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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Solid Verbal.

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Speaker 2: Hell that for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm for it.

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Speaker 3: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to

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Speaker 3: be happy.

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Speaker 2: You want to be happy for day Edith State?

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Speaker 1: Is that whoo? Whoom?

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Speaker 2: And Dan and tie it's non conference season, Dan, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's true.

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Speaker 4: We're doing home and homes here on the Solid Verbal.

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Speaker 4: We have graciously been invited onto other shows to talk

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Speaker 4: about college football. We have graciously invited some of those

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Speaker 4: same folks back on our show to talk college football.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of content coming from other college football

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Speaker 4: creators over the next two episodes.

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Speaker 1: We've got a.

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Speaker 4: Part one today that will feature our good friend Cole

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Speaker 4: Kubulick from The Cube Show from the SEC Network. Yes,

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Speaker 4: We've also got Richard Johnson from CBS Sports from Splitszone Doo.

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Speaker 4: They're going to stop by answer some questions. We have

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Speaker 4: some common questions that we're going to ask both of

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Speaker 4: them also get some of their unique college football takes.

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Speaker 4: Part two is going to follow that will feature our

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Speaker 4: friend Andy Staples from on three Sports as well as

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Speaker 4: Mike Golick Junior from Gojo and Golick over on the

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Speaker 4: DraftKings Network. Sir, so a lot of content here come

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Speaker 4: up in part one, Part two, about two and a

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Speaker 2: All I can say is people are not ready for

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Speaker 2: tie on Call Her Daddy. It is the filthiest you

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Speaker 2: will ever hear him. I can't believe he agreed to

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Speaker 2: I can't believe the chemistry that you are going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Alex and I we had a great rapport.

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Speaker 4: I wore my fuzzy slippers of course, and sat in

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Speaker 4: the big poofy chair and yeah, just spilled the beans

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Speaker 4: that will be the hidden Part three.

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Speaker 2: So detailed, like to a very surprising degree. You guys

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Speaker 1: I'm not on Call Her Daddy.

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Speaker 2: You just disappointed a nation of verbal We had them

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Speaker 2: going for like two milliseconds.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, we've got a lot to get through. We won't

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Speaker 4: drone on any longer. It is game week, though. There

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Speaker 4: are games in Week zero, the most notable of which

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Speaker 4: Tech Yellowjackets. There are three other FBS games. We will

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Speaker 4: talk about all four games on our upcoming episode. This Thursday.

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Speaker 4: It won't be a long preview episode because there are

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Speaker 4: only a handful of games, but in the interest of

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Speaker 4: is still a lot to come. You and I have

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Speaker 4: Cole Kublick and Richard Johnson have listen.

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Speaker 2: It is Cole Kublick from ESPN. You can hear him

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Speaker 2: on the radio, The Cube Show, The Cubes the most

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Speaker 2: I called you on your own show, the most important

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Speaker 3: Uh does I mean have to put my wicklesat on it?

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Speaker 3: You don't have to what we're doing the show.

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Speaker 2: But I always appreciate that I always appreciate like companies

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Speaker 2: ahead of the season is I just want people who

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Speaker 2: everything like that SEC Network. I just wanted like people

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Speaker 2: And that's how you're supposed to like figure out if

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Speaker 2: Okay, First question, the Joe Burrow to a shootout Alabama

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Speaker 3: That's enjoyable and it's fun, But I need like nail

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Speaker 2: You'd rather go into a season knowing your offense is

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Speaker 3: That didn't always guarantee you your title. But the teams

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Speaker 2: Second question, there's a lot of I call them dumers

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Speaker 3: It's the calendar and what now comes with it because

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Speaker 3: We didn't get all these conference commissioners come together and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've long said this about college football that the

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Speaker 3: mean we were. It was it was cold and rainy,

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00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,640
Speaker 3: we were our arms were locked like kind of next

438
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Speaker 3: to each other, and I just remember her like squeezing

439
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 3: my bicep. Every time something good would happen, I'd be like.

440
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:36,360
Speaker 5: Kick.

441
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 3: So but you're right, I remember the game, but I

442
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 3: more remember being with her in that moment and like that.

443
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 3: We couldn't cheer, but we were just like in our

444
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 3: own ways, we were going nuts inside like it was yeah,

445
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:51,080
Speaker 3: it's the coolest.

446
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've been the the away wins, right that

447
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 2: in a huge game where you're sitting amongst you know,

448
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 2: quote unquote enemies, very little better than that.

449
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,640
Speaker 3: Better than those little pockets off all the pocket ten

450
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 3: thousand fans and you're just like you're an enemy territory.

451
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 3: This is why we had. We got in some pretty

452
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 3: heated arguments at sec ME todays about rivalry games, and

453
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 3: I'm like, listen, I know the arm Bowl used to

454
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 3: be played in Birmingham. I played in the last one.

455
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 3: But you can have your neutral sides. Man. I want

456
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 3: to go to enemy territory, yes, and I want them

457
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 3: to have to come do that, and then I want

458
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 3: to go back there again. And I want to be hated,

459
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 3: and I want things thrown at me and I want

460
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 3: to I want seven year olds flipping me off on

461
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 3: the bus on the way in, throwing rocks at our bus,

462
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 3: and I want people mispronouncing my name when they're MF

463
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 3: and me. I want all of that, every bit of it,

464
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 3: and then I want them to have to deal with

465
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,199
Speaker 3: that the next year. But god, just it always you

466
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,160
Speaker 3: look up there as a player and you're like, look

467
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 3: at them, like there's so much unity right there, Like

468
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 3: they feel like they had this little barrier and nothing

469
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 3: can touch them. It's just I always love seeing that,

470
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 3: especially like and then like you were talking about, I

471
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:58,360
Speaker 3: guess we're gonna get smaller pockets with no more travel yeah, yeah,

472
00:21:58,480 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 3: this could be a couple hundred in scent of a couple.

473
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,439
Speaker 3: But I've just I've always been fascinated by the visiting

474
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 3: pockets of fans over in the corner of the end

475
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 3: zone and the little travel band with like, you know,

476
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 3: fifteen people instead of one hundred and fifty people.

477
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Speaker 1: God, it's the best.

478
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 2: There's no sounds like the sound of going to an

479
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 2: opposing team stadium, beating that team, having your team win,

480
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 2: and the silence that you walk out to after your

481
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 2: team wins, where it's just everybody's heads are down and

482
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 2: you feel like you got to sort of invade in

483
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Speaker 2: your own little way.

484
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 3: So I tell people all the time about the cigar

485
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 3: game ninety nine at LSU and Tommy Tuberville told us

486
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 3: when we win big games, we're going to smoke a

487
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 3: cigar after the game, and we went back out on

488
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 3: the field and did it, which probably wasn't the best idea.

489
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 3: Ended up having to pay a dollar thirty seven back

490
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 3: to the NCAA for the cigars, which was ridiculous. And

491
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 3: people always asking me about that game, like what do

492
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 3: you smoke the cigars this sat and I was like,

493
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 3: oh no, no, no, no, because we got up with I

494
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 3: mean we got up pretty quick. It was like twenty

495
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 3: one nothing in the first I said, the most memorable

496
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 3: part of that was mid third quarter looking up and

497
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,479
Speaker 3: seeing like twelve thousand people. I've never seen a stadium

498
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 3: empty out, And it's like what you were talking about

499
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 3: that if you can bring a visiting especially that visiting place,

500
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 3: to almost silence, there is no better feeling.

501
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 2: I remember I wasn't at the game, but Oregon Arizona,

502
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 2: let's call it two thousand and nine, it looked like

503
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 2: Arizona was gonna upset Oregon at home, to the point

504
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 2: where fans were already starting to jump the barriers the

505
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 2: Arizona fans. Oregon ties it late and wins it in overtime,

506
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 2: and you had fans crawling back over the barriers after losing,

507
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 2: dejected and sad, ready to storm the field right there. Yeah,

508
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 2: just sadness all around. Next question, you mentioned you played football,

509
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 2: and now part of your job requires you to be

510
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: on your feet for long stretches of time. What is

511
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,479
Speaker 2: your best advice for any kind of nagging injury or

512
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 2: sore muscle?

