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Speaker 1: Late this afternoon we will discuss. We got bold predictions,

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Speaker 1: avoid two of the Big three from the East. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's move on. Got a little playoff per day here.

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Speaker 1: We get it every year. I don't remember a year

429
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Speaker 1: what we haven't gotten this prediction yet? Austin from Waverley, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: We will have a two loss team make the playoff. Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: since twenty fourteen, we've had thirty six teams make the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Stats and Info confirms nine times fours thirty six. Every

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Speaker 1: single one of them has either been undefeated or had

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Speaker 1: one loss. Out of thirty six teams, we have yet

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Speaker 1: to have a two loss team. And yet every preseason

436
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Speaker 1: someone takes it upon themselves to predict that this is

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Speaker 1: the year we have a two loss team in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about it is they convince me every

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Speaker 1: single July or August that it's going to happen. But

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Speaker 1: this is June. I'm not there yet. I'm calling this

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Speaker 1: an eight and a half. But if it did happen,

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Speaker 1: how would this happen? Well, the first thing is, let's

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Speaker 1: just look at the odds market, because there are three

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Speaker 1: teams in the country that have preseason over under win

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Speaker 1: totals of ten and a half or higher. Georgia at eleven,

446
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Speaker 1: Ohio State ten and a half, Michigan ten and a half.

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Speaker 1: Burn the list. That's it. You got BAM MC, Clemson,

448
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Speaker 1: and USC at ten for the record. So man, that's

449
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Speaker 1: a short list. It's what the list normally looks like.

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Speaker 1: That's an over under. It's not a true projection of

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Speaker 1: how many games you're gonna win. Because I can guarantee

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Speaker 1: you Georgia, they're over under is eleven. They'll be favored

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Speaker 1: in every game. That can promise you that unless something

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Speaker 1: truly devastating happens, like Kirby Smart goes on a random

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Speaker 1: Mormon mission as he transfers to be the head coach

456
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Speaker 1: at BYU middle of the season like that. Yeah, outside

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Speaker 1: of that, I think Georgia will be favored in every

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Speaker 1: game this year. But let's just say this word to happen.

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Speaker 1: Let's say we get a two loss team in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: How did it happen? Well, our best guess is the

461
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Speaker 1: Pac twelve has to cannibalize themselves. So there's just there's

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Speaker 1: no Pack twelve team in the running. The Big twelve

463
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Speaker 1: probably needs to cannibalize itself too. Boom, nope, ooh, we

464
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Speaker 1: just dismissed Texas and Oklahoma. Shame on us. And then again,

465
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Speaker 1: they've done a really good job of doing that to

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Speaker 1: themselves last three years. I don't want to throw shade,

467
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Speaker 1: but that's just reality. So let's just say those two

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Speaker 1: conferences devour themselves and they're out of the way, or

469
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Speaker 1: a maximum of one of them do. They're out of

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Speaker 1: the way. Notre Dame doesn't have a playoff caliber year,

471
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Speaker 1: so they're not a threat at that point. You need

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Speaker 1: that round robin thing to happen where you know, maybe

473
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a Georgia is undefeated and like

474
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Speaker 1: an LSU or Alabama has one close loss and their

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Speaker 1: second loss is too Georgia close in the conference title game,

476
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Speaker 1: or ditto for I don't know how it would happen

477
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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten, but you can have that little

478
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Speaker 1: round robin effect in the Big Ten. The point is,

479
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Speaker 1: if you have a clean path, if you have a

480
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Speaker 1: bunch of undefeateds and one losses, this is irrelevant. But

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Speaker 1: if you have a lot of carnage, if you have

482
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Speaker 1: some two thousand and seven ish happening in the top ten. Well, yes,

483
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Speaker 1: then we could have a path there. This is not

484
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Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility. This is the old

485
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Speaker 1: cannot versus have not thing. It has not happened, That

486
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Speaker 1: does not mean it cannot happen. I'm gonna put eight

487
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Speaker 1: and a half on that asked, but certainly not least

488
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Speaker 1: from Fort Gibson. Tyler says bow Knicks is gonna win

489
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Speaker 1: the Heisman at Oregon this year. This is an eight

490
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Speaker 1: point seventy five because it's just hard to really predict

491
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Speaker 1: who's gonna win the Heisman. You're picking one name, but

492
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Speaker 1: it could have been higher. So this shows a little

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Speaker 1: respect for bo Knicks. Believe it or not, we kind

494
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Speaker 1: of run his fan club, at least the Tennessee chapter

495
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Speaker 1: of his fan club. Where is he in the odds market?

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Speaker 1: Some of you may be surprised to know Bo Nicks

497
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Speaker 1: is in the top five in preseason Heisman ods. Kayleb

498
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Speaker 1: Williams one, Michael Pennock Junior two, Jordan Travis at FSU

499
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Speaker 1: is number three, and it's bow Knicks and Drake may

500
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Speaker 1: tied at four. So yeah, he's up there. He led

501
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Speaker 1: all quarterbacks in FBS and rushing touchdowns last year, he

502
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Speaker 1: has greatly improved his deep ball accuracy. I mean we

503
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Speaker 1: saw it firsthand because we were at the UCLA game

504
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Speaker 1: last year. Now he lost his offensive coordinator, Kenny Dillingham

505
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Speaker 1: went to Arizona State. Oregon's got the second highest win

506
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Speaker 1: total out there in the Pac twelve. They're going to

507
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Speaker 1: be in a position and he's gonna be in a position.

