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Speaker 1: I don't know how you explain it to newcomers, but

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Speaker 1: December eleventh, the year of our lower twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: We got some football related serious stuff. We've got some

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Speaker 1: of my notes. So they're watching us in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Racine, Illinois, Dayton, Ohio, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: college football all year long. Happy you stumbled upon the show.

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Speaker 1: And now it's going to get pretty heavy, so let's

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Speaker 1: dive in. Michigan fired Sharon Moore yesterday yesterday being Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: address that Number one, Because I didn't fully know what

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Speaker 1: was happening. I heard some stuff. You hear a lot

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Speaker 1: remember one of the points I always hammered home was

429
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Speaker 1: I don't support expansion because I don't think it'll ever stop.

430
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Speaker 1: If you expand to eight, or especially if you expand

431
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Speaker 1: to twelve, they're gonna look at it and they're gonna

432
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Speaker 1: make more money than they did before. And even if

433
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Speaker 1: that first move doesn't negatively impact the regular season, they'll

434
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Speaker 1: just keep expanding it until you kill what the regular

435
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: season has been. Bigger playoff means more teams involved. That's

436
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 1: part of the pitch, you know. That's when they sell

437
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 1: an expanded playoff. That's what they say, Oh, well, if

438
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: you have a bigger playoff, you can get more teams

439
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: involved and more more fan bases are interested. To an extent,

440
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,479
Speaker 1: that's true. I do think there's a saturation point, and

441
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: you expanded any further, you'll probably see the saturation point.

442
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: But even if I grant you that, here's the downside.

443
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: Here's the ever so slippery slope. The bigger the playoff

444
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,919
Speaker 1: bubble is It is true. The more teams get in,

445
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,439
Speaker 1: it is true, the more teams have a shot. But

446
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: the bigger the bubble gets, the more teams it touches,

447
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: which means mathematically, the more teams and more fan bases,

448
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: you will have angry at the end of the year.

449
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: The only way you minimize the amount of angry fan

450
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: bases is to contract the bubble. But we don't contract

451
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: in this sport. We only expand. So as we expand,

452
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: more more teams get in, more teams have a shot,

453
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: more fan bases are engaged, but more fan bases will

454
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Speaker 1: be angry, just like is the case at Texas, and

455
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: is the case at Vanderbilt and Brigham Young this year,

456
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 1: Notre Dame this year. Last year was South Carolina, Alabama,

457
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: ol Miss. This will be an age old concept tail

458
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: as old as time. You're the first few teams left out,

459
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: you're the ones that are most up that and they

460
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: yell a whole lot, And they have all the incentive

461
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: in the world to yell for expansion, not because they

462
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 1: think it's for the greater good of the game. It

463
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: would be for the greater good of themselves. Now, if

464
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: we had a college football commissioner, he could step in

465
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 1: right now and say, suck it up, win one more

466
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Speaker 1: game next year. Do your job. It's not my job

467
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Speaker 1: to expand to the point where even though you don't

468
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Speaker 1: do your job well enough, you still get in. But

469
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Speaker 1: we don't have that kind of presence because I haven't

470
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Speaker 1: been elected yet. Anger is not a terrible thing. That's

471
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: always been my working theory, whether it was four teams

472
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Speaker 1: or twelve teams. Anger at the end of the year

473
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Speaker 1: is not evidence that the model is broken. Now, having

474
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Speaker 1: two G five teams in the playoff each seventeen plus

475
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: point underdogs, that may be a little evidence that the

476
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: model is broken, but we can tweak that without having

477
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Speaker 1: to expand the thing past twelve. Anger is not evidence

478
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Speaker 1: that twelve teams is not enough. Anger may be evidence

479
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 1: that twelve teams is just right, because the size of

480
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Speaker 1: the playoff, when it's proper, is always going have anger.

481
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 1: If you've expanded the playoff to the point where no

482
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Speaker 1: one's upset, you expanded the thing way too far. But

483
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Speaker 1: that's not in the best interest of an athletic director

484
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Speaker 1: or a conference commissioner. And Ross Dellinger did a really,

485
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Speaker 1: really good deep dive on this over on Yahoo sports

486
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Speaker 1: dot Com yesterday. It kind of got caught up in

487
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: the whole Sharon More hurricane of news. But Ross was

488
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Speaker 1: talking to college football commissioners at the league level. He

489
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: was talking to ads, and they were pretty is going

490
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: to shock everyone. They were pretty much in unison. Yep,

491
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: we probably need to expand it again. And of course

492
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Speaker 1: you got the Big Ten out there with their asen

493
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Speaker 1: nine twenty fourteen playoff model, and no one is anything

494
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Speaker 1: less than sixteen. Apparently, it appears like I didn't see

495
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Speaker 1: a single person saying let's just keep it at twelve.

496
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Speaker 1: The best I could find, I think was the MAC

497
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: commissioner saying twelve's okay. But that was right after he

498
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Speaker 1: said fourteen or sixteen. But here's the problem. Broll that

499
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Speaker 1: quote from the Ross Dellinger piece. Now, this is not

500
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Speaker 1: a quote from any one. This is Ross Dellinger himself

501
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: speaking any years.

502
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Speaker 2: What he said.

503
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Speaker 1: A move to sixteen teams is seen by some as

504
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Speaker 1: the next step in the evolution of the playoff that

505
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Speaker 1: perhaps one day will grow to more than twenty teams,

506
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Speaker 1: a compromise of sorts for Big ten leaders. It's just

507
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: the next step, guys. This has always been a process

508
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: and it's always been a series, it's always been a

509
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: set of ladder rungs. That was what we cautioned about

510
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: when we first got a whiff of playoff expansion, and

511
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: I was very, very very against it, and I was told, no,

512
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: you just don't want more teams participating, you don't want

513
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Speaker 1: to share the wealth. And it was never any of that.