513
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 3: Get to work on it quickly, don't be afraid to

514
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 3: rest that's something that I've all. I guess it's just

515
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 3: kind of the football player mentality of just we work

516
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: through it and you figure out a way grind through it,

517
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: so to speak. But this is this is actually very

518
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 3: applicable to me because I'm a sneaker head and for

519
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 3: the longest time, I wanted to wear the cool kicks

520
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 3: on the sideline, and I wanted to have cool sneakers.

521
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 3: And whether it was you know, some kind of Boushimmis

522
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,400
Speaker 3: or a pair of Jordans or something, and if it's

523
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 3: going to be I had had a I'll give you

524
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 3: my strategy from a different perspective. In a moment the

525
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 3: year before last, not this past football season, but the

526
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 3: season before that, I threw in the towel because I

527
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 3: have lower I have back problems. I've had three back surgeries.

528
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 3: I've had five knee surgeries on my right knee. I

529
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 3: just finally said, why am I doing this myself? Like

530
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 3: I'm married, i have three kids, I'm not, I don't

531
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: I'm not even the cool guy, much less try to

532
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 3: be the cool guy anymore. So it's it's like either

533
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 3: some serious like New Balance or Hokahs or some kind

534
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 3: of I try to get the ones that look semi cool,

535
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 3: but like, I don't even try anymore. Us get the

536
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: most comfortable shoes you can and make do what ever's

537
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: best for you. I do have this other cool strategy though,

538
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 3: when it looks like we're gonna get a rain game,

539
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 3: and it's disappointing because Walmart does not have these sneakers anymore.

540
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 3: They had these kind of off brand like Nike Monarchs

541
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 3: that were kind of almost all white with a little

542
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 3: bit of gray, but they looked very much like a

543
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 3: Prada like I would call them, kind of like an

544
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 3: a hole sneaker, like big and like goofy looking. And

545
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: I promise you Dan the couple of times that I've

546
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 3: done that and ended up not raining fifteen to twenty,

547
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 3: people love the kicks, dude, really sweet kicks and like

548
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 3: they're thirteen ninety nine.

549
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah your last second, yeah, yeah, oh so much.

550
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. And they had no idea, they had no clue

551
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 3: that kicks are sweet man, sweet things on the sidelinings

552
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 3: like I should have just started going with those every

553
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 3: week and not even ask the question who is the who.

554
00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 2: Is the smartest national or local or regional college football

555
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 2: talker not named Cole or Dan or anyone you're on

556
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: air with, so you won't hurt anybody's feelings.

557
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 3: First off, I'll say this that can go multiple ways because,

558
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 3: as you and I just talked about before, because there's

559
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 3: so much happening now, you almost have to be intelligent

560
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 3: in different ways around college football to talk about all

561
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 3: the different parts of it. So from that perspective, I

562
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 3: would probably say Josh Pate, just because he has a

563
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 3: way of making all of it feel big and important

564
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 3: and also fun. The NCAA stuff, you know, this lawsuit,

565
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 3: the settlement. I honestly don't enjoy talking about any of that.

566
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 3: I really don't. Realignment can be exciting for a minute,

567
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 3: but once it's dragged down the road for two or

568
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 3: three miles, I'm kind of like, Yeah, I don't care anymore.

569
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 3: I don't care if Florida State might go somewhere. I

570
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 3: really don't care what other schools are going to do

571
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 3: or might do, or can do, or contractsly obligated to do.

572
00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 3: Like can we just figure out where they're going to

573
00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 3: be and then talk about how they fit or what

574
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 3: the schedule is going to look like a lot of

575
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 3: the speculative stuff I'm not with but he somehow makes

576
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 3: it seem like fun and cool. But then there's also

577
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 3: the technical part of that, so like discussing the actual

578
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 3: football and how it's played and how it comes out.

579
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 3: And I would say maybe like a brockyword for that,

580
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 3: Like I enjoy listening to Brock call a game. I

581
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 3: think he does a really nice job of being very technical,

582
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: but also it's easy to understand. Like my wife could

583
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 3: watch him talk about football and say, oh, okay, yeah,

584
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 3: I see what he's going with there. And I'm guilty

585
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,959
Speaker 3: of that sometimes, of being a little bit too technical.

586
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 3: So I can appreciate somebody who can deliver the hows

587
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 3: and the whys but that are advanced but also to

588
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 3: where everybody can understand.

589
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 2: So this isn't a college answer, so I'm just going

590
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 2: my own my own zag. I really liked watching Greg

591
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: Olsen in the NFL. I don't know how much NFL

592
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: you watch, and I don't watch that much, but it's

593
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: so that job, as you know, is so tough to

594
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: watch and to synthesize what you're seeing quickly, and especially

595
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 2: given his lack of experience. I just that was one

596
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 2: of the names that came up in my brain, which

597
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: is like, that's such a tough job to do quickly,

598
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 2: And I thought he did.

599
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: A great job.

600
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 3: He's excellent. Absolutely.

601
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: Next question, who is the fastest player you've seen with

602
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: your own eyes with the ball in their hands.

603
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: Just pure speed.

604
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 3: Probably Tim Carter at Auburn, who was like a legitimate

605
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 3: track guy, could have been he could have run track.

606
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 3: But the one who I know, probably if we timed

607
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 3: it Dan wasn't the fastest but felt the fastest was

608
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 3: Cecil Collins running back at LSU. And that was the

609
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 3: ninety seven game when Kevin Falk was injured and Rondell

610
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 3: Mealy and Cecil Collins went bananas on our defense. And

611
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 3: that PA announcer he had a lot of chances to

612
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 3: do it, and he would say, Cecil, call Rondell Mellly,

613
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: you'd stretch it out. He was, you know, like we're

614
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: getting ready for a heavyweight fight. And Cecil Collins, he

615
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 3: looked like he was two thirty five, two forty and

616
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 3: just our defense couldn't catch him. And like I've talked

617
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 3: to guys like Booger McFarlane and they're like you should

618
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: have seen what he did in practice, Like he was

619
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 3: literally unstoppable. He just felt like he was moving at

620
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: a faster rate than anyone I've ever seen. I know

621
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 3: there have probably been like a Markeith Cooper trendon holiday

622
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 3: or I was gonna say, just like the straight line

623
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 3: speed and like I said, and Tim Carter, he would

624
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 3: just glide like he just was. He was super smooth.

625
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 3: Anthony Schwartz at Auburn was kind of like that, but

626
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: the one that felt the fastest was Cecil Collins.

627
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something super upsetting about track guys where it

628
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: looks like they're so much faster and they're they look

629
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: like their face looks like they're jogging right, where like

630
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 2: the effort doesn't seem like it's there because it's an

631
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: actual skill to be that casually. I remember like watching

632
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 2: d Anthony Thomas, You're like he's changing directions at full

633
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: speed and uh, not slowing down for a single second.

634
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 3: It doesn't move right. Yeah. Yeah, that's the effortless notion

635
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 3: in which there I guess the effortless way in which

636
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 3: guys that fast can run is. It's not fair really

637
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 3: and truly, but yeah, it's there.

638
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: Who is the most imposing player you've seen up close?

639
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: Not even necessarily as a player, even on the sideline

640
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: even whatever, who is the player where you're just like,

641
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do with this person, this guard,

642
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: this defensive tackle, this defensive end, even this quarterback at

643
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 2: this side, It's like, who is that player?

644
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, God, Cam was up there if you're talking about

645
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 3: But I remember I went to a Georgia practice one

646
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 3: time and I saw Isaiah Win and I literally couldn't

647
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 3: believe how just I said, Vince McMahon should come steal

648
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 3: that guy right now and just put him in the

649
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 3: ring and he can go on this like one hundred

650
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 3: and fifty match undefeated win streak because no one will.

