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Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to Lake Is Live. It is Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: February second, the year of more Lord in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes good things can be found even in the worst

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Speaker 1: of stories. If you know my feelings on the college

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Speaker 1: football playoffs, it doesn't matter. It's coming. So what is

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Speaker 1: my job? My job is to cheer myself up. And

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Speaker 1: if you get cheered up in the process, so be it.

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Speaker 1: I think we found some positives and we will delve

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Speaker 1: into such positives tonight. We're jampacked Hyahtape Winterry downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: You're going to talk about the twelve team era that

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Speaker 1: is rapidly approaching us. I've got copious amounts of National

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Speaker 1: Signing Day thoughts, maybe some angles that previously you haven't

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Speaker 1: heard taken. I got some numbers that will blow your mind.

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Speaker 1: Stats and Info has been hard at work today. There

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Speaker 1: are rumors, there are hoof beats that we can hear

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Speaker 1: off in the distance that indicate we may have some

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Speaker 1: pretty high profile coordinator hires pending. We'll see could change

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Speaker 1: even as we're on air here tonight. And we've got

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Speaker 1: a very very special viewer question asking me and therefore

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Speaker 1: asking all of us here why we happen to love

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Speaker 1: college football, maybe more so than the NFL. I have

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Speaker 1: my answers. Maybe you don't even feel that way, but

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Speaker 1: if you do, go ahead and start gathering your answers.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it now. So as we progress

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Speaker 1: throughout the program, you can start to formulate your own thoughts.

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Speaker 1: So anyway that's coming, make sure you're following on Twitter

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're following there. I got to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about the playoff. I just I do need to

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Speaker 1: address something big rumor out there, and I didn't want

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Speaker 1: he said they you owe it to them. Director Colin said,

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Speaker 1: you owe the people in explanation. So it's about the

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Speaker 1: rumors regarding me and Margo Robbie. I got a little

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Speaker 1: statement that I want to I am aware of the

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Speaker 1: rumors regarding myself and Margot Robbie. That's the statement. That's

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Speaker 1: all I want to say right now. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get into the show. The college football Playoff is gonna change.

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Speaker 1: We know that. I think we have a question about it. Actually,

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Speaker 1: that's where this entire segment was derived from. Someone was

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Speaker 1: when it changes to the twelve team format. What's it

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Speaker 1: gonna be like? Will college football change? That's what happened.

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Speaker 1: Eve All said, And you know my thoughts on this.

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Speaker 1: So what I want to tell you right up front

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Speaker 1: it is in one sentence. I'm not a fan of it,

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Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm not here to litigate that.

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Speaker 1: of the positive aspects of that happening is I don't

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Speaker 1: Never unless there are extenuating scandal related circumstances, that never

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Speaker 1: it's going to put more importance on more games. Now.

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Speaker 1: kind of be deluded. Also, in other words, grabbing one

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Speaker 1: But initially, I think you're right. I think people will

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Speaker 1: where a lot of these games featuring teams that otherwise

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Speaker 1: a positive also. And lastly, now you know I'm fully

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Speaker 1: at home playoff games. We're going to get playoff games

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Speaker 1: in college football stadiums at least one round. Now, my

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Speaker 1: SEC currently has one hundred and two of them, with

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Speaker 1: still a few outliers remaining. It could get even worse

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Speaker 1: than that. The SEC has one hundred and two of

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Speaker 1: the top two hundred and forty seven. That's more than

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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, the Big Ten and the ACC combined.

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Speaker 1: And they play pretty good football in those conferences. And

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Speaker 1: don't tell me they don't have the talent in the

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Speaker 1: Big ten and the ACC footprints. You may be able

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Speaker 1: to talk about the PAC twelve a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: But they also have a state called California out there

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Speaker 1: one hundred and two of the top two four seven

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Speaker 1: in the SEC foot print. Uh. I mean Florida has

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Speaker 1: the fourteenth rank class in the country. And it is

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Speaker 1: being viewed by some people because of what happened with

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Speaker 1: Jade and Rashada as a disappointment. Like think about having

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Speaker 1: to exist in that clas climate where you finished top fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and yet you're sitting there and people are saying, yeah,

446
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Speaker 1: but yeah, but the SEC has also now finished with

447
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Speaker 1: the number one recruiting class in the country every year

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Speaker 1: since two thousand and nine. A lot of them have

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Speaker 1: been BAMA. I think this was their tenth overall number

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Speaker 1: one class in the last thirteen or so years. And

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Speaker 1: I kind of made that stat up, but the spirit

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Speaker 1: of it is true, and that's the standard we hold

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Speaker 1: ourselves to a rent, So okay to make up a

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Speaker 1: stat as long as the spirit of the stat is accurate.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what they taught me in journalism school.

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Speaker 1: All right, Miami, let me ask you a question, what

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Speaker 1: did you expect from Mario Christabaul when he got to Miami.

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Speaker 1: I personally did not expect them to immediately compete for

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Speaker 1: fill in the blank. I didn't expect them to get

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Speaker 1: beat by the teams they got beat by last year.

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Speaker 1: But the first thing I thought about when Mario went

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Speaker 1: to Miami is ooh, recruiting, and they just signed the

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Speaker 1: number one class in the ACC. They signed at this

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Speaker 1: point the number seven class in the country. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I expected from him. And also, I guess we

466
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Speaker 1: haven't talked about this. Remember, I was hinting around for

467
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Speaker 1: several weeks there were more staff changes coming down there,

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Speaker 1: and yes it happened. Finally Josh Gattis was shown the door,

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Speaker 1: so he's not the offensive coordinator there anymore. So my

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Speaker 1: point is they signed multiple kids in this class that

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Speaker 1: will be immediate contributors, namely on the offensive line, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully the offense rectifies itself a little bit more this year.