514
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: It was that I think the most precious commodity in

515
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: the sport's the regular season, and every time you expand

516
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: the playoff, it's done at the expense of the value

517
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Speaker 1: of regular season games. And really admit, the twelve team

518
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: model has not killed the regular season. But as you

519
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: can clearly see, the plan was never to stop at twelve.

520
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: The plan was to take the next step in the

521
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: quote unquote evolution to eventually get to a twenty plus

522
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: team behemoth, because that's the only way these people know

523
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524
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Speaker 1: particularly inventive, and so they see this one thing that

525
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Speaker 1: is a surefire money maker, and that's the playoff, and

526
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Speaker 1: they just make it as big as they want at

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559
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Speaker 1: spring slash Summer box of bold predictions that you guys submitted,

560
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: because our policy around here is if I've got to

561
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: make predictions, you've got to make predictions. If I get

562
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Speaker 1: drug after the season, you get drug after the season,

563
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Speaker 1: and that's only fair. So all of you have signed

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Speaker 1: that social contract, and boy do I have some disasters

565
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Speaker 1: on this piece of paper tonight. Bold prediction number one

566
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Speaker 1: that crashed into the ocean courtesy of Nick and Macomb Michigan.

567
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: Penn State has two one thousand yard receivers in the

568
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: regular season. Well, Penn State did not even have a

569
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: five hundred yard receiver this season. Trevor Penna led the

570
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: team with four hundred and fifty two receiving yards. In fact,

571
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: the the entire team only had a little over twenty

572
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: one hundred receiving yards. Nick thought, that have two one

573
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers, and I know where your head was at, Nick,

574
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: there was a lot of excitement. Went to the portal,

575
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: got a couple of big time receiver names. Also, we

576
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Speaker 1: got Drew aler Back and Andy Koleal Nick, he has

577
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: just been cooking all spring and all summer, and yeah,

578
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: they forgot to turn the stove on. I don't know

579
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: what to tell you, man. Only one game this year

580
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: did Penn State have a one hundred yard receiver and

581
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: that was the Northwestern game, which they lost. So abject

582
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: failure on your part, Nick, But I love you. This

583
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: is what it feels like. Welcome to my life. This

584
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: is every day in my shoes. Next up, Sam tried

585
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: to get creative here and I do appreciate that. I

586
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: respect that. That is where the respect ends. Because his

587
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: prediction was this year there will be more than four

588
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: schools where a tiger is their mascot that make the

589
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: college football playoff, which I guess means five schools with

590
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: a tiger mascot make the playoff. I labeled this ten

591
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: out of ten on the boldness scale. We were looking

592
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: at the likes of Auburn, Missouri, Memphis, Clemson, LSU. To

593
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: spoil the ending for you here, zero tiger mascots made

594
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: the playoff. Memphis and Missouri went eight and four, Auburn

595
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: went five and seven, Clemson and LSU went seven and five.

596
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: There were more Green Waves and Dukes in the playoff,

597
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: then there were Tigers. There were more Red Raiders and

598
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: Hoosiers in the playoff, then there were Tigers. So that

599
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: was a ten, and it was labeled a ten for

600
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: a reason. And then lastly, this one I never thought

601
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: had a shot to get off the ground. This is

602
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: why I labeled this one at ten on the boldeness

603
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: scale as well. Danny from Dawsonville, Georgia, home of Bill Elliott.

604
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: Fran Brown leads Sarahcuse to the playoffs this season. Well,

605
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what fran Brown led Syracuse to. He

606
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: led them to losing their final eight games of the

607
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: year in route to a three and record. They did

608
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: not score twenty in any of their final eight games. Now,

609
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: they lost to Tennessee to start the year, but then

610
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: they won two straight and then they went into Clemson

611
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: in one and that was a great day for Syracuse football.

612
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: It's also the day they lost Steve Angelly for the

613
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: season to injury, and then the season went off the

614
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Speaker 1: rails after that. And look at those scores thirty eight, three,

615
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: thirty one, eighteen thirty to thirteen. They, like I said,

616
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: they did not hit twenty points in any moment the

617
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: rest of the way. So Syracuse making the playoffs. Syracuse

618
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: made it halfway to a bowl game. That's what Syracuse

619
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Speaker 1: ended up doing. Five schools with tiger mascots make the playoff. Zero.

620
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Speaker 1: Penn State has a couple of one thousand yard receivers.

621
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Speaker 1: Penn State did not even have a five hundred yard receiver.

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Speaker 1: These are busted bold predictions. Stand in the paint with me.

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Speaker 5: Charlotte for the SEC schedule release show tonight myself, Roman Harper,

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Speaker 5: Gene Chizik, Darynoka. We'll let you know who is playing,

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Speaker 5: who win on the schedule, where they're going to be playing,

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Speaker 3: So it should be a good show tonight.

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Speaker 1: Remind me, is this a year where there are going

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Speaker 1: to be two by weeks or just one by week?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: No, that's one of those things when you look at

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Speaker 5: these schedules, Josh. It was one of the first things

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Speaker 5: all right, where's hold on. They're gonna go about me

682
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 5: in a row like that's oh wow, that's really difficult.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna see some six, seven, eight straight SEC game

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Speaker 5: runs that some Southeastern Conference teams are going to go

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Speaker 5: on next year, daunting tasks that some.

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Speaker 3: Of these teams are gonna fa.

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Speaker 5: I'll say this from what I've seen the Missouri Old

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Speaker 5: miss schedules that we've kind of pointed at the last

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Speaker 5: couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, gone, yeah, I get any of those anymore.

