone knows

572
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: that's where a majority of the talent is, right, But

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Speaker 1: I think it's like growing up in Buffalo, New York,

574
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: and then your parents tell you, Charlie, we're removing to Phoenix, Arizona.

575
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: We hear it's hot there, right Well, you can't really

576
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: imagine one hundred and fourteen degrees, even if it's dry

577
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: heat Charlie, until you actually experience it for yourself. Some

578
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: I don't think folks fully get how big the gulf

579
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Speaker 1: is gonna be between these two conferences and everyone else.

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00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: it's a thing that you're gonna have to acclimate yourself

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Speaker 1: to or maybe accustom yourself your mind to thinking about,

583
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: because you're still we I'm speaking collectively, we are still

584
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Speaker 1: just just coming out of what we called the Power

585
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Speaker 1: five G five era. And that meant even though you

586
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: knew there was imbalance, like you knew the SEC most

587
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: years was better than the PAC twelve for broad strokes purposes,

588
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: we both consider them power five conferences. That is not

589
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: the case anymore. You've got two big boys, and then

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00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: you've got I don't even know how the ACC and

591
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: the Big twelve are going to feel. I don't know,

592
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: you don't know. We got to find it out together.

593
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Speaker 1: But that brings me to my next point, and this

594
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: is really gonna be jarring for you. The automatic qualifier

595
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: conversation for the playoff is gonna be much more contentious

596
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: than playoff expansion. Yes, we're entering the twelve team playoff era,

597
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: But that's not the debate. That's done. We've got it,

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00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: whether you like it or not. But even some of

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00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: you who supported expansion, I don't think are fully realizing

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00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: what the format is this upcoming year. Now. There's some

601
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: debate right now, so it may switch, but it's not

602
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: gonna switch by much right now if nothing changes. Do

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00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: you realize that the playoff format for this upcoming season

604
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: is twelve teams, but it is a six and six format,

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00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: meaning six spots are reserved for conference champions. That would

606
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: be ludicrous in the Power five era, but in the

607
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: Big two era it is totally insane. And I don't

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Speaker 1: fully think people are grasping what's happening. You're just thinking

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Speaker 1: twelve teams. It'll sort itself out. Maybe it will, maybe

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Speaker 1: it won't. To put a finer point on what we're

611
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: talking about here, that means in a six team format,

612
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: you're guaranteed two G five spots there, and G five

613
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: as a moniker is infinitely more watered down than it

614
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: was in the old system, and it was watered down

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00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: in the old system in the new system, understand what

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00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. You got a ton of good

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00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: teams in the Big Ten, ton of good teams in

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Speaker 1: the SEC. We crown the conference champs there, crown one

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Speaker 1: in the Big twelve, probably gonna get a first round

620
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: by a top four seed like Oklahoma State just because

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Speaker 1: they're in a different conference, would be ranked higher than

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Speaker 1: an Alabama or a Georgia, even if they'd be favored

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Speaker 1: by two touchdowns. So anyway, not to get in the

624
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: weeds on that, but you start going down the list, guys,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if Liberty is ranked twenty seventh in

626
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: the country. If they're one of the two highest ranked

627
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: G five conference champs, they're going to the playoff. They're in.

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00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: They could have three or four losses. If they win

629
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Speaker 1: their conference and they're one of the two highest ranked,

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00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: give they're going to the playoff, and they may go

631
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: at the expense of one of those Power five teams

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00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: in the SEC or the Big Ten, who played an

633
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: infinitely tougher schedule that's ranked ten spots ahead of them

634
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: in any reputable poll. Who's sitting at ten or eleven.

635
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: And you're saying, yourself, oh, Josh, nothing wrong with that.

636
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: This is called the bubble in college basketball. That's true.

637
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: That is about the end of the comparison between the

638
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: sport of football and a sport of basketball. Some people

639
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: out there didn't want expansion anyway, so you're mad for

640
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: different reasons. There are other people who wanted expansion, but

641
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: they just want the top twelve then, or top whatever

642
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: number your field is. I think there is a massive

643
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: chunk of the college football public who wanted expansion, but

644
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: who have not dug into the devil in the details

645
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: yet and they're not realizing this is the case. Now.

646
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: There's a debate going on right now. The thinking is

647
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna shift to a five to seven model, which

648
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: is a little bit better but still a very flawed concept.