651
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 3: His head looks like an overgrown watermelon, like just on

652
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: the size of it, Like his the scale of his

653
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 3: frame was massive, and he wasn't fat, was the crazy

654
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 3: part about it. Like he wasn't fat at all. And

655
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 3: I just remember thinking to myself, that is that's different

656
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 3: like that, that's just it's God did not make many

657
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 3: human beings that way because he kind of had a

658
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: smaller waist. He was still probably a forty forty two

659
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 3: inch waist, but there was like no love handles almost

660
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 3: just it did not feel real at all. Uh, that's

661
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 3: the first one that comes to mind. But there's there's

662
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 3: been a lot of guys that I think, you like,

663
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 3: you just see him like Derrick Henry, uh kind of

664
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 3: getting up close to him, did not like he doesn't run.

665
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 3: He can't be that big and run that way, like

666
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 3: that's that's not a real thing. But yeah, there have

667
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 3: been a pretty pretty fair amount of I remember the

668
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 3: first time we played against Georgia and Marcus Stroud lined

669
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 3: up over me. This was like on the very tail

670
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 3: end of big pads, like nineties pads. I mean, you

671
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 3: know you remember nineties pads like uh, I was trying

672
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 3: to think the fullback that Missouri had that they were

673
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 3: I mean literally they were like past his ear holes.

674
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like LeVar Arrington when I think about.

675
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like it this the huge pads. Well, Stroud

676
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 3: kind of still had that, and you were ninety seven,

677
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 3: but he was also six five, like three twenty but

678
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: like a kind of like the lean that the Lean

679
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: is three twenty now, like the Terrence Cody three twenty

680
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: is like. And you just looked at him.

681
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 2: Like he's built like a power forward.

682
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what we're gonna do with that today.

683
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 3: I really I'm not sure how we're going to manage that.

684
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a couple of guys that just fall

685
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 3: in that category of you kind of don't believe what

686
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 3: you're seeing. Like Tray Smith at Tennessee was kind of

687
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 3: like that, Like he watched the film and he looked big,

688
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 3: and then you got next to him and his neck

689
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 3: is like bigger than the circumference of your cranium and

690
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 3: you're kind of thinking, no, wonder, he's tossing people left

691
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 3: and right, Like it's now, it makes it all makes

692
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 3: sense now.

693
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: I interviewed uh Jadevian Clowney a couple of times. You're

694
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: just like you're fast and you're this large, like you're

695
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: physically fast at this weight and height and obviously not

696
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: an ounce of fat on him, right, Like that's the thing.

697
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: With him is because he's so lean Technically when I

698
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 3: say lean, I mean body fat. Right, you don't understand, right,

699
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 3: the mass of his frame, and you're like, are you

700
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 3: an NBA power forward or are you a defensive end?

701
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 3: Because you could be either one literally.

702
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: So the other way. So I was at a Florida

703
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 2: Tennessee game at neland two thousand and seven or something,

704
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 2: and I remember walking behind the Florida sideline seeing like

705
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 2: number two Newton and thinking, and I've told the story before,

706
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: that defensive end is jacked. That defensive end looks like

707
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 2: a superhero. Going up to the press box looking him

708
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 2: up because this is like, it's not pre Internet, but

709
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: it's before like everybody knows everything about every team and

710
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: backups on every team and former five star and looking

711
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: him up and there's a QB next to his name,

712
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, there's a typo in this program.

713
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: That's weird.

714
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: And then finding out Cam Newton is in fact that

715
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: superhero at that size, that was that was jarring to see.

716
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I remember. First of all, I saw him.

717
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 3: I'm in the spring game. It was the first time

718
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: I was close to him, and I just I saw

719
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 3: his calfs and I was thinking, those are regular humans

720
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 3: quads right there. But okay, we'll see if he can

721
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 3: actually throw the ball.

722
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: A wait, he can turns out, Oh he's fast.

723
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was different non auburn.

724
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: Addition, what is the nicest uniform and or helmet you've

725
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 2: come across in college football?

726
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 3: I will go ahead and tell you my favorite non

727
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: auburn helmet is probably this one.

728
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 2: Right here, baby blue ole miss Yep, that's it's gorgeous.

729
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 3: It's just tough to be it is. Yeah, it's a

730
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 3: thing of beauty right there. But uniform because the powderable

731
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 3: uniforms are pretty good too, But the lids are probably

732
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 3: my favorite. Those Texas whites man goly, they are tough

733
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 3: to be.

734
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: The full white stormtrooper luck.

735
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean the Auburn whites with the white

736
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 3: face mask.

737
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: That one right there, Oh, the white face mask. I

738
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: mean it's I mean when you have the alternate white

739
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 2: helmet like LSU's looks perfect when they do that occasionally. Yeah,

740
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: that's that's tough. The my answer for like, because I'm

741
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 2: with you, where they just like somebody has like an

742
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 2: alternative look. But it's like throwback inspired a little bit.

743
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 2: When Oklahoma State has the pistol pete helmets. Oh, it's

744
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 2: so good, the full body pistol pete, not just the head.

745
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 2: When you see the chaps and everything. I'm like, that's

746
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 2: that's college football in a nutshell, Like a weird cowboy

747
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: with a giant mustache on a helmet. That will never

748
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: happen in the NFL.

749
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 3: Can I give you my favorite sort of not regular

750
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 3: uniform but alternate uniform. And I don't know if the

751
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 3: people will be able to see this. Now I'll describe

752
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: this will make perfect sense to you here, and it's

753
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 3: not actually because the helmet is just the.

754
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 2: Actual Oh yeah, of course big Red.

755
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 3: In a three point stance in a three point specifically

756
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 3: have to have Big Red in a three point stance.

757
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 3: Right there.

758
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 2: We're in a really nice play, like having the two

759
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: lane green wave, like the throwback wave back in our lives.

760
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 2: Their baby blues are great. Like all things considered, we're

761
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 2: in like a golden era of uniform updates.

762
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 3: I don't think there's any down some people do, like

763
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 3: Ohio State, I feel like does a little bit too much,

764
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 3: But I love their traditional uniforms. I just kind of

765
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 3: don't feel like they need to be messed with. When

766
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 3: Penn State did the numbers a couple of years, I

767
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 3: like that, Oh that was a great look because Penn

768
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 3: State's just super clean anyway no matter what. But like

769
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 3: then you see that they're gonna go throwbacks, so they're

770
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 3: gonna put that's not gonna ohe wow that works like that?

771
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: That is yes, because it's just subtle, right, They're not

772
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 2: trying to reinvent the wheel.

773
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: No.

774
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 2: I always like this, and like when you are Penn

775
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: State and you have that look, then it is nice

776
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 2: to have just a little bit more. What's the best

777
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: week of the season or best three weeks whatever? Like

778
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 2: if you're looking at a number like week four, week eleven,

779
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 2: week one, like what is the best week specifically this year?

780
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 2: In any year?

781
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 3: It's I mean, I just think Rivalry weekend is the

782
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 3: best because we get so many I call them trinket

783
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 3: games that we're playing for the you know, the peace

784
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 3: pipe or a sledgehammer or you know, an axe or

785
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 3: a barrel or a bucket. It's that that's that's tough

786
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 3: to beat. And then it just brings so much extra meaning.

787
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 3: Like we had Kyle wating him on the show the

788
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 3: other day and I just had to ask him, like,

789
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 3: you've got the Holy War, Like what does it mean

790
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 3: to have that? How it's not at the end of

791
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 3: the year. I don't know particularly, but I'd like to

792
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 3: know what happened with that. But just those games are

793
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 3: just special and to have a whole weekend of them,

794
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 3: it's just a weekend of hatred. And I tell people

795
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 3: all the time, outside of my footprint, They'll say, I

796
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 3: go to California or New York or Mischiean what's different

797
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 3: about the SEC Wise? I was like, we love to

798
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 3: hate more than we love to love. Played and simple,

799
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 3: that's all it is. Like most people here love to

800
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 3: hate their rivals more than they love to love their

801
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 3: own team. And that's just kind of normal in these parts.