508
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Speaker 1: And unlike some of the names I just read off,

509
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Speaker 1: you have to respect his entire stat package. You can't

510
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Speaker 1: just look. You can't just look ab resume comparison. How

511
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Speaker 1: many yards has he thrown for. He's probably not gonna

512
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Speaker 1: throw for as many yards as those guys. Those other

513
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Speaker 1: guys probably are not gonna run for as many as

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Speaker 1: he is. Either that exposes him a little bit more

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Speaker 1: to injury risk, and if he misses games. This is

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Speaker 1: a moot point, but I think bon Nicks is gonna

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Speaker 1: be in it. I think Oregon's gonna be in it

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Speaker 1: out there. So I'm gonna make that an eight point

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Speaker 1: seventy five with the understanding that even if you predicted

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams to win the Heisman and he's already done it,

521
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Speaker 1: he's the favorite to do it again. I'd still make

522
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Speaker 1: that like a seven. It's just hard to predict that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So bone nicks quack quack. They go to Texas Tech

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Speaker 1: in week two, just I think one of the most

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Speaker 1: underrated games of the year Orgon at Texas Tech in

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Speaker 1: this point. If if you have your chalice with Choice

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568
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Speaker 1: because we got to dive pretty deep into some stuff

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Speaker 1: that's about to go down fairly quickly, I think in

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being tuned in. It's so busy right now.

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Speaker 1: So busy is Colorado going to the Big twelve? It

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Speaker 1: looks like Colorado's gonna go to the Big twelve. Uncle

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Speaker 1: Dennis Dennis Dodd to you, Uncle Dennis to me. He's

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Speaker 1: been all over the story for quite a while. Even

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Speaker 1: when some people push back on Uncle Dennis. Uncle Dennis

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Speaker 1: has been pretty steadfast on this. It's so good for him.

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Speaker 1: We go to the same barber I see him there

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Speaker 1: like like you once every other week. Good to see

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Speaker 1: Uncle Dennis. So Colorado to the Big twelve. Now this

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Speaker 1: is not done. If you've misunderstood me there, and if

583
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Speaker 1: you have misunderstood me, it's probably because I mistated it.

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Speaker 1: It's not done. It's just being reported strongly that talks

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Speaker 1: are happening and there could be wheels in motion, you know,

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Speaker 1: the drill. Colin. Could you show me the quote from

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Speaker 1: the athletic director the other day, Rick George? How many

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Speaker 1: of you know who that is? Most of you don't.

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Speaker 1: Let's be real, it's the Colorado Athletic Director. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to know who Rick George is though, because we

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Speaker 1: know who he is for how are you? And this

592
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Speaker 1: is not a where's Waldo? He's right on your screen

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Speaker 1: right now. And if you're listening on podcasts, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: paper pop, I'm gonna read you a quote courtesy of

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Speaker 1: our buff Zone twenty four seven Sports Colorado outlet out there.

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Speaker 1: This is the Colorado ad last week quote. We're members

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Speaker 1: of the PAC twelve. We're proud members of the PAC twelve,

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Speaker 1: and we've got to see where our media rights deal

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Speaker 1: lands and where our conference goes. In a perfect world,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to be in the PAC twelve, but we

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Speaker 1: also have to do what's right for Colorado. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, we'll evaluate things moving forward. I've

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Speaker 1: had the staff translate that and it translates roughly into

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Speaker 1: we out of here. That's what's about to happen in Colorado.

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Speaker 1: I strongly believe they're going to the Big twelve. Had

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Speaker 1: been hearing this for weeks and it's now starting to me.

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Speaker 1: You can ask Jesse. I told him like a month ago, Jesse, well,

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Speaker 1: pay no mind to that because he can't be seen

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Speaker 1: on camera. AW can put him on camera, as it

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Speaker 1: turns out, but we can't. I told Jesse like a

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Speaker 1: month ago, this is going down, man. Colorado's going and

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Speaker 1: they're not going alone. Now here's the part I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't really know who's going with them. I really

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Speaker 1: believe Colorado is gonna be on the move. And to

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Speaker 1: give you a timeline, I think you're gonna hear about

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Speaker 1: this before this season starts. Like they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be in the Big twelve this year. But if I

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Speaker 1: had to bet money, I would bet that Colorado announces

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Speaker 1: they're going to be moving to the Big twelve next

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Speaker 1: year before this season starts. So you can look at

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Speaker 1: your calendar and realize that's a pretty trunkcated timetable. Everybody

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Speaker 1: I've spoken to thinks thirty days, forty five days, sixty

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Speaker 1: days gonna be pretty eminent. Maybe they'll have the news

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Speaker 1: break at Big twelve media days, like A and M

625
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Speaker 1: had to find out about Texas and Oklahoma a couple

626
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Speaker 1: of years ago. That was always a that was always

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Speaker 1: a fun replay to watch the next day. So misplace

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Speaker 1: my piece of paper here. This is going to be

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Speaker 1: a big domino. The reason I'm actually talking about it

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Speaker 1: tonight is not that it's just a big deal of

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Speaker 1: Colorado leaves. I don't think that that would really keep

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Speaker 1: you guys up at night. It's gonna mean a domino

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Speaker 1: effect because I don't really see a world where Colorado

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Speaker 1: alone is moving. They've long been linked to the four

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Speaker 1: Corners theory of it's Colorado and it's Utah and it's

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Schools, which does not constitute the Four Corners,

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Speaker 1: by the way, from a geographical perspective, it's just the

638
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Speaker 1: region of the country they're in. I think that a

639
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Speaker 1: lot of them are going. That's that would be my guess.

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Speaker 1: That is just a guess. Okay, there's guided information that

641
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: Colorado's leaving. My guess is that they're not going alone.

642
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Speaker 1: But that's one part of the domino picture here. The

643
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Speaker 1: other part that we cannot know but they can is

644
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: are they just moving in the best interest to Colorado?

645
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: Are they moving because they think it's inevitable and they

646
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: want to ride the wave instead of chase the wave?

647
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: Or is all that true? And are they also privy

648
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: to some information from Seattle or maybe privy to some

649
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: information from Eugene. Might they have a little heads up

650
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: that some premier members from the northern part of that

651
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: PAC twelve conference may be moving on to a conference

652
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: not named the Big twelve. Maybe they're Big ten bound.

653
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: Maybe that's in the offing. No matter how you slice it,

654
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: Once this next round of dominoes falls, so too does

655
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, it'll still exist. I'm sure that they've

656
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: got on speed now. San Diego State already lined up

657
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: and SMU whoever it may be two lane for all

658
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: I know, lands out there. Just because you've got a

659
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: conference doesn't mean you've got a power conference. And we're

660
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: moving into a new playoff era. And here's the fallacy

661
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: right now. And I gotta warn you, you know, you know,

662
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: I'm already wading into waters I don't care to be in.