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Speaker 1: I will just I will promise you. And this is

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Speaker 1: fresh off the heels of my disastrous Texas A and

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Speaker 1: M proclamation last year, but I will promise you Tech

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Speaker 1: or Miami's going to be better this year than they

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Speaker 1: were last year. And you may say that's not a

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Speaker 1: bold statement at all. I know. That's why I'm promising

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Speaker 1: it in February or February, as some of my buddies

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Speaker 1: would say, I want to speak about another school, right quick.

481
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Speaker 1: I told you this is going to be random. I'm

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Speaker 1: picking out stuff that stands out to me. Could we

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Speaker 1: discuss Michigan State for just to s second? I know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, kind of random. Follow me here, though

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Speaker 1: they look at the posture I've struck. They finished number

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Speaker 1: twenty three for the second year in a row, finished

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Speaker 1: with the twenty third ranked class in the country pause button.

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Speaker 1: Is that good or bad to you? I hear some

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Speaker 1: of you saying, Okay, there you go. I have such

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Speaker 1: a connection that you're talking in your car twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours after I recorded this, and yet I still get

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Speaker 1: where you're going the live chat now I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: it and well, we actually kind of got a mixture.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are underwhelmed with this

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Speaker 1: signing class for Michigan State. And this comes with the

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Speaker 1: territory of making nine and a half million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: If you're Mel Tucker. What used to be good enough

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Speaker 1: is no longer good enough. So I asked producer Jesse

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Speaker 1: earlier today. I said, Jesse, how does this stack up

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Speaker 1: to how they have been recruiting? And Producer Jesse went

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Speaker 1: back a few years and this is what it sounds like.

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Speaker 1: Two four. These are the last seven signing classes at

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Speaker 1: Michigan State thirty six, thirty thirty one, forty four, forty six.

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Speaker 1: Here comes Mel Tucker twenty three, twenty three. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're comparing them to what George is doing, no, this

506
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Speaker 1: is a precipitous drop off. But we don't or we

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be comparing Mel Tucker at Michigan State to what

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Speaker 1: Kirby Smart at George has done. We should be comparing

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Speaker 1: him to what Michigan State's done. And compared to what

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Speaker 1: Michigan State's done, he's recruited a whole lot better, and

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Speaker 1: he's done at two cycles in a row. I just

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Speaker 1: think that no one cares about what they have done,

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Speaker 1: because they would come right back and they would say, yeah,

514
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Speaker 1: but that was before we got a taste of success

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Speaker 1: last year, if we're being real, and that was also

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Speaker 1: before we started paying Mel Tucker a third of the

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Speaker 1: entire budget of the State of Michigan. It seems like

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Speaker 1: so I get both sides. I've always maintained on this show.

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Speaker 1: It don't matter if you pay him nineteen and a

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Speaker 1: half million dollars a year. Your program is capable of

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Speaker 1: what it's capable of. You're capable of what you're capable of,

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Speaker 1: and you don't get to justify warped expectations just because

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Speaker 1: you threw a lot of money at someone. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense in college football or in life. If you're

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Speaker 1: five to ten and you can't dunk, and then I say,

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Speaker 1: here's ten million dollars, go dunk for me and you

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Speaker 1: still can't dunk. How dumb would it be for me

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Speaker 1: to be pissed off at you. I'm the one who

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Speaker 1: paid some kid who's five to ten to dunk. I

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Speaker 1: just blew ten million dollars on him. I'm not telling you,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Michigan State's blowing money on mel Tucker.

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Speaker 1: I am saying people who were upset they didn't finish

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Speaker 1: top ten maybe a little bit more of a problem

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Speaker 1: than Mel Tucker is the problem. That's kind of what

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. It turned into a spicy Michigan

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Speaker 1: State segment all of a sudden, and also everyone's favorite

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Speaker 1: America's favorite program. Trust me, if you don't believe me,

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Speaker 1: look at the comments. Colorado. I have a list of

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Speaker 1: schools for you here to listen to. Now, I want

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Speaker 1: you to tell me what these programs have in common.

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Speaker 1: Big hitters here, Ohio State, Oregon, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Florida,

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Speaker 1: Penn State, Clemsone, Florida State, Auburn, Michigan. What do they

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Speaker 1: have in common? Well, those are all programs that recruited

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Speaker 1: less five stars through the portal and through recruiting than Colorado.

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Speaker 1: Did you look at the composite five star rankings, and

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Speaker 1: Colorado landed more five stars when you combind portal and

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Speaker 1: recruiting than that entire list that I just read off

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Speaker 1: to you. Ohio State's in there, Tennessee Organs in there,

549
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Speaker 1: and that's the Dion Sanders effect. They're ranked twenty first.