802
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 3: And so when you get to that weekend with those

803
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 3: games over and over and over and over and over,

804
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 3: and you have all the history that went with them,

805
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 3: the big moments that came, and you know, whether it's

806
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 3: why I go to bat for the Egg Bowl so much.

807
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 3: I was able to work it last year. It was

808
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 3: the first time I had been to it. Well, actually

809
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: I did the one during COVID, which was like September

810
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 3: twentieth or something.

811
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 2: Not the same, yeah, account, But.

812
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: The thing about that game that makes it special is

813
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: it is super intense every year. It does have meaning

814
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 3: every year. See, I think there's this misperception of these

815
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 3: rivalry games have to be these national phenomenons that like

816
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 3: Joey in West Virginia and Bubba and Montana feel the

817
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 3: exact same way about. That's not what calculates for me,

818
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 3: the fact that Old Miss in Mississippi State have not

819
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 3: really been in the national championship picture in the last

820
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: however many years, But that game still carries that meaning.

821
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 3: And then I actually think it elevates it because we're

822
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 3: not worried about the playoff, we're not worried about going

823
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 3: to Atlanta, we're not worry about these other things, like

824
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 3: that's the one we have to get, and just to

825
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 3: have a whole weekend of games like that, it's just

826
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 3: it's incredible. So I don't think also got Thanksgiving, which

827
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 3: my favorite holiday. So yeah, that's you can't beat rivalry weekend.

828
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a great answer. The only like

829
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 2: runner up to runner to rivalry week is in the

830
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: like week four, Week five, when we get like our

831
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 2: first full slate of like solid matchups, solid conference matchups

832
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 2: across the board for fourteenth straight hours. That first like

833
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 2: week one is great, right, football is back in our lives,

834
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: But it's sort of all spread out that first weekend

835
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: where you're like you look over here and it's you know,

836
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 2: Kansas State, Utah. You look over there and it's Clemson,

837
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 2: Florida State, you look over here and it's Michigan Penn

838
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: State like that, like that.

839
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 3: Tenth best game that weekend was your best game the

840
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 3: three or four weeks correct, kind of like they're playing

841
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 3: that one this week. Okay. I thought you were gonna

842
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 3: go a little different direction though, and say, because this

843
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 3: is where I would have gone. And I don't think

844
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 3: you can calculate this exactly every year, maybe like first

845
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 3: second week October whenever the first cooler temperature's role.

846
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: Yes, when you get the dip that.

847
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: You want to talk about heaven on Earth, when you

848
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 3: walk out there and you're standing in the sun and

849
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 3: you're like, h I probably could have worn well something.

850
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 2: It might be hoodeieweather.

851
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

852
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is.

853
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 3: That's where that's where just everything is right in the world.

854
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 2: Everything is right, and and for some people that's not

855
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 2: into October. For some people that comes a little earlier,

856
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 2: some people that comes a little bit later. Yeah, that

857
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,720
Speaker 2: that's true. Do you have like a bucket list stadium.

858
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 2: You've been a lot of places.

859
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, bucket list stadium. I'm not going to

860
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 3: say it's number one, but it's up there. Kibbi Dome.

861
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 3: Oh sure, I don't I want to go. I want

862
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 3: to go watch a game in an airplane hangar. I

863
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 3: want I want to I want to do that and

864
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 3: see that, make that happen. Obviously, the Horse Shoe, the

865
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 3: Big House. I've been to the Big House and I've

866
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 3: been to a game there. Those have to be up there.

867
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 3: I have not been to the Coliseum, and I realize

868
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 3: that it's not maybe the most college football ish environment,

869
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 3: but just growing up seeing games there, seeing Mma fights there,

870
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 3: seeing the Olympics there, Like I just I kind of

871
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 3: want to go to a game there.

872
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 2: It's cool.

873
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, it's seeing everything that's happened there

874
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 3: is something that I would want to see. I haven't been.

875
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 3: I've been into the stadium in Austin, but I haven't

876
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 3: been to a game there. Same thing at Memorial Stadium

877
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma. So I'll do hopefully both of those this year.

878
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 3: Excited about those with those will be up there as well.

879
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 2: I'll tell you where you have been because I was

880
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: there with you. You've been to the Fargo.

881
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 3: Nome, I have.

882
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 2: It's a cool experience.

883
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: I hate to.

884
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 3: Say underrated, because I think a lot of people probably

885
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 3: underrated the amount of people that talk about it or

886
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 3: give it its due. And I've tried to explain it

887
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 3: because you were there too. It's first off, there there

888
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 3: there's no like upper deck or far away seats. It

889
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 3: kind of goes sort of straight up and you're the

890
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 3: proximity of the field pretty close. And tell me if

891
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 3: you disagree. Here maybe the most intelligent football fans I've

892
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 3: ever been around.

893
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 2: I agree.

894
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 3: I mean, no one exactly when to be completely silent

895
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: and then go crazy. And then the quarterback didn't have

896
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 3: to get everybody down. Man, It's like it's almost like

897
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 3: they have buzzers or something and they're like you you

898
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 3: sit down there, you don't talk. But it was the

899
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: environment is awesome. I'm so glad of that. I'm done

900
00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 3: um a couple of times. And yes, it was.

901
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: I tell people when I went there, when I was

902
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: sitting in the press row, which by the way, is

903
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 2: just a row in the stadium. There's no like press

904
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 2: box in the way. They're just a row. When the

905
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 2: Bison have the ball, you can hear the like the

906
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 2: air conditioners, the heaters in the dome. Because it's so quiet,

907
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: you can hear the worrying of the like. And it

908
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: was the first time I've ever experienced that in any

909
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: sporting event. So yeah, mine in terms of buckets because

910
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 2: I've been to a bunch of places. I actually haven't

911
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 2: been to Jordan Hare and I need to fix that.

912
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 2: I've been to a bunch in the SEC.

913
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think Morgantown would be on my list.

914
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 2: I've been to Morgantown. It's really fun. I was offered

915
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 2: a lot of moonshine at like eight oh four am,

916
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: so there was that. I'd love to go to Texas

917
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 2: Tech just because it's so far away from everything Lubbock,

918
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 2: and I just I enjoy the places where like this

919
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 2: is the thing here, and so I haven't done West

920
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: Texas and in Texas.

921
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 3: I'll give you another underrated one that most people wouldn't

922
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 3: think of. Logan, Utah. Oh okay, you talk about picturesque, beautiful,

923
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 3: scenic like I've been too Provo and it's awesome. It

924
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 3: is immaculate, Rose Bowl, incredible. But just as far as scenic, Logan, Utah,

925
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 3: I was really impressed with how just beautiful that entire

926
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 3: place was. Go watch a Utah State game. It is

927
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 3: really cool.

928
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,840
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929
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931
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932
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935
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936
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Speaker 4: All right, I am joined now by the one, the

938
00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 4: only by Richard Johnson, proud University of Florida alum, now

939
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 4: with CBS Sports, and of course, as many of you know,

940
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 4: the very popular, the very smart Split Zone Duo college

941
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 4: football podcast, which he does with Alex Kirshner and Stephen Godfrey. Richard,

942
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 4: welcome back, How are you, my friend?

943
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: It's good to be back. It's been a while, but

944
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: it's good to be back.

945
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 4: So this conversation will be as much about getting to

946
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 4: know your college football takes and opinions and just general

947
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 4: vibes for the coming season as it will be getting

948
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 4: to know you and your personal sensibilities.

949
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: If you're ready for that, I'm shaking them on boots.

950
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: Let's put you in the hot seat here.

951
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 4: Let's start off easy, Richard, your spiciest college football.

952
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: Take for the twenty twenty four college football season.