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Speaker 1: All right, let me start with this real more stuff.

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Speaker 1: We already talked about it earlier in the show, but

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Speaker 1: just I know you had to have hit this this morning.

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Speaker 1: You know, Sharon wore a lot better than me. I

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Speaker 1: don't really even know him all that much, So how

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Speaker 1: did this story strike you when it first started to

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Speaker 1: break yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Shocking?

699
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 5: We taken him to Joe more Ward two consecutive years

700
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 5: here of the last few seasons, had a chance to

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Speaker 5: visit with him, talk to him about his style of coaching,

702
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 5: got to know him as a person. We did speak

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Speaker 5: a little bit more when he was just the offensive

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Speaker 5: line coach and the head coach. Obviously guys get busy,

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00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 5: you don't talk to him as much. But developed a

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Speaker 5: relationship with him over the years, and never saw this coming.

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Speaker 3: Never thought this was real.

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Speaker 5: There had been some hints to this, some individuals that

709
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Speaker 5: I know may have alluded to.

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Speaker 3: This months ago.

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Speaker 5: Still didn't think it was real, And then when some

712
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 5: of the rumors started finding around, thinking no, that's just

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Speaker 5: not going to take place. I think we're always shocked

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Speaker 5: when people that are in these positions, with these type

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Speaker 5: of opportunities presented to them, Josh, something like this is

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Speaker 5: just not going to take place. But from what I

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00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 5: knew and what I had gotten to know, and I

718
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 5: think the man that a lot of the general college

719
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 5: football public had seen the forward facing portion of Strowmore,

720
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 5: we didn't really think that this was possible either, and

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Speaker 5: unfortunate ending to his tenure there as the Michigan head coach.

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Speaker 1: Do you look at this job the way I do?

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Speaker 1: Like I look at the Michigan job, I think it's

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Speaker 1: one of the premier jobs in the country in a vacuum. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: this is not in a vacuum. This is with a

726
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: lot of other circumstances thrown in. Not to mention the

727
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: calendar being where it is. Maybe some of the desirable

728
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: candidates are in the playoffs, maybe some of them are

729
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 1: in the NFL and their own regular season, So yeah,

730
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Speaker 1: the timing is not ideal. I also look at the

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Speaker 1: alignment or lack thereof, maybe some uncertainty about the administrative

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Speaker 1: state up there. But I just think about the totality

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Speaker 1: of the job Michigan, how it compares. You and I

734
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Speaker 1: are from the South, so someone in Detroit or all

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Speaker 1: Beny New York listening to us, like we have a

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Speaker 1: little different slant on things than if we grew up

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Speaker 1: in Big Ten country. All ways thought of the Michigan

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Speaker 1: job as like this beacon just shining on me. From

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Speaker 1: up north. Ohio State was that way as well, And

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Speaker 1: like I always knew, even growing up in the South,

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Speaker 1: man that job like all things equal, no scandal, no

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Speaker 1: NCAA sanctions. I think I would leave Harris County, Georgia

743
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Speaker 1: to go up there and coach it. So then it

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Speaker 1: gets into the real world application of you got like

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Speaker 1: Kaylin de Bor's name that gets mentioned, and you got

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Speaker 1: people who were listening to you in Birmingham who of

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Speaker 1: course would not consider that cause they may be from

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Speaker 1: the South or their Alabama fans. You got a little

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Speaker 1: bit better worldview on this though. Had How do you

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Speaker 1: view that job compared to some of the big jobs

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Speaker 1: down in the SEC.

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Speaker 5: I grew up the majority of my life in Birmingham, Alabama,

753
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 5: kind of like you referencing growing up in the South.

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Speaker 5: We moved from Jackson, Mississippi, when I was two years old.

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00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 5: I was in love with SEC football at an early age.

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Speaker 5: If you would have asked me at fourteen fifteen, sixteen

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Speaker 5: years old.

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Speaker 3: All I want to do is play in the SEC.

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Speaker 5: My Barons attended South Carolina, had an ant that played

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Speaker 5: basketball at Clemson. I was most more familiar with that

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Speaker 5: rivalry from a family perspective. But there's no way I

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Speaker 5: could not have known the importance of Michigan football and

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Speaker 5: whether it was Desen Howard striking the post or Tim

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Speaker 5: Biakabatuca or then going on in my college career, you know,

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Speaker 5: playing against Steve Hutchinson and Jeff Beckuss and Anthony Thomas

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Speaker 5: and those guys, Drew Henson playing quarterback Washington, Tom Brady,

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Speaker 5: what he did defeeding Alabama the year before in the

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Speaker 5: Citrus Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Like, that brand is iconic and it is known or in.

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Speaker 5: College football circles as being iconic and one of the

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Speaker 5: bigger brands that there is. That uniform, you could argue,

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Speaker 5: most recognizable uniform in sports. Possibly the historic players that

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Speaker 5: have been through the Big House itself, the stadium alone,

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Speaker 5: the atmosphere alone. This is one of those jobs, Josh,

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Speaker 5: that we might look at the condition that it's in.

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Speaker 5: We may look at some of the fallout of the

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Speaker 5: shrapnel that's going to come with what just happened there.

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Speaker 5: But make no mistake, and you've referenced this with other jobs,

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Speaker 5: and I believe that you would reference this one the

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Speaker 5: same way. There will be candidates that we don't hear

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Speaker 5: about that are highly interested in taking this job. Now

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00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 5: whether that plays out will be determined on their current situation,

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Speaker 5: maybe how their teams season ends, other opportunities that are

784
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 5: presented to them, how Michigan approaches them, whether they want

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00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 5: to talk to them or not. But there will be

786
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 5: candidates that people would be wowed by that are interested

787
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Speaker 5: in this job. And that could just be Hey, age,

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Speaker 5: see where they are financially, what's the nil situation looking

789
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Speaker 5: like there. Let's take a little deeper look at this

790
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Speaker 5: thing to see if we actually want to attack it

791
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Speaker 5: or if it's just one that we're slightly interested in.