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Speaker 1: The recruiting class is ranked twenty first, the transfer class,

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Speaker 1: the portal class is ranked fifth, two five stars, six

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Speaker 1: four stars. This is the University of Colorado. This is

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Speaker 1: where you have to understand some context. I love when

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Speaker 1: we get new viewers and listeners. I love when college

555
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Speaker 1: football gets new fans. Understand something, though. If you live

556
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Speaker 1: in Saint Paul and you've been a Minnesota Vikings fan

557
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Speaker 1: your whole life and you're just kind of delving into

558
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Speaker 1: college football, you because you don't know any better. You're

559
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: not stupid, You're just ignorant to how recruiting works. You

560
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: could fool yourself into looking at this and saying, big deal,

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Speaker 1: twenty first. It's not even top twenty, right, this is Colorado,

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Speaker 1: that's you. You can multiply that number by two or three,

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Speaker 1: and then that would be more in line with where

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Speaker 1: you would expect the Colorado buffaloes to be landing and

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Speaker 1: recruiting a huge phenomenal job being done by Dion Sanders

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Speaker 1: and company out there. So those were my thoughts on

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Speaker 1: National Signing Day. Now, as you know, we'll post this

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Speaker 1: as an individual video over on the YouTube channel and

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Speaker 1: I will be happy to hear your thoughts and no

570
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Speaker 1: doubt get scolded for not bringing up your school signing class.

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Speaker 1: I can hear him in Knoxville already. I'm surprised Colin

572
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: hasn't already yelled in my ear. That's just what stood

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Speaker 1: out to me. Thank you, Colin. Academy Sports and Outdoors

574
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Speaker 1: brings a smile to my face every time I say

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Speaker 1: the word Academy Sports and Outdoors. I have on my

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Speaker 1: screen right now. Actually, what they call ad copy, And

577
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Speaker 1: when you're a partner with a brand and they want

578
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Speaker 1: you to do ad reads, they'll send you what is

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Speaker 1: called ad copy. That's just you know, the the boiler

580
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: plate kind of stuff that you hear you can tell

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Speaker 1: someone's reading it, and Academy does that for us. But

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Speaker 1: they also in the next breath say this is just

583
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Speaker 1: for guidance, say whatever you want to say. This is

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Speaker 1: just a fallback if you get sick and Bradley has

585
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Speaker 1: to fill in for you. Yeah, I have Bradley read this.

586
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: We don't want Bradley working off the cuff. Trust me

587
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Speaker 1: down in Columbus. Once upon a time we found out

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Speaker 1: what that sounded like. I don't want to get too

589
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: but he predicted a Vanderbilt upset over Alabama. That's the

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Speaker 1: last time we put Bradley on air. So anyway, here's

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Speaker 1: how I see Academy Sports and Outdoors since we just

592
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: did reflections on signing Day, I think of Academy Sports

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Speaker 1: and Outdoors and then I think about how it overlaps

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Speaker 1: with my life, and I think about all the things

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Speaker 1: that I do. A lot of outdoors stuff, a lot

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Speaker 1: of gem stuff. Softball season, Jesse, are you listening is

597
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: rapidly approaching. Get those hamstrings loosened. And the thing about

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Speaker 1: it is Academy Sports and Outdoors is the place where

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Speaker 1: I can go right before I do essentially anything I

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Speaker 1: do recreationally in my life, and they have something for

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Speaker 1: me there. And I had one of you who tested

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Speaker 1: me the other night and said, I bet they don't

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Speaker 1: have this thing fill in the blank. I can't even

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Speaker 1: remember what the thing was. What I do Remember is

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Speaker 1: I got to follow up message, didn't I? And you said,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe they had this thing. As the great

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Speaker 1: test of whether there's enough variety at a store is

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Speaker 1: whether they have big lead chew in the checkout line,

609
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Speaker 1: the greatest gum ever invented. Academy even has big League chew.

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Speaker 1: So you know they got basketball goals for you. You know

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00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: they got soccer nets for you. You know they got Magellan

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00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: pullovers in tents and whatnot, and grills. They got all

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00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: that stuff. Academy sports not outdoors. You know what else

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Speaker 1: they have. They have the ability to bring this show

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Speaker 1: to you, so you don't have to pay for it. Well,

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Speaker 1: if I didn't already sell you on it, that's it.

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Speaker 1: And if you can't get there in person, Academy dot

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Speaker 1: com as your hookup. Again, I see a lot of

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Speaker 1: people tuned in. I appreciate you guys being tuned in.

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Speaker 1: Be so kind as to click that thumbs up button

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Speaker 1: and subscribe to the channel. There are reports out there,

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Speaker 1: some good old fashioned reports. Colin, that's a bad endpoint,

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Speaker 1: So here's a better endpoint for you. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban may be ready to make some hires and

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Speaker 1: by the time you watch this, maybe he already has

626
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: made a hire. Chris Low of ESPN dot com really

627
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: really good on this stuff. I highly suggest you're following

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Speaker 1: him if you aren't already. Reported earlier today that Tommy

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Speaker 1: Reese is a big name to watch in the Alabama

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator search. Now, who is Tommy Reese? Mostly know

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Speaker 1: that's the OC at Notre Dame played at Notre Dame,

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Speaker 1: and I have done a lot of digging on this,

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Speaker 1: not just on Tommy Reese, but on the coordinator search.

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Speaker 1: Is there? And what I want to tell you is

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Speaker 1: it probably won't come as a shock to know that

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Speaker 1: there have been several guys. Nick Saban has spoken to

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Speaker 1: more on that in a second. You know about Ryan Grubb,

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Speaker 1: the Washington OC who allegedly interviewed for the job he's

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Speaker 1: stay and put at Washington. You know now about Tommy

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Speaker 1: Reese allegedly interviewing or reportedly, I guess it is a

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Speaker 1: more professional term, reportedly interviewing for the job. Today perhaps

642
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Speaker 1: even as we speak you're live on this Thursday evening.

643
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: You know about those names. There are other names. I, however,

644
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: do not have the liberty to tell you what the

645
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: who those names are and I also have no clue

646
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: if they've actually been offered a job. As the offer

647
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: it's coordinated for Alabama. There is a great, big difference.