649
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: It would be five auto bids for conference champs instead

650
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: of six. It's still five too many. Auto bids as

651
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: a concept are very stupid, and they get dumber and

652
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: dumber the bigger your field gets. So that's gonna be

653
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: a very very big point of contention this fall. Just

654
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 1: get ready for it. Also this fall, no more divisions,

655
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: No more divisions. Now, I am a fan of this.

656
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: I think it's a new world for us all So

657
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: I think I'm a fan of it. No sec East

658
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,959
Speaker 1: and West, no big ten leaders and legends, East and West.

659
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: We don't have that anymore. Now. Obviously, this presents a

660
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: potential conundrum because, as we know, in the Big Ten forever,

661
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: the West has been secret garbage to just outright garbage,

662
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: and the East, I say they, yeah, the West has

663
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: been at the East has been where the action is. Well,

664
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: now that you do away with divisions and you're just

665
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: taking your two best teams for your conference championship game,

666
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: might we see Ohio State versus Michigan in the final

667
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: week of the season and then a rematch in the

668
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: Big Ten title game. It would suck, It would be bad.

669
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: Wouldn't like it at all. That's not good for anyone.

670
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, experience it one time and

671
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: then hit me back, Josh, how could you deny more football? Hey,

672
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: if one of something is good, two of something's way better,

673
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: huh yeah. Yeah, scarcity and value and all that. Look

674
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: it up, kids, look it up. So there is also

675
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: this world where Ohio State Michigan play one week, then

676
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: they turn around to playing the Big Ten title game

677
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: the next week, then both of them are in the playoff.

678
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: Maybe they play a third time. It's unlikely, It's not impossible,

679
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: And as long as that kind of thing is on

680
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: the table, you are just asking for it. And then

681
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: comes the other logical follow up, what's the value of

682
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 1: a conference championship game in the twelve team playoff era?

683
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: I would argue it doesn't have much of one that's

684
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: gonna be there. Those networks have paid far too much

685
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: for it. It's too precious a piece of inventory for

686
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: leagues to do away with. But I think we're gonna

687
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: see this first two or three times around over the

688
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: next two or three years. These conference championship games I

689
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: think will greatly lose the juice that they've had for

690
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: us for a long time. That's inevitable. It's inevitable. I

691
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: mean imagine this, by the way, So imagine Georgia Bama

692
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 1: this year in the SEC. They go to Atlanta, they've

693
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: played twelve games, They go play a thirteenth game, Georgea's undefeated,

694
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: number one team in the country. They lose, They drop

695
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: to number what five, I guess or six, and they

696
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: don't get a first round buy or anything like that.

697
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: Georgia to win a national title just because they were

698
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: good enough to make it to Atlanta and had to

699
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: play another game that was game thirteen. They may have

700
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: to play fourteen, fifteen, sixteen seventeen games to win a title.

701
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 1: They got punished for being good enough to go play

702
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: for a conference title. In retrospect, they will look back

703
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: and say, we were better off just not even going

704
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: over there. Now. In fairness, they probably thought that about

705
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: this year. But this year was a little bit more

706
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: of an anomaly than what the norm could be in

707
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: the future format. So that's something that we're gonna have

708
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: to wait and see on. And lastly, but certainly not leastly,

709
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: we got to do away with this quote. We got

710
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: to take people who say you are what your record

711
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: says you are, and we got to send them over

712
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: to the trash can and say, sit there, sit by

713
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: the garbage for a little while. Think about what you

714
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: just said. That's a summer that's a deep cut summer

715
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: catch reference. For those familiar with the Freddie Prinz Jessica

716
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: bial smash baseball hit. Back in the day, you are

717
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: not always what your record says you are in college football.

718
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: Now in the future, you are infinitely less to just

719
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: be what your record says you are. Are you ready, friends,

720
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that there may be some eight and four

721
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: teams that belong above some eleven and one teams. If

722
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: your answer is no, we have work to do. We

723
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: have work to do when you see the disparity and

724
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: strengths of schedules here in the coming era, you cannot

725
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: be buying into this foolish notion that was already foolish

726
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: but is just flat out crazy now that oh, you

727
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: just are what your record says you are. M mmm

728
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: mm mmm. You know what else we have to do.

729
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: We sort of have to recalibrate our expectation level and

730
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: redefine what is great, what is good, what is average,

731
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: what is poor, and what is unacceptable because there are

732
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: going to be some extremely good teams out there, go

733
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: ten and two, and there're gonna be some fan bases

734
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: saying we're kind of underachieved. Didn't we know you? No,

735
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: you did not. You played probably eight teams in the

736
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: top twenty five. You went ten to two, pretty good.