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Speaker 5: At the end of the day, the drama that has

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Speaker 5: been around it, the way that this thing ended, and

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Speaker 5: the way that people might look at it, and.

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Speaker 3: The slight tartars that might be on it.

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Speaker 5: Right now, Josh, it's the Michigan job and that will

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Speaker 5: hold clout and that will bring eyeballs in coaching circles

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Speaker 5: no matter when.

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Speaker 3: No matter where it is or no matter how it happened.

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Speaker 1: All right, I got the playoff bracket in front of me.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about the G five stuff some other time.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna I'm gonna assume you solidly lean Ole

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Speaker 1: Miss and Oregon. So outside of those two games, you

804
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: could either pick a matchup that is set Miami A

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Speaker 1: and m Bama Oklahoma. I'm told you're gonna be at

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Speaker 1: both of those games, by the way, is that true.

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Speaker 3: There's a good possibility.

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Speaker 5: It depends on the transportation situation, and that's just something

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Speaker 5: you can It's never reliable, so you just you don't

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Speaker 5: know what to expect.

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Speaker 1: You play it by ear possible. I'd say, okay, fair enough.

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Speaker 1: I wish you the best of luck. By the way,

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Speaker 1: completely out of my hands, but I wish you the

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Speaker 1: best of luck. So take some of those games that

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Speaker 1: are slated, or maybe some games that you think could happen,

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Speaker 1: Like it's a pretty good chance Ole Miss in Georgia

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Speaker 1: is gonna happen in round two. Pretty good. I Actually

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Speaker 1: I have no clue who you're going to pick in

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Speaker 1: Miami and A and M but either one of them

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Speaker 1: is about to play Ohio State. Where does your finger

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Speaker 1: your little index finger. When you circle this bracket, where

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00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: does it start to get drawn to?

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Speaker 5: There are some cool matchups we could talk about second

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Speaker 5: third round championship game. I can't get past Texas A

825
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Speaker 5: and M in Miami, though, there's too much intrigue in

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Speaker 5: that game for me. You have two offensive lines, maybe

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Speaker 5: the best right tackle in college football in Francis Monaga

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Speaker 5: at Miami that's going to be able to go up

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Speaker 5: against Casius Howell and some of those edge defenders for

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Speaker 5: Texas A and M. Mark Fletcher up back for that

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Speaker 5: group that has been able to play ground and pound

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Speaker 5: at times this season. Going up against a really good

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Speaker 5: Texas A and M defensive line, it's not just the

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Speaker 5: edge defenders. Albert Regis and company inside can be just

835
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Speaker 5: as destructive. A Texas A and M offensive line that

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Speaker 5: has good football under their belt this year. It's been

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Speaker 5: a little inconsistent part of that because they've played a

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Speaker 5: lot of bodies, They've rotated guys. Not a lot of

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Speaker 5: teams do that this day and age. But they'll be

840
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Speaker 5: going up against Ruben Bain, a massadoran company that can

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00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 5: get after the quarterback to be disruptive against the run,

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Speaker 5: and I think The most intriguing part of this game

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Speaker 5: is not just the two quarterbacks and how we've seen

844
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Speaker 5: great football from them.

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Speaker 3: We've seen some mistake laid in football from those two.

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Speaker 5: I think it's that the Miami secondary, if we're just

847
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Speaker 5: talking about out speed and athleticism, may have the best

848
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Speaker 5: chance possibly if.

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Speaker 3: Anybody that A and M has played this year.

850
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Speaker 5: Notre Dame's got some great corners, and that would be

851
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 5: one that I would put into that mix, but they

852
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 5: might have the best chance to be able to run

853
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 5: with some of these A and M receivers that anybody

854
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 5: they've played this year, and that's not a group that

855
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 5: shies away from trying to hit you. They're not afraid

856
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 5: to trade paint, will come down in the box and

857
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Speaker 5: play the run. I just think when you go back

858
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Speaker 5: and forth and look at the different aspects of this matchup,

859
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 5: the different directions it could go, and it's gonna come

860
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 5: down to one two guys that just have great games.

861
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 3: Does Ruben Bain take this game over?

862
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 5: Does Cashus Howell take this game over? Does the Texas

863
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 5: A and M ground game that includes Marcel Red and

864
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 5: his legs take this game over? I just think just

865
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 5: Casey conception on take this game over. There are so

866
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 5: many I guess takeover players that are gonna see legitimate

867
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 5: matchup issues in this game. I don't know where to

868
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 5: point the way it's going to go. I don't know

869
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 5: which unit to look at and say that is going

870
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 5: to decide whether or not they win this football game

871
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 5: or not, because others could show up and be just

872
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 5: as are more important. So I'd love to talk about

873
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 5: some of the ones that we might get, but I

874
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 5: can't get away from that one because I know we're

875
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 5: getting it.