663
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: So just let that be stated until the end of time.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I start talking about to expand a playoff, we're

665
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: going to the sorry sorry by that column. We're going

666
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: into this new playoff era, and we got a lot

667
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: of realignment happening. There's a lot of uncertainty. We've written

668
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: the map in such light pencil because we have to

669
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: erase it. At any given point, things could be turned

670
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: on their ear and everything starts from scratch. So in

671
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: this new playoff era, we got twelve teams, right right, Josh,

672
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Speaker 1: And we got half a dozen auto bids for the

673
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: six highest RNGTH Conference champs, right absolutely, Josh. And then

674
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: you got six auto bids, right m hmm. Stop staying

675
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: in the obvious, Josh. Get to the point. Well, the

676
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: point is that's not an ironclad contract for the next

677
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: two decades. Guys, don't know if you realize this, that's

678
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: a two year stop gap. That contract ends in twenty

679
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: twenty six. And anytime you watch the show and my

680
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: tone gets a little more hushed, it's because I think

681
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: I'm onto something, and I think the SEC sitting down

682
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: there saying, yeah, six auto bids, I'll do for now

683
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: the Big ten, Yeah, six auto bids? All right, you know,

684
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: wait to figure that out. Frankly, I think they're more concerned

685
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: with which media partner gets what chunk of the playoff

686
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: revenue and playoff PI. I think that's what they're more

687
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: concerned about. But eventually it's going to come down to format.

688
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you confidently, did I do not think

689
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: the powers that be in those rooms are going to

690
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: look at conferences like the PAC twelve continue to erode

691
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: in terms of an already questionable product going downhill even

692
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: further and say, hmm, our conference is fifteen times more

693
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: powerful than anyone else out here outside of the Big ten,

694
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 1: and ditto in the Big ten for the SEC. But yeah,

695
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: why not still guarantee six auto bids to all these

696
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: conference champs? Why not? Why not? There are a bunch

697
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: of reasons why not, And they're right in front of

698
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: your face. And so I wonder when we get to

699
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: the time to negotiate that new playoff contract. If you

700
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: think conference realignment's been a headache, if you think figuring

701
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: out how many games the SEC is going to play

702
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: on their conference schedule has been a headache, wait until

703
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: you start hearing power players in the SEC and the

704
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: Big Ten come to the realization that, wow, we're way better,

705
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: We're way more powerful than these other folks. Why are

706
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: we giving them anything? And then you really need to

707
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: take a shower cause you'll feel so gross listening to

708
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: all that in context, it'll make the rest of this

709
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: just seem like a normal June. And the other thing,

710
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: this is just kind of where my mind goes because

711
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: it's inevitable, is if this does end up being the

712
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: fate of the Pac twelve, if it's not long for

713
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: this world, and by this world, I mean the you know,

714
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: the Power five world. If it's not long for this world,

715
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: I feel the need to remind you there are several

716
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 1: quality coaches out there, and two of them are leaving

717
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: to go to the Big Ten, obviously, but that leaves

718
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: several quality coaches out there. You see what Kaylin de

719
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: Bor's doing, you and Jonathan Smith's doing. You see what

720
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: Dan Landing's doing. See Jetfish start to turn Arizona around.

721
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: Kenny Dillingham just got his shot at Arizona State. You

722
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: got Dion Sanders. Do youyone ever heard of Deon Sanders.

723
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: He's at Colorado are they all going to stick around

724
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: through the uncertainty? Now? If I'm right, a lot of

725
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: them are on ships that are already headedults where anyway.

726
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: But if you're left behind, let me think about that

727
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: and think about how you have to manage your future.

728
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: Think about the conversations that have to be happening between

729
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: some of these guys and their agents. It's, on one hand,

730
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: it's an interesting time if you're not involved, but it's

731
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: got to be a nightmare if you are involved, or

732
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: because there's so much that's out of your hands. Coaches

733
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: are okay with how hard the job is as long

734
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: as a majority of the most difficult stuff is within

735
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: their control. But now you've inserted like thirty seven new

736
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: factors outside of their control, and they don't even have

737
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: expertise in it. Like these coaches won't find out much

738
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: before the rest of us will if some of this

739
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: is happening. Because those decisions are happening by people who

740
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: wear bow ties across campus, They're not happening in the

741
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: dark film room project. You got the grease board back here,

742
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: that's not where that kind of plans drawn up. Friends,

743
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: and I think they know it, and that's why there's

744
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: a lot of uneasiness when you talk to a lot

745
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: of those coaches because I've never had a spring in

746
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: summer where I've had more coaches ask me what I'm hearing?

747
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna happen? I'm like, what

748
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: do you think I called you for? I'm trying to

749
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: find out if you know anything. No one knows anything

750
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: until they do. So the other thing to keep in

751
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: mind is when that happens, it's not going to be

752
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: a trickle. It's going to be like someone put unlimited

753
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: amounts of sticks of dynamite on the dam and then

754
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: they hit the red button and boom and here it comes.

755
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: One hour, you got the Colorado News. The next hour

756
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: you got a reaction move from an Arizona state, followed

757
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,720
Speaker 1: closely by Arizona. And then you find out what Utah

758
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: is going to do. And then all of a sudden

759
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: rumblings out of the Pacific Northwest. Non Saint Helen's is

760
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: that you know, it's just Oregon, just Washington. They may

761
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: be headed elsewhere. And meanwhile you got George Klakoff down

762
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: there saying we'll get to it after we figure out

763
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: our media rites deal. We'll get to it now too

764
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: a little too late. I did want to do one thing.

765
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: It's not gonna take too long, but I did want

766
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: to do one thing. Well, two things. First is I

767
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: wanted to just beg you like the video. That's that

768
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: thumbs up button for those unfamiliar, and subscribe to the channel.

769
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: He just says subscribe. Nothing fancy about that. You know.

770
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: The livelihood of the staff literally depends on it. That's all.