737
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: There're gonna be some teams out there go six and six,

738
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: cause the new six and six or six and six

739
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: in the future in some of these conferences is the

740
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: old eight and four. And you're gonna have some coaches

741
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: get fired for going six and six and folks are

742
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to learn the hard way. Uh oh, we

743
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: didn't properly redefine our expectation level to account for the

744
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: modern schedule that we're playing in some of these conferences.

745
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: It's a brave new world. Brave new world. We're all

746
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to live in it together. I don't think

747
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: it's all bad. There's a lot of positive. I've told

748
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: you past couple of shows. I think some good changes

749
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: are coming, but some big changes are coming. One change

750
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: that is not around the corner is Academy going anywhere.

751
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: They're right here. We were in their backyard this weekend.

752
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: Had a lot of fun, as we always do. A

753
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: lot of you have started to receive your fifty dollars

754
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: Academy gift cards. Several more of you need to check

755
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: your so you can claim yours. Academy just hit us

756
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: up over Christmas and say here's five grand, give it away.

757
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: So we did. That's the kind of partner they are,

758
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: and they make the show free of charge to you

759
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: as well. Now, above and beyond that, they have some

760
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: really good stores. And so you're outdoor sporting goods equipment,

761
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: you're camping equipment, you're biking, equipment. You can find it

762
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: all at Academy Sports and Outdoors. You drive one, you

763
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: drive by one, and like every five minutes down in Houston.

764
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: It's great. And if you can't get there in person

765
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: because you don't live in a place like Houston, it's

766
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: not right around every street corner. Academy dot com they've

767
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: got your hookup. Academy Sports and Outdoors, one stop shop

768
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: for all things sporting goods plus unprecedented amounts of whale sounds.

769
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: Tonight it's winter, guys, my nasal passages get stopped up

770
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: on the air. I'll take a sip from the chalice.

771
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna do much of anything. Hey,

772
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people appreciating my summer catch reference. It's

773
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: a great movie. Matthew Lillard, you know, before he he

774
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: screwed his career into the ground. That Scooby Doo performance,

775
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: which is its own separate pod. Not about college football.

776
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: So let me take a sip from the chalice. Excuse me,

777
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: and let's talk about reaction. So Michigan wins the national

778
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: title last night. Yeah, we all saw it. They really

779
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: saw it. At Ohio State. They didn't sit still though

780
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State's doing a lot of stuff right now, And

781
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: I may humbly suggest to you it's not all stuff

782
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: that Ryan Day is ultra excited to do, but I

783
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: think he knows it's necessary. So there's a ton of

784
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: heat on this program right now. There always will be

785
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: when you lose to Michigan, doubly when you lose two

786
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: in a row to him, and infinitely more when you

787
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,760
Speaker 1: lose three in a row to him, which hasn't happened

788
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: in this generation. But then when they go win, when

789
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: they have the audacity to go above and beyond and

790
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: win a national championship, how dare they? But don't look

791
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: out the window, look in the mirror, because you know goodwell,

792
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: if you're Ohio State, we control us, and if we're

793
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 1: doing us at the best of our ability, we should

794
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: be able to beat them. Notice how I have seamlessly transitioned.

795
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: I'm a chameleon. I've been a Michigan fan, and i'd

796
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: have been an Ohio State fan, and hopefully, hopefully this

797
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: will be an acceptable show for all. But that's how

798
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: they feel. They got every reason to feel that way.

799
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: They dominated this rivalry up until very recently. Ryan Day

800
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: has looked around as I told you he would and

801
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: hasn't gone forth, and you know proclaimed that these are

802
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: the changes that henceforth I will make to this program.

803
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: I'm holding a metaphorical microphone in front of me as

804
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: I have a real microphone in front of me. But

805
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,959
Speaker 1: I told you he was going to make changes. Case

806
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: in point, they went and got Quinn Shawn Juckkins out

807
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: of the transfer portal. That's the kid from Ole Miss,

808
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: the running back. I don't think that's a move they

809
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: make a year ago, number one, cause they had the

810
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: personnel where they didn't need him. Number two, it's a

811
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: move that is a little bit desperate. It's not desperate

812
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: in a sense that we're a poverty seven to five program.