953
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 5: Spicy's college football take is that the you is back,

954
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 5: maybe those Miami Hurricanes. And as much as it pains

955
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 5: my heart to say, given who they are playing week one,

956
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 5: check that schedule, is that Miami. First of all, we'll

957
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 5: have the best offense in the ACC. I don't even

958
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 5: think that's a hot take, Like that's just in my opinion,

959
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 5: relatively objective truth. The Kanes will have the best offense

960
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 5: in the AEC, will be close, defensive line adjustments and

961
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 5: changes via the transfer portal will be enough to pair

962
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 5: with Ruben Bain, who's incredible addresser already, and Miami will

963
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 5: be able to win the ACC get to the College

964
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 5: Football Playoff. I don't know what they're gonna do when

965
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 5: the college football playoff, but the you is back. Texas

966
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 5: back last year, you, Michigan back, last year, you back

967
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 5: this year.

968
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: The more things change, the more things stay the same.

969
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 4: Tyler, Yeah, a lot a lot of like hands up emojis,

970
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 4: I think this year out on Twitter and elsewhere across

971
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 4: social media.

972
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: I'm with you.

973
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 4: I had Miami winning the ACC going to the playoff

974
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 4: and felt similarly about what happens next. We'll get back

975
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 4: to you on that, but just getting there, getting over

976
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 4: that hump, winning a conference or just getting to the playoff,

977
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 4: even if they don't win the ACC, would be a

978
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 4: monumental step forward for Mario Crystoball, especially given some of

979
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 4: what we saw last season, which obviously left a lot

980
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 4: of Miami fans bit underwhelmed.

981
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Miami's problem is, and you know, I'm not

982
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 5: talking out of school here, Miami's problem is, if you

983
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 5: get into a close game, is the headman going to

984
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 5: lose you the game.

985
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: That's what happened last year, It's happened before.

986
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 5: So it hopefully Miami's built their roster bulletproof enough to

987
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 5: where that won't come into the picture.

988
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

989
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 4: I think our point was, or our question was, if

990
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 4: Crystal Ball can win with a better roster, sort of

991
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 4: in spite of himself, because he has been in situations

992
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 4: like this before where he's had good talent, where he's

993
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 4: had quality quarterbacks and really hasn't done as much as

994
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 4: expected with them. So we'll see, we'll see. So we

995
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 4: are in agreement. I think on Miami, I won't keep

996
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 4: playing the sound that gets a little long in the tooth,

997
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 4: but I will be on those great question number two,

998
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 4: who who is your your favorite Florida football player of

999
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 4: all time not named Tim Tebow?

1000
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 5: Ooh hmm, okay, I think I think I'll go offense

1001
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 5: and defense.

1002
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little two fer.

1003
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 5: Okay, defense, Let's see, it's hard because you want to

1004
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 5: give two different I'll give you one defensive player. Defensive

1005
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 5: player Alex Brown, sack artist, sack master on my my

1006
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 5: favorite Florida football team, which is the two thousand and

1007
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,439
Speaker 5: one Florida team that did not get to the National

1008
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 5: Championship game, lost to Tennessee in a rescheduled game due

1009
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 5: to nine to eleven. Travis Stevens ran for like two

1010
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty yards in Gainesville, Florida lost on a

1011
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 5: two point conversion at the end. It is like my

1012
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 5: first like football memory as a kid, and I remember

1013
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 5: like basically crying on the floor because I knew, even

1014
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 5: at I think I was like seven or eight at

1015
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,320
Speaker 5: that time, that that was a bad thing and that

1016
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 5: Florida would not go to the SEC Championship game, which

1017
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 5: is Tennessee did and then lost to Nick Saban's LSU

1018
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 5: that Florida had already been earlier that season. That Florida

1019
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 5: We're going anyway, favorite offensive Gator easily.

1020
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: Percy Harvin, not close.

1021
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 5: I mean Percy Harvin. It's it's an absolute layup. What

1022
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 5: Percy did with the ball in his hands in college,

1023
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 5: It's really unlike anything I've ever seen. I mean, just

1024
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 5: an absolutely outstanding college football player.

1025
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 4: If I had not qualified that question by saying not

1026
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:30,439
Speaker 4: Tim Tebow, would Tim Tebow have been an obvious answer?

1027
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 4: Where does Tebow rank on your Florida Gator's totem poll?

1028
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,760
Speaker 1: Tibo is like too easy. All three of the All Warfel.

1029
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 5: Spur and Tibo, the three Heisman winners that Florida's had,

1030
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 5: They're all too easy. I honestly wouldn't have taken them.

1031
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 5: T Bow, Look, he is what he is, legend, et cetera,

1032
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 5: et cetera. But there are some other folks that go

1033
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 5: a little bit that go a little bit higher in

1034
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 5: the pantheon for me personally, Question.

1035
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 4: Number three, who is your out of nowheref team?

1036
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four college football?

1037
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 5: Oh, out of nowhere completely out of nowhere college football

1038
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 5: playoff team. I want to take a big ten team,

1039
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 5: but then you don't. I can't want we want to

1040
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 5: say Penn States and out of nowhere a.

1041
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: Limp pick Maryland? Do it?

1042
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 5: How out on a limb is Tennessee? Like do we

1043
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 5: like forget about Tennessee? Like I think that everybody's everybody's gassing.

1044
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 5: Obviously Alabama and Georgia we all know that, but it's

1045
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 5: ole Miss has taken that like other SEC play at Texas.

1046
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 5: Ole Miss has taken the other SEC playoff space, the

1047
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 5: fourth SEC playoffs, which I don't even know if they're

1048
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 5: gonna get four in. But people are forgetting about Tennessee.

1049
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:42,720
Speaker 5: I'm taking the balls.

1050
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 1: I have the Volves going ten and two.

1051
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 4: When we did our preview, I did not expect to

1052
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 4: be as high on them as I ended up being.

1053
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 4: But I saw just a few snaps of what Nico

1054
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 4: did in the spring game. Yes, I looked up and

1055
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 4: down the roster obviously, like you, we read all of

1056
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 4: this porting material going into this season, and I remember

1057
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 4: saying to Dan, like this is going to be uncomfortable,

1058
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 4: but I'm really in on Tennessee this year and Tennessee,

1059
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 4: by the way, is one of those teams, and people

1060
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 4: who listen to this show know I've talked about it

1061
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 4: a lot. There are a handful of teams that stand

1062
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 4: and benefit greatly from the expanded playoff from the wider

1063
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 4: Pathway in. Tennessee is one of them. Oh Miss is another.

1064
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 4: Penn State is another. We could go down the list,

1065
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 4: you know which kinds of teams I'm talking about. It

1066
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 4: doesn't seem as if to me that is that hot

1067
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 4: of a take. I really like Tennessee this year.

1068
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 5: No, I do too, and the more I get into it,

1069
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 5: But I don't know that the SEC ends up getting

1070
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 5: four teams in Honestly, I think it's three, and then

1071
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 5: we'll see with how the other stuff shakes out.

1072
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. Let's keep going.

1073
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:50,919
Speaker 4: Question for not college football, very Richard Johnson, very Tie

1074
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 4: Hilton Brandt. For what it's worth, You've got an uphill

1075
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty yards shot to a par three overwater.

1076
00:50:58,800 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: What is the club selection?

1077
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 5: Ooh, okay. Obviously depends on a few things. It's uphill,

1078
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,439
Speaker 5: so it's gonna play, gonna play a little bit longer,

1079
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 5: so I think you gotta get it there, right, Like

1080
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 5: the most important thing is you got to get it there.

1081
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: So I'll play it at one ninety.

1082
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 5: My one ninety shot is typically my four iron, so

1083
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 5: I'll bang a four iron and hope for the best.

1084
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 4: You kind of hit like that lower trajectory shot with

1085
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 4: like a soft cut and so clearing the water. I

1086
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 4: think it like you shouldn't be afraid to take more

1087
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 4: club in a situation like that, right, you just got

1088
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 4: to get it over, especially if you're shooting up the hill.