771
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: No pressure. You want Jesse to eat tonight? Will they

772
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: already ate once? You wanted to eat again when he

773
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: gets home. That's it. Keep the show free, Keep producer

774
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: Jesse fed. Director Colin Bradley, the associate has bailed on us,

775
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: but it's for a good cause. He is going to

776
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: a spring wedding and that we are the foremost ambassadors

777
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: of spring weddings. So we farmed Bradley off down I

778
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: sixty five to Birmingham for the weekend and we hope

779
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: to see him back Sunday. Okay, the transfer portal for

780
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes is kind of done for the

781
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: spring portion of twenty twenty three, so we finally have

782
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: a pretty finished picture of what we just saw. The

783
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: dust is kind of se you know, we got two

784
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: new five stars, right, So the final rankings updates came out.

785
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter still number one overall out of the portal.

786
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: That's the corner he went to. He went from Jackson

787
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: State out to Colorado. You knew that, Okay, two new

788
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 1: five stars. Denver Harris transferred from A and M to LSU.

789
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: He was part of that big signing class for A

790
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: and M a year ago. He is now a five star.

791
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: Great returns out of spring camp for LSU. When it

792
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: comes to Denver Harris, that was the only question. No

793
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: one ever questioned anything other than him about you know,

794
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: Kenny play the ball in the air? How is his

795
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: cutting ability? Is he quick enough? None of that stuff.

796
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: Denver Harris is a great athlete. It was off the

797
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: field stuff with him. Well, you go through spring, you

798
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: hear the right things from LSU. They bumped him up

799
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: to a five star. Also ad Mitchell. Ad Mitchell transfer

800
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: from Georgia to texas part of a loaded wide receiver room.

801
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: He is also a five star. And that's it. Only

802
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: three five stars in the transfer portal rankings this year.

803
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: Ady Mitchell with Steve Sarkisian is just selfishly something I'll

804
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: look forward to watching this year. Okay, So with that

805
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 1: in mind, when we look at the final team rankings,

806
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 1: or at least the most up to date team rankings,

807
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: these really aren't going to move around a bunch anymore.

808
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: Colorado's still number one. I was getting some intel from

809
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: our staff at twenty four to seven, and it's almost

810
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: like they viewed Colorado detached from the rest of the

811
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: transfer portal, because if you really think about it, how

812
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: are you supposed to measure one team that took fifty

813
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: kids out of the portal against teams that took fourteen

814
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: or fifteen or ten. Auburn took twenty one and that's

815
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: an extreme outlier already, and they're not even halfway to Colorado.

816
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: So I mean, Colorado, they took more kids out of

817
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: the portal than LSU and USC and FSU combined. It's

818
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: not a criticism, it's just that's a reality. So Colorado

819
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 1: has almost been like in their own conversation and then

820
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: you judge them and you're just amazed by what they did,

821
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: and then you get to the rest of the teams

822
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: and it's like a separate conversation because they're in a

823
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: more normal situation, whereas Colorado was in an unprecedented situation.

824
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: LSU passed Auburn for number two. That's the other big takeaway,

825
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: at least when it comes to team rankings. Auburn and

826
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: LSU had kind of been bouncing around two and three.

827
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Speaker 1: The Denver Harris updated ranking had a lot to do

828
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: with that, but LSU really went after defensive back. They

829
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: think they did really good at the running back position.

830
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: I do too, for the record, but with Auburn, Auburn

831
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: got like a starting offense all the way down to

832
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback. With Peyton Thorne out of Michigan State, they

833
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: got an entire starting offense. Gyre Shorter Shane Hooks. Those

834
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: are two receivers that probably instantly walk in there and

835
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: are better than anyone on their roster. They got the

836
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: kid from Ohio State. We'll see, you know, he hasn't

837
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: done anything, so we'll see about him. But Rivaldo Fairweather

838
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: was the tight end they got. That was kind of

839
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: early in the cycle, so we forgot about him a

840
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: little bit. Well they didn't. It's a really good player.

841
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: So Auburn still I think with more four star or

842
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: higher talent than any team in the entire transfer portal.

843
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: Rankings some other teams that I wanted to focus on

844
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: though for a second. Michigan did a really good job

845
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: here and they're only ranked twenty fifth, but that's all

846
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: relative to how many kids you took. Six out of

847
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: the eight kids they took are rated four stars. So

848
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 1: Michigan was very selective. You see on the screen there

849
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: their average player rating way up there because of that

850
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: selective nature of their process. Ernest Houseman, that linebacker they

851
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: got out of Nebraska, just keep an eye on him.

852
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: I thought Kentucky did a really really good job in

853
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: the portal. They took eighteen kids and their overall average

854
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: player rating was eighty nine. That's really really good for

855
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: those unfamiliar with the scale and the metrics. That's really good.

856
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: Offensive line. They had to hit big on the offensive line.

857
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: They did. They also went and got Devin Leary the

858
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: quarterback there from NC State. They got some They got

859
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: Ray Davis the running back from just down the road

860
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: here at Vanderbilt. They got another run back out of

861
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: NC State. So they did a really good job. It's

862
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: going to be interesting because you lose Will Levis, and

863
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: you know the assumption out there will be Kentucky will

864
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: fall back to Earth. I'm not so sure that production's

865
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: going to drop off a whole lot. They got Liam

866
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: Cohen back at offensive coordinator, by the way, so I'm

867
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: not quite sure. If Devin Leary's upright, which he wasn't

868
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: a majority of last year, he's given time to throw

869
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: he wasn't last year. Devin Leary' is a really good player,

870
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: and he's a red shirt senior. He's been around a

871
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: long time. In four years at NC State, had over

872
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: sixty eight hundred passing yards and sixty two touchdowns to

873
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: sixteen ats. He is a good player, probably a much

874
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: better player than most folks believed that Kentucky was capable

875
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: of getting out of the portal. So good on them. Also, Oklahoma,

876
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: I cannot go this entire segment without mentioning the Sooners.

877
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: They heavily addressed defensive line. Okay, out of the seven

878
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: four star kids they got, four of them were on

879
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Deshaun McCullough also is a linebacker and

880
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: was the highest overall rated player they went and got

881
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: out of Indiana. We talked about him a lot, like

882
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: two months ago. He's been in the fold for a

883
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: while with them, but Oklahoma's nine in the transfer portal rankings.