813
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 1: Save us Quinn sewn No, but it is we need

814
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: elite players and we may be pretty good at tailback,

815
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: but we're not that good. And you know what if

816
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: it cost us some money in nil even though we

817
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: hold our nose while we do it, We're gonna do

818
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 1: it because drastic times call for drastic measures. Will Howard,

819
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: the quarterback, was gonna go to USC until he learned

820
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: who Miller Moss was, and then he said, well, I'm

821
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: not going out there anymore. And now he's in Columbus, Ohio.

822
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 1: I was reading buck Nuts earlier today. Some folks said

823
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: that's the guy. Other folks said, that's Kyle McCord two

824
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: point zero point being well, first off, no he's not.

825
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty good player, and so I think

826
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: he's an upgrade from what you had, respectfully, But I

827
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: also think that it's another move that had you beaten

828
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: Michigan this year. Candidly, I'm not sure they're making for

829
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: good reason. There wouldn't be the drastic feel around the program.

830
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: It feels like staff moves may be coming as well.

831
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: Now this i'm a little bit more in the dark

832
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: on because I have not called Ryan Day and had

833
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: him walk me through this or anything. But it has

834
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: not felt for a while to me like he was

835
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: just going to maintain status quo on his coaching staff there.

836
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of speculation behind the scenes that

837
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: that's coming. The who and the what and when and

838
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: then the how, I don't know, but it feels like

839
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: a lot of moves may be coming there as well.

840
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 1: Will he give up play calling, Will will he hire

841
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: an OC that handles play calling? Speculative At this point.

842
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: I don't have any more informed, guided information than anyone

843
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 1: else does. But the paradigm's inverted in that rivalry. Ohio

844
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: State Michigan used to be one sided, and now the

845
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 1: last three years it's felt that way only totally inverted.

846
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: It's maize and blue, it's not scarlet and gray anymore.

847
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: Michigan suffered for a long time, and Michigan after twenty

848
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: TI looked like they were about to have to tap out,

849
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: look like they were gonna need a new head coach.

850
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 1: And you know what they did. They made their own changes.

851
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: Like Jim Harbaugh, he took the wheel and he swerved

852
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: pretty hard too. He swerved back towards his comfort zone

853
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: that they maybe had gotten away from. Ryan Day, I

854
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: think is jerking the steering wheel a little bit as well.

855
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: And you know what he may be doing. He may

856
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: be jerking the wheel away from his comfort zone a

857
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: little bit. I don't think they want to be doing

858
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: what they're doing in the portal right now. I don't

859
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 1: think he wants to be making tons of coaching changes.

860
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to probably spend the kind

861
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: of money they needed to spend to get quinch On Juckins. No,

862
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: he's not crazy about it. Ryan Day probably hasn't woken

863
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: up ultra excited to have to make some of the

864
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: changes he's having to make. He doesn't want to do it.

865
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: He knows he has to do it. That's leadership. That's

866
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: also why I'll remind you again, some folks have punted

867
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: on this guy. Some folks have said, Ryan Day, no,

868
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm done. He can't. He can't, he can't, And I'm

869
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: saying he hasn't. He hasn't, he hasn't. Once upon a time,

870
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: a lot of folks who are celebrating the national championship

871
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: today wanted the head coach who wanted for him. Gone,

872
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 1: he can't beat, He can't beat. He can't beat. Yes,

873
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: he can and again and again and again, and he'll

874
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: win you some conference titles, make take the playoff, and

875
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: hey win a national championship in the end. Why because

876
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: of marginal change, Because of fractional degrees of changes here

877
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 1: and there that can spell big results in the end.

878
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: This sucks for an Ohio State fan right now. I

879
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: am telling you I watched it in the Auburn Bama

880
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 1: rivalry for a string of years, the victory of your

881
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: rival turned the heat up so much in your own

882
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: athletic department, that it didn't burst the pipes. It ended

883
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: up producing diamonds of your own. It can happen elsewhere,

884
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: it can happen in this rivalry as well. Let's talk

885
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: about memories. Let's talk about him. What do you remember

886
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty three college football season. We went

887
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: on the once upon on a Saturday tour, great great

888
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: finishes up until Canell got involved. We saw like five

889
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: or six last possession finishes and then not so much,

890
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: but we got it back on track. You know what

891
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 1: I was thinking about earlier today? I was thinking about

892
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders in Colorado. You know how sometimes you say,

893
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: oh Man, college football season just flew by, This one,

894
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: didn't do You remember how long ago it feels that

895
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: Dion and Colorado were the talk of the sport. You

896
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: remember how long ago it feels that they went to

897
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: TCU and won forty five to forty two, and then

898
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: they beat Nebraska the next week, and then there was

899
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: an overtime game against Colorado State that kicked off at

900
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: like ten o'clock on the East coast, and it peaked

901
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: with an absurd amount of viewership after midnight on the

902
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: East coast that feels like it was in twenty sixteen.