648
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: This is what is always emphatically disseminated to me when

649
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: you get information, and it's hard to get it in

650
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: coaching searches. There's a big difference in so and so

651
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: talked to somebody versus so and so interviewed somebody versus

652
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: so and so offered the job to somebody. So, of

653
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: course Nick Saban's talked to several people. The problem is

654
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: he's the only one who knows what's going on. Sometimes

655
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: this is not exclusive to Saban, it's just the way

656
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: Saban operates. Sometimes guys leave Tuscaloosa having actually met with him,

657
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: not knowing if they have an offer or not. But

658
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: yet I got folks out there were four hundred and

659
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: thirty seven followers on Twitter who supposedly know. So there

660
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 1: is not much inside information to be had, and those

661
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: who do have it aren't talking because they're petrified of

662
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: what will happen to them if they do talk, and

663
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: that includes me. So instead, I do want to point

664
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: out a couple of things because the second that I

665
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: heard Tommy Reese's name, and a lot of people heard

666
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: Tommy rees maybe the OC at Alabama. I knew what

667
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: was coming, and I was right. Those instincts fail me sometimes,

668
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 1: but they came through this time, and it was a great,

669
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:20,919
Speaker 1: big collective boost. Why let's be professional and let's talk

670
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: through this for just a second. Points per game, when

671
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: he's been at Notre Dame, Okay, three years as offensive coordinator,

672
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: they've been thirtieth, nineteenth and forty second. That's part of

673
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: the story. Ear Muff's children. His quarterbacks have been Ian Book,

674
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: Jack Cone, Tyler Buckner, Drew Pine who Okay, remove the

675
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: ear muffs. That's that's explicit. That is a TVMA special

676
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: of average affity at quarterback. So my point there is

677
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,959
Speaker 1: you don't have the slightest clue what Tommy Reese would

678
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: do with the talent that he would theoretically be working

679
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: with at Alabama. And here's the main point I want

680
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: to make to you two of them. Actually, Nick Saban

681
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: watched the exact same thing with Georgia you and I

682
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: watched this year, and that was Todd Monkin put a

683
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: top five offense on the field. Let me say that again,

684
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: Odd Monkin had a top five offense, not defense at

685
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: Georgia with Stetson Bennett quarterback, approximately zero stars at wide receiver,

686
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: and by Georgia standards, a pretty average group of tailbacks.

687
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: How did they do it? They did it because the

688
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: cumulative effect of a lot of big, strong, fast, physical

689
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: players normally wears down the modern day college football defense.

690
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: Because the modern day college football defense has been built

691
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: to stop pinball machine offenses. That's how. And the second

692
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: thing I thought was Nick Saban watching that, saying, hold up,

693
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: I used to do this all the time. I did

694
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: it better than their doing it, and I got away

695
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: from it, necessarily got away from it for a little while.

696
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: But why not go back to, honestly what I love

697
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: doing more with some newer age blended concepts, which is

698
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 1: exactly what Tommy Reese's offense is and exactly what several

699
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: offenses are out there. And he could probably go have

700
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: his pick of who he wants. Tommy rees would be

701
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: fine as the offensive coordinator at Alabama, is what I'm saying.

702
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: And the second thing that I just want to point

703
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: out to you is as me, Ma, I used to

704
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: always tell me when in doubt about a hire, go

705
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: find who the best in the business are chasing, and

706
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: believe in that person. Brian Kelly desperately wanted Tommy Reese

707
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: to follow him to LSU and be his offensive coordinator.

708
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: Tommy Reese respectfully declined, Excapan perhaps wants Tommy Reese to

709
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: be his offensive coordinator at Alabama. So, I, having approximately

710
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 1: zero days experience coaching a college football team, could sit

711
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: behind this microphone tonight and I could say, Tommy Reese, huh,

712
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: seems kind of average's grits to me. I could say

713
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: that I don't necessarily believe that, but I could say that,

714
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: Or I could say, hmm, not knowing anything more about

715
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: the situation than I do, but observing two of the

716
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: best minds in the sport, both coveting the same guy,

717
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: Perhaps benefit of the doubt should rely on the side

718
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 1: of the fence they coach on instead of the side

719
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: of the fence that I sit on. Now you're free

720
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: to disagree with that. You're free to have your opinion.

721
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people will have one. I'm

722
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: more interested in the defensive coordinator hire he makes, frankly,

723
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: because I think there's a little more drama. There's a

724
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: little more intrigue on that side of the ball. I

725
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: just think he's going to make a coordinator higher whenever

726
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: he's ready to. On the offensive side. Maybe it very

727
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: well will be Tommy Reese. I saw Football Scoop I

728
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: think reported earlier tonight that the offer had been made.

729
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: The other thing, I do not know. I have no

730
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: inclination whatsoever about you know how hard Tommy Reese will

731
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: be to pry from his own which is Notre Dame

732
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: where he's at right now. Brian Kelly couldn't do it.

733
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: There is There is very very rarely an instance where

734
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: Nick Saban offers a job and someone turns him down.

735
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: I guess it's happened, It's just very rare. Most of

736
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: the time. He won't offer it if he and I'm

737
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: talking about a real offer, not an offer where you're

738
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: winking and nodding at a mutual agent to get a

739
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: guy a raised somewhere else. That's not a real offer.

740
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: But real offers when they go out from Nick Saban

741
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: are normally moves of formality. So has Tommy Reeve got

742
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: the offer? We'll see, and is he willing to take

743
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: the offer? We'll also see. They're watching us in Gaffney,

744
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: South Carolina. They're watching us in New Albany, Mississippian in Dallas, Texas.