876
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I look at too, is Oregon,

877
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: I think is as good a position as any team

878
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: in this thing, including the teams that have the first

879
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: round by because if they really are heeled up to

880
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: the point where they can make a run here, I

881
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 1: don't know. I watched these teams last year play first

882
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: round games and it really was not detrimental to their

883
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: overall chances of making a run. And I think about

884
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: them playing JMU at home. I just think about that

885
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: the same way. This is gonna sound disrespectful. It is

886
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: what it did, Like this is gonna be such an

887
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: athletic mismatch. I think about that the same way I

888
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: would think about your final fall camp scrimmage before you

889
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: get ready to go into the regular season. I think

890
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: about the equivalent of that. It's different. It's a playoff game,

891
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: it's a foreign opponent. They're keeping score. But I think

892
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: about what you could do to work out any kinks,

893
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: Like you're healthy, you're reintroducing guys into your lineup. But

894
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: the thing about Oregon and their side of the bracket

895
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: versus maybe like A, Texas, A and M's side of

896
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: the bracket is Ohio State and Georgia and A and

897
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: M and Miami. They're all in the same side. And

898
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about there forget about matchup for a second,

899
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: zoom it way out. Just the talent rosters, just the

900
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: athletic profiles that would concern you the most. All four

901
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: of those are on one side, and Oregon's over there

902
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: on the other side. And the ones they're on the

903
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: side of are Indiana, which is not out talenting you

904
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: to death. They're just out executing you to death. Alabama

905
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma are both fairly to moderately flawed teams independent

906
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: of the health situation with Alabama, and so like I

907
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: think about the draw they got, I love the draw. Now,

908
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: the trade off there is if they are going to

909
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: make it to the National Championship Game, after they play

910
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: at home in Eugene, they will fly all the way

911
00:45:55,719 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: to Miami, come home, fly to Atlanta, come home, then

912
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: they'll fly back to Miami for the championship game. So

913
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying frequent flyer miles won't be racked up,

914
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: but you do get a little bit of extended period

915
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: of time here. It's not every six days you're playing.

916
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: I think the thing secretly sets up really well for Oregon,

917
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter if they don't have that minimum

918
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: baseline of health that everyone's been crossing their fingers up

919
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: there and hoping they get come playoff time.

920
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 5: And I don't expect Dan Lanning to allow his team

921
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 5: to do this. But there can't be a look ahead

922
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 5: factor because I do think one thing JMU has been

923
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 5: for years is one of, if not the most physical

924
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 5: G five team out there.

925
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 3: So they will they'll do their best to.

926
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,439
Speaker 5: Be able to match up with that aspect of Oregon's team,

927
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 5: which they won't. They can't directly, and that's where you'll

928
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 5: get some gap scheme runs, you'll get misdirection, you'll get

929
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 5: quarterback boots, things of that nature. They'll try to offset it.

930
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 5: You'll get movement on defense. But you said all those

931
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 5: things about the bottom of.

932
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 3: The bracket, and I agree with all of them.

933
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 5: And go back to our conversation a month or two ago,

934
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 5: and we talked about those things that teams have, Josh

935
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 5: that you can't do anything about A and M pass rush,

936
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 5: than nobody can really do anything about the Ohio State

937
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 5: receiver slash quarterback passing game, Like you're not covering those guys,

938
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 5: not man to man. You may find ways to just

939
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 5: keep them in front of you and neutralize the explosive plays.

940
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 5: But then maybe you have the best football team that

941
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 5: Oregon may have to run into. So you ask yourself,

942
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 5: like McElroy and I are different size of this. On

943
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 5: our show, he got into an argument with friend of

944
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 5: ours that covers Notre Dame earlier this week and they

945
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 5: were talking about Auburn and Navy, and Greg's saying, you

946
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 5: can't tell me that you think Navy is a better

947
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 5: team than Auburn. Look at the players that Auburn has.

948
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 5: The guys are gonna be in the NFL. I actually

949
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 5: lean on the other.

950
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 3: Side of that.

951
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 5: I'll take the better football team, then I will the

952
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 5: better collection of talent, and I know what talent is

953
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 5: capable of doing.

954
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 3: I get it.

955
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 5: And that's where it goes back to what we talked

956
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 5: about position groups or players that seemingly you can't do

957
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 5: anything about. I haven't seen a group play collectively as

958
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 5: good as football more times this year than I have Indiana.

959
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 5: And because of that, that might be the team that

960
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 5: I would at least like to play in this tournament.

961
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 5: Aspects of Georgia's team that I wouldn't want to have

962
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 5: to face, and I think that they're inching closer to

963
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 5: where Indiana is collectively. I mean that offense is running

964
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 5: on all cylinders right now. And I say that now

965
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 5: because they're putting up five hundred yards a game. I'm

966
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 5: saying it because they can be successful doing so many

967
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 5: different things.

968
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 3: Well, Indy has been doing that.

969
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 5: They've been running the ball, they've been had a screen game,

970
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 5: they've been throwing our pos, they've been taking their shots

971
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 5: down the field. They've had it, and they've been accomplishing

972
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 5: that with a physical offensive line, a physical group of

973
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 5: bonus bigs. They can also add to be more beneficial there.

974
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 5: Defense sets attacks, that can be disruptive up front. I

975
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 5: think Ohio State has better players. I think Miami has

976
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 5: better players. I think Alabama has a more talented roster.

977
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 5: Oklahoma has a more talented roster. Oregon has a more

978
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 5: talented roster. I think he Anddian has a better football team.

979
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 5: And I'll be interested to see how those parts of

980
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 5: this tournament play out as we move on.

981
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 1: As you watched Alabama Iron Bowl SEC championship game, you're

982
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 1: missing key contributors. They were what they were on the field.

983
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: You know what you have like two weeks, I guess

984
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: between SEC championship and the time they will have gone

985
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma next Friday night to play against the Sooners.

986
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: Two questions. Number one, what kind of team do you

987
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 1: think they're going to put on the field physically and mentally?