903
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 1: That was a long time ago. That's proof positive. Friends,

904
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: Football seasons are very long just because you're enjoying it,

905
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: and the theory of relativity, as explained by polg in

906
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: Deep Blue Sea, applies no, no no in real life.

907
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: These are long football seasons. Ask Washington how long the

908
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: last month and a half felt, by the way, But

909
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that earlier today and how crazy

910
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: that was, and most people had a feel. Now we're

911
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: probably going to me talking about Colorado in November. But hey,

912
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,879
Speaker 1: it's fun while it lasts, and it was fun while

913
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: it lasted. They finished four and eight. Hit up FanDuel today, Andy,

914
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: what's the total? What's the early guess on the win

915
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,359
Speaker 1: total for him this upcoming year? Probably in that same range,

916
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: about four to four and a half. So if you're

917
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,720
Speaker 1: feeling Colorado a year two hundred d I'm get ready.

918
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: Our friends at FanDuel will have a very favorable number

919
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 1: for you. I also will remember big names being back.

920
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: This is a really good year for college football. Big

921
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: names being back. Florida State back, no doubt about it,

922
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: Texas back, no doubt about it, Michigan had been back,

923
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: but they're now at the mountaintop. So a bunch of

924
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,720
Speaker 1: brands out there doing stuff that a lot of folks

925
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: were trying to tell them you either can't do again

926
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: or you'll never do. All the while, Michigan implements a

927
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: style of play that we were told wouldn't work anymore.

928
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: You notice how many people lied to us over the years.

929
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: It's almost like we need to think for ourselves. And

930
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: then on the other side of that coin, you got

931
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: big time brand names going nowhere fast. Florida got a

932
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: long way to go. Clemson is not nearly in the

933
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: same boat as Florida is, but took us took a

934
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: pretty sizable step back this year. And then I will

935
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: also remember, you know, Michigan, Ohio State the Iron Bowl,

936
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: Remember the ending. I was in Detroit International Airport to

937
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,919
Speaker 1: watch the Iron Bowl ending fourth and thirty one. Had

938
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: that not happened, had that play not happen, here's a

939
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: nightmare scenario for the SEC. That play didn't happen, But

940
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game still plays out the same way.

941
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: Might we have no SEC teams in the playoff? Might

942
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: Florida State have been in the playoff? What would Florida

943
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: State have done in the playoff, So a lot of unknowns.

944
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,919
Speaker 1: Because I'll also think about that, I will think about

945
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: the classic endings we had, and we were at a

946
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: lot of these games. Texas Bama. Texas goes in there

947
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: and wins by double digits. We were there. Kansas State

948
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: goes to Missouri and Missouri hits a sixty one yard

949
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: walk off field goal thicker kicker for the win. Unbelievable.

950
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: Remember that Ohio State Notre Dame game. It's like it's

951
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: lost to history, but at the moment it felt so huge.

952
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: Ohio State goes up there and we're standing right there

953
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Stadium in the end zone and Ohio State

954
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: scores a walk off touchdown. You remember how big a

955
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,399
Speaker 1: war that felt like it was, and we were there

956
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: in the witness it at all, and man Notre Dame

957
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: wore the green jerseys, the gold helmets. Pic best weather

958
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: day we had all year was in South Bend, Indiana.

959
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: That place looked like a screen saver. I'm talking about

960
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: like a Microsoft ninety eight screen saver. They don't do

961
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: screen savers like they used to. I'll also remember how

962
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: weird the dynamic was this year. I said it was

963
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: a great year, but it was a weird year too.

964
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't think we had a superpower team this year,

965
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: and by superpower I mean a team that we'll talk

966
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: about ten years from now is being one of the

967
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: greatest the sports ever seen. Now, what I am not

968
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: gonna do is trying discredit Michigan, because well, yeah, you

969
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: guys won this year, But twenty nineteen LSU would have

970
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: done this, twenty twenty Bama would have done that. Who cares,

971
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: you know what, the worst you know what, the worst

972
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: championship team in history has in common with all the

973
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: rest of them. Their trophy looks the same. No one cares.