745
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: Has Dallas thought out yet? We got a little bit

746
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: of freezing rain in Nashville, but woolf, I bet some

747
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: folks are still sitting on the side of the road

748
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: out there. Freezing rain is no joke man, Bold prediction time.

749
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: This will not be nearly the crawl of shame that

750
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: last episode was for me when it comes to bold predictions.

751
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 1: But we got five of them from August. What did

752
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: you believe in back in August? And how did it

753
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: turn out for you? The first not so good, but

754
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: it could have been. If you just changed the wording here,

755
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: this could have turned out so much better. Here was

756
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 1: the prediction from Kenny, Texas will embarrass Alabama in week two. Kenny,

757
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: you could have just said down upset them. They almost did.

758
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: It was a one point game. We were there. It

759
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: was one thousand degrees on the field and Quinn Viewers

760
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: goes down and you still almost beat him. But Kenny,

761
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: you didn't say upset. You said they're going to embarrass him.

762
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: They were a three touchdown underdog. Were the Texas Longhorns

763
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: in this game, and yet they still almost won. I

764
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: think at the time we defined embarrassed as Texas is

765
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: gonna need to win by two touchdowns, so that was

766
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,919
Speaker 1: a net difference of five touchdowns from what the point

767
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: spread was. That wasn't gonna happen. Now, the argument I

768
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: will listen to is, if quinn Ewers doesn't get hurt,

769
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: maybe they beat Bama that day. Certainly could have been

770
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: the case. I have here the results of Texas's offensive

771
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: possessions that game. They started on a ten to oher

772
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: run right because they field goal and touchdown with quinn Ewers.

773
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: Then he gets hurt. Here's what it sounded like afterwards. Punt, punt, turnover,

774
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: on downs, hunt, punt, bield, goal, field goal, punt, field goal,

775
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: end of game. Not nearly as dramatic as a Dan

776
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: Rubinstein drive chart reading, but poignant. Nonetheless, I think so

777
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: Texas there was no embarrassment of Alabama, and I put

778
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: a nine point nine to nine boldness scale rating on that.

779
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 1: So thankfully that one hit. We didn't have a Texas

780
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: A and M part two on that particular prediction. Next up,

781
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: this one was doomed to failure. Michigan wins eight or

782
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: less games. This season, Harbaugh is back on the hot seat.

783
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: Michigan went twelve and zero in the regular season, Michigan

784
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: won the Big Ten championship. They ended up going thirteen

785
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: and one overall, and you have a sour taste in

786
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: your mouth because of what happened against TCU still can't

787
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: believe that happened, by the way, but it did. But nevertheless,

788
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: the prediction was they win eight games or less. No

789
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: never was gonna happen, and they were winning comfortably. There

790
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: are very few close games even on this list. I

791
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: think though. The reason I only put an eight and

792
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: a half on the boldness rating here is because remember

793
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: where we were at the time. At the time, we

794
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: were coming off a season in which Michigan had done

795
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: something they had never done under Jim Harbaugh. They beat

796
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State, they won the Big Ten, they went to

797
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: the playoff. Okay, none of those things had happened. Then

798
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: Harbaugh interviews for the Vikings job and doesn't get it.

799
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: He loses both coordinators, and it was fair to ask ourselves,

800
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: are they really just gonna maintain the trajectory they were on,

801
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: which was historic, or could they drop off? And apparently

802
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: the prediction there fell into the latter category. Yeah, they're

803
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna drop off. Well they didn't. I don't think it

804
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: was the most out of this realm possibility to suggest that, yeah,

805
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: maybe they will fall off, but they didn't. And so

806
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: that one fell by the wayside. But I get it.

807
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: I at least get the logic there. Next up, this

808
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: one was tough too, Chase Chase Chase. He said, in

809
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,919
Speaker 1: year one, under a new staff, Oklahoma will have both

810
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: a higher ranked offense and defense than last year. Chase

811
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: is just looking down the barrel of losing Caleb Williams,

812
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: eventual Heisman Trophy winner, Mario lost, a ton of guys, lost,

813
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: the head coach Lincoln Riley, and go and get Brent Vinibles.

814
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: They're just gonna upgrade both sides of the ball. I

815
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: put an eight on this. It should have been an eighty.

816
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: This was not gonna happen, and it didn't. Neither side

817
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: of the ball improved. They both declined. Yes, even defense decline.

818
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and too that twenty one offensive comparison nearly thirty

819
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: nine points per game they had thirty two point seven

820
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: this year. Downgrade defensively, Oklahoma in twenty twenty one allowed

821
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: twenty five point eight points per game. This last year

822
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: they allowed thirty. So again both sides downgraded and their

823
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: record went from eleven to two to six and seven.

824
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: That's the bad news, and that is where the prediction

825
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: went splat like street pizza all over the sidewalk. However,

826
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: we don't want to leave it on a sour note,

827
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: so let's remember much like Mario down at Miami. Yeah,

828
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: year one may have been an utter, unmitigated disaster, but

829
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: they're recruiting well, getting their players. And now the last

830
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: two classes for Oklahoma have been rated eighth and fourth.