884
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: And U see, I mean they had to overhaul defense

885
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: and they did as much as they could out of

886
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: the portal. But then I got to go to the

887
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: other side of the fence for just a second. What

888
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: do I say about Clemson. We were talking about this

889
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: earlier today in the office. What do you say about Clemson?

890
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: They've got the number ninety eight class and the transfer portal,

891
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: but that's because they chose to be ninety eighth. They

892
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 1: easily could have gone and gotten kids. They lost ten

893
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: kids to the portal. They went and got one, and

894
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: that gets them the ninety eighth ranked transfer portal class.

895
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: That's I think, by far the lowest out of all

896
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: the Power five. And it's like the Great ACC experiment

897
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: continuing over there, because since Mike Norvel got to Florida State,

898
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: FSU has become Clemson's biggest competition for ACC supremacy, and

899
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: that certainly will be on display this year. And yet

900
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: you could not go about things any more opposite than

901
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: those two have. Since Mike Norvel has come to Tallahassee,

902
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: they have taken forty six kids out of the transfer

903
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: portal in the same period of time Clemson has taken

904
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: two and what does it result in? They got about

905
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: the same odds to win the title. This year they

906
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: play that game at Clemson, Clemson will be a very

907
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:23,240
Speaker 1: very slight favorite, basically home field advantage and odds makerss

908
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: ain't have at it. We're watching the experiment right along

909
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: with the rest of you. Just fascinating always is to

910
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: watch different coaches go about it in different ways. This

911
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: is not a surprise or anything like that. It's not

912
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: like if I told Dabos Swinny, hey, you know, you

913
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: guys only took one guy to the portal, he'd say, what, No,

914
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: he knows that that's their approach. They're very intentional about it.

915
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: I'm just it's not the way I would do things.

916
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: But I don't run Clemson. So we'll see. We will see.

917
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: I think the big question is if they lose two

918
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: games or three games this year, would he change his approach?

919
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: Does it take a negative outcome? In other words, for

920
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: him to change that approach. We shall see. Okay, think

921
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: we're deep enough into the show now. If you wonder

922
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: what that sound is That sound right there, it's uh,

923
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's not quite a blowing of

924
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: the nose, so to speak. It's like a little clearing

925
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: of the nasal passage. I don't expect everyone to understand,

926
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: but we don't take commercial breaks here. You take a

927
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: little sip out of the chalice. You have Colin dump

928
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: the audio so you can clear your throat every now

929
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: and then. That's the life we live. I have waiting

930
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: in the control room to be played what I believe

931
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: to be the greatest video of this year. Okay, so

932
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 1: let me tee it up for you. If you're listening

933
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: on podcasts, you're not going to be able to see it.

934
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: But don't worry. You'll hear the main parts. You'll hear

935
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: what you need to hear. The visual is just an

936
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: added bonus. A lot of times people ask what do

937
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: I have to do to get a chalice of supremacy?

938
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: Where can I buy him? The short answer is you

939
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: cannot by them. They're not for sale, but they are obtainable,

940
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: and you obtain a chalice of supremacy when you go

941
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: above and beyond to promote this show and promote our

942
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: brand to the masses. And then I have to recognize it.

943
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: I have to see it. We do it a lot

944
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: during the season. For instance, we got kicked off of

945
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: college game day cause too many of you had Late

946
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: Kick and Peyton State signs in the background, and they

947
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: just decided enough of that and they torched them. They

948
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: kicked all of you all out, not before several of

949
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: you got chawi. On a related note, if you are

950
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: owed a chalice and I have not sent it to

951
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: you yet, I thought we had sent all of them out,

952
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: but I got a submission earlier today that showed nope,

953
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: we missed one. If I missed you, then hit me

954
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: back again. You know how to get in the DMS

955
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: at Late Kick, Josh, I will address it. You got

956
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: to prove that I owed you one. By the way,

957
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: so have records, have receipts on him, all right? So anyway,

958
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,439
Speaker 1: how do you get a chalice? You got to earn

959
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: a chalice of supremacy. They are not They're not for sake,

960
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: Chawi have supremacy plural of chalice. They're not for sale.

961
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: You gotta earn them. Hayden is a tour guide in Austin, Texas.

962
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,959
Speaker 1: And let me tell you what Hayden did. He set

963
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 1: out to work one morning and decided, I'm not coming

964
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: home until I earn a chalice, and boy did he

965
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: ever take a look.

966
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 2: We have a lot of you guys from Sweden here

967
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 2: today and you're probably not familiar.

968
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: With college football.

969
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 3: So for those of y'all who want to learn a

970
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 3: little bit.

971
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 2: More about this, I would recommend you go check out

972
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 2: the Late Kick Live YouTube show and podcast with Josh Hayden.

973
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 2: There are hundreds of different college football programs and.

974
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 3: He will talk about a lot of the bigger names,

975
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 3: including the Texas Longhorns, and a fantastic show that really

976
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 3: lets you learn a lot about the Texas Longhorns and

977
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 3: a bunch of different programs here in Texas and the

978
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 3: United States.

979
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: It really does bring a tear to the eye. I

980
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: salute you, hey, and challice of supremacy on the way

981
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: for you, my friend. You want to know what they

982
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: mean when they say pet state material. That is peate

983
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: state material. That is a guy out there serving for

984
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: the greater good and we appreciate it. You got a

985
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: bunch of folks from Sweden, it probably never heard of

986
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: college football, could not tell you what a longhorn is

987
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: to save their lives other than the actual animal itself.

988
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: Hayden didn't care and so if we see an uptake

989
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: in listenership and viewership from Sweden, I will know why.

990
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: Thank you Hayden. Yeah, you guys pull that off. You

991
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: may have a chalice in your future. All right, let's

992
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: go down the road. It didn't It wasn't planned this way.

993
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: It just ended up this way. Texas A and M

994
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: mood Tracker time. What's the mood of the fan base there?

995
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: I was going back and forth with Billy Luci today.

996
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: Anytime I'm doing the A and M mood track or

997
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: I say, hey, Luch, what mood you in? He does

998
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: a very good job of speaking for the A and

999
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: M fan base out there. Well, what do we know?