974
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: But I will say no team looked invincible this year.

975
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: And so that sounds like a recipe for chaos, doesn't it.

976
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: And yet we didn't have the volcanic Saturday. We kept

977
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: waiting for it. I kept giving off volcano warnings, and

978
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 1: Pierce Brosnan was better at it than me, because in

979
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: Dante's peak, he said it, it happened. I kept saying it,

980
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 1: and it never happened. And we had an entire history

981
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: of college football wisdom gained working against us, because history

982
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: says you will not make it through a whole seat

983
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: without the volcano eventually erupting, and mass chaos and upsets

984
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: and gnashing of teeth never really happened. And yet we

985
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: didn't have superpower teams. You thought Georgia may be that team.

986
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: They didn't even win their own conference, they didn't make

987
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,919
Speaker 1: the playoff. Who else? I mean, Michigan ended up being

988
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: the closest version of that. But I don't think people

989
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: looked at them and said Michigan could never be beaten. They

990
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: could never be beaten. They were the best team in

991
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: the country this year, but like a superpower all time

992
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: kind of feel, I don't think they had. So there

993
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: was that. There was also and this is gonna be

994
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: tough for me. We don't have any tissue out here.

995
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: But you know, as PAC twelfth paate, I would be

996
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: remiss if I didn't give a good old fashioned rip,

997
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: an rip to the PAC twelve itself. It's kind of

998
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: there still, but it's not really there anymore. And I

999
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: was there to see the the bow of the ship

1000
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: fade into the Abyss. Would have been fitting. If Washington

1001
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: could win the whole thing last night. Who even claims

1002
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: the trophy? No one knows but they didn't. That's the

1003
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: way the cookie crumbles. But it was a really good

1004
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: year for him. Pac twelve had as good a year

1005
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: as they've had in a long time. They had seven

1006
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: teams finish eight and five or better. It's the most

1007
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: of anyone in the country this year. I was at

1008
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: both Washington Oregon games and got none of the outcomes

1009
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: I expected. I was at the Washington Oregon State game,

1010
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: thought it was one of the most impressive wins they had.

1011
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: Oregon State a really good team this year, disgusting weather conditions,

1012
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: and Washington goes and plays Oregon State's game in their

1013
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: building and wins. Not easy to do. So I remember

1014
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: all that, and oh, by the way, just an added

1015
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: couple of cherries on top. Both college football playoff semi

1016
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: finals came down to the last play, and that's not

1017
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: then we can ever say happened. So those are the

1018
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: memories I will take away from the twenty twenty three

1019
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: college football season, along with the tour, being on the

1020
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,280
Speaker 1: road every week with coach Quinn and Gelby and seeing

1021
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: all you guys. You know, being able to work out

1022
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: in the weight rooms is eat all the food we eat.

1023
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: It's twenty you have to torture yourself in February and

1024
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 1: really late January, cause decisions get made during the season

1025
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: from a nutritional standpoint, and they're not the best of decisions.

1026
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: I will say now I didn't suffer any catastrophic weight

1027
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: game this year, because, as we know, one of the

1028
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: memories I did not harken back to until now is

1029
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: the slight but severe episode of food poisoning I had

1030
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: at Georgia, Florida that kept me on the shelf for

1031
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: two shows. We missed our first two shows. Ever, I'm

1032
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: not proud of it, but I threw up so violently

1033
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: I had no vocal cords left, couldn't talk, and so

1034
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: I guess I'll remember for that as well, for a

1035
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: much more different and frightening reason. All right, let's move

1036
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: the show along. I can't believe we're about to talk

1037
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: about what we're gonna talk about, but everyone's talking about

1038
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,879
Speaker 1: it today. So a sip from the chalice I will take,

1039
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: and down the road I will go. I do need

1040
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: to forewarn you I'm gonna talk about something for three

1041
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 1: or four minutes here that a lot of you think

1042
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: you don't care about. Some of you are very passionate

1043
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: about it. I'm gonna promise you up front, those of

1044
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 1: you who don't care about this subject stay tuned anyway,

1045
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: because I don't care about it, but I do care

1046
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: about it. Brenn hit me up from Valdosta, Georgia. He said,

1047
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: what do you make of the NCAA football announcement bait

1048
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: and switch from last night? Now, what he's talking about

1049
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: is there was hot traction on the streets that we

1050
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: were gonna get some major announcement about the NCUBA football game.