1089
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm not worried about getting it close.

1090
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 5: Like we just got to get it safely on, which

1091
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 5: is why let's take some more club. Let's get you know,

1092
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 5: the smooth swing four iron, don't don't club a five iron,

1093
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 5: don't nuke a six iron, smooth swing in four and

1094
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 5: we'll get home.

1095
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 4: These are the conversations you and I are gonna have

1096
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 4: in our eventual golf podcast. Richard questions like this that

1097
00:51:58,560 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 4: every man can relate to.

1098
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 1: Question five.

1099
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 4: Which player is everyone glossing over this season? And it's

1100
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 4: driving you crazy?

1101
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: Oh? Driving me crazy? Jalen Daniels, Kansas.

1102
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 5: If he stays healthy, he has I don't even think

1103
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 5: an outside shot. I think he's got a legitimate shot

1104
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 5: to win the Heisman. I think Jalen Daniels at Kansas

1105
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 5: is the absolute blend of modern Heisman winning quarterback mobile highlight,

1106
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 5: real runs and the ability to sling the ball around

1107
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 5: the yard. That Kansas offense catchy, weird, a lot of

1108
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 5: smoke and mirrors, a lot of weird stuff. And I

1109
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 5: think Kansas will be good enough in that new Big twelve. Again,

1110
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 5: He's got to stay healthy, which I know is a

1111
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 5: big if because he hasn't stayed healthy the last two years.

1112
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 4: But if he does, I really really like Jalen Daniels.

1113
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 4: How do you feel about Kansas on the whole this season?

1114
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 4: Jalen Daniels is exciting, Lance Leipold, it it helps to

1115
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 4: have a coach of that caliber running the Kansas program.

1116
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: There's a lot of steam on this program now that

1117
00:52:58,920 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 1: redo in.

1118
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 4: The stadium, like they are building it up in a

1119
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 4: really really cool way, especially compared to what we have

1120
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 4: seen over the last decade plus now of this football program.

1121
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 4: But in twenty twenty four, new conference set up, don't

1122
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 4: have the Jason Bean insurance policy at quarterback right like

1123
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 4: they're the new offensive coordinator as Andy Kotelnikki goes up

1124
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 4: to Penn State. Things are changing, yet there is a

1125
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 4: lot that remains the same to feel good about.

1126
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I know that Andi Konnichy in your

1127
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,479
Speaker 5: neck of the woods up at Penn State.

1128
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 1: It's not a good thing.

1129
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 5: But one thing I trust Lance Lightphole to do is

1130
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 5: figure out ways to win football games. I mean, the

1131
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 5: guy has won everywhere, including Kansas to the extent that

1132
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 5: one can win in Kansas. The fact that we can

1133
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 5: sit here credibly as people who have watched college football

1134
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 5: our entire lives and say, yeah, I think Kansas is

1135
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 5: going to go eight in four. I mean that's what

1136
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 5: timeline are we living in, you know what I mean?

1137
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 5: So that to me is the biggest the biggest thing

1138
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 5: that I say, Wow, Lance has really taken this program

1139
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 5: to the next.

1140
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 4: Level in terms of most interesting power conferences. We now

1141
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 4: have four choices. Where does the Big twelve rank for you?

1142
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 5: I think the Big twelve is I think the Big

1143
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 5: Twelve is much like it was before the realignment actually happened.

1144
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 5: You know that the team's actually moved around like it's

1145
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 5: going to be deep. There's going to be a lot

1146
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 5: of parody and there's going and it's gonna be a

1147
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 5: very competitive conference. I don't know where that puts it

1148
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 5: in the pecking order because the other leagues. I'm still

1149
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 5: not entirely sure how this is gonna shake out with

1150
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 5: these other leagues. Like, I'm sure you did this when

1151
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 5: you went through your previous exercise. What am I supposed

1152
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 5: to do pick the fifteenth best team in the ACC? Like,

1153
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 5: how the hell am I supposed to do that? Like

1154
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 5: I was talking to somebody who covers the NFL yesterday

1155
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 5: and he was like, oh, yeah, you're just like picking

1156
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 5: the AFC. I'm like, yeah, it's like, I'm you don't

1157
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 5: know who the fourteenth best team in the NFC is

1158
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 5: gonna be, Like what are you talking about? So to me,

1159
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 5: I think the Big Twelve keeps its identity and it

1160
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 5: is the only league that I can assuredly sit here

1161
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 5: and say on August fifteenth, keeps its identity as the

1162
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 5: new paradigm in college ball shifts. And that even includes

1163
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 5: the fact that the Big Twelve obviously has added a

1164
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 5: significant amount of teams in the last few years chop

1165
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 5: change and lost their Big two.

1166
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: And I think the losing the Big two of the

1167
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: Big Twelve, Texas and Oklahoma.

1168
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 5: Is why I can sit here and say I know

1169
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 5: the Big Twelve will continue to be its competitive, knockdown,

1170
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:33,439
Speaker 5: drag out self.

1171
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited about the Big Twelve.

1172
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 4: I said, it's my most interesting conference this year, even

1173
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 4: if it doesn't have the highest profile teams. Just so

1174
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 4: much change, and I think this constant need to try

1175
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 4: and keep up with the Joneses has put them in

1176
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 4: a really weird place. Question number six, What is your

1177
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 4: TV setup when you're just watching a bunch of games

1178
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 4: at home in your apartment, not on the road, not traveling,

1179
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 4: not in the press box anything like that, but you're

1180
00:55:58,320 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 4: just on your couch?

1181
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: Why games? Talk me through the actual setup? How many TVs?

1182
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: Are you using? A laptop? Like? What is what does

1183
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: your workstation look like on any given Saturday?

1184
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 5: Do not, I repeat, do not let my girlfriend listen

1185
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 5: to this because we just moved into a new apartment

1186
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 5: in May and so she hasn't she hasn't been through

1187
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 5: a football season in this apartment, so she doesn't know.

1188
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 4: Is this a sensitive question that I should omit and

1189
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 4: put something into this place?

1190
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 1: Yeah? This is uh, this is gonna be touching. Labor

1191
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Day weekend, I tell you right now.

1192
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 5: So I will say I will say that I'm not

1193
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 5: gonna set up shop in the living room. That's what

1194
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 5: she's really scared of. She's really scared of me set

1195
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 5: up shop in the living room. So I will not

1196
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 5: set up shop in the living room. What I will

1197
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 5: do is post it up in the office. You can

1198
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 5: see one of the TVs behind my right shoulder here,

1199
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 5: that's the main TV. And then we actually have two

1200
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 5: small like monitor it is probably twenty inches twenty two

1201
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 5: inches too small TVs. And so I will throw the

1202
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 5: Apple TV on the big one, or excuse me, I

1203
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 5: would throw the antenna.

1204
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 1: This is the thing that people people forget about.

1205
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 5: The major college football games, for the most part are

1206
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 5: all on ABC, NBC, Fox or CBS, which me and

1207
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 5: which means if you get an antenna, you can get

1208
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 5: everything free, HD whatever, as long as you kind of

1209
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 5: don't have a tree it next to your window. So

1210
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 5: antenna gets the big TV h and then Apple TV

1211
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 5: gets gets the smaller one, the smaller one, and then

1212
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 5: the PS five hooks up into the other small one.

1213
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 5: So I have three TVs, one on the stand, two

1214
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 5: under them sort of on the floor.

1215
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: A little bit to get the three wide look.

1216
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 5: I've found that you really actually can't actively watch more

1217
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 5: than two games.

1218
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's like I have severe attention

1219
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 4: deficit disorder of something of that nature.

1220
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: I can't watch more than one at a time. Really.