988
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: Number two, like if I were to tell you, hey,

989
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: I saw the future. Fast forward a month, they're in

990
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: the national title game. What will have to have happened

991
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: for that run to occur?

992
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 3: Parker Brailsford has to be healthy. Number one.

993
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 5: A couple of guys, because you can tell, I mean

994
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 5: you watch him on film. His left ankle is three

995
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 5: inches thicker than his right ankle. I mean it's in

996
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 5: the way he's playing right now, the way he's able

997
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 5: to anchor.

998
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 3: It's not his normal self.

999
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 5: And you heard me say early in the season, I

1000
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 5: thought he was their best football player for the first

1001
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 5: quarter of the season. So that's going to have to

1002
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 5: take place because he's that important. That unit is going

1003
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 5: to have to play clean football. Michael Carroll cannot continue

1004
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 5: to let edge rushers go inside when nobody else is home.

1005
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 5: You can't have Pollers on counter not climb to the

1006
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 5: lock I'm backer and allow him to stand there by

1007
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 5: himself and make a tackle behind the line scritage. The

1008
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 5: offensive line's got to get healthy. It's got to clean

1009
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 5: itself up. I would say a couple of guys on

1010
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 5: defense have to be healthy, like Justin Jefferson's critical of

1011
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 5: them making that run because he brings elite speed to

1012
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 5: a defense that against different personnel. Grouping allows them to

1013
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 5: stay the same makes life a lot easier on Kane Womack.

1014
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to quick giving up free beast to teams,

1015
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 5: which they did a lot versus Georgia not being able

1016
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 5: to pass off twists, busting assignments on four defenders slant

1017
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 5: to the right one slants to the left and a

1018
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 5: run hits right where he left that gap depleted for

1019
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 5: eight or nine yards. And I think the biggest thing

1020
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 5: that they have to have, Josh, if we're talking about

1021
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 5: Bama making a run in the national title game, you

1022
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,280
Speaker 5: better have first half of the SEC Championship game Ryan Williams,

1023
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 5: because let's be real, that makes them very different. Out

1024
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 5: of all the things that they've done, been not been complaints.

1025
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 3: That they've had this season, Guys that have played great.

1026
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 5: Guys that have fallen off, Guys that have been injured

1027
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 5: in and out of a lineup.

1028
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 3: If they have that Ryan Williams, because.

1029
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 5: Keep in mind, who has their utility player been this year.

1030
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,959
Speaker 5: It's been Jeremy Bernard in the backfield lineup as a why,

1031
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,720
Speaker 5: as a tied end, sometimes a move guy. He's throwing passes,

1032
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 5: he's doing He's what they use for their gadget plays

1033
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 5: a lot of the times. Imagine letting Jeremy Bernard just

1034
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 5: be Jeremy Bernard and Ryan Williams can be short of

1035
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 5: your move utility player type guy, your Swiss Army knife

1036
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 5: with that kind of explosive speed and the capability that

1037
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 5: he brings but the consistency's got to be there because

1038
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 5: Ryan Grubb can't keep dialing those things up if he

1039
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 5: doesn't know he's gonna get it. And if they're gonna

1040
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 5: be wasting plays, you're gonna have drops or you're gonna

1041
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 5: be not be on the same page as your quarterback.

1042
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 5: These games are too big to offer up those opportunities

1043
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,919
Speaker 5: to come and be misses multiple times in a game.

1044
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 5: So O line healthy, O line on same page. Defense,

1045
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,479
Speaker 5: stay healthy, get healthy, and Ryan Williams from the first

1046
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 5: half of the SEC Championship game is going to have

1047
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 5: to be there almost every series for the rest of

1048
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 5: the way through.

1049
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: I want to ask you something really quick in just

1050
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: a second about just the general complaints about a lot

1051
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: of aspects of the sport that people tend to traffic in.

1052
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: You and I may have even trafficked in them a

1053
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: couple of times, but sort of the overarching for lack

1054
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:18,879
Speaker 1: of a better term, narrative, because there are better terms,

1055
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: I want to hit you about that in a second.

1056
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: First off, a lot of playoff games out there. If

1057
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: you guys want to get to those, well, you have

1058
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: to have a ticket unless you're really really stealthy. And

1059
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: we don't endorse that kind of behavior on the show.

1060
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: You need tickets. I know you do, and that's why

1061
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: seat Geek came to us and said, hey, looks like

1062
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: most people who watch your show are big sports fans,

1063
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, guys, they tend to be. Absolutely

1064
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: They said, well, do you mind telling them if they

1065
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: enter paid ten at checkout, they get ten percent off

1066
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: their ticket order. And I said sure, So I'm here

1067
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 1: to tell you if you buy your tickets at seat

1068
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: Geek and enter paate ten pat E one zero at

1069
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: check out, you get ten percent off your order. And

1070
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm getting breaking news from Jesse. It doesn't

1071
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: even just have to be tickets to football games. I

1072
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: prefer it that way. But you could go get concert tickets.

1073
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: You could go watch the ballet. Kublic loves a good ballet,

1074
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Great great group of individuals this

1075
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:15,439
Speaker 1: time of year. Again allegedly, so Payton tannet checkout Seat Geek.

1076
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: All right, bring it back in last symphony you went

1077
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: to was fill in the blank.

1078
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 5: Go if you want to count Mannheim Steamroller live at

1079
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 5: the BJC.

1080
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 1: Who does see a.

1081
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 5: Couple of years ago. That's kind of a sympathy. I think, yeah,

1082
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 5: that's the Legacy group on that. My dad's a huge fan.

1083
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 5: Took him to see that with my wife. They're awesome,

1084
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 5: by the way. So if you get a chance and

1085
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 5: see Keiks offering up some manhim Steamroller, take advantage of

1086
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 5: that and go, especially during the Christmas holidays.