1051
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: It's been gone for a decade, the video game, and

1052
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: it's gonna make a reappearance apparently later this summer, our

1053
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: very own brand of Marcelo. He had his ear to

1054
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: the ground and he said, we're expecting some kind of

1055
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: an announcement from EA Sports during the National Championship game,

1056
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: and we didn't get it. Now, I did not shed

1057
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: a tear for this, but many of you did last night.

1058
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: And I hit you up today and I said, you

1059
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: really got shafted on that video game announcement last night,

1060
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: hunk Jesse. We had like a thousand replies to that,

1061
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: didn't we So people were taking this really hard. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is an iconic video game, just iconic. But if

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Speaker 1: you don't play video games, you don't care. Candidly, I

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Speaker 1: haven't played a video game in like ten years, so

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Speaker 1: this doesn't affect me and my own life all that much.

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Speaker 1: Do I care? No? Do you care? Yes? So that

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Speaker 1: makes me care, and I do understand for the greater

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Speaker 1: good of the sport how important this is. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't play video games, you probably don't get this.

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Speaker 1: But there's a reason all the other major sports leagues

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Speaker 1: the games and don't even watch the sport. And there's

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Speaker 1: this other subset of the gaming society, Bradley among many others,

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Speaker 1: brought to the sport through that conveyor belt, which sounds

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Speaker 1: crazy to some of you. I get it, Okay, Carl

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Speaker 1: from Carrollton down in Georgia, you don't get this, but

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Speaker 1: check it out. And then all of a sudden he's

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Speaker 1: watching Michigan State Purdue Voila. Well, if you don't have

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Speaker 1: that would have been baked in that never gets baked in,

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Speaker 1: So it's very important. Now there is some talk, there's

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Speaker 1: some scuttle butt. I have done the job, so you

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Speaker 1: at what else would you do after the National Championship game?

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Speaker 1: Then go to work the next day? Just again Monday

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Speaker 1: night title games. Brilliant stupidity. So I've been paying attention,

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Speaker 1: Marcelo can't know, well, at least he's if he knows,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't told me. But what the streets are saying

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Speaker 1: And if it was, it's brilliant. They got millions of

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Speaker 1: take a look at this. We got some things that

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Speaker 1: were kind of left over in our Radical Takes segment

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Speaker 1: that we've done the past couple of weeks, and I

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Speaker 1: just couldn't get to these. So there's one about the

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Speaker 1: expanded Playoff. I am not going to spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of time on this. I do want to address it though.

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Speaker 1: Alex said the expanded playoffs will make college football better

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Speaker 1: because fan bases won't lose hope after a loss. Now,

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Speaker 1: the reason I plucked this from the batch is I

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Speaker 1: get the feeling Alex thought I was going to disagree

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Speaker 1: with this because I am a noted non expansionist. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want playoff expansion. But I've never told you there's

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Speaker 1: nothing good about expansion. So I've done this take a

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Speaker 1: few times, but Alex gave me a little different angle

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Speaker 1: here to take. There's a lot good about the expanded Playoff.

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Speaker 1: It's not all bad. I just think the bad outweighs

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Speaker 1: the good, and a lot of you disagree with that,

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Speaker 1: But I've never painted it as expanded playoff all bad,

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01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: four team field all good. Neither of those things is

1184
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Speaker 1: my opinion, and Alex is not wrong about another thing.

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Speaker 1: In the previous world, if a Penn State, for example,

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Speaker 1: lost to Michigan and Ohio State, they're done. They know

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Speaker 1: they're not making a four team playoff. In the new world,

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Speaker 1: Penn State would make the playoff. So by the very

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Speaker 1: definition of I guess what hope is in this sport.

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Speaker 1: If you're basing your hope in making the playoff, of

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Speaker 1: course your hope would still be alive. I'm not worried

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Speaker 1: about what happens after your loss. Where I think the

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Speaker 1: value is taken away from me is what happens leading

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Speaker 1: up to the game. What is the game itself? Because

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Speaker 1: I was at Penn State Ohio State this year, I

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Speaker 1: was at Penn State Michigan this share. Ye, those were

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Speaker 1: do or die situations. There was no safety ad under

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Speaker 1: those games. It was very, very tense. You could cut

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Speaker 1: it with a plastic knife for McDonald's. That doesn't exist.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't exist in this new format. So sure, sure

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Speaker 1: those fans walk out of there're still hopeful that day.