1221
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 4: I've tried to convinced myself over the years that, oh, yeah,

1222
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 4: I can watch four games at once, because now it's

1223
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 4: easier than ever to do the quad box, whether you

1224
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 4: have YouTube or Sling or any of these services out there,

1225
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 4: I can't watch more than one. I feel like it's

1226
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 4: sensory overload.

1227
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like I can get to because thankfully the

1228
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 5: nature of football, you know, one play stops, the other

1229
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 5: play stop or whatever. Sure, but then I've found that

1230
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 5: you get you know, ESPN has a quadbox situation. So

1231
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 5: I'll go two games I'm actually watching, and then on

1232
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,439
Speaker 5: the third TV you put the quad box up.

1233
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: I think it's YouTube TV.

1234
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 5: Actually sorry, YouTube TV is a little quad box situation,

1235
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 5: and so I can sort of check scores and keep

1236
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 5: abreast of scores and move things around. One thing that

1237
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 5: I have a problem with, though, is I will stick

1238
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 5: on a game that is trending towards being a laffer

1239
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 5: like a little too long, like I will sort of

1240
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 5: keep on a game that I know is sort of

1241
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 5: getting out of hand. It's pure laziness before switching. So

1242
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:01,479
Speaker 5: that is one thing I have to be a better

1243
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 5: on this season.

1244
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 4: Can I ask you a podcast question please, because I'm curious,

1245
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 4: what is the breakdown of assignments on a Saturday? Because

1246
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 4: I know what Dan and I do. We try to

1247
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 4: watch all of it. Sometimes we're better at that than others.

1248
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 4: But how do you handle it with keeping track of

1249
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 4: all of the games talking about those games when you

1250
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 4: do your recaps on Sundays?

1251
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the easiest thing is that me and

1252
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 5: Alex pretty much handle Sunday show more often than not,

1253
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 5: and so because of that, it's really sort of a

1254
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 5: two man weave between the two of us. What is

1255
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 5: difficult is when I'm at a game right And what's

1256
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 5: going to be even more difficult this year is both

1257
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 5: of us are just slammed with weddings, Like for like

1258
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 5: the first six weeks of the season, either He's got

1259
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 5: a wedding or I've got a wedding, and it's an

1260
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 5: absolute mess. So we're going to have to figure that

1261
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 5: out as we get going. But yeah, what usually happens

1262
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 5: is open up a Google doc, drop the scores in.

1263
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 5: You know what ends up happening is that I will

1264
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 5: sort of, I'll go to bed on the earlier side

1265
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 5: Saturday night. I usually go to bed after the first

1266
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,919
Speaker 5: after the big Saturday night football game ends eleven thirty yesh,

1267
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 5: I usually go to bed and then I wake up

1268
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 5: early first thing, add like six on Sunday mornings, and

1269
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 5: watch everything that they need to do, and then we

1270
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 5: end up recording like around eleven on Sunday morning, eleven

1271
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 5: Eastern time on a Sunday morning.

1272
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: There is just no shortcut. It doesn't matter how many

1273
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: you try to do it. You have to do the work.

1274
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 4: You're either craming earlier, you're craming late. I've been there, man, Okay,

1275
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 4: let's keep moving. This is this is informative question seven.

1276
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 4: What is the Richard Johnson pet storyline for the twenty

1277
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 4: twenty four.

1278
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: College football season.

1279
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 4: So the thing that maybe you care about, the narrative

1280
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 4: that you care about seemingly more than anyone else, either

1281
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 4: on your show or other shows, other content that you've

1282
01:00:58,200 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 4: heard circulating out there in the world.

1283
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 5: The Rutgers resurgence New York's Big Ten team.

1284
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: Ty, I'm telling you.

1285
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 4: We are so like minded between Miami Tennessee and now Rutgers.

1286
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: Continue.

1287
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 4: I have a horrible nickname which I will share with

1288
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 4: you and you're free to use, but I want to

1289
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 4: hear your bit on Rutgers.

1290
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: First.

1291
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 5: Kaminange is the best running back in college football that

1292
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 5: you have not heard of. Rutgers has upped their win

1293
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 5: total every year that Greg Ciano has been there. Say

1294
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Speaker 5: what you want about Greg Ciano. He is able to

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Speaker 5: extract blood from stones with this specific team and this

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Speaker 5: specific program. They're old, and I think that for me,

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Speaker 5: the best college football teams in our in our portal heavy,

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Speaker 5: COVID year heavy college football are teams that have continuity

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Speaker 5: and that are old. Rutgers is old, and I do

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Speaker 5: think for that reason, those Rutgers Scarlett Knights gonna go

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Speaker 5: eighty four.

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Speaker 4: I came up with a horrible nickname for Kyle man

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Speaker 4: Angai that I am extremely proud of. It's the most

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01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 4: cringe worthy thing I've done. And I won't talk you

1305
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 4: through the full story arc that arrived at this, that

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01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 4: helped me arrive at this name. But this year we're

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Speaker 4: calling him the heel A Monster. We're going with heel

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Speaker 4: A Monster. Okay, there is a very loose tie in

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Speaker 4: with the Manonga Hilo River. I'm told it's Monoga Halo

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Speaker 4: River in western Pennsylvania. It doesn't make sense, Richard, but

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Speaker 4: the nickname caught on with our people, and I'm sticking

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Speaker 4: with the Heela Monster. He's incredible. He is the engine

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Speaker 4: that drives that offense. If they can get just a

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Speaker 4: little bit more in the passing game, I'm with you

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Speaker 4: just to touch like I've got them beating Washington when

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01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 4: Washington travels cross country to play Rutgers.

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Speaker 1: I think this could be a really good team. And

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Speaker 1: You're right.

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Speaker 4: Shiano has done a very good job in his second

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Speaker 4: stint now with this team, and I'm hopeful that they

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Speaker 4: can continue that trend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am.

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Speaker 5: I'm fascinated for Rutgers this season, which is Isn't that

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Speaker 5: a sense?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm in. I'm in man Question eight.

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Speaker 4: Outside of your co hosts and myself, since we're doing

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Speaker 4: this interview, friendliest college football media member that you've had

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Speaker 4: the pleasure of interacting with.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go Ralph Russo, your friend and mine

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Speaker 5: from the Associated Press. Ralph lives in Park Slope. We

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Speaker 5: have had a I live in in Clinton Hill and Brooklyn.

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01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 5: We have had a long running joke that we have

1333
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 5: never spent time with each other outside of sporting events,

1334
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 5: yet we live like three miles away from So We've

1335
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 5: hung out with each other at Barkley's and MSG covering

1336
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 5: NCAA tournament events, and obviously we've hung out with each

1337
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 5: other all across the country in various college football media opportunities.

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Speaker 5: But until this summer when we got together with Paul

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01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 5: Meerberg at USA Today, we had not actually spent time

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01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 5: with each other non work related in our city, and

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Speaker 5: so we did the other day.

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Speaker 1: It was a lovely time. I love Ralph.

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01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 5: Ralph is incredible a long suffering Mets fan, but Ralph

1344
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 5: is an incredible guy.

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Speaker 1: Ralph's a good dude. Can attest to that, all right.

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Speaker 1: Question nine, which team's most overrated this season? Is? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Do you consider Michigan overrated if you say they're going

1348
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 5: to finish like third or do you think that's properly rated?

1349
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 5: I think I think that's properly rated. Okay, So I

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01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 5: think that's overrated. I think Michigan's going to finish like fifth.

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Speaker 1: In the Big Ten.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I think Michigans have an incredible defense, Yes, obviously,

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01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 5: I just don't know where the offense comes from. I

1354
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,439
Speaker 5: don't know where the explosive plays come from. They're going

1355
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 5: to lose to Texas, They're going to lose to Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: I don't you know.

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Speaker 5: It's it's I think the schedule is a little bit

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Speaker 5: different than last year, where they were able to ramp

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Speaker 5: it up over nine games. It's a three game It's

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Speaker 5: really a two game season at the end there, and

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Speaker 5: they were able to manage their season and then get

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Speaker 5: to a national championship. That's not to say they're stolen

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01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 5: ballot national champions, but that is to say that I

1364
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:00,919
Speaker 5: think with a harder schedule, well, I think they take

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01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 5: more losses in a harder conference, and I don't think

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01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 5: they sniffed the Big Ten championship game.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think they make the playoff.