1000
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: What do we know right now about the Aggies? We

1001
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: know Jimbo's coming off his worst season since he's been

1002
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: in college station. Ouch, you just got to the band

1003
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 1: aid off. We know changes were made, so he didn't

1004
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: sit there and say deal with it. Changes were made.

1005
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: They're running Bobby Petrino had a lot of kids leave,

1006
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: and I'm not so sure that was all subtraction by subtraction.

1007
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: There may be a little addition by subtraction there. We

1008
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: also know that they have not had a double digit

1009
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: win season at Texas A and M since twenty twelve.

1010
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: But they got a ton of talent. They've had it before,

1011
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 1: they got it again. With that in mind, I think

1012
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: the mood of the Texas A and M fan base

1013
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: could best be described as your turn, cause that's exactly

1014
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: how I'd feel if I live down there in Junction, Texas.

1015
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: If you know, you know, if I lived in Junction, Texas,

1016
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: and I'm a lifelong Aggie, I have been passionate since

1017
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: the day I was born. I have been fully bought

1018
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: in since the day I was born. I buy the tickets.

1019
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 1: I am invested in every way you could possibly be invested.

1020
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: And not just that. I've had patients. I've had patients

1021
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: with this coach staff. I've done, in other words, everything

1022
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: you could ever ask of me. It's your turn to

1023
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: deliver for me. That's how I feel. You've been given

1024
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: everything that you could ever ask for. Everything people say

1025
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: they need to win in college football. Jimbo Fisher's got

1026
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: it and he's been given time. This isn't a Billy

1027
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: Napier situation. He's not a little over twelve months into

1028
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: his tenure there. He's half a decade or more in.

1029
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: It's your time. It's your turn to deliver for me. Now,

1030
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: what's the reason for optimism? Because there are reasons. It's

1031
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: preview magazine season. I have not gone and grabbed one

1032
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: yet because they're kind of like Farmer's almanacs to me.

1033
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: But I have not seen what people are predicting. I

1034
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: will tell you this, though, there is reason for optimism there.

1035
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: They lost five games by six points or less last year,

1036
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: and we were doing Late Kick Extra. We were doing the

1037
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 1: Paate State Speaker Series with Cole Kublick the other day,

1038
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: and we were kind of chopping up how important that

1039
00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: stat actually is. Sometimes it's overrated. I think it always

1040
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: bears repeating, though, how many of the games you lost

1041
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 1: the year before were close? And then maybe you're Michigan State,

1042
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: most of your losses were blowout losses. Well that matters

1043
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: a little bit. If you believe in any kind of

1044
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: rollover effect, that matters. So they lost five games by

1045
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: six points or less. They were three and two against

1046
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: top twenty five competition. Last year. They were two and

1047
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: five against unranked competition. Good luck making sense of that.

1048
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,280
Speaker 1: They probably weeded out more pieces there that they needed

1049
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: to than people realize. They they went for broken that

1050
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: previous signing class, and I'm not so sure that they

1051
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: went about it the wisest of ways. Sure they got

1052
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: the highest rated recruiting class of all time, but did

1053
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: they get the right pieces? Did they have the right gel?

1054
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: I don't think they did. A lot of those pieces

1055
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 1: are gone. And you may look at that and say, oh,

1056
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: they lost a lot. Well, there's a difference in losing

1057
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: something and something not being there anymore, and I think

1058
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: some of those guys just aren't there anymore. I'm not

1059
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: saying that across the board. I'm saying some of those

1060
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: guys just aren't there anymore if you're picking up what

1061
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm putting down. Having said that, there is this post

1062
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: that I have to deliver to you because I've got

1063
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: some people as I do the radio rounds, and this

1064
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: will only amplify more as the season draws closer. I've

1065
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: got some people who when I point out that Jimbo

1066
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: Fisher winning hired Bobby Petrino, they say to me, Okay, Josh,

1067
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: but yeah, they hired Patrino. But it's just one man.

1068
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: I mean, they missed a Bowl last year. You really

1069
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: expect one man to have that kind of impact. Well,

1070
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he'll have that impact or not,

1071
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: but one man can have that big an impact if

1072
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: he's allowed to cook and he's given the proper ingredients,

1073
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: and I know the second half of that formulas there,

1074
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: will the first half be there. I don't have a

1075
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: reason to believe it won't necessarily, But can one man

1076
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: change things? Well, I want you to think about losing

1077
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: five games by six points or less. When you're one

1078
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: hundred and first in points per game, you're ninety thirteen

1079
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: yards per game, you're seventy fifth nationally and explosive play rate.

1080
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: You tell me what difference one man calling plays the

1081
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: right way versus Jimbo's way could make. It can make

1082
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: a big difference. It could make I think it could

1083
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: end up being the difference between one of the best

1084
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: stories in college football this year and one of the

1085
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: worst stories in college football this year. Because you want

1086
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 1: to talk about a fork in the road. Everybody else

1087
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: stroke of midnight New Year's Eve, we just celebrated twenty

1088
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: twenty three. For Texas A and M fans, they're just

1089
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: looking at a great big fork. Does twenty twenty three

1090
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: one way or another? It will either be one of

1091
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: the best stories of the year or one of the

1092
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: worst stories of the year. Because if everything comes together offensively,

1093
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: this can be a double digit win team. If everything

1094
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: doesn't come together offensively, you start talking about what the

1095
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: difference is between an eighty six million dollar buyout and

1096
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: a seventy six point eight million dollar buyout. We do

1097
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: not play one hundred and sixty two games. This is

1098
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: not Major League Baseball. We play twelve of these. You

1099
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: lose a few of them close, you lose a few

1100
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: of them by fifteen or sixteen points. For all I care,

1101
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: it is the difference between being employed and going and

1102
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: working for SEC network next year. I think you could

1103
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: make the argument that this is what what I call,

1104
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: I guess, the most interesting team, the most volatile team. Potentially,

1105
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: there's such a high variance level with the potential outcomes here,

1106
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: and I think that if you were to just pull

1107
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: a and m fans yes or no, are you confident

1108
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: this year? If you just gave them a yes or no,

1109
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: let's say yes. If you put a little blank at

1110
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: the bottom and said any additional comments are welcome, they'd

1111
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: have plenty of additional comments that say yeah. However, I

1112
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: could also see it crashing and burning. Yes, I'm confident,

1113
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,439
Speaker 1: but is Jimbo really going to get out of the way? Yes,

1114
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 1: I'm confident, but is Bobby Petrina really the right call? Yes?