1087
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: I do I do respect that you still call it

1088
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: the BJCC. Do you want to guess what I saw

1089
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: the last time I was in the BJCC, which is

1090
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center henceforth changed to Legacy Arena

1091
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: for those of you unfamiliar, Do you want to guess

1092
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: what I saw?

1093
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 3: Well, it's not.

1094
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 5: You can't beat me because I saw God play at

1095
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 5: the BJCC. So anytime you can go watch God, even

1096
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 5: though he did lose to Arizona, still you saw God

1097
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:11,280
Speaker 5: play basketball in that building.

1098
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:12,919
Speaker 3: I don't know how you're going to beat that, but sure,

1099
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 3: go for it. Give it a shot.

1100
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: Okay, let me try six man Hell in the Cell

1101
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 1: match for the WWF Championship Armageddon two.

1102
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 3: That's nice.

1103
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, the six participants you ask Stone Cold, Steve Auston,

1104
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: Triple h, The Rock Undertaker, Kurd Angle, Rakishi six Hall

1105
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: of Famers, I think, check me.

1106
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 5: Out, and still not as good as the ECW show

1107
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 5: we saw across the street at Botwell.

1108
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and I didn't say it was. I did

1109
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: not say it was. But so both of us have

1110
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: seen memorable events in that building.

1111
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 5: And for those that are questioning, it's God, sham God.

1112
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 5: He played basketball at Providence, folks. No, I'm not trying

1113
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 5: to say that I've witnessed God play at basketball.

1114
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. It saves me a lot of

1115
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: responses in the comments later. So you do three hours

1116
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: of radio every morning, you take a lot of calls,

1117
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: you all, so do your own YouTube channel. You do

1118
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: games on Saturday, So you say a lot about college football.

1119
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: You observe a lot about college football. You and I

1120
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: I would say like ninety percent of the time share

1121
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: opinions on the bigger picture issues, the big news ticket items.

1122
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: So it could be the way the portal works, it

1123
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: could be the way NIL works. It could be a

1124
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: roster movement, it could be Bowl opt out, it could

1125
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 1: be any of a number of things that people tend

1126
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: to complain about. I've noticed more and more lately, like

1127
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 1: we earlier in the show, tonight we were talking about

1128
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 1: playoff expansion, which I think is stupid, but it looks

1129
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: like it will probably happen. So I tend to look

1130
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: at that and I say, man, that's something that's wrong

1131
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: with college football. Everybody has their list of things that

1132
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: are wrong with college football. Now, what I have avoided

1133
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: doing that some people take the added step of doing

1134
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: is talking about how all the sports done. This is

1135
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: the beginning of the Like Utah took the private equity

1136
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: infusion the other day. Oh, that's the beginning of the

1137
00:55:56,719 --> 00:56:01,240
Speaker 1: end of college football. Look for obvious self reasons. My business,

1138
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: my business models pretty predicated on college football thriving. So

1139
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 1: I want college football to thrive. But even if I didn't,

1140
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: and I was just a volleyball fan who is observing

1141
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: college football from a distance, you see the key indicators

1142
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: just like I do. The numbers are only going up now.

1143
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: I've talked at length in the past about how current ratings, traffic,

1144
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: interest is sometimes well downstream of decision making. So if

1145
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: there is horrifically bad decision making happening now, you may

1146
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: not see the collateral damage and ratings and interest for

1147
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: several years. But I don't know, like you know me,

1148
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: I didn't want the playoff to expand, But the Playoff expanded,

1149
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: and so far, so good to me. I don't think

1150
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: it completely eroded the interest in the regular season. Now

1151
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: lo and behold the same people who expanded it once

1152
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: want who expanded again. We can't just stick at twelve,

1153
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 1: which was one of my key concerns. But I don't know.

1154
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,439
Speaker 1: When you look around and you hear the complaints, can

1155
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: you not look like I do and see the landscape

1156
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: and eh, there's some blemishes. Don't love everything I see.

1157
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: But holistically we seem to still be doing okay? Do

1158
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: we not?

1159
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:06,240
Speaker 3: We're doing more than okay.

1160
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 5: I mean, the TV ratings are better than they've been

1161
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:14,839
Speaker 5: in decades, and obviously shows like yours other people who

1162
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 5: cover college football on different platforms are having a ton

1163
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 5: of success. If the sport didn't have the popularity that

1164
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,919
Speaker 5: it did, I don't think those individuals will be able

1165
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 5: to survive or even thrive at times like they do.

1166
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 5: The good news is some of the same complaints are

1167
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 5: still here. We had people calling in our show this

1168
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 5: week morning to bench Ty Simpson. So the Alabama fans

1169
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 5: are always going to complain about the starting quarterback. That's

1170
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 5: not going to change, so that tradition will continue. We

1171
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 5: can keep that when going jim NANTZ can cut us

1172
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 5: a commercial like that, when a tradition like no other.

1173
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 5: The biggest complaint that I would have and a lot

1174
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,439
Speaker 5: of this Josh, is I don't think people know what's

1175
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 5: to complain about right now because we haven't retrained our brains.

1176
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 3: To where we really are.

1177
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 5: Like we'll talk about that tonight on the Schedule show.

1178
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 5: When you look at some of these sec schedules, like

1179
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 5: guys in two is miles ahead of where it used

1180
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 5: to be, nine and three hundreds of yards ahead of

1181
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 5: where you used to think it was, there's no way

1182
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 5: not to think that when you see what these teams

1183
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 5: are going to be up against in the near future. So, yeah,

1184
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 5: who's the starter certain play calls? Officiating? You know, we

1185
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 5: still have penalty vultures. Those things have been around forever.