831
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: That's better than Lincoln Riley was doing. In fact, that's

832
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: better than pretty much anyone has done there over a

833
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 1: two year stretch this era, this millennium. They're getting really

834
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: good players. I mean, look at Oklahoma fourth rated class

835
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: in the country. Texas and know you both killed it

836
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: this recruiting cycle. We'll see how much can you upgrade

837
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: in one season. We'll see overall rankings recruits plus transfers. Now,

838
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: I know that some of you are just hearing that

839
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: or looking at the graphic if you're watching on YouTube,

840
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: and that's kind of just minutia. Pay attention to what

841
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: that means that is a combination. In other words, this

842
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 1: is the actual raw metric of all the players coming in,

843
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: not just recruits, but kids you're getting out of the portal.

844
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: So it is a true talent acquisition rating. And Oklahoma

845
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: second in the Big twelve, Texas is first. So most

846
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: of the time it looks like the recruiting rankings, but

847
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: sometimes if you have a disproportionately large transfer portal class,

848
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:49,959
Speaker 1: it could get baked in there and you could vault

849
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: up or down. The next prediction is really really bad too.

850
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: Some bad predictions tonight. Fortunately I didn't make them. However,

851
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: I kind of endorsed this one, and for that I apologize.

852
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: A CFB home said Texas A and M will not

853
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: win more than nine regular season games. Now we already

854
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: touched on that, and he made one about Louisville two,

855
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: but we chose the middle one. And the middle one

856
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: was Nebraska starts the season six and oh heading into

857
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: the Purdue game six and oh is what we need

858
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: to be going to Purdue. Huh. They lost Week one

859
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,919
Speaker 1: to Northwestern, They got by North Dakota. In week two,

860
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: they lost in Lincoln to Georgia Southern under first year

861
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: head coach Clay Helton. In week three, also the head

862
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: coach got frost fired. After that game, they lost to

863
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: Oklahoma with big noon kickoff in town. They lost forty

864
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: nine to fourteen. In week four, then they rallied to

865
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: beat Indiana. They beat Rutgers, so they went into the

866
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: Purdue game three and three. Then they proceeded to go

867
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: on a five game losing streak there the result was

868
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: four and eight. Not a shot. And you know what

869
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: of this ever coming to fruition. And lastly, we head

870
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: out to the Great State of Utah. And that is

871
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: for this prediction, bring him young, will defeat not only

872
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: Oregon but also Stanford. They're just gonna kind of sweep

873
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve. They did half of it. They did

874
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: beat Stanford in fairness, hoops didn't this past season, but

875
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: they lost to Oregon forty one to twenty, had an

876
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: eight and five finish. Honestly, that's not the biggest takeaway here.

877
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: I told you we're going to the Great State of

878
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 1: Utah for a reason. We had a conundrum earlier today,

879
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: Jesse comes to me out of breath and says, we

880
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,479
Speaker 1: got problems. But what is it? Jesse, I can't find

881
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: a logo for Utah Tech, said Utah. He said no, no, no,

882
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: Utah Tech. I said, Utah. I've never heard of her.

883
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: Who is she? Utah Tech located in Saint George, Utah.

884
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: We couldn't find a logo for and so we a

885
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: college football logo. There's a little man throwing a football

886
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: and that is the Utah Tech logo. And the news

887
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: gets worse for the fine folks at Utah Tech because

888
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 1: they got half a hondo hang from you. It's just

889
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 1: a bad newsnight for Utah Tech. Or last half full

890
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: Callas half full, as Mima would say, Utah Tech. You

891
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: may be located halfway to Russia, but at least you

892
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 1: got in the show tonight, and that's what counts. After all,

893
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: you had fun, you won. I want to get to

894
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: this question, Colin, since I picked up the chalice, though

895
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: I need to take a sip. Very good, good consistency tonight.

896
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: But we got a question. We get quite a lot.

897
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: I decided let's go ahead and put it on the

898
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: show tonight. Then so Dexter hit us up. He said,

899
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: I grew up as an NFL fan, and while I've

900
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: come to like college football, it still doesn't quite match Sunday.

901
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: To me, what would you say is the biggest appeal

902
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: for being a big college football fan than an NFL fan? Laredo, Texas,

903
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: thank you Dexter for watching. We will convert you in time,

904
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: but until then, I'll tell you what makes it better

905
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: for me. I'm not a person who has any problem

906
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: with the NFL. I'm not like anti NFL. I don't

907
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: ever get to watch it because Sundays are our busiest

908
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 1: work day during the season. But even before I started

909
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: working in this industry, I watched college football and loved

910
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: it way more than NFL. A lot of us from

911
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: the South, it just comes down to upbringing. A lot

912
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: of us did not grow up with an NFL team

913
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: in our backyard, and for those of us from Georgia,

914
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: it's a very, very it's a complicated relationship with the Falcons,

915
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,760
Speaker 1: and anyone from Georgia knows exactly what I'm talking about.

916
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: So if I grew up in Wisconsin, I would eat, sleep,

917
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: and breathe Green Bay Packer football. I pretty much know

918
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: that about myself, but I didn't. I grew up in

919
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: the South, and so in the South it's a lot different.

920
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: Up in Alabama or Mississippi or Arkansas or Tennessee up

921
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: until the Oilers relocated. And that's in sports terms, still

922
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: a pretty recent happening. It's only been like, what it's

923
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: less than twenty five years, or about twenty five years

924
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,919
Speaker 1: they've been in Nashville Titans, so you've got like one

925
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: generation of people that have grown up with that team. Anyway,

926
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: it's just an upbringing thing. So Saturdays are the crux

927
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: of your football week, and then Sundays. I watched the

928
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: NFL when I was growing up. I like the NFL

929
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,479
Speaker 1: still do it, just it wasn't Saturday. So it could

930
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: just be upbringing. But there's another thing that I used

931
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: to always get preached to me. And if you're sixteen

932
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: years old, you're going to listen to this and you

933
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 1: may laugh, especially if you're a diehard college football fan

934
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: and you follow the day to day workings of the sport.