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Speaker 4: And with so much turnover, especially on offense, I mean

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Speaker 4: there's a lot coming back, but you lose JJ McCarthy,

1370
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 4: you lose Blake Korum, you lose other pieces of that offense.

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Speaker 4: It's a problem. It's not the same line from a

1372
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Speaker 4: year ago. They're still going to be real good, but

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Speaker 4: it's just not the same team from an offensive standpoint

1374
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Speaker 4: playing defense solely playing defense in the Big Ten.

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Speaker 1: We've seen that.

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Speaker 4: Template before that can work wonders, and so I expect

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Speaker 4: that Michigan's going to win a bunch of games. I

1378
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 4: don't think they're going to fall through the floor, but

1379
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Speaker 4: it is a question where the offense comes from, and

1380
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 4: we know there'll be some continuity with Sharon Moore. However,

1381
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Speaker 4: it's just a lot to absorb all of those losses.

1382
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Speaker 4: Can Alex Orgy throw the ball at all?

1383
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 3: Like?

1384
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Speaker 1: Do we know?

1385
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Speaker 4: I'm hopeful that he can, since it seems like he's

1386
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 4: the presumed starter, but there are a great number of

1387
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 4: unknowns offensively for Michigan that leave me a little bit leary.

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01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm the same way. I'm the same way, And

1389
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,439
Speaker 5: it's weird to say that about the champs, but that's

1390
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 5: how I feel.

1391
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: All right.

1392
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 4: And our final question here, Richard Johnson, CBS Sports Split

1393
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 4: Zone Duo college football podcast, You and your podcast co

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01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 4: hosts Alex and Godfrey. You're given an all expenses paid

1395
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 4: trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado to compete in all six

1396
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 4: events of men's gymnastics. Oh, okay, floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault,

1397
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 4: parallel bars, in the high bar, who wins the split

1398
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 4: zone all around competition? And more importantly, who is the

1399
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:39,919
Speaker 4: first to get hurt?

1400
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 5: Godfrey's the first to get hurt because he's old, easily.

1401
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 5: I think it's obviously a stress test between me and Alex.

1402
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 5: Alex sneaky athletic, real Jim Ratt coach on the field,

1403
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 5: So I think Alex is able to put up a

1404
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 5: legitimate score. I would probably win, but Alex would definitely

1405
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 5: be a to push me. I think I could wreck

1406
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 5: a pommel horse. The centripetal force aspect of the pommel horse.

1407
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 5: These hips are serious hips don't lie, They sure don't,

1408
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 5: and so because of that, I think I'd be able

1409
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 5: to at least get enough done on.

1410
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: The pommel horse to be dangerous. Which event would scare

1411
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: you the most?

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01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 5: Uh? The I'm trying to remember what the men's vault is.

1413
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 5: The men's the run and then you like propel and

1414
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 5: you sort of do a flip.

1415
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: That's one. I mean.

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01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 5: The high bar is the easy one, right, That's the

1417
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 5: one where you sort of uh, you know, the monkey

1418
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 5: bar looking.

1419
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 4: Things, but like we couldn't do any tricks on it.

1420
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,479
Speaker 4: That's like all we could do is swing back. Yeah,

1421
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 4: there's no way you're gonna test it by trying to

1422
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:45,439
Speaker 4: go up and over.

1423
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,479
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I agree, I agree, And so that makes

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01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 5: that one difficult.

1425
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:52,959
Speaker 1: Men don't do beam right, no, noam no beams kiss

1426
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: the shit out of me.

1427
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 5: Beam, absolutely not. I'm not getting up on that thing,

1428
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 5: absolutely not. Simone Biles falls falls off that thing.

1429
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 4: On that note, Richard Johnson, CBS Sports splits on deal,

1430
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 4: where can people find your fine work on Twitter?

1431
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 5: Kind of not really, but on Twitter at RJ underscore CFB.

1432
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 5: Don't spend a lot of time on Twitter anymore these days.

1433
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 5: On Instagram at RJ underscore CFB as well. That's where

1434
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:18,719
Speaker 5: I spend a lot more time. It's a lot more fun.

1435
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 5: It's not a degrading platform, and I'm not It doesn't

1436
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 5: worry me about the state of the world, even though

1437
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 5: Instagram has its own hosts of problems. CBS Sports CBS

1438
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 5: Sports HQ is where I'll be spending a lot of

1439
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 5: my time, streaming on the streaming network streaming home of

1440
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 5: CBS Sports, and then podcast puts on Duo Dot com

1441
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 5: for everything that we do.

1442
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 4: Go and check out Richard on all those platforms. The

1443
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 4: podcast is fabulous. You guys do awesome work. Thrilled to

1444
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:45,640
Speaker 4: have you back on the show. It's been too long.

1445
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 4: I don't even know how long it's been, but for

1446
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,560
Speaker 4: no particular reason. I think just people get busy and it.

1447
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: Has it worked out before now.

1448
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 4: But Richard Johnson, check him out, check out his show.

1449
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 4: They'll talk to you soon, my friend. Enjoy the season.

1450
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,719
Speaker 4: All right, Dan, there you go. That's part one. Cole

1451
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 4: and Richard gracious with their time. Yes, both graciously invited

1452
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 4: us onto their shows as well, So if you are

1453
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 4: stopping by the Cube Show or Split Zone, make sure

1454
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 4: you listen for Dan and I will be there as well.

1455
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 2: Yes, had a great time on both of those, while

1456
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 2: I wasn't on the Richard Split Zone one, but had

1457
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 2: a great time with Cole, who has been a listener

1458
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 2: for a while, has been a friend of the show

1459
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 2: for a while. He projects like serious, but he's got

1460
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 2: a secret fun side, which we actually talked about on

1461
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 2: his show some He's I like him a lot.

1462
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: He's great and Richard's been a friend for a long time.

1463
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:43,879
Speaker 2: Of course, Racho's out saying, yeah.

1464
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 4: That goes out saying you did a show with them,

1465
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 4: you work with the mid eSPI Nation. I had a

1466
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 4: chance finally after two years of trying to go out

1467
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 4: and golf with them back in June, which was a

1468
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:52,719
Speaker 4: ton of fun.

1469
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 2: Destroyed him.

1470
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 4: I thought he was going to destroy me. After the

1471
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 4: front nine, Yeah, he came out like a a fire.

1472
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 4: And then, you know, as these things go, the back

1473
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 4: nine hit in the wind, kicked up, and yeah, that

1474
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 4: tends to play tricks with anyone's golf game. But great time.

1475
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 4: Hopefully we can do it again sometime soon. We already

1476
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 4: have plans to do so. And make sure you just

1477
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 4: check these guys out. Look, we're all working pretty hard here.

1478
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 2: Yes, Rising Tide.

1479
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 4: About to get super hectics, So check out what Cole does.

1480
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 4: Of course, check out what Richard does. We're going to

1481
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 4: be back in part two with our good friend Andy Staples,

1482
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 4: our good friend Michael Junior. We're going to continue asking

1483
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 4: him many of the same questions, trying to get to

1484
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 4: the bottom of what everyone feels headed into this college

1485
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 4: football season. As weak zero Dan gets awfully.

1486
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: Big in the window. It starts up on Saturday.

1487
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 2: It's good be here before we know it in Ireland

1488
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:47,679
Speaker 2: is how it kicks off.

1489
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 4: Right for sure, all right in the inter for that

1490
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 4: guy over there, Dan Rubinsteed, for myself, Tie hildon Brandt.

1491
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 4: We'll be back very short order. Give you part two,

1492
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:57,480
Speaker 4: more interviews

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Speaker 1: With the college football creators they saw pace