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Speaker 1: But do you know what, the knowledge that you'll have

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Speaker 1: hope after today, no matter what does to today, it

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Speaker 1: takes a lot of the urgency away from today. Now

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Speaker 1: I watch pro sports just like college sports. I know

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Speaker 1: you don't get that urgency in the pro game. That's

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Speaker 1: what I love about college football. You got the urgency.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing that I'm not going to dwell

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Speaker 1: on too much, but I've told you as a big

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Speaker 1: fear of mine is we're gonna manufacture some hope based

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Speaker 1: ramifications into some games that otherwise wouldn't have been for

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Speaker 1: playoff spots in the future. But it's gonna come at

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Speaker 1: the expense of greatly diminishing the urgency that we placed

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Speaker 1: on the bigger games featuring higher rated teams that in

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Speaker 1: the end are gonna be the ones that actually compete

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Speaker 1: for the championship. You're Ohio State, Michigan's, your Bama Georgia's.

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Speaker 1: Those games are going to have with them the understanding

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Speaker 1: that no matter who loses today, both of them are

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Speaker 1: very likely to still make the playoff. There is no

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Speaker 1: must see game between the big boys. Why because we

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Speaker 1: want to manufacture hope for more. And the third part

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Speaker 1: of that is what you see as hope now may

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Speaker 1: not always be seen as hope for the first few

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Speaker 1: goes around the Merry go round, for the first few

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Speaker 1: years the expanded playoff. Absolutely it'll work. Absolutely if Iowa

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Speaker 1: States nine to three, but all of a sudden they

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Speaker 1: back into an eleven seed hope, hope, and even if

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Speaker 1: they get blown out in the first round, it will

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Speaker 1: be worth it because they maintained hope in their fami base,

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Speaker 1: stay bought in. But see when you observe a few

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Speaker 1: years of the playoff and your mind gets reconditioned to

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Speaker 1: understand these teams that barely back in they have no

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Speaker 1: shot of winning the title. And you know, once upon

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Speaker 1: a time we just treated making the playoff as sort

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Speaker 1: of a mini accomplishment. Now we're figuring out, uh, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't really mean much if you make the playoff that's

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Speaker 1: designed a crown a champion, you have no shot at

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Speaker 1: winning a championship. And what if your mind, four years

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Speaker 1: into the playoff, all of a sudden diminishes what it

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Speaker 1: even means to make the playoff, thus evaporating some of

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Speaker 1: the fabled hope that we're going to have in the room.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, just something to think about there. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I'm way off base though, just an evil anti

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Speaker 1: expansionist here. And lastly, I am going to unite the

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Speaker 1: audience like never before on this one. I asked you

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Speaker 1: for your most radical take, so I do appreciate the participation.

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Speaker 1: And Michael, that's where the compliment ends for you. My

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Speaker 1: friend Michael had the audacity to come out here in

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Speaker 1: front of God everyone and say the number of total

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Speaker 1: draft picks each year is better than your total national championships.

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Speaker 1: That is our early contender for Casual Gold Medal of

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Speaker 1: here says I care more about draft picks than overall

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Speaker 1: national championships. These can't be real people. Real people can't

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Speaker 1: think this. If you're a college football fan, there's no

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Speaker 1: way you think that. It is a team game. Man,

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Speaker 1: we are playing to I'm going herm Edwards. I see

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Speaker 1: how it happened to him. Now. You play to win

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Speaker 1: the game, to win a lot of them, to ultimately

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Speaker 1: But three or my guys are going to go in

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Speaker 1: the first round, So I'm cool. What kind of loser

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Speaker 1: beta mentality is that? Also, imagine, if you will with me,

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Speaker 1: on Saturdays and actually seeing that as a green light

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Speaker 1: folks that, yeah, true enough went nine and three for us,

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Speaker 1: but they all went in the first second round and

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Speaker 1: What I'd love to go longer immunity, but I can't.

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Speaker 1: I have to label this very rarely do I do this.

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Speaker 1: label it casual. First time I've done it in twenty

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Speaker 1: smart things. Michael, I hope that this is a low

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Speaker 1: It's dead air. That's what you owe those people nothing, nothing.

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