1186
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 5: They are at their peak right now. I think penalty

1187
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 5: vultures are kind of like the hog population in Texas

1188
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 5: right now, it's getting a little out of control. We

1189
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 5: might we need to look at into some helicopter action.

1190
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: All right, all right, you can see that those are

1191
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: real people. One those are real people, so we cannot

1192
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: go down.

1193
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: There say it is illegal. We're not saying it is illegal.

1194
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: Even in Texas it's illegal, so you know it's bad.

1195
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 5: Did not know that that not familiar with the hunting

1196
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 5: laws in Texas.

1197
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 3: So forgive me for that one. You two people.

1198
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 5: But I'll say my biggest complaint is what you brought

1199
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 5: up earlier is the decision making and the lack of

1200
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 5: thought that seemingly goes into massive decisions within this sport,

1201
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 5: and multiple massive decisions the last three to five years.

1202
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 5: So Transfer Portal, we thought it was gonna be awesome.

1203
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 5: We were gonna take kids that had graduated, we were

1204
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 5: going to allow them to go play somewhere else.

1205
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 3: Let the fun begin.

1206
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 5: These guys that were oh, it was so unfair how

1207
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 5: they're being treated, and just give him another chance. Johnny

1208
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 5: deserves one more shot at it. And then the floodgates

1209
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 5: open and teams can't keep rosters together.

1210
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 3: The red shirt rule. We're gonna let guys play in

1211
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 3: four games.

1212
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 5: That way, if Billy twist his ankle in week three,

1213
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 5: we're not gonna ding him and give him a full

1214
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 5: season for that. And then here we go. We get

1215
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 5: to week four and head coaches for tellaments of our

1216
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 5: TV meetings, Well, you might not see that guy, that guy,

1217
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 5: that guy, that guy because they told me they don't

1218
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 5: want to play football anymore.

1219
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 3: What Yeah, you heard me.

1220
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 5: They said they don't want to play football anymore because

1221
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 5: they're trying to save their retcher. They volunteered to practice though,

1222
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 5: and hang around the facility and eat our food and

1223
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 5: still get their scholarship check, but they don't want to

1224
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 5: go in a game. So some of these massive decisions,

1225
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 5: whether it's in IL, I think, Josh, we could look

1226
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 5: at conference expansion right now. Yes, with where sir leagues

1227
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 5: are that maybe didn't get what they wanted when it

1228
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 5: came to the college football playoff. Is it fair to

1229
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 5: look at it and say was that the best thing

1230
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 5: for some of these leagues? I'm maybe maybe not playoff

1231
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 5: expansion that you mentioned. I don't think it's been bad

1232
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 5: at all, but certain people would say, let's go back

1233
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 5: to four and that'll probably be better. The decision making

1234
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 5: by the committee and how they're putting teams in.

1235
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 3: I've told you this face to face.

1236
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 5: If that committee would sit down instead of trying to

1237
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 5: invent data points and statistics and come up with their

1238
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,439
Speaker 5: own PFF metrics for why teams are good. And you're

1239
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 5: playing team A against Team B, and you'd sit there

1240
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 5: in front of a camera and.

1241
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 3: Say, you know why we.

1242
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 5: Put Alabama in front of Notre Dame because we believe

1243
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 5: they play better football and if they played each other,

1244
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 5: we think they'd win. Next question. But they can't do that,

1245
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 5: and for whatever reason, they won't do that. So even

1246
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 5: the decision making on how people try to talk about

1247
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 5: things in college football and sometimes be exhausting.

1248
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: Cube Show got past twenty thousand subs, So on your

1249
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: way out the door, are you even needing subs on

1250
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: your channel anymore? I mean twenty k after that's pretty

1251
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: much gravy.

1252
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 5: I'm told the push to fifty thousand begins today.

1253
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: So much much as is the case around here with

1254
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: the push to a million, the push to fifty thousand.

1255
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 5: Well, you know what my YouTube channel is, Josh, it's

1256
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 5: the college football Playoff and we're at four.

1257
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: You're expanding six.

1258
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 5: Forget eight, forget ten, we're going straight to twelve, fifty

1259
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 5: k or bust it.

1260
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: You've had a lot of ideas.

1261
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 3: Even though you've had a lot.

1262
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: Of ideas, and I just want to tell you humbly,

1263
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: it's not the worst one you've ever had. Cole Kublick.

1264
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, sir, thank you, yep. And that'll do

1265
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: it for us here as well. We are headed into

1266
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: a weekend where we got Army Navy. But we're not

1267
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: on the road this weekend because we will very much

1268
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: be on the road next weekend. We're going to Alabama,

1269
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Miami, Texas, A and M and it's gonna

1270
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: be a long couple of days, but a fun couple

1271
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: of days because it's playoff season. Jim Naggy, the Oklahoma

1272
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: general manager, tweeted out a picture of a snowy stadium

1273
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: there in Oklahoma a couple of weeks ago. As soon

1274
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: as I got that extended forecast and it showed highs

1275
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 1: in the low sixties, I shot it right back at him.

1276
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: Delete your account, buddy, No snow for this guy, No, no, no.

1277
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: We have a nice mild evening in Norman, Oklahoma. Now,

1278
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: you guys may win by thirty, but it's not gonna

1279
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: be because I'm trapped in a snow globe. Now I've

1280
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: done that. I don't need that in my life, all right.

1281
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: For director Bradley, producer Jesse. I'm Josh Fate, take care,

1282
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: have a great weekend, and we will see you back

1283
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: here Sunday night.

1284
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 2: Until then, God Bless.

1285
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 4: Must be twenty one plus and present in select states

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