1115
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm confident, but are we going to be healthy at quarterback?

1116
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: So many things, so many things to keep in mind here.

1117
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: How about that buyout math? Eighty six can't do it?

1118
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: Seventy six point eight? Maybe I don't know many people

1119
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: with eighty six million dollars. I think we know if

1120
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 1: you with seventy six point eight. So yeah, we'll see

1121
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,919
Speaker 1: how that goes. But the mood out there is your turn,

1122
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 1: your turn. You can't be looking at me and saying

1123
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: be patient anymore. You can't be looking at me and saying,

1124
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: if only you guys had donated to the collective a

1125
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: little bit more, if only you guys had shown up

1126
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: to Kyle Field, that place is incredible. Nope, Fans don't

1127
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: need to do anything more than they've already done. Boosters

1128
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: don't need to do anything more than they've already done.

1129
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: Coaching staff, team players, you gotta deliver or else someone

1130
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: else will come in there and do it. Okay, I

1131
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: had a lot of you come to me later today

1132
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: and ask about a quote out there. So I'm going

1133
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: to end the show by talking about this. It's I

1134
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: think maybe surprising to some, but I don't think if

1135
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: you're closer to the game, I don't think this will

1136
00:57:55,280 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: surprise you. All right, Colin, almost chokes are immunity. Colin,

1137
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: here's your endpoint. Peter Burns, friend of the program. Peter

1138
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: Burns from SEC Network. He had Nick Saban on his

1139
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: SiriusXM radio show and lost in all this talk about

1140
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: scheduling and nil and tampering and all that stuff. Peter

1141
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: Burns put out this tweet earlier today. He said, the

1142
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: most surprising thing I heard at spring meetings. Nick Saban

1143
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: told us on SiriusXM they tracked how many weeks of

1144
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: the year they worked seven days a week. The answer

1145
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: was forty four out of fifty two. God bless assistant

1146
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: coaches and coaching staffs. How surprised are you buy this?

1147
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: Forty four out of fifty two weeks of the year

1148
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: college football stats working seven days a week at least

1149
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,959
Speaker 1: they do at Alabama, And I'm telling you that's pretty

1150
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: much the norm. I wasn't surprised at all by that,

1151
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: But then again, I'm around it a lot. Maybe some

1152
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: of you are surprised by that. I'll keep taking you

1153
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: back to a couple of years ago, because it was

1154
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: the best job that I have seen a major college

1155
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: football coach do of calling this out publicly. And that

1156
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: was when Kirby Smart won his first national title and

1157
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: Rhys Davis had him on TV the next day, and

1158
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: you kind of get that podium. That's one of the

1159
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: benefits of being the head coach that wins a national title.

1160
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: You get that podium to talk about whatever you want

1161
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: to talk about on ESPN the next day, and Kirby's

1162
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: he's still got confetti in his hair, and Kirby's took

1163
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: the time to say, Yeah, our path right now is untenable.

1164
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: We're losing some really good men to the NFL. We're

1165
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: losing some guys to burn out. Matt Luke was an

1166
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: example that he was about to have to deal with

1167
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: on his own coaching staff. Matt Luke should, for all

1168
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: intents and purposes, have been in the prime of his career.

1169
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: Great offensive line coach, found a wonderful situation there at Georgia,

1170
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: and he was going to be set up to succeed,

1171
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: and he was going to be supplied with the best

1172
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: athletes in the country as long as he wanted to

1173
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: stay there, and he retired, said I'm out of here.

1174
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: I got to buy out money from ole Miss. I'm

1175
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: financially well enough. I'm just going to go spend time

1176
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: with my kids. So much so that people thought there

1177
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: was a scandal involved. People thought there must be something

1178
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: beneath the surface. It really wasn't that. I remember coming

1179
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: on on the show because I called around that day

1180
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: to make sure and I said, no, guys, I talked

1181
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: to people today. This is exactly as it appears. Matt

1182
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: Luke is burned out. He can't take that schedule anymore.

1183
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: And then, of course we had some of the usual

1184
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: fools who came in and said, well, I'd work. I'd

1185
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: work any amount of money. I'd work. I'd work twenty

1186
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: five hours a day if you pay me that kind

1187
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: of money. No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't, cause you

1188
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: got you got a finite amount of energy. No matter

1189
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: how much money they pay you. If someone pays you

1190
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: five dollars or five billion dollars, it doesn't make you

1191
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: capable of anything more than one hundred percent of what

1192
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: you're capable of. So right now, you pump guy's pockets

1193
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: full of cash, and in exchange, what do you expect

1194
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: Do you expect him to do one hundred and twenty

1195
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: five percent of what a human's capable of. Well, a

1196
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: lot of them are tired of it, and so they've left.

1197
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: You don't feel sorry for him, Maybe I kind of do,

1198
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: because I know, you know what people could do a

1199
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: better job of, And maybe this is on us. I

1200
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: think people could do a better job when you profile

1201
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: college football coaches of showing just how little the money

1202
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: actually impacts their lives. Now, the wife, the kids, the cousins,

1203
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 1: they benefit greatly. Most of these head coaches are in

1204
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: such a bunker mentality it doesn't even matter how much

1205
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: money they're making. Ditto for the assistance and beyond. They

1206
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: live a nomadic lifestyle and they're working over one hundred

1207
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: hours a week most weeks, and they're doing it with

1208
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: such regularity that it doesn't even stand out. Like no

1209
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,919
Speaker 1: coach goes up to another coach and says, I'm beat

1210
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: to death. Man, we had to work till eight forty

1211
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: five the other night. Because he knows the other dude

1212
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: saying y'all got off at eight forty five. Man, you're

1213
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: lucky we were in there to ten, ten, ten, fifteen.