935
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people like college football because

936
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: they romanticize the concept of amateurism. Listen to you laughing already,

937
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, let me tell you what that means.

938
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: Amateurism is exactly what it sounds like, doing something and

939
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: not really getting paid for it. You're laughing again, and

940
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: I don't blame you. Amateurism is is more concept, more

941
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: of a a woe begone fantasy than it is the

942
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: reality of college athletics at the highest levels these days.

943
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: And some would argue, well, it was never fully amateur athletics. Yeah, okay,

944
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: I think what we're trying to say is left tackles

945
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: weren't being paid fifteen million dollars in college football ever,

946
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: and so a lot of people, especially if you grew

947
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: up loving the sport, had it taught to them that.

948
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: When you watch these guys on Saturday, they didn't get

949
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: drafted to go where they are. They had a choice

950
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: and they chose to go play for whoever they play for.

951
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: And there's a lot more love of the game, you know,

952
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot more just raw passion. They're not playing

953
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: for the money. They're playing for pride, and they may

954
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 1: have money in their future, but right now, on this

955
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, there's still kids, they're still students. And you

956
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: could scoff at that, but I'm not making fun of it,

957
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 1: because there is a certain aspect of that that's beautiful

958
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: and at least when you lay it out on a

959
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: piece of paper, there's some purity to it, there's some

960
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: innocence to it. And then someone gave me a VHS

961
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: copy of the movie The Program, and then I learned

962
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,919
Speaker 1: what college athletics was really like. But still I think

963
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: that the amateurism versus professional model, I think that has

964
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: something to do with it. But look, here's really what

965
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: it comes down to. If you don't care about either

966
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: one of those two things, what game day experience means

967
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: in college football dwarfs what professional football brings to And

968
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 1: really that's what I think draws a great big amount

969
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 1: of people to the college game. The tailgating scene in

970
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: college football's out of this world. And I know we

971
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: got some folks in upstate of New York and in

972
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: and around the greater Philadelphia area Kansas City. I'm not

973
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: telling you guys you don't know what you're doing when

974
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: it comes to tailgating. I'm not saying that at all,

975
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,760
Speaker 1: just saying there's a big difference being around kids versus

976
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: being around slightly disgruntled forty six year old dudes who

977
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: just had a bad week at work and they really

978
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: want to take their frustration out in the parking lot

979
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: on a table. There's just a difference. Both can have fun,

980
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: but the tailgating scene in college football land is a

981
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: lot different than NFL Land. And also and producer Jesse

982
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: made this point. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is there with or without

983
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: the Eagles on Sundays and anywhere in between. Likewise with Pittsburgh, likewise,

984
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: with Detroit, likewise with Cleveland. You don't know about ann Arbor,

985
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: Michigan if you didn't go to school there, you don't

986
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 1: really know anything about ann Arbor. You don't know anything

987
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: about State College. What do you know about Athens, Georgia

988
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: if you didn't associate it with University of Georgia football

989
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: or penn State football or Michigan football. And when you

990
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: go to those towns, it it may be tough to

991
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: get in there. Sometimes I do it every week, trust me,

992
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: it may be tough to get in there. That's cause

993
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 1: they don't have big city infrastructure. Everything about the town

994
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: revolves around the university, and in many cases it really

995
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 1: revolves around the football program. The biggest, the biggest spectacle,

996
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: sort of the central location in Tuscaloose, Alabama, for example,

997
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: is Brandonny Stadium. You can look at your map or

998
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: you can just describe campus to someone, and inevitably, when

999
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: you're describing campus, it's here's where this place is in

1000
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: relation to our stadium. That's not the way it is

1001
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 1: in NFL cities. And that's a testament to how big

1002
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: an event a Saturday in the fall is a college

1003
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: football town as opposed to outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin,

1004
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: NFL cities. And I think that that has appeal to

1005
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I'm not saying it's bad to

1006
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: play in a big city USC does, UCLA does. What

1007
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I think it appeals to people the

1008
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: more small town collegiate experience. I think it appeals to

1009
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: people a pageantry and tradition, though this is where it

1010
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: hits home for me, A pageantry and tradition. Doing the

1011
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: same things today that in many cases you did in

1012
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight, the same cheers, the same jerseys in

1013
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: many cases, the same pregame and postgame traditions. I don't

1014
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: know that stuff means something to me. I've just when

1015
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: i've again, like I said, I watch both, but I

1016
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: love one of them, and it means something to me.

1017
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: When I look at college football and I know the

1018
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: game is not restricted and confined to the field in

1019
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: the NFL, you're pretty much getting everything you need to

1020
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: get inside the lines. In college football, the story only

1021
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: just begins to be told when you're watching what's happening

1022
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,280
Speaker 1: on the field. College football is about so much more

1023
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: than what just happened on second and four. I mean,

1024
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: if you could in many of you are in stadiums

1025
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: every week, but if you could get the vantage point

1026
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: I get, which is the best in the world, you'd

1027
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: know if especially if you were kind of agnostic to

1028
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: our game and like the like Dexter, and you just

1029
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: asked a question, what is it about college you probably

1030
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: just haven't experienced it. If I could take you on

1031
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: tour with me for a year or half a year,

1032
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: maybe just a month, and take you to four different

1033
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,240
Speaker 1: venues in four weeks, and inevitably when a big games

1034
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 1: in town, nothing like it. And also, I think rivalries

1035
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: in college football dwarf the intensity and animosity and over

1036
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 1: the cliff mentality of what you see in pro sports.

1037
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: That's my feel on that. I certainly understand when you

1038
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: get like an Eagles Giants or a Cowboys Giants, I

1039
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: understand it's not pleasant. I get that I watch it.

1040
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: You're not explaining anything to me. I don't know, but

1041
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: you're talking to someone who's been on the field the

1042
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: last two years from Michigan Ohio State. I've probably been

1043
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: on the field for like half a dozen or more

1044
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: Iron Bowl easily more than half a dozen. Kind of

1045
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: a scary environment, and it scary in a way that

1046
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: you look up in the stands and you wonder how

1047
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: members of the opposing team's fan bases can feel safe

1048
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: coming in here. I have vividly recalled for you a

1049
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: time or two. The first game I ever went to

1050
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: at Tiger Stadium in Death Valley and LSU by the way,

1051
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: and it was the first time I saw Nick Saban

1052
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: go into LSU, and I remember walking through the tailgating

1053
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: areas and walking into the venue in the building before

1054
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: it opened for the public, and I remember thinking to myself,

1055
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: I can't imagine wearing Crimson, Like if I were wearing

1056
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: Crimson right now, I would feel so uncomfortable and so

1057
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: worried for my safety because I had someone with me too,

1058
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: I was there covering the game, and so I remember

1059
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, there's no way that this really exists

1060
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: like I'm feeling right now. Outside of college football to

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Speaker 1: this degree. Home field advantage means something, especially in these

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Speaker 1: bigger venues. You don't have venues that size in the

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Speaker 1: NFL on Sundays. You don't that they've been outfitted for

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Speaker 1: comfort instead of size, and that's okay to money making venture.

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Speaker 1: Everything they do on Sundays is to make money, and

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Speaker 1: increasingly that's how this sport operates. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of us love aspects of this sport that we would

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Speaker 1: like to cling to it a little bit. It's not

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Speaker 1: always wrong to cling to things that are great. It's

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Speaker 1: not always a bad thing. You know. Some things we've

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Speaker 1: done for quite a while in this sport we've done

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Speaker 1: for quite a while because they're good. It's not always

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Speaker 1: a bad thing. Sometimes it is, but it's not always

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Speaker 1: a bad things, you know. There's also another thing. I

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Speaker 1: haven't done any research on this. I just I'm curious.

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Speaker 1: I know the NFL has to have done research on this,

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Speaker 1: but I have. I've always been curious how many people

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Speaker 1: are die hard NFL fans that are not a fan

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Speaker 1: of a team, which would have sounded ridiculous in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety seven, but with the proliferation of fantasy sports and gambling,

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Speaker 1: I think really fantasy sports more so than gambling. But

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Speaker 1: with the proliferation of both and the legalization of gambling

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Speaker 1: in many states and eventually it will be all states,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many people are drawn to rooting for players.

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Speaker 1: This has been the case in the NBA for a

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Speaker 1: while too, but in the NFL, I just I don't

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Speaker 1: get that sense. In college, yeah, you can bet on

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Speaker 1: college football. College fantasy is not nearly as big as

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Speaker 1: pro fantasy, and as a result, I think when you

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Speaker 1: watch someone who is die hard into it on Saturdays,

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Speaker 1: there is a rooting interest. There's one team out there,

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Speaker 1: at least that is their team. And in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you go to your average sports bar on a Sunday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: you're going to half fans of teams, make no mistake,

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Speaker 1: but you're going to have a health depopulation in there

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Speaker 1: that really couldn't care less who wins. They just want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that Jones over here at wide receiver

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Speaker 1: has more than thirty seven and a half receiving yards

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Speaker 1: before halftime, because that's their prop bet. Some of you

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Speaker 1: may be betting parlays, and shame on you if you are,

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Speaker 1: because that is the devil's tool. Even within sports betting

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Speaker 1: that parlays are the devil's tool, but I don't get

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Speaker 1: that in college, and that's why I love that in

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Speaker 1: college too. So there's a lot of stuff Dexter that

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Speaker 1: people like me love about the college game more so

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Speaker 1: than the pro game. I'm sure there are counter arguments

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Speaker 1: that our brethren on Sundays could make. I've just always

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Speaker 1: been in the opinion pick whatever you want to watch,

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Speaker 1: and you don't have to restrict yourself to just one thing,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, you can do both. With that

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Speaker 1: in mind, I think we're going to wrap the show

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Speaker 1: for tonight. Remember, I guess it's not exactly pressing because

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Speaker 1: we'll be back here Sunday night, but we are five

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Speaker 1: days away from the Late Kick Extra podcast coming back.

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Speaker 1: In exchange for that, there is a bargain. There is

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Speaker 1: a trade off that means we're shifting back to our

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Speaker 1: regular format on Late Kick Live. So starting next week

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Speaker 1: it'll be Sundays and Thursdays, and then whereas you would

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Speaker 1: have normally gotten a Tuesday night live show, instead, check

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Speaker 1: that podcast feed and you'll have a Late Kick Extra

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Speaker 1: podcast edition. So I guess if you're not already following

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Speaker 1: on the podcast side of things. Just go wherever you

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Speaker 1: listen to your pods, search Late Kick, and subscribe to

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Speaker 1: that Bad Boy, and you have done, at that point

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Speaker 1: everything that you need to do. For producer Jesse, for

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Speaker 1: director Colin, I'm Josh Paate. Have a great start to

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Speaker 1: your weekend. Take care, thanks for watching it. God bless