1214
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: What time do we did? I even leave the other night.

1215
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: I go to a bunch of these facilities, and you

1216
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: know what, the most common thing I see is an

1217
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: inflatable mattress on the floor, especially in some assistant coaches rooms,

1218
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 1: recruiting coordinators and whatnot. Those dudes don't leave the office sometimes.

1219
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: So it's not a shock to me at all to

1220
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: listen to the hours Saban talks about them working and

1221
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: listen to how many weeks they go seven days out

1222
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: of seven forty four out of fifty two, they're working

1223
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: seven days a week. That's not a surprise. What is

1224
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: the greater point to be taken away from this? The

1225
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: greater point to be taken away is something we talked

1226
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: about on the show for a long time, and that

1227
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: is the people who make the rules for college football

1228
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: never have to abide by them. They never have to

1229
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: work in accordance with them. I guess it's the better

1230
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: way to put it. So you go the nil route,

1231
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: you go the portal route, but then you kind of

1232
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: lag behind adjusting what's legal. How many staff how many

1233
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: staffers can you have in this department? How many people

1234
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: can you have on the field, How many people can

1235
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: you have doing this and that? Because you got very

1236
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: short sighted people that are either signing off on things,

1237
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: or you got reactionary people saying, oh, fourteen people are

1238
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: mad on Twitter, we better legalize this today. All right,

1239
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: it's Friday, four to forty five, have a good weekend.

1240
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: And then people just have it dumped in their lap

1241
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: in these athletic departments and they're like, what are we

1242
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: supposed to do with this? Hello? Is anybody here? And

1243
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: you just look around in saloon door swinging in Cuba gone,

1244
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: and you're just supposed to deal with it. Well, there's

1245
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: only two things you can do. You can either quit

1246
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: or you can just work more hours. And the ones

1247
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: who hadn't quit work more hours. And I was talking

1248
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: to I was talking to a coach last week, a

1249
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: head coach actually last week, at great length about how

1250
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: much more desirable the NFL is right now than college football. Now,

1251
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: if you're new around here, you may think, oh, that's

1252
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: a no brainers, Josh, pro sports, that's always a level

1253
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: up from college sports. Actually, no, it's not. In football.

1254
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 1: It's not always that way in coaching. Certainly, the pinnacle

1255
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: of the sport overall would be winning a Super Bowl championship.

1256
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: That's always agreed upon. But there are two very very

1257
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: different work styles coaching in the pros versus coaching in college.

1258
01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: There are things you don't have to do in the

1259
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: pros that you do in college and vice versa. And

1260
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: some guys, if they just had an apples to apples

1261
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: ab choice to make that rather coach in college. But

1262
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: it's not that way anymore. Guys aren't going to coach

1263
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: in the NFL because it's just a higher level of competition.

1264
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: They're going to coach in the NFL because it's easier.

1265
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: It's way easier. You actually get down time, you actually

1266
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: get to go home before the sun sets most days.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to recruit, and it recruiting has already

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Speaker 1: been tough enough, but what recruiting is now, including your

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Speaker 1: own roster and the portal not to mention high school kids,

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Speaker 1: is totally unsustainable for a lot of people. Just as

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Speaker 1: a model. It's unsustainable because here's what you know. You know,

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Speaker 1: you got folks like Nick Saban out there, You got

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Speaker 1: folks like Kirby Smart, out there, and whether they like

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Speaker 1: it or not, they will grind their entire staves to

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Speaker 1: the bone in an effort to stay out ahead of everything.

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Speaker 1: And they may not like the rules, but they're gonna

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Speaker 1: win based on and what those rules say right now.

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Speaker 1: And so if you're calling yourself competing against them, you

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Speaker 1: don't have any other choice but to follow along. And

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Speaker 1: I hear from a lot of folks that say, man,

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Speaker 1: I wish we could just have a gentleman's agreement. Man,

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Speaker 1: we're all gonna go home at six o'clock today. That's

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Speaker 1: not the way it works. It's not the way competition

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Speaker 1: is ever gonna work. So I know some of you

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Speaker 1: were taken by surprise at that. I was surprised. It

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Speaker 1: was only forty four weeks. I was surprised at that. Now.

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Speaker 1: We had a little joke going around the office earlier

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Speaker 1: today because pretty notoriously, our staff works seven days out

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Speaker 1: of the week most of the year too, especially during

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Speaker 1: the season, and we do not have an off season.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, director Colin is doing something seven days

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Speaker 1: a week most weeks. Jesse myself, we're doing something seven

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Speaker 1: days a week. However, However, I would be remiss if

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Speaker 1: I didn't include that. Yeah, we can go to the

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Speaker 1: gym at noon if we want to. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: we can just go take an hour and a half

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Speaker 1: lunch if we want to. But I'm not so sure.

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Speaker 1: Don't type that in the prompter, Jesse. Don't you do that.

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Speaker 1: You take people speaking privileges and appearance privileges away for

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Speaker 1: one little three year period, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they want to talk in the teleprompter. Well, we don't

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Speaker 1: use a prompter. We don't believe in the off season,

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Speaker 1: and we don't believe in teleprompters on this show. Other

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Speaker 1: than that, it's pretty much game on. So, yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: working long hours at Alabama, they're working long hours in

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Speaker 1: college football, and I'm not quite sure anyone's coming to

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Speaker 1: the rescue anytime soon. Nor can we. We don't have

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Speaker 1: the power to, But at the very least, I'll continue

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Speaker 1: to use our platform to call it out. Thank you

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Speaker 1: guys so much for watching. Make sure make sure you

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Speaker 1: are subscribed to this channel and subscribe to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot to go over tonight. I would

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Speaker 1: suggest just watching the show again. Those a little health

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Speaker 1: bus in terms of metrics, and it'll probably kill some

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Speaker 1: time that you otherwise will be spent doing something like working.

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Speaker 1: Who wants to do that? So until Sunday night, when

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Speaker 1: we'll be back here for producer Jesse for a direct Colin,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Bate, take care of have a great start

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Speaker 1: to your weekend, and God bless h